Patents Examined by Cody J Lieuwen
  • Patent number: 11198143
    Abstract: An underground charging pile for new energy vehicle has a green plant, a buried pit, and a charging pile. The buried pit has a water storage device having two water storage tanks, each tank is communicated with the buried pit, a group of propulsion springs are fixed to the two water storage tanks, the two propulsion springs are fixedly provided with a pushing, an upper end of the charging pile is fixedly provided with a cover plate, a bottom of the charging pile is fixedly provided with a supporting plate, a lifting rod is fixed between a lower of the supporting plate and a lower of the buried pit, a water spraying device is arranged to two side walls of the buried pit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Gong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11191986
    Abstract: A wall-mountable spray head unit (11) is described. The spray head unit comprises a rotatable spray head assembly (81, 82; FIG. 9, 83; FIG. 17) which comprises a spray manifold (181, 182; FIG. 9) rotatable about a first axis (17), a spray nozzle (19) supported by the spray manifold and orientated to deliver fire-suppressant material radially in a plane in a plane defined by the first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis, and at least one thermal sensor (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Alan Hart, Yusuf Muhammad, William Makant, Anderson Horst
  • Patent number: 11191861
    Abstract: A fragrance compound impregnated porous carrier enclosed within an envelope where a tear initiating feature of the envelope is aligned with a trimmed portion of the porous carrier, to thereby prevent a tear in the envelope from inducing a tear in the porous carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: David D. Mobley
  • Patent number: 11173505
    Abstract: A spraying device for producing a spray of particles in a carrier gas at ambient pressure, includes a storage volume for a liquid substance; at least one nozzle having an inlet and an outlet, the nozzle inlet fluidly communicating with the storage volume; a counter electrode; an electric supply coupled between the at least one nozzle and counter electrode for providing a first potential and create a first electric field between the nozzle outlet and the counter electrode. The device further includes at least one discharge electrode coupled to the electric supply for providing a second potential between the discharge electrode and the counter electrode, the polarity of the second potential being opposite to the polarity of the first potential. The at least one nozzle and the at least one discharge electrode are arranged adjacent and parallel to each other and facing the counter electrode from a substantially same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GILBERT TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Rein Andre Roos, Caner Umit Yurteri, Johannes Cornelis Maria Marijnissen
  • Patent number: 11167298
    Abstract: A barrel for use with a liquid spray gun platform to provide a liquid spray gun comprises a main body and an inseparable nozzle. The main body comprises at least one center air delivery passage and at least one liquid-handling passage. The inseparable nozzle defines a liquid-emitting orifice that is in fluid communication with the at least on liquid-handling passage of the main body, and defines a center air orifice that is in fluid communication with the at least on center air delivery passage of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Brian E. Duncan, Stephen C. P. Joseph
  • Patent number: 11154889
    Abstract: A sprayer of liquids with trigger-operated pump includes a body which can be attached to the mouth of a container and a nozzle for delivery of the liquid. In the body is formed a pumping chamber in communication with the interior of the container and with the delivery nozzle. A one-way valve of suction and of delivery is located in the outlet duct of the liquid a system of precompression comprising a piston pushed with constant force by a spring in occlusion of the outlet duct such as to increase the pressure of the liquid in the outlet duct during the pumping, and also thereby increase the speed or the acceleration of the liquid in output from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Silgan Dispensing Systems Vicenza, S.R.L.
