Patents Examined by Theresa Trieu
  • Patent number: 12038008
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped check valve which opens and closes the injection passage is placed in the check valve chamber, an injection discharge passage portion connected to the compression chamber of the injection passage and the check valve chamber open from an outer surface of the fixed scroll, a lid body is attached to openings of the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber such that the check valve is sandwiched between the openings and the lid body, and the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber are hermetically closed, thereby forming the injection passage. According to this, it is possible to provide a reliable, efficient and inexpensive compressor with an injection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Watanabe, Akinori Fukuda, Akihiro Hayashi, Hideto Oka, Keisuke Noba
  • Patent number: 12038002
    Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided that may include a casing, a cylinder having an inner circumferential surface in an annular shape, a roller rotatably disposed in a compression space of the cylinder, a rotational shaft coupled to an inner circumference of the roller, main and sub bearings defining surfaces of the compression space, and a sub bearing cover coupled to the sub bearing to cover one end of the sub bearing and defining a discharge chamber with the sub bearing to communicate with the compression space so as to accommodate compressed refrigerant to be discharged. The sub bearing or the sub bearing cover may include a first barrier rib that protrudes from a surface thereof located inside of the discharge chamber. The first barrier rib may be spaced apart from a surface opposite to the surface within the discharge chamber by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoul Noh, Yongkyu Choi, Minho Lee
  • Patent number: 12031536
    Abstract: In a screw compressor, a lobe of a lobe profile of a female rotor includes: a first contour line defining a leading flank; a second contour line defining a trailing flank; and a third contour line defining a lobe tip having both endpoints at which the female has the maximum radius. In the lobe profile, when a first angle formed by two line segments linking a second rotation center as a vertex and both ends of the first contour line, a second angle formed by two line segments linking the second rotation center and both ends of the second contour line, and a third angle formed by two line segments linking the second rotation center and both ends of the third contour line, the third angle is greater on the delivery side in the axial direction, and the first angle is smaller on the delivery side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Kotaro Chiba, Tomohiro Komatsu, Shota Tanimoto, Toshiaki Yabe, Shigeyuki Yorikane
  • Patent number: 12031539
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a compressor housing that is provided with a refrigerant discharge portion and a refrigerant suction portion, and an accumulator that is fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the compressor housing and connected to the suction portion. The accumulator has a cylindrical body portion, which is formed of a resin material, an upper portion, which is formed of a metal material and closes an upper end of the body portion, and a lower portion, which is formed of a metal material and closes a lower end of the body portion, the upper portion is joined to the upper end of the body portion, and the lower portion is joined to the lower end of the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryo Akimoto, Junya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12025129
    Abstract: A liquid-supply-type screw compressor can suppress a rise in temperature of a liquid while reducing work for stirring the liquid. The compressor has male and female rotors, male- and female-rotor-side working chambers formed at grooves of the male and female rotors, respectively. The compressor also has a liquid supply nozzle arranged on one side in the rotor axial direction which is a low-pressure side of an intersection at which a high-pressure-side cusp intersects a ridge line of a trailing lobe tip of the female rotor that defines a female-rotor-side working chamber, the nozzle supplying liquid to the male-rotor-side working chamber; and a liquid-supply nozzle arranged on the other side in the rotor axial direction which is a high-pressure side of the intersection, and supplies the liquid to the male-rotor-side working chamber, and the liquid supply amount of the nozzle is made greater than the amount of the other liquid-supply nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Chiba, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Masahiko Takano, Kenji Morita
  • Patent number: 12025126
    Abstract: A scroll compressor including a fixed scroll including a fixed wrap, an orbiting scroll including an orbiting wrap facing the fixed scroll to form a compression chamber together with the fixed wrap, and a first receiving groove formed on a second surface, opposite to the orbiting wrap, a frame including a second receiving groove formed on a surface facing the second surface of the orbiting scroll and forming a ring-shaped chamber disposed inside the frame and between the second surface and the surface of the frame, a guide ring disposed in the ring-shaped chamber, and a plurality of roller bearings each including an inner ring fixed to the guide ring, wherein some of the roller bearings are disposed in the first receiving groove and others are disposed in the second receiving groove, and the guide ring and the plurality of roller bearings prevent the orbiting scroll from rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunghea Cho, Dohyun Kim, Jongcheun Seo
