Patents Examined by Dustin T Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12038001
    Abstract: A working-fluid supply system includes: a first pump and a second pump driven by an engine; a first switching valve capable of switching a supply target of the second pump to either one of the discharge side and the suction side of the first pump; a first switching control unit configured to perform a switching control of the first switching valve; and a first pressure control unit configured to perform a control such that pressure on the suction side of the first pump becomes a predetermined first pressure when the first switching valve is switched such that the supply target of the second pump becomes the suction side of the first pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hironaka, Midori Nagashima, Ken Tsukui, Kazuya Murota
  • Patent number: 12025161
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a joint structure of a telescopic cylinder, the joint structure including a telescopic unit, an extension unit and a first fixing unit, wherein the telescopic unit includes a first main body, a first combined structure and at least one first fixing structure; the extension unit includes a second main body, a second combined structure and at least one second fixing structure; the first combined structure is screwed to the second combined structure; and the first fixing unit includes at least one first fixing body, and the first fixing body is simultaneously arranged in the first fixing structure and the second fixing structure and interferes with the first main body and the second main body so as to prevent the first combined structure and the second combined structure from spiral movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BROGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Huang Wang, Tien-Ni Cheng
  • Patent number: 12025160
    Abstract: A protection system for a hydraulic cylinder piston having a barrel and a piston rod reciprocating therein, the protection system comprising a piston rod shield which is fixed with respect to the piston rod in use to move with respect to the barrel to cover the piston rod when the piston rod is exposed from the barrel and wherein the piston rod shield comprises a non-metallic flexible material which substantially returns to shape after deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHROMEGUARD PTY LTD
    Inventor: Robert Ray
  • Patent number: 12024141
    Abstract: A pump assembly for generating pressure in a brake circuit of a controllable power brake system of a motor vehicle. The pump assembly has, as a pressure generator, a piston-cylinder unit in which a piston is actuated with the aid of a piston drive. The piston drive converts a rotational movement, with which a nut of this piston drive is driven, into a translatory movement of a spindle, which is in turn connected to the piston in a rotationally fixed manner. The piston is a steel component in which a plastic deformation at a piston head forms a device for connecting the spindle to the piston in a rotationally fixed manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel, Matthias Mayr
  • Patent number: 12012977
    Abstract: The invention provides an auto-lock hydraulic hoist cylinder device, comprising: a lock actuator, a lock transmission mechanism and a load-bearing mechanism, wherein the load-bearing mechanism includes load-bearing locking shaft, a load-bearing nut is provided on the load-bearing locking shaft, installed on the upper side of the upper end cover of the main hydraulic hoist, a number of protrusions is provided on the lower end of the load-bearing locking shaft, a locking cover is provided with a through hole for the load-bearing locking shaft to pass through, a groove for matching the protrusions is provided on the side wall of the through hole, a piston rod is fixed on the lower end of the locking cover, the lock actuator is provided on the upper end cover, the lock actuator drives the load-bearing locking shaft through the lock transmission mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA THREE GORGES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yantong Dong, Shaojie Yang
  • Patent number: 12012976
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a rotary actuator that includes a housing defining an arcuate chamber comprising a cavity, a rotor arm configured for rotary movement, an arcuate-shaped first piston disposed in said housing for reciprocal movement in the arcuate chamber, where a seal, the cavity, and the piston define a pressure chamber that includes part or all of the arcuate chamber, and a portion of the piston contacts the rotor arm, and a rotor assembly rotatably surrounding said housing and having a rotary output tube about the axis, wherein the rotor arm extends radially outward to the rotary output tube and the rotor arm is coupled to the rotary output tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamran Eftekhari Shahroudi, Larry Snyder, Robert Alan Gerhart
  • Patent number: 12000491
    Abstract: A combination of piston rings assembled to a piston includes a first compression ring, a second compression ring, a third compression ring and an oil ring. When an axial width of the first compression ring is h1(1), an axial width of the second compression ring is h1(2), an axial width of the third compression ring is h1(3) and an axial width of the oil ring is h1(4), h1(1)?h1(2) and h1(1)?h1(3), and when h1(TOTAL)=h1(1)+h1(2)+h1(3)+h1(4), h1(TOTAL)?3.1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TPR Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagakura, Shuichi Inamori, Akira Hikone
  • Patent number: 11994121
    Abstract: A variable displacement hydraulic device comprising: a housing having an inlet for receiving hydraulic fluid and an outlet for outputting the hydraulic fluid, the housing having a reciprocation axis; a first cylinder positioned in the housing along the reciprocation axis, the first cylinder having a first input for receiving the hydraulic fluid on a first intake stroke and a first output for ejecting the hydraulic fluid on a first exhaust stroke; a first piston positioned for a first reciprocal motion within the first cylinder, the first piston having a first main end exposed to the hydraulic fluid and a second main end coupled to an actuator, the actuator for driving the second main end when coupled to the actuator for causing the first reciprocal motion to induce a first portion of said outputting of the hydraulic fluid; a second cylinder positioned in the first piston along the reciprocation axis, the second cylinder having a second input for receiving the hydraulic fluid on a second intake stroke and a se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TONAND INC.
