Patents Examined by Michael A Riegelman
  • Patent number: 12202706
    Abstract: A floor for use with a glass elevator is provided. The floor includes an upper major surface and a lower major surface opposing the upper major surface. The floor also includes a first side edge and a second side edge opposing the first side edge. A first front edge extends from the first side edge to a first front edge recess. A second front edge extends from the second side edge to a second front edge recess. A first rear edge extends from the first side edge to a rear edge recess. A second rear edge extends from the second side edge to the rear edge recess. The upper and lower major surfaces extend in a continuous, uninterrupted form from the first side edge to the second side edge and from the first and second front edges to the first and second rear edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Darnley, III, Susan Marie Siegmann, Joseph Harlan Marshall, Jesse Scott Duncan
  • Patent number: 12195302
    Abstract: A safety monitoring device of an elevator system having a shaft extending over at least two floors has a safety circuit with door contact switches being closed or opened accordingly when a respective shaft door is closed or opened. The door switches form an electrical series circuit that is electrically broken to block the elevator car from moving when any of the door switches is opened. The monitoring apparatus has at least one bypass switch that actuates a first door switch for a first shaft door on a first floor such that, when the elevator car reaches the first floor, the bypass switch bypasses the first door switch to switch the safety circuit independently of the first door switch. A monitoring means of the monitoring apparatus monitors the switching state of the safety circuit and/or of a second door switch for a second shaft door on a second floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Frank Olivier Roussel
  • Patent number: 12187578
    Abstract: A protector (200) for an elevator car (102) includes a protective panel (202) and at least one magnet (204) mounted to the protective panel (202). The magnet (204) is configured to be attracted to an internal wall (106) of a passenger compartment (104) of an elevator car (102) so as to retain the protective panel (202) against the internal wall (106). The magnet (204) may be retained against a support (210) of the protector (200) by a retainer assembly (220). The protector (200) may further comprise an electrical device which comprises a lighting device (240) configured to emit light into the passenger compartment (104) of the elevator car (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Javier Muñoz Sotoca, Borja de Diego Restrepo
  • Patent number: 12187112
    Abstract: An oil supply device for an electric vehicle powertrain apparatus, includes an electric oil pump, a motor lubrication flow path connected to the electric oil pump and provided to supply oil from the electric oil pump to a bearing of a motor, a motor cooling flow path branched from the motor lubrication flow path to supply oil for cooling the motor from the electric oil pump, and a cooling control valve apparatus provided in the motor cooling flow path to control oil supplied to the motor through the motor cooling flow path according to an operating state of the electric oil pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Jin Young Hwang
  • Patent number: 12187581
    Abstract: Provided is a guide rail device for an elevator, which includes a plurality of fixing bodies. Among the plurality of fixing bodies, a fixing body that is the closest to a fishplate is referred to as a first fixing body, and a fixing body that is the second closest to the fishplate is referred to as a second fixing body. Further, a distance between a position of the first fixing body and a position of the second fixing body in a vertical direction is referred to as a rail fixing distance. In this case, a distance from the position of the first fixing body to a position of the fishplate in the vertical direction is one-third or less of the rail fixing distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC BUILDING SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuhito Funai
  • Patent number: 12188615
    Abstract: A machine lubrication system includes a bellows-type container filled with lubricant that connects to a support base of a pump of the lubrication system. The container includes a neck extending from a convex bottom surface of the container. The support base includes a concave mounting surface and a passageway in communication with an inlet of the pump. The neck sealingly attaches the container to the passageway with the bottom surface of the container on the mounting surface the support base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Suburban Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Barger, Dustin Ericson, Cade Gamrath
  • Patent number: 12188388
    Abstract: One embodiment of an oil heat exchanger may be configured with two fluid couplers fluidly connected to a fluid conduit. The fluid conduit may be engaged with an exchange area. In one illustrative method of use the oil heat exchanger may be positioned within and secured to an oil pan of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Laverne Schumann
  • Patent number: 12180944
    Abstract: A control device for a gearbox which includes a mechanical pump and an electric pump, the mechanical pump having a first-stage displacement and a second-stage displacement, and the first-stage displacement being less than the second-stage displacement, the control device including a sensor module for detecting an oil pressure of a lubricating oil of the gearbox and a mechanical pump control module for, when the oil pressure is above an oil pressure threshold, controlling the mechanical pump to operate at the first-stage displacement, and when the oil pressure is below the oil pressure threshold, controlling the mechanical pump to operate at the second-stage displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: ZF WIND POWER (TIANJIN) CO., LTD., ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN N.V.
