Patents by Inventor Phil Maiorca

Phil Maiorca 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).

  • Apparatus and Method for Dispensing Discrete Amounts of Viscous Material
    Publication number: 20120205392
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dispensing small amounts of a viscous material onto a workpiece. The narrow-profile dispensing apparatus includes a fluid chamber, a nozzle, and a valve seat disk representing individual components that are removable from a main body of the dispensing apparatus for cleaning and/or replacement. The nozzle is coupled with the fluid chamber by a heat transfer body that may be cooled by, for example, a cooling fluid routed through an air pathway defined in the heat transfer body. The main body of the dispensing apparatus may be cooled by air exhausted from an air cavity of a pneumatic actuator regulating the movement of a needle to control the flow of viscous material in the dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Fiske, Horatio Quinones, Phil Maiorca, Alec Babiarz, Robert Ciardella
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING DISCRETE AMOUNTS OF VISCOUS MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20110114673
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dispensing small amounts of a viscous material onto a workpiece. The narrow-profile dispensing apparatus includes a fluid chamber, a nozzle, and a valve seat disk representing individual components that are removable from a main body of the dispensing apparatus for cleaning and/or replacement. The nozzle is coupled with the fluid chamber by a heat transfer body that may be cooled by, for example, a cooling fluid routed through an air pathway defined in the heat transfer body. The main body of the dispensing apparatus may be cooled by air exhausted from an air cavity of a pneumatic actuator regulating the movement of a needle to control the flow of viscous material in the dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Fiske, Horatio Quinones, Phil Maiorca, Alec Babiarz, Robert Ciardella
  • Apparatus and Method for Dispensing Discrete Amounts of Viscous Material
    Publication number: 20100252576
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dispensing small amounts of a viscous material onto a workpiece. The narrow-profile dispensing apparatus includes a fluid chamber, a nozzle, and a valve seat disk representing individual components that are removable from a main body of the dispensing apparatus for cleaning and/or replacement. The nozzle is coupled with the fluid chamber by a heat transfer body that may be cooled by, for example, a cooling fluid routed through an air pathway defined in the heat transfer body. The main body of the dispensing apparatus may be cooled by air exhausted from an air cavity of a pneumatic actuator regulating the movement of a needle to control the flow of viscous material in the dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Fiske, Horatio Quinones, Phil Maiorca, Alec Babiarz, Robert Ciardella
  • Apparatus and method for dispensing discrete amounts of viscous material
    Patent number: 7762088
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dispensing small amounts of a viscous material onto a workpiece. The narrow-profile dispensing apparatus includes a fluid chamber, a nozzle, and a valve seat disk representing individual components that are removable from a main body of the dispensing apparatus for cleaning and/or replacement. The nozzle is coupled with the fluid chamber by a heat transfer body that may be cooled by, for example, a cooling fluid routed through an air pathway defined in the heat transfer body. The main body of the dispensing apparatus may be cooled by air exhausted from an air cavity of a pneumatic actuator regulating the movement of a needle to control the flow of viscous material in the dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Fiske, Horatio Quinones, Phil Maiorca, Alec Babiarz, Robert Ciardella
  • Apparatus and method for dispensing discrete amounts of viscous material
    Publication number: 20060157517
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dispensing small amounts of a viscous material onto a workpiece. The narrow-profile dispensing apparatus includes a fluid chamber, a nozzle, and a valve seat disk representing individual components that are removable from a main body of the dispensing apparatus for cleaning and/or replacement. The nozzle is coupled with the fluid chamber by a heat transfer body that may be cooled by, for example, a cooling fluid routed through an air pathway defined in the heat transfer body. The main body of the dispensing apparatus may be cooled by air exhausted from an air cavity of a pneumatic actuator regulating the movement of a needle to control the flow of viscous material in the dispensing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Erik Fiske, Horatio Quinones, Phil Maiorca, Alec Babiarz, Robert Ciardella