Patents Examined by Jackson N Gillenwaters
  • Patent number: 11965401
    Abstract: A downhole gas separator fluid mover assembly comprising a fluid mover having an inlet and an outlet, a separation device, a separation chamber, and a flow path separator located downstream of the fluid mover. The fluid mover comprising a centrifugal pump stage with an impeller and a diffuser moves production fluid comprising a high viscosity fluid portion and a gas portion to the separation device. The separation device produces a fluid motion that separates the gas phase from the liquid phase in response to the flow rate of production fluid from the fluid mover. A portion of the high viscosity fluid passes through the gas phase discharge port in response to the over-supply of high viscosity fluid to the liquid discharge port in response to the flow rate of the production fluid through the fluid mover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport
  • Patent number: 11953024
    Abstract: A submersible pump assembly. The submersible pump assembly comprises a motor comprising a first drive shaft; a seal section comprising a second drive shaft that is coupled to the first drive shaft of the motor; and a centrifugal pump assembly comprising a third drive shaft that is coupled to the second drive shaft of the seal section and a plurality of pump stages, wherein each pump stage comprises an impeller coupled to the third drive shaft and a diffuser retained by a housing of the centrifugal pump assembly, wherein the diffuser of each pump stage comprises a first plurality of vanes each having a first axial length and a second plurality of vanes each disposed between a pair of vanes of the first plurality of vanes and each having a second axial length, wherein the second axial length is less than the first axial length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ketankumar K. Sheth, Donn J. Brown, Gerald Glen Goshorn
  • Patent number: 11953026
    Abstract: A submersible pump comprises a rotational assembly and a rotational assembly housing. The rotational assembly has a plurality of in-line flow inducing sections. A centerline longitudinal axis of each of the flow inducing sections extends colinearly with a rotational axis of the rotational assembly. A downstream end portion of a flow pressurizing section is engaged with an upstream end portion of a rotational flow amplification section. A downstream end portion of the rotational flow amplification section is engaged with an upstream end portion of a flow outlet section. The rotational assembly housing has an interior space extending along a centerline axis of the rotational assembly housing. The rotational assembly is disposed within the interior space of the rotational assembly housing. The rotational assembly and the rotational assembly are jointly configured for causing the rotational axis to extend colinearly with the centerline longitudinal axis of the rotational assembly housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Vortex Pipe Systems LLC
    Inventors: Paul Wayne Schmidt, Avijit Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11939984
    Abstract: Compressors having multi-speed gearboxes are disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a fluid channel to convey a fluid, a compressor fluidly coupled to the fluid channel, a gearbox operatively coupled to the compressor, the gearbox to control the compressor using a first gear ratio and a second gear ratio different from the first gear ratio to vary a flow rate of fluid in the fluid channel, and clutches to vary the gearbox between the first gear ratio and the second gear ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mark J. Robuck, Scott H. Bouwer, John C. Walters, Steve G. Mackin
  • Patent number: 11898570
    Abstract: A pump assembly for delivering a medium via a flow chamber (13) defined by a hydraulic housing and a housing cover, includes a pump shaft rotatably drivable about an axis of rotation, an impeller fixed to one end of the pump shaft inside the flow chamber, a bearing carrier. The pump assembly further includes a lubrication and cooling system with oil recirculation in the bearing carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KSB SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Thomas Pensler, Christoph Jaeger, Daniel Ziegs, Hermann Bonitz
  • Patent number: 11889794
    Abstract: A handheld blower including a housing, an air duct defining a duct axis, the air duct including an air inlet and an air outlet opposite the air inlet, and a handle. The handle at least partially defining a battery receiving cavity configured to receive at least a portion of a battery pack therein, where the handle defines a grip axis, and where the grip axis is parallel to the duct axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Beth E. Cholst, Bennett W. Westling, Atul Anand, Gregory A. Mutchler
  • Patent number: 11885265
    Abstract: Aircraft turbine engine (10), comprising:—at least one first turbine rotor (22a) connected to a first turbine shaft (36) and comprising rotor blades located in a stream (V),—an annular exhaust casing (28) supporting at least one bearing (60, 62) for guiding the rotation of the first shaft and comprising arms (28a) located in the stream, downstream of the blades, and—a mechanical planetary gearbox (42) which comprises a sun gear (44), a ring gear (40) and a planet carrier (46), the gearbox being at least partially surrounded by the exhaust casing and one of the rotatable elements chosen from the sun gear and the ring gear being connected to the first shaft, characterised in that the exhaust casing carries a device (70) for recovering and discharging oil projected centrifugally by the reduction gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Olivier Belmonte, Amelie Argie Antoinette Chassagne
  • Patent number: 11885348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade assembly 30 for a large dimension axial fan 32 having a rotation axis X. The blade assembly of the invention comprises: a root structure 34 intended to mechanically connect the blade assembly to a hub 36; a blade, wherein at least one portion of the blade has a composite airfoil 46 comprising a fore semi-airfoil 48 and an aft flap 50, wherein: the semi-airfoil is intended to be assembled at a predefined pitch angle ?c with respect to the hub 36 by means of the root structure; the flap 50 is mounted on the blade such that it can be fixed in a position comprised between a maximum deflection position and a minimum deflection position with respect to the pitch angle ?c; and between the fore semi-airfoil and the aft flap a channel 54 is defined suitable for allowing a fluid flow from the face v to the back d of the composite airfoil. The invention further relates to a fan comprising a plurality of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: R.E.M. HOLDING S.R.L.
