Patents Examined by Dominick L Plakkoottam
  • Patent number: 11795808
    Abstract: A method comprises operating an electric submersible pump (ESP) motor downhole in a well. The ESP motor is electrically connected to a variable speed drive (VSD) proximate to the well. The operating comprises measuring a revolution rate and a motor current of the ESP motor for a first period of time and performing a first adjustment of a voltage output of the VSD. The method comprises measuring, after the first adjustment, the revolution rate and the motor current of the ESP motor for a second period of time determining a difference between the motor current measured for the first period of time and the motor current measured for the second period of time; and performing a second adjustment of the voltage output of the VSD based on a change in the revolution rate and the motor current between the first period of time and the second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Golden Janger, Ryan Bridwell Ashbaugh, David Linn Self, Wesley John Nowitzki, David C. Beck
  • Patent number: 11795904
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wave energy converter that uses a flexible and inflatable chamber to absorb wave energy and convert it to electrical energy through the varying hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressure at or below the water surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Dale Scott Jenne, Yi-Hsiang Yu
  • Patent number: 11795943
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine includes a motor unit and a main body. The motor unit includes a rotor, a stator, a shaft provided with an eccentric portion at a distal end of the shaft and configured to rotate integrally with the rotor, a main bearing configured to support the shaft, and a motor cover configured to house the rotor and the stator. The main bearing is fixed to an inside of the motor cover by a fixing flange. The main bearing supports the shaft and is located between the fixing flange and an end bracket on an opposite side of the main body unit with respect to the fixing flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Takanori Emi
  • Patent number: 11795951
    Abstract: A submersible well pump has a rotatable drive shaft extending through pump stages. Each of the stages has a diffuser, an impeller and a bushing fixed for non-rotation in the diffuser. A thrust member has a lower side in sliding rotating engagement with the upward facing surface of the bushing. The bushing and the thrust member are of a harder material than the diffuser and the impeller. A drive member of a softer material than the thrust member is in engagement with the thrust member and has a drive member bore through which the shaft extends. A key extends through the shaft groove, the impeller groove and the drive member groove to cause the impeller and thrust member to rotate with the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Zheng Ye, Ignacio Martinez, Risa Rutter, Mark Paquette
  • Patent number: 11788391
    Abstract: A motorized pump including a motor and a pump around the motor. The pump rotor is integrated with the motor rotor, wherein the pump rotor has vanes. The motorized pump may be employed as an electrical submersible pump (ESP) in a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Rafael Adolfo Lastra Melo, Chidirim Enoch Ejim
  • Patent number: 11788542
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a dual tandem seal configuration that can provide a seal around a drive shaft in a pumping apparatus. The pumping apparatus can include an outboard seal radially surrounding an adapter shaft. The outboard seal can be retained in place by a front bracket at a front end of the outboard seal and a retention lip of the adapter shaft at a rear end of the outboard seal. The pumping apparatus can further include an inboard seal radially surrounding the adapter shaft and located between the outboard seal and the pump. The inboard seal can be retained in place by a rear bracket at a front end of the inboard seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Banjo Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Truax
  • Patent number: 11773851
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is disclosed. The scroll compressor may include a suction guide between a refrigerant suction pipe and a high/low pressure separation plate, and the suction guide may be fastened to a non-orbiting scroll or inserted into a suction guide protrusion that extends from the non-orbiting scroll. Accordingly, suction refrigerant may be partially suctioned into a compression chamber by the suction guide in advance before moving to the high/low pressure separation plate, so as to be prevented from coming into contact with the high/low pressure separation plate, while the suction refrigerant may also partially flow toward a drive motor without being suctioned directly into the compression chamber, so as to cool the drive motor, whereby efficiency of the compressor may be improved and an operation range of the compressor may be expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeonghun Yu, Sanghun Seong, Jinyong Jang, Byeongchul Lee
  • Patent number: 11767844
