Patents by Inventor YI-MING FAN
YI-MING FAN 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).
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Publication number: 20220178468Abstract: A valve with capability to self-anticipate failure has a body which is provided with at least one sensor assembly and a controller. The sensor assembly outputs a plurality of time-dependent sensing signals of a first operation parameter of the spindle of the valve or a plurality of time-dependent sensing signals of a second operation parameter of the valve door of the valve. The controller includes a storage unit, a computation unit, and an informing unit. The computation unit computes out a first trendline of the last plurality of time-dependent sensing signals of the first operation parameter stored in the storage unit or a second trendline of the last plurality of the time-dependent sensing signals of the second operation parameter stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventor: Yi-Ming FAN
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Patent number: 11162600Abstract: A butterfly valve includes a valve body, a stem, a disc, and a stopper. The valve body has a first through hole, a second through hole and a flange. An axial central line of the second through hole and an axial central line of the first through hole are perpendicular to each other. The flange radially extends from a surface surrounding the first through hole and extends into an inner side of the first through hole. The stem is accommodated inside the second through hole and extends into the first through hole. The disc is formed on a surface thereof with a first engaging portion while the stopper is formed with a second engaging portion. The first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are respectively embedded with a first part and a second part of the stem. The stopper is rotated by the stem and abuts against the flange when the disc closes an open end of the first through hole and continues to rotate.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: JDV CONTROL VALVES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Publication number: 20200240538Abstract: A butterfly valve includes a valve body, a stem, a disc, and a stopper. The valve body has a first through hole, a second through hole and a flange. An axial central line of the second through hole and an axial central line of the first through hole are perpendicular to each other. The flange radially extends from a surface surrounding the first through hole and extends into an inner side of the first through hole. The stem is accommodated inside the second through hole and extends into the first through hole. The disc is formed on a surface thereof with a first engaging portion while the stopper is formed with a second engaging portion. The first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are respectively embedded with a first part and a second part of the stem. The stopper is rotated by the stem and abuts against the flange when the disc closes an open end of the first through hole and continues to rotate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventor: Yi-Ming FAN
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Patent number: 9958080Abstract: A valve apparatus of the present invention includes a body, a seat and a cap, in which the body includes a chamber and passageway therein, the chamber is connected with the passageway, and the body includes a first ladder toward the passageway. The seat is disposed in the passageway. The seat includes a second ladder toward the first ladder of the body, and the second ladder of the seat is engaged with the first ladder of the body. The seat also includes a third ladder opposite to the second ladder. The cap has a flange which is contacted with the third ladder of the seat to fix the seat in the body tightly so that the cap is against the seat to prevent the seat from pulling out of the valve apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: JDV Control Valves Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Patent number: 9895776Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an eccentric valve of a tri-offset structure including a valve body, a valve seat, a valve unit, and a valve stem. The method includes steps of providing a seal being a centrosymmetric ring with an outer edge surface being a cambered surface with a fixed curvature; disposing the seal on an annular surface of the valve unit; enabling the disposal position of the seal on the annular surface to deviate from the disposal position of a pair of second shaft holes provided in a longitudinal direction of the valve unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: JDV CONTROL VALVES CO., LTDInventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Publication number: 20170001271Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an eccentric valve of a tri-offset structure including a valve body, a valve seat, a valve unit, and a valve stem. The method includes steps of providing a seal being a centrosymmetric ring with an outer edge surface being a cambered surface with a fixed curvature; disposing the seal on an annular surface of the valve unit; enabling the disposal position of the seal on the annular surface to deviate from the disposal position of a pair of second shaft holes provided in a longitudinal direction of the valve unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventor: Yi-Ming FAN
