Patents Examined by Eugene G. Byrd
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Patent number: 11873900Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventor: Jong Chul Lee
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Patent number: 11873899Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ElringKlinger AGInventors: Tobias Michael Gruhler, Stefan Dwenger, Robert Linkor
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Patent number: 11867289Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBHInventors: Sina Kaiser-Krug, Wolfgang Kraus, Frank Pfau, Andreas Ruopp, Sebastian Scheeler
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Patent number: 11846355Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: Joseph B. Phelps, Sean P. McGee, Aneil S. Hegde
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Patent number: 11835090Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CONSOLIDATED METCO, INC.Inventor: Xin Yu
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Patent number: 11815181Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventor: Ulrich Dietrich
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Patent number: 11802621Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.Inventor: Koji Sato
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Patent number: 11796060Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Egon Stratmann, Marcus Mutschler, Wolfgang Wettemann-Del Chin
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Patent number: 11796065Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventor: Arne Høeg
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Patent number: 11788623Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventor: Andreas Leinung
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Patent number: 11788651Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: POULTON TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Konrad Goess-Saurau, Rodney Coplestone
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Patent number: 11788626Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventor: Michael Christopher Petrarca
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Patent number: 11781653Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventors: Takumi Yamada, Hiromi Sugihara, Hisato Yonai, Toshiki Watanabe, Satoshi Yamanaka, Yu Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11781649Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Gabriel Ramirez Nunez
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Patent number: 11784480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBAInventors: Robert Vanhentenrijk, Ronnie Rosa Georges Liefsoens, Pieter De Coster
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Patent number: 11773975Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Jiahui He, Mengli Sun
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Patent number: 11773739Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate, Jonathan Dwight Berry, Russell Pierson DeForest, Kevin Weston McMahan, Victor John Morgan, Ibrahim Klara Sezer, Deepak Trivedi
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Patent number: 11773978Abstract: A leak-proof sealing system is provided for sealing combustion chambers of an automotive engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLCInventor: Martin Mockenhaupt
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Patent number: 11767730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Robert William Gissler, Clint Adam Brown, Gregory Scott Cunningham
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Patent number: 11761543Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ORION ENGINEERED SEALS, LLCInventors: Randall Jaskot, Woodrow Nepa, Todd Brickson