Patents Examined by Geoffrey S Lee
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Patent number: 11359988Abstract: A vacuum pump comprises: a pump rotor portion configured such that multiple rotor blade stages including stacking portions formed in a ring shape and turbine blades radially formed on an outer peripheral side of the stacking portions are stacked on each other; a rotor shaft to which inner peripheral surfaces of the stacking portions of the multiple rotor blade stages stacked on each other are fixed; and a communication path allowing communication between a clearance space between the rotor shaft and each stacking portion and a pump exhaust path in which the turbine blades are arranged and discharging gas in the clearance space through the pump exhaust path.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Masashi Manabe
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Patent number: 11353013Abstract: A multi-stage compressor includes a compression module configured to compress a refrigerant therein through reciprocation of a plurality of pistons provided in a front housing, a rear housing coupled to the front housing to define an internal space between the front housing and the rear housing; a separation plate located between the front housing and the rear housing to separate the internal space between the front housing and the rear housing into a front space and a rear space; and a partition wall coupled to the rear housing to partition the rear space into an injection space before a refrigerant injected thereinto is primarily compressed, a primary discharge space from which the refrigerant is discharged in a primary compressed state by some of the pistons, and a secondary discharge space from which the primary compressed refrigerant is discharged.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Seong Bin Jeong
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Patent number: 11353023Abstract: Disclosed is a pump system for a semiconductor chamber includes a housing having a front chamber and a rear chamber, a roots-type rotor provided to the front chamber of the housing, a screw-type rotor provided to the rear chamber, a shaft member coupled through the roots-type rotor and the screw-type rotor, and a driving motor provided to the outside of the housing in such a way as to be axially connected to the shaft member to provide power for driving the rotors. A fluid pipe is provided to the outside of the housing to connect the front chamber and the rear chamber. The fluid pipe is provided with a heater and/or a cooler to heat or cool the fluid flowing through the fluid pipe.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: PLAN CO., LTDInventor: In Cheol Lee
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Patent number: 11346348Abstract: A liquefied gas unloading and deep evacuation system may more quickly, more efficiently and more completely unload liquefied gases from transport tanks, such as rail cars, into stationary storage tanks or into truck tanks. The system may utilize a two stage compressor, an electric motor, a variable frequency drive, a four way valve, a three way valve, a two way valve, a programmable logic controller based control system and pressure and temperature transmitters. The valving enables deep evacuation of the transport or supply tank to more completely empty the transport tank. The programmable logic controller and variable speed drive may be used to variably control the speed of the two stage compressor so that the system may be running as fast as possible during changes in ambient temperature and/or different stages of offloading the liquefied gases without exceeding the compressor's horsepower limit.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ADVANCED FLOW SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Blake Wallace, Jay Taylor
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Patent number: 11346349Abstract: A vacuum pump includes: a rotating portion and a stator portion between which an internal flow path is formed; an exhaust mechanism which sends gas from a suction port toward an outlet port through the internal flow path; and a main sensor for detecting that a deposited material has reached a prescribed thickness at a detection object position of the internal flow path, wherein the main sensor includes at least a pair of electrodes disposed in the internal flow path at an interval corresponding to the prescribed thickness, and a capacitance detection circuit which is connected to the pair of electrodes and which detects a capacitance between the pair of electrodes, and the capacitance detection circuit detects that a deposited material in the internal flow path has reached the prescribed thickness on the basis of a drop in an increase rate of the capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Edwards Japan LimitedInventor: Takashi Kabasawa
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Patent number: 11333136Abstract: A fluid pump includes: three or more volume chambers that suction and discharge a fluid sequentially; moving elements that are respectively provided in the volume chambers, move relative to the volume chamber, and suction and discharge the fluid from and to the volume chamber; a cam that abuts against and drives the moving elements; and a driving section that drives at least one of the moving elements and the cam and relatively rotates the moving elements and the cam to discharge the fluid one time from each of the volume chambers in one cycle of the relative rotation, in which, when suctioning and discharging the fluid, regarding a discharge rotation angle ?, ?=(Z/M)×N is satisfied, where the number of volume chambers is M and any integer from 2 to (M?1) is N.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Ono, Katsuhiko Takasu, Koji Nunami
