Patents Examined by Christopher Kim
  • Patent number: 9500170
    Abstract: A fuel injector is provided. The fuel injector includes a sleeve having a first end proximate an outlet; a piston slidingly received in the sleeve, the piston having a first end proximate the outlet; a pumping chamber at least partially defined by the sleeve between the first end of the piston and the outlet; and a normally-open inlet valve through which fuel passes to enter the pumping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: PICOSPRAY, LLC
    Inventor: Lihang Nong
  • Patent number: 9498788
    Abstract: Disclosed is a spray gun including: a body having a gun barrel; a coating material nozzle disposed on a tip end side of the gun barrel; and an air cap disposed on the tip end side of the gun barrel to surround a tip end portion of the coating material nozzle, wherein the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle has on the tip end surface thereof a guide wall spreading, and also has on an outer peripheral surface thereof a plurality of air grooves channeled gradually increasing in depth in a longitudinal direction, and wherein the inner peripheral surface of the air cap has a parallel surface parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle and successively a tapered surface spreading in a conical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ANEST IWATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shozo Kosaka, Masaru Kaneko, Nobuyoshi Morita, Takayuki Hata, Atsushi Morohoshi, Nobuhiro Sawata
  • Patent number: 9492888
    Abstract: A welding position detecting apparatus for laser beam welding includes: an imaging device that captures, at a predetermined time interval, images of an irradiated portion of a welding material irradiated with a welding laser beam, and a surrounding area thereof, of a welding material; an image processing device that identifies a position of the irradiated portion irradiated with the welding laser beam by performing image processing calculating, from two or more images acquired by the imaging device, a direction and an amount of parallel movement of points in the images; and a display device that displays the position of the irradiated portion irradiated with the welding laser beam, the position being identified by the image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kodama, Koji Yano, Masahito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9486827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jet-receiving nozzle for a powder-delivery injector with an arresting region on the injector side and a connecting region remote from the injector, the arresting region having a configuration preventing incorrect connection. The invention also relates to a powder-delivery injector for delivering a powder-air mixture, the powder-delivery injector having an accepting channel for accepting a jet-receiving nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Marco Sanwald
  • Patent number: 9488142
    Abstract: A fuel injector assembly has a control valve body and a plurality of end caps. End cap locating holes are formed into a mating surface of each end cap, and control valve body locating holes are formed into each mating surface of the control valve body. Locating pins inserted into the end cap and control valve body locating holes each have a fixed portion that affixes the locating pins to either the control valve body or the end cap. In the event of failure of a locating pin between the fixed portion and a free portion of the pins, the free portion maintains alignment of the control valve body locating holes with the end cap locating holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Internationa Engine Intellectual Property Comapny, LLC.
    Inventors: Mark Rudolph DeVito, Gregory G. Hafner
  • Patent number: 9474820
    Abstract: A device for generating a scented mist of an atomized liquid fragrance oil includes an atomizer complex, a reservoir assembly, a drainage tube, and a vacuum tube. The atomizer complex can atomize the liquid fragrance oil into a scented mist and deliver the scented mist to air outside of the atomizer complex, where the liquid fragrance oil the fragrance oil that is not atomized into the scented mist delivered to the air outside of the atomizer complex includes collected oil that is collected and drained to a reservoir assembly. A drainage tube extends from a bottom area of the atomizer complex into the liquid fragrance oil. The device can filter the liquid fragrance oil in the reservoir assembly and the collected oil from the atomizer complex that drained down the drainage tube. The vacuum tube can suction the filtered liquid fragrance oil and the collected oil into the atomizer complex for atomization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Scentair Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin John Rosener, Robert David Blaylock, John Thurston Chandler, Garrett Michael Sherman
  • Patent number: 9468161
    Abstract: A fixed spray application system generally includes tubing, one or more spray heads, one or more brackets, one or more connectors and one or more fluid reservoirs. One or more of the spray heads may be suspended from a tube below one of the connectors and below one of the reservoirs. A tube may extend from below one of the reservoirs to another spray head supported by one of the brackets. In use, the system may be suspended from trellis wires in an agricultural field. Water, pesticides or other liquids are supplied to the system through the tubing. The size of the reservoirs and the volume of tubing can be selected to hold the desired amount of liquid for a given application. After the system is primed with liquid, the tubing is connected to a source of pressurized air. The air is supplied to the system at a sufficient pressure so as to force the liquid from the system through the spray heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Inventor: John R. Nye
