Patents Examined by Matthew Wiblin
  • Patent number: 11661960
    Abstract: A pressure-booster output stabilizer includes: a first cylinder having therein a first chamber and a second chamber separated by a first piston; a second cylinder having therein a third chamber and a fourth chamber separated by a second piston; and a piston rod configured to couple the first piston and the second piston. The primary pressure of a pressure booster is supplied to the first chamber, the secondary pressure of the pressure booster is supplied to the fourth chamber, and the pressurized fluid is taken out from the fourth chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Kazufumi Waki
  • Patent number: 11661959
    Abstract: A pressure booster includes a pressure boosting unit and a bypass unit. The pressure boosting unit includes an input port connected to the side of a fluid supply source and an output port connected to the side of a tank. The pressure boosting unit boosts the pressure of a pressurized fluid supplied to the input port and outputs the pressure-boosted pressurized fluid from the output port. The bypass unit includes a bypass flow path having one end connected to the fluid supply source side and the other end connected to the output port side. The bypass flow path is provided with a bypass check valve configured to block the flow of the pressurized fluid from the output port side to the fluid supply source side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Kengo Monden
  • Patent number: 11649812
    Abstract: The hydraulic piston with a depressurized groove is capable of translating in a cylinder and includes a fixed skirt, an axial compression face which forms with the cylinder a fluid chamber, and an axial working face which cooperates with a transmission; the piston also includes a seal, a depressurized radial groove emerging onto the surface of the fixed skirt, an axial decompression duct fitted inside the skirt which emerges in the vicinity of the axial working face, and a radial decompression duct which depressurizes the radial groove in communication with the axial decompression conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Vianney Rabhi
  • Patent number: 11639730
    Abstract: A device for the deaeration of a hydraulic fluid of a hydraulic system has at least one hydraulic motor arrangement and a hydraulic fluid storage which is hydraulically coupled with this hydraulic motor arrangement. A suction device for sucking out the hydraulic fluid is associated with the at least one hydraulic motor arrangement such that the suction device guides hydraulic fluid out of the hydraulic motor arrangement into the hydraulic fluid storage by means of vacuum pressure (?p). The suction device is constructed as a jet pump and is integrated in the return line between the hydraulic motor arrangement and hydraulic fluid storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: CLAAS Material Handling GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Dueckinghaus, Christian Ostfechtel, Markus Wiefel
  • Patent number: 11629034
    Abstract: A crane telescope locking device includes a control device which is hydraulically in contact with a telescoping cylinder of a crane telescope and, for the purpose of actuating, with at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder and includes a valve which is open in its inactivated resting state and thus opens a fluidic connection between the telescoping cylinder and the at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder. A telescoping cylinder (6) of a crane includes such a crane telescope locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MANITOWOC CRANE GROUP FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Heidrich, Hasko Karge, Johannes Schuermann
  • Patent number: 11629736
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for an agricultural system includes a hydraulic circuit and a bi-directional filter disposed on a bi-directional fluid line of the hydraulic circuit. The bi-directional filter includes a check valve fluid line having a check valve configured to block a fluid from flowing through the check valve fluid line in a first direction and to enable the fluid to flow through the check valve fluid line in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and a filter fluid line having a filter configured to enable the fluid to flow through the filter fluid line in the first direction and the second direction. The filter is configured to block particles that are greater than a threshold size from passing through the filter fluid line, and the filter fluid line is in a parallel flow configuration with respect to the check valve fluid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Heath A. Toennies
  • Patent number: 11624379
    Abstract: The hydraulic braking or steering system of a vehicle driven by a hydraulic motor is provided with a secondary supply of hydraulic pressure in the event of failure of the primary supply to the system. The secondary supply is generated by the hydraulic motor when ground-driven by the momentum of the moving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Niall Mc Namee, William Christopher Swick
  • Patent number: 11619246
    Abstract: Fail-fixed hydraulic actuator systems for aircraft include a hydraulic actuator having a piston in a housing. The piston separates the housing into a retract cavity and an extend cavity. A sleeve is moveably arranged within the housing and includes a sleeve aperture that is aligned with a piston head during normal operation. A driving mechanism is configured to drive movement of the sleeve to maintain alignment between the sleeve aperture and the piston head. A low pressure cavity is defined between an interior surface of the housing and the sleeve and, when the piston head is offset from the sleeve aperture, the low pressure cavity is hydraulically connected to one of the retract cavity or the extend cavity to cause a pressure differential with the other of the extend cavity and the retract cavity and cause movement of the piston head to align with the sleeve aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Morgan O'Rorke
