Patents Examined by Kelsey E Cary
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Patent number: 10415708Abstract: Disclosed herein are a cone valve and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein a cone which is installed inside a hollow body unit through which fluid flows, wherein the body unit is provided with left and right bodies, and the cone is disposed between the left and right bodies, left and right valve inclination surfaces are defined, inclined corresponding to an inclination surface of the cone, at the front ends of the left and right bodies, whereupon the cone can reciprocate forward and backward, thus opening or closing a flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Sang Jin Choi
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Patent number: 10415526Abstract: A valve is provided, in particular an injection valve, having a valve seat and a valve needle which extends along a closing direction for the most part, the valve seat having a valve-seat surface, and a valve-closing element is mounted on an end of the valve needle facing the valve seat, the valve-closing element being able to be moved between an open position and a closed position, and the valve-closing element together with the valve-seat surface forming a sealing seat in the closed position, the valve-closing element having a greater core hardness and/or surface hardness than the valve-seat surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Fatima Mutlu
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Patent number: 10408362Abstract: A flow control valve includes a valve body having an bore and a plurality of fluid ports in communication with the bore. A valve spool is axially slidably disposed in the valve body, and an end portion of an end of the valve spool has a convex curved surface. A linear actuator is disposed at one end of the valve body and includes an armature slidable along an axial direction of the valve spool. The armature includes a head portion having a convex curved surface configured to abut against the end portion of the valve spool. The engagement structure between the valve spool and the armature of the flow control valve is improved, which enables the valve spool and the armature to be automatically aligned. This reduces the precision requirement of contact between the valve spool and armature, which facilitates mass production and reduces cost of the valves.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Edward Earl King, David Hugo Barnett
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Patent number: 10400902Abstract: The cross-sectional shape of a valve hole is an elongated shape having a long axis and a short axis, and has left and right hole side walls that are parallel to each other, a first hole end wall that connects one ends of the left and right hole side walls, and a second hole end wall that connects the other ends of the left and right hole side walls, and the cross-sectional shape of land portions of a spool is an elongated shape having a long axis and a short axis, and has left and right land side walls that are parallel to each other, a first land end wall that connects one ends of the left and right land side walls, and a second land end wall that connects the other ends of the left and right land side walls.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Miyazoe, Kazuhiro Noguchi
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Patent number: 10400901Abstract: Valves with a removable central section for access to parts of the valve, the valve securable between corresponding ends of a line, e.g. a flowline, process fluid line, or pipeline; such valves which are ball valves; and methods to access parts of a valve and/or a line interior.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Inventors: Henry Barkley Salem, Larry Dean Ray
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Patent number: 10378677Abstract: A shaped memory alloy (SMA) valve assembly includes a plurality of SMA valves and a main printed circuit board carrying electronic components and conductors for operating the SMA valves. Each SMA valve includes a pressure chamber having a port. Each pressure chamber contains a valve element biased to a rest position in sealing abutment on a valve seat of the port, a SMA actuator, and an actuator printed circuit board for mounting and electrically connecting the SMA actuator. Each actuator printed circuit board portion is connected to the main printed circuit board portion by a bridge printed circuit board portion, and each pressure chamber has an opening to allow a respective bridge printed circuit board portion to extend therethrough. The opening is provided with a pocket filled with cured sealing glue to embed the bridge printed circuit board portion extending therethrough and to seal the opening of the pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: KONGSBERG AUTOMOTIVE SP. Z O. O.Inventors: Piotr Kuszneruk, Marcin Szrom, Krystof Malek, Tomasz Truszkowski
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Patent number: 10378658Abstract: Provided are a stop valve (100) and an air conditioner having the same. The stop valve (100) includes: a valve seat (1) defining a valve chamber (11) and a fitting chamber (12) in communication with the valve chamber (11), in which the fitting chamber (12) is located at a first end face of the valve chamber (11) and the valve chamber (11) is provided with two ports (112) in communication with the valve chamber (11); a lantern ring (2) fitted in one of the two ports (112); a valve disc (3) including a fitting part (31) and a stopping part (32) disposed to the fitting part (31), in which the fitting part (31) is threadedly fitted with the fitting chamber (12), the stopping part (32) is located in the valve chamber (11); and an elastic sealing member (4).Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: GD MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongfeng Xu, Langshui Huang, Tiegang Zhang, Weihong Luo, Shengsheng Liao