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a fixed scroll and a scroll compressor with the same. The fixed scroll includes: an end plate; a fixed scroll wrap protruding from one surface of the end plate; and an internal cavity formed in the end plate. By adopting the fixed scroll and the scroll compressor with the fixed scroll according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, a weight of the scroll compressor may be reduced for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Danfoss (Tianjin) Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangbo Lin, Xiaokun Ji
  • Patent number: 11768019
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to controls and related methods for mitigating liquid (e.g., compressor refrigerant, etc.) migration and/or floodback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Copeland Comfort Control LP
    Inventors: Thomas P. Buescher, Gregory E. Sisk, Charles P. Ketterer, Frank S. Wallis
  • Patent number: 11767741
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump (ESP) including a motorized pump having a motor and a pump and that may be employed in a wellbore. The pump rotor has vanes and the pump stator has vanes. The pump rotor is integrated with the motor rotor, wherein the pump rotor and the motor rotor rotate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Rafael Adolfo Lastra Melo, Chidirim Enoch Ejim
  • Patent number: 11767858
    Abstract: A pump, in particular for a fluid circuit in a vehicle, for example a coolant pump with a multi-part housing which has a pump chamber and a motor chamber, wherein an impeller is disposed in the pump chamber which is driven by a rotor arranged in the motor chamber, and wherein the rotor has a rotor shaft and a rotor body through which the rotor shaft is guided, wherein the rotor has through holes, which interconnect a space of the motor chamber on a first side of the rotor and a space of the motor chamber on a second side of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ingo Geue, Theodor Hueser, Alexander Ruether, Martin Thorn
  • Patent number: 11761446
    Abstract: An asymmetric scroll compressor includes a compressor housing. An orbiting scroll member and a non-orbiting scroll member disposed within the compressor housing. The orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll member each includes a baseplate and a wrap extending from the baseplate. The orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll member intermeshed to form a plurality of compression pockets. A driveshaft affixed to the orbiting scroll member and configured to orbit the orbiting scroll member from a first orbital position to a second orbital position. A communication port disposed on the baseplate of one of the orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll such that: in the first orbital position, the communication port communicates with a first enclosed pocket of the plurality of compression pockets, and in the second orbital position, the communication port communicates with a second enclosed pocket of the plurality of compression pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Ziolkowski, Jr., Eric S. Mlsna
  • Patent number: 11764646
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a pump casing, a motor connected to the pump casing, and an impeller driven by the motor. The motor includes a housing and a stator arranged in the casing. The housing is made of a non-magnetic material. The stator includes a stator iron core and a plurality of windings wound on the stator iron core. The motor further includes a sleeve having a cylindrical main body and a flange extending radially outwards from one end of the main body and fixed to the housing. An annular space is jointly bounded by the sleeve and the housing to accommodate the stator. A part of inner surface of the housing and a part of bottom surface of the flange facing the annular space are coated with a metal coating for electromagnetic wave shielding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Xiaoming Wang, Long Yu, Pinghua Tang, Yi Jing, Ruifeng Qin, Guoyuan Zou
  • Patent number: 11761445
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compressor and an air conditioner having the same. The compressor includes: a main shaft with a convex portion and a slip sheet; a cylinder; and an air inlet and outlet device including a disk body and an air suction port including an outer side, an inner side and a connecting side located between the outer side and the inner side, wherein the outer side is overlapped with an inner wall of the cylinder or is located on the inner side of the inner wall of the cylinder, the inner side is overlapped with an outer wall of the convex portion or is located on the outer side of the convex portion, and the connecting side is overlapped with a side wall of the slip sheet or is located on the inner side of the side wall of the slip sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Green Refrigeration Equipment Engineering Research Center of Zhuhai Gree Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Yusheng Hu, Pengkai Wan, Jia Xu, Liping Ren, Fayou Luo, Fei Wu
  • Patent number: 11754071
