Patents Examined by Cody Lieuwen
  • Patent number: 9079200
    Abstract: A multi-container manual-pump-operated backpack sprayer including an open-topped backpack enclosure, a plurality (preferably three) modular liquid containers removably seated in the enclosure, a hand-lever-operated pump/accumulator combination, and a user-controllable manifold for selecting a particular chemical from the containers for administration through a spray wand. Chemical is carried to the pressure chamber by manually pumping. The pump draws liquid from a manifold-selected supply container outward through tubes to the manifold, which has a console of valves. Separate return tubes are provided for each chemical from the manifold back to the containers of origin, and the manifold allows convenient flushing of each chemical back to its container of origin. This ensures that chemicals are not mixed or cross-contaminated and avoids waste since all residual is returned back to its respective container. The manifold is conveniently carried at the hip for ease of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventors: Ross Mark Fornaro, James Harold Belt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9073071
    Abstract: A horseshoe-shaped shower outlet assembly includes a main outlet body, a positioning valve, an adapter member, a changeover valve, two interlinking valves and a horseshoe-shaped shower head. The main outlet body in which there is a changeover space developed includes an inlet, a first outlet, a second outlet and a third positioning port; the positioning valve has one end securely connected to the third positioning port; the adapter member has one end coupled with the second outlet; the changeover valve is pivoted to and held in both the positioning valve and the third positioning port; the interlinking valves are situated at external ends of the positioning valve and the adapter member wherein one of the interlinking valves is actuated with the changeover valve synchronously; turned between predetermined angles under effect of external force, and taken as an interface by which a user can switch and control water flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: AGREAT SHOWER & SANITARY (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pi-Kuang Tsai
  • Patent number: 9067218
    Abstract: A rotary spray shower head includes a main body, a water distributing plate, a rear faceplate, an impeller, a pinion, a driven gear, a water outlet head assembly and a discharge faceplate. The present invention is simple in structure. When in use, one portion achieves an ordinary discharge function of the shower head, and another portion achieves a rotary discharge function. The present invention uses the pinion and the driven gear to constitute a planet deceleration. The rotating speed can be controlled, and the rotary spray discharge effect is good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SINYU TECHNOLOGY (FUJIAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhangjun Yu
  • Patent number: 9016603
    Abstract: A common rail fuel injector includes a control valve member unattached to, but trapped between, a push pin and a seat of an injector body. The push pin has a head that includes a contact surface and a crown that includes a stop surface. An air gap surface of an armature is located between a top of the head and the stop surface of the crown when the contact surface of the push pin is in contact with the armature. The stop surface of the crown is located between an air gap plane of a stator assembly and the air gap surface of the armature. The push pin, the armature and the control valve member are movable among a rest configuration, an injection configuration, and an over travel configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Holtman
  • Patent number: 8991723
    Abstract: A multi-layer piezoelectric element includes a stacked body configured so that piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated, and an external electrode composed of a sintered material of both electrically conductive particles and a glass, the external electrode which is bonded to a side surface of the stacked body and makes electrical connection with the internal electrode layers. The external electrode has a stacked body-side layer region containing glass as secondary constituent at its stacked body-facing side, and an exterior-side layer region containing glass as minor constituent at its exterior side. The glass of the exterior-side layer region is distributed along grain boundary of the conductive particles on an outermost surface of the exterior-side layer region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8944350
    Abstract: An aerated shower head structure has a body, a stationary disc, a water distributor and a pressing disc sequentially assembled. The stationary disc has an air inlet hole and a water inlet hole both formed through the stationary disc and communicating with a water inlet of the body. The water distributor and the pressing disc are combined and rotatably mounted under the stationary disc. The water distributor has an air compartment and a water compartment separately formed in a bottom of the water distributor, and has an air channel selectively communicating with the air compartment and multiple water orifices selectively communicating with the water compartment. The pressing disc has an air outlet hole communicating with the air compartment, a water outlet hole communicating with the water compartment, and an elongated water passage communicating with the air outlet hole and the water outlet hole and constitute a water outflow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Xiamen Runner Industrial Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Hui Lin