Patents Examined by Emmanuel Sayoc
  • Patent number: 7070393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regulating a compressor installation with at least one compressor element (6) driven by a motor and, in the pressure conduit (11) thereof, a dryer (2) of the type comprising a pressure vessel (24) with a drying zone (3) and a regeneration zone (4), and a rotor (25) continuously rotated in this pressure vessel (24) by a motor (33), which rotor is filled with a regenerable drying agent. A portion of the compressed air is supplied, by means of a branch (15), to the regeneration zone (4) and, after cooling down and separation of the condensed water, is fed back to the pressure conduit (11). The speed of both motors (9, 33) is regulated by a regulation device (13) in function of the pressure in the pressure conduit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Airpower, naamloze vennootschap
    Inventor: Danny Etienne Andrée Vertriest
  • Patent number: 7066722
    Abstract: A compressor assembly including a compressor mechanism, a compression chamber and a discharge chamber. A discharge port provides fluid communication between the compression chamber and the discharge chamber. A valve seat circumscribes the discharge port. A discharge valve member having a valve head, a biasing section and a valve support is provided and may be formed out of a single integral part. The valve head is engageable with the valve seat. A non-threaded coupling member may mount the valve support to the cylinder block of the compressor mechanism. A guide member engageable with the biasing section of the valve member may also be provided. The valve head may include a second concave surface positioned opposite the surface engageable with the valve seat and have an effective area larger than the discharge port area. The valve head and valve seat may each be partially spherical surfaces having a common radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Nelik I Dreiman, Rick L Bunch
  • Patent number: 7063520
    Abstract: In a reciprocating compressor including a piston slide-inserted into the compression space of the cylinder, having a gas path therein, inducing a fluid into the compression space through the gas path and varying a volume of the compression space while performing a linear reciprocating motion with a mover of a reciprocating motor; a suction valve combined with the front end of the piston detachably and adjusting suctioning of the fluid into the compression space; and a discharge valve combined with the front end of the piston detachably and opening/closing the compression space of the cylinder in the linear reciprocating motion of the piston, a suction valve assembly of a reciprocating compressor includes an elastic member for absorb impact of the suction valve in clash and a combining member consisting of a head portion having a width so as to be overlapped with part of an opening/closing portion of the suction valve or a retainer and a valve seat, and accordingly a reliability of the compressor can be improv
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Won-Sik Oh, Sang-Man Oh, Hyung-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 7063513
    Abstract: In a pump for feeding a liquid for chromatography, first and second plungers form first and second volumes respectively together with first and second chambers, the first plunger is prevented from changing the first volume sufficiently for feeding the liquid between the first and second volumes when the second plunger decreases the second volume to discharge the fluid from the second volume to an outlet path of the pump for the chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kunihiko Takao, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
  • Patent number: 7059839
    Abstract: A substantially horizontal compressor including a housing having a main body portion with an open end. An end cap is secured to the main body portion with the end cap being provided with a plurality of apertures. The hermetic terminal body of the compressor is sealably fitted into one of the plurality of apertures located in the end cap. One of the apertures is sealably fitted with a heater well in which a substantially cylindrical heater element is removably received. A third aperture may be provided in the end cap in which a sight glass is sealably secured for checking the oil level in the oil sump. An indentation is formed in the end cap to increase the rigidity of the end cap. The proximity of the terminal assembly and heater well allows the wiring therefor to be part of the same wiring harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: David K. Haller, Robin G. Skinner
  • Patent number: 7059840
    Abstract: An apparatus for pumping fluid through tubing comprising a stop platen is disclosed. The stop platen is operatively arranged to depress a wall of the tubing along a section of a longitudinal axis of the tubing. The stop platen is narrower than the tubing along a transverse axis of the tubing. The invention further comprises a cabinet containing the stop platen, a door rotatably fixed to the cabinet, and locking means for preventing rotation of the door. The locking means are operatively arranged to be unlocked by a tubing occluder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: SIGMA International
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Corwin, Roger L. Hungerford, Yuriy Shvetsov, Michael H. Wollowitz
  • Patent number: 7056104
    Abstract: A compressor unit has a compressor main body, an electrical circuit device and a connector. The electrical circuit device is electrically connected to the compressor main body through a cable. The cable has a proximal end and a distal end. One of the compressor main body and the electrical circuit device is integrally connected to the cable at the proximal end of the cable, and the other has a terminal thereon. The connector is provided at the distal end of the cable and is detachably connected to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuya Kimura, Kazuhiro Kuroki, Hiroyuki Gennami, Ken Suitou
