Patents Examined by Vishal A Patel
  • Patent number: 11933442
    Abstract: A pipe sealing gasket is shown which is designed to be received within a raceway provided within the female, belled end of a section of plastic pipe which is assembled with a mating male pipe end to form a plastic pipe joint. The gasket is a two-component gasket having a softer, elastomeric portion and a harder, plastic ring portion. A splicing technique is used to form the softer, elastomeric portion with the harder, plastic portion being injection molded over the previously formed elastomeric portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: S & B TECHNICAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark A. Weih, Rodney Pacheco
  • Patent number: 11873903
    Abstract: A segment of a seal assembly for forming a hydrodynamic seal against a rotating member can include a main body extending between first and second sides and defining a radial internal surface for forming a hydrodynamic seal with the rotating member. The main body can include a main surface extending between the main body first and second sides, a fluid inlet portion recessed from the main surface, and a hydrodynamic pad region located adjacent the fluid inlet portion and extending in a circumferential direction. The hydrodynamic pad region can include a first section and a second section separated by a land portion, wherein the first and second sections are recessed from the main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Gerald Maurice Berard, Edward Nicholas Ruggeri
  • Patent number: 11852240
    Abstract: A rotational seal assembly is associated with a rotating component. The rotational seal includes an outer casing, an inner casing, a rotational seal connected to the outer casing and the inner casing, and a followability enhancer. A section of the rotational seal includes a heel portion and a toe portion. The rotational seal is configured to contact, via a first surface of the section of the rotational seal and during operation of the rotating component, the rotating component. The followability enhancer is configured to contact, during the operation of the rotating component, a first region of a second surface of the section of the rotational seal that is associated with the toe portion. The followability enhancer is configured to not contact, during the operation of the rotating component, a second region of the second surface of the section of the rotational seal that is associated with the heel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Elmer S Zanoria, Hong Lian, Keith Harmeyer, Daniel Joshua Smith
  • Patent number: 11852241
    Abstract: There is provided a sliding component that supplies a sealed fluid to a leakage side in a gap between sliding surfaces to exhibit high lubricity and has a small leakage of the sealed fluid. A sliding component has an annular shape and is disposed in a place where relative rotation is performed in a rotary machine. The sliding component includes a plurality of dynamic pressure generating mechanisms provided in a sliding surface of the sliding component. Each of the dynamic pressure generating mechanisms includes a deep groove portion that communicates with a leakage side, and a shallow groove portion that communicates with the deep groove portion and extends from the deep groove portion in a circumferential direction. An end portion in an extending direction of the shallow groove portion is formed into a tapered shape in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11852242
    Abstract: A packing ring for a sealing device, having at least two segments that are arranged around a common main axis (X). In order to be able to detect the current condition of wear, the packing ring has at least one indicator means that indicates a position of at least one of the segments in a radial direction (R) perpendicular to the main axis (X) of the packing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: STASSKOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Langela, Dennis Kranert, Uwe Morawa
  • Patent number: 11852245
    Abstract: A device for adjusting and compensating working wear gaps of a floating seal ring, which is provided on a movable seat chamber, a floating seal ring and a rubber ring are provided in the movable seat chamber, the movable seat chamber and the shaft are sealed by a shaft sealing rubber ring, wherein: adjusting screw holes are provided on a center of the shaft along an axial direction, a bayonet slot for penetrating the shaft is provided on an outer side of the shaft along a radial direction, a bayonet is provided in the bayonet slot, and a locking groove is provided on an end portion of the movable seat chamber, an adjusting screw inserted into the adjusting screw hole is provided on an end portion of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN XINHUAFENG MACHINERY MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhenghao Yu, Sichun Yu
  • Patent number: 11835141
    Abstract: To provide a dust cover capable of maintaining a state in which a first flexible part and a second flexible part of a bellows are fitted onto a mounting member. A dust cover includes a bushing, a bellows, and a mounting member. The mounting member has a main body and a flange part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Seiichi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 11815183
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings, the adaptor being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masakazu Kito, Yoshiaki Takigahira
  • Patent number: 11815182
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes a pair of seal rings that rotate relative to each other; and a retainer that holds the seal ring. The retainer includes an annular base portion, an annular holding portion that is externally fitted to an outer periphery of the seal ring, and an annular connection portion that connects the base portion and the annular holding portion in an axial direction, and an annular space partially surrounded by the base portion, the annular connection portion, and the annular holding portion is formed between the outer periphery of the seal ring and an inner periphery of the retainer. The retainer has a plurality of beams which are disposed in the annular space to connect the annular base portion and the annular holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Masakazu Kito
  • Patent number: 11808360
    Abstract: A scraper ring is provided with a plurality of sealing sections on the radially inner circumferential surface, each including a scraping edge, wherein the sealing sections are spaced axially apart from each other by inner circumferential grooves, with at least one recess provided on the circumference of the scraper ring which extends at least partially from a first axial ring end to a second axial ring end and extends at least partially in a direction different from the axial direction of the scraper ring. At least one drainage opening is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the scraper ring, which is connected to at least one inner circumferential groove for removing scraped oil from the inner circumferential grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hoerbiger Wien GmbH
    Inventors: Marian Janko-Grasslober, Martin Lagler, Andreas Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 11802623
    Abstract: A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings 30, the adaptor 5 being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders 9 being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Masakazu Kito, Yoshiaki Takigahira
  • Patent number: 11796063
