Patents Examined by Deming Wan
  • Patent number: 11905793
    Abstract: A rotation converter configured to convert an alternative clockwise-counterclockwise rotation to a single rotation direction, including: a hex shaft including an input hex, an output hex, and a gear contact, wherein the input hex and output hex are separated by the gear contact; a hex mover coupled to the input hex, wherein the hex mover includes following teeth and driving teeth; a following ring gear in contact with the following teeth; a driving ring gear in contact with the driving teeth; one or more gear pinions in contact with the following ring gear and the driving ring gear; one or more gear rods configured to support the one or more gear pinions; and a gear holder coupled to the one or more gear rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GQ Technical LLC
    Inventor: Guochang Wang
  • Patent number: 11883639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gear pump having a housing that has an inflow for the liquid to be conveyed, that has an outflow for the conveyed liquid, and that has a pump chamber in which the gear or gears for conveying the liquid are present, with at least one bearing position being present in the housing, in which bearing position at least one gear is rotatably received, wherein the inflow is in a different plane than the outflow; and wherein at least one first flushing passage that extends up to the bearing position(s) is in direct or indirect fluid communication with the inflow and/or with the outflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Simone Lippert
  • Patent number: 11885335
    Abstract: An oil supply mechanism comprises: an oil pump device connected to a rotating shaft of a rotating machinery; a main oil supply passage formed in the rotating shaft substantially in the axial direction of the rotating shaft; and a bypass oil passage in communication with the main oil supply passage and allowing a part of lubricating oil in the main oil supply passage to flow out via the bypass oil passage. The bypass oil passage extends in a direction substantially transverse to the rotating shaft. The bypass oil passage is configured such that a radial distance from an outlet of the bypass oil passage to the axis of the rotating shaft is greater than the radius of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaowei Hu, Lingfeng Ni
  • Patent number: 11873813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to highly efficient suction and compression rotating mechanisms, particularly the compression mechanism with piston blocks mounted on two axes and driven by a pair of matching gears in the field of compressors and vacuums or hydraulic system such as oil pump, hydraulic motor, hydraulic gearbox, specifically there is application that uses this mechanism to create one rotary motor with multi compression stages, force-generating stages and continuous fuel burning regime. The new rotary lobe structure in this invention provides a close contact between curved surfaces with the same radius, which is a “Surface-to-surface” contact, with much better tightness than “line” contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Hai Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11867177
    Abstract: A pump device includes a housing, a pump element, and an on-off valve. The housing includes a suction passage defining a suction port at an upstream end, a discharge passage defining a discharge port at a downstream end, and a return passage returning a part of a fluid flowing through the discharge passage to midway of the suction passage. The pump element is accommodated in the housing and rotates around a predetermined axis to suck, pressurize, and discharge a fluid. The on-off valve opens and closes the return passage. In the suction passage upstream of an opening at which the return passage is opened to the suction passage, the housing includes a directional wall which directs a flow of a suction fluid sucked into the suction passage from the suction port to divert from a flow of a return fluid returned from the return passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ino
  • Patent number: 11867175
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a casing having an oil storage space, a fixed scroll disposed inside the casing, an orbiting scroll disposed on one side of the fixed scroll and performing an orbiting motion relative to the fixed scroll so as to form a compression chamber, a discharge cover coupled to another side opposite to the one side of the fixed scroll and having a cover bottom surface, and an oil feeder coupled to the cover bottom surface to face a direction opposite to the fixed scroll, to communicate with the oil storage space. The cover bottom surface is disposed at an inner side of an inner circumference of the oil feeder and defines a discharge hole to communicate with the inner side of the oil feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Taekyoung Kim, Sungyong Ahn, Junghoon Park, Jaeha Lee
  • Patent number: 11867183
    Abstract: Transmission between drive shaft and a driven shaft, which transmission includes a housing and at least a driven gearwheel that is mounted on the driven shaft and a drive gearwheel that is mounted on a drive shaft. The housing is provided with an outlet opening, which outlet opening is placed in the radial extension of one of the gearwheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Linus Van Hove, Steven De Man
  • Patent number: 11867173
