Patents Examined by Nathan Cumar
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Patent number: 11661236Abstract: The container (10) has a lid structure (18) comprising two lid panels (20f) and (20t). The first lid panel (20t) forms at least a part of the top wall (14). The second lid panel 20f forms at least part of one of the side walls (16d). When the container (10) is in the erected condition the lid structure (18) can have one of, and be moved between, a closed configuration; top load configuration; and, front load configuration. The front load configuration has two variants. In a first front load configuration the first and second lid panels (20t) and (20f) remain connected to each other and are moved so that they are in a substantial face to face relationship. In the second front load configuration the second lid panel (20f) is pivoted to lie on top of the first lid panel (20t).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: UNISEG PRODUCTS PTY LTD.Inventor: Earl Fenton Goddard
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Patent number: 11654983Abstract: A sealed and lubricated rotatable track engaging element includes a roller and a roller shaft extending through the roller to support the roller for rotation about a major axis. A first thrust surface is fixed relative to the roller, and a second thrust surface is fixed relative to the roller shaft. A seal cavity extends between the roller and the roller shaft and is formed in part by each of the first thrust surface and the second thrust surface, and a thrust washer stack is within the seal cavity and trapped between the first thrust surface and the second thrust surface. The thrust washer stack includes an inner thrust washer contacting the roller to rotate at a first fractional speed of a speed of rotation of the roller, and an outer thrust washer contacting the inner thrust washer and the collar to rotate at a second fractional speed that is less than the first fractional speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Benoit Abello, Paul Palthey-Glomeau, Brian Loeffler, David Jennings Hakes
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Patent number: 11649654Abstract: A tank with a door locking mechanism for use in bioprocessing, and methods of using the door locking mechanism, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Cytiva US LLCInventor: Jorrit Sevenants
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Patent number: 11642949Abstract: Window seals can be configured to divert water away from an area of the vehicle where the presence of water is not desired, such as a door latch. A window seal can include a first body member and a second body member. The first body member can include a main body and a lip extending from the main body. The lip can include an upper end and a lower end. The second body member can be angled relative to the first body member. The second body member can include a liquid diverter that has a collector portion in fluid communication with a gutter portion. The collector portion can include an inlet opening. The inlet opening can be operatively positioned to receive a liquid from the lower end of the lip, and the gutter portion can route the liquid away from undesired areas.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kashif Zia, Kentaro Adachi, Ruben Vazquez
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Patent number: 11635133Abstract: A transmission (G) for a motor vehicle includes a housing (GG), a shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) mounted in the housing (GG) and protruding from the housing (GG), a radial shaft seal (DR) having a sealing lip for sealing an oil space (NR) within the housing (GG) with respect to an exterior, a shaft grounding device (E) arranged on an exterior side of the radial shaft seal (DR) for establishing an electrically conductive sliding contact (SK) between the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) and the housing (GG), and a sleeve-shaped covering element (C) fixedly connected to the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) for protecting the sliding contact (SK) against environmental influences. The shaft grounding device (E) is fixedly connected to the housing (GG). The covering element (C), together with the grounding device (E), forms a labyrinth sealing. An electric axle drive (EA) may include the transmission (G).Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Michael Griesbach, Thorsten Müller
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Patent number: 11635146Abstract: A circumferential sealing assembly for use between a lower-pressure side with a lubricant oil therein and a higher-pressure side with a hot gas therein is presented. The assembly includes a sealing ring interposed between either a rotatable runner and a housing or a sleeve and a housing within a turbine engine. Ducts communicate the hot gas into grooves to form a thin film between the ring and the runner or the ring and the sleeve. First embodiments include grooves on the runner, ducts through the runner, and both grooves and ducts rotating with the runner. Second embodiments include grooves on the ring, ducts through the runner, and ducts rotating with the runner. Third embodiments include grooves on the ring and ducts through the ring adjacent to a runner. Fourth embodiments include grooves on the runner, ducts through the ring, and grooves rotating with the runner. Fifth embodiments include grooves on the sleeve, ducts through the sleeve, and both grooves and ducts rotating with the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Stein Seal CompanyInventor: Thurai Manik Vasagar