    Inventor: Gilberto Rech
  • Patent number: 11148104
    Abstract: A chemical salt composition dispensing system allows chemical salt composition mixtures to be applied to a user. The dispensing system includes a mixing chamber releasing a mixture onto a user at a predetermined and controlled flow rate. The dispensing system may include one or two shelves mounted within a tubular container to permit flow through the first ring or flow through one sieve member to a second sieve member mounted below the first sieve member and further permits passage of the liquid flow onto the body of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Vlada John
  • Patent number: 11143153
    Abstract: An injector nozzle used with an internal combustion engine for shaping a fluid flow is provided. The nozzle has a body and an orifice plate provided at an outlet of the body. The body and the plate extend symmetrically with respect to a central axis. The plate has an interior surface and an opposite exterior surface, which are substantially parallel to each other to define a thickness of the plate. The plate has fluid passageways each having an orifice on the exterior surface. The fluid flow diverges through the fluid passageways to create stream jets. The imaginary extensions the passageways converge to create a focal point and an included angle associated with the focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NOSTRUM ENERGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Nirmal Mulye, Osanan L. Barros Neto, Frank S. Loscrudato, William R. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 11135535
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a filter comprising a tube extending from a first end to a second end and having a bore with an internal cross-sectional area. The tube comprises an inlet with an inlet cross-sectional area which is positioned through the first end of the tube. The tube also comprises an outlet with an outlet cross-sectional area, wherein the inlet cross-sectional area is less than the outlet cross-sectional area and so debris small enough to enter the inlet will tend not to block the outlet, which is larger. The filter further comprises a plurality of further inlets, often slots, in the tube between an outside thereof and the bore. In a preferred embodiment, the first end may be tapered and especially dome shaped. This helps to direct debris towards an outside of the tube, where it is less likely to be drawn into the filter and potentially block it or a downstream component, such as a nozzle. The filter may be attached to a pipeline and a nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Rig Deluge Global Limited
    Inventor: Ian Garden
  • Patent number: 11097694
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a telescoping device for cleaning a vehicle surface. The telescoping device includes an extendable piston moveable from an inactive position to active position at a predetermined extension pressure. The piston includes a supply tube, a cleaning fluid outlet provided at a distal end of the supply tube, and a check valve comprising a cracking pressure that is greater than the predetermined extension pressure. Vehicles and systems incorporating a telescoping cleaning device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: A. RAYMOND ET CIE
    Inventor: Larry M. Rachow
  • Patent number: 11090404
    Abstract: A system for dispensing fluid materials includes: a plurality of fluid storage chambers with each of the plurality containing a stored fluid; at least one MEMS dispensing element disposed in fluid communication with at least one of the plurality of fluid storage chambers; a control element disposed in electrical communication with the at least one MEMS dispensing element and comprising a memory component; a power supply disposed in electrical communication with the at least one MEMS dispensing element and the control element; and a user interface disposed in electrical communication with the control element. The memory component contains programmed instructions which, when executed by the control element cause the system to randomly dispense a first fluid from a first fluid storage chamber, and randomly disperse a second fluid from a second fluid storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephan Gary Bush, Faiz Feisal Sherman
  • Patent number: 11083918
    Abstract: An extinguishing system for a high-voltage battery of a motor vehicle, including at least one extinguishing agent container with a gaseous extinguishing agent; a seal for sealing the extinguishing agent container, which prevents an outflow of the extinguishing agent into the interior of the high-voltage battery; a control device interacting with the seal device, designed to open the seal upon the incidence of a triggering signal, thus allowing the extinguishing agent to flow into the interior of the high-voltage battery and to displace any air included therein; an auto-ignition mechanism that interacts with the seal, which auto-ignites at a certain auto-ignition temperature and opens the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Peter Wlodarczyk
  • Patent number: 11077454
    Abstract: A system and method for shaping and/or directing a spray stream includes electrostatically charging a spray stream by exposing fluid to be sprayed to an electrical field within a fluid sprayer to create an electrostatically charged spray stream, and then creating an electrical field between secondary electrodes externally to the fluid sprayer such that the electrostatically spray stream is shaped and/or redirected as it passes through the electrical field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventors: Paul W. Vesely, Rudolf J. Schick
  • Patent number: 11052418