    Abstract: [Problem] A scroll compressor is provided which is capable of effectively reducing a pressure loss in a pathway extending from a discharge space to a discharge port. [Solution] The scroll compressor includes a discharge space 27 formed in a compressing mechanism cover 9 of a housing 11, a discharge hole 26 which is formed in a fixed scroll 21 and discharges a compressed refrigerant to the discharge space, a discharge port 51 which discharges the refrigerant to the outside of the housing, a relief passage 71 which communicates the discharge space and the discharge port with each other, and a differential pressure valve 74 which is provided in the relief passage and opens in accordance with a pressure difference between the discharge space and the discharge port. The relief passage opens in the discharge space above the discharge hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Imai, Taizo Sato
  • Patent number: 11859633
    Abstract: Provided is a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan includes an air inlet, a shaft, and a plurality of blades. The blades are arranged around the shaft. Each of the blades includes an air guiding portion on a side of the blade facing the air inlet. The air guiding portion includes a first curve and a second curve. An air inflow channel is formed between the first curve and the second curve of two adjacent air guiding portions respectively. A width of the air inflow channel is expanded in a direction away from the air inlet according to an expanding ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Hsin Chen Lin, Ing-Jer Chiou
  • Patent number: 11859617
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes fixed and movable scrolls forming a compression chamber, a back pressure chamber, and outer and inner oil supply mechanisms that supply oil to outer and inner chambers of the compression chamber. The inner oil supply mechanism includes an oil supply portion formed in a sliding surface of the fixed scroll to communicate with a suction region of the compression chamber and a communication port passing through the sliding surface of the movable scroll to communicate with the back pressure chamber. The communication port communicates with the oil supply portion within a predetermined period in which a center position of a suction-side end of the wrap of the movable scroll in a thickness direction is located radially outward of a center position of a space between adjacent turns of a wrap of the fixed scroll, during one rotation of the movable scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitomo Tsuka
  • Patent number: 11852153
    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 outer foil assembly, an inner foil assembly, and a bump foil assembly positioned between the outer and inner foil assemblies. The bump foil assembly includes a plurality of bump foils disposed circumferentially about the inner foil assembly. Each bump foil is coupled to the outer foil assembly at a respective land and 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 openings extending radially therethrough. Each opening is radially aligned with one of the lands or one of the gaps between adjacent bump foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Copeland LP
    Inventors: Patrick Shawn O'Meara, Michael M. Perevozchikov, Zheji Liu
  • Patent number: 11846286
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes fixed and movable scrolls including fixed and movable side end plates and fixed and movable side wraps. The fixed-side end plate includes a first fixed-side passage that communicates with a high-pressure space, and a second fixed-side passage to supply lubricating oil from the high-pressure space to a compression chamber formed between the scrolls. The movable-side end plate includes a movable-side groove that intermittently allows communication between the first fixed-side passage and the second fixed-side passage. The compression chamber includes a first compression chamber, and a second compression chamber located inside the first compression chamber. The second fixed-side passage includes a first fixed-side hole that intermittently communicates with the movable-side groove, and a second fixed-side hole that communicates with the first fixed-side hole and intermittently communicates with the second compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eitarou Nakatani, Yasuo Mizushima, Katsumi Kato, Takeshi Endou, Akira Himeda, Yukiko Maejima
  • Patent number: 11846285
    Abstract: The pump comprises a casing; a statoric part stationarily housed in the casing; at least one impeller arranged for rotation in the casing. A process fluid path extends though the statoric part and the impeller. A bearing rotatingly supports the impeller in the casing and a bearing lubrication path is provided, to circulate a fluid flow through the bearing. A rotary screw integral with the impeller and rotating therewith when the pump is operating provides a pumping action on process fluid such that rotation of the impeller promotes process fluid circulation by means of said rotary screw through the bearing lubrication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie—S.R.L
    Inventors: Francesco Cangioli, Matteo Berti, Alessandro Musacchio, Leonardo Tognarelli
  • Patent number: 11841014
