Patents Examined by Deming Wan
  • Patent number: 12385483
    Abstract: Gear pump with intermeshing gearwheels enclosed by a housing with bearing journals on shaft axes projecting laterally from the gear wheels mounted in the housing by slide bearings each having a slide bearing length, each having a lubrication pocket with radial expansion. The lubrication pocket is spaced from a gear-side end face of the respective slide bearing by a first distance, having a first bar with a first bar width with axial expansion corresponding to a slide bearing surface. The lubrication pocket is spaced apart by a second distance from the bearing end face opposite the gear end face. A second bar with a second bar width with axial extension corresponds to a slide bearing surface, a bore leads through the slide bearing and communicates with the lubrication pocket at an injection point. The bore is operatively connected to a conveying device for conveying lubricating medium into the lubrication pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: MAAG PUMP SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: René Triebe, Hendrik Brands, Markus Steinmann
  • Patent number: 12385485
    Abstract: A scroll compressor may include a back pressure passage that provides communication between a compression chamber and a back pressure chamber to guide refrigerant compressed in the compression chamber partially to the back pressure chamber. The back pressure passage may communicate with the compression chamber through a front end surface of a non-orbiting wrap axially facing an orbiting end plate. Accordingly, when an orbiting scroll tilts, the non-orbiting wrap may be spaced apart from the orbiting end plate to open a scroll back pressure hole, such that the compression chamber and the back pressure chamber communicate with each other to quickly vary pressure in the back pressure chamber to be adaptive to the pressure of the compression chamber. This may result in appropriately adjusting back pressure in the back pressure chamber according to an operating mode and/or operating conditions, thereby increasing a sealing power and suppressing or preventing excessive contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Honghee Park, Wooyoung Kim, Byeonghun Yu
  • Patent number: 12378958
    Abstract: A gear pump, in particular for a hydraulic unit in a drive train of a motor vehicle, with a housing which consists of multiple housing parts, with a drive gear and with a pump gear, which are arranged inside the housing. The pump gear is mounted on a bearing structure designed integrally with one of the housing parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: VALEO EMBRAYAGES
    Inventor: Manuel Merkle
  • Patent number: 12366246
    Abstract: A pump particularly for pumping abrasive and/or chemically aggressive liquids includes at least one rotating pumping member having a respective shaft, the at least one rotating pumping member being at least partially housed inside a pump body. The shaft is rotatably supported by at least one support associated with the pump body. The shaft and the at least one support are both at least partially made of a material having a hardness greater than or equal to 5 Mohs, where the material having a hardness greater than or equal to 5 Mohs is located at least in the areas of the shaft and of the support in mutual contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: FLUID-O-TECH S.R.L.
    Inventors: Diego Andreis, Pierpaolo Lucchesi, Stefano Copelli, Carlo Gonella
  • Patent number: 12366248
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a volumetric compressor (1) that can be used, preferably, for producing equipment and/or a plant for the suction of material in liquid, solid, powder or slurry form. The compressor according to the invention comprises a body (2) defining an operative chamber (5), a suction section (51) and a discharge section (52) of an operating fluid. The compressor further comprises at least two lobe rotors (8A. 8B), the lobes (81A. 81B) of which are housed inside said operative chamber (5), cach rotor (8A. 8B) rotating around a corresponding longitudinal rotation axis (101A. 101B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: JUROP S.P.A.
