Patents Examined by Nathaniel Wiehe
  • Patent number: 9404485
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a double hydraulic machine (100) comprising two elementary machines (M1, M2) each having two orifices, the double hydraulic machine (100) comprising a distribution valve (7) suitable for, in a first configuration (C1), feeding both elementary machines (M1, M2) in parallel, and in a second configuration (C2), producing a short circuit of one of the elementary machines (M2). The invention also relates to a system for driving a vehicle comprising such a hydraulic machine (100) for driving the vehicle into motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: POCLAIN HYDRAULICS INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Pierre-Louis Houillon, Gilles Lemaire
  • Patent number: 9404483
    Abstract: A hydraulic control arrangement includes a common variable displacement pump configured to supply pressure medium to two consumer groups. The pressure level of a control block assigned to one of the consumer groups is set to a different pressure level than that of a further control block assigned to the other consumer group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kauss
  • Patent number: 9403191
    Abstract: Examples of a pressure wave generator configured to generate high energy pressure waves in a medium are disclosed. The pressure wave generator can include a sabot carrying a piston. The sabot can further comprise a locking means to lock the piston in a fixed position when the locking means are activated. When the locking means are in a deactivated position, the piston can be released and can move at least partially away from the sabot. The sabot carrying the piston can be disposed within an inner bore of a housing of the pressure wave generator and can move within the inner bore of the housing from its first end toward its second end along a longitudinal axis of the bore. A transducer can be accommodated in the second end of the housing. The transducer can be coupled to the medium and can convert a portion of the kinetic energy of the piston into a pressure wave in the medium upon impact of the piston with the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: General Fusion Inc.
    Inventors: Lon William McIlwraith, Michel G. Laberge
  • Patent number: 9404471
    Abstract: Provided is a hydraulic engine that generates power using oil pressure, the hydraulic engine including: a hydraulic power unit including a hydraulic tube comprising a hollow portion having an opened front end and being filled with a fluid, an amplitude amplification device that is disposed at the rear side of the hydraulic tube, an oscillator that is disposed at the rear side of the amplitude amplification device so as to be deformed and increases and decreases a pressure within the hydraulic tube, and an oscillator head that is attached to a front end of the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Inventor: Lucas Ihsl
  • Patent number: 9404573
    Abstract: A hydraulic apparatus and a method of controlling the hydraulic apparatus are disclosed. The hydraulic apparatus includes a first pump having a first fixed displacement, a second pump having a second fixed displacement, and a diverter. The diverter includes a first diverter inlet port fluidly coupled to a discharge of the second pump, a first diverter outlet port fluidly coupled to a discharge of the first pump, and a second diverter outlet port fluidly coupled to a low pressure system, the low pressure system having a fluid pressure lower than a fluid pressure of the discharge of the first pump. The diverter is operable to selectively vary fluid communication between the first diverter inlet port and either the first diverter outlet port or the second diverter outlet port based on a reference pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Hand, Ryan Harken, Robert Jackson, David Guetschow, Jeffrey Jones
  • Patent number: 9399919
    Abstract: A wind blade is provided. The wind blade includes a body having an aerodynamic contour extended between a blade root and a blade tip. The wind blade also includes an extension tip sleeve arranged over the blade tip. The extension tip sleeve further includes a first portion having an extension blade and one or more structural ribs arranged on a pressure side of the wind blade. The extension tip sleeve also includes a second portion having a support structure located on a suction side of the wind blade. Furthermore, the wind blade includes a fairing having an airfoil shape for covering the one or more structural ribs, and the support structure of the extension tip sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peggy Lynn Baehmann, Jaikumar Loganathan, Anindya Sengupta, Vasanth Kumar Balaramudu, Steven Robert Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9399850
    Abstract: A device having a hydraulic drive for civil engineering work has least one shaft that can be rotated by a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor is operated by fluid of a hydraulic circuit that is supplied by a hydraulic pump. The hydraulic motor has a changeable displacement, and means for changing the volume stream are provided. A sensor for measuring the fluid pressure is disposed in the hydraulic circuit, and is connected with a control and regulation unit, by way of which the displacement of the hydraulic motor is adjustable, and by way of which the means for a change in the volume stream can be turned on. The control and regulation unit is set up so that in the event of a pressure drop in the hydraulic circuit, a reduction in the displacement of the hydraulic motor as well as a reduction in the volume stream is brought about.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ABI Anlagentechnik-Baumaschinen-Industriebedarf Maschinefabrik und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Christian Heichel, Albrecht Kleibl
  • Patent number: 9399922
