Patents by Inventor Emilio Ramirez
Emilio Ramirez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20110265594Abstract: A gear box has a housing and a direct current motor inside of the housing. A rotatable output shaft extends through a wall of the housing and is rotatably driven by the motor via a gear train. The gear box can be used to dispense ice from a refrigerator/freezer. The motor drives the output shaft in one direction to dispense ice cubes. The motor also drives the output shaft in an opposite direction to crush ice and dispense the crushed ice. The gear box has a low-profile height. The gear train is located in front of a motor shaft of the motor and has a maximum height which does not exceed a maximum height of the motor. The motor shaft is perpendicular to the input gear of the gear train and to the output shaft of the gear box.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: Molon Motor and Coil CorporationInventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR., Ralph Bley
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Publication number: 20110239798Abstract: A gear box has a housing and a direct current motor inside of the housing. A rotatable output shaft extends through a wall of the housing and is rotatably driven by the motor via a gear train. The gear box can be used to dispense ice from a refrigerator/freezer. The motor drives the output shaft in one direction to dispense ice cubes. The motor also drives the output shaft in an opposite direction to crush ice and dispense the crushed ice. The gear box has a low-profile height. The gear train is located in front of a motor shaft of the motor and has a maximum height which does not exceed a maximum height of the motor. The motor shaft is perpendicular to the input gear of the gear train and to the output shaft of the gear box.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR., Ralph A. Bley
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Publication number: 20110232318Abstract: A gear motor assembly capable of operation in three modes and the method of operating the assembly in such modes, is disclosed herein. The assembly is generally comprised of a reversible motor having an input shaft, a gear train assembly coupled to the input shaft, an output shaft coupled to the gear train assembly, a power source, electrically coupled to the motor, for producing an operating voltage, and an input signal for directing the operating voltage from the power source through one of either a relay for switching the polarity of the operating voltage directed from the power source to the motor, thereby reversing the motor and a voltage control circuit for reducing the voltage to the motor. The motor is capable of operation, based on the input signal, at any one of a first speed in a clockwise direction, a first speed in a counter-clockwise direction, and a second speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: Molon Motor and Coil CorporationInventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR., Ralph A. Bley
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Publication number: 20110150679Abstract: A peristaltic pump for dispensing liquid includes a front casing portion, a rear casing snap-fitted together with the front casing portion, a rotor confined between the front casing portion and the rear casing portion, a plurality of rollers mounted in the rotor, and a flexible tube compressed at equally spaced intervals by the plurality of rollers. The pump is resistant to constant torques and vibrations caused by a machine to which it is attached so that the pump does not become loose and fall apart. In a first embodiment for low torque and low vibration operations, the pump is screwless. In a second embodiment for high torque and high vibration operations, two screws secure a synchronous gear motor to the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: Molon Motor and Coil CorporationInventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR., Ralph Bley
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Publication number: 20110058969Abstract: A peristaltic pump for dispensing liquid is described and includes a front housing and a rear housing snap-fitted together to define a chamber having a recessed area and a rotor confined therein, a plurality of rollers mounted in the rotor, and a flexible tube compressed at equally spaced intervals by the plurality of rollers. The rotor undergoes a gradual increase in torque as a benefit of the recessed area, rather than an immediate high-torque load at the start of each pump cycle. Further, the pump is resistant to constant torques and vibrations caused by a machine to which it is attached so that the pump does not become loose and fall apart.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: Molon Motor and Coil CorporationInventor: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR.
