Patents Examined by Nicholas L Foster
  • Patent number: 12258794
    Abstract: A motor vehicle latch, in particular to a motor vehicle door latch, which is equipped with a locking mechanism consisting essentially of a catch and a pawl. Furthermore, a release lever rotatable about an axis of rotation is provided for the locking mechanism. In addition, an electromotive opening drive and a handle connected to a connecting means are provided. In order to open the locking mechanism, the opening drive acts by motor on the release lever, while the handle, including the connecting means, alternatively or additionally acts manually on the release lever. According to the invention, the opening drive acts on the release lever radially on the inside relative to the axis of rotation, and the connecting means acts on said release lever radially on the outside in relation to said axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Kiekert AG
    Inventor: Robert J. Hunt
  • Patent number: 12253173
    Abstract: A seal assembly for a rotating shaft of a device. The seal assembly configured to prevent the passage of a fluid along the rotating shaft. The seal assembly including a seal housing surrounding the rotating shaft and a drive ring mounted onto the rotating shaft via a drive collar. The drive collar is configured to be nested within a rotor assembly, and the rotor assembly is disposed within the seal housing. The drive collar includes a flange configured to impart torque the rotor assembly when the rotating shaft rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Woodex Bearing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Corey Vincent, Matthew Potvin
  • Patent number: 12253172
    Abstract: An electrically isolating gasket is disclosed wherein a coating layer is disposed on at least one conductive surface, and in some embodiments, on all surfaces or at least all of the conductive surfaces. The electrically isolating gasket includes a core gasket component, a ring seal component, and a non-conductive inner seal component. The coating layer can be, for example, polyimide, polyamide, ceramic, and aluminum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GPT INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Brown, Ryan Buttimer, T. Scott Tanner, Christopher Remley
  • Patent number: 12247660
    Abstract: A grommet apparatus for cable passage is provided at a component opening. It includes a radially circumferential connecting portion for connecting the grommet apparatus to an edge region of a component opening in an assembly direction and a cable passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Albert Sbongk, Gerit Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12234911
    Abstract: A seal assembly includes a cap and a seal. The cap includes an engagement structure and a flange. The engagement structure is configured to couple the cap to an enclosure. The flange defines a plurality of openings that are open through a first side of the flange and a second side of the flange. The seal includes a seal body and a plurality of bosses. The seal body engages the second side of the flange and includes a plurality of bosses. Each boss is positioned in a respective opening of the plurality of openings. The seal is compressible against the flange from a relaxed state in which the bosses are flush with the first side of the flange or recessed within the openings and a compressed state in which each boss extends from the respective opening beyond the first side of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Robert Rink, Nathaniel Conti, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 12234913
    Abstract: A sealing assembly for bearings, in particular for use in agriculture, comprising a primary sealing barrier and a secondary sealing barrier, which are arranged in series along a potential path (P) of ingress of contaminants into the bearing, and have, respectively, a first seal and a second seal with a plurality of contact lips. The contact lips of the first and second seal with a plurality of contact lips may be static lips that do not rotate about an axis (A) of rotation of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Stellario Barbera, Giorgia D'Amico, Claudio Foti
  • Patent number: 12215789
    Abstract: A labyrinth seal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first structure including seal fins located at intervals in an axial direction; and a second structure opposed to the first structure, a radial gap being between each seal fin and the second structure. The second structure is such that when each seal fin is regarded as a reference, a portion of the second structure which is located downstream of the seal fin does not overlap the seal fin in the axial direction. The second structure includes an inlet wall located upstream of a most upstream one of the seal fins, a radial gap being between the inlet wall and the first structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Ando, Shoichi Shimomura, Naoya Tanabashi, Shinya Makino, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12209663
    Abstract: A sealing member includes a monolithic body including a first portion adjoining a second portion. The first portion forms part of a circle. The second portion includes first and second lobes. Each lobe adjoins the first portion with a concave surface. In one example, each lobe includes a rounded tip, and a convex surface extends from one rounded tip to the other rounded tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yao-Hung Yang, Chih-Yang Chang, Sam Hyungsam Kim
  • Patent number: 12209665
    Abstract: An annular seal for installation in an annular groove defined at an interface between first and second wellhead component is disclosed. The seal has an annular body with first and second legs that define an annular channel at the inside diameter face of the annular body. The annular channel is configured to define a pressure cavity within the annular groove between the first and second wellhead component. The outside diameter face of the annular body has a tapered profile in cross-section, and the first and second legs have enlarged ends configured for engaging the inside diameter wall of the annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SPM Oil & Gas PC LLC
    Inventors: Michael L. Mann, Ray Dicksang Pang, Phu Duc Sy Dong
  • Patent number: 12209662
    Abstract: A seal, a fluid assembly comprising same, and a fluid device. The seal comprises a body portion; first through holes are formed in the seal; the seal further has first sealing portions corresponding to the first through holes; there are at least two first through holes; each first sealing portion comprises a first extension portion and a second extension portion; the first extension portion and the second extension portion are located on opposite sides of the body portion; the first extension portion and the second extension portion extend from the body portion toward the first through holes; the distance between the first extension portion and the second extension portion is greater than the height of the body portion; and the first extension portion is a closed raised structure, and the second extension portion is also a closed raised structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lixin Wang, Yun Wang, Long Lin, Cancan Shen, Jianhua Chi
  • Patent number: 12209670
