Patents Examined by Dominick L Plakkoottam
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Patent number: 12212211Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor impeller, a motor, an inverter, a housing including a motor chamber and an inverter chamber, a conductive member, an insertion hole, and a resin member sealing the insertion hole. A pressure in the motor chamber is higher than that in the inverter chamber. The resin member includes a first resin portion fixed to the housing and a second resin portion which is covered with the first resin portion and which covers the conductive member, the second resin portion having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the first resin portion. The first resin portion and the second resin portion, and the second resin portion and the conductive member are coupled by insert-molding.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Taito Okuma
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Patent number: 12209588Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression member compressing fluid drawn from a suction chamber and discharging the compressed fluid to a discharge chamber, an electric motor driving the compression member, an inverter driving the electric motor, a housing in which the suction chamber and the discharge chamber are formed and that accommodates the compression member, the electric motor, and the inverter, the housing including an inverter accommodation portion, a soundproof cover covering an outer surface of the housing, and a nameplate including predetermined information. The nameplate is provided on at least one of a first outer surface of the outer surface corresponding to the inverter accommodation portion and a second outer surface of the outer surface corresponding to the discharge portion. The soundproof cover has a window through the nameplate is viewed and which is formed in a part of the soundproof cover corresponding to the nameplate.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Noritaka Nishimori, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12196207Abstract: A lubricant-sealed vacuum pump configured to pump fluid from an inlet to an exhaust, method and filter are disclosed. The lubricant-sealed vacuum pump comprises: a rotor; a filter for filtering lubricant from fluid to be output by the pump; control circuitry for controlling a speed of rotation of the rotor, the control circuitry being configured to control rotation of the rotor, such that the rotor rotates at a reduced speed initially when a pressure at the inlet is high and rotates at a higher operational speed when the pressure at the inlet has reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Leybold France SASInventors: Christophe Despesse, Christian Moulin, Frederic Piu, Benoit Reynaud, Mickael Serayet
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Patent number: 12196226Abstract: A wet rotor circulating pump implementing an integral magnetic filter for removing suspended contaminates from the water being circulated.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Taco, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Castellone
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Patent number: 12188355Abstract: A driveshaft assembly for a compressor includes an unloader assembly and a driveshaft. The unloader assembly includes an unloader and a counterweight. The unloader assembly is rotationally supported by a bearing. The unloader includes a flank surface that is slidably engaged with a flank surface on the driveshaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Copeland LPInventors: Kirill Michailovich Ignatiev, Mikhail A. Antimonov, Robert Christopher Stover
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Patent number: 12188462Abstract: The packing seal for a piston compressor, having a longitudinal axis L as well as, following one after the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis L, a fastening part and a cylindrical part, wherein a magnetic bearing and at least one chamber ring with a sealing ring arranged therein are arranged following one after the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis L in the cylindrical part, wherein the magnetic bearing includes at least one controllable electromagnet.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: BURCKHARDT COMPRESSION AGInventor: Alexandre Voser
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Patent number: 12180951Abstract: Pump module for a vacuum apparatus with a flange which can be connected to a vacuum apparatus in a vacuum-tight manner, at least one ion getter pump and at least one volume getter pump, NEG, where the ion getter pump is directly connected to the flange and the NEG is directly connected to the ion getter pump and where the NEG and the flange are arranged separately from each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Edwards Vacuum LLCInventor: Marcus Hans Robert Thierley
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Patent number: 12180952Abstract: A hermetic compressor may include a plurality of springs provided between a compressor body and a shell to elastically support the compressor body and to space the compressor body apart from an inner surface of a shell. A plurality of spring caps fixed to the inner surface of the shell and the compressor body may support ends of each of the plurality of springs. Each of the plurality of springs may be inclined with respect to an axial direction. Transverse stiffness of the support springs may be increased to thereby reduce vibration noise of the compressor body and prevent the compressor body from being in contact with the shell.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Youngboo Son, Hangjun Cho, Seokjong Jang
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Patent number: 12176788Abstract: The motor support (16) for a motor-fan unit of a ventilation installation for a vehicle comprises: two coaxial rings (20; 22), including an inner ring (20) capable of receiving one or more elements of the motor and an outer ring (22) capable of fixing fastened to a housing forming a structural element, a decoupling element (24) between the two coaxial rings (20; 22); and a means (44) for limiting the relative movement of one of the two rings (20; 22) relative to the other, in a plane normal to the common axis (A) of the two rings (20; 22), comprising at least one radial abutment (44) fastened to one of the two rings (20; 22), with a radial clearance between the radial abutment (44) and the other of the two rings (20; 22).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Clara Degorce-Dumas, Clémence Kwaczewski, Stéphane De Souza, Vincent Guilbot
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Patent number: 12173704Abstract: A pump device includes a rotary motor, a compartment for insertion of a disposable pump part, and one or more pulsation-reduction elements. The disposable pump part includes an input port, an output port, and a dual-action reciprocating assembly. The input port is configured for intaking fluid. The output port is configured for outputting the fluid. The dual-action reciprocating assembly is configured for pumping the fluid. The assembly includes a single piston and a rod configured to be coupled to the rotary motor, so as to drive the piston. The one or more pulsation-reduction elements are configured to reduce a pulsation in the outputted fluid, caused by the single-piston dual-action reciprocating assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Yehuda Algawi, Assaf Govari, Gili Attias, Ilya Sitnitsky
