Patents Issued in July 29, 2014
  • Patent number: 8790035
    Abstract: A flow-thru liquid coating applicator comprises a handle and an applicator head including a blade having a filament bundle extending crosswise adjacent the distal end of the blade. A cover surrounds the distal end of the blade and a substantial portion of the length of the blade and has side openings through which opposite end portions of the filament bundle extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The Wooster Brush Company
    Inventor: John L. Scott, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8790036
    Abstract: Disclosed are geotechnical structures formed from a geosynthetic article and an encapsulated granular material dispersed within or upon the geosynthetic article. In particular embodiments, a geocell is used as the geosynthetic article. Among other things, the geotechnical structures can be used for forming roads, parking lots, paved surfaces, as well as road beds and foundations for highways or railroads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: PRS Mediterranean Ltd.
    Inventors: Izhar Halahmi, Oded Erez, Adi Erez
  • Patent number: 8790037
    Abstract: A structural module which is suitable for combining with like structural modules to form an area suitable for walking on and/or for travelling directly over by a vehicle, comprises a flat top wall and a bottom wall spaced therefrom by side walls so as to define a volume between the top and bottom walls. The top wall is provided with a plurality of apertures to permit the flow of liquid into the volume, and the side walls and/or the bottom wall are provided with apertures to permit the flow of liquid out of the volume. The size and shape of each aperture in the top wall is such that the maximum diameter of sphere that the aperture would let through is in a range up to 10 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Permavoid Limited
    Inventors: Paul David Culleton, Andrew Bryan Shuttleworth, Carolus Hermanus Van Raam
  • Patent number: 8790038
    Abstract: An expansion joint formed within a channel between two adjacent road surfaces and a method of preparing an expansion joint. The joint is formed within a channel having sides each extending from an adjacent road surface to a bottom side of the channel. The joint construction may include at least one layer of a binder covering at least a portion of the sides of the channel, and one or more layers of aggregate chips and the binder covering the at least one binder layer so as to fill the channel to at least the top of the road surface. The cumulative surface area of the two channel sides may be greater than the cumulative surface area of two channel sides each planar and perpendicular to the bottom. The joint construction may include a plate on the bottom side of the channel. The joint construction may include a flexible sheeting between the plate and the at least one binder layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Dynamic Surface Applications, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael F. Stachowicz, Richard P. Lee
  • Patent number: 8790039
    Abstract: A floating structure comprising floating, modular, parallelepipedic blocks whose vertical edges are provided with lugs in which connecting elements are inserted in order to assemble the blocks. The connecting elements entail a support key, which at its upper part bears stanchion extending above upper surface of the floating structure, the stanchion being provided with an eyelet capable of constituting a point of attachment for net. One or more anchoring points are situated below and to the interior of the floating structure. Also disclosed are applications of the floating structures, including as anti-pollution barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cubisystem Sarl
    Inventor: Philippe Veyrieres
  • Patent number: 8790040
    Abstract: A method of forming a protection system and a protection system for a secondary conduit adapted to be coupled to a main conduit is disclosed. The main conduit and the secondary conduit are for installation below the sea surface. The method includes spooling onto a reel an elongate member in a first configuration for transportation and/or storage until such a time that it is ready to be deployed. The first configuration is a substantially planar configuration. The method also includes paying the elongate member out from the spool and causing or allowing the elongate member to adopt a second configuration and form the protection system for the secondary conduit. The second configuration is a substantially non-planar configuration. The elongate member is coupled to an external surface of the main conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Subsea 7 Limited
    Inventor: Julek Romuald Tomas
  • Patent number: 8790041
    Abstract: Device (1) for applying a push or pull action on tubes (100) to be laid in the ground for overcoming waterways or other types of obstacle, includes two push blocks (2, 2?), disposed parallel to and mirroring each other, and a vice (8), which couples the device (1) to a tube (100) to be pushed/pulled. Each push block (2, 2?) including, in turn, a base (5, 5?), a main cylinder (3, 3?), a movable arm (6, 6?), one positioning cylinder (4, 4?) and vertical regulation cylinder (7, 7?). The arms (6, 6?) conferring a variable geometry to device (1) which is able to assume corresponding positions and positive and negative angles. The device finds application in the field of ancillary equipment for horizontal controlled drilling and horizontal directional drilling (TOC and HDD), i.e. suitable technologies for installing new pipelines without opencast digging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Roberto Bernardoni