    Inventor: Antonio Cannata
  • Patent number: 11988232
    Abstract: An e.g. fluid powered linear actuator is provided with a helical orientation surface in a fixed angular position relative to a first component; and a follower in a fixed angular position relative to a second component. When the first and second components are moved towards one another as the actuator is retracted, the follower engages and moves along the helical orientation surface to rotate the first and second components to a predetermined relative angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: L3Harris Release & Integrated Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: James Lewendon
  • Patent number: 11987958
    Abstract: A housing of a multi-control valve includes an arm parallel passage, an arm crowding supply passage, an arm pushing supply passage, a boom parallel passage, a boom raising supply passage, and a boom lowering supply passage. The housing further includes: a slide hole; a head-side passage that is branched off from the boom raising supply passage and extends to the slide hole; a rod-side passage that is branched off from the boom lowering supply passage and extends to the slide hole; and a regeneration passage that extends from the slide hole to the arm parallel passage. The slide hole receives a boom sub spool therein. The boom sub spool is either a boom recycling spool or a boom regeneration spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Yoshiyuki Tode, Hideyasu Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11988198
    Abstract: The invention is a system and method of generating hydraulic gravitational energy. Specifically, traditional gravitational electricity systems use a weight as a battery. However, the weight must be pulled upwards after it is dropped, which expends the created energy. In contrast, the disclosed arrangement employs a hydraulic system to lift the weight from a lower height to an upper height. Notably, hydraulics create more energy than is exerted. Thus, using hydraulics to lift the weight multiplies the energy produced each time the weight is dropped from a first height to a second, lower height. As a result, gravitational solutions can extend beyond non-traditional batteries, and can be used to generate electricity instead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Owen W. Brock
  • Patent number: 11982265
    Abstract: A piston is described for the compression of a pneumatic fluid in a compression chamber of a cylinder comprising: a cylindrically shaped piston body, adapted to be arranged slidably within said cylinder, and having a side wall and a top wall; along a circumferential perimeter of said side wall of the piston body a seat being defined; and a sealing assembly accommodated in said seat, and adapted to ensure the fluid-tightness along said circumferential perimeter; the sealing assembly comprising a plurality of sealing elements, having shapes complementary to one another, and configured so that the wear of a sealing element along said circumferential perimeter corresponds to a sliding in the radially outer direction of the adjacent sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT ITALIA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Corrado Rossino
  • Patent number: 11975376
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides fluid bulging equipment for thin plate parts, which includes a main mechanism, a left mold opening mechanism and a right mold opening mechanism located on both sides of the main mechanism, a left mobile working platform, and a right mobile working platform. The main mechanism includes a main frame and a main oil cylinder located under the main frame. The main oil cylinder is connected to a master cylinder mold-locked booster cylinder through an oil circuit block. A hydraulic control system is arranged above the main mechanism. An ultra-high pressure generating device is arranged in the hydraulic control system. The ultra-high pressure generating device is connected to the master cylinder mold-locked booster cylinder through a pipeline. The hydraulic control system is also connected to the left mold opening mechanism and the right mold opening mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FRD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (JIANGSU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongming Pan, Heng Xiao, Weimin Shi
  • Patent number: 11971055
    Abstract: A fluid-actuated working cylinder having a cylinder housing enclosing a cylinder chamber and having a cylinder tube whose inner circumferential surface forms a piston running surface for a piston arranged in the cylinder chamber wherein the cylinder tube is a composite body having a tubular inner layer and a tubular support jacket surrounding the tubular inner layer with a radial support effect and wherein the tubular inner layer is made of a diffusion-tight glass material or ceramic material, while the support jacket has a cellulose-containing and/or lignin-containing material structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oliver D. Jung