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Patent number: 11306713Abstract: A pump system includes a pressure compensator and a speed compensator for controlling the displacement of a variable displacement pump having an inlet and an outlet. The variable displacement pump is driven by a drive shaft powered by an electric motor. The pressure compensator adjusts the displacement of the variable displacement pump based on a pump pressure at the pump outlet. The speed compensator adjusts a maximum magnitude of the displacement of the variable displacement pump based on a speed of the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventor: Phillip Wayne Galloway
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Patent number: 11300110Abstract: A piston type pump includes a pump housing having at least one pump inlet, at least one pump outlet, and a piston arrangement connected to a drive shaft configured to, when driven, set the piston arrangement into movement. The piston arrangement includes a first primary stage piston, the first primary stage piston being slidably seated in a first primary stage cylinder formed in the pump housing, and a first secondary stage piston. The first secondary stage piston is slidably seated in a first secondary stage cylinder formed in the first primary stage piston.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BVInventor: Peter Todman
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Patent number: 11293418Abstract: A fluid pump includes: three or more volume chambers that suction and discharge a fluid sequentially; moving elements that are respectively provided in the volume chambers, move relative to the volume chamber, and suction and discharge the fluid from and to the volume chamber; a cam that abuts against and drives the moving elements; and a driving section that drives at least one of the moving elements and the cam and relatively rotates the moving elements and the cam to discharge the fluid one time from each of the volume chambers in one cycle of the relative rotation, in which, when suctioning and discharging the fluid, regarding a discharge rotation angle ?, ?=(Z/M)×N is satisfied, where the number of volume chambers is M and any integer from 2 to (M?1) is N.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Ono, Katsuhiko Takasu, Koji Nunami
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Patent number: 11286925Abstract: An apparatus and method to be implemented with a control loop system that includes machine set, wherein the machine set includes a working machine, an electric motor driving the working machine, and a final control element, and wherein the apparatus and method optimize the state of the machine set to minimize power consumption of the motor and maximize reliability of the machine set.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: PEOPLEFLO MANUFACTURING, INC.Inventors: William R. Blankemeier, Michael P. Thompson
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Patent number: 11280353Abstract: A method for the production of a suction jet pump delivering fuel into or out of a fuel tank, wherein the suction jet pump has a flow channel and a nozzle, and wherein the flow channel forms a feed line to the nozzle and the flow channel is formed in one piece with the nozzle, the method including, in the following order: placing a mold core into a matrix to produce the suction jet pump by injection molding and form a cavity between the mold core and the matrix; encapsulating the mold core and filling the cavity formed between mold core and matrix with a plastic; removing the mold core through an installation opening, arranged opposite the nozzle, in the flow channel; and closing the installation opening by thermal deformation, in the edge region of the installation opening, of the plastic used for the production of the suction jet pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Bernd Pauer, Bastian Lücke
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Patent number: 11280230Abstract: An electric oil pump system integrated with a heat exchanger capable of reducing installation space and cost may include: an the electric oil pump including a motor and a pumping part operated by power of the motor to suck and send oil under pressurizing to an oil-used part; and a heat exchanger to exchange heat between the pressurized oil sent by the electric oil pump and coolant cooled at a radiator while the coolant and the pressurized oil pass through the heat exchanger. In particular, the heat exchanger is directly coupled to the electric oil pump and the oil-used part, respectively, and integrated with each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Sung Hyun Ahn, Byoung Hoon Choi, Seung Jae Kang, Hak Sung Lee, Yeon Ho Kim, Jong Hyun Kim, Tae Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11268517Abstract: To provide a pump device configured such that the impeller can be prevented from being moved toward a case body by which a pump chamber is defined. An impeller is arranged in a pump chamber defined by a case body and an end wall portion of a motor. The impeller includes back blades protruding from a shroud toward the end wall portion of the motor. When the impeller is driven to circulate fluid through the pump chamber, a fluid is drawn out by the back blades from a clearance between the impeller and the end wall portion of the motor. Therefore, the impeller is moved by the negative pressure toward the end wall portion of the motor. The back blades function as a suction power generation mechanism configured to generate suction power sucking the impeller toward the end wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Kokubo, Hiroki Kuratani, Takashi Yamamoto, Masaki Harada
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Patent number: 11268522Abstract: A fan assembly having a reduced dimension formed by several modifications is described. The fan assembly includes a stator having stator coils positioned within a recessed portion of a pillow that receives the motor. The stator may include wire connections positioned between adjacent stator coils and designed to terminate wires of the stator coils. The wire terminations may be on a protrusion or a post positioned between adjacent stator coils, or alternatively, the wire terminations may be disposed on protruding features of a bushing. The protrusion may be formed from an electrically conductive material and electrically connected to a motor control circuit via a flexible printed circuit. In some embodiments, the protrusion is part of an electrically neutral stator bushing having several pins. Also, a gap region between the bushing and a flange feature is designed to improve an adhesive joint.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Anthony Joseph Aiello