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Patent number: 9470318Abstract: Provided is an eccentric valve and a manufacturing method thereof. The eccentric valve has a tri-offset structure, and comprises: a valve body, a valve seat, a valve unit, a valve stem and a seal. The disc-shaped valve unit is disposed in a through hole centered in the valve body. The valve stem penetrates shaft holes on the valve unit and the valve body. Rotating the valve stem causes rotation of the valve unit for closing/opening the through hole. The valve seat is mounted on the inner surface of the through hole, and the seal is mounted on the outer surface of the valve unit. When the through hole is closed, the valve seat and the seal are mutually engaged. The inner surface of the valve seat is part of an oblique cone. The seal is a centrosymmetric ring, of which the outer surface is cambered.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: JDV CONTROL VALVES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Publication number: 20160169395Abstract: Provided is an eccentric valve and a manufacturing method thereof. The eccentric valve has a tri-offset structure, and comprises: a valve body, a valve seat, a valve unit, a valve stem and a seal. The disc-shaped valve unit is disposed in a through hole centered in the valve body. The valve stem penetrates shaft holes on the valve unit and the valve body. Rotating the valve stem causes rotation of the valve unit for closing/opening the through hole. The valve seat is mounted on the inner surface of the through hole, and the seal is mounted on the outer surface of the valve unit. When the through hole is closed, the valve seat and the seal are mutually engaged. The inner surface of the valve seat is part of an oblique cone. The seal is a centrosymmetric ring, of which the outer surface is cambered.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventor: Yi-Ming FAN
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Patent number: 9317025Abstract: A parameter selection and calculation system for control valves has a file manage unit for integrating and storing the files generated in operation. In that, the control valve specification table for control valves of similar forms can be stored in one control valve design file instead of being stored in various different files. Furthermore, a language selection unit provides the function that a user can select a desire language for operating. Moreover, a user can enter into a numerical input unit for inputting related design parameters for a specific control valve or getting related design parameters by selected proper control valve forms in the control valve design database. Then these data are formed as control valve parameter tables acceptable by the control valve logic operation unit. Then the control valve logic operation unit will operate to get a control valve specification table by using the control valve parameter tables.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: JDV CONTROL VALVES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Patent number: 9303785Abstract: An automatic detecting and repairing wisdom valve apparatus includes a valve having a valve sheet; a valve switch connected to the valve sheet through a stem; a driver connected the valve switch; a position detector for detecting positions of the valve sheet with respect to time; a near field controller connected to the driver and the position detector and has a logic unit and a comparator; the logic unit storing rules for determining valve state; a far end control unit for receiving data about the valve; the far end control unit being monitored by monitoring members; and a fault elimination unit; the fault elimination unit storing rules for eliminating of faults about the valve automatically or reporting the faults to the far end monitoring members to do necessary actions. The comparator compares the position-time track of the valve sheet with the standard track the state of the valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: JDV CONTROL VALVES CO., LTDInventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Patent number: 9234588Abstract: A flexible stuffing box packing assembly has fifth rings which are placed within a stuffing box. The pressures are transferred along the sequence of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rings. The gaps between the first and second rings and between the fourth and fifth rings provide a space for expansion of the rings. The V shape recesses in various rings provide margins for the materials of the rings to expansion. Therefore, the structure provides that all rings can expand effectively without destroying the seal structure and the stresses from various rings will disperse effectively so that lifetime of the rings are prolong.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: JDC CONTROL VALVES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Publication number: 20150377365Abstract: A valve apparatus of the present invention includes a body, a seat and a cap, in which the body includes a chamber and passageway therein, the chamber is connected with the passageway, and the body includes a first ladder toward the passageway. The seat is disposed in the passageway. The seat includes a second ladder toward the first ladder of the body, and the second ladder of the seat is engaged with the first ladder of the body. The seat also includes a third ladder opposite to the second ladder. The cap has a flange which is contacted with the third ladder of the seat to fix the seat in the body tightly so that the cap is against the seat to prevent the seat from pulling out of the valve apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventor: Yi-Ming FAN
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Publication number: 20150252904Abstract: A triple eccentric valve with a symmetric drain-proof ring includes a valve body, a stem, a valve disk, a waterproof washer, and a drain-proof ring. The valve disk is formed as an asymmetric conical shape. The drain-proof ring is an O ring and is arranged in a stepped recess of the valve disk to seal the waterproof washer; the drain-proof ring is symmetric to the axis of the ring. In assembly state, a periphery of the drain-proof ring resists against an inner wall of the annular seat. The drain-proof ring is symmetrical. Furthermore, an inner side or a part of the valve seat has a shape matched to a sweeping track of an outermost point of the drain-proof ring so that when the drain-proof ring moves along the valve seat, only force tangent to the inner side of the valve seat is applied from the drain-proof ring to the valve seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventor: YI-MING FAN
