Patents Examined by Mary A. Davis
  • Patent number: 11933305
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary compressor excellent in energy saving performance and reliability by improving sliding performance of a sliding portion and ensuring sealability in a working chamber. An oil groove is formed at a position facing a vane end face on an end plate. The oil groove communicates with an inside of a sealed container, and is exposed in a gap between a leading end surface of a vane and an outer peripheral surface of an annular piston formed when the leading end surface of the vane is in abutment on the outer peripheral surface of the annular piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuhei Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11927188
    Abstract: A gerotor device for a pump apparatus is disclosed. The gerotor device includes at least two gerotor stages that respectively include an inner rotor rotating during operation about an inner axis with teeth projecting radially outside, and an outer rotor rotating during operation about an outer axis radially offset relative to the inner axis with radially inner open tooth gaps, in which the teeth of the inner rotor engage. A rotor body rotating during operation about a rotor axis includes radially open tooth gaps of a first gerotor stage of the at least two gerotor stages and teeth projecting radially outside of a second gerotor stage of the at least two gerotor stages. The tooth gaps of the at least two gerotor stages are fluidically sealed at least one of against one another and relative to a surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Conrad, Torsten Klein
  • Patent number: 11913456
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes at least one cylinder in which a discharge guide groove is disposed at one side of a vane slot; a roller orbitably provided in the cylinder, and disposed with a hinge groove on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a vane in which one end portion thereof is rotatably inserted into the hinge groove of the roller, and the other end portion thereof is slidably inserted into the vane slot of the cylinder; and a plurality of bearing plates that seals both side surfaces of the cylinder, and at least one side of which is disposed with a discharge port to communicate with the discharge guide groove. The discharge port communicates with a refrigerant residual space defined between the vane slot and the discharge guide groove. Refrigerant in the refrigerant residual space may be discharged even after the roller passes through the discharge guide groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jingyu Lee, Sangmin Na
  • Patent number: 11905956
    Abstract: The application relates to an internal gear machine for reversing duty having a housing with a chamber, in the chamber there are disposed an externally toothed pinion and an internally toothed ring gear, which mesh with one another, the rotational axes of which run parallel to and spaced apart from one another. The chamber in the housing is axially bounded and is connected via pressure pockets provided in the housing to pressure connections in the internal gear machine. According to the invention, a switching valve is arranged in each connection between the pressure pockets and the pressure connections or compression spaces, which valve opens or closes the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HYDRAULIK NORD TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Pippes
  • Patent number: 11905952
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scroll-type positive displacement machine, in particular a scroll compressor, comprising a highpressure chamber (11), a low-pressure chamber (12), an orbiting displacement spiral (13), a counter spiral (14), and a counterpressure chamber (15) which is located between the low-pressure chamber (12) and the displacement spiral (13), the displacement spiral (13) engaging in the counter spiral (14) in such a way that, during operation, at least a first and a second compression chamber (16a, 16b) for receiving a working medium are temporarily formed, and the displacement spiral (13) having at least one passage opening (17) for fluidic connection to the counter-pressure chamber (15), wherein the passage opening (17) is located in the displacement spiral (13) in such a manner that, during operation, due to the orbiting movement of the displacement spiral (13), at least sections of the passage opening (17) are temporarily arranged in the first compression chamber (16a) and subsequently at le
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: OET GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Busch, Jochen Bont, Roman Lässer
  • Patent number: 11906060
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a drive mechanism, a compression mechanism, an introduction path to introduce a fluid into a compression chamber of the compression mechanism, and a backflow suppression mechanism. At least one of a first surface and a second surface of a valve body includes an annular first non-contact region that is formed in a predetermined range extending radially inward from an outer edge of the valve body and that does not come into contact with a corresponding valve seat, an annular second non-contact region that is formed in a predetermined range extending radially outward from the hole of the valve body and that does not come into contact with a corresponding valve seat, and a contact region that is formed between the first non-contact region and the second non-contact region and that comes into contact with a corresponding valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Inada, Daiki Kikutake, Yuuya Sunahara, Yuuya Sawada, Chihiro Endou
  • Patent number: 11885330
