Patents Examined by Dominick L Plakkoottam
  • Patent number: 11396889
    Abstract: Provided is an electric-assist supercharger configured such that a motor (30) is attached to the end portion of a rotor shaft (15) close to a silencer (26), the rotor shaft (15) being connected to a compressor portion. Such a supercharger includes a suction air introduction path (24) formed in the silencer 26 such that a main suction air flow flows in the radial direction of the silencer (26) toward a connection portion between the silencer (26) and the compressor portion, and a cooling air intake path (40) formed in the silencer (26) in which at least an outlet thereof is on the center axis of the rotor shaft (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsuji, Keiichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11396875
    Abstract: A dry vacuum pump is provided, including two shafts, respectively supporting at least one pumping rotor being configured to synchronously rotate in reverse in order to convey a gas to be pumped from an intake of the dry vacuum pump to an outlet; and a synchronous motor configured to rotate one shaft of the two shafts, the synchronous motor including a rotor coupled to the shaft, a first stator with windings arranged around the rotor, and at least one second stator with windings arranged around the rotor, the windings of the stators being configured to be supplied individually or simultaneously in order to adapt a power of the synchronous motor to a pumping load. A method for controlling a synchronous motor of a vacuum pump is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: PFEIFFER VACUUM
    Inventors: Yannick Grenier, Didier Pierrejean, Jean-Marc Paget
  • Patent number: 11396876
    Abstract: A control device that controls a target vacuum pump including a motor, including: a decision unit that decides, using at least one of target state quantities at a time of a past stop process of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump wherein the target state quantities are state quantities which fluctuate in accordance with a load at a time of a process of stopping a vacuum pump, a normal fluctuation range or a normal time fluctuation behavior of the target state quantity at the time of the stop process; and a control unit that controls the motor, wherein the control unit compares the target state quantity at the time of the process of stopping the target vacuum pump with the normal fluctuation range or the normal time fluctuation behavior, and changes a method of controlling the motor during the stop process depending on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Maishigi, Tetsuro Sugiura, Atsushi Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 11396874
    Abstract: A vane pump that includes a first communication passage that extends along an outer periphery of the cam ring and that guides a fluid that has not flowed into the first suction port from the first inflow passage to the second suction port; a second communication passage that extends along the outer periphery of the cam ring on an opposite side of the first communication passage with respect to the rotor and that guides a fluid that has not flowed into the second suction port from the second inflow passage to the first suction port; and a rectifying portion that guides the fluid from the second inflow passage so that the fluid flows into the second suction port along the outer periphery of the cam ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Torii, Kazuki Kojima, Naohito Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11391274
    Abstract: A device for moving a fluid includes a dosing head in which a dosing chamber is arranged, and a displacement element which can be moved between a first and second position. The displacement element borders the dosing chamber, and the volume of the dosing chamber in the first position differs from the volume in the second position. drive unit for moving the displacement element from the first position to the second position and a return mechanism for moving the displacement element back are provided. The return mechanism has two magnetic parts. The first part is placed on the dosing head, the second part is connected to the displacement element, and the two parts are designed such that a magnetic force causes a force to be applied to the displacement element in the direction of the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ProMinent GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reinhard
  • Patent number: 11391292
    Abstract: A seal gas supply control method according to the present invention comprises a step for detecting a pressure difference between an internal pressure of a rotary machine and a supply pressure of a seal gas with respect to a dry gas seal portion, a step for adjusting an opening degree of a seal gas supply valve on the basis of the detected pressure difference between the internal pressure and the supply pressure, and a step for detecting a vent pressure for discharging the seal gas evacuated from the dry gas seal portion to the outside. The seal gas supply control method fully opens the seal gas supply valve when the detected vent pressure satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Shakuda, Masahiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11391290