    Abstract: Described are a gas turbine engine fan blade platform, related rotor assembly and gas turbine engine, as well as a method of assembling the same. The platform has a forward portion proximal to an axis of rotation, an aft portion, and a transition portion between the forward and aft portions. The forward portion has a forward interface surface facing axially forward, the aft portion has an aft interface surface facing radially outward, and the transition portion has at least one mounting feature. For the method of assembly, an aft support is installed on a fan disk and booster spool assembly. A plurality of fan blades are installed into a fan disk, followed by installing a fan platform between adjacent blades and securing the mounting features to the disk, thereby filling the annulus of the fan disk. Finally, a forward support is installed on the fan disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jorge Orlando Lamboy, Matthew Glen Gann, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Gerald Alexander Pauley, Daniel Allen Wilkin, II, Ming Xie
  • Patent number: 9399916
    Abstract: A fluid-actuated rotary drive device is provided, with a housing (2) in which is formed a working chamber (3), in which is a swivel piston (18) able to swivel around a central axis (5). Also fitted or able to be fitted in the working chamber (3) is a space divider and stop unit (38), comprised of a space divider element (24) and at least one stop element (42) fixed to the former. The components of the space divider and stop unit (38) are fitted to one another by snap-in connection, so that the space divider and stop unit (38) is easy to handle during its installation in the working chamber (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: FESTO AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Thorwart, Ulrich Hohl, Frank Menikheim
  • Patent number: 9399985
    Abstract: A hydraulic valve arrangement, in particular a control valve arrangement, of a hydraulic machine, in particular a hydraulic pump, includes at least one valve with a valve body penetrated by a pressure medium passage. The pressure medium passage has a minimum cross section that gives rise, in normal operation, to a control pressure downstream of the minimum cross section in accordance with a pressure acting at a pressure port of the valve. The minimum cross section is arranged close to a pressure medium passage mouth which is arranged upstream or is configured to be subjected to the high pressure. A hydraulic machine arrangement, in particular a pump arrangement, includes the hydraulic valve arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Sewcz, Friedemann Nordt, Carola Diebold
  • Patent number: 9394927
    Abstract: A hydraulic oil cylinder has a buffer sleeve (4), a rodless cavity sealing end face (1-2) and at least one throttle oil channel (3-1). The buffer sleeve (4) is sleeved on an additional section (3a) of a piston rod in the rodless cavity (2-2) and axially slidable along the additional section (3a) of the piston rod. The rodless cavity sealing end face (1-2) is provided in an oil cylinder cavity between a rodless cavity oil passing hole (1-1) and the termination of the rodless cavity end face of the piston for the retraction process of the piston rod (3), and enables to block the buffer sleeve (4) and attach to the first end surface (4-1) of the buffer sleeve thereby forming a sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: Hunan Sany Intelligent Control Equipment Co., Ltd., Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaogang Yi, Yongdong Liu, Bingbing Chen
  • Patent number: 9394934
    Abstract: A fastening method for fastening a nut to a bolt by screwing includes preparing a nut including a tool mounting portion formed on a seat surface, and an annular thin portion formed on the tool mounting portion opposite to the seat surface, swaging a plurality of places of the thin portion with punches from an outer circumferential direction, and flowing a thickness of the thin portion so as to extend to a front end of the bolt partially in a circumferential direction to be closely adhered to a screw portion of the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ohno, Makoto Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9393943
    Abstract: A brake booster is provided having a force input element that is or can be connected to a brake pedal, a chamber arrangement with a working chamber and a vacuum chamber, and a control device with a control valve. The working chamber is selectively connected to the vacuum chamber or to the surrounding atmosphere as a result of a displacement of the force input element. The control valve has a valve element that is selectively prestressed into sealed abutment on a first valve seat provided on the control valve housing or into sealed abutment on a second valve seat provided on the control piston of the control valve by a tension spring. In order to reduce the actuating force, a pneumatic function chamber is selectively isolated from the surrounding atmosphere by the valve element or connected to the vacuum chamber or to the surrounding atmosphere by the force input element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Lucas Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: David Lopez Larequi, Hans Martin Giese
  • Patent number: 9394994
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid pin (14) for connecting a piston for an internal combustion engine to a piston rod, the hybrid pin (14) consisting of a sleeve (3) made of steel and consisting of a core (2) which is pressed into the sleeve (3) and which is made of a lightweight metal alloy that can be cold-formed. The inner surface of the sleeve (3) has a profile, whereby an elastic elongation of the core (3) in the axial direction after the core (3) is pressed into the sleeve (3) is prevented to such an extent that the sleeve (3) is longer than the core (2) at both ends of the hybrid pin (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Lochmann, Ulrich Bischofberger
  • Patent number: 9394789
