Patents Examined by Christopher J Brunjes
  • Patent number: 11480188
    Abstract: An integrated pressurized pump shaft seal assembly for a submersible rotary fluid pump comprises an oil reservoir having a pressure equal or less than the ambient pressure external fluids surrounding the casing, the oil reservoir feeding an oil pump impeller that is mountable onto, so as to be rotated by, the rotary fluid pump shaft. The impeller is a radial hole impeller in fluid communication with an adjacent diffusion element comprising an internal diffusion bore in fluid communication with an axially vertical spiral volute diffusion chamber located between inner and outer walls of a mechanical seal housing. The centrifugal oil pump impeller pumps oil from the oil reservoir to the seal chamber through the diffusion element and the internal volute diffusion element so as to increase a pressure within the seal chamber to a positive pressure above the ambient pressure of the external fluids surrounding the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dajustco IP Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Francis Van-De-Velde, Nicholas James Guenther
  • Patent number: 11466704
    Abstract: A jet pump system and method facilitate the production of a subterranean fluid. The jet pump system comprises a jet pump, a surface pump, a surface pump gauge, and a pump driver coupled to the surface pump to change a drive frequency of the pump driver based on production parameters and pumping parameters of the surface pump (drive frequency (FR) of the surface pump and the power fluid parameters) whereby the surface pump is selectively varied to optimize production. The jet pump method involves deploying the jet pump into the wellbore; pumping power fluid through the jet pump using the surface pump; measuring the pumping parameters; generating the production parameters of the subterranean fluid produced (production rate (QP) of the subterranean fluid); and optimizing the producing by changing the drive frequency (FR) based on the measured power fluid parameters and the generated production parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Odessa Pumps and Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Loris Kurkjian
  • Patent number: 11408409
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automobile inflatable pump comprising: a driving assembly; a rocker arm, a rear end of which is mounted on a power output end of the drive assembly; a cylinder block connected to the drive assembly and defining a piston cavity inside; a piston provided on a front end of the rocker arm, the piston being movably received in the piston cavity to divide the piston cavity into a front cavity having an inflation inlet and a rear cavity communicating with the external environment, the drive assembly driving the rocker arm to rotate, thus the piston moves back and forth in a straight line; and a sealing ring provided in the first annular groove, a front end of the sealing ring protruding at least in part beyond the outer peripheral wall of the piston. The invention has beneficial effects of simplified structure, improved production efficiency, and reduced costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU ANTU ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinhua Kuang
  • Patent number: 11391131
    Abstract: A downhole pump drive includes a housing, a submersible electric motor and protector, the drive shaft of which is coupled to the screw of a ball screw actuator movably coupled to the housing and is coupled to a rod sealed inside the housing. Interior cavities of the housing communicate with an annular space of the borehole through an elastic shell. The drive shaft of the electric motor is connected to the ball screw actuator via a reverse reduction gear. The reverse reduction gear is switched only when the nut of the ball screw actuator (or of an additional ball screw actuator) arrives at its terminal positions, improving the drive's operational reliability. The electric motor operates in a continuous mode, increasing reliability and energy efficiency of the drive owing to the absence of repeated starting and stopping of the electric motor; consequently, a spike in current intensity upon start-up is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: OKLAS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Leonov
  • Patent number: 11353014
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor includes a cylinder including a cylindrical cylinder portion and a cylinder head portion provided on one side of the cylinder portion, and a piston mechanism reciprocably fittedly inserted on an inner peripheral side of the cylinder portion and including a piston defining a compression chamber and a non-compression chamber. A bottomed hole-shaped valve body housing portion is formed at the cylinder head portion. The valve body housing portion is opened to a piston side facing the piston in an axial direction of the cylinder portion. Further, a discharge valve unit and a valve holding member are provided in the valve body housing portion. The discharge valve unit is inserted in the valve body housing portion. The valve holding member holds the discharge valve unit in the valve body housing portion, and includes a communication hole establishing communication between the valve body housing portion and the compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ito, Takafumi Maruta
  • Patent number: 11319943
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor capable of achieving a reduction in overall size and an improvement in vehicle mountability by using a linear motor. The compressor 1 comprises a linear motor 2 having a reciprocating mover 6, a compression unit 9 having a piston 11 connected to the mover 6 at one end side of the linear motor 2 so as to reciprocate and a cylinder 10 slidably accommodating the piston 11 to form a compression chamber 10B, and an air dryer 17 connected to a cylinder head 14 of the compression chamber 10B of the compression unit 9 and filled therein with a desiccant 17C. The air dryer 17 is disposed along the axis in the movement direction of the mover 6 the piston 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Tsutomu Ito, Kan Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11306707
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method for reducing the pulsation level in a multi-compressor plant where each compressor of a plurality of compressors is driven by a respective motor. The method manages to reduce the pulsation level by starting a first motor of a first compressor and then starting in succession each one of the other motors in a way to synchronize all motors between each other with a specified phase shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie—S.R.L.
