Patents by Inventor Gavin J. Hendricks

Gavin J. Hendricks 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).

  • Discharge diffuser for screw compressor
    Patent number: 7080977
    Abstract: A discharge collector and diffuser for a screw compressor, including a housing having an inlet for receiving flow from a compressor and an outlet and defining therebetween a collector portion, a transition portion and a diffuser portion, the collector portion being adapted to receive a plurality of non-parallel streams from a compressor and to guide the streams into a substantially parallel flow direction, the housing further having a splitter plate positioned in the collector portion to separate the non-parallel streams from each other, whereby the streams are maintained separate until they are substantially parallel, thereby reducing flow losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Duane C. McCormick, Jeffrey A. Math, Dochul Choi, Gavin J. Hendricks, William H. Rousseau, H. Ezzat Khalifa, Jeffery J. Nieter, Timothy C. Wagner
  • Discharge diffuser for screw compressor
    Publication number: 20040191102
    Abstract: A discharge collector and diffuser for a screw compressor, including a housing having an inlet for receiving flow from a compressor and an outlet and defining therebetween a collector portion, a transition portion and a diffuser portion, the collector portion being adapted to receive a plurality of non-parallel streams from a compressor and to guide the streams into a substantially parallel flow direction, the housing further having a splitter plate positioned in the collector portion to separate the non-parallel streams from each other, whereby the streams are maintained separate until they are substantially parallel, thereby reducing flow losses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Duane C. McCormick, Jeffrey A. Math, Dochul Choi, Gavin J. Hendricks, William H. Rousseau, H. Ezzat Khalifa, Jeffery J. Nieter, Timothy C. Wagner