Patents Examined by Kelsey E Cary
  • Patent number: 11525520
    Abstract: A port for use in introducing a fluid into an internal fluid chamber includes a plug bore, a valve disposed in the plug bore and a plug. The plug includes one or more seal grooves and a ring seal in each of the one or more seal grooves. The ring seal creates a seal between the plug and the plug bore. The port further includes a positive stop barrier that prevents the plug from being removed from the plug bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas ESP, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lee Marvel, Joseph Ashurst
  • Patent number: 11519519
    Abstract: A sleeve is provided inside a body configuring a channel selector valve, and first and second guide portions with which outer peripheries of first and second land portions of a valve body are in sliding contact are formed on one end side and the other end side of the sleeve. The first and second guide portions are formed to axially overlap with the first and second land portions so as to abut the first and second land portions at all times when the valve body axially moves. The valve body includes a plurality of communicating paths penetrating through the valve body in the axial direction, and, in the sleeve, a first space formed on one end side of the valve body and a second space formed on the other end side of the valve body communicate with each other via the communicating paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Oikawa, Yuta Soma, Ken Motohashi, Yuji Ito
  • Patent number: 11519497
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmission spool valve/valve body arrangement facilitating the manufacturing of the valve body chambers accommodating the spool valves. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure provides a valve body having a common datum from which machining for each valve cavity formed through a particular face of a valve body can be referenced. In particular embodiments of the disclosure, a spring biases a solenoid assembly for each valve against a datum (common or otherwise). In more particular embodiments of the disclosure, the spring biases the solenoid assembly in a direction opposite to the direction of actuation of the spool valve upon actuation of the solenoid assembly. The spring bias positively displaces the solenoid assembly to the datum for precision location of the solenoid relative to the various hydraulic ports of the respective valve chamber. A variety of spring clip arrangements are provided to index the solenoid to the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Allison Transmission, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth P. Dick, Doug S. Burchett, James A. Raszkowski, William S. Reed
  • Patent number: 11519517
    Abstract: The disclosed fluidic devices may include a valve chamber in a valve body, a fluid inlet into the valve chamber, a piston positioned within the valve chamber, a first fluid outlet for passing fluid out of the valve chamber when the piston is in a first position, a second fluid outlet for passing fluid out of the valve chamber when the piston is in a second position, a first piezoelectric actuator positioned and configured for moving the piston from the first position to the second position, and a second piezoelectric actuator positioned and configured for moving the piston from the second position to the first position. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Kathleen Virdone, Sabrina Sandoval, Riccardo DeSalvo
  • Patent number: 11506300
    Abstract: A servo valve comprises a first spool extending along a first spool axis, a second spool extending along a second spool axis, a first piezoelectric actuator, and a second piezoelectric actuator. The first piezoelectric actuator is operatively connected to the first spool for translating the first spool in response to a voltage applied thereto. The second piezoelectric actuator is operatively connected to the second spool for translating the second spool in response to a voltage applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zbigniew Jaskiewicz, Sebastian Szymanski
  • Patent number: 11493061
    Abstract: A control valve assembly for indirect pneumatic control and method for controlling a working fluid pressure, which enable precise, sensitive and speed-variable controlling. The assembly includes two valve units, a working fluid inlet, and a control fluid inlet. A working fluid channel connects the working fluid inlet through the two valve units to an outlet. A valve piston arranged within a valve cylinder of the valve units is movable between open and closed positions. A spring element biases the valve piston toward the closed position, and a control pressure chamber applies a control pressure counteracting the spring element's bias. When a control pressure is applied in the first chamber, the first valve piston is moved to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: J.D. Neuhaus Holding GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Piotr Krupnik, Simon Brose
  • Patent number: 11486575
    Abstract: According to one embodiment a gas tap is provided that includes a manually operable shaft having a first end coupled to a regulating element and a second end configured to be coupled to a knob that can be operated by a user. The shaft includes a first locking element, and the gas tap includes a second locking element. The shaft is rotational between an initial angular position and a final angular position, and is axially movable when it is arranged in the initial angular position between a first axial position in which the first locking element and the second locking element cooperate with one another, preventing the shaft from being able to rotate, and a second axial position in which the shaft is able to rotate. The user has to pull on the shaft in order to move it from the first axial position to the second axial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: COPRECI, S.COOP.
