Patents Examined by Christopher S Bobish
  • Patent number: 11976649
    Abstract: An air pump with an external pressure release valve includes an air pump body, a flow channel seat and at least one air valve. The air pump body comprises a driving motor and at least one air bag group for generating air flow. The flow channel seat includes an airflow channel and a pressure release channel communicated with the airflow channel and extending to any side wall surface of the flow channel seat. The side wall surface includes an installation hole of an outlet of the pressure release channel. The installation hole includes a pressure release assembly arranged inside the pressure release channel. Because the air pump includes the pressure release channel, and the pressure release channel extends to any side wall surface, the air pump is respectively connected with different objects to be inflated, meanwhile, an assembler can more easily adjust the output air pressure of each air pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TANGTRING SEATING TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Zhi-Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11976648
    Abstract: Even when abnormal heat generation occurs during operation in a state where the temperature of a compressor is not increased, abnormality cannot be detected. A fluid machine includes a fluid machine body; a motor that drives the fluid machine body; a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the fluid machine body; and a control unit that controls the fluid machine body. The control unit changes a temperature threshold value based on at least one of a pressure of a fluid discharged by the fluid machine body and a frequency of a voltage input into the motor, and issues a notification when the temperature of the compressor body measured by the temperature sensor exceeds the temperature threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Daichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11971023
    Abstract: The present utility model relates to the technical field of water pumps, and more particularly, to a miniature electromagnetic water pump, which includes a pump body, a magnetic core plunger device installed in the pump body, an electromagnetic device sleeved outside the pump body, and a throttle valve device connected with the magnetic core plunger device, the magnetic core plunger device is used to pump the liquid outside the pump body to the throttle valve device, the electromagnetic device generates a pulsed electromagnetic field to push the magnetic core plunger device to reciprocate in the pump body, the miniature electromagnetic water pump of the present utility model has the advantages of stable liquid output and good liquid flow continuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ShenZhen CNHT Limited Company
    Inventors: Yingshen Xiong, Liqiang Lei, Wu Zhou, Huanlu Lu
  • Patent number: 11971027
    Abstract: An air compressor is received in an accommodation box and contains a body, a cylinder, a motor, and a transmission mechanism. The body includes a first positioning orifice and a second positioning orifice. The cylinder is connected on the body and communicates with an air storage holder. The motor is fixed on the body, a small gear is received in the first positioning orifice, and a connection seat is accommodated in the first orifice. The transmission mechanism actuates a piston to move in the cylinder reciprocately so as to produce compressed airs. The motor includes at least one locking extension for engaging the motor with the body, hence the motor is fixed on the body securely without using any screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Wen-San Chou, Cheng-Hsien Chou
  • Patent number: 11965505
    Abstract: A pump (1) for pumping a working fluid includes an electric motor (3) for actuating the pump and a motor (3) having a stator (31) and a rotor (32) that interact for the actuation of the pump. The rotor (32) is rotatable about an axis of rotation (320). The pump includes an electronic unit (4) for controlling the electric motor (3), a conduit (5) for the delivery of the working fluid downstream of the pump, a line (6) for cooling the electric motor (3), and the electronic unit (4). The cooling line (6) is permanently open and drawing off some of the working fluid processed by the pump. The cooling line (6) includes a first conduit (61) which is developed from a delivery area (22) of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: VHIT S.p.A.
