Patents Examined by Kristina Fulton
  • Patent number: 9695936
    Abstract: A multilayer metal gasket (28) for establishing a seal between two mating members, such as between a cylinder head (22) and an engine block (24). The gasket assembly (28) includes a primary functional layer (30) having an embossed primary sealing bead (38). A primary stopper layer (52) bridges the convex embossed portion of the primary sealing bead and is fixed relative to the primary functional layer (30) by welding (54) or clinching. A secondary functional layer (44) is paired with the primary functional layer (30) and inverted relative thereto so that its secondary sealing bead (48) aligns with the primary sealing bead (38) and their respective concave depressions open toward one another, with the primary stopper layer (52) sandwiched therebetween. A compression limiter (50) may be carried on the functional layer (44) or alternatively a distance layer (364, 464).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Henne, Steven Honkala
  • Patent number: 9695616
    Abstract: An intelligent door lock system includes a drive shaft of a lock device and a circuit coupled to an engine with a memory. A vibration/tapping sensing device is configured to be coupled to the lock device to lock or unlock the door. A device converts energy into mechanical energy coupled to the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: August Home, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Johnson, Shih Yu Thomas Cheng
  • Patent number: 9695935
    Abstract: A sealing device that suppresses degradation of sealing properties resulting from conduction of heat generated by sliding of a resin-made sealing member and a rotating shaft to a rubber-made sealing member. The sealing device includes a rubber sealing member (110), a resin sealing member (120), a support ring (130), and a case (180), the support ring (130) has: a large diameter portion (131); an inward flange (135) that extends inwardly in a radial direction from an end portion of the large diameter portion (131) on an air side, and has a notch (135a) with which a nail portion (183) of the case is engaged; a small diameter portion (133) that is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of a lip portion (112) of the rubber sealing member (110); and a lip retaining portion (134).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Oiyama, Yusaku Nakazono, Yasuhisa Arita
  • Patent number: 9695614
    Abstract: A door outside handle mounted on a sliding door may include a grip assembly that slides to a front of a vehicle and unlocks a hold-open lock of the sliding door while sliding forward, and a blocking link that prevents the grip assembly from sliding forward by moving ahead of the grip assembly when a door latch is locked with closing of the sliding door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Ki Hwan Jeong
  • Patent number: 9689497
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a brush seal device capable of following displacement in a radial direction of a rotational shaft appropriately. The brush seal device prevents leakage of process fluid, wear of a brush seal etc., and leakage of process fluid from an outer circumferential side. The brush seal device 100 of the present invention integrally includes an inner circumferential brush seal 120 and an outer circumferential brush seal 140. The inner circumferential brush seal 120 has a brush portion 123 and an inner-circumferential-side free end portion 125 at the inner circumferential side. The outer circumferential brush seal 140 has a brush portion 143 and an outer-circumferential-side free end portion 145 at the outer circumferential side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9689183
    Abstract: A lid lock device includes: a housing fixed to a vehicle; a lock member assembled to the housing and movable between a lock position and a lock releasing position; a motor assembled to the housing and driving the lock member; a worm gear and a worm wheel assembled to the housing and engaged with each other to transmit power of the motor to the lock member; a wheel sidewall provided in the worm wheel, formed by bending a band plate in an arc or circular shape, having a gear portion engaged with the worm gear on the wheel sidewall, and having a gear rear side surface facing a center side of the worm wheel on the wheel sidewall; and a deformation restriction protrusion provided in the housing, the deformation restriction protrusion restricting movement toward the inside of the wheel sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshichika Ito, Toshihiro Kitamura, Takumi Niwa, Tatsuya Shimizu, Masayuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 9689431
    Abstract: A seal arrangement (1) of an anti-friction bearing, which seal arrangement (1) is inserted between a first bearing part (2) and a second bearing part (4). The seal arrangement includes a seal (6) which is positioned on the rotationally fixed first bearing part by a support element (15) which is enclosed at least on one side by an elastic seal material (16), and which seal (6) includes at least one sealing lip (25, 26). A thrower ring (7), forming a collection chamber (13), of the seal arrangement is assigned to the second rotatable bearing part. To this end, a cylindrical portion (9) of the thrower ring is snapped in an end-side circumferential groove (11) by a flange (5) of the second rotatable bearing part. A radial leg (12) of the thrower ring extends such that it maintains a sealing gap (14) to the seat. Moreover, the seal of the seal arrangement includes elastic sealing lips which are supported on the second bearing part such that they are offset with respect to the thrower ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Walter, Erwin Hartmann, Alexander Happ
