Patents Examined by Charles J Brauch
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Patent number: 11313283Abstract: The invention relates to the lubrication of a planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft, said planet-carrier comprising a cage defining an internal housing intended to receive a central sun gear with an axis of rotation X, and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear, said cage comprising two annular walls that are radial with respect to said axis X, and connected to one another at their outer periphery by a cylindrical wall of axis X, at least one of these radial walls comprising orifices for mounting the axes of said planet gears, and the cylindrical wall comprising through-holes for the passage of the gearings of the planet gears so that they may engage with a gearing of the ring gear, which is intended to extend around the planet gears and the cage.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Mathieu Jean Charrier, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre, Guillaume Jean Pierre Robinet
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Patent number: 11313321Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure regard an exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine that includes an outer nozzle wall, a flow channel which is limited radially outwards by the nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in the flow channel, and at least two struts connecting the centerbody to the nozzle wall. One of the struts is connected to the nozzle wall by a first connection, the first connection constraining movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction. The at least one other strut is connected to the nozzle wall by a second connection, the second connection constraining movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the circumferential direction but allowing movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventor: Predrag Todorovic
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Patent number: 11313333Abstract: A fuel pump includes: an electric motor; a pump stage drivable by the electric motor; and a fuel pump housing configured to accommodate the electric motor and the pump stage. The fuel pump housing has a first housing part configured to accommodate the electric motor and a second housing part configured to accommodate the pump stage. One or both of the first housing part and the second housing part are made of a conductive plastic adapted to dissipate static charges to a ground potential.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Dirk Becker, Michael Bämpfer, Jens Missun, Marc Völker
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Patent number: 11299110Abstract: An acoustic insulation structure for a power train according to the present disclosure is provided with a cover member that covers at least an internal combustion engine of the power train including the internal combustion engine, and that includes a pool portion in which water that has entered into the inside of the cover member pools; and a water-absorption member arranged at the inside of the cover member. The cover member includes a moisture outlet that releases, into the atmospheric air, moisture present inside the cover member. The water-absorption member extends to the moisture outlet from the pool portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiya Yamashita, Masaya Tagawa
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Patent number: 11293352Abstract: An aerofoil and an aerofoil assembly, in particular an aerofoil with improved stagnation zone cooling and an aerofoil assembly comprising such an aerofoil. The aerofoil is an aerofoil for a gas turbine engine comprising a pressure surface, a suction surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a stagnation zone located in the region of the leading edge, and an elongate channel running along the leading edge at the stagnation zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Rolls-Royce plcInventor: Salwan D. Saddawi
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Patent number: 11286892Abstract: An air pipe for motor vehicles, in particular for connecting a hot component to a cold component, is provided. A first connector at a first end of the pipe is provided for securing the pipe in an airtight manner to a hot component and a second connector at a second end of the pipe is provided for securing the pipe in an airtight manner to a cold component. At least one flexible pipe portion is provided between the first and the second connectors. Supporting rings made from a material which is dimensionally stable in relation to the flexible pipe material are provided. The supporting rings surround a free pipe cross section and stabilize the cross-sectional shape of the flexible pipe portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: MONTAPLAST GMBHInventors: Ralf Timme, Muralikrishna Sarangla, Alexander Benz, Viktor Benz, Holger Stoppert
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Patent number: 11280250Abstract: Method of controlling cooling water temperature of an engine in which the lower limit value of engine rotation speed is set according to outside air temperature and vehicle speed. When the vehicle starts traveling, a temperature raising-state lower limit rotation speed is set to raise the cooling water temperature to a third threshold value. After the cooling water temperature is raised to the third threshold value, the lower limit value is not set. If the cooling water temperature drops to a second threshold value, a maintaining-state lower limit rotation speed lower than the temperature raising-state lower limit rotation speed is set to raise the cooling water temperature. If the cooling water temperature does not rise but drops to a first threshold value, a temperature re-raising-state lower limit rotation speed lower than the temperature raising-state lower limit rotation speed and higher than the maintaining-state lower limit rotation speed is set.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Azusa Kobayashi, Hiroki Eguchi
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Patent number: 11280232Abstract: Methods and Systems for monitoring an engine fluid level in a fluid recipient are described. In one example, the method comprises, during a fluid replenishing procedure, detecting when the fluid level reaches a level associated with the recipient being full; in response to the detecting, triggering a timer corresponding to a predetermined number of operating hours of the engine based on a fluid volume capacity of the fluid recipient; when the timer expires, verifying the fluid level; and issuing a first alert signal when the fluid level is at the level associated with the recipient being full and the timer has expired.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Tatjana Pekovic, John Correia, Robert Pontarelli, Andre Ip
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Patent number: 11274641Abstract: A priming pump may include a housing; an inlet passageway inside of the housing; an outlet passageway inside of the housing; a divider, inside of the housing, separating the inlet passageway and the outlet passageway; a connecting passageway through the divider in fluid communication with the inlet passageway and the outlet passageway; a valve, disposed in the connecting passageway, configured for one-way fluid flow from the inlet passageway to the outlet passageway; a rotary pump, inside of the housing, having an inlet in fluid communication with the inlet passageway and an outlet in fluid communication with the outlet passageway; and a shaft connected to the rotary pump and extending through the housing, the shaft configured for rotation by an external driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Jeffery Fischer, Neil Edward Johnston, Brenton William Bush, Ye Tian, Quinton Burcar
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Patent number: 11268482Abstract: A fuel module for pumping and filtration of a fuel in a fuel system includes a flow housing, and each of an electrically powered pump, a first cartridge filter, and a second cartridge filter in sealed, direct engagement with the flow housing. The fuel module is applied in a low pressure fuel circuit feeding fuel to a high pressure fuel circuit for pressurization to an injection pressure. Electronic closed loop control techniques for the pump are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ye Tian, Quinton Marcus Burcar, Michael Taylor McKinley, Stephan Donald Roozenboom
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Patent number: 11261877Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. The blade can include a body having an outer surface with a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface, and a side edge. The top surface includes a chamfered portion extending between a flat portion, and the side edge.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Hunter Fan CompanyInventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Charles William Botkin
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Patent number: 11261819Abstract: A method operates a fuel-supply system for an internal combustion engine. The fuel-supply system contains a high-pressure fuel pump, a high-pressure fluid accumulator having a fuel-injection valve, and a high-pressure sensor. A measurement signal of the sensor is representative of a pressure within the high-pressure fluid accumulator. The high-pressure fuel pump is fluidically connected on the outlet side to the high-pressure fluid accumulator. A respective maximum injection quantity of the fuel-injection valve is determined depending on the measurement signal of the high-pressure sensor. The injection quantity is determined depending on an efficiency characteristic representing the efficiency of the high-pressure fuel pump, the efficiency characteristic depending on the measurement signal of the high-pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Christoph Klesse, Tobias Ritsch
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Patent number: 11255304Abstract: An article of manufacture for providing an automobile turbocharging fitting is disclosed. A turbo fitting is a funnel shaped device that is attached to an outgoing airflow port of an air filter intake enclosure and secured into an air flow line running to the input to a throttle body of an internal combustion engine. The inner diameter of the turbo fitting is reduced from its width at the air filter enclosure to its exit diameter in the air flow line. Air directional devices, which may be raised tabs or grooves, running the length of the inner surface of the turbo fitting. These air directional devices are oriented in a clockwise direction when viewed into the turbo fitting from the air filter enclosure end.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Inventor: Sergey Setlonok
