Patents Examined by Deming Wan
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Patent number: 12146490Abstract: Disclosed are a compression mechanism and a scroll compressor. The compression mechanism comprises an orbiting scroll and a non-orbiting scroll comprising a non-orbiting scroll end plate and forms a series of fluid chambers comprising an intermediate compression chamber. An exhaust communication space is provided on the second side of the non-orbiting scroll end plate, and the non-orbiting scroll end plate is provided with a pressure relief port which makes at least one intermediate compression chamber be in selective fluid communication with the exhaust communication space. An end plate surface on the first side of the non-orbiting scroll end plate is provided with an exhaust groove which is in communication with the pressure relief port, the pressure relief port can be in fluid communication with the at least one intermediate compression chamber through the exhaust groove.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Ji Liang, Ping Zhao, Meiling Xu, Yuan Qian
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Patent number: 12145100Abstract: A ship with a flue gas carbon dioxide capture and storage plant has a main engine such as a slow running diesel engine providing flue gas. The flue gas is led via a flue gas heat exchanger with a thermal fluid exit to a re-boiler and arranged for cooling said flue gas. Further cooled flue gas is led into a turbine compressor compressing it up to a compressed flue gas. A combustion chamber is provided with a fuel feed and a pre-mix gas burner for afterburning said compressed flue gas which also burns remaining methane from the diesel engine, resulting in hot afterburned compressed flue gas enriched in CO2. The CO2-absorber (20) leading said CO2-enriched absorber solution to a CO2-stripper (21), operating at e.g. 1 Bar and exporting CO2 to a CO2-compressor (26) to a CO2-export line (28) to onboard CO2 pressure tanks.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: KARBON CCS LTDInventors: Henrik Fleischer, Knut Erik Børseth
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Patent number: 12140141Abstract: The present application discloses a high-precision electric oil pump, which relates to the technical field of new energy vehicles. The electric oil pump includes a pump housing connected with an outer gear and an inner gear engaged with each other, the pump housing is internally connected to a fixed shaft concentrically arranged with the pump housing, the outer gear is connected to the fixed shaft and concentrically arranged with the pump housing, the fixed shaft includes a connecting section, an eccentric calibrator is provided on an outer circumferential wall of the connecting section, the eccentric calibrator and the connecting section form an eccentric assembly, the inner gear is rotated around a geometric central axis of the eccentric assembly, and the eccentric assembly is non-concentrically arranged with the pump housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HANGZHOU QUADRANT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Liping Wang, Guojun Zhang, Ruinan Wang, Hezhao Hua, Yi Zhao, Zhixue Lu
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Patent number: 12140043Abstract: A blade for a turbine includes an airfoil extending between a platform end and a tip and between a leading edge and a trailing edge. A squealer tip wall protrudes from a tip surface of the tip and defines a tip cavity. At least one separator wall protrudes from the tip surface and divides the tip cavity into at least a first tip cavity lying on a first side of the separator wall facing the pressure side, and a second tip cavity lying on a second side of the separator wall facing the suction side. A first exit opening is formed in the squealer tip wall in the area of the trailing edge, wherein the first exit opening defines a fluid passage between the first tip cavity and the pressure side. A second exit opening is formed in the squealer tip wall in the area of the trailing edge, wherein the second exit opening defines a fluid passage between the second tip cavity and the suction side.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Brandl Herbert, Krueckels Joerg, Rathmann Ulrich, Hofmann Willy
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Patent number: 12135028Abstract: The invention relates to a scroll compressor (10) and to a method for operating the scroll compressor (10). The scroll compressor (10) has a stator (15), an orbiter (20) which can be moved about an orbiter axis (55) relative to the stator (15), and a coupling device (50). The stator (15) and the orbiter (20) engage into each other and at least partly delimit at least one working area (105) for compressing a fluid (110) which can be filled into the working area (105). The coupling device (50) has a first coupling unit (60) which is arranged on the stator (15) and a second coupling unit (65) which is arranged on the orbiter (20) opposite the first coupling unit (60), wherein the first coupling unit (60) is magnetically coupled to the second coupling unit (65), and the second coupling unit (65) introduces a coupling torque (MK) which acts about the orbiter axis (55) into the orbiter (20).Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Krauth, Juri Hartmann, Torsten Wilharm
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Patent number: 12135029Abstract: A scroll compressor with a stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a discharge port through which a fluid that has been compressed by both the scrolls is discharged. An end plate of the orbiting scroll is provided with an end-plate side stepped portion formed such that, along a spiral of a spiral wrap, the height thereof increases toward a central side of the spiral and decreases toward an outer end side thereof. A spiral wrap of the stationary scroll is provided with a wall-portion side stepped portion formed corresponding to the end-plate side stepped portion such that the height thereof decreases toward the central side of the spiral and increases toward the outer end side thereof. A pair of compression chambers face each other. The ventral side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port before the dorsal side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Takuma Yamashita, Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Akihiro Kanai, Kazuhide Watanabe