    Inventor: Roberto Eduardo Mosiewicz
  • Patent number: 11879481
    Abstract: One aspect described in this application provides an apparatus that includes an external tray hose with an integrated booster pump for cooling a computing device. The booster pump can boost fluid flow and fluid pressure of coolant fluid pumped toward the computing device on a server tray. The booster pump includes a stator mounted around a booster pump housing with a bore. The stator includes one or more C-shaped lamination stacks for supporting coil windings. Energized coil windings generate a varying magnetic field for rotating an impeller within a housing bore to pump fluid along the housing bore of the booster pump. The apparatus includes a monitor module to monitor a set of sensors to obtain information about one or more of fluid temperature, fluid pressure, and device temperature; and a control module to adjust performance of the booster pump based on the information obtained from the set of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: John P. Franz, Tahir Cader
  • Patent number: 11873074
    Abstract: A motor assembly that includes a motor having a motor casing, a rotatable shaft extending from said motor casing to a shaft length and a hub coupled to said rotatable shaft, the hub having a circumferential skid surface disposed immediately proximal to the motor casing and having a channel configured to seat a propeller, when a propeller is present, wherein a bending moment applied to the shaft through the hub results in the circumferential skid surface contacting said motor casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Emil Ghapgharan, Lane Dalan, Pavel Belik, Christopher Eugene Fisher, Austin Craig Gunder
  • Patent number: 11873843
    Abstract: An improved guard for a pump propeller is described herein. The guard includes a hub that in use surrounds a drive shaft of a drive motor unit that drives the propeller. The vanes define a propeller receiving area in which the propeller is received allowing the propeller to rotate relative to the vanes, while portions of the vanes radially surround the propeller. The guard is fixed in position about the propeller to protect the propeller from debris and to prevent human contact with the rotating propeller. The guard is designed to shed weeds and other debris, and prevent weeds and other debris from becoming entangled on the guard and with the propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KASCO MARINE, INC.