    Abstract: A vibrator has a hollow body with two end walls, a first piston slidably housed within the body, a first chamber defined therein and communicating with an inlet and bounded by a first active surface of the first piston, and a second chamber bounded by a second active surface of the piston, larger than and opposite the first active surface. The first piston slidingly houses a switch unit having at least one second piston and controlled by a fluid switch circuit having an inlet portion formed in the first piston and communicating with the first chamber. An outlet portion is formed in the first piston and communicates with the outlet. A switch portion, which is defined by the switch unit, communicates with the second chamber, and connects the second chamber to the inlet portion and to the outlet portion alternately as a function of the switch unit's axial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Inventor: Giancarlo Fedeli
  • Patent number: 9394929
    Abstract: In order to avoid cavitation in a boom cylinder head end at the beginning of a dig cycle, fluid from an alternate source is supplied to the head end before or in addition to fluid supplied by the main boom-up hydraulic circuit. In one embodiment, an electronic hydraulic valve, related sensors, and control system determines the beginning of a dig operation and uses fluid at an intermediate pressure to rapidly provide fluid to a boom head end cylinder to prevent voiding or cavitation before fluid under high pressure from the main pump can be brought to the cylinder. An on/off fluid switch is activated early in a dig operation to address low pressure at the boom cylinder head end and provide an alternate path for fluid into the cylinder in reaction to the boom being lifted by a motion of the stick and bucket in contact with the work surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Edward Lawrence, John James Krone, Nick William Biggs, Karl Arthur Kirsch, Yuya Kanenawa, Tetsuya Yoshino, Magomed Gabibulayev
  • Patent number: 9388694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resonant mechanism for compressors which comprises a tubular body (1) containing at least two slot sets (12) that delimit an intermediate surface (13) which central portion has substantially ellipsoidal conformation (14) on which it is located a hole (15) through which the resonant spring will be affixed (2); a resounding spring (2) housed within the tubular body (1); at least two fastening sets (3) for fastening the resonant spring (2) to the tubular body (1), and leaf flat springs (4) alternately and successively mounted with spacers (not shown) along with the circular side faces (11) of the tubular body (1). The slot sets (12) have a specific configuration to allow rigidity and flexibility suitable for the mechanism operation in situations where the resulting axial force differs from zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Whirlpool S.A.
    Inventors: Celso Kenzo Takemori, Alisson Luiz Roman, Paulo Rogerio Carrara Couto
  • Patent number: 9388822
    Abstract: A guide ring for a heated impeller pump for dish washers may include a base body in the type of a circumferential ring having a central longitudinal axis and which is configured for arrangement in a pump chamber of the impeller pump. At least one blade may be arranged on a radial outer surface of the base body, which protrudes outwards and which extends longitudinally along the base body over at least a part of the periphery thereof and which has a pitch in relation to the central longitudinal axis. At least on one side of the blade, a protrusion or a thickening may be provided on the outer edge thereof. The latter can form a channel configured to remove air bubbles from the pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Roth, Tobias Albert
  • Patent number: 9388833
    Abstract: A linear actuator has a housing with a bore extending therethrough. A first portion of the bore extends into the housing from a first end, and a second portion of the bore extends into the housing from a second end of the housing. The second portion of the bore has a rectangular geometry with substantially rounded corners when viewed from the second end. A shaft is in sliding engagement with the first portion of the housing. A piston member is coupled to the shaft and has a rectangular geometry with substantially rounded corners. The piston member is in sliding engagement with a first interior surface of the second portion of the bore via one or more o-rings. An anti-rotation apparatus is associated with one or more of the piston member and the shaft, wherein the anti-rotation member generally prevents a rotation of the shaft with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Zaytran, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Stanley Zajac, Jr., David Moore Zajac, Steven Eric Wallace, Cory David Trent
  • Patent number: 9388829
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system is disclosed for use in a machine. The hydraulic control system may have a work tool, a motor configured to swing the work tool, a tank, a pump configured to draw fluid from the tank and pressurize the fluid, and a control valve operable to control fluid flow from the pump to the motor and from the motor to the tank via first and second chamber passages to affect motion of the motor. The hydraulic control system may also have an accumulator, and an accumulator circuit configured to selectively direct fluid discharged from the motor to the accumulator for storage and to direct stored fluid from the accumulator to the motor to assist the motor. The hydraulic control system may further have a selector valve configured to selectively connect a higher pressure one of the first and second chamber passages with the accumulator, and a single pressure relief valve disposed within the accumulator circuit and configured to relief pressure from opposing sides of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jiao Zhang, Lawrence J. Tognetti, Pengfei Ma, Dayao Chen, John Ferraz, Jr., Tetsuya Yoshino