Patents by Inventor Steve Zillig

Steve Zillig 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).

  • Cooler bypass apparatus and installation kit
    Patent number: 8978992
    Abstract: A cooler bypass valve apparatus installed the apparatus between a heat exchanger and conduits coupled to a device carrying fluid that needs to be cooled. A housing includes an inlet port and first and second outlet ports. At least one thermal actuator and at least one valve are mounted in a fluid flow passageway in the housing and operative in response to the fluid temperature to move the at least one valve between operative positions opening and closing fluid flow from the inlet port through the first and second outlet ports between a heat exchanger bypass loop and a heat exchanger cooling loop. In another aspect, two thermal actuators control a separate valve associated with the first and second outlets between open and closed positions enabling fluid flow from the inlet port exclusively through one of the first and second outlet ports or in a combined partial flow through both of the first and second outlet ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Jiffy-Tite Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Zillig, Robert Howard Stoll, Joseph Anthony Giarrizzo, Michael Jonas, Arthur J. Murray
  • COOLER BYPASS APPARATUS AND INSTALLATION KIT
    Publication number: 20110061744
    Abstract: A cooler bypass valve apparatus installed the apparatus between a heat exchanger and conduits coupled to a device carrying fluid that needs to be cooled. A housing includes an inlet port and first and second outlet ports. At least one thermal actuator and at least one valve are mounted in a fluid flow passageway in the housing and operative in response to the fluid temperature to move the at least one valve between operative positions opening and closing fluid flow from the inlet port through the first and second outlet ports between a heat exchanger bypass loop and a heat exchanger cooling loop. In another aspect, two thermal actuators control a separate valve associated with the first and second outlets between open and closed positions enabling fluid flow from the inlet port exclusively through one of the first and second outlet ports or in a combined partial flow through both of the first and second outlet ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: JIFFY-TITE COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Zillig, Robert Howard Stoll, Joseph Anthony Giarrizzo, Michael Jonas, Arthur J. Murray