    Abstract: A seal assembly for a rotatable shaft assembly includes a seal housing and each of a main seal and a dust seal extending circumferentially around a seal housing center axis. The dust seal includes a radially inward dust seal lip, and is formed by a sealing layer having a plurality of ventilation openings formed therein, and a debris-blocking filter layer attached to the sealing layer and positioned across the ventilation openings. The main seal and dust seal assist in maintaining lubricating oil within a seal cavity. The dust seal prevents entry of debris whilst ventilating the seal cavity to limit carbonization of oil on seal assembly components. In an implementation the seal assembly is part of a rotatable crankshaft assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Joseph Harmeyer, Elmer S. Zanoria, Daniel Joshua Smith
  • Patent number: 11781655
    Abstract: A sealing member (2), for waterproof sealing of a volume, comprises a hollow, generally cylindrical body and a sealing area (5a, 5b) at the respective axial ends thereof. At least one sealing area (5a) comprises a first radially extending portion (6) and a second portion (7) extending in a reverse direction partly overlapping the first portion. The second portion (7) has a free end and is arranged for pressing towards the first portion (6), thereby forming a seal with the first portion (6). A sealing system comprises a sealing member (2) as above, a sealing seat (9) for abutment against the sealing member (2), and a counterpart surface (11), for pressing the sealing member (2) against the sealing seat (9). The sealing seat (9) comprises an inclined surface (10). A work tool (1) comprising the above-mentioned sealing system has at least one sealing area (5a) of the sealing member (2) pressed between a housing (4) and a chassis (3) of the work tool (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Jörgen Johansson, Stefan Stark, Lars Ederfors
  • Patent number: 11781439
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a body including a cold side surface adjacent to a mate face. A plurality of ridges extends from the cold side surface. A seal member abuts the plurality of ridges to define a plurality of cooling passages. The seal member is configured to move between a first position and a second position relative to the plurality of ridges. Each of the plurality of cooling passages includes a first inlet defined at the first position and a second, different inlet defined at the second position. A method of sealing between adjacent components of a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr., Brandon W. Spangler, Lane Thornton
  • Patent number: 11781399
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are seal assemblies that may each include: a metal ring that may have a metal convex outer surface and two metal outer edges; a ring that may have a non-metal concave inner surface and two protrusions, each of the non-metal protrusions may have a surface facing one of the two metal outer edges, wherein: the metal convex outer surface may be disposed against the non-metal concave inner surface; and at least one of the two metal outer edges may be abutted against the inner surface of one of the two protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Merle Lynn Bell
  • Patent number: 11773974
    Abstract: Embodiments of a combination piston and piston ring to reduce the volume of a crevice defined between the circumferential wall of a cylinder and a portion of the outer wall of a piston within the cylinder, the portion extending down from the top of the piston. The combination piston and piston ring is configured such that pressurized fluid within the cylinder reliably urges a radial face of the piston ring to sealingly engage the circumferential wall of the cylinder, even as the piston reciprocates within the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LiquidPiston, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolay Shkolnik, Alexander Shkolnik
  • Patent number: 11767916
    Abstract: To provide sliding components capable of suppressing dynamic pressure generation mechanisms from being deformed and damaged due to wear of sliding surfaces. In a pair of sliding components which is disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotary machine, has a plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms formed in a sliding surface of the sliding component by recessed portions, and is formed in an annular shape to seal a sealed fluid by sliding the sliding surfaces of the sliding components. A surface region in the periphery of the recessed portions of the sliding component is formed to be separated from an opposite region of the sliding component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tadatsugu Imura, Hiroshi Suzuki, Iwa Ou, Yuichiro Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11761540
    Abstract: Systems and methods include providing an annular seal stack for an assembly. The seal stack is disposed within an annulus formed between a probe and a housing of the assembly and configured to provide a radial seal between the probe and the housing. The seal stack includes a first support retainer, a first lipseal, a first seal support system comprising at least one support ring disposed between the first support retainer and the first lipseal, a second support retainer configured to support the first lipseal, a second lipseal, a second seal support system comprising at least one support ring disposed between the second support retainer and the second lipseal, and a third support retainer configured to support the second lipseal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark W. Armitage, Douglas George
  • Patent number: 11754188
    Abstract: A cassette seal arrangement for sealing between a shaft and a housing includes a sleeve configured to be mounted to the shaft and including a cylindrical portion and a radially extending portion extending radially outward from the cylindrical portion. A retainer cartridge includes a main retainer configured to be mounted to the housing and supporting a seal member that includes a main seal lip and an exclusionary retainer connected to the main retainer and supporting an exclusionary seal configured to engage the shaft. An electrically conductive non-woven element is disposed longitudinally between the seal member and the exclusionary seal and engages the retainer cartridge and is configured to engage the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership
    Inventors: D. Anthony Manley, Darin Battles, Christopher Beller
  • Patent number: 11746908
    Abstract: An open cooling space or spiral cooling channel is formed between channel walls of a spool and an outer housing of a rotating shaft seal. The spool is sealed to the housing at the two ends thereof, does not intrude into the cooling inlet or outlet, and is axially removable and exchangeable without being distorted, thereby avoiding damage to the spool and/or contact between the spool and rotating seal elements. Due to the easy installation and removal of the spool, it can be installed as an upgrade after seal installation, and is easily cleaned and replaced. The cooling channel can be terminated by inlet and outlet rings, such that the spool does not require any rotational alignment within the seal assembly. The cooling channel can have a square or rectangular cross-section, thereby increasing thermal exchange between the cooling channel and the cooling channel spool rendering the cooling more efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Flowserve Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Rodney Wayne Rynearson