  • Patent number: 11603829
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hydrostatic axial piston machine having a pulse reduction device. This device has a connection location or tap in the transition region in front of the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole of a distributor plate. The connection location or tap is connected by means of one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a high-pressure store. It is used for precompression and consequently for the pulse reduction. In a development, the distributor plate also has a connection location or tap in the transition region behind the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole. The connection location or tap is connected via one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a low-pressure store. This is used for the decompression and consequently also for the pulse reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11598172
    Abstract: A rotating head assembly includes a body, an implement, a clamp assembly, a drive member, a hydraulic motor, and a bypass circuit. The drive member is threadingly connected to a first clamp member and a second clamp member. The hydraulic motor is connected to the drive member to cause the drive member to rotate in a selected direction. An inlet of the bypass circuit is in fluid communication with an inlet of the hydraulic motor to receive a portion of the pressurized hydraulic fluid passing to the hydraulic motor. An outlet of the bypass circuit is in fluid communication with the outlet of the hydraulic motor. At least one bypass valve is interposed between the inlet of the bypass circuit and the outlet of the bypass circuit. The bypass valve has an actuator positioned adjacent one of the first clamp member and the second clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The SydCo System, Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler Whitehead
  • Patent number: 11592040
    Abstract: A compressed-air treatment system and operating method are disclosed. The compressed-air treatment system has a first valve unit configured to charge a control line for a compressor with pressure and a pressure regulator valve unit configured to release pressure from a feed line, A control port of the pressure regulator valve unit is connectable to a second valve unit. A regeneration line which has a check valve for regeneration and which is utilized for a regeneration of a dryer cartridge is connected directly to the control line. During a filling operation the compressed-air treatment system is configured to release leakage air of the regeneration check valve via the first valve unit to surroundings. The filling operation is an operating state in which the compressor is activated to perform a supply of compressed air to a vehicle compressed-air system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Ferenc Zeman
  • Patent number: 11585439
    Abstract: An edge-welded bellows, including a plurality of diaphragms and a guide part for guiding on the outer surface of a rod extending through an inner through-opening of the bellows or for guiding on the inner surface of a tube surrounding the bellows. The guide part has a retaining fin, which, at the edge thereof, lies between the edges of adjacent diaphragms and is welded thereto, and a guide sleeve, which surrounds the longitudinal central axis and has a guide surface for guiding the bellows on the outer surface of the rod or the inner surface of the tube. The guide sleeve has a wall thickness that is more than three times that of the retaining fin. The guide sleeve has a step having a contact surface. The retaining fin lies, in a region adjoining the edge thereof, on the contact surface and is form-fittingly secured against being lifted off from the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: VAT Holding AG
    Inventor: Christian Hasler
  • Patent number: 11577481
    Abstract: An electro-hydrostatic drive for realizing a rapid movement and a force-building movement, comprising a hydro-machine with variable volume and/or rotational speed, driven by an electric motor, for providing a volume-flow of a hydraulic fluid, a first cylinder with a housing, a piston, a cylinder rod, and a first and a second cylinder chamber, a second cylinder with a piston, a cylinder rod, and a first and a second cylinder chamber, a moveable carrier plate, a pillar, and a clamping apparatus to clamp and/or unclamp the first cylinder to the pillar, where the hydraulic drive has a closed hydraulic circuit, which has, when run, a positive pressure above atmospheric pressure and which, by utilizing the hydro-machine, can pressurize either the first or the second cylinder chamber of the first cylinder and/or the first or the second cylinder chamber of the second cylinder. The moveable carrier plate is connected both to the first cylinder and to the second cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Haendle, Achim Helbig, Christoph Boes, Michael Sieber
  • Patent number: 11566400