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Publication number: 20110033318Abstract: A motorized pump assembly including a motor having a rotatable shaft, at least a first pump having a first impeller and a second pump having a second impeller, wherein the first pump and the second pump are connected to the motor through a rotatable shaft, and wherein the first impeller of the first pump is independently operable from the second impeller of the second pump. The first pump includes a first one-way bearing operatively driven by the rotatable shaft when the rotatable shaft is rotated in a first direction, while the second pump includes a second one-way bearing operatively driven by the rotatable shaft when the rotatable shaft is rotated in a second direction, wherein the second pump and the second one-way bearing are not operatively driven by the rotatable shaft when the rotatable shaft is rotated in the first direction, and wherein the first pump and the first one-way bearing are not operatively driven by the rotatable shaft when the rotatable shaft is rotated in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR., Larry Duane Gebhardt
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Publication number: 20090092507Abstract: A fluid pump system has a housing having a housing cover removably connected to a housing base. A plurality of fluid pump assemblies are inside of the housing. Each fluid pump assembly has an electric motor operatively connected to a fluid pump. Each fluid pump has a fluid inlet extending through a wall of the housing to an exterior of the housing and a fluid outlet extending through the wall of the housing to the exterior of the housing. An electrical component inside of the housing is electrically connected to each electric motor. The electrical component has an electrical connector extending through a wall of the housing to connect to a source of electrical power. The fluid pump system can dispense three different fluids, such as two detergents and a fabric softener in a laundry machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Inventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, JR., Ronald A. Glaser, Ralph A. Bley
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Publication number: 20070199406Abstract: A gear box includes a first permanent magnet direct current (PMDC) motor, a first output shaft driven by the first motor in one direction to dispense ice cubes and driven in an opposite direction to dispense crushed ice, a second PMDC motor and a second output shaft driven by the second motor in one direction to dispense shaved ice. The first and the second motors operate independently of each other. They are also aligned parallel to each other. The second motor operates at a different speed and torque than the first motor. Cross-sections of the first and second output shafts are hexagon-shaped. The longitudinal axis of the first output shaft is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the second output shaft. Thus, this compact miniature gear motor box has two output shafts capable of performing more that two functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2006Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: MOLON MOTOR & COIL CORP.Inventors: Emilio Ramirez, Athanase Tsergas
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Publication number: 20070199407Abstract: A gear box has a housing and first and second direct current motors inside of the housing. A first rotatable output shaft extends through a wall of the housing and is rotatably driven by the first motor via a first gear train. A second rotatable output shaft extends through the wall of the housing and is rotatably driven by the second motor via a second gear train. The gear box can be used to dispense ice from a refrigerator/freezer. The first motor drives the first output shaft in one direction to dispense shaved ice. The second motor drives the second output shaft in one direction to dispense ice cubes and drives the second output shaft in an opposite direction to dispense crushed ice. The first and the second motors operate independently of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, Athanase N. Tsergas, Ralph A. Bley
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Publication number: 20070031272Abstract: A peristaltic pump for dispensing liquid includes a front casing portion, a rear casing snap-fitted together with the front casing portion, a rotor confined between the front casing portion and the rear casing portion, a plurality of rollers mounted in the rotor, and a flexible tube compressed at equally spaced intervals by the plurality of rollers. The pump is resistant to constant torques and vibrations caused by a machine to which it is attached so that the pump does not become loose and fall apart. In a first embodiment for low torque and low vibration operations, the pump is screwless. In a second embodiment for high torque and high vibration operations, two screws secure a synchronous gear motor to the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2005Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: Molon Motor and Coil CorporationInventors: Emilio Ramirez, Ronald Glaser, Ralph Bley, Athanase Tsergas
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Patent number: 6924612Abstract: A three-wire reversing system for a permanent magnet, reversible, brush-type, direct current (DC) motor has a three-wire alternating current (AC) input voltage source which supplies electrical current to at least one capacitive element. This capacitive element and the DC motor replace a permanent split capacitor (PSC) and an AC motor in a prior art three-wire reversing system.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Molon Motor & Coil CorporationInventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, Jr., Athanase N. Tsergas
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Patent number: 6906493Abstract: In an electronic system, motor braking is accomplished by applying direct current (DC) voltage, developed across a capacitive element during a run mode operation, across terminals of an alternating current (AC) or an induction motor. While the motor is ON, i.e. during the run mode operation, a diode rectifies an AC input voltage applied across a capacitor for charging thereof. Resistive elements in series with the capacitor control a charging rate thereof. When a relay or switch flips over to a STOP or OFF mode, i.e. a braking mode operation, all of the stored DC voltage, which was charged across the capacitor during the run mode operation, is dropped across a coil of the motor. This DC voltage creates an electric force applied to stop quickly and efficiently the motor shaft rotation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, it was found that the higher the capacitance of the electrolytic capacitor, the faster and more efficient the stopping action will be for the motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Molon Motor and Coil CorporationInventors: Emilio A. Ramirez, Jr., Athanase N. Tsergas
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Publication number: 20050122075Abstract: A three-wire reversing system for a permanent magnet, reversible, brush-type, direct current (DC) motor has a three-wire alternating current (AC) input voltage source which supplies electrical current to at least one capacitive element. This capacitive element and the DC motor replace a permanent split capacitor (PSC) and an AC motor in a prior art three-wire reversing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2003Publication date: June 9, 2005Applicant: Molon Motor and Coil Corp.Inventors: Emilio Ramirez, Athanase Tsergas