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided. In the scroll compressor, a valve accommodating groove that accommodates a discharge port and bypass holes is recessed by a predetermined depth into a rear surface of a non-orbiting scroll, and a valve guide is disposed between the rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll and a rear surface of the back pressure chamber assembly facing the rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll. Bypass valve guide holes into which bypass valves that open and close the bypass holes are slidably inserted are formed in the valve guide. Accordingly, the bypass valves that suppress or prevent overcompression in compression chambers are not fastened to a non-orbiting end plate, which may allow the non-orbiting end plate to be reduced in thickness. As the non-orbiting end plate is reduced in thickness, lengths of the bypass holes may be reduced, thereby decreasing dead volumes in the bypass holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changeol Jo, Jeonghun Kim, Nara Han, Jihoon Park
  • Patent number: 11841019
    Abstract: A rotary piston compressor (1) for a system for temperature conditioning comprises a rotor (19) mounted in a housing (21), wherein the rotary piston compressor (1) is designed in such a way that the rotor (19) rotates in a first direction in a first operating state and rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a second operating state, and wherein, in the first operating state, a first compressor connection (3) is designed to supply a heat transfer medium (17), and a second compressor connection (5) is designed to discharge the compressed heat transfer medium (17), and wherein, in the second operating state, the second compressor connection (5) is designed to supply the heat transfer medium (17), and the first compressor connection (3) is designed to discharge the compressed heat transfer medium (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Dahinten
  • Patent number: 11834982
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for an electric turbocharger. In one example, the electric turbocharger includes an electric motor circumferentially surrounding a shaft, a turbine coupled to a first end of the shaft, and a compressor coupled to a second end of the shaft, opposite of the first end. The compressor may include a volute with a curved portion protruding towards the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Homison, Louis Kobielski
  • Patent number: 11828288
    Abstract: A pendulum pump includes a housing, a cover positioned on the housing and forming a cavity therebetween, an inner rotor and an outer rotor positioned within the cavity, wherein the inner rotor is connected via a plurality of pendulums to the outer rotor, and the pendulums are mounted to the outer rotor in an articulated manner such that a rotational eccentricity can be imparted between the inner rotor and the outer rotor to control a flow rate of the pendulum pump, and a protective plate positioned within the cavity and against a surface of one of the housing and the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Liviu Marinica, Mihajlo Soc, Steven Fletcher, Adam Rossetto
  • Patent number: 11815093
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a motor portion fixed in an inner space of a casing, a compression portion fixed to the inner space of the casing at one side of the motor portion in an axial direction, a rotation shaft to transmit a driving force from the motor portion to the compression portion, and a flow path guide provided in a discharge space between the motor portion and the compression portion and provided with a guide outlet communicating with the discharge space and opened in a direction toward the rotation shaft. Therefore, most of refrigerant discharged to the discharge space through the flow path guide is moved toward an air gap to enhance an oil separation effect, and thus a normal operation point of the air conditioner can be accelerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaeha Lee, Yongkyu Choi, Minho Lee
  • Patent number: 11814962
    Abstract: An engine comprises a housing and a combustion assembly carried by the housing. The combustion assembly comprises an annular bore defined by the housing, at least one combustion piston disposed within the annular bore, and a sealing mechanism configured to selectively seal the at least one combustion piston relative to at least one corresponding wall of the annular bore. The engine comprises at least one rotary valve configured to move between a first position within the annular bore to allow the at least one combustion piston to travel within the annular bore from a first location proximate to the at least one valve to a second location distal to the at least one rotary valve and a second position within the annular bore to define a combustion chamber relative to the at least one combustion piston at the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Walter T. Bonin
  • Patent number: 11795947
    Abstract: A compressor structure includes a vane rotor and a cylinder eccentrically disposed around the vane rotor. The vane rotor has a vane impeller. The vane impeller is in tangential contact with the cylinder to define an eccentric crescent vane chamber. A vane is radially slidably received in the vane impeller. An outward extending top end of the vane tightly abuts against the inner circumferential wall of the vane chamber, whereby the vane chamber is partitioned into an intake section and a compression exhaustion section. When the vane rotor rotates, the vane is driven to drive the cylinder to complete gas compression operation. When rotating, the vane is simply swung at a fixed position of the cylinder, the friction of the compressor can be lowered. The communication of the gas outlet is regulated so that the compression ratio of the compressed gas exhausted from the compressor can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CH Creative Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jui-Cheng Chang