  • Patent number: 12025131
    Abstract: A drivetrain component including a first gear positioned on a first shaft configured to receive torque from a power source, a second gear positioned on a second shaft, and a housing partially surrounding the first and second gears. The second gear is engaged with the first gear transmitting torque from the first shaft to the second shaft. The second shaft is configured to transfer torque received from the first shaft to an additional drivetrain component. The housing includes an inlet and an outlet. Rotation of the first and second gears transfers fluid from the inlet to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew T. Sterling, Jacob H. Tayloe
  • Patent number: 12025124
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor unit rotationally driving a drive shaft, and a pump unit. The pump unit includes a pump rotor that sends the fluid by a driving force of the driving shaft, and a pump housing that covers at least one side of the pump rotor. The pump housing includes an attachment surface extending in the axial direction and in contact with an attached body, first and second flow paths respectively on the suction side and the discharge side, and a partition wall positioned between pump-side openings of the first flow path and the second flow path facing the pump rotor, and extends in a direction along the attachment surface, and locations of attachment-side openings of the first flow path and the second flow path on the attachment surface are displaced from each other on the attachment surface in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nan Wu, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam
  • Patent number: 12018687
    Abstract: A rotor unit for an eccentric screw pump, comprising a drive shaft which is drivable by means of a drive element of the eccentric screw pump, a helical rotor, and a flex shaft connecting the drive shaft to the rotor, wherein the flex shaft is at least in part accommodated within in the drive shaft, and wherein between the flex shaft and the drive shaft a gap extending around the flex shaft is provided, which allows for a radial movement of the flex shaft within the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: VISCOTEC PUMPEN-U. DOSIERTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Horst Kelsch, Jürgen Auer
  • Patent number: 12018686
    Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided that may include a cylinder having an inner peripheral surface; a roller; and a plurality of vanes slidably inserted into the plurality of vane slots to rotate together with the roller, front end surfaces of which come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder due to the back pressure to partition the compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. The cylinder may further include a suction flow path for refrigerant that may include a suction port that communicates with the compression space to suction the refrigerant in a lateral direction, and a suction passage disposed in a direction that crosses the suction port to provide communication between the compression space and the suction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinung Shin, SeSeok Seol, Sedong Lee
  • Patent number: 12018688
    Abstract: A sealing assembly for a progressive cavity pump and a progressive cavity pump assembly having a retaining sleeve, a ring, and an elastic diaphragm terminating in a first end of the diaphragm in a first opening, and in a second end of the diaphragm, opposite the first end, in a second opening larger than the first opening. The second opening is held in contact with the retaining sleeve by the ring, and the first opening is configured to grip a rotor of the progressive cavity pump, and the ring is configured to hold the second opening fixed with respect to a stator of the progressive cavity pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Sitnitsky, Alexander Shechtman, Assaf Govari, Stanislav Katzir, Elad Avraham Diukman
  • Patent number: 12000286
    Abstract: A gear wheel (10) for a hydraulic apparatus is rotatable about an axis of rotation (H-H) and comprises a plurality of teeth (11) having a sectional profile (P) and being adapted to mesh with respective teeth of another gear wheel during a rotational motion about the axis of rotation (H-H), wherein at least one tooth (11) is shaped so as to have at least one cutting edge (12) configured to remove material, in particular chips, from a body which is contacted by the cutting edge during the rotation of the gear wheel (10), wherein the cutting edge (12) is defined by at least one groove (14) which is lowered by amount from 0.2% to 5% of the height (H?) of the tooth (11), said the groove (14) decreasing away from the cutting edge (12) along the profile (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Settima Meccanica S.r.l.