    Inventor: Fuliang Wang
  • Patent number: 12173845
    Abstract: Example bearing lubrication system and methods of operating the same are disclosed herein. An example closed loop system to provide a lubricant to a fluid pump includes a lubrication flow network disposed within the fluid pump; a sensor fluidly coupled to the fluid pump to measure a condition of a fluid that is to enter the lubrication flow network; a first transport bus fluidly coupled to the lubrication flow network, the first transport bus to transport an inert gas; a controller to actuate a valve fluidly coupled to the first transport bus, the controller to transmit signals to the valve based on the condition of the fluid to cause the valve to open or close; and a separator fluidly coupled between an outlet of the fluid pump and the first transport bus, the separator to separate the fluid and the inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, David Raju Yamarthi, Mandyam Rangayan Sridhar, Anand Madihalli Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 12173844
    Abstract: A hydraulic system, for example a seal oil system, includes a hydraulic feeding pump having a motor, a hydraulic motor having a generator, a cooler and a storage tank for receiving hydraulic fluid. The hydraulic feeding pump is configured to draw hydraulic fluid from the reservoir and to direct the fluid to one or more consumers (for example mechanical seals). The hydraulic motor installed downstream of the consumer drives an electric generator. The generator can be coupled to a VFD which controls the speed of the hydraulic motor. The electric power, generated by the generator, is fed back into the power grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventor: Axel Jaeschke
  • Patent number: 12173715
    Abstract: A lubricator reservoir uses adapter components so that the lube box that can be mounted on any high speed compressors. The use of a single lubricator reservoir with adapters for different compressors enables reduced inventory and guarantees the owner/operator can always get their compressors up and running in a timely manner and reduce lost revenue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventor: Curtis Alan Roys
  • Patent number: 12169017
    Abstract: A vehicle transmission has at least one lubrication point, a power take-off, a lubricant tapping point for a power take-off module, and a lubrication system for supplying the lubrication point(s) and the lubricant tapping point with lubricant. The lubrication system includes a lubricant reservoir, a main line section emerging from the lubricant reservoir, a first supply line section leading to the lubrication point(s), a second supply line section leading to the lubricant tapping point, and a return line section leading to the lubricant reservoir. A valve has a first valve port associated with the main line section, a second valve port associated with the lubricant tapping point, a third valve port associated with the return line section, and a bypass duct that acts between the first valve port and the second valve port. A vehicle with such a vehicle transmission and a working machine arrangement are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Julius Döpfert, Sascha Fiesel, Horst Leichsenring, Frank Sauter
  • Patent number: 12169018
    Abstract: Systems and methods for gear cooling. In one example, the gear cooling system includes a spray tube positioned within a central opening that is included in a first gear. The spray tube includes an oil outlet, the oil outlet is positioned within a smaller diameter section of the central opening, the smaller diameter section is axially offset from an outer toothed portion of the first gear, and the central opening includes a larger diameter section that is positioned interior to the outer toothed portion of the first gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas L. Nahrwold, Dnyanesh Katre, Nicholas Billmaier
  • Patent number: 12163449
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lubrication system comprising: a pump having an inlet in fluid communication with a lubricant source and an outlet; a cooler having an inlet in fluid communication with the outlet of the pump and an outlet; a lubrication filter having an inlet in fluid communication with the outlet of the cooler and an outlet; a first delivery path in fluid communication with the outlet of the lubrication filter, the first delivery path being configured to deliver cooled, filtered lubricant to a bearing system of an engine; and a second delivery path in fluid communication with the outlet of the pump, the second delivery path being configured to deliver uncooled, unfiltered lubricant to piston cooling nozzles of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel P. Hassall, John Jerl Purcell, III, Stephen D. Cofer, Jr., David M. Barnes, Aaron S. Quinton, Reid M. Irish
  • Patent number: 12162725