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Patent number: 11248519Abstract: A vehicle heating/cooling system has first and second fluid circulation loops for circulating engine coolant and automotive fluid. A first heat exchanger transfers heat from the coolant to air for the passenger compartment. A second heat exchanger transfers heat between the coolant and automotive fluid. A first valve has first and second inlets for receiving coolant from hot and cold coolant sources, and an outlet for discharging coolant to the second heat exchanger. A second valve has an inlet for receiving coolant from the first coolant source, and an outlet for discharging coolant to the first inlet of the first valve. The valve positions change with temperature of the coolant and the automotive fluid, providing preferential heating of the passenger compartment during cold start-up of the vehicle. The second heat exchanger and valves may be provided in a temperature control module.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Dana Canada CorporationInventors: Ihab Edward Gerges, Jeffrey O. Sheppard
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Patent number: 11248556Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising at least a crank case, which houses a cylinder, and a cylinder head, which is adapted to be coupled to the crank case, and a liquid cooling circuit, wherein the liquid cooling circuit comprises at least one inlet aperture and at least one outlet aperture, a lower cooling chamber housed in said cylinder head in a position adjacent to a flame deck of said cylinder head; an upper cooling chamber housed in said cylinder head above said lower chamber, so that said lower chamber is sandwiched between said upper chamber and said flame deck; wherein said inlet aperture is provided in said upper or lower chamber and said outlet aperture is provided in said lower or upper chamber, on a same side of the internal combustion engine, so that the cooling liquid runs in a substantially U-shaped path moving between said upper chamber and said lower chamber, transversely relative to a crankshaft of said engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: FPT INDUSTRIAL S.P.A.Inventor: Enzo Pierro
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Patent number: 11248567Abstract: An intake structure of a vehicle is provided to prevent engine oil from flowing back along a nipple. The structure includes an intake hose which is mounted between an air cleaner and a compressor of a turbo charger. A pocket part, in which the oil comprised in a blow-by gas through the nipple is collected, is formed on the inner sidewall surface of the intake hose. The intake structure prevents the oil existing in the recirculated blow-by gas from flowing into a fresh air nipple.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Young-Hak Jang
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Patent number: 11242825Abstract: The invention relates to a device for reducing pollutant gas emissions by means of catalyst management in the combustion process, characterised in that it comprises: a hollow cylindrical body with a fuel inlet hole in one side of said cylindrical body and a fuel outlet hole in the other side of said cylindrical body; a perforated cylindrical separator inside said body; and a sheet formed by at least one magnetic element and which is situated between the perforated separator and the inner wall of the hollow cylindrical body, such that when the fuel flows inside the device, part of the components of the hydrocarbon magnetise.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: ENCOLNVEST INTERNATIONAL, S.L.Inventor: Ignacio Morillas Gomez
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Patent number: 11242757Abstract: A method for manufacturing a blade or vane assembly having at least one hollow airfoil (10) for a gas turbine, profile sections (A, B, C) of this airfoil being configured (S20) on the basis of a predetermined desired torsion of the airfoil, and the airfoil being manufactured (S30) on the basis of the configured profile sections using an additive manufacturing process (S30).Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Frank Stiehler, Lars Schellhorn
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Patent number: 11236649Abstract: An internal combustion engine unit including an internal combustion engine body, a balancer device attached to a lower portion of the internal combustion engine body, and an oil pan attached to the lower portion of the internal combustion engine body so as to surround the balancer device. The balancer device is disposed facing an outlet of an oil outflow hole, and the oil outflow hole is formed in the internal combustion engine body so as to return a lubricating oil in the internal combustion engine body to the oil pan.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toru Harada
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Patent number: 11236670Abstract: An engine having a cylinder fastened to the engine ease with the biconcave internal partition, which divides the cylinder into the upper and bottom parts. Sparking plugs are mounted on both sides of the partition. The upper and the bottom parts of the cylinder have side scavenging channels which connect suction spaces to the working spaces of both parts of the cylinder. The upper and bottom parts of the cylinder have inlet and outlet orifices. Inside the upper and inside the bottom part of the cylinder and the upper and bottom piston are placed respectively, while both pistons are directed towards each other by the working surfaces. The pistons are connected by a rod that is led through the linear bearing that is embedded in the partition forming a seal. The connecting rod is fastened to the bottom piston and by its other end it is connected to the crankshaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Inventor: Wojciech Gaj-Jablonski