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Patent number: 12172757Abstract: There is provided a blower system for providing air to an airframe system, comprising a rotor configured to be mechanically coupled to a spool 440 of a gas turbine engine, wherein the rotor is configured to: in a blower mode, be driven to rotate by the spool to discharge air to an airframe discharge port for supply to an airframe system; and, in an engine drive mode, receive air from an external air source via an impingement port that is configured to direct the received air onto the rotor and thereby drive the rotor to rotate to drive the spool to.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignees: Rolls-Royce PLC, Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Christopher A. Murray, Nicholas Howarth, Daniel Swain, Ian J. Bousfield
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Patent number: 12170472Abstract: A motor lead coupler is configured to provide a metal-to-metal sealed connection between a first motor lead extension and a second motor lead extension. The motor lead coupler includes a first plurality of receivers on a first end of the body, a second plurality of receivers on a second end of the body, and a plurality of intermediate terminals. Each of the first plurality of receivers is configured to receive a corresponding one of the first plurality of leads, and each of the second plurality of receivers is configured to receive a corresponding one of the second plurality of leads. Each of the intermediate terminals is connected between a corresponding pair of the first plurality of receivers and the second plurality of receivers. The motor lead coupler includes pressure test ports that can be used to pressure test the connection between individual leads and the motor lead coupler.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Inventor: Spencer Wilcox
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Patent number: 12163512Abstract: A method is for calibrating a peristaltic pump, and for dispensing a quantity of liquid by a peristaltic pump. A device for producing sterile preparations can execute the methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: GRIFOLS, S.A.Inventors: Carles Xavier Bellonch Orenes, David Rodriguez Jurado, Ceferino Ruz Torres, Ignacio Blazquez Garcia-Valenzuela, Xavier Fernandez Perez
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Patent number: 12163515Abstract: A fluid delivery system includes a reservoir for storing fluid, a rotary pump having a first pump port and a second pump port, a first fluid conduit connecting the first pump port to the reservoir, and a second fluid conduit connecting the second pump port to the reservoir. The rotary pump rotates in a first delivery direction in a normal mode and in a second delivery direction in an alternative mode. A first valve separates the first pump port from the reservoir when the rotary pump is in its alternative mode, and a second valve separates the second pump port from the reservoir when the rotary pump is in its normal mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbHInventors: Sven Peters, Gerd Jäggle
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Patent number: 12163525Abstract: A subsea pump system includes a subsea centrifugal pump with a motor compartment and a process compartment. The subsea pump system further includes a liquid phase separator arranged downstream to the pump or downstream to at least one pump impeller. The liquid phase separator includes an inlet receiving the pressure boosted fluid, an outlet delivering a majority, or a minor part, of the pressure boosted fluid, and a liquid phase outlet, a liquid recirculation line, a flow mixer arranged on the inlet side of the pump, and a liquid lubricant line.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: FSubsea ASInventors: Terje Hollingsæter, Tommy Westberg, Christian Wik Høy
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Patent number: 12158152Abstract: Provided is a vacuum pump suitable for preventing the backflow of a particle from the vacuum pump toward a vacuum chamber. The vacuum pump includes a turbomolecular pump portion exhausting gas molecules by a rotor blade and a stator blade, and a thread groove pump portion provided downstream of the turbomolecular pump portion and exhausting the gas molecules by a thread groove flow path formed by a cylindrical rotary component (cylindrical portion) and a cylindrical stator component (thread groove pump portion stator) provided on an outer periphery of the cylindrical rotary component, wherein a bounce back prevention means for preventing a particle from bouncing from the thread groove pump portion back toward the turbomolecular pump portion is provided downstream of the turbomolecular pump portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Edwards Japan LimitedInventors: Yoshinobu Ohtachi, Yasushi Maejima, Tsutomu Takaada, Toshiki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 12155272Abstract: Disclosed is a motor and a drain pump including the same. The motor includes a rotor, a rotation shaft positioned through a center of the rotor, and a shaft fixing member for supporting the rotor and the rotation shaft, in which the shaft fixing member and the rotor include a fixing device provided in a direction that intersects a rotation direction of the rotation shaft to prevent the rotation shaft from being idle.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Youngjin Oh, Daejin Kim
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Patent number: 12152583Abstract: A liquid pump, in particular for providing a supply to a transmission of an electric or hybrid drive module of a motor vehicle, having a pump housing wherein a pump chamber and a pump rotor are arranged, wherein the pump chamber is connected to an outlet channel to which a temperature sensor is assigned, wherein the temperature sensor has a lead frame and an SMD sensor element.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: FTE AUTOMOTIVE GmbHInventors: Roland Stoessel, Christian Voigt, Kevin Heider, Philip Bahr, Steffen Woehner, Stefan Moench, Markus Dirauf, Anton Sauter
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Patent number: 12146508Abstract: A device for pumping molten metal includes a pump configured to pump molten metal, wherein the pump comprises (i) a motor, (ii) a shaft having a first end connected to the motor, and a second end connected to a rotor, wherein the rotor is configured to push molten metal upwards as it rotates. At least part of the shaft and the rotor are positioned in a conduit of a riser. The riser has an outer surface, a front, a bottom, a two-stage conduit, an inlet and an outlet above the inlet and below the motor. The two-stage conduit has a lower stage and a an upper stage, wherein the lower stage is generally cylindrical and the upper stage has a circular cross-sectional portion and one or more lobes extending from and in communication with the circular cross-sectional portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, LLCInventor: Paul V. Cooper
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Patent number: 12146503Abstract: An air circulation device includes an impeller and a connecting unit. The impeller includes a plurality of blades that are disposed about a rotating axis and that are separably interconnected. The blades cooperatively define an inlet that is located at a central portion of a bottom end of the impeller, a plurality of outlets that are equiangularly disposed about the rotating axis and about the inlet, and a plurality of guide channels each of which is in fluid communication with the inlet and a respective one of the outlets. The connecting unit fixedly interconnects each adjacent pair of the blades.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: REALLY USEFUL COMPANY LTD.Inventor: Yi-Li Huang