    Inventor: Pietro Francesco Crosio
  • Patent number: 11965511
    Abstract: A bellows motor expansion chamber for electric submersible pumps (ESP). An ESP assembly includes an electric submersible motor between a thrust chamber and a motor expansion chamber, the motor expansion chamber including a bellows coupled to a releasable bellows anti-movement system including a heat-activated release and alterable between an immobilizing position, wherein the releasable anti-movement system prevents concertinaed movement of the bellows in the immobilizing position, and a released position, wherein the bellows is concertinaedly moveable in the released position, and wherein the releasable bellows anti-movement system is in the immobilizing position below a release temperature and in the released position above the release temperature. A filter section within a well fluid inlet of the bellows motor expansion chamber includes a least two concentric filters of varying porosity, and a housing surrounding the filters including angled ribs and flow holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry James Parmeter, Jeffrey G. Frey, Matthew Thomas King, Brett D. Leamy
  • Patent number: 11959481
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a pump element where rotation of the pump element generates suction at the inlet and pressure at the outlet to move fluid through a fluid path. An inlet orifice directs a portion of the fluid through the accessory fluid path that includes a low-restriction return path providing a continuous flow of the fluid through the accessory fluid path and to an outlet orifice. A circuit board housing includes a contoured portion and a PCB with a thermistor in communication with contoured portion. The continuous flow is directed between the contoured portion and the outlet orifice between a rotor and the outer wall. The low-restriction return path maintains a temperature of the continuous flow of the fluid within the contoured portion of the accessory fluid path to be similar to a temperature of the fluid in the fluid path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GHSP, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan David Rosinski, Bradley John Vecellio
  • Patent number: 11959471
    Abstract: Described is a method for regulating a volume of liquid delivered by a peristaltic pump and a peristaltic pump system that can be used to perform the method. The method includes sensing an ambient temperature of the peristaltic pump. The peristaltic pump includes a pump motor. At least one of a motor speed and a motor operation duration is determined from the sensed temperature, a selected volume of liquid to be delivered and a predetermined correspondence of the motor speed to ambient temperature. The pump motor is operated at the determined motor speed or for the determined motor operation duration to deliver the selected volume of liquid from the peristaltic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy M. Raymond, Sean Eric Anderson
  • Patent number: 11962216
    Abstract: An electromagnetic induction pump includes a tubular internal inductor having internal combs and internal coils between teeth of the internal combs. The inside of the internal inductor forms a cavity. An internal tube is positioned around the internal inductor. A pumping canal allows circulation of a fluid. The canal is between the internal tube and external tube. A tubular external inductor is positioned around the external tube and includes external combs and external coils positioned between teeth of the external combs. An electromagnetic pump includes a movement device for moving the internal combs, and varies the radial clearance between the internal combs and internal tube, having a first part positioned inside the internal inductor and in connection with the internal combs to move them radially, and a second part extending at least partially outside of the internal inductor and connected to the first part to control the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Frédéric Rey
  • Patent number: 11952997
    Abstract: An operating method is used for a compressor of a refrigerating machine, where the compressor includes an electric motor- and a power supply device configured to modulate a supply voltage and/or current and/or frequency for driving an electric motor. The method includes (a) setting a stator resistance calibration value and at least one threshold value for a control parameter, the threshold value being correlated to the calibration value; (b) injecting, continuously during operation of the electric motor, a disturbance signal into the electric motor (c) detecting a resulting voltage signal and a resulting current signal, corresponding to the perturbation signal; (d) associating with the control parameter a value calculated as a function of the resulting voltage signal and a resulting current signal; and (e) regulating or interrupting the supply voltage and/or current and/or frequency depending on the control parameter with respect to the at least one threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Mattia Morandin
  • Patent number: 11933285
    Abstract: A damped compressor used in mobile appliances. The appliances may comprise a compressor which is disposed within a housing and is in fluid communication with a refrigerant system. Within the housing there is an improved damping or stabilizer system which limits movement of electric or mechanical portions, or both, of the compressor within the housing. At startup and shutdown, when oscillations of the components within the housing are generally maximized, the components are limited from contacting the housing internal structure so as to inhibit damage to the compressor and reduce the noise associated with such contact. The components are also damped from movement associated with the mobile application of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dometic Sweden AB
    Inventors: James E. Allard, Mark L. Smith, Peng Wang
  • Patent number: 11937410
    Abstract: A package-type fluid machine includes a compressor unit including a compression portion that compresses a fluid, a motor that drives the compression portion, and a cooling fan that is driven by the motor; a machine chamber in which the compressor unit is disposed; an inverter chamber which is adjacent to the machine chamber and in which an inverter is disposed; a partition wall that partitions off the machine chamber from the inverter chamber and has an opening; and an inverter intake port that is disposed in the inverter chamber to take in a cooling gas. The cooling fan is disposed on a side of the machine chamber, the opening being located on the side. The cooling fan is driven to cause the cooling gas to flow from the inverter intake port to the opening to cool the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Saito, Daichi Oka, Akihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11920594