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Patent number: 12135025Abstract: A device for compressing a gaseous fluid from a low-pressure section into a high-pressure section. The device has a housing with a housing member, a compression mechanism arranged between the low-pressure section and the high-pressure section as well as a flow duct connecting the high-pressure section to the low-pressure section. The housing member is configured with a high-pressure-side port and an oil separator. An outlet opening of the port and an oil outlet are configured at diametrical ends of the oil separator. The oil outlet is arranged in the lowermost section of the oil separator in a direction of the effect of gravity and is hydraulically connected to an inlet of the flow duct. The housing member is configured with the inlet chamber such that the high-pressure-side port is able to be arranged with the axis within the inlet chamber irrespective of the arrangement of the oil outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Dirk Gutberlet, Kadir Dursun, Michael Friedl, Steffen Koch
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Patent number: 12129780Abstract: A combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes an output shaft, an intake tract, an exhaust gas tract, an exhaust gas aftertreatment device disposed in the exhaust gas tract, a heating element disposed in the exhaust gas tract upstream of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device, an electrically assisted exhaust gas turbocharger, and a conduit element which is fluidically connected to the exhaust gas tract at a first connection point disposed downstream of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device and at a second connection point disposed upstream of the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AGInventors: Heiko Beil, Rene Ernst, Siegfried Mueller, Michael Heinrichsmeyer
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Patent number: 12129853Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Steven J. Koester, Bradley Vernon Crenshaw, Mark Elliot Honkala
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Patent number: 12123414Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided that may include at least one vane that is slidably inserted into at least one vane slot provided in a roller or a cylinder so as to separate a compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. The at least one vane has an at least one oil supply groove formed in at least one of axial side surfaces, respectively, facing a main bearing and a sub bearing. The at least one oil supply groove may be longer in a longitudinal direction of the at least one vane than in a widthwise direction of the at least one vane. With this structure, it is possible to suppress friction loss and wear on a friction surface by supplying oil to the friction surface in contact with the at least one vane.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Joonhong Park, Seseok Seol, Seoungmin Kang
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Patent number: 12117004Abstract: Provided is a progressive cavity pump. The progressive cavity pump operates such that a viscous liquid is discharged by rotating an eccentric rotor with respect to a stator. The progressive cavity pump may be easily disassembled for repair and maintenance, and may be easily attached to an accurate position during re-assembly. Also, in the progressive cavity pump, main components such as a nozzle, a rotor, a stator, etc. may be easily replaced so as to easily adjust dispensing characteristic, while the driving units such as a motor and a rotary shaft are installed in a dispenser, and thus, an idle time of the dispenser may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: PROTEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Keon Hee Kim, Hwan Seong Park
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Patent number: 12110893Abstract: Disclosed are a main bearing seat for a scroll compressor, and a scroll compressor. The main bearing seat comprises substantially ring-shaped thrust parts for supporting a compressing mechanism of the scroll compressor, and a main part body provided with a bearing to support a driving shaft of the scroll compressor, wherein multiple suspension parts extending in a radial direction of the scroll compressor are provided in the thrust parts, and the suspension parts are arranged in an axial direction of the scroll compressor. The main bearing seat can adjust the stiffness of the thrust parts to better achieve stiffness matching and deformation coordination with a bottom face of a movable vortex, thereby increasing the effective contact area on a contact side of a thrust surface to achieve more uniform contact stress distribution and reduce the wear, and providing an appropriate gap on a non-contact side to facilitate lubrication.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yue Zhang, Ji Liang, Hua Xu
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Patent number: 12110923Abstract: Provided is a sliding component capable of reducing the frictional resistance of a sliding surface entailing eccentric rotation. An annular sliding component has a sliding surface relatively sliding with eccentric rotation. A plurality of grooves open to a fluid space on the inner diameter side are circumferentially provided in the sliding surface. A side wall surface of the groove is configured by a wall surface continuous in a circular arc shape in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Yuichiro Tokunaga