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Patent number: 10371267Abstract: A valve with a rotationally adjustable flow area can include a first member defining a first wall having a first opening therein, and a second member defining a second wall having a second opening therein, the first member being rotatable relative to the second member, and flow area through the valve being defined by fluidic communication between the first opening and the second opening that varies with relative rotational position between the first member and the second member.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: August M. Coretto, Peter M. Ballard, Aaron F. Rickis
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Patent number: 10371282Abstract: A valve includes a valve body defining a top end, a bottom end distal from the top end, and a shaft bore defined in the top end and the bottom end; a valve shaft positioned at least partially within the shaft bore of the valve body and defining an end bore; and a shaft blowout prevention fastener secured within the end bore of the valve shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Mueller International, LLCInventors: Purushottam Savalia, Ashraf Abouelleil, Julian Ramirez
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Patent number: 10371286Abstract: A valve assembly includes a valve body with an upstream inlet, a downstream outlet, and first and second valve elements located between them and engageable with and disengageable from first and second valve seats, respectively. The first valve seat has a diameter which is less than that of the second valve seat. An actuator is operable to engage and disengage the valve elements with the valve seats to close and open the valve assembly. The assembly is configured to provide a first flow path from the inlet to the outlet when the first valve element is disengaged from the first valve seat and to provide a second flow path from the inlet to the outlet when the second valve element is disengaged from the second valve seat. Upon operation of the actuator to open the valve, initially the first valve element disengages from the first valve seat to permit fluid flow through the first flow path in order to equalize upstream and downstream pressure on the second valve element.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Hawa Valves (India) Private LimitedInventor: Javed Anwar Hawa
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Patent number: 10344780Abstract: A pressure regulation servo-valve comprising a body having a utilization port, a feed port, and a return port, a spool mounted as a sliding fit in the body, the spool co-operating with the body to define a pilot chamber connected to the utilization port. The spool and the body together further define a priming chamber connected to the feed port via a second constriction and connected to the nozzle via a third constriction, and in which there exists a priming pressure acting on the spool in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMSInventors: Alain Briancon Marjollet, David Delloue
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Patent number: 10344884Abstract: A valve (1) comprising a first housing part (2) and a second housing part (3), the first housing part (2) and the second housing part (3) being made from a sheet metal material, and being joined by means of welding, preferably laser welding, to form a closed housing of the valve (1). An actuator (9) is arranged inside the housing for driving movements of a first valve member (7) and/or a second valve member (8), said actuator (9) being arranged directly in a flow of fluid flowing in the fluid flow path during operation of the valve (1). The valve (1) is hermetically sealed due to the welding of the housing parts (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Danfoss A/SInventors: Kurt Harck, Jens Pawlik, Sigurd Larsen
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Patent number: 10337644Abstract: According to some embodiments, an adjustable valve grip is presented. In an embodiment, the adjustable valve grip comprises a first portion and a second portion wherein the second portion is operatively connected to the first portion and wherein the first portion is dimensioned such a way that the first portion is capable of being snap-fit over a gas cylinder valve handle and wherein the second portion is dimensioned in such a way as to be capable of being adjusted through its operative connection to the first portion so that when the first portion has been snap fit over a gas cylinder valve handle a user can adjust the second portion to bring the second portion into firm contact with the gas cylinder valve handle, and wherein at least one of the first portion, or the second portion, or both are colored in such a way as to be easily visible to the human eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Inventors: Guy A Mouton, Samuel C. Rinaldo