  • Patent number: 7056105
    Abstract: A unit utilizing current to control reciprocation for pushing fluids, including a chamber, a magnet, a coil connected with a circuit, a first inlet, a first outlet, a second inlet, a second outlet, a first valve and a second valve. The magnet is slidably disposed in the chamber. The coil is disposed around the chamber for driving the magnet to reciprocally move. The first inlet and first outlet are disposed at one end of the chamber. The second inlet and second outlet are disposed at the other end of the chamber. The first valve is disposed between the first inlet, the first outlet and the chamber. The second valve is disposed between the second inlet, the second outlet and the chamber. The magnet can drive the first and second valves to suck a fluid into the first and second inlets and push a fluid out of the first and second outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventors: Ming-Hwa Liu, Brian D. F. Chen, Cheng-Pang Chang
  • Patent number: 7056100
    Abstract: A compressor for a vehicle air conditioning system comprises a front casing in which is mounted a swash or wobble plate arrangement operatively connected to a drive shaft and a plurality of pistons each provided with a piston body at one end and a foot portion at its other. A cylinder block is also provided defining a plurality of cylinder bores equally distributed circumferentially around the drive shaft, in each of which bores one of the piston bodies can be reciprocated by the swash or wobble plate, as the drive shaft rotates. The inner wall surface of the front casing defines a plurality of longitudinally extending recesses in positions apposed to each piston. The piston body and the foot portion of each piston are connected by a bridge that is bending resistant and projects outwardly into these apposed recesses. Also, at least one side of the bridge is provided with a laterally projecting wing that supports the piston against the adjacent inner wall surface of the front casing to one side of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Otfried Schwarzkopf, Markus Reuβ
  • Patent number: 7052254
    Abstract: An oil-retaining structure for fan comprises an oily bearing with a central axis hole for pivoting a fan shaft. An oil-collecting recess trench is formed on an inside wall of the central axis hole. There is an acute angle oil-guiding ring edge correspondingly formed at one side of the oil-collecting recess trench. When the fan rotates, lubricant inside the oily bearing is upwardly sucked and blocked by the acute angle oil-guiding ring edge, and returns to the oil-collecting recess trench so as to construct an internal-recycle oil-retaining system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Inventor: Chi-Hsu Lin
  • Patent number: 7052255
    Abstract: An apparatus for changing capacity of scroll compressor comprises: a seal member movably installed on one of facing surfaces of a fixed scroll so as to seal a compression space made by the fixed scroll and orbiting scroll; a back pressure passage formed to be communicated from a point, where the seal member is contacted, to an outer circumferential surface of fixed scroll; an exhaust pipe installed on outer circumferential surface of the fixed scroll to be communicated with back pressure passage; and an exhaust pipe opening/closing valve installed on center part of exhaust pipe to open/close the exhaust pipe selectively, and thereby, sealability can be improved and low capacity can be outputted without decelerating orbiting scroll in low capacity operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sog Kie Hong, Hong Hee Park
  • Patent number: 7052242
    Abstract: A multi-fan assembly includes: a down rod assembly having a first end for fixing to a ceiling wall and having a second end provided with a canopy, a rotary assembly being fixed to a lower end of the down rod assembly and covered by the canopy. At both sides of the rotary assembly is provided with a fixed arm for connecting with a member fan respectively, a pair of vertical oscillating means are disposed between the fixed arm and the member fan, and a speed control device is mounted on the rotary assembly and then covered by the canopy of the down rod assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Inventor: Chia-Teh Chen
  • Patent number: 7048515
    Abstract: A fuel injection control unit, including an electronic governor and a controller for an engine performs control in a governor region based on an isochronous characteristic. A working machine controller receives a delivery pressure signal P and controls a regulator such that, when the delivery pressure of a hydraulic pump exceeds a predetermined pressure P1, the displacement of the hydraulic pump does not exceed a value decided in accordance with a preset pump absorption torque curve. The working machine controller controls the regulator such that, when the delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump 2 is not higher than the predetermined pressure P1, the displacement of the hydraulic pump is increased as the delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump lowers from the predetermined pressure P1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shimomura, Tomohiko Yasuda
  • Patent number: 7048514