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a fan shaft driven by a turbine shaft via a device for reducing a speed of rotation. The turbomachine includes an uncoupling device interposed between the reduction device and the turbine shaft. The uncoupling device is configured to uncouple the reduction device and the turbine shaft in response to the exceeding of a determined resistant torque exerted by the reduction device on the turbine shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Alexandre Tan-Kim, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet
  • Patent number: 11391280
    Abstract: A pump includes a housing having a first end and a second end and extending along a longitudinal axis and a discharge casing having a first end coupleable to the second end of the housing. The discharge casing extends along the longitudinal axis coaxial to the housing. A dismounting device includes a first dismount casing and a second dismount casing disposed between the discharge casing and the second end of the housing. The dismounting device extends along the longitudinal axis coaxial to the housing and the discharge casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Wecking, Berthold Rottmann, Simon Malburg, Thomas Reitz
  • Patent number: 11384776
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a pump housing, a rotor assembly, a stator assembly, an isolation sleeve, a heat dissipation plate and an electric control board. The pump housing defines a pump inner chamber; the pump inner chamber is partitioned into a first cavity and a second cavity by the isolation sleeve; the rotor assembly is disposed in the first cavity; the stator assembly and the electric control board are disposed in the second cavity; the isolation sleeve comprises a bottom portion; at least a portion of the heat dissipation plate is disposed between the electric control board and the bottom portion; at least a portion of the bottom portion and at least a portion of the heat dissipation plate are in direct contact, or are filled with thermal silicone grease or thermal silica therebetween, or are provided with a thermal patch therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junfeng Bao, Qiang Ning
  • Patent number: 11384734
    Abstract: A power generating windmill having a plurality of blade extending radially outward from a central rotor in position to be engaged by a moving fluid stream is provided. Each blade partially overlaps the blade prior to and behind it to increase lift forces on the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventor: Orville J. Birkestrand
  • Patent number: 11384770
    Abstract: The present disclosure can provide a vacuum pump capable of obtaining a rotation direction and correcting the rotation direction without adding a dedicated rotation direction sensor even in a state of low-speed rotation. The control device is capable of obtaining at least a first state in which a rotor shaft rotates at relatively high speed, and a second state in which the rotor shaft deviates within a gap between the rotor shaft and a protective bearing and rotates at relatively low speed while revolving, acquires output information of a radial displacement sensor, obtains a rotation direction of the rotor shaft in the second state on the basis of the output information, determines whether the rotation direction is normal or not, and when the rotation direction is not normal, stops the rotation and increases rotation speed to achieve a normal rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Fukami, Yoshinobu Ohtachi, Yasushi Maejima, Tsutomu Takaada
  • Patent number: 11384749
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes a housing having two parts with internal cylindrical chambers having openings for the inlet and outlet of a pumped fluid, and two longitudinally deformable bellows fastened inside the respective parts of the housing. The opposite end of each bellows has a plug. On the end surface of the housing the bellows are connected to is an opening for the inlet of a working fluid into the corresponding internal chamber. A hydraulic system for controlling the pump assembly includes a tank containing a working fluid, a positive displacement pump, two independent hydraulic pipelines, and a system of valves for alternately connecting the bellows' internal chambers containing working fluid to the pipelines. The internal chamber of each bellows is alternatingly connected to the positive displacement pump for supplying working fluid by a first hydraulic pipeline and to the working fluid tank by a second hydraulic pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOJ OTVETSTVENNOST'YU “TOREG”
    Inventors: Egor Vladimirovich Kuzin, Egor Aleksandrovich Tyukavkin, Dmitrij Alekseevich Bublik
  • Patent number: 11378078
    Abstract: What is concerned is an eccentric screw pump having at least one stator (1), a rotor (2) rotating in the stator, a drive (3) for the rotor, a pump housing (4) which is connected to the stator (1) and has at least one inlet opening (6) for the medium to be conveyed, a connection housing (14) arranged between the pump housing (4) and drive (3), a connection shaft (9) which is connected to the drive (3) and is arranged at least in certain regions in the connection housing (14), and a coupling rod (10) which is arranged in the pump housing (4) and is connected to the connection shaft (9) via a drive-side joint (11) and to the rotor (2) via a rotor-side joint (12). The drive-side housing connection piece (16) can be demounted in such a way that the drive-side joint (11) can be exposed for maintenance or demounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEEPEX GMBH
    Inventors: Norman Dicks, Stefan Goethel, Marcel Griesdorn, Peter McGarian, Dirk Overmeier, Vsevolod Ryvkin
  • Patent number: 11378077