  • Patent number: 8790042
    Abstract: A method for repairing a support piling, in situ, while immersed in water, comprising the steps of encircling a portion of said piling in need of repair above and below the water line in a coffer dam; and evacuating water from said coffer dam for exposing the portion of the piling in need of repair. Repair steps include blasting damaged portions with high pressure water and/or abrasive particles, adding metal support rods where needed, applying zinc or similar metal for protection against electrolysis, and treating the repaired area with a protective coating such as concrete or grout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Gregory B. Burkhardt
  • Patent number: 8790043
    Abstract: A foundation for structures, with a combination of pile-like support elements (11) and a load distribution layer (12) which is arranged above the support elements and has an incorporated three-dimensional honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Soiltec GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Tietjen
  • Patent number: 8790044
    Abstract: A bolt includes a tube, at least a portion of which is hollow, having a top and the bottom and at least one dimple. The bolt includes an insert fixed to the interior of the tube in proximity to the dimple with the dimple disposed between the insert and bottom of the tube. A method for a bolt includes the steps of inserting a resin cartridge into a hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: F. M. Locotos Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Frank M. Locotos
  • Patent number: 8790045
    Abstract: A facing element (34) for use in a stabilized earth structure where the facing element comprises at least a hollow part (37) with an opening (36) on the rear face (32) wherein a cylindrical core (5) is arranged at least partly in the hollow part (37) and consists of two continuous parts (51, 52) where the first part (51) has a continuously decreasing size to an extremity (54) and the second part (52) has a continuously constant and/or decreasing size to an extremity (55) and wherein: L2?1.2×d1; and A>0.24×d12; wherein: L2 is the distance between the extremity (54) of the first part (51) and the rear face (32); d1 is the width of the cylindrical core (5) at the extremity (54) of the first part (51); A is the area of the cross section of the cylindrical core (5) in the plane (X, Z). Improved anchoring properties are accordingly obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Terre Armee Internationale
    Inventor: Richard Cariou
  • Patent number: 8790046
    Abstract: An embankment system comprises a source of pressurized sand/concrete slurry and a delivery conduit in fluid communication with the pressurized sand/concrete slurry source. The embankment system further comprises an elongate nozzle having an inlet and an outlet, with the inlet operatively associated with a distal end of the delivery conduit. A tube formed of a sheet material having an open end and a closed end is operatively associated with the nozzle outlet to receive the pressurized sand/concrete slurry through the open end, such that the tube is continuously filled with the pressurized sand/concrete slurry between the closed end and the open end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Rampart Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Ross
  • Patent number: 8790047
    Abstract: A pneumatic tube system, including at least one system control module for controlling delivery of a pneumatic carrier through pneumatic tubing. The system includes at least one pneumatic tube station having a sealer, the sealer includes a heating pad and a sealing strip, where the sealer automatically grips the open end within the heating pad and the sealing strip upon insertion of the bag into the system. In one example, the sealer creates a vacuum to extract air from an interior space of the bag. The sealer applies heat to the open end to seal the bag. The system includes at least one pneumatic tube station configured for sending at least one carrier, the at least one sending pneumatic tube station being in signal communication with the at least one system control module, where the at least one carrier is sent through the system by pneumatic tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Fredrick M. Valerino, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8790048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to A lock hopper (11) provided with air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) arranged side by side with entrance valves (A1, B1) arranged above the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) and exit valves (A4, B4) arranged below the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3). The lock hopper (11) performs control which alternately repeats the following states: a state in which granular substances in an upper system are placed in one of the hoppers and gas is supplied into the other hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of the other hopper to a lower system and a state in which the granular substances in the upper system are placed in the other hopper and gas is supplied to said hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of said hopper to the lower system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: J-POWER EnTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuninori Furuyama, Masahiro Miya, Ryo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8790049