    Inventors: Jose Octavio Sanchez Rodriguez, Maider Sarriegi Galparsoro
  • Patent number: 11486376
    Abstract: A capacity control valve (1) includes a valve main body (10) having a first communication passage (11), a second communication passage (12), a third communication passage (13), and a main valve seat (15a), a valve element (20) having an intermediate communication passage (29), a main valve portion (21c), and an auxiliary valve portion (23d), a solenoid (30) that drives a rod (36) having an auxiliary valve seat (26c), and a first biasing member (43) that biases in the valve closing direction of the main valve portion (21c). The rod (36) is relatively moved with respect to the valve element (20) so as to open and close the auxiliary valve portion. The capacity control valve can efficiently discharge a liquid coolant irrespective of pressure of a suction chamber and lower drive force of a compressor at a liquid coolant discharging operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayama, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Keigo Shirafuji, Kohei Fukudome, Takahiro Ejima, Daichi Kurihara, Wataru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11486510
    Abstract: A valve box for accessing a utility valve, the valve box having a box housing with an inner surface and an outer surface. The outer surface may have a plurality of fins, and the inner surface may have a plurality of keyways configured to receive a plurality of keys. The inner surface may additionally have threading. The box housing may have an access opening in some embodiments, and the valve box may include a threaded valve box cover configured to be arranged over the access opening. In some embodiments, the box housing may have a plurality of modular rings. A valve box tool may have a driving portion, a valve box engaging portion, and a stem portion. The valve box engaging portion may have a plurality of keys configured to engage the plurality of keyways. The stem portion may be configured to extend between the driving portion and a valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Torqbuddy LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Karl Backlund
  • Patent number: 11484696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clamp (1), which is such that the clamp (1) can accommodate a fluid-carrying duct (L), that the clamp (1) in a resting state can compress the accommodated fluid-carrying channel (L), and that in a working state the clamp (1) can accommodate the fluid-carrying channel (L) so that the fluid-carrying channel (L) is not compressed, wherein the clamp (1) has a first permanent magnet (M1) and a second permanent magnet (M2), the permanent magnets (M1, M2) being arranged at a distance from one another, such that the permanent magnets (M1, M2) can be rotated at least about an angle relative to one another, the relative rotation of the permanent magnets (M1, M2) to one another resulting in a reduction in the distance (d), the resting state being made available at a first angle and the working state being made available at a second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Nicolas Beisser, Arne Peters, Alexander Heide, Gerome Fischer
  • Patent number: 11480200
    Abstract: An example valve includes: (i) a valve body comprising a supply port and an operating port; (ii) a sleeve comprising a first opening fluidly coupled to the supply port, a second opening fluidly coupled to the operating port, and a seat; (in) a spool configured to move axially within the sleeve, wherein the spool is configured to he seated on the seat of the sleeve when the valve is unactuated, and wherein when the valve is actuated, the spool moves such that a gap is formed at the seat; and (iv) a flow restriction disposed downstream of the gap, wherein when the valve is actuated, fluid is allowed to flow from the supply port through the first opening and the gap and through die flow? restriction prior to flowing through the second opening to the operating port, such that the flow restriction generates an increased pressure level at the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Slattery, Bipin Kashid
  • Patent number: 11466782
    Abstract: A butterfly valve has a rod connected to a DD motor and disposed along a direction orthogonal to a flow path, and a butterfly valve body that is linked to the rod and that opens and closes the flow path due to the rod being rotated by the DD motor, wherein a linking body center of gravity, which is the center of gravity of a rotating liking body having at least the rod and the butterfly valve body as constituent members, is positioned on an axial line of a rotating shaft of the DD motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasunori Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11454328
    Abstract: A safe, economical, lightweight, ergonomic, and easy to use improved hand valve capable of handling high pressures with either air or liquid media for use in industrial environments. The industrial high pressure hand valve is of the type similar to a floating ball check valve, but with a unique way of achieving the sealing engagement that provides a completely positive shutoff so that absolutely no leakage of the air or liquid media occurs whether operated at high or low pressures. The industrial high pressure hand valve is comprised of a valve body, an ergonomic handle grip, a live swivel, a hose barb, and a nozzle for either air or liquid media. The industrial high pressure hand valve is designed in such a way that other accessory components, such as extended nozzles, can be threadably connected thereto. A handle connected to the valve body controls the flow of the media and when released provides an automatic and completely positive shutoff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Bertrem, Kyle Wayne Rarick
  • Patent number: 11454257