  • Patent number: 11971099
    Abstract: A soil processing machine includes a hydraulic drive system including an electrohydraulic pressurized fluid source with at least one electric motor and at least one hydraulic drive pump, a hydraulic drive circuit fed with pressurized fluid by the at least one hydraulic drive pump, at least one hydraulic drive motor fed with pressurized fluid from the hydraulic drive circuit, and a discharge valve assembly for discharging fluid from the hydraulic drive circuit to a fluid reservoir. The hydraulic drive system is designed to operate the discharge valve assembly as a function of at least one of the following parameters: a temperature of the fluid in the hydraulic drive circuit, an ambient temperature, a viscosity of the fluid in the hydraulic drive circuit, a degree of contamination of the fluid in the hydraulic drive circuit, a period of time since the last start-up of the hydraulic drive system, a period of time since the last fluid was discharged from the hydraulic drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HAMM AG
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Ronny Pieske
  • Patent number: 11953033
    Abstract: A working cylinder has a cushioned end-stroke. The piston unit has a piston main part and a ring body. The exterior of the ring body receives a piston ring with a piston ring gap, and the ring opening of the ring body receives a guiding pin of the piston main part. A ring gap is formed between the ring body and the guiding pin, and the ring body has axial and radial play relative to the piston main part. The ring body has an axial ring surface on the piston main part side, and the piston main part has an axial counter ring surface on the ring body side opposite the axial ring surface. The piston unit is constructed so that during an inward movement into the cushioning zone, the piston ring passes axially over the pressure medium connection and the piston unit encloses a damping pressure medium volume. The piston unit is in a first operating state during an inward movement and a second operating state during an outward movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Buemach Engineering International B.V.
    Inventor: Josef Bueter
  • Patent number: 11952987
    Abstract: A hydraulic piston machine is described comprising a piston (1) having a hollow (2) secured by a wall (3) and an insert (4) arranged in the hollow. Such a machine should have a high efficiency at low costs. To this end the insert (4) comprises a section (29) which extends out of the hollow (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Stig Kildegaard Andersen, Frank Holm Iversen, Sveinn Porarinsson
  • Patent number: 11933328
    Abstract: In a cylinder drive device, a throttle valve and a second check valve are provided between a switch valve and a first cylinder chamber of a fluid pressure cylinder. The cylinder drive device has a flow channel unit which is interposed between a manifold and the switch valve, which allows communication between the throttle valve and the second check valve and switch valve, and which communicates with a plurality of holes in the manifold to allow a fluid to flow to the switch valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Asahara, Kazutaka Someya
  • Patent number: 11927256
    Abstract: A torque converter includes a drive plate arranged to receive a torque. The torque converter further includes a front cover non-rotatably connected to the drive plate. The torque converter further includes a lock-up clutch including a piston and a clutch plate disposed between the piston and the front cover. The piston is axially slidable to engage the clutch plate. The torque converter further includes first and second seals each configured to seal the piston to the front cover. The first seal is arranged at an inner diameter of the piston, and the second seal is arranged radially outside of the first seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Victor Norwich
  • Patent number: 11913530
    Abstract: A torque converter includes a front cover arranged to receive a torque and an impeller having an impeller shell connected to the front cover. The torque converter further includes a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller and including a turbine shell. The torque converter further includes a lock-up clutch including a clutch plate that is non-rotatably connected to the turbine shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Victor Norwich, Timothy Chamberlain, Larry Chad Boigegrain, Corey Hillegass