Patents Examined by Tuongminh N Pham
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Patent number: 11044856Abstract: An emitter (120) adjusts the flow rate of a liquid for irrigation to be discharged from a discharge opening (112) of a tube (110) so that, according to pressure of the liquid for irrigation within the tube (110) received by a second membrane (153), the flow rate is made smaller as the pressure becomes greater in a prescribed range of pressure. The emitter (120) is constituted by mating a first member (130) having a bottom surface with a shape that follows along the inside wall surface of the tube (110) and a second member (150) that includes the second membrane (153) and is mated to the first member (130).Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Kidachi
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Patent number: 11020756Abstract: A spool and wobbler assembly for a sprinkler includes a spool section with facing spool flanges on opposite sides of a spool core, where at least one of the spool flanges includes a circumferential rolling ledge. A wobbler cage including a wobbler ring is supported on the spool section, and a water deflector plate is coupled with the wobbler cage. An underside of the wobbler ring is provided with a circumferential rolling surface that engages the circumferential rolling ledge of the at least one spool flange. The rolling surface and rolling ledge provide for smoother orbital motion of the deflector plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: NELSON IRRIGATION CORPORATIONInventors: George L. Sesser, Craig B. Nelson, Andrew B. Hellie, Steven E. Crawford
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Patent number: 11014099Abstract: An alignable conformal, cup-shaped flag-mushroom fluidic nozzle assembly is engineered to generate a flat fan or sheet oscillating spray of viscous fluid product 316. The nozzle assembly includes a cylindrical flag mushroom fluidic cup member 180 having a substantially closed distal end wall with a centrally located snout defined therein. The flag mushroom cup assembly effectively splits the operating features of the fluidic circuit between a lower or proximal portion formed in the housing's sealing post member and an upper, or distal portion formed in cup member 180 which, in cooperation with the sealing post's distal surface, defines an interaction chamber 192 fed by impinging jets each comprising a continuous distribution of streamlines that impinge at selected angles to define arcs providing a lesser degree of impingement at a centered axial plane within the exit orifice 194 and a greater degree of impingement at the edges of exit orifice 194.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: DLHBOWLES, INC.Inventors: Benjamin D. Hasday, Evan Hartranft
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Patent number: 11007543Abstract: A shower head with an inner core includes a shower head body, an inlet valve core assembly, an inner core assembly, and a water outlet panel. The inlet valve core assembly is fitted in an inlet valve chamber of the shower head body. A return spring of the inlet valve core assembly abuts against an inner wall of the inlet valve chamber and one end of an inlet valve core. The inner core assembly is detachably fitted inside an inner core chamber. The water outlet panel is connected with the shower head body and provided with a functional water chamber communicating with a water outlet passage. The shower head can prevent the inner core assembly from flying out of the inner core chamber due to the impact of the water flow to hurt the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: XIAMEN LOTA INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., LOTA XIAMEN INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuedong Wang, Jiangcheng Zhang, Xiaofei Guo
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Patent number: 11007545Abstract: Various embodiments concern a handheld paint sprayer for spraying a paint. The sprayer can comprise a shell body comprising a door that, when opened, exposes an opening into an interior of the shell body, the door configured to close over the opening. The sprayer can further comprise a trigger connected to a handle, a motor in the interior, and a paint reservoir connected to the shell body. The sprayer can further comprise a nozzle in fluid communication with the reservoir and a pump located in the interior of the shell body. The pump is operated by the motor, the pump configured to pump the paint from the reservoir out of the nozzle as a spray. The pump is removable from the interior of the shell body through the opening when the door is opened but is not removable through the opening when the door is closed.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.Inventors: Charles W. Dawson, Diane L. Olson, Pamela J. Muetzel
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Patent number: 11000620Abstract: An aroma diffuser having a base, and an essential oil container cylinder above the base and sleeved by an outer shell; a circuit board and an atomizing transducer are provided inside the base; an energy accumulation aperture is provided at a bottom plate of the essential oil container cylinder; the atomizing transducer is mounted at a lower end of the energy accumulation aperture; a width of the atomizing transducer is greater than a width of the energy accumulation aperture; a light column is provided inside the essential oil container cylinder; a light source is mounted inside the light column; an upper cover is provided at an upper end of the essential oil container cylinder; a light blocking shade is provided at an upper end of the upper cover; a first opening is provided on the upper cover; a gas discharge opening is provided on the light blocking shade.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventor: Song Lin