    Inventors: Fabio Paperini, Simone Bassani, Marco Passeri, Riccardo Bagagli
  • Patent number: 11261855
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a linear compressor. The linear compressor includes a piston, a cylinder, a frame, a first bearing gap formed between an inner circumferential surface of the frame and the outer circumferential surface of the cylinder, a second bearing gap formed between an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder and the outer circumferential surface of the piston, a bearing inflow passage and a bearing side passage formed in the cylinder such that fluid flows from the first bearing gap to the second bearing gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wooju Jeon, Donghan Kim, Youngpil Kim, Eonpyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11248628
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump assembly. The electric submersible pump assembly comprises an electric submersible pump comprising a pump intake and a tubing configured to provide continuous fluid communication between a discharge side of the electric submersible pump and the pump intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, David C. Beck
  • Patent number: 11225956
    Abstract: A valve unit for pumps includes a first chamber communicating with an inlet conduit and with a discharge conduit, a second chamber communicating with the first via a first valve seat and with an outlet conduit. A first obturator body housed within the second chamber opens and closes the first valve seat. A third chamber communicates with the second chamber and partially defined by a sliding plunger. A second obturator body, rigidly connected to the plunger and housed within the first chamber, opens and closes the second valve seat. An internal cavity in the second obturator body communicates with the first chamber, a connection conduit in the second obturator body, communicates with the discharge conduit and with the internal cavity via a third valve seat. A third obturator body housed within the internal cavity of the second obturator body opens and closes the third valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ANNOVI REVERBERI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Pierluigi Argentino
  • Patent number: 11204024
    Abstract: A screw member that has passed through a holder insertion hole and a resistor insertion hole being screwed into an internal threaded hole fixes a holder and a resistor to a bottom wall of a motor housing member. Thus, the resistor is attached to the motor housing member using the screw member that attaches the holder to the motor housing member. This reduces the space in the inverter accommodation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinoshita, Keiji Yashiro, Kazuhiro Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11193477
    Abstract: An air compressor includes a compression machine configured to generate compression air, a main tank configured to store therein the compression air, an extension tank configured to store therein the compression air, a connection pipeline provided between the main tank and the extension tank to be removably inserted thereto, and a fastening unit configured to releasably connect the main tank and the extension tank with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 11187218
    Abstract: The compressor presents a first and a second cylinder block arranged in V and defining, respectively, a first and a second cylinder, and being affixed on a base block, each cylinder housing a respective piston driven by a crankshaft which is housed and supported on the base block. The first and the second cylinder block incorporate, respectively, a first and a second duct portion having an outer end open to the interior of the cylinder head of the respective cylinder, and an inner end open to a third duct portion incorporated to the base block, said duct portions forming a compressed air duct connecting the first cylinder to the second cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SCHULZ COMPRESSORES LTDA
    Inventors: Giovani Eduardo de Souza Vieira, Fabiano Alves Dencker
  • Patent number: 11143173
    Abstract: A system of pumps wherein a first hydraulic motor operatively connected to a first master pump can hydraulically drive a second hydraulic motor operatively connected to a second slave pump. A hydraulic fluid outlet of the first hydraulic motor is fluidically connected to a hydraulic fluid inlet of the second hydraulic motor whereby the first hydraulic motor, operatively connected to the first pump, drives the second hydraulic motor, operatively connected to the second pump, in a hydraulically synchronized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: William E. Howseman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11092144
