Patents Examined by Paul W Thiede
  • Patent number: 11421690
    Abstract: Disclosed are a silencer and a compressor with same. The silencer includes a housing, a gas inlet end of the housing being provided with a protrusion extending into an interior of the housing, a portion of the protrusion approximate to a gas outlet end of the housing being closed, and the gas inlet end of the housing being provided with at least two gas inlets around the protrusion. A part of a gas flow enters the housing through the gas inlets, and other part of the gas flow impacts the protrusion and then at least partially flows back and enters the housing through the gas inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES (WUHAN) CO., LTD, GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Hua Liu, Cong Cao, Tianyi Zhang, Yushi Bi, Qiangjun Meng, Ziyuan Huang, Helong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11415132
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided in which one of a fixed scroll or an orbiting scroll is provided with at least one guide groove, and the other is provided with a self-rotation prevention member inserted into the at least one guide groove to revolve in the at least one guide groove and configured to prevent self-rotation of the orbiting scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changeol Jo, Suchul Kim, Ikhyeon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11415135
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a first scroll member, a second scroll member, and an aerostatic thrust bearing. The aerostatic thrust bearing forms a layer of gas between the second scroll member and a fixed supporting member to support the second scroll member as the second scroll member rotates and/or orbits. Also disclosed is a method of supporting a rotating/orbiting scroll member in a scroll compressor. The method including supplying pressurized gas to an aerostatic thrust bearing such that a layer of gas is formed between the rotating/orbiting scroll member and a fixed supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jay H. Johnson, Michael G. Benco, Sung Hwa Jeung, Scott J. Smerud, James Joseph Wiltzius
  • Patent number: 11401937
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a first scroll and a second scroll engaged with the first scroll to form a compression chamber with the first scroll while performing an orbiting movement with respect to the first scroll. A frame is fixed to a side of the first scroll with the second scroll interposed between the frame and the first scroll and the frame supporting the second scroll in an axial direction. An Oldham ring includes a ring portion and a key portion protruding from the ring portion. The key portion is slidably coupled to a key recess in the frame or the second scroll to enable the second scroll to perform the orbiting movement, and the key portion of the Oldham ring is formed of the same material as the second scroll. A wear preventing member is provided between the key portion and the key recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyong Jang, Byungkil Yoo, Byeongchul Lee, Woogyong Yim
  • Patent number: 11396874
    Abstract: A vane pump that includes a first communication passage that extends along an outer periphery of the cam ring and that guides a fluid that has not flowed into the first suction port from the first inflow passage to the second suction port; a second communication passage that extends along the outer periphery of the cam ring on an opposite side of the first communication passage with respect to the rotor and that guides a fluid that has not flowed into the second suction port from the second inflow passage to the first suction port; and a rectifying portion that guides the fluid from the second inflow passage so that the fluid flows into the second suction port along the outer periphery of the cam ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Torii, Kazuki Kojima, Naohito Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11391280
    Abstract: A pump includes a housing having a first end and a second end and extending along a longitudinal axis and a discharge casing having a first end coupleable to the second end of the housing. The discharge casing extends along the longitudinal axis coaxial to the housing. A dismounting device includes a first dismount casing and a second dismount casing disposed between the discharge casing and the second end of the housing. The dismounting device extends along the longitudinal axis coaxial to the housing and the discharge casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Wecking, Berthold Rottmann, Simon Malburg, Thomas Reitz
  • Patent number: 11378078
    Abstract: What is concerned is an eccentric screw pump having at least one stator (1), a rotor (2) rotating in the stator, a drive (3) for the rotor, a pump housing (4) which is connected to the stator (1) and has at least one inlet opening (6) for the medium to be conveyed, a connection housing (14) arranged between the pump housing (4) and drive (3), a connection shaft (9) which is connected to the drive (3) and is arranged at least in certain regions in the connection housing (14), and a coupling rod (10) which is arranged in the pump housing (4) and is connected to the connection shaft (9) via a drive-side joint (11) and to the rotor (2) via a rotor-side joint (12). The drive-side housing connection piece (16) can be demounted in such a way that the drive-side joint (11) can be exposed for maintenance or demounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEEPEX GMBH
    Inventors: Norman Dicks, Stefan Goethel, Marcel Griesdorn, Peter McGarian, Dirk Overmeier, Vsevolod Ryvkin