    Abstract: A lower end plate cover is provided with a bulging portion. In a circumferential direction of a rotary shaft, a plurality of bolt holes includes a first bolt hole arranged between a distal end portion and a proximal end portion of the lower discharge valve, a second bolt hole arranged in a position adjacent to the first bolt hole on a side close to a lower vane groove with respect to the first bolt hole, and a third bolt hole arranged in a position adjacent to the first bolt hole on a side away from the lower vane groove with respect to the first bolt hole. When the bulging portion is divided into a first bulging portion and a second bulging portion using a first straight line, the first bulging portion is larger than the second bulging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yasui, Kenshi Ueda, Naoto Tada
  • Patent number: 11885334
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary compressor excellent in energy saving performance and reliability by improving sliding performance of a sliding portion and ensuring sealability in a working chamber. An oil groove is formed at a position facing a vane end face on an end plate. The oil groove communicates with an inside of a sealed container, and is exposed in a gap between a leading end surface of a vane and an outer peripheral surface of an annular piston formed when the leading end surface of the vane is in abutment on the outer peripheral surface of the annular piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuhei Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11879458
    Abstract: A rotary piston compressor/pump/blower includes a housing spatially limiting a working chamber, an intake connection for guiding fluid into the working chamber, a pressure connection for guiding the fluid out of the working chamber, and a rotor assembly having a first rotor rotatably arranged in a first working sub-chamber and a second rotor cooperating with the first rotor and rotatably arranged in a second working sub-chamber. The rotary piston compressor/pump/blower also includes a ventilation channel, formed in the housing and connected to the working chamber via a ventilation channel opening, for the temporally limited introducing of air into the working chamber, wherein the ventilation channel opening is open at least in sections, in particular completely open, in a compression phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Gardner Denver Schopfheim GMBH
    Inventor: Dimitrij Sergey Kavun
  • Patent number: 11879461
    Abstract: An oil pump includes: a shaft member; an inner rotor configured to rotate integrally with the shaft member; an outer rotor forming a rotor chamber into which oil is sucked from a suction passage and from which the oil is discharged toward a discharge passage, between the inner rotor and the outer rotor; a body member having a recess-shaped housing chamber in which each rotor is housed so as to be rotatable about an axis; and a cover member attached so as to close the housing chamber. The rotor chamber has first and second suction ports through each of which the oil to be sucked from the suction passage passes. The oil pump includes a straightening member branching the suction passage from a main path to the first suction port side and the second suction port side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Sakai, Mitsuhiro Yoshimura, Jang Myong Hwan, Shoma Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11867179
    Abstract: The fluid transfer apparatus includes a rotor housing for forming a fluid compression space having the shape of an epitrochoid surface; a rotor eccentrically rotates inside the fluid compression space by being eccentrically coupled to a rotation shaft; and a rotor housing cover covering the fluid compression space of the rotor housing and including a rotation shaft penetration hole formed at the center of the cover, and a first cover fluid channel and second cover fluid channel are symmetrically formed on the opposite sides of each other with the rotation shaft penetration hole in the middle, wherein a plurality of rotor housing covers are arranged to be spaced apart from each other, one rotor housing is arranged between every two rotor housing covers, one rotor is arranged in the fluid compression space of each rotor housing, and each rotor is arranged to face a different direction from a neighboring rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yongkwon Koh, Jangsoon Kwon, Minhoon Baik, Jaekwang Lee
  • Patent number: 11859538
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes a first compression section includes a last blade trailing edge radial tip length that is greater than about 67% of the radial tip length of a leading edge of a first stage of the first compression section. A second compression section includes a last blade trailing edge radial tip length that is greater than about 57% of a radial tip length of a leading edge of a first stage of the first compression section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Frederick M. Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11846284
    Abstract: A sliding vane pump includes a fixed housing defining inlet and outlet ports and a sliding housing defining a cylindrical cavity and configured to slide within the fixed housing. The fixed housing and the sliding housing define a gap therebetween. A rotor is configured to rotate within the cylindrical cavity and has a plurality of vanes configured to seal against an inner circumferential wall of the cylindrical cavity to define a plurality of pumping chambers. A seal is located in the gap disposed between the fixed housing and the sliding housing to split the gap into first and second compensation chambers. The first chamber is fluidly connected to a first pumping chamber of the plurality of pumping chambers and the second chamber is connected to a second pumping chamber of the plurality of pumping chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dengfu Zhang, Akhter uz Zaman, Pablo Davilla, Mark Davis