    Abstract: An electrically powered hydraulic system for a working machine includes: an electric motor to power a working hydraulic pump. A flow of hydraulic fluid generated by the hydraulic pump is controlled by the operation rotational speed of the electric motor. An electronic control unit is configured to: when an operator input device is in a first operating range, maintain the electric motor at a constant rotational speed, and control a variation in flow of hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic function with an electronically controlled control valve, and when the operator input device is in a second operating range, control a variation in flow of hydraulic fluid by varying the electric motor rotational speed and by controlling the control valve, according to displacement of the operator input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
    Inventor: Michael Schwall
  • Patent number: 11555292
    Abstract: A boom system including a hoist boom pivoted to a machine base; a stick boom having a proximal end pivoted to the hoist boom and a distal end configured to carry a working tool; at least one hydraulic hoist cylinder mounted between the machine base and the hoist boom; a first stick cylinder mounted between the hoist boom and the stick boom; a second stick cylinder mounted similarly and mechanically linked with the first stick cylinder; and a hydraulic circuit for supplying hydraulic fluid to the hoist cylinder and stick cylinders, wherein the hydraulic circuit includes a hydraulic conduit line connecting a base end of the at least one hoist cylinder with a base end of the second stick cylinder to allow hydraulic fluid to shunt between the base ends of the hoist cylinder and the second stick cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TIGERCAT INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Michael Wayne Carlyle
  • Patent number: 11555294
    Abstract: When a machine-control ON/OFF switch is switched to the ON position, a controller outputs either a first control signal generated by an operation lever or a second control signal that operates a boom cylinder in accordance with a predetermined condition; when the ON/OFF switch is switched to the OFF position, the controller outputs the first control signal; when a control signal has been switched from one of the first control signal and the second control signal to the other control signal by the operation of the ON/OFF switch, the controller applies a rate limit to the control signal, and controls the boom cylinder on the basis of the control signal obtained after the limitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Hita, Yasuhiko Kanari
  • Patent number: 11549523
    Abstract: A fluid pump inlet stabilizer dampener includes a deformable diaphragm separating an enclosure into a gas chamber and a liquid chamber; and a piston coupled to the deformable diaphragm and being movable with respect to a valve housing, wherein the piston is configured to be positioned in at least first, second, and third positions, wherein in the first position a first fluid flow path from a pressurized gas inlet port to the gas chamber is open, in the second position the first fluid flow path is closed, and in the third position the first fluid flow path is closed and a second fluid flow path that activates a venturi vacuum generator is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: BLACOH FLUID CONTROLS, INC.
    Inventor: David Dean McComb
  • Patent number: 11519157
    Abstract: There is provided a work machine that can avoid an unintended movement of a blade. A crawler dozer includes a controller. The controller controls EPC valves. A left tilt cylinder and a right tilt cylinder are asymmetrically attached to a blade. The EPC valves control direction and flow rate of supply of hydraulic oil to the right tilt cylinder. The EPC valves control direction and flow rate of supply of the hydraulic oil to the left tilt cylinder. The controller controls the EPC valves and the EPC valves to extend or contract the left tilt cylinder and the right tilt cylinder at different rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Uemura, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11519431
    Abstract: A hydraulic actuator is disclosed that comprises a first, fixed portion and a second portion movable relative to the first portion. The second portion comprises a hydraulic actuating device for actuating a component, and the actuator further comprises an intermediate member configured to interconnect the first portion with the second portion and permit movement of the second portion relative to the first portion. The intermediate member is configured to convey hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuating device of the second portion through a body of the intermediate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MICROTECNICA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giacomo Mezzino, Franco Maino, Dario Molinelli
  • Patent number: 11511515
    Abstract: A piston for a heavy duty diesel engine including a composite layer forming at least a portion of a combustion surface is provided. The composite layer has a thickness greater than 500 microns and includes a mixture of components typically used to form brake pads, such as a thermoset resin, an insulating component, strengthening fibers, and an impact toughening additive. According to one example, the thermoset resin is a phenolic resin, the insulating component is a ceramic, the strengthening fibers are graphite, and the impact toughening additive is an aramid pulp of fibrillated chopped synthetic fibers. The composite layer also has a thermal conductivity of 0.8 to 5 W/m·K. The body portion of the piston can include an undercut scroll thread to improve mechanical locking of the composite layer. The piston can also include a ceramic insert between the body portion and the composite layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Tenneco Inc.
    Inventors: Warran Boyd Lineton, Ross Allen Evers, Greg Salenbien