  • Patent number: 11378077
    Abstract: Provided is a gear pump device that enables improvement in volumetric efficiency and manufacturability, and also makes it possible to ensure sealing property and to reduce drive torque. According to the present invention, a sealing mechanism is provided with an annular rubber member, an outer member, and an inner member, wherein: the inner member has, at an end of an outer peripheral wall on the side of an inner gear in the axial direction, a notch which is recessed radially inward of the inner gear so as to form, together with an axial one end face of the inner gear, a depressed part; and the outer member has an insertion part which is disposed within the depressed part and which abuts against the axial one end face of the inner gear so as to constitute a part of a sealing surface on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Usami, Kunihito Ando
  • Patent number: 11365737
    Abstract: Oil-injected screw compressor installation including a frame or underframe (5 2), a screw compressor element (3), electrical cabinet (6), oil separator vessel (5) and an air-cooled cooling module (8), with as characteristic that on one side (2a) of the frame (2), the screw compressor element (3) is placed horizontally and with the electrical 10 cabinet (6), the oil separator vessel (5) and the aircooled cooling module (8) being placed on the other side (2b) of the frame (2), with the cooling module (8) being placed such that this is perpendicular to the compressor element (3) and the air (9) sucked in by the cooling module 15 (8) will flow between the electrical cabinet (6) and the cooling module (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Yanni Francine Dollez, Kristof Adrien Martens, Steven Ray Maurits Laurent, Walter Josée Louis Adriaenssens, Brecht Van Ham
  • Patent number: 11359627
    Abstract: A scroll compressor including a first bearing rotatably supporting a rotary shaft relative to a casing at one side of the rotary shaft with respect to a motor, a second bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft relative to the casing at the other side of the rotary shaft with respect to the motor, and a third bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft relative to an orbiting scroll at the opposite side of the first bearing with respect to the second bearing. The distance between a first bearing center and a third bearing center is a predetermined distance, the distance between a motor center and the third bearing center is longer than the distance between the motor center and the first bearing center, and the distance between a second bearing center and the motor center is longer than the distance between the second bearing center and the third bearing center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Hyun Seong Ahn, Chi Myeong Moon, Kweon Soo Lim, Jae Hoon Lim, Soo Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 11346343
    Abstract: A vane pump including a housing having a peripheral wall portion, a bottom wall portion, and a pump chamber; a rotor disposed in the pump chamber to be rotatable; a vane disposed to be slidable in the radial direction with respect to the rotor and partitioning the pump chamber into working chambers; and a reed valve that opens and closes a discharge hole of the bottom wall portion. A pressure relief groove is disposed in a portion of the bottom wall portion corresponding to the discharge section with a clearance secured between the peripheral wall portion and the pressure relief groove. When the vane overlaps the pressure relief groove, a pair of the working chambers on both sides of the vane in the rotational direction communicates with each other via the pressure relief groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO Co., Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Akihiro Uto, Naoyuki Miyara, Hiroki Hara, Shinsuke Kiyomiya, Akira Fujii
  • Patent number: 11346221
    Abstract: A backpressure rotary compressor may include at least one vane, at least one vane slot configured to accommodate the at least one vane and provided with a pocket portion and a slide portion, and a backpressure passage provided with a backpressure inlet disposed in front of the at least one vane slot and a backpressure outlet formed in the pocket portion. The backpressure passage may perform a role of allowing a compression chamber and the pocket portion to communicate with each other. According to the backpressure passage rotary compressor, proper pressure may be supplied to an inner end of the vane, thereby reducing a mechanical loss caused by pressure occurring in a close contact portion between an outer end of the at least one vane and an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, and achieving high efficiency in relation to driving a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seokhwan Moon, Seoung-Min Kang, Kiyoul Noh
  • Patent number: 11326602
    Abstract: A scroll compressor with a stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a discharge port through which a fluid that has been compressed by both the scrolls is discharged. An end plate of the orbiting scroll is provided with an end-plate side stepped portion formed such that, along a spiral of a spiral wrap, the height thereof increases toward a central side of the spiral and decreases toward an outer end side thereof. A spiral wrap of the stationary scroll is provided with a wall-portion side stepped portion formed corresponding to the end-plate side stepped portion such that the height thereof decreases toward the central side of the spiral and increases toward the outer end side thereof. A pair of compression chambers which face each other, the ventral side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port before the dorsal side compression chamber communicates with the discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Takuma Yamashita, Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Akihiro Kanai, Kazuhide Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11326595