  • Patent number: 11821427
    Abstract: A multi-stage vacuum pump comprising a stator defining multiple pumping chambers is discussed. The stator comprises a plurality of transfer channels for providing a fluid passage from an outlet port of one of the plurality of pumping chambers to an inlet port of a subsequent pumping chamber. Some of the transfer channels comprise two side channel sections on opposing sides of the stator. One of the transfer channels comprises a single side channel section on one side of the stator. The vacuum pump further comprises a gas ballast inlet channel arranged on an other side of the stator to the one side of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Alan Ernest Kinnaird Holbrook, David Bedwell
  • Patent number: 11821422
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll includes an orbiting volute wall. The orbiting volute wall is shaped to form an involute and to have a thickness. The orbiting volute wall includes a thin section in which the thickness is less than those in adjacent sections. The thin section includes a region corresponding to an involute angle that is obtained by subtracting 360° from a maximum of the involute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuya Hattori, Shiori Yamamoto, Takumi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11815104
    Abstract: An integrated water-cooling pump includes a main body, which includes a water block, a bottom plate, a water inlet, a water outlet, a cavity, a first inlet pipe, a fixed plate, a water nozzle, and a first sealing ring. The bottom plate is welded to a bottom of the water block. The bottom plate has an internal hollow structure. A bottom of an inner wall of the bottom plate is fixedly connected with heat sinks. An upper surface of the bottom plate is symmetrically provided with two water inlets. A middle of the upper surface of the bottom plate is provided with the water outlet. The water block is provided with the cavity inside near the bottom plate. The bottom plate is communicated with the cavity through two water inlets. The upper surface of the bottom plate is fixedly connected with a bottom of the first inlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huizhou Xunshuo Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ganglong Fan, Zhihui Chen
  • Patent number: 11815094
    Abstract: Rotary positive displacement machines based on trochoidal geometry that includes a helical rotor that undergoes planetary motion relative to a helical stator are described. The rotor can have a hypotrochoidal-based cross-sectional shape, with the corresponding stator cavity cross-sectional shape being the outer envelope of the rotor cross-sectional shape as it undergoes planetary motion, or the stator cavity can have an epitrochoidal-based cross-sectional shape with the corresponding rotor cross-sectional shape being the inner envelope of the stator cross-sectional shape as it undergoes planetary motion. Such machines can be configured so that the stator axis is spaced from the rotor axis, the rotor is configured to spin about its axis and the stator is configured to spin about its axis, and/or the rotor and the stator are held at a fixed eccentricity so that the rotor undergoes planetary motion relative to the stator, but does not orbit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rotoliptic Technologies Incorporated
    Inventors: Greg John Montie, Peter Thomas Christopher Suke, Adrian James Corless, Bryan Allen Callaway
  • Patent number: 11802558
    Abstract: Rotary positive displacement machines based on trochoidal geometry and including a helical rotor that undergoes planetary motion relative to a helical stator can be designed and configured so that the axial load or rotor pressure force is positive, negative, or neutral. In some embodiments, a change in axial load, caused by a change in differential pressure across the machine, can be used to trigger a change in a mechanical configuration of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Rotoliptic Technologies Incorporated
    Inventors: Greg John Montie, Peter Thomas Christopher Suke, Bryan Allen Callaway
  • Patent number: 11802576
    Abstract: A fan device includes a fan frame and a fan impeller. The fan frame includes a frame and a shaft seat. The shaft seat includes a shaft tube and a buffer. At least a part of the buffer is clamped between the shaft tube and the frame. The fan impeller is rotably disposed on the shaft tube of the shaft seat. An elastic coefficient of the buffer is larger than an elastic coefficient of the shaft tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: VAST GLORY ELECTRONICS & HARDWARE & PLASTIC (HUI ZHOU) LTD.
    Inventors: Jiasheng Lai, Shi Man Xu
  • Patent number: 11795948
    Abstract: A stacked gerotor pump is provided. The stacked gerotor pump includes a first gerotor pump defining a first inlet section and a first outlet section, a second gerotor pump defining a second inlet section and a second outlet section and a plate. The plate is interposed between the first and second gerotor pumps and defines upstream cavities respectively communicative with the first and second inlet sections, downstream cavities respectively communicative with the first and second outlet sections and a pre-pressurization hole by which the second outlet section is communicative with the first inlet section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward W. Goy, Zachary Allen Ray Le Duc