Patents Examined by Eugene G. Byrd
  • Patent number: 11873900
    Abstract: Provided is a gasket, and more particularly, to a gasket including a C-ring end formed at at least one side of a kammprofile. According to the present invention, a higher bolting force and restoring force may be secured than those of other gaskets having the same size as the gasket. Furthermore, a core spring may be easily fixed and attached to the gasket through the C-ring end formed at the kammprofile without an external jacket. Accordingly, production costs may be decreased by simplifying the structure of the gasket as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Jong Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11873899
    Abstract: In order to provide a seal arrangement, in particular for sealing a first fluid space from a second fluid space or a plurality of fluid spaces, which on the one hand is producible in a simple and cost-effective manner and also enables a reliable sealing of a first fluid space from a second fluid space, it is proposed that the seal arrangement comprises the following: A sealing element for arranging between a first object and a second object, wherein the sealing element comprises two or more mutually connectible or mutually connected sealing element components, which each comprise a base body part and an elastic sealing body part arranged on the base body part, wherein the base body parts of the sealing element components form a preferably dimensionally stable base body of the sealing element, wherein the elastic sealing body parts of the sealing element components form an elastic sealing body for providing a sealing function of the sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Tobias Michael Gruhler, Stefan Dwenger, Robert Linkor
  • Patent number: 11867289
    Abstract: A seal, in particular a gasket, for sealing with at least one sealing layer a gap in a housing that extends around an inner chamber of the housing. In particular, a frame seal which seals between a lower part and an upper part of the housing, for example a motor vehicle battery housing or a motor vehicle battery box housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBH
    Inventors: Sina Kaiser-Krug, Wolfgang Kraus, Frank Pfau, Andreas Ruopp, Sebastian Scheeler
  • Patent number: 11846355
    Abstract: A seal assembly includes a rotatable shaft and a stationary housing circumscribing the shaft to form radially inner and radially outer boundaries of a seal cavity and a buffer cavity adjacent to the seal cavity. A retention member engaging the housing within the seal cavity includes an end plate extending radially at the axial boundary between the seal and buffer cavities and a protrusion extending from the end plate into the buffer cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph B. Phelps, Sean P. McGee, Aneil S. Hegde
  • Patent number: 11835090
    Abstract: A bearing seal includes a seal case, a sleeve, and a thrust bumper disposed between the seal case and the sleeve to define spacing between the seal case and the sleeve during assembly of a wheel end implementing the bearing seal. The thrust bumper includes polytetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CONSOLIDATED METCO, INC.
    Inventor: Xin Yu
  • Patent number: 11815181
    Abstract: A sealing device for banjo fittings including a sealing ring, a gasket and one or more straps attaching the sealing ring to the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Dietrich
  • Patent number: 11802621
    Abstract: Provided is a metal gasket, which is used for connecting pipes to each other in a thermal power plant, a nuclear power plant, a steam engine in a steam turbine ship, an oil refinery line, a petrochemical industry process line, a semiconductor manufacturing line or the like, and which is characterized in that a V-shaped circumferential groove 2 is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the metal gasket 1, the ratio (circumferential groove depth A/horizontal length B) of the depth A of the circumferential groove 2 and the horizontal length B in a cross section of the metal gasket 1 is 0.1 to 0.95, and the notch angle of the V-shaped circumferential groove 2 is 30° to 120°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 11796060
    Abstract: A sealing device for sealing a space filled with a fluid in a MEMS sensor system. The sealing device includes a sealing unit, the sealing unit encompassing a channel, which is connected to the one space, and a sealing element for sealing the channel being situated in the channel in such a way that the channel and/or the sealing element are/is designed in such a way that the sealing element is sealingly fixed in the channel via a mechanical clamping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Egon Stratmann, Marcus Mutschler, Wolfgang Wettemann-Del Chin
  • Patent number: 11796065
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to disclose a piston rod sealing unit that solves the problems that have been mentioned from the prior art disclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Arne Høeg
  • Patent number: 11788623
    Abstract: A sealing interface seals between an air dryer cartridge and a base for an air dryer cartridge. The sealing interface has at least one sealing element, at least one sheet metal element on the air-dryer-cartridge side, and at least one base-side extension, wherein the base-side extension has a bearing surface for the sealing element, which bearing surface is directed radially inward relative to the longitudinal axis of the base and of the air dryer cartridge. The sheet metal element is fastened on the air-dryer-cartridge side, and, in the assembled state, the sealing element presses against the bearing surface. A holding element is provided which, in the assembled state, is arranged such that the sealing element is held between the sheet metal element and the bearing surface at least partially in the axial and/or radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis by the sheet metal element and/or the holding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Leinung
  • Patent number: 11788651
    Abstract: An apparatus for connecting two pipes in fluid communication includes a connector body having opposing open ends, with each open end configured for receiving a free end of a pipe, and a mechanical interlock arrangement for preventing or limiting axial movement of the connector body relative to a free end of a pipe when the free end of the pipe is received in an open end of the connector body. A mechanical seal arrangement provides a metal-to-metal seal between a pipe inserted into one of the open ends and the connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: POULTON TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Konrad Goess-Saurau, Rodney Coplestone