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Patent number: 10986830Abstract: A system for repelling insects from an object (e.g., a beverage dispenser), the system including a mister device configured to generate a mist at the object; and a sensor operatively coupled to the mister device and configured to produce a sense signal when a user of the object is detected by the sensor, wherein the mister device is configured to stop generation of the mist based at least in part on the sense signal such that the user can use the object without being exposed to the mist, and wherein the mister device is further configured to restart generation of the mist once the user is no longer detected by the sensor. A method that includes generating a mist at an object; detecting a user of the object; and stopping the generating of the mist based at least in part on the detecting of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventor: Mindy A. Lawrence
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Patent number: 10987530Abstract: A safety assembly provided with an automatic fire extinguisher system includes an engagement member, a blocking member, and an extension member. The engagement member is slidably received within an outlet port of a valve housing. A blocking member having a first blocking member portion and a second blocking member portion is at least partially received within a cavity defined by the valve housing. The extension member extends between the engagement member and the blocking member.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: KIDDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: David William Frasure, Doug John Baxendell, Christopher Wilson, Terry Simpson, John Wright Porterfield, Jr., Kevin R. Leitch, Michael Lee Davis
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Patent number: 10981183Abstract: The present invention relates to a handpiece for spraying on a fluid jet with a handpiece casing in which a nozzle element for forming the jet geometry of the fluid jet is accommodated. The present invention is based on the object of specifying a handpiece for spraying on a fluid jet which can be produced in a more simple and inexpensive manner, and proposes to satisfy the object in that a nozzle element be fixedly connected to an integrally formed nozzle holder which sealingly abuts against the outer circumferential surface of the nozzle element and is fixed relative to the handpiece casing.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Medaxis AGInventors: Beat Moser, Beat Widmer, Martin Butler, Roman Good, Cyrill Rothlin
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Patent number: 10973181Abstract: The present invention provides a telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine, including a chassis, a locking-type reel, a sprinkling irrigation apparatus, and a stepwise driving apparatus. A locking channel in a circumferential direction is disposed on the locking-type reel. The stepwise driving apparatus includes a lifting cylinder, an upper caliper, and a lower caliper, and the upper caliper and the lower caliper are clamped to be mounted on the locking channel. Pressurized water is used in the telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine to drive the lifting cylinder to realize periodic lifting motion of the piston rod, so as to drive the upper caliper to move up and down to be engaged with the locking channel of the locking-type reel intermittently, thereby driving the locking-type reel to roll back intermittently to automatically reel in a sprinkling irrigation PE hose.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignees: JIANGSU HUAYUAN WATER-SAVING CO., LTD, China University of Mining and TechnologyInventors: Zhipeng Qiu, Tao Peng, Peiyong Liu, Jinxiang Zhang, Zhencai Zhu, Fan Jiang
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Patent number: 10975822Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle head and to a fluid injection valve, in particular to a motor vehicle injection valve. A nozzle head for atomizing a fluid for a fluid injection valve with a valve body, through which flow can pass, may include a longitudinal axis and a nozzle perforated disk having a front surface and an opposite inner surface. The nozzle perforated disk may comprise at least one nozzle hole channel completely penetrating the nozzle perforated disk in the direction of the longitudinal axis and including includes an entry surface at a first channel end and an outlet surface at a second channel end wherein the entry surface is formed on the inner surface of the nozzle perforated disk.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventor: Harry Schuele
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Patent number: 10973219Abstract: A fluid spray apparatus includes an inlet and first and second outlets. A first actuator may communicate the inlet with at least one of the outlets. A second actuator also may communicate the inlet with at least one of the outlets. A passage network of the fluid spray apparatus communicates the first and second actuators with the first and second outlets. A diverter structure is disposed in the passage network. The diverter structure includes a first diverter structure arrangement. In the first diverter structure arrangement, the first actuator communicates the inlet with the first outlet and the second actuator communicates the inlet with the second outlet. The diverter structure also includes a second diverter structure arrangement. In the second diverter structure arrangement, the first actuator communicates the inlet with the second outlet and the second actuator communicates the inlet with the first outlet.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Inventor: Kenneth D. Crenshaw
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Patent number: 10933262Abstract: An oxygen-reducing installation and method include a compressed gas storage having a container for storing a compressed gas, which can be an oxygen-reduced gas mixture or an inert gas, and having a fluid connection to an enclosed area via a line system to feed at least a portion of the compressed gas to the enclosed area. A gas separation system provides an oxygen-reduced gas mixture and includes an outlet for delivery of the oxygen-reduced gas mixture produced in the gas separation system to the compressed gas storage and/or to the enclosed area as required.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: WAGNER FIRE SAFETY, INC.Inventors: Ernst-Werner Wagner, Julian Eichhoff
