Patents by Inventor Kent Bates

Kent Bates 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).

  • Publication number: 20070227140
    Abstract: An air-to-air aftercooler may include at least one tube body configured to direct a flow of charged air, wherein the at least one tube body includes a first material. The air-to-air aftercooler may also include a header assembly coupled to ends of the at least one tube body. The header assembly may include a second different material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Kent Bates, Jiubo Ma, Rishabh Sinha
  • Publication number: 20070227690
    Abstract: A gas to air heat exchanger includes corrosive resistant tubes made from one material, and high thermal conductivity air fins made from another material. This construction allows for meeting heat transfer requirements in a spatially constrained application, such as over the road trucks, where a compressed mixture of recirculated exhaust gas and incoming air are compressed and then cooled before being supplied to the engine intake. In one example, the heat exchanger includes tubes made from stainless steel brazed to relatively thin copper air fins in a low temperature brazing process, and the tubes are brazed on respective ends to heads of stainless steel via a high temperature brazing process. This core is then joined to an aluminum inlet tank and possible non-metallic outlet tank via a mechanical crimping process that positions a seal between the tanks and the respective heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Ajey Kulkarni, Ray Stratton, Jiubo Ma, Kent Bates
  • Publication number: 20060275151
    Abstract: A pump includes an impeller with impeller blades that extend radially outward. The pump may further include a pump housing that may surround a radial perimeter of the impeller. Furthermore, the pump housing may include an inlet opening in fluid communication with the impeller and a discharge channel. The pump may further include a heat exchanger supported within the pump housing between the inlet opening and at least one connection port. of the pump housing. The heat exchanger may include one or more tubing coils that extend around an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Kristen Heins, Jiubo Ma, Rohit Paramatmuni, Kent Bates
  • Publication number: 20060266793
    Abstract: The purging device has a supply of purge gas and a gas delivery system. The gas delivery system is configured to produce a directed flow of purge gas from the supply, toward a workpiece. The purging device also has a movement system configured to generate relative movement between the workpiece and the directed flow of purge gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Kent Bates, Gary Keil, Jiubo Ma