Patents Examined by Joseph S. Herrmann
  • Patent number: 11700980
    Abstract: An electric blower includes a motor, a first rotor blade provided on one end side of the motor in an axial direction, a second rotor blade provided on another side of the motor opposite to the first rotor blade in the axial direction, and a first stator blade provided to face the first rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuchika Tsuchida, Naho Adachi
  • Patent number: 11697982
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing fluids from a subterranean well include an electrical submersible pump assembly with a motor-pump unit. The motor-pump unit has a motor housing and a stator is located within the motor housing. The stator has a stator body with an interior cavity. A rotor assembly is located within the interior cavity of the stator. The rotor assembly includes a rotor shaft extending along the central axis of the stator, a rotor member, and an intermediate rotor bearing assembly. The rotor member and the intermediate rotor bearing assembly circumscribe the rotor shaft. An impeller is mounted on the rotor shaft and located within the interior cavity of the stator. A liner with a polygonal cross section is located along an interior surface of the interior cavity. The liner is secured to the motor housing and seals the stator body from a wellbore fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Wrighton, Sakethraman Mahalingam, Krzysztof Karol Machocki
  • Patent number: 11692452
    Abstract: A method for operating start-up of a compressor train is disclosed. The train includes a driver machine and at least a centrifugal compressor drivingly coupled to the driver machine. The centrifugal compressor in turn includes a plurality of compressor stages and at least a first set of variable inlet guide vanes at an inlet of one of the compressor stages. The method includes at least partly closing the first set of variable inlet guide vanes; when the first set of variable inlet guide vanes is at least partly closed, starting rotation of the centrifugal compressor and accelerating the centrifugal compressor up to a minimum operating speed; opening the at least one set of variable inlet guide vanes to increase the gas flow through the centrifugal compressor once the minimum operating speed has been achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NUOVO PIGNONE TECNOLOGIE—S.R.L.
    Inventors: Leonardo Baldassarre, Antonio Pelagotti, Marco Pelella, Nicola Marcucci, Fabio Baldanzini
  • Patent number: 11686303
    Abstract: The invention provides a pump assembly and high-pressure cleaning apparatus. The pump assembly comprises a motor, a transmission assembly driven by the motor, a water pump connected with the transmission assembly, and a water flow passage. The transmission assembly comprises a sealing portion, a heat dissipating portion capable of dissipating heat to the sealing portion, and a transmission structure arranged in the sealing portion. A lubricating medium is injected in the sealing portion, and the heat dissipating portion is in fluid communication with the water flow passage. The pump body is provided with a heat dissipating portion capable of dissipating heat to the sealing portion, so that the heat generated by the transmission structure in the sealing portion can be dissipated through flowing-out of water in the heat dissipating portion to achieve a heat dissipating effect of the pump assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chunlin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11682933
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a center axis that extends vertically, a stator opposing the rotor in a radial direction, and a base portion opposing a lower surface of the stator in an axial direction. The base portion includes a lower lid portion extending in a direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the center axis, a protruding portion protruding in the axial direction from an upper surface at a center of the lower lid portion, and a stator holding portion adjacent to the protruding portion in the axial direction and contactable with an inner circumferential surface of the stator. The protruding portion includes a first ventilation portion opening downward at the center of the lower lid portion and a second ventilation portion to cause the protruding portion to communicate with the first ventilation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11649814
    Abstract: A fluid device including a fluid chamber which is designed for receiving a fluid and which is commonly delimited by a device housing and a bending-elastic membrane element. The membrane element with a peripheral edge section is fixed to the device housing in a fluid-tight manner and has a membrane working section which is framed by the peripheral edge section and which for the change of the volume of the fluid chamber can be elastically deflected by a piezoactuator. The membrane element consists of a rubber-elastic material, wherein the piezoactuator comprises a drive section which extends along the membrane working section, is embedded into the membrane element and is enveloped by the rubber-elastic material of the membrane element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Metin Giousouf, Gebhard Munz
  • Patent number: 11644022
    Abstract: A branch passage which branches off from a portion of a supply passage on the downstream side of a supply control valve and communicates with a suction chamber is provided, and when providing a release control valve which, while allowing working fluid to flow, moves in response to the differential pressure between the downstream side pressure of the supply control valve and the pressure of a control pressure chamber on the supply passage, while preventing the movement of a valve element from being inhibited by a foreign substance in refrigerant, a leakage of the refrigerant into a suction chamber is suppressed when supplying the refrigerant from a discharge chamber to the control pressure chamber via the supply passage, enhancing control performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yujiro Morita