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Patent number: 10934696Abstract: The invention relates to a jet regulator (3) having a jet regulator housing (4), which has, on the housing outer circumference thereof, an external thread (5), by means of which the jet regulator (3) can be mounted in an internal thread provided in the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting, wherein an outflow-side housing end face (6) of the jet regulator housing (4) is designed as a grid or mesh structure, which has throughflow holes (7) for the water flowing through the jet regulator (3) and which has at least one tool engagement surface designed as a slit-shaped recess (8, 9) in this grid or mesh structure and intended for a turning tool. It is characteristic of the jet regulator according to the invention that a second slit-shaped recess (9) is provided in the slit base of this first recess (8), the second recess likewise being intended as a tool engagement surface, and that the second recess (9) has a smaller recess cross section than the first recess (8).Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventor: Gerhard Blum
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Patent number: 10919054Abstract: A method of emitting a water jet includes emitting a water pressure between 50 and 200 bar through a nozzle element that has a cylindrical nozzle body forming a flow passage for the water jet, and at least one nozzle opening emitting a jet stream to the surrounding area whose smallest dimension is not more than 0.15 mm, and wherein a fan jet is created on the surface to be treated at a working distance of about 80 mm between the nozzle opening and the surface to be treated. A handpiece is disclosed that includes a nozzle element that may be accommodated in the handpiece and may, in part, provide for emitting a water jet as disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Medaxis AGInventors: Beat Moser, Adrian Zweifel, Beat Widmer, Matthias Widmer
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Patent number: 10913083Abstract: In order to develop devices and methods for impulse ejection of medium, a device for impulse ejection of medium is proposed, comprising a medium chamber for holding a medium, said chamber being defined by an ejection tube and a sleeve, adjoining the ejection tube at the opposite end from the ejection end thereof, and a propellant chamber) for holding a propellant, said propellant chamber surrounding at least partially the medium chamber in the region of the sleeve, wherein the sleeve is designed for movement between a pressure position and an ejection position and seals, in the pressure position, the medium chamber from the propellant chamber at an end plate and wherein the sleeve in the ejection position is spaced apart from the end plate such that there is fluid communication for passage of the propellant from the propellant chamber into the medium chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventor: Martijn Steur
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Patent number: 10906057Abstract: A liquid-dispensing system includes at least one nozzle configured to dispense a liquid. The liquid-dispensing system includes at least one sensor module, configured to provide a sensor signal comprising information related to whether liquid is dispensed by the at least one nozzle. At least a part of the at least one sensor is located in proximity of the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Christian Illemann, Karl Pilch, Herbert Priess
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Patent number: 10894262Abstract: An electrostatic sprayer system for dispensing and dispersing a liquid containing a spray compound includes a spray cloud dispersal feature that reduces the time that a residual spray cloud containing droplets including the spray compound remains suspended after spraying. A method of dispersing the residual spray cloud is implemented by a control system that causes a flow control system to deliver a non-active gas or liquid in conjunction with stopping delivery of the liquid containing the spray agent and charged with the same polarity, so that a charged cloud of the non-active gas or liquid, which may be air, displaces the suspended active fluid particles. The non-active gas or liquid may be dispensed for a predetermined time interval as determined by the control system, or the operator may control the time interval during which that the non-active fluid is dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: ES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventor: Steven C. Cooper
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Patent number: 10888887Abstract: A pressure washer includes a motor configured to drive a pump, a frame having first and second end portions, a handle having first and second end portions, and a rotating joint rotatably coupling the first end portion of the handle to the second end portion of the frame. The rotating joint includes a locking mechanism to selectively lock the position of the handle relative to the frame. The handle rotates between a storage position and an extended position. In the storage position, the second end portion of the handle is positioned near the first end portion of the frame such that the motor and the pump are located within a volume defined by the first and second end portions of the handle and the frame. In the extended position, the second end portion of the handle is spaced apart from the frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLCInventor: Tyler D. Masters
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Patent number: 10881887Abstract: A valve assembly includes a pipe fitting through which a gas is configured to flow. The inlet of the pipe fitting is configured to connect to an open port of a fire suppression sprinkler system so that gas flows from the fire suppression sprinkler system into the pipe fitting. The valve assembly also includes a vent valve. The inlet of the vent valve is connected to the outlet of the pipe fitting. The vent valve is operable to move between an open position and a shut position. The valve assembly includes an inert gas analyzer and at least one vent port upstream of the inert gas analyzer. The inert gas analyzer is positioned to measure the inert gas content of gas flowing in front of the inert gas analyzer and through the vent port to an outside environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: AGF MANUFACTURING, INC.Inventors: George J. McHugh, IV, James P. McHugh, Bentley F. Gleeson