    Inventor: Danilo Santarossa
  • Patent number: 12359666
    Abstract: A rotor assembly and a compressor are provided. The rotor assembly has a crankshaft, a rotor core, a balance weight and an oil baffle shield. The rotor core is provided with a vent hole. The vent hole extends through the rotor core along an axial direction of the rotor core. The balance weight is located at one end of the rotor core approximate to an oil sump of the compressor. The oil baffle shield is arranged to cover the balance weight and is provided with a central opening. The crankshaft extends through the central opening. An accommodating space is defined between the oil baffle shield and the rotor core. The accommodating space is communicated with the vent hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Zhenhao Li
  • Patent number: 12345256
    Abstract: A high pressure dome scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism having fixed and orbiting scrolls to form a compression chamber, a casing housing the compression mechanism, and first and second passage members. The first and second passage members guide low and intermediate pressure fluid from outside of the casing to the compression mechanism. The fixed scroll has a fixed end plate, a fixed wrap, and an outer peripheral wall surrounding the fixed wrap. The fixed end plate has suction and injection passages connected with the first and second passage members to guide the low and intermediate pressure fluid to the compression chamber. The fixed end plate has an attachment portion to which the first and second passage members are attached. The attachment portion is part of a back surface of the fixed end plate and protrudes on the back surface of the fixed end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Araki, Yoshitomo Tsuka
  • Patent number: 12345271
    Abstract: A bearing system includes a bearing housing and a foil bearing assembly. The bearing housing includes a sleeve defining a cylindrical bore, and a mounting structure for connecting the bearing system to a compressor housing. The foil bearing assembly is positioned within the cylindrical bore and includes an inner foil assembly and a bump foil assembly. The bump foil assembly includes a plurality of bump foils disposed circumferentially about the inner foil assembly. Each bump foil is spaced circumferentially from an adjacent bump foil to define a gap therebetween. The inner foil assembly includes a cylindrical inner surface defining a plurality of perforations extending radially therethrough. Each perforation is radially aligned with one of the gaps between adjacent bump foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Copeland LP
    Inventors: Patrick Shawn O'Meara, Michael M. Perevozchikov, Zheji Liu
  • Patent number: 12338818
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compressor housing containing an orbiting scroll member, a non-orbiting scroll member, a pair of bands disposed between the non-orbiting scroll member and the compressor housing, a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, and an intermediate injection chamber defined by the pair of bands. The non-orbiting scroll member includes an intermediate injection port fluidly connecting the intermediate injection chamber to at least one compression pocket formed by the intermeshed scroll members. A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration system including a refrigerant circuit with a condenser, at least one expander, an evaporator, and the scroll compressor fluidly connected. A method of making a scroll compressor includes placing an upper portion of a compressor housing over a non-orbiting scroll member with bands disposed therebetween, and interference fitting the upper portion onto the non-orbiting scroll member via the bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Derrick Lepak, Scott J. Smerud
  • Patent number: 12331747
    Abstract: A fluid filter includes a body portion and a filter membrane portion. The body portion includes at least one aperture formed therein, wherein the filter membrane portion is disposed in the at least one aperture to filter contaminants from a fluid (e.g., a lubricant). The fluid filter is installed in a fluid passage of scroll compressor, wherein an axial movement of the fluid filter is restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Steven J. Koester, Bradley Vernon Crenshaw, Mark Elliot Honkala
  • Patent number: 12320356
    Abstract: A scroll compressor capable of improving the performance and efficiency of the compressor by increasing the amount of refrigerant discharged from a compression chamber by introducing not only refrigerant at suction pressure but also refrigerant at an intermediate pressure to the compression chamber of the scroll compressor, capable of freely changing the position of a port by simplifying the shape of an injection valve assembly and by disposing a fastening member on an introduction chamber side, and capable of compactifying the injection valve assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Jeon, Kwang Jin Kim, Kyung Jae Lee, Soo Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 12313070
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eccentric screw pump, including a rotor, which forms a conveying screw, and a stator, which forms a screw flight and in which the rotor rotates during conveying operation, wherein: the stator includes a stator housing, in which a stator lining is disposed, the stator lining reproducing the screw flight; the stator lining is a sleeve which is supported, at its outer periphery, on the stator housing by means of a support structure which forms cavities; the support structure is designed and dimensioned, in accordance with the location of its connection to the sleeve, in such a way that the supporting effect provided by the support structure is matched to the local needs of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Sinseder, Philipp Nübl, Stefan Weigl, Stefan Voit, Stefan Schöberl, Thomas Schmitt
  • Patent number: 12313308
    Abstract: A rotary compressor of an embodiment has a rotating shaft, an electric motor, a compression mechanism, a balancer, and a balancer cover. The compression mechanism has a cylinder, a main bearing, and a sub-bearing. The balancer is provided on the rotating shaft on a second side of the sub-bearing in an axial direction thereof. The balancer cover covers the balancer. A lubricating oil supply path that opens on a second side end face in the axial direction is provided in the rotating shaft. A supply hole that allows the supply path to communicate with the outside of the balancer cover is formed in the balancer cover at a position facing the supply path in the axial direction. A seal mechanism that seals between the balancer cover and the rotating shaft is provided between the balancer cover and the rotating shaft while allowing relative movement between the balancer cover and the rotating shaft in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Carrier Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirayama, Shogo Shida, Taishi Nagahata, Hayato Toda, Tomoaki Kurita
  • Patent number: 12313073
    Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided that may include a casing, a cylinder, a main bearing, a sub bearing, a rotational shaft, a roller, and at least one vane. The cylinder may include at least one elastic deformation unit to absorb impact with the at least one vane. With this structure, a collision force caused due to chattering of the at least one vane may be absorbed to suppress or prevent friction loss and/or wear between the cylinder and the vane, thereby enhancing compressor efficiency, reducing vibration noise, and enabling fast initial actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seseok Seol, Yunhi Lee, Seoungmin Kang
  • Patent number: 12313079
    Abstract: An impeller (10) of a centrifugal compressor (4) is provided with a hub (14) and a plurality of blades (16) provided at intervals in a circumferential direction of the impeller (10) on an outer peripheral surface of the hub (14). In a meridian plane shape of the blades (16), as the coordinate axes with the origin at a tip end (30s) of a trailing edge (30) of the blades (16), an X-axis connecting the tip end (30s) and a base end (30h) of the trailing edge (30) and a Y-axis orthogonal to the X-axis are defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kanzaka, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Yutaka Fujita, Hironori Honda
  • Patent number: 12297810
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for controlling a wind turbine, the wind turbine including a rotor and at least one blade being rotatable mounted to the rotor. The control device includes a detecting device being configured to detect an amount of a bending moment of the blade; and a change element having an input and an output, wherein the input is configured to receive the detected amount of the bending moment of the blade and the output is configured to output a response to a differential of the detected amount of the bending moment of the blade. The control device is configured to control the wind turbine based on the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
    Inventor: Johannes Gerhardes Wardjan Alberts
  • Patent number: 12297830
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a movable scroll, a fixed scroll having a suction passage, a suction pipe, and a suction check valve to open and close an open end of the suction pipe. The suction check valve includes a valve body, a valve seat, and a compression spring to bias the valve body toward the open end of the suction pipe. The valve body includes a first bottom portion, and a first circumferential wall extending toward the valve seat along a peripheral portion of the first bottom portion. The valve seat includes a second bottom portion, and a second circumferential wall extending toward the valve body along a peripheral portion of the second bottom portion. One of the first and second circumferential walls has an outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of an open end of the other one of the first and second circumferential walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga Arakane, Naoki Shimozono, Tomomi Yokoyama, Takafumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12292051
    Abstract: A device for controlling a fluid mass flow for a device for compressing a gaseous fluid from a low to a high pressure level. The device has a housing with fluid connections at different pressure levels, and a closure element arranged to move in a translatory manner within the housing along a longitudinal axis, with effective surfaces assigned to the fluid connections. The closure element regulates a flow cross-section of a flow path extending between a first and a second fluid connection. The device has a receiving element for receiving the closure element. A primary segment is arranged to be completely surrounded by the receiving element as a first section of the closure element and a secondary segment is arranged to be completely surrounded by the housing as a second section of the closure element and the receiving element is arranged to be completely surrounded by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Ayhan Ayar, Gerd Vondahlen, Marcel Stober
  • Patent number: 12286973
    Abstract: An electric water pump includes: a housing with a cooling water inlet and a cooling water outlet; a stator assembly provided inside the housing and having stator coils on upper and lower surfaces thereof, respectively; a rotor assembly including a rotary shaft rotatably supported on the housing, a first magnetic body provided at an upper portion of the stator assembly, and a second magnetic body provided at a lower portion of the stator assembly; and an impeller provided to rotate integrally with the rotary shaft of the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seong-Bin Jeong
  • Patent number: 12270396
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a housing. A delivery portion includes a delivery pump element disposed within the housing. A return portion includes a return pump element disposed within the housing. A motor is disposed within the housing that drives the delivery pump element and the return pump element via a drive shaft. The delivery portion is configured to deliver fluid from a reservoir to a drive unit. The return pump element is configured to deliver the fluid from a sump assembly of the drive unit to the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GHSP, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan David Rosinski