Patents Examined by Christopher J Besler
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Patent number: 11168224Abstract: A heat exchanger for an air-conditioning circuit of a vehicle. The heat exchanger enables heat exchange between fluids and has a surfaces in contact with one of the fluids. The surface is formed from aluminum and/or from aluminum alloy. The surface is coated with an alumina layer and a reinforcing layer. The reinforcing layer includes an organic substance and a mineral substance. The organic substance includes at least one polymer and the mineral substance is capable of reacting with the aluminum in order to form an anticorrosion material.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Christian Casenave, François Busson, Maryse Philippe, Jean-Christophe Prevost
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Patent number: 11168945Abstract: A hot-press sintering method to prepare a loop heat pipe evaporator includes: putting a shell of the evaporator into a mould, uniformly and compactly filling corresponding positions in the mould with material powders of an evaporation core, a heat insulation core and a transmission core, applying a pressure high enough to tightly fit the evaporation core and the transmission core to the shell at corresponding sintering temperatures of powder materials for the evaporation core and the transmission core, carrying out hot-press sintering for molding, carrying out cooling after metallurgically bonding the powder materials of the evaporation core and the transmission core, and carrying out demolding to obtain the loop heat pipe evaporator, wherein the mould is provided with corresponding structures shaped like steam channels on positions where the evaporation core is provided with the steam channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System EngineeringInventors: Hongxing Zhang, Guanglong Man, Guoguang Li, Jingtuzhi Li
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Patent number: 11161188Abstract: Method for deburring gear wheels, for example, bevel gears, using a deburring brush, comprising at least N=1 brush bundles, having the following steps: rotationally driving the deburring brush about a spindle axis, rotationally driving a gear wheel or a bevel gear about a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the rotational driving of the deburring brush and the rotational driving of the gear wheel or the bevel gear take place in a coupled manner at a coupling transmission ratio, the method is a continuous method in which the at least N=1 brush bundle executes a relative flight movement in relation to the gear wheel or the bevel gear, the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid or an epicycloid, and wherein a burr is removed at least on one tooth edge of a tooth gap by a contact of the at least N=1 brush bundle with the tooth edge.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventor: Gary Töpfer
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Patent number: 11162538Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotating bearing unit includes to cause one end surface in the axial direction of the forming punch (46), formed by combining a plurality of punch elements (46, 46) divided in the circumferential direction, which are displaceable in the axial direction and which are not displaceable in the circumferential direction, and having a processing teeth (44, 44) at one end surface in the axial direction, to face the other end surface of the caulking section (20) in the axial direction. In this state, rolls (30a) are rotated about the central axis (?) of the hub main body (8) while pressing the other end surface of the forming punch (46) in the axial direction with a pressing surface (43) of the roll (30a) having a central axis (?) that is inclined with respect to the central axis (?) of the hub main body (8).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Hagiwara, Kazuto Kobayashi, Isao Shintou, Hiroshi Koyama, Toshio Nakamura
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Patent number: 11149595Abstract: An electrode unit of a joining apparatus includes an abutting section provided with a tapered outer circumferential surface that contacts a tapered pressure-receiving surface by being inserted into an inside of a first metal member. The tapered outer circumferential surface inclines in a direction of getting closer to an axial center of the abutting section from one end side to another end side. At least part of the abutting section has a thickness elastically deformable in such a manner that the tapered outer circumferential surface aligns with the tapered pressure-receiving surface during application of a pressurizing force to the first metal member and a second metal member.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagai, Takahisa Tashiro, Takeshi Yamazaki, Takefumi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11141822Abstract: A system is provided for installing a heatsink onto a circuit board. The heatsink has a base, a first hook and a second hook. The system includes a heatsink holder, a circuit board arm, a heatsink pusher, and a hook pusher. The heatsink holder is operable to receive the heatsink. The circuit board arm is operable to move the circuit board onto the heatsink received on the heatsink holder such that the bottom surface of the heatsink is adjacent to the circuit board. The heatsink pusher is operable to move the heatsink holder in a first direction so as to move the first hook relative to the first catch. The hook pusher is operable to push the first hook in a direction normal to the base from the top surface to the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventor: Ti-Hsing Hsieh