    Abstract: An eccentric screw pump has a stator, a rotor in the stator, a drive for the rotor, and a pump housing between the stator and the drive and having an opening between for receiving the medium being pumped. A releasable drive-end coupling connects a connecting shaft of the drive to a coupling rod, and a rotor-end releasably connects the coupling rod to the rotor at a separation point. A rotor stub connects the rotor to the rotor-end coupling and is separable from the rotor at the separation point. A drive-end housing collar secures the pump housing to the drive. A rotor-end housing collar has a fixed first element fixed relative to the pump housing and an axially displaceable second element that is releasably fixable to the stator and that can be pushed axially toward the housing opening of the pump housing onto the first element to expose the separation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SEEPEX GMBH
    Inventor: Dirk Overmeier
  • Patent number: 11319812
    Abstract: A rotary piston and cylinder device (1) comprising a rotor (2), a stator (4), a rotatable shutter (3), the rotor and the stator comprising surface portions which define a chamber, wherein the rotor comprises a first surface portion (2A) and the stator comprises substantially two surface portions (4a; 4b?), and the two surface portions of the stator neighbour each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LONTRA LIMITED
    Inventor: Stephen Francis Lindsey
  • Patent number: 11318574
    Abstract: A pneumatically driven apparatus, including a hand guided and/or hand held pneumatic power tool, includes a pneumatic rotary vane (PRV) motor, a working element and a gear arrangement for transmitting a rotational movement and torque. The PRV motor includes a housing defining a cylindrical chamber extending along a cylinder axis, and a cylindrical rotor located in the chamber and extending along and rotatable about an axis running to the cylinder axis. The rotor includes radially movable vanes forced radially outwards during rotation of the rotor. The gear arrangement is a magnetic gear arrangement, and that the rotor of the motor includes permanent magnets attached thereto between the vanes, so that the rotor of the PRV motor forms one of the rotating components of the magnetic gear arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: Guido Valentini
  • Patent number: 11306651
    Abstract: A method of operating a rotary engine including a rotor engaged to a shaft and rotationally received in a housing to define a plurality of working chambers of variable volume, including delivering a pilot quantity of fuel into a pilot cavity in successive communication with the working chambers, igniting the pilot quantity of fuel within the pilot cavity, and delivering a main quantity of fuel into the working chambers downstream of the successive communication of the pilot cavity with the working chambers, where at least one of the pilot quantity and the main quantity is varied between successive rotations of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Andre Julien, Edwin Schulz
  • Patent number: 11293442
    Abstract: A scroll compressor may include a first scroll and a second scroll orbiting relative to the first scroll to form compression chambers, a discharge port provided in the first scroll to discharge refrigerant compressed in the compression chamber, a discharge passage formed through the first discharged through the discharge to an upper side of the frame, and a discharge cover coupled to the first scroll and having a space to accommodate end portions of the discharge port and the discharge passage to guide the refrigerant discharged through the discharge port to the discharge passage. A volume of a discharge space defined in the space by the first scroll may be 4.5 or more, obtained by dividing a volume of the discharge space by a total volume of an initial compression chamber among the compression chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Nayoung Jeon, Taekyoung Kim, Cheolhwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11286863
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a geared architecture configured to rotatably couple a turbine and a compressor of an engine to rotate the compressor at a different speed than the turbine and a fan. A method of adjusting rotational speeds within a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gary D. Roberge
  • Patent number: 11286930
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing and a compression mechanism accommodated in the housing. The housing includes a first housing member having an annular partition wall and a second housing member. The partition wall includes a fastened portion that is thicker than other portions in a circumferential direction of the partition wall. The compression mechanism includes a fixed scroll member and an orbiting scroll member. The fixed scroll member includes a fixed spiral wall extending spirally and an outer circumferential wall that surrounds the fixed spiral wall. The outer circumferential wall includes a recess forming portion having a recess recessed inward in the radial direction. The recess is located at a part of the outer circumferential wall opposed to the fastened portion in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takuro Yamashita, Shinji Tsubai