    Inventors: Manuele Rossi, Andrea Ceruti
  • Patent number: 11994031
    Abstract: A rotor unit assembly includes a rotor unit having a chamber and a rotor located within the chamber. The rotor has a piston which extends radially outward from the main body of the rotor; and a valve flange with an aperture. The rotor unit further comprises a rotatable hub, with a cavity configured to receive the piston. The rotor unit further comprises a first low pressure port provided in a path described by the piston; a first high pressure port positioned in a path described by the valve flange aperture around the clearance volume; and a second high pressure port positioned in a path described by the cavity around the hub axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventor: James William Spain
  • Patent number: 11994128
    Abstract: A compressor may include first and second scroll members, first and second bearings, and first and second Oldham couplings. The scroll members define compression pockets. The first bearing may define a first rotational axis about which the first scroll member rotates. The second bearing may support the second scroll member for rotation about a second rotational axis that is offset from the first rotational axis. The first Oldham coupling may include a first body and a plurality of first keys extending from the first body. The first keys may engage slots formed in the second scroll member. The second Oldham coupling is separate and distinct from the first Oldham coupling. The second Oldham coupling may include a second body and a plurality of second keys extending from the second body. The second keys may engage slots formed in a surface that rotates about the first rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Copeland LP
    Inventors: Kirill M. Ignatiev, Mikhail A. Antimonov
  • Patent number: 11988209
    Abstract: A gear pump includes a pair of gears having meshed teeth. One of the gears is configured for connection to a source of drive. The gears are received within a housing. The housing has an inlet port configured for connection to a source of fluid and an outlet port. Each of the gears have a shaft rotating within the housing on a bearing on each axial side of each gear. At least one of the bearings associated with each of the pair of gears has a plurality of springs received in recesses to bias the said at least one bearing against an end face of a respective one of the pair of gears. A retention plate holds each of the plurality springs. A method of assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Edward W. Goy, Timothy J. Franckowiak
  • Patent number: 11988207
    Abstract: Rotary piston machines working volume sealing systems thereof are disclosed. They can be used in gas (air) and refrigerating compressors, heat and vacuum pumps, and internal-combustion engines. The rotary piston compressor sealing system includes radial and butt sealing bars in the rotor slots, tightened towards the working surfaces by expanders and interacting with the sealing cylinders. The radial and butt sealing bars are made from an antifriction composite material. Each sealing cylinder is configured conjointly with one end of one butt sealing bar. Variations also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: RPC ENGINEERING LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Maksym Victorovich Olenych
  • Patent number: 11976659
    Abstract: A rotary, self-priming, positive displacement pump is described. The pump may include a pump housing including an inlet and an outlet, a pump chamber including an upper wall, a lateral wall, and a floor, first and second rotary impellers in the pump chamber, and a pair of gears each secured to the first and second rotary impellers, and a pressure relief feature operable to relieve pressure developing in a relatively high pressure zone of the pump chamber. The gears mesh with each other to ensure that the vanes do not contact one another during rotation. The pressure relief feature may comprise one or more channels formed in the pump housing and/or the first and second rotary impellers. The channels connect the high pressure zone with another zone to redistribute pressure. The channels may include one continuous channel or alternatively, a plurality of unconnected channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Joe Dick Rector
  • Patent number: 11976657
    Abstract: A compressor includes a motor, a compression mechanism portion driven by the motor, and a rotation shaft connecting the motor and the compression mechanism portion. At least a part of the rotation shaft is composed of a material having a higher Young's modulus than that of cast iron, and having a higher thermal conductivity than that of cast iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 11959478
    Abstract: A dry rotary pump for recirculating an at least partially gaseous composition containing hydrogen. The dry rotary pump comprising a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft. The first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft are driven in rotation by a drive system in a gear chamber. The dry rotary pump comprises a first pair of seals and a second pair of seals, each comprising a first shaft seal and a second shaft seal. The dry rotary pump comprises a pressure equalization chamber in fluid connection with a gap between the first shaft seal and the second shaft seal to regulate pressure in the gap. The gear chamber is in fluid connection with the gap, and the pumping chamber is in fluid connection with the first shaft seal and the first shaft seal by a pulsation attenuation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BUSCH PRODUKTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Théo Bilger, Boris Kossek, Matthias Benz, Yohann Perrot
  • Patent number: 11952899
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine comprising a rotary toroidal piston chamber with two or more stationary pistons, which are provided to operate in such chamber, and having input and output ports for each piston provides a bidirectional motor or pump operable with high constant torque and high efficiency. Radially movable gates provide closed sections of the piston chamber and open to allow continuous rotation in one direction without reciprocating pistons or cranking mechanism. Rotation of the chamber is achieved by reaction to the force of hydraulic pressure on the pistons. A rotary piston chamber with four stationary pistons, operating as a four piston hydraulic motor simultaneously driving itself as a two piston pump functions as a pressure multiplier providing output pressure higher than the input pressure. Uses include sump pump, pumped energy storage and hydroelectric power generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Herbert Dym