  • Patent number: 9470449
    Abstract: A nucleator nozzle (20) for producing ice nuclei is designed as convergent-divergent nozzle. The nozzle channel (25) has a section (27) that is widening. The ratio of the cross-sectional area of the outlet opening (23) to the cross-sectional area of the nozzle channel (25) in the region of the nucleus diameter (26) is at least approximately 4:1. A snow lance (1) having at least one nucleator nozzle (20) and having at least one water nozzle (30; 30?) is designed such that water droplets (32) produced by the water nozzle (30; 30?) pass through a droplet path (31; 31?) of at least 20 cm until they reach ice nuclei (28) from the nucleator nozzle (20) in a germination zone E.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: BAECHLER TOP TRACK AG
    Inventors: Daniela Lehner, Mathieu Fauve, Bruno Koch, Claus Dangel
  • Patent number: 9464610
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a system includes a gasification fuel injector. The gasification fuel injector includes a tip portion, an annular coolant chamber disposed in the tip portion, and a first structural support extending through the annular coolant chamber. The first structural support divides the annular coolant chamber into a first passage and a second passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Niraj Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 9463483
    Abstract: A mobile fluid delivery machine has a communication device configured to receive fluid delivery mission instructions that identify a sequence of path segments on a site and corresponding fluid delivery allocation information for the path segments, and a location device determining the location of the mobile fluid delivery machine. It also has a fluid delivery system including a display device and at least one processor that is configured to identify the fluid delivery allocation information for the path segment that corresponds to the location of the mobile machine on the site, and to determine, based on the fluid delivery allocation information for the path segment that corresponds to the location of the mobile machine on the site, a fluid delivery rate for the path segment. The processor is also configured to cause the display device to display an indication of the determined fluid delivery rate for the path segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Adam J Gudat, James D Humphrey, Peter W Anderton, David C Orr, Kenneth L Stratton, Craig I Koehrsen, Claude W Keefer, Michael D Braunstein
  • Patent number: 9457370
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly includes a nozzle body defining an inlet and an opposed spray outlet for producing a spray of fluid supplied at the inlet. The nozzle body includes a radially outward extending retainer feature. An adapter having an adapter bore therethrough is provided for supplying fluid to the inlet of the nozzle body. The nozzle body is engaged within the bore of the adapter. A retainer radially outward of the adapter and nozzle body includes a retainer feature engaged to the retainer feature of the nozzle body to hold the nozzle body and adapter body together. A sleeve is engaged to the retainer radially outward thereof to prevent disengagement of the retainer features of the nozzle body and retainer. The sleeve and retainer are configured for relative movement for releasing the retainer features of the nozzle body and retainer for removal of the nozzle body from the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: Delavan Inc, Delavan Limited
    Inventors: Lev A. Prociw, Frank Whittaker, Neil Smith
  • Patent number: 9447565
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sanitary component, namely a stream regulator or stream former for flowing fluid media, consisting of property-defining components in a sandwich-like arrangement in the direction of flow which comprise at least one screen attachment, one diffuser plate assembly as well as a shell body having segments of stream-forming openings extending across its cross-sectional surface. The property-defining components are exchangeable and combinable so as to realize adaptability to different user and user requirements. A locking means is provided e.g. on the inner circumference of the shell body for this purpose as is a corresponding counter-locking means on the outer circumference of the diffuser plate assembly. The diffuser plate assembly exhibits, at least on its exterior, a flow rate class-specifying optical code and the shell body exhibits a stream type-specifying, namely laminar or aerated, optical code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: NEOPERL GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Denzler
  • Patent number: 9441487
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for welding rotors for power generation having a plurality of rotor discs arranged along a rotor axis. The method includes providing forged and NDT tested rotor discs and machining the discs for weld seam preparation. The weld seam preparation has an inner narrow TIG welding gap and an adjoining outer SAW welding gap. The method further includes stapling the discs on top of each other; and checking the run-out of the stapled discs relative to each other and as a whole and, if necessary, adjusting the staple. In addition the method includes melting the root of the weld without weld filler using TIG welding; increasing the weld height by narrow gap TIG welding with parent metal weld filler to allow tilting of the rotor in horizontal position; tilting the rotor in horizontal position; finalizing the welding by filling the outer SAW welding gap using SAW welding; and checking the welds of the rotor by NDT using ultrasonic testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Sorin Keller, Werner Martin Balbach, Gianni Giorgi, Holger Kiewel
