Patents Examined by Dominick L Plakkoottam
  • Patent number: 11913464
    Abstract: An assembly and a method for lubricating an electric submersible pump assembly disposed in a wellbore are described. The assembly includes a pump to pressurize a wellbore fluid and an electric motor to rotate the pump. The electric motor is lubricated by a dielectric oil. A sensor is coupled to the electric motor to sense a condition of the electric motor and transmit a signal including a value representing the condition. A controller is coupled to the electric motor and the sensor. The controller receives the signal from the sensor, compares the value to a threshold value, determines when the value is greater than the threshold value, and responsive to determining that the value is greater than a threshold value indicating a presence of contaminated dielectric oil, flows a clean dielectric oil from an accumulator to the electric motor to expel the contaminated dielectric oil out of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Christopher Wrighton, Sakethraman Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 11913450
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a discharge guide disposed in a high-pressure part to guide refrigerant discharged from a compression part to a refrigerant discharge pipe, and the discharge guide may extend by a preset height from an inner circumferential surface of a casing constituting the high-pressure part toward one side surface of a high and low pressure separation plate. This can guide discharge refrigerant discharged to the high-pressure part to quickly flow to the refrigerant discharge pipe before being spread in an entire space of the high-pressure part, thereby preventing the high and low pressure separation plate from being overheated by discharge refrigerant of high temperature. This can result in preventing suction refrigerant of a low-pressure part from being heated by heat of discharge refrigerant transferred through the high and low pressure separation plate, thereby reducing a specific volume of the suction refrigerant and improving compressor efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinyong Jang, Sanghun Seong, Honghee Park, Byeonghun Yu
  • Patent number: 11905953
    Abstract: An air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor is provided. The compressor has a main frame, a movable scroll plate and a stationary scroll plate. The movable scroll plate has a movable plate end plate and a movable scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the movable plate end plate. A back pressure chamber is defined between the movable plate end plate and the main frame. The stationary scroll plate has a fixed scroll end plate and a stationary scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the fixed scroll end plate. The stationary scroll wrap and the movable scroll wrap are engaged with each other to form crescent-shaped compression cavities. The movable scroll plate and the stationary scroll plate are provided with medium pressure passages that, during the rotation of the movable scroll plate, communicate the compression cavity with the back pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiheng Liang, Baiying Huang, Osamu Aiba, Kang Zhang, Honghui Chen
  • Patent number: 11905942
    Abstract: A booster pump and a water purification device. The booster pump comprises: a pump body having an installation chamber extending in a first direction; a motor disposed in the installation chamber, the motor comprising a motor body and a motor shaft passing through two ends of the motor body in the first direction; and a first pump head and a second pump head respectively installed at two ends of the pump body in the first direction, two ends of the motor shaft being drivingly connected to the first pump head and the second pump head, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA WHITE HOME APPLIANCE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Wen, Fangzhen Zheng
  • Patent number: 11898561
    Abstract: Disclosed is a direct-drive refrigerant screw compressor, having: a housing; a compression chamber in the housing; a pair of rotors, each rotor of the pair of rotors being rotationally disposed in the compression chamber and including an outer surface with a screw-geared profile; a fluid being disposed in the compression chamber, the fluid consisting of a working fluid for providing lubrication to each rotor; a first port extending through the housing and configured for directing the fluid toward the compression chamber; and when the compressor is activated, each rotor rotates and the fluid is distributed about each rotor to lubricate each rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifan Qiu, Amit Vaidya, Ulf J. Jonsson, Zaffir A. Chaudhry, David M. Rockwell
  • Patent number: 11898426
    Abstract: Various implementations include electric centrifugal pump assemblies for producing oil from wells. A submersible electric motor includes a housing, a shaft inside said housing that transmits rotational power from the electric motor section to the pump section, a mechanical seal surrounding the shaft to keep a dielectric fluid inside the electric motor, and a unit for compensating the volume of the dielectric fluid. Said unit maintains a constant positive pressure and includes a spring mounted inside a metal bellows. The spring is arranged in a tensioned state inside a cavity containing dielectric fluid. The spring is rigidly fastened facing the electric motor and to the bottom of the bellows such as to be capable of axial movement. The volume compensation unit is provided with a sensor for sensing the position of the spring/bellows. The cavity is filled with a barrier fluid preventing scale build-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Joint Stock Company “Novomet-Perm”