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor includes a casing, a cylinder in the casing, a first bearing and a second bearing defining a compression space together with the cylinder, a roller located at an eccentric position with respect to an inner surface of the cylinder and configured to vary a volume of the compression space, and a vane inserted into the roller to rotate together with the roller, and drawn out toward the inner surface of the cylinder to divide the compression space into compression chambers. An inlet port in communication with the compression space is defined in the first bearing, and an intermediate plate is located between the cylinder and the inlet port and defines a suction passage connected to the inlet port, where a peripheral length of an inner peripheral surface of the suction passage is greater than a peripheral length of an outer peripheral surface of the suction passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seokhwan Moon, Seoungmin Kang, Jinung Shin
  • Patent number: 11739754
    Abstract: A compressor module with an pot-shaped compressor casing with a casing bottom and a casing wall which has an outlet for a compressed refrigerant, with a separator device for separating a lubricant mixed in with the refrigerant, the separator device is introduced into a high-pressure chamber of the compressor casing, wherein the separator device has a hollow-cylindrical chamber wall which forms a separation chamber fluidically connected to the outlet, and the a separator is received in the separation chamber to form an annular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugtelle SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Björn Fagerli, Budi Rinaldi, Dennis Ryma, Pierre Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11739761
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes a rotary shaft, an operation body configured to discharge fluid by rotation of the rotary shaft, a housing accommodating the rotary shaft and the operation body, and a foil bearing disposed in the housing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft. The foil bearing includes a cylindrical bearing housing, a top foil between the bearing housing and the rotary shaft, and a bump foil between the bearing housing and the top foil and elastically supporting the top foil. The bearing housing has a protrusion protruding inwardly in a radial direction from the bearing housing. The protrusion includes an abutment surface configured to restrict deformation of the bump foil to an elastic range not to reach a plastic range by abutting against the top foil or the bump foil when the top foil is displaced outwardly in the radial direction of the bearing housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki Okano, Hiroshi Saito, Yuki Endo
  • Patent number: 11732732
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of low-temperature pumps, in particular to a permanent magnet leakage-free low-temperature pump. The permanent magnet leakage-free low-temperature pump comprises a pump body, wherein a pump impeller is arranged in the pump body, the pump impeller and a permanent magnet motor are of a coaxial structure, no coupler device is arranged between the pump impeller and the permanent magnet motor, a motor barrel is arranged in the pump body and connected with an external power source through a wiring device to work, a first flange plate is arranged at the position, located at the front end, of the outer wall of the pump body, and a second flange plate is arranged at the position, located at the rear end, of the outer wall of the pump body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HUNAN NEPTUNE PUMP CO. LTD
    Inventors: Jizhong Geng, Yinglai Zhou, Leijun Wu, Zhixin Peng
  • Patent number: 11725657
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sealing structure and a scroll air compressor having the same. The sealing structure includes an orbiting scroll including an orbiting scroll spiral tooth, the orbiting scroll spiral tooth being provided with an orbiting scroll spiral tooth groove, an orbiting scroll wear-resistant sealing strip being provided in the orbiting scroll spiral tooth groove, a stationary scroll including a stationary scroll spiral tooth matched with the orbiting scroll spiral tooth, the stationary scroll spiral tooth being provided with a stationary scroll spiral tooth groove, a stationary scroll wear-resistant sealing strip is provided in the stationary scroll spiral tooth groove, the wear-resistant sealing strip is divided into sections including a high-temperature and high-pressure section and a medium-temperature and medium-pressure section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: GREE GREEN REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Huijun Wei, Yelin Li, Zhengliang Shi, Xiaoqing Guo, Xiaoxiao Chen
  • Patent number: 11725656
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll. The fixed-side wrap extends, from a main surface of the fixed-side end plate, along a first direction with a fixed-side dimension set in advance. The movable-side wrap extends, from a main surface of the movable-side end plate, along the first direction with a movable-side dimension set in advance. The fixed and movable side dimensions are set such that a fixed-side first region receives a force that presses the movable scroll against the fixed scroll when the movable scroll is inclined with respect to the fixed scroll. The fixed-side first region includes a distal end surface of a part between 0.0 and 0.5 turns from a fixed-side reference point set in advance and located on an outermost periphery of the fixed-side wrap, and a distal end surface of a part between 1.0 and 1.5 turns from the fixed-side reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Tanaka, Yoshinobu Yosuke