Patents Examined by Michael I. Kocharov
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Patent number: 5062772Abstract: A slant plate type compressor including a compressor housing having a cylinder block is disclosed. A plurality of peripherally located cylinders are formed through the cylinder block. A piston is slidably fitted in each of the cylinders and is reciprocated by a drive mechanism which includes a slant plate. The slant plate includes a boss for mounting a balance weight ring thereon. The balance weight ring includes an annular depression formed at an inner peripheral portion thereof. The balance weight ring is firmly attached to the boss by different types of retaining means.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1989Date of Patent: November 5, 1991Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Shigemi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Takai
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Patent number: 5055003Abstract: A liquid driven pump has a driving-liquid accelerating nozzle which opens into a pump chamber having an outlet part positioned coaxially with the nozzle. Opening into the pump chamber is an evacuation line which is intended for connection to a space to be evacuated. The outlet part of the pump chamber discharges into a coaxial drainage chamber and has an abrupt increase in cross sectional area in relation to the outlet part. The drainage chamber has downstream net-like elements which are passed through by the liquid. The relationship between the smallest cross sectional areas of the nozzle and the outlet part respectively and the distance between the nozzle orifice and the drainage chamber are such that essentially the whole of the diffusion process takes place through the agency of the net-like elements. The smallest cross sectional area of the outlet part is from 1.4 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Teknovia ABInventor: Gosta Svensson
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Patent number: 5055008Abstract: A proportioning pump for liquid additive metering having a housing with a diaphragm piston therein and inlet and outlet primary fluid lines to said housing for moving said diaphragm piston up and down. Additive pistons for pumping an additive liquid into said primary fluid with said additive pistons being moved by said diaphragm piston.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Chemilizer Products, Inc.Inventors: Raymond R. Daniels, Norman W. Scheid, Donald C. Bryant
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Patent number: 5052895Abstract: In a pressure wave machine, the ducts of the connecting casings (3, 4) to and from the cells (2) are provided with a curvature running in the axial direction to the opening of the cells (2) and concave in the direction of the axis (5) of the rotor (1). By this means, the same radial pressure gradients as are found in the cells (2) due to the rotation of the rotor (1) are produced in the connecting casings (3, 4). Secondary flows and reverse flows respectively from the cells (2) into the connecting casings (3, 4) or out of them are therefore prevented.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1990Date of Patent: October 1, 1991Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.Inventor: Rolf Althaus
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Patent number: 5050572Abstract: A supercharging pressure control system for an automotive engine with a supercharger controlling a pressure of incoming supercharging air into the automotive engine. The pressure of the incoming supercharging air is feedback-controlled so as to reach a target pressure of supercharging air which is determined depending upon engine operating conditions. A feedback control gain is varied higher when the incoming supercharging air pressure is higher than the target supercharging air pressure when compared to being lower than the target supercharging air pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1990Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Masaaki Tamekiyo
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Patent number: 5051073Abstract: A hand pump having a cylinder and piston in which the piston head is formed with an annular channel having an opening in the base of the annular channel in free communication with the interior of a hollow piston rod. A pair of radially-projecting stops extend outwardly from the base of the channel adjacent the opening. A pair of O-rings are positioned within the channel with one on either side of the stops with the O-rings having an inner diameter closely fitting the surface of the base and an outer diameter when in an unstressed position engage in a sliding relation the inner surface of the cylinder. Chambers are formed on either end of the piston head and are provided with valve inlets.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1989Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Inventor: Dixon Newbold
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Patent number: 5049044Abstract: A compressor, e.g., a scroll type compressor for a heat pump including a bypass passage by way of which the high pressure side of the compressor is communicated with a compression chamber in which a compression stroke is carried out is disclosed. The compressor further includes opening/closing means so that when it is required that the compressor is operated at a high efficiency, the bypass passage is closed and when it is required that the compressor is operated with a high level of ability, the bypass passage is opened so as to allow high pressure gas to be introduced into the compression chamber in which a compression stroke is carried out whereby the gas is compressed again.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1990Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takahisa Hirano
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Patent number: 5046931Abstract: The radial gear driven piston pump (10) comprises a stationary pintle or pin (40) having a rotatable rotor (30) mounted thereon. The rotor (30) and pintle (40) are disposed within a pumping bore (18) that is eccentrically aligned relative to bore extensions (28) receiving the pintle (40). The rotor (30) is driven by an offset motor (12) which engages a periphery of the rotor (30). The pintle (40) has therein two pairs of longitudinal passages comprising supply (46, 53) and discharge (47, 54) channels which communicate with respective intake (41, 43) and exhaust (42, 44) ports within the pump housing (16). The rotor (30) has sets of axially offset pistons (90, 100) received within piston cavities (93, 93'). Each set of piston (90, 100) comprises a metal piston cap (95) having a central opening (90) which receives a longitudinal extension (97) of a piston sealing ring (98).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1990Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Assignee: Allied-Signal Inc.Inventor: Dean E. Runkle