    Inventors: Danila Nikolayevich Martiushev, Natalya Anatolevna Lykova, Timofej Rinatovich Motygullin, Stepan Konstantinovich Kozlov, Dmitriy Alekseevich Shevtsov, Maksim Olegovich Perelman, Evgeniy Vyacheslavovich Poshvin
  • Patent number: 11891987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a piston pump with a differential cylinder drive (1) with at least two differential cylinders (2, 3) for driving at least two conveying pistons movable in conveying cylinders, each conveying piston being driven via an associated differential cylinder (2, 3) of the differential cylinder drive (1) for operating the piston pump, with a hydraulic circuit (4) for driving the differential cylinder drive (1) by the action of hydraulic fluid. The invention also relates to a piston pump for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SCHWING GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Lehmann, Friedrich Schwing
  • Patent number: 11891995
    Abstract: A rotary compressor may include a cylinder having an inner peripheral surface that defines a compression space, and provided with a suction port configured to communicate with the compression space and through which refrigerant is suctioned into the compression space; a roller rotatably provided in the compression space of the cylinder, and having a plurality of vane slots that provides a back pressure at one side thereinside and provided at a predetermined interval along an outer peripheral surface of the roller; and a plurality of vanes slidably inserted into the vane slots, respectively, and configured to rotate together with the roller, front end surfaces of which come into contact with the cylinder due to the back pressure to partition the compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. High-pressure refrigerant may be accommodated between one of the vanes and the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seseok Seol, Seoungmin Kang, Joonhong Park
  • Patent number: 11885345
    Abstract: A pump housing comprises a circumferential wall forming an outer wall of the pump housing; a pump casing which connects to the circumferential wall on a first outer side to form a first chamber, the pump casing comprising a central opening to form an axial supply of the pump housing for material to be pumped; and pressurizing means to pressurize the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: IHC Holland IE B.V.
    Inventors: Theodorus Adrianus Koning, Erwin Cornelis Johannes Bijvoet
  • Patent number: 11879466
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor magnetically driven without contact about an axial direction, and magnetically levitated without contact with respect to the stator. The rotor actively magnetically levitated in a radial plane and passively magnetically stabilized in the axial direction against tilting. The stator has coil cores, each including a longitudinal limb extending in the axial direction and a transverse limb arranged in the radial plane. The transverse limb extends from the longitudinal limb and is bounded by an end face. A concentrated winding is arranged on each of the longitudinal limbs surrounding a respective longitudinal limb. The end faces have a first distance in the radial direction from a first portion and a second distance in the radial direction from a second portion, the second distance greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Marcel Stettler, Thomas Schneeberger
  • Patent number: 11879457
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a housing, refrigerant inlet port, a refrigerant outlet port, an inverter section, a motor section, a compression device and a front cover. The housing defines an intake volume and a discharge volume. The refrigerant inlet port is coupled to the housing and is configured to introduce the refrigerant to the intake volume. The compression device is a scroll-type compression device configured to compress the refrigerant. The refrigerant outlet port is coupled to the housing and is configured to allow compressed refrigerant to exit the scroll-type electric compressor from the discharge volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Brent Haseley
  • Patent number: 11879445
    Abstract: A submersible pump assembly (1) includes a submersible pump (2) with a housing (3), and a sensor capsule (4) with a hermetically sealed casing (5). The sensor capsule (4) is releasably mountable at a sensor position (6) located at an outer face (7) of the housing (3) of the submersible pump (2). The submersible pump (2) includes a primary coil (8) within the housing (3). The sensor capsule (4) includes a secondary coil (9) within the casing (5). The primary coil (8) and the secondary coil (9) are arranged to be inductively coupled with each other for wirelessly transferring data and/or power through the housing (3) and the casing (5) when the sensor capsule (4) is mounted at the sensor position (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Nielsen, Christoffer Nedergaard, Kjeld Vinther Jacobsen, Karsten Dyrbye, John Jessen Gammelgaard
  • Patent number: 11879383
    Abstract: The invention relates to a torque limiting device in a torque bearing connecting structure between a gearbox and a stationary structure in a gas turbine engine, wherein the torque limiting device comprises a mechanical fuse in the connection structure comprising an at least partially circumferential weakening of the material. The invention also relates to a gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Tomasz Grubba, Jos Raven
  • Patent number: 11867176