    Abstract: The invention relates to pumping engineering, mainly to downhole jet production units. The inventive downhole jet unit comprises a packer, a pipe column and a jet pump. An active nozzle and a mixing chamber are axially arranged in the body of the jet pump, and a pass channel provided with a mounting face for a sealing assembly with an axial channel is embodied therein. Said unit is also provided with an irradiator and a receiver transformer of physical fields. Said receiver transformer is arranged on the side of entry of a liquid pumped from the well into the jet pump and mounted on a cable passing through the axial channel of the sealing assembly. The output of the jet pump is connected to the pipe column above the sealing assembly. The input of a channel for feeding the pumped out medium of the jet pump is connected to a space around the pipe column below the sealing assembly. The input of a channel supplying a working medium to the active nozzle is connected to a space around the pipe column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventor: Zinoviy D Khomynets
  • Patent number: 7048521
    Abstract: In a high pressure fuel supply pump, a housing is provided with a through-hole having a step. A plunger is slidably accommodated in the through-hole on an axial end side thereof. An intake valve member is positioned in the through-hole on an axially opposite side to the plunger with respect to the step so that a pump chamber is formed between the plunger and the intake valve member. A discharge valve member is positioned in the through-hole on an axially opposite side to the plunger with respect to the intake valve member. A plug is screw fastened into an inner wall of the through-hole on another axial end thereof so as to urge both of the discharge valve member and the intake valve member against the step so that the intake valve member and the discharge valve member are rigidly fixed in the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Kondo
  • Patent number: 7048517
    Abstract: The invention is a device and method in a high-pressure chromatography system, such as a supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) system, that uses a pump as a pressure source for precision pumping of a compressible fluid. The preferred exemplary embodiment comprises a pressure regulation assembly installed downstream from a compressible fluid pump but prior to combining the compressible flow with a relatively incompressible modifier flow stream. The present invention allows the replacement of an high-grade SFC pump in the compressible fluid flow stream with an inexpensive and imprecise pump. The imprecise pump becomes capable of moving the compressible fluid flow stream in a precise flow rate and pattern. The assembly dampens the damaging effects of an imprecise pump, such as large pressure oscillations caused by flow ripples and noisy pressure signals that do not meet precise SFC pumping requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AutoChem, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry A. Berger, Kimber D. Fogelman, Kenneth Klein, L. Thompson Staats, III, Mark Nickerson, Paul F. Bente, III
  • Patent number: 7040875
    Abstract: A refrigerant pump includes a thin-walled hermetic vessel and a thick-walled hermetic vessel having an end inserted into and secured to an end of the thin-walled hermetic vessel. A stator of an electric motor unit is fitted outside the thin-walled hermetic vessel, while a rotor of the electric motor unit is accommodated inside the thin-walled hermetic vessel. A pump mechanism is fitted inside the thick-walled hermetic vessel, and a rotational force of the rotor is transmitted to the pump mechanism by the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Nakano, Hiromasa Ashitani
  • Patent number: 7037092
    Abstract: A roller pump comprises a pump housing having a cylindrical inner surface, a rotor fixed to a drive shaft placed at the central portion of the pump housing, rollers provided around the rotor and a driver for driving the drive shaft through a reduction gear. The rollers press an elastic tube installed between the rollers and the inner surface of the pump housing to transfer a liquid in the elastic tube by rotation of the rotor. The pump housing and the reduction gear are integrated into one body and an output shaft of the reduction gear is fixed to the drive shaft of the rotor. A stepping motor is used as the driver. A part of the inner surface of the pump housing is composed of a semicircle, another part of the inner surface is composed of a partial circle of which center is shifted from the center of the semicircle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Japan Servo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kagawa, Kazuhide Yamazaki, Seiji Kojima
  • Patent number: 7033149
    Abstract: A medium pump for a motor includes a pump case with a pump cylinder and a pump piston positioned displacaebly in the pump cylinder in the direction of a pump axle. The pump piston rotates about the pump axle by running off an oblique control surface and realizes axial pump movements against the pressure of a first spring. A pump lift adjusting device is removably positioned in a guide placed transversely to the pump axle and fixedly connected with the pump case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Dolmar GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Lügger, Carsten Ziegs
  • Patent number: 7033147
    Abstract: A centrifugal fluid pump assembly includes a body section and a control mechanism 6. The body section includes a housing, an impeller rotatable within the housing, and a motor for rotating the impeller. The pump assembly includes a motor current flow rate-related data storage section for storing, for a plurality of different predetermined viscosities, predetermined viscosity-related flow rate data formed from a plurality of motor current flow rate relation data at a plurality of different impeller rotational speeds at predetermined fluid viscosity, a fluid measurement data inputting section, an impeller rotational speed measurement function, a motor current measurement function, and a flow rate calculating section 58 for using a fluid viscosity value, an impeller rotational speed value, a measured motor current and data stored in the motor current flow rate-related data storage section to calculate a fluid flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masamichi Yanai, Mitsutoshi Yaegashi