    Abstract: A screw compressor slide valve with gas pulsation attenuation function includes valve walls and internal through holes. A screw compressor includes the screw compressor slide valve. A part of exhausted gas of the screw compressor is directly discharged from an exhaust port to an exhaust chamber to form a main exhaust flow channel; another part of the exhausted gas is discharged from the exhaust port into the exhaust chamber after being delayed by the internal through holes, which forms a branched exhaust flow channel. Since the branched exhaust flow channel is longer than the main exhaust flow channel, when the gas pulsation in the branched exhaust flow channel lags behind that in the main exhaust flow channel by 180-degree in phase, two gas pulsations in the two flow channels are offset due to opposite gas pulsation phases, which attenuates the gas pulsation, thereby suppressing induced vibration and noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ziwen Xing, Minglong Zhou, Wenqing Chen, Chuang Wang, Zhilong He
  • Patent number: 11920581
    Abstract: Aspects are provided for positive displacement pumps and methods and systems for controlling such pumps for dispensing at a flow rate based on a downstream flow sensor. A pump controller determines a targeted motor speed for a flow rate set point based on a flow rate function. The pump controller determines a predicted movement time for a motor of the pump to change from a current motor speed to the targeted motor speed, a predicted wait time to reach a flow rate corresponding to the targeted motor speed, and a measurement time after the wait time. The pump controller controls the positive displacement pump according to consecutive control cycles, each control cycle includes a pump movement sub-cycle, a wait sub-cycle, and a measurement sub-cycle. The pump controller determines a measured flow rate during the measurement sub-cycle. A subsequent control cycle is based on the measured flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Masterflex LLC
    Inventor: Phuong Le Pham
  • Patent number: 11905939
    Abstract: Modular mechanically driven diaphragm pump features are presented herein. Such a diaphragm pump can include a motor, a drive mechanism, and a coupling mounted on a wheeled frame. A diaphragm pump can be mounted to the coupling by forming mechanical static and dynamic connections to brace a housing of the diaphragm pump relative to a drive rod which is moved by the drive mechanism to operate the pump. These mechanical static and dynamic connections can be broken to dismount the pump for replacement or servicing. In some cases, a gas charge can be introduced on the non-working fluid side of the diaphragm to boost performance and/or a dampener can be integrated into the housing of the diaphragm pump and mounted/dismounted with the diaphragm pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley H. Hines, Brian W. Koehn, Christopher C. Hines, Adam K. Collins
  • Patent number: 11898550
    Abstract: System/method for real-time monitoring and control of pump operations at a well provide a pump control system that uses pump fillage with a proportional-integral-differential (PID) based algorithm to control positive displacement pump operations. The pump control system/method obtains measured or inferred pump speed from available pump speed data and, using certain pump characteristics provided by the well operator, calculates a theoretical fluid flow rate based on the pump speed. The pump control system/method thereafter compares the calculated theoretical fluid flow rate to a measured or observed fluid flow rate to calculate a pump fillage. The calculated pump fillage is then provided as a process input to the PID based algorithm along with a desired pump fillage from the well operator. The PID based algorithm processes the calculated pump fillage and the desired pump fillage using tuning parameters to determine an optimum pump speed based on the desired pump fillage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventors: James Redmond, Zackery Sobin, Scott Guimond
  • Patent number: 11898544
    Abstract: A package type fluid machine includes a plurality of compressor bodies; a machine compartment in which the plurality of compressor bodies are disposed; an exhaust duct that exhausts a cooling gas from the machine compartment; a plurality of aftercoolers that are disposed inside the exhaust duct to cool a compressed fluid from the compressor bodies; and a shield that is disposed between the aftercoolers to shield a flow of the cooling gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Sadakata, Hiroaki Saito, Daichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11898429
    Abstract: Systems and methods to pump fracturing fluid into a wellhead may include a gas turbine engine including a compressor turbine shaft connected to a compressor, and a power turbine output shaft connected to a power turbine. The compressor turbine shaft and the power turbine output shaft may be rotatable at different rotational speeds. The systems may also include a transmission including a transmission input shaft connected to the power turbine output shaft and a transmission output shaft connected to a hydraulic fracturing pump. The systems may also include a fracturing unit controller configured to control one or more of the rotational speeds of the compressor turbine shaft, the power turbine output shaft, or the transmission output shaft based at least in part on target signals and fluid flow signals indicative of one or more of pressure or flow rate associated with fracturing fluid pumped into the wellhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Diankui Fu, Warren Zemlak, Caleb Barclay
  • Patent number: 11878272
    Abstract: At least one pressure exchange unit with a hollow cylindrical body, a piston sliding in the body, the piston including a piston head separating the interior of the cylindrical body into a downstream chamber and an upstream chamber, the downstream chamber being provided with a device for the admission and discharge of water to be treated, the upstream chamber being provided with a five-way distributor linkage including, for hydraulic balancing, two pressurized liquid supply orifices, two orifices for the evacuation of the liquid and an opening in communication with the upstream chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Yves Giraud
  • Patent number: 11873808
    Abstract: A method controls the start-up of an oil pump of a gearbox by a brushless electric motor that has no position sensor. The stator coils are powered from the off mode in a constant-current open-loop control sequence until the pump reaches a speed threshold at which speed regulation switches over to closed-loop control on a setpoint corresponding to the lubrication flow rate required to ensure the reliability of the gearbox, but without in so doing exceeding a current threshold indicative of pump seizure, at which point motor control switches back over to the constant-current open-loop control sequence. The open-loop current setpoint is higher than the threshold for switching over to closed-loop control so that in the open-loop control mode the motor torque available at the pump is higher than in the closed-loop control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventor: Mathieu Leleu