    Abstract: The invention relates to a servovalve for regulating the flow or pressure of a fluid, comprising: a control stage comprising at least one permanent magnet, at least one coil and an armature (13) configured to be able to be driven in rotation around an axial direction; a power stage comprising a filler plate (23) and a drum (22) mounted rotatably in said filler plate (23); a slender mechanical transmission shaft (31) extending along said axial direction and having a first end (31a) connected to said armature (13) and an opposite end (31b) connected to said drum (22); characterized in that said control stage further comprises a slender torsionally flexible tube (32) extending along the axial direction (8) around said slender transmission shaft (31) and having a first end (32a) secured with said armature (13), shrunk onto said first end (31a) of said transmission shaft (31), and an opposite end (32b) clamped by a tube support (33) extending as far as said filler plate (23), so as to form a flexible mobile assemb
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FLUID ACTUATION & CONTROL TOULOUSE
    Inventor: Guylain Ozzello
  • Patent number: 11454332
    Abstract: An actuator for a magnet valve, the actuator including a housing including a terminal wall including an opening; and an armature arranged in the housing and movable in an axial linear manner between a first end position and a second end position, wherein the opening is closed by a terminal cover, wherein the terminal cover includes a contour that protrudes at least in a direction towards the armature, and wherein the contour includes a first section that defines the second end position of the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Jacob
  • Patent number: 11448323
    Abstract: A rotary valve includes a valve body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid flow path connecting the inlet and the outlet, and a valve shaft is disposed in the valve body. A control element includes a first side, a second side, and defines a pivot axis. The control element operatively connected to the valve shaft, disposed in the fluid flow path, and is rotatable by the valve shaft about the pivot axis between an open position, in which the control element permits fluid flow between the inlet and the outlet, and a closed position, in which the control element limits flow between the inlet and the outlet of the valve body. A portion of the control element includes a lattice structure including a plurality of connected lattice members. The lattice structure defines one or more channels extending across the first side of the control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL LLC
    Inventor: Timothy A. McMahon
  • Patent number: 11428331
    Abstract: A first flow path area at a position where one of multiple openings of a sleeve and one of multiple grooves of a spool overlap with each other is different in size from a second flow path area at a position where another one of the openings of the sleeve and another one of the grooves of the spool overlap with each other. The one opening and the one groove form a flow path for connecting one of one pressure chamber and the other pressure chamber to a fluid supply source, due to displacement of the spool. The other opening and the other groove form a flow path for connecting another one of the other pressure chamber and the one pressure chamber to a fluid discharge port, due to the displacement of the spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Yajima, Masayuki Ishikawa, Satoru Ito, Gen Tsuchiya, Takehiko Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 11408520
    Abstract: A notch 41, which is formed on a land 31 that, in a main spool 30, blocks a reach-in side actuator port A from communicating with a second passage T, comprises a first notch and a second notch. The first notch comprises a first region that has a semi-circular shape in the plan view and in which the area of an opening between a valve body 40 and the land 31 becomes gradually larger, and a second region that is connected to the first region and in which the area of an opening between the valve body 40 and the land 31 is constant, and the second notch comprises a third region that has a semi-circular shape in the plan view and in which the area of the opening between the valve body 40 and the land 31 gradually becomes larger, and a fourth region that is connected to the third region and in which the area of the opening between the valve body 40 and the land 31 is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Igaki
  • Patent number: 11408515
    Abstract: A pressure regulator including: a housing including an inlet flow passage and an outlet flow passage; a plunger reciprocally mounted in the housing and including a plunger flow passage; an inlet to the plunger flow passage, wherein the inlet is aligned with a plane oblique to an axis of the plunger flow passage; and a valve seat fixed to the housing and positioned between the inlet flow passage and the inlet to the flow passage of the plunger, wherein the valve seat is configured to receive and abut the inlet to the flow passage of the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Nelson Irrigation Corporation
    Inventors: Riley D. Greenwood, Craig Nelson
  • Patent number: 11391459
    Abstract: A regulating valve with at least one gas outlet conduit and a housing having at least one outlet hole in fluid communication with the outlet conduit; a rotating disc arranged in the housing; a spring axially retaining the rotating disc in the housing; and sealing means surrounding the at least one outlet hole. The sealing means includes a gasket having a closure member associated with each outlet hole, surrounding the same, and at least one attachment arm attached to the at least one closure member. The attachment arm including at least one protuberance, with the rotating disc being supported on the closure members and on the protuberances when it presses on the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: COPRECI, S.COOP.
    Inventors: Imanol Arriola-Bengoa Unzueta, Félix Querejeta Andueza, Iñaki Ayastuy Aretxaga