  • Patent number: 11635067
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes an electric motor, and a motor controller configured to drive the electric motor. The motor controller includes a high voltage circuit board on which switching elements are mounted, a low voltage circuit board on which a control circuit controlling switching operation of the switching elements is mounted, an input connector, an output connector, and a current sensor. The high voltage circuit board and the low voltage circuit board are stacked with each other. The output connector is integrated with a detection busbar that provides electrical connection between the high voltage circuit board and the low voltage circuit board, and through which detection signals indicative of the output current are output to the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Yoshifumi Tada, Yusuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11629709
    Abstract: A piston type compressor has a main housing including a cylinder housing. The cylinder housing has a central bore for receiving a shaft therein through a first surface thereof and a plurality of bores configured for receiving a plurality of pistons therein through the first surface thereof. An inlet is configured for conveying a primary fluid to the plurality of bores. An outlet is configured for conveying the primary fluid from the plurality of bores. A plurality of passages is separate from the inlet and the outlet. Each of the plurality of passages is formed in the main housing and is configured for conveying a supplemental fluid to one of the plurality of bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Michael G. Theodore, Jr., Kanwal Bhatia, Carl Cordy
  • Patent number: 11614080
    Abstract: A subassembly for a compressor controls a fluid flow of a fluid between a high-pressure region and a crank chamber pressure region and between the crank chamber pressure region and a suction pressure region of the compressor. The subassembly includes a first electrical control valve, a second electrical control valve, and an electrical control device. Each of the first electrical control valve and the second electrical control valve has a valve member arranged within a valve housing and displaceable between a pair of positions. The electrical control device is adapted to control, during operation of the compressor, a fluid flow between the high-pressure region and a crank chamber pressure region and between the crank chamber pressure region and the suction pressure region by controlling the positions of the valve members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Domke, Steffen Heute, Martin Moritz, Simon Schemer
  • Patent number: 11598330
    Abstract: A pump (1) includes a vibrating plate (15) that has a central part (21), a frame part (22), and connecting parts (23 to 26), a piezoelectric element (16) that is stacked over the central part (21) and configured to cause flexural vibrations to occur concentrically from the central part (21) to the connecting parts (23 to 26), and an opposed plate (13) that is stacked over the frame part (22) and positioned facing each of the connecting parts (23 to 26) with a spacing therebetween. The vibrating plate (15) has such a resonant mode that an antinode occurs in each of the central part (21) and the connecting parts (23 to 26). The opposed plate (13) has, at positions facing the connecting parts (23 to 26), a plurality of channel holes (39 to 43) through which a fluid flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Hirata, Yukiharu Kodama
  • Patent number: 11555501
    Abstract: A ceiling fan structure includes a mounting bracket, a hanging plate, a coupling, and a motor. The mounting bracket is fixed to a ceiling. The hanging plate has a top fixed to the mounting bracket. The top is formed with a recessed accommodating groove for accommodating a first electronic component. The coupling is connected to a bottom of the accommodating groove and extends downward. The coupling is connected with a support plate extending horizontally. The support plate is configured to support a second electronic component. The internal space of the ceiling fan structure is properly planned so that the components of the ceiling fan structure can be reasonably configured, so as to improve the efficiency of assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventor: Chao Chin Yao
  • Patent number: 11555489
    Abstract: A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided with a discharge port, suction ports, and a control port and a primary valve including a primary valve seat and a primary valve body driven by a solenoid, the primary valve being configured to open and close a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with a movement of the primary valve body. The capacity control valve further includes a differential CS valve which is openable and closable by a pressure difference between the control pressure Pc and the suction pressure Ps and an electromagnetic CS valve that is openable and closable so as to close the control port and the suction port in a non-energized state of the solenoid 80 in accordance with the movement of the primary valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayama, Kohei Fukudome, Takahiro Ejima, Daichi Kurihara, Wataru Takahashi, Keigo Shirafuji, Yoshihiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11542930