    Abstract: An Example can include an elongate pump barrel extending along a length and defining an elongate hollow piston chamber. The Example can include a piston slidably movable within the piston chamber to compress air within the piston chamber. The Example can include a piston rod connected to the piston. The Example can include a handle connected to the piston rod to reciprocally slide the piston in the piston chamber. The Example can include a piston rod seal disposed around the piston rod and coupled with the elongate pump barrel. The Example can include a downward opening air intake passage, located away from the rod seal, in fluid communication with a top of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Saris Cycling Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad DeBaker
  • Patent number: 11085429
    Abstract: A compression device (1) includes compression portions, a suction line, connection lines, a discharge line, and display portions (d) configured to display pressure values, pressure gauges (PG1 to PG6) provided for at least one of the suction line, the connection lines, and the discharge line and a housing (40). The housing (40) includes a peripheral wall (42) and a door (44). The pressure gauges (PG1 to PG6) are situated at positions to face the door (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Hashimoto, Naofumi Kanei, Takuya Washio, Daisuke Wada, Ryosuke Mori
  • Patent number: 11067072
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump (10), in particular for use as a detergent dosage pump, comprises a pump housing (12) with at least a first check valve (14) and a second check valve (16), a fluid chamber (18), a diaphragm (20) defining a wall of the fluid chamber (18) and reciprocatingly movable, a stepping motor (28) as driving means for reciprocating said diaphragm (20), wherein the stepping motor (28) comprises a controller (34) for actuating the stepping motor (28), and an external control unit (36) for operating the controller (34) of the stepping motor (28), wherein the external control unit (36) is connected to the controller (34) by a power supply line (38) for transmitting an operating signal (42, 46) to the controller (34), wherein the operating signal (42, 46) is a start signal for operating the diaphragm pump (10), in particular the stepping motor (28), at preset parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Ruppert, Wolfgang Sauer
  • Patent number: 11056326
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cathodes electrodes compositions suitable to provide a pumping mechanism which exhibits an extremely high pumping speed and capacity of noble gas suitable to be used in several vacuum devices as for example sputter ion vacuum pumping systems comprising them as active element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Saes Getters S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tommaso Porcelli, Fabrizio Siviero, Alessandro Gallitognotta
  • Patent number: 11035381
    Abstract: A blower includes an impeller housing, an impeller rotatably secured to the housing and an electric motor. The motor has a motor housing with a central portion and a radially extending portion extending from the central portion, a venturi chamber adjacent the motor housing and opposed to the impeller housing, a stator secured to the central portion of the motor housing, a rotor rotatably secured to the central portion of the housing, and at least one heat generating electrical component secured to the radially extending portion of the motor housing. The impeller housing has a first air pressure therein and the motor housing has a second air pressure therein different that the first air pressure. The venturi housing and the motor housing define a passageway therebetween whereby the difference in air pressure generates air flow within the motor housing to cool the at least one heat generating electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Jon Kreidler, Rafal Pawel Rohoza, Edward L Drye, C Scott Eagleton, Mark Lyon Klopp, Michael Allen Marks
  • Patent number: 11022109
    Abstract: The invention relates to reciprocating piston pumps, in particular, to a reciprocating double acting well pump driven by a linear submersible permanent magnet motor. The essence of the claimed invention lies in the fact that the upper pumping plunger pair of a pump module of a double acting linear electric submersible pumping unit is configured to intake a double volume of a borehole fluid sufficient for one operating cycle and contains delivery traveling and inlet fixed valves with a directional pusher, closing by straight oncoming flow of the borehole fluid. Also a separator of downward and upward flows of the borehole fluid with low and high-pressure passages is installed above a cylinder of the pumping plunger pair. Wherein the low-pressure passages are performed in fluid communication with a borehole fluid delivery port from an annulus, containing a filtration and gravitational gas separation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: Dmytro Khachaturov