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Patent number: 11268500Abstract: A linear compressor includes a piston that reciprocates on a spring central axis extending in an axial direction and a spring that axially elastically supports the piston. The spring includes a plurality of spring strands. The spring strands each include a spring body spirally extending along a spring central axis C, a front spring link forming an end of the spring body by extending from a side of the spring body, and a rear spring link forming the other end of the spring body by extending from the other side of the spring body. Of the spring strands, the front spring links are disposed axially in the same plane P1 and the rear spring links are disposed axially in the same plane P2.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyosang Yu, Sanga Park
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Patent number: 11261861Abstract: A hydrostatic piston machine has an adjustment element that is adjustable for varying a displacement volume, and a rotating cylinder part having a plurality of cylinder bores with pistons that are supported on the adjustment element and delimit a displacement chamber. Each displacement chamber is moved in an alternating manner by a connecting opening to overlap a low-pressure control opening situated on a low-pressure side of a stationary control part and a high-pressure control opening situated on a high-pressure side of the control part. Two switching regions are situated between the low-pressure control opening and the high-pressure control opening, the pistons changing direction at a dead center within the switching regions. The position of the adjustment element is determined from a pressure profile which is a function of the variable size of the displacement chambers in a switching region, the variable size depending on the position of the adjustment element.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Timo Nafz
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Patent number: 11261876Abstract: A cooling fan or use with a hydraulic pump having an input shaft in a hydrostatic transmission includes a rotatable hub having a central body portion and an axially extending peripheral surface and a plurality of blades that extend radially outward from the peripheral surface. The cooling fan also includes an attachment aperture defined by the central body portion and an integral flange that axially extends from the central body portion. The integral flange defines a guard space having an area that is less than an area defined by the peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Parker-Hannifin CorporationInventors: Jason Scot Richardson, Thomas Kevin Castle
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Patent number: 11264884Abstract: A vehicle linear motor includes: a tubular casing; a pair of armatures placed and fixed in the casing; a mover formed in a flat plate shape and placed to face the pair of armatures and to be movable in the casing; and a support member configured to slidably support the mover such that the mover moves in a longitudinal direction of the mover. The mover formed in the flat plate shape includes a plurality of magnets that are arranged at intervals in the longitudinal direction. Each of the pair of armatures has a magnetic pole that is arranged to move the mover relative to the armatures in the longitudinal direction. The casing is mounted on a vehicle such that the longitudinal direction is a horizontal direction, and the mover and the armatures are placed to face each other in the horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Kawai, Kan Kobayashi, Hiroshi Chikuma, Aya Mizukoshi
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Patent number: 11255318Abstract: A control unit for a solenoid pump, the solenoid pump including: an inlet port, an outlet port, and a first through-bore connecting the inlet and outlet ports; a plunger disposed within the first through-bore and including a second through-bore; a spring arranged to urge the plunger toward the outlet port; a solenoid coil disposed about a portion of the plunger and arranged to displace the plunger toward the inlet port in response to direct current coil power applied to the solenoid coil, the control unit including a microcontroller operatively arranged to control the solenoid coil, a first transistor operatively arranged to receive an external signal and communicate the signal to the microcontroller to control the solenoid coil, and a second transistor, arranged between the microcontroller and the solenoid coil, the second transistor operatively arranged to energize and de-energize the solenoid coil in response to the microcontroller.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Motor Components, LLCInventors: Matthew J. Gibson, Benjamin H. Evans, Michael Robert DePue
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Patent number: 11242767Abstract: An additively manufactured impingement structure for a component is provided. The control structure includes an outer wall, an inner wall, and an impingement wall positioned between the outer wall and the inner wall. A fluid distribution passageway is defined between the inner wall and the impingement wall and an impingement gap is defined between the impingement wall and the outer wall. A plurality of impingement holes are defined in the impingement wall to provide fluid communication between the fluid distribution passageway and the impingement gap. A flow of cooling or heating fluid may be supplied to the fluid distribution passageway which distributes the flow and impinges it through the impingement holes onto the outer wall to cool or heat the outer wall, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gregg Hunt Wilson, Stephen Joseph Waymeyer