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Patent number: 10337499Abstract: A self-installing offshore column stabilized semi-submersible platform has at least one vertical buoyant ballastable column, a telescoping keel tank or stiffened damper plate movably connected with the vertical column that extends and retracts relative to a lower end thereof, and a tilt and telescoping wind turbine tower assembly pivotally coupled to an upper end of the vertical column telescopes and reciprocates relative thereto between a horizontal retracted position and an axially extended vertical position. A wind turbine with blades is coupled to a top portion of the upper section of the tower assembly. The relative position and weight of the keel tank or damper plate is selectively adjustable to raise or lower the center of gravity of the entire mass of the semi-submersible platform including the wind turbine and tower assembly with respect to the center of buoyancy of the platform.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Inventor: Nagan Srinivasan
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Patent number: 10337625Abstract: A slide flow distributor to direct and modulate a gaseous fluid, in inlet and outlet. This regulation is carried out by means of a spool, which conveys compressed air in a determined charging direction and puts in communication the other chamber with the environment at the same time. This is a servo-actuator which can be used in the field of pneumatic systems of valve actuation. It has a specific pneumatic servo-actuating system using compressed air. This distributor uses a linear motor using a new pneumatic servo-actuator which generates a force in the same direction of the axial force of the motor, with the result that the spool is accelerated in a predetermined direction. The pneumatic servo-actuator is made of a profiled body, a plurality of balls and corresponding elastic means which press the plurality of balls on the side surface of the profiled body.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: STI S.R.L.Inventor: Flavio Tondolo
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Patent number: 10337623Abstract: Example tapered nut valve plug fastener apparatus disclosed herein include a valve stem, a first nut, a valve plug, and a second nut. The first nut includes a first tapered surface and the second nut includes a second tapered surface. The valve plug includes a bore. The first nut threadably engages the valve stem and the valve stem passes through the bore. The bore engages the first tapered surface. The second nut threadably engages the valve stem and the bore engages the second tapered surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL LLCInventor: Steven Hostetter
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Patent number: 10337638Abstract: The disclosure provides devices and methods for controlling the actuation rates of SPM valves by bi-directionally controlling the fluid which actuates the valve or by maintaining enclosed volumes which communicate with each other through predetermined restrictions as the valve actuates. These enclosed volumes can be completely isolated, depth compensated, share fluid with the pilot actuating fluid, or utilize the main system fluid. The restrictions can be modified to increase or decrease the actuation rates of the SPM valve. The disclosure also provides control over the main system fluid passage opening and closing positions as well as how rapidly the flow passage areas increase or decrease while opening or closing the valve.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.Inventors: James Ray Landrith, II, Frank B. Springett, Eric Trevor Ensley, Jonathan Lewis Buelow, James W. Weir, Travis James Miller
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Patent number: 10323757Abstract: Provided is a diaphragm valve in which seat leak occurrence is drastically decreased. A depression 14 is provided at a radially middle part of a top of the seat 11. A first seal portion 17 is provided between a diaphragm 6 and a radially inward part 15 of the top of the seat 11. A second seal portion 18 is provided between a diaphragm 6 and a radially outward part 16 of the top of the seat 11. An outer circumferential surface 14b of the depression 14 has a cylindrical surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Tomohiro Nakata, Tsutomu Shinohara, Michio Yamaji
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Patent number: 10302204Abstract: A multifunction valve includes a valve body defining an inlet, and outlet and an interior chamber. A flow control gate is disposed within the interior chamber and is rotatable through an arcuate range of positions relative to the outlet providing a high level of precision control of a fluid flow rate through the multifunction valve. A method of modulating a fluid flow rate includes directing fluid flow through a multifunction valve from an inlet to an outlet, the multifunction valve including a flow control gate, adjusting the flow rate through the multifunction valve by rotating a control shaft to position the flow control gate to variably occlude the outlet of the fluid control valve.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Maxitrol CompanyInventors: Mark Geoffrey Masen, Jason Sagovac
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Patent number: 10274105Abstract: A spool 220 is provided with a second land section 224 that blocks a portion between the spool 220 and the valve sleeve 210 at a position between the output port P21 and the lead-in port P22 when the spool 220 is located in a position for connecting the channel for input T1 and the channel for output T2 via the input port P10 and the output port P21 and blocking a channel leading from the channel for output T2 to the channel for discharge T3, and when the spool 220 is located in a position for connecting the channel for output T2 and the channel for discharge T3 via the lead-in port P22 and the discharge port P30 and blocking a channel leading from the channel for input T1 to the channel for output T2.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Okamoto, Satoshi Shimizu