Patents by Inventor Philip Xavier Jacques Veys

Philip Xavier Jacques Veys 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).

  • Connection piece for connecting a housing of a drive unit to a housing of a compressor element
    Patent number: 6073517
    Abstract: Connection piece for connecting a housing (4) of a drive unit (2) with a housing (5) of a compressor element (1). The connection piece is provided with ribs (12) over at least a part of its wall, the height of the ribs (12) being at least equal to one and a half times a thickness of the part of the wall upon which the rib is standing and the thickness of the ribs (12), half-way up the height, being equal to at least half of the thickness of the part of the wall. The ribs (12) form a pattern which divides the wall into adjacent wall segments (13) which have a first characteristic mode for bending that has a resonant frequency which excludes excitation by substantially all excitation frequencies up to and including a highest of the compressor element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Airpower, naamloze vennootschap
    Inventors: Raphael Henri Maria Pauwels, Willy Joseph Rosa Bodart, Philip Xavier Jacques Veys