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Patent number: 5044893Abstract: A fuel pumping apparatus of the rotary distributor type includes a spill passage 20 connected with the bore 12 which houses the pumping plungers 9. A seating 22 is defined about the spill passage and a valve member 23 is provided for cooperating with the seating. A piston 25 is coupled to the valve member and is slidable in a cylinder. The piston defines a surface against which fuel under pressure from the bore 12 can act to lift the valve member from the seating. The application of fuel under pressure to the surface of the piston is controlled by an electro-magnetically operable control valve 32A.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1990Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Lucas Industries Public Limited CompanyInventor: Peter A. G. Collingborn
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Patent number: 5044890Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines that has a pump interior and a final control element chamber, separated from it, the latter having an electric final control element for actuating a quantity adjusting device that determines a fuel injection quantity, parts of the final control element from which a control variable for the injection quantity is derived and which thereby serves as a material measure, are to be protected from the influence of fuel. By means of a jet pump through which a permanent propulsive flow flows and which is part of a flow conduit, the static pressure at the intake bore of the jet pump that communicates with the final control element chamber is lowered, and this negative pressure is utilized for evacuating the fuel entering the final control element chamber in the form of a leakage flow along the bearing of a control shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1990Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alf Loeffler, Wolfgang Fehlmann, Eberhard Fiedler, Wolfgang Geiger, Helmut Laufer
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Patent number: 5044900Abstract: A positive displacement shuttle pump having a cylinder with axially displaced and mutually isolated inlet and outlet portions; a shuttle piston having a reservoir for accepting pressurized feed from the inlet port in the feed cycle and for dispensing feed to the outlet port in the dispensing cycle; a displacement piston extending longitudinally in the shuttle piston and communicating with the reservoir; an actuator for extending the displacement piston into the reservoir to pressurize the feed and urge the feed through the outlet port during the dispensing cycle; the displacement piston is responsive to the pressurized feed in the reservoir for retracting during the feed cycle; the displacement piston driving the shuttle piston through the feed and dispensing cycles.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1990Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Knight Tool Company, Inc.Inventor: William A. Cavallaro
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Patent number: 5039283Abstract: The invention relates to a device for a hydraulic unit, in particular in anti-skid systems for vehicle brake systems, which has a radial piston pump. The eccentric driven by a drive shaft in the pump meets pump pistons also located in the pump, usually in the region of high stroke variation speed. An resultant mechanical and hydraulic vibration, which causes noise and annoying movement at the brake pedal, is counteracted according to the invention in that a resilient intermediate element is disposed between the pump pistons and the eccentric element, and the eccentric is driven via a torsionally elastic coupling.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1989Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Robert Mergenthaler, Wilhelm Zirps, Wolfgang Maisch
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Patent number: 5039285Abstract: The present invention is an improved lubrication system for a connecting rod, wrist pin, and piston of a compressor. An oil pump pumps lubricating oil upwardly within an axial bore of the crankshaft, which includes a radial passageway in alignment with the connecting rod. The connecting rod includes ports which direct pulses of oil onto the inner surfaces of the piston. The ports are separated by barrier segments to allow local oil pressure to build between the sequential alignments of the passageway and a port. Thus, pulses of oil are accurately sprayed onto the piston inner surfaces without substantially diminishing the lubrication of the journal bearings.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1990Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Assignee: Tecumseh Products CompanyInventor: Robert A. Lindstrom
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Patent number: 5036669Abstract: In the subject invention an electronic control unit is used to control the air/fuel ratio in an engine combustion chamber in response to sensed engine parameters. More particularly, a magneto interface produces an ignition signal which is delivered to a spark plug. The spark plug is disposed essentially in the center of a combustion chamber, and it ignites an air/fuel mixture in the chamber in response to the ignition signal. A sensor such as an ion probe, for example, is further disposed in the combustion chamber longitudinally from the spark plug. The sensor produces an ionization signal in response to a flame front propagating past the sensor. A buffer circuit receives the ignition and ionization signals and produces a combustion signal in response to a time difference between the reception of these signals. The electronic control unit receives the combustion signal and calculates a combustion signal air/fuel ratio in response to the combustion signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 1989Date of Patent: August 6, 1991Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Walter E. Earleson, Siamak Mirhakimi
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Patent number: 5018946Abstract: A liquid pump for conveying sensitive materials from a first to a second location through a main duct. The pump has a first segment through which secondary liquid flows with the materials. An inlet orifice receiving primary liquid from a plenum has a convex or Coanda surface and injects primary liquid into the main duct downstream of the first segment. The primary liquid intercepts the convex surface substantially tangentially and is turned through an angle to one more closely resembling the angle of the longitudinal axis of the pump. The first segment has a fustro-conical control surface which diverges outwardly immediately adjacent the outlet end of the first segment. The inside diameter of the outlet end of the first segment immediately before the control surface is substantially identical to the inside diameter of the second segment immediately downstream of the Coanda surface. Liquid directing vanes are positioned in the plenum just prior to the inlet orifice.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1990Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Assignee: Innovac Technology Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Breckner, Kurt K. Henriksson, Leslie C. Sharratt, Leslie M. Sharratt