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Patent number: 11124045Abstract: A method for servicing a heater core installed in a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) assembly for a motor vehicle includes removing a sealing attachment from an interfacing connection interfacing with the heater core. The method includes sliding the heater core in a direction of insertion. The method includes disconnecting, from the heater core, the interfacing connection. The method includes removing the heater core in a direction of extraction, the direction of extraction being orthogonal to the direction of insertion.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Rademacher, Jason Kreucher, Heather Hartman
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Patent number: 11122920Abstract: An apparatus is described that permits a user to quickly and effortlessly separate an egg shell from the body of a hard-boiled egg. The apparatus has a hollow body into which an egg is inserted, a convex shaped bottom section and a convex shaped top portion. Additionally, the interior surface of the hollow body has a number of protrusions that contribute to peeling action. Eggs are inserted into the apparatus, water is added, the apparatus is sealed, the user agitates the apparatus for a short time, and then pours out the separated egg and egg shell along with the water.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventors: Margaret B. Tyler, Sheila M. Torgan
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Patent number: 11117191Abstract: A connecting rod comprises a shaft connecting a first end including a first bore with a second end including a second bore. Methods for forming and assembling a connecting rod and crankshaft assembly include fabricating the second end of the connecting rod via additive manufacturing such that the second end comprises a first and second weakened regions on opposing sides of the second bore, and breaking the second end of the connecting rod at the first and second weakened regions to form a connecting rod assembly comprising a second end base and a second end cap, wherein the base comprises a first fracture face and a second fracture face which each respectively correspond to a first fracture face and a second fracture face of the cap. The methods can further include mating the base and the cap such that a crankpin of a crankshaft is disposed within the second bore.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Andrew C. Bobel, Tyson W. Brown, Whitney A. Poling
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Patent number: 11110554Abstract: A garnish installing apparatus can include a housing, a static guide roller, and adjustable guide roller and a pressure assembly. The housing can include a housing body and an extension mechanism that is movable relative to the housing body. The extension mechanism can include a pneumatic cylinder. The static guide roller can be attached to the housing. The adjustable guide roller can be attached to the extension mechanism. The adjustable guide roller can be configured to provide a clamping force, with the static guide roller, on a door of a vehicle. The pressure assembly can be configured to apply pressure and detect application of pressure to a garnish of the door. The pressure assembly can include a pneumatic sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Benjamin Douglas Deboer, Benjamin B. MacArthur
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Patent number: 11092288Abstract: A method for producing pressure vessels, including pressure accumulators, such as hydraulic accumulators and parts of the parts of the accumulator (24). The parts produced by a 3D printing method can include one or more or all of two housing parts and a separating element separating the interior chamber of the two hosing parts are at least partially produced by a 3D printing method.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Peter Kloft, Herbert Baltes
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Patent number: 11092039Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide an apparatus for circumferentially separating turbine blades. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may include: a length-adjustable elongate member having opposing first and second ends; a first clasp coupled to the first end of the length-adjustable elongate member, the first clasp shaped to at least partially engage an airfoil profile of a first turbine blade positioned circumferentially adjacent to a dovetail slot, relative to a centerline axis of the turbomachine; and a second clasp coupled to the second end of the length-adjustable elongate member, the second clasp shaped to at least partially engage an airfoil profile of a second turbine blade circumferentially positioned adjacent to the dovetail slot, the first and second turbine blades being circumferentially adjacent to the dovetail slot at opposing circumferential ends thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Kevin Leon Bruce, Antoine Mastroianni, Danielle Werner, Hubert Karol Wojtowicz
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Patent number: 11084083Abstract: In a joining method for members, a tube body having a center axis L, a wall surface body having a hole portion through which the tube body can be inserted, and an elastic body that can be inserted in the tube body are prepared. The tube body has an inner rib extending in a direction of the center axis so as to partition an inside thereof, and the inner rib has notches cut from a lower end of the inner rib in the direction of the center axis. Next, the tube body is inserted through the hole portion in the wall surface body, and the elastic body is inserted into internal spaces partitioned by the inner rib of the tube body. Furthermore, the elastic body is compressed in the direction of the center axis of the tube body and expanded outward in a radial direction with respect to the center axis, whereby an end of the tube body is expanded and deformed to be joined to the wall surface body by press-fitting.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Maeda, Toru Hashimura, Ryohei Yukishige