    Abstract: A spray gun adapter establishes fluid communication between a fluid pump of a handheld airless spray gun and an applicator accessory. The adapter comprises an adapter body, a head attached to the adapter body, and a protrusion. The adapter body comprises an upper portion, a lower portion, a radial inlet located in a sidewall of the adapter body between the upper and lower portions, and an adapter bore having a first diameter in fluid communication with the radial inlet. The head attached to the adapter body is attached at the upper portion of the adapter body. The head comprises a cavity in fluid communication with the adapter bore and having a second diameter larger than the first diameter, an adapter outlet located in the upper portion of the adapter body and in fluid communication with the cavity, and a handle extending radially from the head. The protrusion extends radially from the adapter body between the upper portion and the lower portion of the adapter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Diane L. Olson, Steven Dale Becker
  • Patent number: 11026414
    Abstract: A variable width agricultural applicator is provided. The variable width agricultural applicator is attachable to a boom to apply a liquid to a crop in rows. The variable width agricultural sprayer includes a drop tube and a splitter downstream of the drop tube. The splitter is fluidly connected to the drop tube. A pair of flexible delivery tubes is fluidly connected to the splitter. Each one of the pair of flexible delivery tubes has a predetermined bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: WGF LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery W. Heinsohn, Andrew James Blackmer
  • Patent number: 11027298
    Abstract: Dispensing devices can include buffers. This obviates the need for continually pumping the device to dispense spray or foam. A buffer can be spring loaded, spring loaded combination, elastomeric or gas, and can be in line or adjacent to a piston chamber. Such sprayers and foamers can be mounted upside down. With a buffer, a piston chamber can deliver a greater amount of liquid per unit time than can be dispensed through the nozzle(s). The fraction of liquid that cannot be dispensed can be sent to the buffer for dispensing after the piston downstroke has completed. Volume of the piston chamber and buffer, pressure response of the buffer, throughput of the nozzle, and the minimum opening pressure of the outlet valve can be arranged to restrict the outlet pressures of liquid droplets exiting the nozzle within a defined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Dispensing Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes Joseph Maas, Dominicus Jan van Wijk, Paulo Nervo, Petrus Lambertus Wilhelmus Hurkmans, Aaron Haleva
  • Patent number: 11020622
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly (10) having a receiving member (12), a fluid tight seal (44) and a sprinkler frame (14). The receiving member includes an inner surface (22) defining an internal passageway and a central axis (A-A) of the assembly. The frame of the sprinkler includes an internal surface (38) that defines a fluid passage. The sprinkler assembly includes cooperating positioning elements (28, 40) which engage and couple the sprinkler frame to the receiving member for at least one of an axial and rotational adjustment between the frame and receiving member. The engaged positioning elements facilitate formation or location of the fluid tight seal between the sprinkler frame and receiving member, the seal being spaced from the engaged positioning elements. In one aspect of the assembly, the sprinkler frame and receiving member are made of plastic material (e.g. CPVC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Bernhard Abels, Manuel R. Silva, Jr., Mathew R. Ancone
  • Patent number: 11021250
    Abstract: An airborne fire extinguishing system includes a fluid reservoir, a flow control valve in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir, a deflector in fluid communication with the flow control valve, and an infrared camera. The fluid reservoir is configured to contain a fire extinguishing agent for suppressing a fire, particularly water. The flow control valve regulates a flow of the fire extinguishing agent between the fluid reservoir and the deflector. The deflector dispenses the fire extinguishing agent in a controlled manner such that the fire extinguishing agent is diffused in a specified concentration into the air. The infrared camera is configured to produce a thermographic image resulting from thermal radiation produced by a fire to help provide targeting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: Kenneth Heck
  • Patent number: 11000621
    Abstract: A siphon type essence diffuser having block-preventing and leakage-preventing capabilities includes an outer shell and a universal atomizer connector contained therein. The universal atomizer connector is of a tube shape formed integrally into a body, having a first end connectable to the bottle port of an essence oil container presently available on the market. A nozzle cover and an atomized plate are disposed on the tube port of the second end. An essence supply channel is disposed between the first end and the second end. A siphon essence oil supply mechanism is disposed on universal atomizer connector, with one end of a cotton rod pressing against a back side of the atomized plate, and with the other end of a cotton rod extending into the essence oil supply channel to absorb essence oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MAJESTIC-M&A INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsuan-Yu Chao
  • Patent number: 10994291
    Abstract: An electrostatic fluid delivery system is configured to deliver fluid, such as a disinfectant fluid, onto a surface by electrically charging the fluid and forming the fluid into a mist, fog, plume, or spray that can be directed onto a surface, such as a surface to be cleaned. The system atomizes the fluid using a high-pressure fluid stream and passes the fluid through an electrode of a nozzle assembly to charge droplets of the atomized fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Victory Innovations Company
    Inventor: Clifford Wright