    Inventors: Travis Hilden, David Decaire, Todd Dombrock, Zach Whetstone, Chad Attlesey, James Verdouw, Trevor Johnson
  • Patent number: 11867192
    Abstract: A pump comprising an impeller having a hub base and an impeller body. The impeller body comprises a base which is concentric relative to a rotational axis of the impeller, and at least one eccentric apex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PENTAIR FLOW TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Arnold, Raymond Johan Meijnen
  • Patent number: 11867069
    Abstract: A hybrid electric engine including a gas turbine engine including a low speed spool, a high speed spool a fan section, a compressor section, a combustor section, and a turbine section. The hybrid electric engine further includes an electric generator configured to convert rotational power of the high or low speed spool to electricity and a variable area turbine control system electrically connected to the electric generator. The variable area turbine control system being configured to adjust a cross-sectional area of a core flow path of the hybrid electric engine. The variable area turbine control system including a plurality of variable turbine vanes located in the turbine section and a variable area turbine actuator configured to rotate each of the plurality of variable turbine vanes to adjust the cross-sectional area of the core flow path of the hybrid electric engine. The variable area turbine actuator is an electromechanical actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Farris, Marc J. Muldoon
  • Patent number: 11852154
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump sealing structure is provided. In one aspect, one sealing member is provided at a position where leakage paths from a fluid compression space between a middle housing and a cover and an electric component installation space between the middle housing and a lower housing are connected. Then, the two spaces are sealed. The number of sealing members is reduced, so that the internal structure becomes simpler and the assembly of the sealing member becomes easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Kefico Corporation
    Inventor: Ahn Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 11828294
    Abstract: A propeller fan includes a hub, and a plurality of wings provided at an outer circumference of the hub. Each of the wings includes a protrusion tapered and positioned on a rotation direction rear side in a radially outer portion of the wing, the protrusion includes a top positioned at a rearmost end in the rotation direction, an outer circumferential rear edge positioned radially outside the top, and an inner circumferential rear edge positioned radially inside the top, the outer circumferential rear edge includes a first serration having a first serration shape, and the inner circumferential rear edge includes a second serration having a second serration shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Tomioka, Takahiro Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11821429
    Abstract: A multi-stage regenerative rotary pump assembly includes a housing, and an elongated shaft received in the housing for rotation about a rotational axis. The shaft has a longitudinal axis aligned with the rotational axis. A rotary member is operatively connected to the shaft and dimensioned for receipt in the housing. The rotary member has opposite, first and second faces axially spaced from one another in a direction of the longitudinal axis. At least the first face of the rotary member includes a first pump stage having a first stage inlet and a first stage outlet in fluid communication therewith. At least the first face includes a second pump stage having a second stage inlet and a second stage outlet in fluid communication therewith, and the second stage inlet is configured to be in fluid communication with the first stage outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Cody M. Mackey, Martin A. Clements, Matthew A. Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 11802571
    Abstract: There is provided a fan assembly comprising an air flow generator that is arranged to generate an air flow through the fan assembly, and a nozzle arranged to emit the air flow from the fan assembly. The nozzle comprises a nozzle body and a plurality of steerable air outlets that are each arranged to emit a portion of the air flow, wherein the plurality of steerable air outlets are arranged to be independently rotated relative to the nozzle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Charles Edward Pouget, George Oram, James Gregory Forrest, Steven Eduard Peet, Lyle Dempsey Fletcher-Wilmot
  • Patent number: 11795971
    Abstract: A pump arrangement including a magnetic clutch pump arrangement, the pump arrangement including an inner chamber formed by a housing arrangement, a separating can which hermetically seals a chamber enclosed by it with respect to the inner chamber, an impeller shaft that can be driven in rotation about an axis of rotation, an impeller arranged on one end of the impeller shaft, an inner rotor arranged on the other end of the impeller shaft, a drive device, a drive shaft that can be driven in rotation about the axis of rotation by the drive device, and an outer rotor arranged on the drive shaft and cooperating with the inner rotor. The outer rotor includes a first carrier element and a second carrier element connected to the first carrier element. The first carrier element includes a thermal barrier device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: KSB SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Juergen Groeschel
  • Patent number: 11795960
    Abstract: A system includes a vertical molten sulfur pump assembly that includes a top portion adjacent to a first end of the vertical molten sulfur pump assembly and a bottom portion adjacent to a second end of the vertical molten sulfur pump assembly. A pump motor is disposed in the top portion, an impeller is disposed in the bottom portion within an impeller casing, and a shaft is disposed within a central column and connecting the pump motor with the impeller. A pump inlet is disposed at the second end below the impeller casing. The pump inlet and the impeller casing are configured to be immersed in molten sulfur. The vertical molten sulfur pump assembly is configured to pump the molten sulfur into the inlet and upwards through a discharge passageway by rotation of the impeller. A vibration sensor and a temperature sensor are disposed on an external surface of the bottom portion, on or proximate to the impeller casing and the pump inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Keith William Brashler, Doru Catalin Turcan, Ali Al Shehri
  • Patent number: 11795970
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a portable fan for the use in firefighting and other ventilation use-cases. The portable fan provides firefighters the ability to provide positive pressure ventilation in use for fighting fires which does not require power cables or combustible fuel powered motors, and provides increased portability, reduced risk, and reduced deployment time associated with managing and fighting a fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Super Vacuum Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Weinmeister, Thomas Falloon