    Abstract: An apparatus for a submersible screw pump includes a cylindrical rotor located inside of a cylindrical stator. The rotor has a screw thread formed in an opposite direction in relation to screw threads of the stator. The external surface of the rotor has a curvilinear shape and the internal surface of the stator has semicircular shapes without rectangular edges. These surface features of the rotor and stator obtain high speed performance for the apparatus with reduced vortices. A gap between the internal surface of the stator and the external surface of the rotor is 0.1-0.2 millimeters. A unloading thrust bearing is attached to a rotor shaft positioned between an intake thrust bearing and the intake end of the rotor. A cavity in the unloading thrust bearing is configured to receive production fluid from the discharge end of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lex Submersible Pumps FZE Company
    Inventors: Anton Shakirov, Vitaly Koropetskiy, Iaroslav Alekseev, Vadim Batalov
  • Patent number: 11859604
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor includes a cylinder that defines a compressing space and a discharge muffler configured to receive refrigerant compressed in the cylinder and to discharge the refrigerant. The discharge muffler includes a discharge muffler body and a discharge guide supported by the discharge muffler body. The discharge muffler body defines a discharge space configured to receive the refrigerant from the cylinder and includes a wall protruding from an inner circumferential surface of the discharge muffler body. The discharge guide is coupled to the wall and includes a pipe that defines a pipe inflow hole configured to receive the refrigerant from the discharge space and a pipe outflow hole configured to discharge the refrigerant. The discharge guide further includes a fixing bracket that couples the pipe to the discharge muffler body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaeho Cho, Sukang Kim
  • Patent number: 11859616
    Abstract: A minimum pressure valve (10) comprising a housing (17) with the valve inlet (11) and the valve outlet (12) connected with each other by a chamber and connecting space (22a, 22b), the minimum pressure valve (10) also comprising a valve body (21) set up in a chamber (20) moveably between a closed position in which the valve inlet (11) is closed and an open position in which the valve inlet (11) is open, the minimum pressure valve (10) also comprising components which are provided with a seal and/or sliding parts (24, 26, 30), whereby a subassembly (22) of the minimum pressure valve (10) can be disassembled and/or assembled through an opening (31) in the housing (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Kristof Adrien Martens, Pieter De Schamphelaere
  • Patent number: 11859619
    Abstract: A liquid cooling multi-pumping unit comprising a main body and first and second pumps arranged in series is provided. During operation, cooling fluid is sucked via a cooling fluid inlet into a first fluid chamber and then into a first central chamber opening to a plurality of curved blades of a first impeller assembled in a first pump chamber. From there, the cooling fluid travels and is sucked through a fluid distribution channel into a second fluid chamber and then into a second central chamber opening to a plurality of curved blades of a second impeller assembled in a second pump chamber, before exiting through a fluid outlet. The series arrangement of the first and second pumps increases head pressure, and provides sufficient liquid flow in the case where one liquid cooling pump fails. Additionally, lower energy consumption is achieved due to the lower operating speeds required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shui-Fa Tsai, Ting-Chun Huang
  • Patent number: 11859474
    Abstract: An electric machine is configured to be positioned within a wellbore. The electric machine enclosed within a housing isolates the electric machine from fluids within the wellbore. A first lubrication circuit includes a lubrication reservoir within the housing. The lubrication reservoir is fluidically connected to the electric machine. The first lubrication circuit is configured to provide lubrication to a bearing within the electric machine. A fluid rotor is configured to move or be moved by a fluid within the wellbore. A magnetic coupling couples the fluid rotor and a rotor of the electric machine to rotate in unison. A second lubrication circuit is configured to provide lubrication to a bearing supporting the fluid rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Upwing Energy, LLC
    Inventors: David Biddick, Patrick McMullen, Christopher Matthew Sellers, Herman Artinian
  • Patent number: 11863049
    Abstract: A hollow brushless motor and a fan include a center shaft, a rotating housing, a stator, a driver, and a permanent magnet. The center shaft is of a hollow structure. A wire passing channel allowing power lines to penetrate through is defined in the center shaft. A through hole communicated with the wire passing channel is defined on one side of the center shaft. An accommodating cavity is formed in the rotating housing. The stator is fixed on the center shaft and is disposed in the accommodating cavity. The driver is electrically connected to the stator. The driver is disposed beside the through hole. The permanent magnet is fixed to an inner side wall of the accommodating cavity and is disposed on an outer periphery of the stator. The fan includes the motor and fan blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Dongliang Tang
  • Patent number: 11859495
    Abstract: A rotary piston and cylinder device (1) comprising: a rotor (2), comprising a rotor surface (2a), a piston (5) which extends from the rotor surface, a stator (4), a rotatable shutter (3), the rotor surface and the stator together defining an annular chamber, and the piston arranged to rotate, through the annular chamber, wherein when the chamber is viewed in axial cross-section, substantially a single surface of the stator in part defines the chamber (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LONTRA LIMITED
    Inventor: Stephen Francis Lindsey