  • Patent number: 9683662
    Abstract: The invention provides a sealing device having a sliding lip and a labyrinth lip, wherein the sealing device can inhibit the lip from being deformed as the lip even if the labyrinth lip is exposed to the foreign material in the machine outside and is swollen, thereby making the sliding lip protecting function hard to be lost. In order to achieve the object, in a sealing device having a sliding lip which seals so as to prevent foreign material in a machine outside from entering into a machine inside, and a labyrinth lip which makes the foreign material hard to reach the sliding lip, a notch portion for absorbing swelling of the labyrinth lip when the labyrinth lip is exposed to the foreign material and is swollen is provided in a leading end portion of the labyrinth lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Go Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 9683395
    Abstract: An advanced latch for a main door of an aircraft emergency oxygen container can be manually released by a manual release actuator pin to move the main door to an intermediate test position, while pushing the manual release actuator pin further releases the latch completely, causing the main door to open. The latch also can be operated automatically by utilizing a small, lightweight motor or an equivalent pneumatic actuator mechanism to rotate a gear mechanism of the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Girish Kshirsagar, Thomas McDonald, Dominic Nadukudiyil
  • Patent number: 9677304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lock having a lock housing (3, 4) together with a lock cover (2), a lock case (9), a locking mechanism which is mounted on the base surface of the lock case (9), and an activation device for opening the locking mechanism. An activation lever of the activation device is at least partially covered by a pivotable flap (5) of a lock covering means (2, 3). The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the flap together with a lock cover (2) by injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Kiekert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Bendel, Thomas Kippes, Dorothea Muller, Klaus Gotzen
  • Patent number: 9677303
    Abstract: An attachment structure for a door lock device includes (1) a rod provided at an outer side section, that is disposed such that a length direction of the rod is in the vehicle vertical direction, and that is coupled to a door outer handle to move vertically upon operation of the door outer handle; (2) a releasing section provided at an inner side section, that includes a joining section to which the rod is joined from the vehicle width direction outside, and that releases a locked state of the door lock device upon vertical movement of the rod; (3) a restricting section provided at the outer side section, and that restricts movement of the rod toward the vehicle width direction outside and in the vehicle front-rear direction; and (4) a guiding section provided at the releasing section, and that guides the rod into the joining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunori Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9677670
    Abstract: Sliding parts of a pair of annular bodies include sealing faces that relatively slide on each other. A reversed Rayleigh step mechanism serving as a negative pressure generation mechanism is provided in at least one of the sealing faces, and a negative pressure generation groove that forms the reversed Rayleigh step mechanism is provided in an arc shape along the circumferential direction of the sealing face so as to be isolated from a high pressure fluid side and a low pressure fluid side by a land section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Itadani, Kazumasa Sunagawa
  • Patent number: 9677669
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shaft seal device comprising: a seal body made by layering a plurality of thin-plate seal pieces in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and a housing that is fixed to the stator, holds the seal body so as to surround the same from radially outside, and includes a first facing surface that faces the high-pressure-side edge of the seal body and a second facing surface that faces the low-pressure-side edge of the seal body. The high-pressure-side clearance between the seal body and the first facing surface is smaller than the low-pressure-side clearance between the seal body and the second facing surface, and a slope part that slopes gradually toward the high-pressure side toward the tip end, which is on the rotor side, is formed in the low-pressure-side edge of each thin-plate seal piece of the seal body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Uehara, Shin Nishimoto, Tanehiro Shinohara, Hiroharu Oyama
  • Patent number: 9671024
    Abstract: A sealing system and a method of manufacturing such a sealing system. The sealing system comprises a seal lip of two different materials that are bonded together using a polymeric material that forms strong chemical bonds with the two different materials at the same time. Further since the bonding only takes place after activation, this enables a precise physical alignment to be done before the activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Alan Robert Begg