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Patent number: 11629784Abstract: A sealing ring includes: a first axial leg; and a sealing leg with a sealing lip. When viewed in cross section, the sealing ring is in a shape of a seven. The sealing leg is connected to a first end face of the first axial leg by a first joint. The sealing leg has, on a side facing axially toward the first end face, a dirt lip with at least one sealing edge and a radially internal first boundary surface and a radially external second boundary surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KGInventors: Andreas Koch, Thomas Segbers, Jan Fritz, Mirko Minners, Stefan Scheffler, Akio Shimizu
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Patent number: 11624441Abstract: A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first side plate and a backing plate that extend circumferentially about an assembly axis. The backing plate includes a main body and a first set of abutments that extend outwardly from the main body to abut the first side plate. A first set of pockets are established between adjacent abutments of the first set of abutments. A first brush seal is between the first side plate and the backing plate. Sections of the first brush seal received in respective pockets of the first set of pockets are dimensioned to join together to establish a first sealing relationship with a first gas turbine engine component. A method of assembly is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Robert A. White, III
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Patent number: 11624439Abstract: An assembly is provided for rotational equipment. This assembly includes a seal carrier, a seal element and a retainer. The seal carrier is configured with a receptacle. The seal element is seated in the receptacle. The retainer is configured to secure the seal element to the seal carrier. The seal element is arranged radially between the seal carrier and the retainer.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Benjamin Nasman, Michael M. Davis
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Patent number: 11619066Abstract: An arm-receiving door handle and sliding lock system, including an arm-receiving door handle assembly, including an interior plate removably connected to at least a portion of an inner surface of a door to receive a limb of a user thereon, and an exterior plate removably connected to at least a portion of an exterior surface of the door, and a sliding lock assembly, including a knob assembly removably connected to the interior plate to move laterally from unlocked in a first position to at least partially locked in a second position, and from locked in the second position to at least partially unlocked in the first position, a carrier connected to the knob assembly, and a bolt removably connected within at least a portion of the carrier to move from retracted within the carrier to at least partially extended from the carrier in response to moving the knob assembly toward the second position, and move from extended to at least partially retracted within the carrier in response to moving the knob assembly towarType: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Triangle Brass Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventors: Jason Bennett, Curtis Patrick Odom
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Patent number: 11619304Abstract: A wheel hub bearing unit including an outer ring, rolling bodies and an inner ring provided with a flange at a first end thereof, the inner ring being made with a sliding surface for sealing lips of a sealing device arranged so as to protect the rolling bodies, defined by a metal insert formed integrally with the first end and arranged astride a base portion of the flange and a portion of the first end immediately adjacent to the base portion of the flange. The metal insert has a thickness of between 0.2 and 2 mm and being made, using a material different from the material with which the inner ring is manufactured and consisting of an austenitic stainless steel, by means of additive manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventors: Daniele Duch, Marco Romanetto
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Patent number: 11619077Abstract: A vehicular storage box that includes a compartment for holding articles, the compartment comprising four sides, a bottom and a top lid. The compartment is fabricated from an engineered plastic or a polymer matrix composite. The box further includes a locking assembly situated within the lid. The locking assembly comprises a central locking wheel connected to a linkage, a plurality of pawls for each of at least three of the sides of the compartment, and a solenoid switch. The locking wheel is movably connected to the plurality of pawls. Further, the solenoid switch is connected to the linkage to move the wheel to drive the plurality of pawls into and out of the at least three of the sides of the compartment into a respective locked position of the lid and an unlocked position of the lid.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brent Clifford Dalton, Steven Nicholas Fidh, Frank Qiukui Liu
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Patent number: 11619306Abstract: A seal assembly for sealing a grease lubricated large rolling-element bearing includes a radial shaft seal having at least one seal lip configured to sealingly abut against a shaft to seal a bearing interior and substantially prevent a grease discharge from the bearing and a grease flow regulation device, such as an annular pumping ring, for regulating a grease pressure at the at least one seal lip, the grease flow regulation device being mounted adjacent to the radial shaft seal at a side of the radial shaft seal that is intended to face the bearing interior in an installed state.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Christian Kogler, Wolfgang Swete, Jesko-Henning Tanke