  • Patent number: 11788626
    Abstract: A seal rotor which can include a plurality of fluid inlets on the exterior. The fluid inlets can draw fluid into the body of the seal which can assist in removing heat from the primary sealing interface, thereby reducing thermal deformation of the sealing interface with its non-rotating counterpart. The seal rotor configuration allows fluid to flow through the seal rotor and keep the seal rotor closer to an isothermal state than a prior art seal rotor. The seal's body can additionally include a series of fins on the inside of the body. The fins define channels through which fluid entering via the fluid inlets can flow. These features function as a system for spreading and dissipating the heat of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Michael Christopher Petrarca
  • Patent number: 11781653
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a reinforcing ring having annular shape around an axis line and an elastic body part formed from an elastic body, the elastic body part being attached to the reinforcing ring and having an annular shape around the axis line. The elastic body part includes an annular seal lip and an annular side lip that is provided on an outer side of the seal lip and that extends toward the outer side. In an inner peripheral surface of the side lip on an inner periphery side, at least one circumferential groove which is a groove having an annular shape around the axis line is provided and at least one axial groove which is a groove extending along a direction of the axis line is provided. The circumferential groove and the axial groove are connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi Yamada, Hiromi Sugihara, Hisato Yonai, Toshiki Watanabe, Satoshi Yamanaka, Yu Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11781649
    Abstract: A sealing system which is designed to leverage the centrifugal acceleration of solids and liquids due to the natural rotation of the roller, expelling them outside, preventing most of the contamination from trying to penetrate the roller seals. Excess of contaminants that is not centrifugally expelled is blocked by the following internal sealing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Gabriel Ramirez Nunez
  • Patent number: 11784480
    Abstract: A gel sealing device includes a gel sealing block (5) which provides a sealing section (22) through which the elongate parts (13, 14) extend. The gel sealing block (5) includes an upper flange (11) and a lower flange (12) with a support section (11a, 12a, 12b) disposed therebetween. The upper and lower flanges (11, 12) sandwiches, in direction of extension of the elongate parts (13, 14), a gel inner ring (7) supported by said support section (2) and a gel outer ring (6, 10a) covering the gel inner ring (7) in a radial direction extending transverse to said extension direction. The gel inner ring (7) and the gel outer ring (6, 10a) are made of a gel sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBA
    Inventors: Robert Vanhentenrijk, Ronnie Rosa Georges Liefsoens, Pieter De Coster
  • Patent number: 11773975
    Abstract: A sealing plug that is configured to seal a hole in a panel. The sealing plug comprises a plug body, at least two holding arms and a sealing portion. The plug body has a central axis and a support portion arranged around the central axis. Each of the at least two holding arms extends downward from the bottom of the support portion of the plug body and has a holding portion. The holding portions extend obliquely downward in a direction away from the central axis. The sealing portion is arranged on an outer edge of the support portion of the plug body. The sealing body is made of a metal material, and the sealing portion is made of a material with a melting point lower than that of the metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Jiahui He, Mengli Sun
  • Patent number: 11773739
    Abstract: A flexible seal for sealing between two adjacent gas turbine components includes a forward end, an aft end axially separated from the forward end, and an intermediate portion between the forward end and the aft end. The intermediate portion defines a continuous curve in the circumferential direction, such that the aft end is circumferentially offset from the forward end. In other cases, the forward and aft ends are axially, radially, and circumferentially offset from one another. A method of sealing using the flexible seal includes inserting, in an axial direction, the aft end of the flexible seal into a recess defined by respective seal slots of two adjacent gas turbine components; and pushing the flexible seal in an axial direction through the recess until the forward end is disposed within the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate, Jonathan Dwight Berry, Russell Pierson DeForest, Kevin Weston McMahan, Victor John Morgan, Ibrahim Klara Sezer, Deepak Trivedi
  • Patent number: 11773978
    Abstract: A leak-proof sealing system is provided for sealing combustion chambers of an automotive engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Mockenhaupt
  • Patent number: 11767730
    Abstract: A seal including a first metal component; a second metal component couplable with the first metal component; and a shape memory alloy having a first state and a second state, the first state and the second state being different in at least one dimension, wherein in response to an external stimulus, the shape memory alloy transitions in one or more dimension from the first state to the second state thereby forming at least one metal-to-metal seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert William Gissler, Clint Adam Brown, Gregory Scott Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11761543
    Abstract: A labyrinth seal including a stator and a non-contacting rotor, and annular elastomeric seals. The confronting surfaces of the stator and rotor define at least one interface passage, including a radially-outermost annular interface passage between an annular, outermost, radially-extending projection of the stator and an annular rearwardly-extending distal projection of the rotor that overlaps the radially-extending projection of the stator, the radially-outermost annular interface passage tapering outwardly and rearwardly at an acute angle relative to an axial reference line. The annular elastomeric seals are stationary with the stator during dynamic operation of the rotor, and are not contacted by a surface of the rotor during dynamic operation. The interface can also have two radially-disposed exclusion chambers, the outer exclusion chamber being defined in part by a radially-inboard projection of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ORION ENGINEERED SEALS, LLC
    Inventors: Randall Jaskot, Woodrow Nepa, Todd Brickson