    Abstract: Provided is a gear pump device that enables improvement in volumetric efficiency and manufacturability, and also makes it possible to ensure sealing property and to reduce drive torque. According to the present invention, a sealing mechanism is provided with an annular rubber member, an outer member, and an inner member, wherein: the inner member has, at an end of an outer peripheral wall on the side of an inner gear in the axial direction, a notch which is recessed radially inward of the inner gear so as to form, together with an axial one end face of the inner gear, a depressed part; and the outer member has an insertion part which is disposed within the depressed part and which abuts against the axial one end face of the inner gear so as to constitute a part of a sealing surface on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Usami, Kunihito Ando
  • Patent number: 11378088
    Abstract: A control system is provided that can identify the occurrence of a single surge cycle in centrifugal compressor using various methods and devices. Once the occurrence of a single surge cycle is identified, the control system can take remedial action to respond to the surge cycle, such as by adjusting the position of a variable geometry diffuser, and restore the centrifugal compressor to stable operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Steven T. Sommer, Curtis Christian Crane, Florin Iancu, John Trevino, Jr., Robert E. Stabley, Gregory K. Beaverson, Eric J. Smyder, Patrick C. Marks, Rudy Chervil
  • Patent number: 11371519
    Abstract: Water pump with an impeller driven by an electrical machine comprising a housing cap and a volute with an input and an output and a boot hosting a stator and a rotor of the electrical machine and an electronic board mounted at the side apart from the impeller and covered by the cap housing, characterized in that the stator stack is over molded with a first plastic material and at least the stator stack, the wires and pins are over molded with a second plastic material to form a cylindrical ring boot and a heat sink that seals a cylindrical opening of the boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS EFP DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Ernesto Giovanni Arnoldi, Paolo Lincoln Maurino
  • Patent number: 11365737
    Abstract: Oil-injected screw compressor installation including a frame or underframe (5 2), a screw compressor element (3), electrical cabinet (6), oil separator vessel (5) and an air-cooled cooling module (8), with as characteristic that on one side (2a) of the frame (2), the screw compressor element (3) is placed horizontally and with the electrical 10 cabinet (6), the oil separator vessel (5) and the aircooled cooling module (8) being placed on the other side (2b) of the frame (2), with the cooling module (8) being placed such that this is perpendicular to the compressor element (3) and the air (9) sucked in by the cooling module 15 (8) will flow between the electrical cabinet (6) and the cooling module (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Yanni Francine Dollez, Kristof Adrien Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josée Louis Adriaenssens, Brecht Van Ham
  • Patent number: 11365742
    Abstract: A cabin air compressor assembly includes a cabin air compressor, and a cabin air compressor motor operably connected to the cabin air compressor. The cabin air compressor motor includes a rotor and a stator having a plurality of end windings. A cabin air compressor housing includes at least one cooling airflow hole formed therein. A motor cooling flow is movable across a portion of the cabin air compressor motor to cool the stator and the end windings. A duct extends from the cabin air compressor housing to an adjacent end winding such that a cooling outlet flow provided via the at least one cooling air flow hole is arranged in fluid communication with the end winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Debabrata Pal, Craig R. LeGros
  • Patent number: 11365710
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel pump is provided with a pumping bore and a pressure relief valve only opening to enable a return flow from the outlet conduit back to the compression chamber when the pressure in the outlet conduit exceeds a predetermined threshold. The pressure relief valve is arranged in an elongated pressure relief valve chamber extending parallel and offset to the pumping bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS LUXEMBOURG SA
    Inventors: Andreas Aye, Arnaud Leblay
  • Patent number: 11359632
    Abstract: A gas compressor is disclosed that includes a first rotor having a first rotor body, the first rotor body including a plurality of helical lobes, an infernal volume within the first rotor body defined by a wall, and a turbine disposed within the internal volume, the turbine including a turbine body and a plurality of airfoils extending substantially radially from the turbine body to the wall, where the internal volume is structured to enable a cooling fluid to flow therethrough. The gas compressor further includes a second rotor body including a plurality of helical flutes, an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold, both disposed within the second rotor body, and a body channel within at least one flute extending from and in fluid communication with the inlet manifold to the outlet manifold, where the body channel is structured to enable a cooling fluid to flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: INGERSOLL-RAND INDUSTRIAL U.S., INC.
    Inventors: James Christopher Collins, Willie Dwayne Valentine