    Abstract: Piston ring having a first annular body and a second annular body, which annular bodies, are arranged adjacent to and concentric with one another in the axial direction (A), the first annular body having a radially outwardly directed outer side, an upper and a lower flank and a radially inwardly directed inner side, the second annular body being designed as a segmented sealing ring having a plurality of sealing ring segments, which sealing ring segments each have a radially outwardly directed sealing surface, an up-per and a lower sealing ring segment flank and a radially inwardly directed inner side, the sealing ring segments each being guided on the first annular body by means of at least one guide means, which guide means substantially prevent twisting of the sealing ring segments against the first annular body in the circumferential direction (U) and permit displacement of the sealing ring segments transversely to the axial direction (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BURCKHARDT COMPRESSION AG
    Inventor: Norbert Feistel
  • Patent number: 12196322
    Abstract: A gland seal assembly including a stuffing box and packing positioned within the stuffing box. A gas seal assembly is mounted adjacent the stuffing box, the gas seal assembly including a gas inlet port and a gas outlet port interconnected by one or more passageways. A gland follower is positioned partially within the gas seal assembly and in adjustable engagement with the packing. The gas seal assembly further includes gas dispersal device receiving gas from the gas inlet port and directing gas into a shaft aperture formed through the gas seal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Sealing Equipment Products Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Chuck Tanner
  • Patent number: 12196317
    Abstract: A sealing device for sealing an annular space formed between an outer member and an inner member. The sealing device includes a seal member and a slinger member, the slinger member includes a slinger extension ring portion provided on an outer side in radial direction further than an outer diameter side end portion of a slinger ring portion, facing an axially outer side end surface of the outer member, and extending in radial direction. A first labyrinth extending in radial direction is formed between the slinger extension ring portion and the outer member, an outer side end portion of the first labyrinth in radial direction opening toward an outer space. A second labyrinth extending in axial direction is formed between an outer diameter side slinger cylindrical portion and a seal fitting cylindrical portion, the second labyrinth communicating with the first labyrinth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: UCHIYAMA MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventor: Kentaro Ohmori
  • Patent number: 12173796
    Abstract: A kit for protecting at least one seal installed in a cavity of a transfer fuel pump, the cavity comprising an opening for receiving a shaft inside the cavity. The kit comprises a first tool and a second tool, the first tool comprising a first handle and a first protective portion, the second tool comprising a second handle and a second protective portion, and the first and the second protective portions being shaped to be inserted in the cavity of the transfer fuel pump while receiving the shaft inside said cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: PHINIA JERSEY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Guillaume Faber, Ludovic Breton
  • Patent number: 12169024
    Abstract: The present application discloses a cartridge type mechanical sealing device for sealing liquid, the sealing device including a gland, a rotating ring adaptor assembly, a rotating ring, a stationary ring adaptor, a stationary ring, and a locking ring mounted around a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: AIGI Environmental Inc
    Inventors: Jingwei Zhao, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12169023
    Abstract: A shaft seal assembly for sealing a moving shaft of a fluid consumer includes a seal case movable relative to a mating surface of the shaft, a biasing force that biases the seal case towards the mating surface, and a seal at least partially disposed in the seal case. In a dynamic condition, when fluid pressure against the seal case is equal to or greater than a threshold pressure, the seal case sealingly separates from the mating surface, and the seal is forced into sealing engagement against the mating surface of the shaft to form a dynamic seal. In a static condition, when fluid pressure exerted against the seal case is less than the threshold pressure, the seal is sealingly engaged against the mating surface to form a static seal, and the seal case is sealingly engaged against the mating surface of the shaft to form an additional static seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventor: Philip Rockenbach
  • Patent number: 12163588
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a functional layer having a first major surface and a second major surface and a barrier layer directly or indirectly connected to the second major surface of the functional layer, wherein the functional layer has a surface roughness having a waviness factor Wf. Also disclosed is a method for producing a sealing device and the use of a sealing device for waterproofing of a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Carine Kerber, Matthias Gössi, Herbert Ackermann
  • Patent number: 12152671
    Abstract: A dual seal termination assembly having a first termination body; and a sleeve at least partially surrounding the first termination body; primary and secondary seals adapted to be fitted between the first termination body and the sleeve; a test port in the first termination body to supply test fluid to a point between the primary and secondary seals of the first termination body; the test port being adapted to receive test fluid at a predetermined pressure, such that a pressure difference is created between the point between the primary and secondary seals and a point on the other side of the primary seal and a point on the other side of the secondary seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Holt Spanggaard, Kelly Turner
  • Patent number: 12152715
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system installed around a penetration hole of a pipe penetrating wall structure which divides a certain space and sealing the penetration hole in case of fire, which comprises a housing unit, a connecting unit and a fixing unit. A housing unit forming a body and having a predetermined accommodatable space, a connecting unit connected to the housing unit, interconnecting the housing unit in a series and a fixing unit arranged at a side of the housing unit, fixing the housing unit to the wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Ki Tae Park
  • Patent number: 12152674
    Abstract: A cassette seal is configured to seal a shaft within a housing. A shaft casing is annularly-shaped about a longitudinal axis and is configured to fixedly attach to the shaft, where the shaft casing is electrically conductive and configured to be in electrical conductivity with the shaft when attached to the shaft. A housing casing is annularly-shaped about the longitudinal axis and is configured to fixedly attach to the housing, where the housing casing is electrically conductive and configured to be in electrical conductivity with the housing when attached to the housing. A seal is disposed between the shaft and housing casing. At least one cantilevered flexural finger is attached fixedly attached to either the shaft casing or the housing casing and then in rotating abutment with the other. The at least one cantilevered flexural finger is electrically conductive and electrically connects the shaft casing to the housing casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TRELLEBORG SEALING SOLUTIONS US, INC.
    Inventors: Mark C. Sitko, Rutuja S. Joshi