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Patent number: 12098719Abstract: A scroll compressor including a compression mechanism assembled with a valve assembly disposed in a housing. The compression mechanism including a fixed scroll and an orbit scroll. The fixed scroll includes a recessed pocket having a first indentation with a first injection port and a second indentation with a second injection port. A double reed structure of the valve assembly is disposed in the recessed pocket of the fixed scroll. The double reed structure includes a first reed configured to selectively permit a flow of a fluid through the first injection port and a second reed configured to selectively permit a flow of a fluid through the second injection port. The valve assembly further includes a valve member disposed adjacent the reed structure and a valve gasket disposed between the valve member and a portion of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Pete Ganster, Bradley Vernon Crenshaw, Steven J. Koester
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Patent number: 12098642Abstract: A vacuum scroll pump having an inlet portion having a pump inlet, and an exhaust portion having a pump outlet; a frame; a stationary scroll plate fixed to the frame and comprising a stationary plate comprising at least one stationary scroll blade; an orbiting scroll plate comprising an orbiting plate comprising at least one orbiting scroll blade projecting axially from a front side of the orbiting plate toward the stationary plate; a drive mechanism supported by the frame and operatively connected to the orbiting scroll plate so as to cause the orbiting scroll plate to orbit about a longitudinal axis of the vacuum scroll pump and thereby pump a process gas; a double-sided thrust bearing supporting the orbiting scroll plate; and a bellows which isolates the process gas from the drive mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ronald J. Forni
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Patent number: 12078208Abstract: Provided is a sliding component capable of reducing the frictional resistance of a sliding surface entailing eccentric rotation. An annular sliding component has a sliding surface relatively sliding with eccentric rotation. A plurality of grooves open to a fluid space on the inner diameter side are circumferentially provided in the sliding surface. A side wall surface of the groove is configured by a wall surface continuous in a circular arc shape in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Yuichiro Tokunaga
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Patent number: 12078175Abstract: A compressor comprises a discharge valve which is provided so as to be coupled to a fixed scroll and open/close a discharge hole. The discharge valve includes a coupling portion which is coupled to one surface of the fixed scroll, the surface facing a muffler, and a head portion extending from the coupling portion and opening/closing the discharge hole. The head portion may be provided with a communicating hole for allowing the discharge hole and the muffler to be in communication with each other. Accordingly, a backflow of a compressed refrigerant is prevented during the operation of the compressor, and thus over-compression of the refrigerant can be prevented. Also, when the compressor stops operating, only a certain amount of the discharged refrigerant is allowed to flow backward to prevent a reverse rotation of an orbiting scroll and a decrease in the oil level of the oil stored in a case.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaeha Lee, Sungyong Ahn, Howon Lee
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Patent number: 12065941Abstract: A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade. The rotor is able to be actuated to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to convey a fluid in the axial or radial direction, and the rotor is able to be deformed in the radial direction between a first, radially compressed state and a second, radially expanded state. At a maximum speed of rotation of the rotor at which the power of the pump is at a maximum, the blade is essentially radially oriented, and/or the rotor has its maximum diameter.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBHInventors: Joerg Schumacher, Mario Scheckel
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Patent number: 12055144Abstract: A pump particularly for pumping a liquid such as ink, paint, glue or the like, 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 being rotatably supported by at least one support associated with the pump body. The shaft has on its external cylindrical surface in contact with the liquid one, or more recesses, or the at least one support includes on its internal cylindrical surface in contact with the liquid, one or more recesses.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: FLUID-O-TECH S.R.L.Inventors: Diego Andreis, Pierpaolo Lucchesi, Stefano Copelli, Carlo Gonella
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Patent number: 12044226Abstract: A scroll device includes a fixed scroll with a first involute and a first cooling chamber; an orbiting scroll with a second involute and a second cooling chamber, the orbiting scroll mounted to the fixed scroll via a mechanical coupling, the orbiting scroll configured to orbit relative to the fixed scroll around an orbital axis; a flexible conduit in fluid communication with the first cooling chamber and the second cooling chamber, the flexible conduit extending around the orbital axis from a first side of the scroll device to a second side of the scroll device; and an integrated aftercooler.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Air Squared, Inc.Inventors: John P. D. Wilson, Justin D. Mattice