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Patent number: 11619395Abstract: A gasket may include a tubular section which has a protection layer and a mesh layer. The protection layer may form a first tube, and the mesh layer may form a second tube, which may be enclosed in the first tube. The mesh layer may be formed by a metal wire in a spiral fashion extending along an axial direction of the second tube. The mesh layer may provide an elastic support to the protection layer when the protection layer tube is pressed by an external force.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: JIANGSU SANYOU DIOR ENERGY-SAVING NEW MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yueqi Mi
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Patent number: 11614035Abstract: A seal segment comprises: a seal body having a plurality of thin-plate seal pieces that extend while being inclined forward in a rotational direction of a rotating shaft as the pieces draw farther inward in a radial direction of the rotating shaft, and that are layered in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft; a pair of side plates extending in the circumferential direction so as to cover the seal body from both sides with respect to an axial direction of the rotating shaft; and a housing having a housing main body that accommodates the seal body while allowing the seal body to protrude inward in the radial direction, and an extending part that is provided to an end portion of the housing main body in the circumferential direction, and that extends inward in the radial direction along an end surface of the seal body in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Azumi Yoshida, Hidekazu Uehara, Kohei Ozaki, Shin Nishimoto, Tatsuro Furusho
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Patent number: 11613317Abstract: A track roller assembly includes a wheel body, a bearing, a wheel axle, a cap element, a rotating oil seal, an end cover and an oil body. The wheel body has a thread. The bearing is disposed on the wheel body. The wheel axle is disposed through the bearing. The cap element has a screw corresponding to the thread. One side of the rotating oil seal is connected to the cap element, and another side of the rotating oil seal rotatably abuts the wheel axle. The end cover is connected to the wheel axle. The oil body is limited to an accommodating space formed by the wheel body, the wheel axle, the cap element and the rotating oil seal.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: EVERPADS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chun-Li Chiang
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Patent number: 11613908Abstract: Example implementations relate to a latch and a computing system including such latch. The latch may include a latch enclosure and a latch assembly housed at least partially within the latch enclosure. The latch assembly may include a lever mounted to the latch enclosure via a first pivot pin and having a handle section disposed outside the latch enclosure and a force transfer section integrated with the handle section and disposed inside the latch enclosure. Further, the latch may include a hook engaged with the lever and mounted at least partially within the latch enclosure via a second pivot pin, wherein a movement of the lever about the first pivot pin causes a movement of the hook about the second pivot pin via the force transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Daniel W. Tower, Earl W. Moore, Kenny Huy Pham
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Patent number: 11608896Abstract: A sealing assembly that includes first, second and third sealing elements, where the first sealing element is disposed between the second and third sealing elements. The sealing elements are shaped in a complementary manner so that the sealing elements when assembled nest together. The sealing elements also have different hardness values associated therewith.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANYInventor: Pierre Aouni Alfons Al-Darra
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Patent number: 11608897Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a slide component that can exhibit sealing performance and lubricity regardless of rotating direction. A pair of slide components 4, 7 that slide relative to each other have sliding faces S that slide relative to each other, and a sealed fluid-side periphery 16 and a leakage-side periphery 15. The sliding face S of at least one slide component 4 of the pair of slide components 4, 7 includes: a fluid introduction groove 13 in communication with the sealed fluid-side periphery 16; a first pressure generation mechanism 12 of which one end is in communication with the fluid introduction groove 13 and the other end is surrounded by a land portion R1; and a second pressure generation mechanism 11 of which one end is in communication with the leakage-side periphery 15 and the other end is surrounded by an annular land portion R2.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Inventors: Tetsuzo Okada, Masatoshi Itadani, Takeshi Hosoe, Yuki Sasaki, Keita Kajihara
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Patent number: 11603932Abstract: A sealing device seals a gap between a housing and a rotational shaft located in a shaft hole provided in the housing. The sealing device includes: an annular mounted part that is to be mounted on an inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole; an inner annular part located radially inside of the mounted part; a seal lip extending from the inner annular part and for being in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft; a bellows part connecting the mounted part with the inner annular part; a sound insulation ring fixed to the mounted part and expanding radially inward from the mounted part, the sound insulation ring including an opening through which the rotational shaft passes; and a circular annular sound insulation lip projecting from the inner annular part or the bellows part toward the sound insulation ring and including a distal end being in slidable contact with the sound insulation ring.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki