Patents Examined by Josephine Trinidad-Borges
  • Patent number: 8925896
    Abstract: A positioner includes a modeling portion that, having input/output characteristics that model an electropneumatic converter, inputs a control signal from a control calculating portion to calculate an estimated value for an input air pressure that is inputted from the electropneumatic converter into a pilot relay, and a shift magnitude calculating portion that calculates a shift magnitude from the equilibrium state of the pilot relay, from the estimated value for the input air pressure, which is calculated by the modeling portion, and the output air pressure that is outputted from the pilot relay. The control calculating portion determines the control signal from an actual opening signal, an opening setting signal, and the shift magnitude from the equilibrium state of the pilot relay, and outputs it to the electropneumatic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nomiyama, Masaki Namikawa
  • Patent number: 8919094
    Abstract: A fuel metering system includes a bypass valve configured to receive a fuel flow under a pressure P1, a pressure regulating valve in fluid communication with the bypass valve and configured to receive a fuel flow under a pressure PQ, a metering valve in fluid communication with the bypass valve and the pressure regulating valve, and configured to receive the fuel flow under the pressure P1 and to output a fuel flow under a pressure P2, a single stage servo valve in fluid communication with the bypass valve, the pressure regulating valve and the metering valve, and configured to receive the fuel flow under the pressure P1, and to output the fuel flow under the pressure PQ, and to output a fuel flow under a pressure PM, and a linear variable differential transformer coupled to the metering valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Todd Haugsjaahabink
  • Patent number: 8857469
    Abstract: A water valve suitable for use with a bathtub has a housing, a control bolt, an angular positioning device, an upper ceramic plate, a lower ceramic plate and a valve base. The water valve is mounted onto a water supply unit of the bathtub and used for switching between different water outlet options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Geann Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsiang-Shih Wang
  • Patent number: 8833730
    Abstract: A cam control valve includes a valve casing having a fluid passage and valve seat, a valve disc seated on the valve seat to open and close the fluid passage, a valve stem holding down the valve disc so it contacts the valve seat, a cam acting on the valve stem to hold it down, a motor rotating the cam, a motor holder holding the motor, a supporting frame fixed to the valve casing and supporting the motor holder so it moves vertically, an elastic member biasing the motor holder towards spacing from an upper side portion of the supporting frame, and height adjustable screws suspending the motor holder from the supporting frame, and adjusting a height of the motor holder with respect to the supporting frame, wherein the height adjustable screws are slidably inserted into the upper side portion of the supporting frame and screwed into the motor holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Yohei Sawada, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda