Patents Examined by Mary A. Davis
  • Patent number: 11280334
    Abstract: A fluid delivery system having at least one fluid storage device and a pump with at least one fluid driver with a flow-through shaft that has a through-passage. The pump includes a casing, and at least one fluid driver having a prime mover and at least one fluid displacement member. A shaft of the prime mover and/or a shaft of the fluid displacement member and/or a common shaft of the prime mover/fluid displacement member (depending on the configuration of the pump) is a flow-through shaft with a through-passage configuration that allows fluid communication between at least one port of the pump and the at least one fluid storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PROJECT PHOENIX, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Afshari
  • Patent number: 11280337
    Abstract: Disclosed is a crank shaft, including a central rotation shaft, a first eccentric component, a second eccentric component, a disc partition plate and an annular partition plate, wherein the disc partition plate is disposed between the first eccentric component and the second eccentric component, and is integrally formed with the central rotation shaft, and the annular partition plate is sleeved outside the disc partition plate. The crank shaft can prevent the occurrence of leakage between the partition plate and a roller while increasing an eccentricity of the crank shaft and improving operating performances of a compressor. Further disclosed are a pump body assembly having the crank shaft and a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: GREEN REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER OF ZHUHAI GREE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peizhen Que, Yanjun Hu, Ouxiang Yang, Yuanbin Zhai, Liu Xiang, Jianfeng Huang
  • Patent number: 11280336
    Abstract: A rotary pump, the rotational direction of which can preferably be switched, featuring: a housing including a pump space featuring an inlet into a low-pressure region of the pump space for a fluid to be pumped and an outlet from a high-pressure region of the pump space for the fluid to be pumped; at least one rotor which forms delivery cells in the pump space; a bearing; and a sealing stay which axially faces the at least one rotor and separates the low-pressure region from the high-pressure region in the rotational direction of the at least one rotor; and featuring at least one lubricant feed, in the sealing stay, which feeds a fluid, as a lubricant, from at least one of the delivery cells to the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GMbH
    Inventors: Michael Ehringer, Gerd Jäggle, Sven Peters, Holger Braasch, Winfried Baur
  • Patent number: 11280402
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuously variable transmission and a transmission system comprising said continuously variable transmission, wherein the continuously variable transmission comprises a first gear pump and a second gear pump, wherein each gear pump comprises a first gear and a second gear meshing with the first gear over an overlap distance in an overlap direction parallel to the first gear axis, wherein each gear pump further comprises an adjustment member for adjusting the pump volume, wherein the adjustment member of the first gear pump and the adjustment member of the second gear pump are interconnected by a connecting member for adjusting the pump volume of the first gear pump and the pump volume of the second gear pump in an inverse correlation to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HCVTRANSMISSION B.V.
    Inventor: Petrus Johannes Buijsman
  • Patent number: 11268384
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary sliding vane machine (1) for fluid processing, comprising a housing (2) with a cavity (4) with a rotor (9). Vanes (12) are arranged in outwardly directed slots (13) in the rotor (9), and relative sliding between the vanes and the rotor provides spaces with variable volumes in the rotational direction. Each vane is supported by a vane bearing apparatus (102) comprising a slide bearing body (105) with a slot (13) forming a slide bearing for the vane (12), and a cylindrical convex face (116) facing away from the slot (13), and, on each side of the slot (13), a pivot bearing pad (106) with a cylindrical concave face (117) facing the slide bearing convex face (116), forming a pivot bearing for the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOCIRCLE INDUSTRIES AS
    Inventor: Arne Høeg
  • Patent number: 11261733
    Abstract: A four-stroke rotary-piston engine has an outer disk, and inner disk, at least one cylinder, at least one piston, at least one piston rod, a fixed gear engaged with a planet gear and a rotary gate valve positioned at a head of the cylinder. The inner disk is rotatable with respect to the outer disk by a compression control device. The planet gear rotates a crank situated on a shaft thereof. The shaft passes upwardly through the inner disk. The crank reciprocates a lever via the piston rod. The lever has an end pivoted on the outer disk so as to push the piston into and out of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Bülent Pulat Evirgen, Bilge Dreysel
  • Patent number: 11261868
    Abstract: A vane type gas pump for a compressible fluid. The vane-type gas pump includes a pump housing which forms a pump chamber in which a pump rotor with at least one slidable sliding element is rotatably mounted. At least one fluid inlet opening and at least one elongated fluid outlet opening are dedicated to the pump chamber. The at least one slidable sliding element has a tangential width. The at least one elongated fluid outlet opening has a tangential width. The tangential width of the at least one slidable sliding element at least corresponds to the tangential width of the at least one elongated fluid outlet opening so that the at least one slidable sliding element temporarily completely covers the at least one elongated fluid outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Steffen Schnurr, Sebastian Cramer, Nabil Salim Al-Hasan, Stanislaus Russ, Tobias Gruene
  • Patent number: 11261864
    Abstract: Scroll compressor includes a shaft rotatably supported to a casing; an eccentric bush having a recess part into which one end portion of the shaft is inserted, an eccentric part eccentric to the shaft, and a balance weight disposed at the opposite side of the eccentric part with respect to the recess part; an orbiting scroll for performing the orbiting motion in interlock with the eccentric part; and a fixed scroll for forming a compression chamber together with the orbiting scroll. The casing has an orbiting groove in which the eccentric bush performs the orbiting motion, a buffer member is interposed between the orbiting groove and the balance weight. Rotation clearance is formed between the recess part and the shaft. The buffer member is compressed between the balance weight and the orbiting groove before the recess part and the shaft contact each other by the rotation clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Chi Myeong Moon, Chang Eon Park, In Cheol Shin, Hyun Seong Ahn, Kweon Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 11248602
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device having a forepump and a main pump fluidically connected to the forepump, wherein the forepump can be driven via a forepump input shaft and the main pump can be driven via a main pump input shaft. According to the invention, the forepump has a forepump drive gear coupled to the forepump input shaft and a forepump delivery gear interacting with the forepump drive gear to deliver the fluid, wherein the forepump and the main pump are drivingly coupled to a common drive shaft, and wherein the forepump delivery gear and the main pump input shaft are connected to one another via a connecting shaft such that the forepump input shaft is coupled directly to the drive shaft and the main pump input shaft is coupled to the drive shaft via the connecting shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ECKERLE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Reinhard Pippes
  • Patent number: 11242852
    Abstract: An automobile vehicle variable displacement pump includes a pump body having a pump shaft extending through the pump body. A rotor is connected to the pump shaft and co-rotates with the pump shaft. The rotor has multiple radially outwardly directed slots. A vane support ring supports multiple vanes, the vanes individually slidably received in one of the slots of the rotor. A slide is rotatably connected to the pump body having the rotor and the vane support ring positioned within an inner wall of the slide. A bow spring plate defining a biasing member directly contacts the slide to bias the slide to rotate about an arc of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Andy Bennett, Sr., Sean McGowan
  • Patent number: 11242853
    Abstract: A pump as provided includes an inlet, an outlet, and a scroll pumping element. The scroll pumping element includes a fixed scroll component having one or more fixed scrolls and orbiting scroll component having one or more orbiting scrolls for fluid pumping. The fixed scroll component and the orbiting scroll component are arranged so as to be capable of providing pressurized fluid to a thrust bearing and prevent contact between the fixed scroll component and the orbiting scroll component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TIAX LLC
    Inventor: John Dieckmann
  • Patent number: 11215177
    Abstract: A vane cell pump comprises a contour ring having an inner peripheral face and a rotatable rotor which has a plurality of conveying elements displaceable radially relative to a rotation axis. The inner peripheral face includes a plurality of pump portions each constructed with an intake region and a pressure region which are passed through by the conveying elements during rotation of the rotor. A narrow location at which the conveying elements are displaced radially inward toward the rotation axis to a greatest extent, is located between a pressure region and a subsequent intake region. By applying a part-stroke, an auxiliary start contour which is arranged between the rotation axis and the inner peripheral face radially inside the conveying elements in the region of at least one pump portion displaces the conveying elements to the greatest extent radially inwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS EFP DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Borchers, Thomas Dippel
  • Patent number: 11204033
    Abstract: An oil pump includes a hollow rotor having an inner peripheral portion defining a space inside of the inner peripheral portion. A first one-way clutch configured to transmit the motive power input from an engine side, to the rotor only in one direction, and a second one-way clutch configured to transmit the motive power input from an electric motor side, to the rotor only in the one direction are arranged inside of the inner peripheral portion of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawai, Takahide Saito
  • Patent number: 11199093
    Abstract: An arc turbine system includes an elliptical housing, a rotor having two sliding channels positioned centrically to the housing, and two sliding arcs disposed within the rotor sliding channels and slide therein. The sliding arcs are engaging the housing simultaneously at both ends in a near friction-free environment supported by repulsion force of like-pole magnets. Four chambers disposed within two static chambers between the rotor and the long-axis of said housing, the two static chambers further include proper inlet and outlet ports configured to allow fluid and gas flow into and flow out of the static chambers. The system configured in two distinct settings for two distinct uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Jerry Iraj Yadegar
  • Patent number: 11193490
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a balancer that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft. A bushing includes a cylindrical portion and an auxiliary weight portion. The auxiliary weight portion is arranged on the outer side of the cylindrical portion. The fitting hole is provided at a position where a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the movable scroll due to rotation of the rotary shaft and a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the auxiliary weight portion due to rotation of the rotary shaft are in the opposite directions. As viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft, the center of gravity of the bushing is located on the same side of a straight line including the center of the cylindrical portion and the center of the rotary shaft as the center of the eccentric shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kuma, Kazuo Murakami, Masashi Wakui
  • Patent number: 11187227
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bi-helical toothed wheel (1) with non-encapsulating profile for a hydraulic gear apparatus, of the type bound to a support shaft (5) to form a driving or driven wheel of the hydraulic apparatus and comprising a plurality of teeth (6) extended with variable helix angle with continuous function in the longitudinal direction, wherein the teeth profile keeps a shape continuity in each cross section thereof. More particularly, each tooth of the toothed wheel is longitudinally split in three zones: initial (A), central (B) and terminal (C) zones, and the central zone (B) has a variable helix angle, while the initial (A) and terminal (c) zones have a constant helix angle. The invention allows to manufacture contra-rotating rotors, having a non-encapsulating profile and a helix shape such as to suppress the angular point at the center of the rotors themselves and therefore all the problems related to their machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SETTIMA MECCANICA S.R.L.
    Inventor: Manuele Rossi
  • Patent number: 11187228
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid pumping device, including a first component, a second component and a third component, wherein the second component moves relative to the first component in a fixed manner; a medium inlet and a medium outlet not in communication with each other are provided in a contact surface of the first component in liquid tightness sliding fit with the second component; a groove is provided in a contact surface of the second component in liquid tightness sliding fit, and the groove moves along a fixed path in the range of the contact surface in liquid tightness sliding fit; and the movement path of the groove respectively passes the medium inlet, the medium outlet and the third component, the third component is arranged on the side of the medium outlet in the forward movement direction of the groove, and when the groove moves forward through the third component, the part of the third component entering the groove extrudes the medium in the groove to the medium outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventor: Yuyang Shi
  • Patent number: 11174865
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor includes a casing, a cylinder in the casing, a first bearing and a second bearing defining a compression space together with the cylinder, a roller located at an eccentric position with respect to an inner surface of the cylinder and configured to vary a volume of the compression space, and a vane inserted into the roller to rotate together with the roller, and drawn out toward the inner surface of the cylinder to divide the compression space into compression chambers. An inlet port in communication with the compression space is defined in the first bearing, and an intermediate plate is located between the cylinder and the inlet port and defines a suction passage connected to the inlet port, where a peripheral length of an inner peripheral surface of the suction passage is greater than a peripheral length of an outer peripheral surface of the suction passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seokhwan Moon, Seoungmin Kang, Jinung Shin
  • Patent number: 11168683
    Abstract: A pressure balancing system for a pump. In one example, the pressure balancing system has: a housing; a first rotor a first shaft, a first face surface; a second rotor, a second face surface adjacent the first face surface of the first rotor; the face of the first rotor, the face of the second rotor, and an inner surface of the housing forming at least one working fluid chamber; an annular ring fitted around a shaft, adjacent a first pressure chamber having a fluid connection through the housing; the annular ring configured to bias the first rotor toward the second rotor when fluid is supplied under pressure to the first pressure chamber; a fluid conduit is configured to convey fluid to a pressure chamber between the housing and the annular ring to bias the annular ring thus biasing the first rotor toward the second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Exponential Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristjan Gottfried, Erik Farrell, Michael Sereda-Mohr
  • Patent number: 11168691
    Abstract: A rotary vacuum pump includes a housing defining a pump chamber therein and a rotor extending through a first axial end panel into the pump chamber and carrying at least one vane for rotary movement of the vane within the pump chamber. The rotor comprises an annular axial end face configured to seal against a corresponding contact surface of a second axial end panel. An annular groove for reducing noise generation of the rotary vacuum pump during operation is formed at the annular axial end face of the rotor and/or the contact surface of the second axial end panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventors: David Heaps, Phillip Saxton, Peter Todman