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Patent number: 9121513Abstract: A triple eccentric valve with a symmetric drain-proof ring includes a valve body, a stem, a valve disk, a waterproof washer, and a drain-proof ring. The valve disk is formed as an asymmetric conical shape. The drain-proof ring is an O ring and is arranged in a stepped recess of the valve disk to seal the waterproof washer; the drain-proof ring is symmetric to the axis of the ring. In assembly state, a periphery of the drain-proof ring resists against an inner wall of the annular seat. The drain-proof ring is symmetrical. Furthermore, an inner side or a part of the valve seat has a shape matched to a sweeping track of an outermost point of the drain-proof ring so that when the drain-proof ring moves along the valve seat, only force tangent to the inner side of the valve seat is applied from the drain-proof ring to the valve seat.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan
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Publication number: 20150159756Abstract: A flexible stuffing box packing assembly has fifth rings which are placed within a stuffing box. The pressures are transferred along the sequence of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rings. The gaps between the first and second rings and between the fourth and fifth rings provide a space for expansion of the rings. The V shape recesses in various rings provide margins for the materials of the rings to expansion. Therefore, the structure provides that all rings can expand effectively without destroying the seal structure and the stresses from various rings will disperse effectively so that lifetime of the rings are prolong.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventor: YI-MING FAN
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Publication number: 20150137020Abstract: A ball or half-ball valve with drain-proof mechanism includes a body; inner side of the body being formed as an approximate round chamber and a through hole communicated to the chamber; a top of the body being formed with an upper penetrating hole; a stem passing through the upper penetrating hole; an annular seat received in an annular trench of a wall of the through hole; an outer wall of the annular seat having a trench; a drain-proof ring being an O ring and being received in the trench of the annular seat; a waterproof washer being an annular ring and an axial ring surface of the waterproof washer having a wavelike shape; a valve unit installed to the inner side of the annular seat; the valve unit having an axial hole for receiving the stern; and a cover locked to an outer side of the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventor: YI-MING FAN
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Publication number: 20150120065Abstract: A parameter selection and calculation system for control valves has a file manage unit for integrating and storing the files generated in operation. In that, the control valve specification table for control valves of similar forms can be stored in one control valve design file instead of being stored in various different files. Furthermore, a language selection unit provides the function that a user can select a desire language for operating. Moreover, a user can enter into a numerical input unit for inputting related design parameters for a specific control valve or getting related design parameters by selected proper control valve forms in the control valve design database. Then these data are formed as control valve parameter tables acceptable by the control valve logic operation unit. Then the control valve logic operation unit will operate to get a control valve specification table by using the control valve parameter tables.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventor: YI-MING FAN
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Publication number: 20150115190Abstract: A wear-resistant valve assembly includes a valve body; a stem penetrating through the valve body; a valve disk installed in the chamber of the valve body and contacting an inner wall of the valve body; a valve body wear-resistant layer formed at an inner annular area of the valve body, which is also at a position contacting the valve disk; and a valve disk wear-resistant layer formed on an outer annular area of the valve disk at a position contacting the valve body; and wherein the valve body wear-resistant layer and the valve disk wear-resistant layer are made of materials selected from carbon alloys and satellite alloys. Furthermore, the valve disk is a triple-eccentric structure; and a drain-proof-ring wear-resistant layer and a valve seat wear-resistant layer are further formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventor: YI-MING FAN
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Publication number: 20150097132Abstract: A ball or half-ball valve with drain-proof mechanism includes a body; inner side of the body being formed as an approximate round chamber therein and a through hole communicated to the chamber; an annular seat received in the through hole; two ends of the annular seat having reduced stepped structures; the annular seat being made of metal; an inner side of a rear end of the annular seat being formed with a reduced annular recess and an outer side of a front end thereof being formed with a stepped structure; a valve unit being installed to the inner side of the annular seat; the valve unit having an axial hole for receiving the stem; and a cover having a size corresponding to that of the through hole; and an outer rear end of the cover being formed with an annular flange received in the annular recess of the annular seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventor: YI-MING FAN
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Publication number: 20150034846Abstract: An automatic detecting and repairing wisdom valve apparatus includes a valve having a valve sheet; a valve switch connected to the valve sheet through a stem; a driver connected the valve switch; a position detector for detecting positions of the valve sheet with respect to time; a near field controller connected to the driver and the position detector and has a logic unit and a comparator; the logic unit storing rules for determining valve state; a far end control unit for receiving data about the valve; the far end control unit being monitored by monitoring members; and a fault elimination unit; the fault elimination unit storing rules for eliminating of faults about the valve automatically or reporting the faults to the far end monitoring members to do necessary actions. The comparator compares the position-time track of the valve sheet with the standard track the state of the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventor: Yi-Ming Fan