    Abstract: A method, arrangement and transport apparatus for transporting elevator guide rails in a shaft, the transport apparatus including a hook device connected to a first hoist and a lever device connected to the hook device. The lever device is movably supported on guide rails. The lever device includes a holding device being movably supported in the lever device. The holding device is linearly movable between a transport position and a mounting position. A new guide rail element is connected to the hook device and the holding device and transported to the installation position. The holding device is moved to the mounting position, and the new guide rail element is connected to the row of already installed guide rail elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventors: Mikael Haag, Harri Makinen, Joonas Jokela, Markku Haivala
  • Patent number: 12158236
    Abstract: A lubricating oil tank includes: a tank casing extending in a first direction; a plurality of introduction portions disposed separately from each other in the first direction; a receiving portion disposed below the plurality of introduction portions in a vertical direction inside the tank casing and configured to receive the lubricating oil introduced from the plurality of introduction portions and cause the lubricating oil to flow toward a second end portion of the tank casing in the first direction; and a strainer configured to capture a foreign matter in the lubricating oil having flowed on the receiving portion. The receiving portion is inclined downward in the vertical direction toward the second end portion in the first direction. The strainer is disposed at a position closer to the second end portion than the plurality of introduction portions in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Morimitsu, Michio Kubota
  • Patent number: 12158237
    Abstract: An insertion amount grasping device includes: a first jig fixed to a fixation target in a state where the first jig is positioned against the fixation target, the first jig having a guide through-hole extending toward an application portion in a state where the first jig is fixed to the fixation target; an insertion portion inserted into the guide through-hole such that the insertion portion is introduced toward the application portion in a state where an operator grips the insertion portion; and a protruding portion as a protruding portion provided in the insertion portion, the protruding portion inserted into the guide through-hole and cause friction between the protruding portion and the guide through-hole when a predetermined positional relationship is established between a distal end part of the insertion portion and the application portion along with an introduction operation to introduce the insertion portion toward the application portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Takenaka
  • Patent number: 12152669
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a power transmission shaft drivable to rotate; a shaft holder holding the power transmission shaft in such a manner that the power transmission shaft is rotatable; and a hydraulically operable section configured to operate in response to receiving operating oil, the power transmission shaft including: a shaft groove extending entirely around an outer circumferential portion of the power transmission shaft; an inlet port extending inside the power transmission shaft in a radial direction of the power transmission shaft and connected with the shaft groove; and a supply oil passage extending inside the power transmission shaft in a longitudinal direction of the power transmission shaft and connected with the inlet port inside the power transmission shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Jinnai, Ryoma Iwase, Yusuke Nabana, Rikuto Araki, Makoto Kubota
  • Patent number: 12146571
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioner having a piston sliding around an outside surface of a pin or rod, so that the high pressure chamber for chain control is created by the area between the piston internal diameter and the rod outside diameter. A spring around the outside of the rod presses against the bottom of the piston, biasing the piston outward during low oil pressure conditions. Preferably, the piston is steel and the rod is aluminum, the reverse of prior art designs, which means that as temperature increases, the piston to bore clearance reduces. This can offset the oil viscosity reduction and maintain the same performance over operating temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventor: Paul Freemantle
  • Patent number: 12134414
    Abstract: A system and method for remotely lubricating a rail switch plate, the system comprising at least one lubricant distribution nozzle mounted proximate a rail switch arm such that when the rail switch arm is in a first position, the at least one lubricant distribution nozzle is positioned above and over the rail switch plate and wherein a lubricant supply vessel and pump therefor are positioned at a location spaced apart from the rail switch arm and wherein the lubricant supply vessel is fluidically connected to the at least one distribution nozzle for directing lubricant through the nozzle to the switch plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: RBL, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Gregory Pieper, Justin Jeong Dailey, Christian Robert Pieper