  • Patent number: 9441589
    Abstract: In a fuel injector, a first surface 39 of a valve seat 38 and a second surface 31 of a valve 26 are facing each other. In the first surface or the second surface, a seal member 32 disposed between the valve seat and the valve is provided. One of the first surface and second surfaces includes a protruding portion 31a that protrudes toward the other surface, and the protruding portion contacts a contact portion 39a of the other surface. The surface hardness of the protruding portion 31a disposed on either of the first surface and second surface is lower than that of the contact portion 39a of the other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawazoe
  • Patent number: 9438977
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with an outlet mechanism with additional function, which comprises a fixation base, a hand shower and an additional module. The fixation base is assembled to a shower arm with an inlet, an outlet and a waterway connecting the inlet and the outlet, the inlet is connected to the shower arm. The hand shower is connected to the outlet of the fixation base by a flexible pipe and is detachably fixedly connected to the fixation base. The additional module detachably attached to the fixation base. The present invention has advantages: with the additional function, for example it can play music or give off perfume, the structure is simple with fewer components, the configuration is reasonable, and the structure is compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Wenbin Fan, Bin Cao, Huasong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9433952
    Abstract: A spray head for a fluid dispenser device, including a hollow body having a substantially cylindrical sleeve and extending along a longitudinal axis (A), a substantially radial end wall provided with a spray orifice; and a spray profile upstream from the spray orifice. The spray profile includes at least one channel that is non-radial and/or non-axial relative to the longitudinal axis (A). The head, the spray orifice, and the spray profile are made as a single piece, the spray profile including a central pin, the internal end of the central pin, arranged inside the hollow body, being of shape that is conical or frustoconical, so as to guide the fluid towards the at least one non-radial and/or non-axial channel, the internal end forming an outlet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Frédéric Heldt, Jean-Marc Pardonge, Ludovic Petit
  • Patent number: 9433961
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a washer liquid spraying apparatus and method of a vehicle in which pressure of a sprayed washer liquid is reduced when a washer liquid spraying signal is input in the state in which a sun roof is opened, thereby preventing a washer liquid from spraying into the vehicle through the sun roof, and the reduced pressure of the sprayed washer liquid returns to an original state when the sun roof is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Soon Young Jung
  • Patent number: 9428892
    Abstract: A jet regulator, having a non-circular profile when viewed in a flow direction, is provided. The jet regulator includes a jet regulator housing configured to be inserted into a water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting from an outlet end side. The housing includes a latching part, which has at least one spring arm integrally formed on an outer periphery of the jet regulator housing, the at least one spring arm extending tangentially away from the housing, in the flow direction, toward a free arm end. The at least one spring arm is resiliently biased away from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Georg Stadtler
  • Patent number: 9421562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a paint-spraying apparatus for generating a shaped paint jet, including a paint nozzle positioned in an annular gap, wherein the paint nozzle comprises a needle with a needle head and also comprises a paint outlet opening, wherein the needle head is displaceable with respect to the paint outlet opening over a longitudinal axis of the needle in order to control a needle valve formed from the paint outlet opening and the needle head, and wherein the needle head, in a closed position of the paint nozzle, plugs in a form-fitting manner with respect to the longitudinal axis in the paint outlet opening, wherein the paint outlet opening is rotatable together with the needle head about the longitudinal axis in order to rotate the orientation of the shaped paint jet with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: J. Wagner GmbH
    Inventor: Elmar Krayer
  • Patent number: 9421403
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to a system for enhancing the fire extinguishing properties of water. A volumetric screw feeder is employed to transfer super absorbent polymers from a storage vessel into a liquid reservoir employed with fire fighting equipped amphibious airplanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: GelTech Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Cordani