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a capacity control valve includes: a valve main body 2 having a first valve chamber 7 through which a fluid at control pressure passes and which has a first valve seat surface 31A, and an interior space 4 through which a fluid at suction pressure passes; and a valve body 21 having an intermediate communication passage 26 for communicating the first valve chamber 7 and the interior space 4, and a first valve part 21C for opening and closing the intermediate communication passage 26 adjacent to the first valve seat surface 31A, wherein an opening area of the first valve part 21C is smaller than that of the intermediate communication passage 26. The capacity control valve is capable of simultaneously achieving reduction of a start-up time of the variable capacity compressor and improvement of responsiveness of capacity control at the time of control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki Higashidozono, Masahiro Hayama
  • Patent number: 11536294
    Abstract: The invention is about a foldable portable fan, which relates to the technical field of a fan, including an entity; the bottom of the entity is fixedly arranged with a connecting part, the connecting part is connected with a rotating part, one side of the rotating part is connected with a bolt, one end of the bolt is connected with a bolt column; the fan can conveniently connect the entity and the base together by setting a connecting part, a rotating part, a bolt and a bolt column, avoiding the use of screws, and the connection is very convenient; in addition, the entity can be folded between the base, which can save packaging materials, occupy less transportation space and save costs in logistics packaging; and the entity can be matched with different bases, thus providing higher selectivity and more flexible sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Xueping Zhu
  • Patent number: 11536279
    Abstract: This disclosure is related to a thin type counter-rotating axial air moving device. The ratio of the front hub diameter to the front blade diameter is about 0.3 to about 0.85. The front average pitch angle of the front blades is greater than about 46 degrees. The ratio of the rear hub diameter to the rear blade diameter is about 0.3 to about 0.85. The rear average pitch angle of the rear blades is less than about 38 degrees. The ratio of the total thickness to the greater one between the front blade diameter and the rear blade diameter is less than or equal to about 0.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: STOKES TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LTD.
    Inventor: Yih-Wei Tzeng
  • Patent number: 11536257
    Abstract: A capacity control valve includes a CS valve which opens and closes a communication between the control fluid and the suction fluid by the movement of rods and an urging member configured to urge the primary valve body and the rods in opposite directions and the primary valve body and the rods are disposed so as to be relatively movable in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayama, Kohei Fukudome, Takahiro Ejima, Daichi Kurihara, Wataru Takahashi, Keigo Shirafuji, Yoshihiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11525509
    Abstract: A resin member capable of inhibiting generation of particles due to repeated bending thereof is provided. A rolling diaphragm 5 composed of a resin member has one surface formed as a liquid contact surface 37a, repeatedly bends when used, and has flexibility. A surface roughness of the liquid contact surface 37a at a portion 371 that bends is less than 0.40 ?m as an arithmetic average roughness, and a total light reflectance of the liquid contact surface 37a at the portion 371 that bends is not less than 2.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Teshima, Naoto Yamada
  • Patent number: 11525439
    Abstract: An actuating and sensing module is disclosed and includes a bottom plate, terminals, a control chip, a partition plate, a gas pressure sensor, a thin gas transportation device and a cover plate. The bottom plate includes terminal grooves, a recess, a gas outlet and a gas relief aperture. The terminals are disposed in the terminal grooves. The control chip is disposed in the recess. The partition plate is stacked on the bottom plate and includes an outlet opening in communication with the gas outlet and a pressure relief orifice corresponding to the gas relief aperture. The thin gas transportation device seals the gas outlet and the pressure relief orifice. The cover plate includes an opening passed through by the thin gas transportation device. The gas is transported to the outlet opening by the thin gas transportation device and sensed by the gas pressure sensor disposed in the outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Shih-Chang Chen, Jia-Yu Liao, Hung-Hsin Liao, Chung-Wei Kao, Chi-Feng Huang, Yung-Lung Han, Chang-Yen Tsai, Yang Ku
  • Patent number: 11480166
    Abstract: A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided with a discharge port, suction ports, a control port and a primary valve driven by a solenoid. The capacity control valve further includes a differential CS valve which includes a differential CS valve body disposed so as to be relatively movable in an axial direction with respect to the primary valve bodies. The differential CS valve body divides a control pressure chamber into a discharge side control chamber communicating with the first control port and a suction side control chamber communicating with the second control port in the axial direction and operates the differential CS valve body by a differential pressure between the discharge side control chamber and the suction side control chamber so as to open the second control port and the suction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayama, Kohei Fukudome, Takahiro Ejima, Daichi Kurihara, Wataru Takahashi, Keigo Shirafuji, Yoshihiro Ogawa