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Patent number: 11072057Abstract: A bearing removal tool includes a plurality of hook arms and a connecting disk. Each hook arm has a connecting space for engaging with a peripheral portion of the connecting disk, and there are specific dimensional relationships between the connecting spaces and the connecting disk such that, once the connecting disk is fitted into the connecting spaces of the hook arms, the user only has to move the hook arms laterally for a predetermined distance in order for the hook arms to be restricted by the connecting disk and prevented from separating from the connecting disk. The bearing removal tool, therefore, can be put together more easily and more rapidly than its prior art counterparts.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Inventor: Jen-Yung Yang
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Patent number: 11071993Abstract: Methods and systems for filling a muffler body with a fibrous material prior to completing assembly of the muffler body are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventor: Luc J. L. Brandt
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Patent number: 11072036Abstract: A method for solid-state, one-shot, butt-welding of multiple coaxial metal pipe subassemblies that have a prescribed annular clearance to allow them to be welded separately yet simultaneously is described. The nested pipes or tubes making up of these subassemblies can thus be joined end to end to form pipelines or wells for oil, gas and geothermal and the like with specific desired advantages over conventional single-wall pipelines or wells casings. The advantages include an ability to monitor the condition of all or selected portions of the pressure envelope constituted by the pipeline or well casing and thereby identify damage with ample advance warning before failure and leakage or major spills occur.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Spinduction Weld, Inc.Inventor: David Grant Lingnau
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Patent number: 11066942Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine arranged around an axis. The turbine includes a turbine vane assembly. A method for creating the turbine vane assembly includes fabricating a plurality of turbine vanes comprising ceramic matrix composite material and selecting and arranging the turbine vanes to form a turbine vane assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Inventors: Michael J. Whittle, Roderick M. Townes, Andrew Holt
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Patent number: 11052458Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods in which a metal matrix composite (MMC) material is incorporated into a metallic structure during a one-step near-net-shape structural forming process. Various embodiments provide in-situ selective reinforcement processes in which the MMC may be pre-placed on a forming tool in locations that correspond to specific regions in the metallic structure. Various embodiment near-net-shape structural forming processes may then be executed and result in various embodiment metallic structural components with selectively-reinforced regions that provide enhanced mechanical properties in key locations.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASAInventors: Richard Keith Bird, Joel A. Alexa, Peter L. Messick, Marcia S. Domack, John A. Wagner
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Patent number: 11046110Abstract: A process for manufacturing a light-alloy hybrid wheel, implements the following separate operation phases: making a flange with an internal profile capable of constituting a tire bead seat; making a rim with, on one side, an outer profile capable of constituting a tire bead seat and, on the other side, a circular flank for assembly with a part of the flange; and assembling the flange with the rim, at the seat of said flange and the circular flank of the rim. The rim is made according to the following consecutive operations: an operation of manufacturing a circular flank; then an operation of expanding said circular flank to the size of the final rim in a single step; then an operation of cold or hot flospinning of said circular flank so as to obtain the rim in the final shape and profile thereof, comprising a shoulder only on the side that will not be welded to the flange.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: SAINT JEAN INDUSTRIESInventors: Emile Thomas Di Serio, Lionel Duperray
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Patent number: 11047479Abstract: A method for producing a piston ring for a cylinder that moves in a sliding direction includes providing a piston ring base material having an upper surface, a lower surface and an outer circumferential surface having a first recess between the upper surface and the lower surface, forming a hard film in the first recess and on a cylindrical surface at a predetermined thickness, and removing, by performing a polishing process on the sliding surface, the hard film formed on the cylindrical surface and a part of the piston ring base material disposed adjacent to the removed hard film, to form a second recess. The second recess is formed by removing an area of the removed part of the piston ring base material as a result of polishing the sliding surface due to a difference in the hardness of the hard film and the piston ring base material.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Fujimura, Atsushi Chiba, Naoyuki Akimoto, Iwao Hiraishi