  • Patent number: 9671019
    Abstract: A piston ring having an outer running face, two flanks and an inner circumferential face is provided, the running face of which has profiling with a groove. The groove is arranged between two running face sections in relation to the cross section of the piston ring. The two running face sections are spaced apart from each other and substantially convexly curved and each have an apex. The groove has a periodically varying depth and a periodically varying width, and the number of periods of the course of the depth and the number of periods of the course of the width are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Mittler, Frank Nathem
  • Patent number: 9671023
    Abstract: A spacer and gasket assembly is shown for receipt between a static structure having a surface and fastener holes therethrough and a removable structure having a surface and fastener holes. The static structure and removable structure are engaged through a multiplicity of fasteners having a shaft diameter. The fasteners are adapted to apply a compression on the gasket between the static structure and the removable structure. The static structure and the removable structure have opposed, typically flat, facing surfaces. The spacer and gasket assembly comprising a substantially non-compressible spacer adapted for receipt between the static structure and the removable structure having a spacer thickness. A gasket has a sticky, deformable, flowable, elastomeric body and a skeleton having a skeleton thickness, the skeleton substantially integral with the body. The gasket has an uncompressed gasket thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Aviation Devices & Electronic Components, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Boyd, David Schmidt, Jeff Busby
  • Patent number: 9671022
    Abstract: The invention relates to known housing seals of two housing parts lying against each other, a first housing part (1) having a first sealing surface (6) and a second housing part (2) having a second sealing surface (7), which housing seals are equipped with a seal (15), which is inserted into a groove (10) in the first sealing surface (6) of the first housing part (1), wherein the groove (10) is covered by the second sealing surface (7) of the second housing part (2). According to the invention, in order to prevent crevice corrosion, the groove (10) has an opening (11) between the sealing surfaces (6, 7), which is used to ventilate the groove (10) having the inserted seal. The invention is intended for water pumps, in particular for auxiliary water pumps of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Lojowski, Christoph Klappenbach, Roland Schmidt, Claudius Muschelknautz, Klaus Eppel, Werner Decker, Christoph Heier, Joerg Wolf, Guenther Riehl, Norbert Knab, Benoit Monzie, Jerome Thiery
  • Patent number: 9664285
    Abstract: A flat seal having at least one single-piece sheet-metal seal layer is provided, which has at least one first layer region provided with at least one medium through opening and, outside the first layer region, at least one second layer region and, with the flat seal installation-ready, has a pre-determined outer contour, wherein the flat seal for the medium through opening has a medium-sealing device. In order to reduce the material requirement for manufacturing the seal layer, the seal layer is configured so that at least one sub-region of the second layer lying outside the medium-sealing device region of the seal layer is formed by a region of the sheet-metal layer that is stretched in the layer plane to achieve the pre-determined outer contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Kullen
  • Patent number: 9664059
    Abstract: A sealing device (1) is disclosed for sealing a radially inner gas channel (2) between a guide vane ring (4) and a rotor (6) of a turbomachine, wherein the sealing device (1) has a sealing ring (8) for forming a sealed space (10) with a rear segment with an inner wall structure (30) oriented in the opposite direction, which are joined to each other via an annular arch (32), wherein the radial flange (18) transitions into the outer wall structure (28) and the cylinder (26) forms the sealing ring (8), wherein the inner wall structure (30) transitions, via an annular web (36), into at least one inner body segment (38, 50), wherein the sealing device (1) has a uniform, preferably relatively reduced wall thickness over its individual segments integrally formed with one another, so that the sealing device (1) is resilient within certain limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Manfred Feldmann, Thomas Hess
  • Patent number: 9664281
    Abstract: A thermal spray coating for piston ring having excellent abrasion resistance, and capable of suppressing abrasion of the opposite member is provided. The thermal spray coating for piston ring according to the invention is a thermal spray coating for piston ring obtained by thermally spraying a powder composition on the outer peripheral sliding surface of a piston ring base material, and the powder composition contains molybdenum particles, nickel chromium alloy particles and chromium carbide particles, and the median diameter of the chromium carbide particles is 5 to 25 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKEN
    Inventors: Shuichi Kamura, Kazuhiko Hirota