    Abstract: An indexable double-negative cutting insert includes an index axis A, two opposing end surfaces, a peripheral side surface which extends therebetween, and opposing side cutting edges formed between the end surfaces and the peripheral side surface. A median plane P is located midway between the end surfaces, passes through the peripheral side surface and is perpendicular to the index axis. The peripheral side surface includes at least one protrusion which extends in an outward direction relative to the index axis, in a plan view of either end surface. The protrusion includes two side abutment surfaces which converge in the outward direction towards the median plane P. In each cross-section perpendicular to the median plane, which cross-section passes through both opposing side cutting edges and also the at least one protrusion, no portion of the peripheral surface is inward of an imaginary line connecting the opposing side cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Danny Chen
  • Patent number: 8790050
    Abstract: A drilling system is formed as a support structure to be mounted on a surface to be drilled, a beam supported by the support structure, a tool holder supported by the beam and having a locking orifice, and a drilling tool mounted on the tool holder by sliding connection in the direction parallel to the drilling axis. The drilling tool includes a bearing mandrel and an expandable ring closely fitting the bearing mandrel along a tapered contact surface for expanding the ring to ensure its locking in the locking orifice. Relative movement between the ring locked in the locking orifice and the bearing mandrel procures, by movement of the drilling tool relative to the tool holder via the slide connection, a movement of the bearing mandrel towards the surface to be drilled, through the locking orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Benoit Marguet, Olivier Lebahar, Eric Le Gouriellec, Eric Larousse, Jean-Marc Leray
  • Patent number: 8790051
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an expandable reamer having a base body, a ring section, at least one cutting edge which is geometrically defined and provided on the outer surface of the ring section, an adjustment device which works on the ring section from the inside, has an adjustment screw, and serves to adjust the radial position of the at least one cutting edge, wherein the adjustment device is arranged in a cavity provided in the base body of the expandable reamer, and an adjustment body with a conical or round outer surface. The adjustment body can be displaced in the direction of the central axis of the expandable reamer and serves for the expansion of the ring section. The expandable reamer is characterized in that the adjustment body is designed as an adjustment sleeve which surrounds the adjustment screw and is mounted in a floating manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kress
  • Patent number: 8790052
    Abstract: A bolt on drive assembly for a core drill which utilizes an improved high strength spoked reinforcer mounted beneath a disc. The disc and high strength spoke reinforcer are removably mounted on the tube by bolt fasteners. A drive connection is removably mounted and centrally located on a outer disc of the pair of discs. The drive connection is adapted to connect with a drive shaft to cause rotation of the tube. The system can also include a split in the disc when the high strength spoked reinforcer is not welded thereto thereby providing a means of water control. The high strength spoked reinforcer can be a separate piece that is bolted to the disc or can be integrally formed as one piece therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Western Saw
    Inventor: Anthony Baratta
  • Patent number: 8790053
    Abstract: A cutting liquid supply device in a machine tool is configured to remove gas mixed in a cutting liquid supply line to improve the response of discharging a mist of cutting liquid. Cutting liquid is supplied from a pump (42) through a rotary joint (28) to a mist generation device (24) within a rotating spindle (29). The pressure of the cutting liquid is measured by a pressure sensor (47). An air vent device (30) for opening and closing, with respect to atmospheric pressure, piping (3) that supplies the cutting liquid is provided above the rotary joint (28). A detection signal is inputted in the control board (70) from the pressure sensor (47), and when the control board (70) detects, after the pump (42) stops the supply of the cutting liquid to the piping (3), that the pressure of the cutting liquid does not decrease to a level lower than a predetermined threshold value, the control board (70) instructs the air vent device (30) to open the piping (4) to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Horkos Corp
    Inventors: Tadashi Makiyama, Atsushi Maeda, Shinya Takeda, Takuya Kawamoto, Kunihiro Ikeda, Sadaharu Kittaka
  • Patent number: 8790054
    Abstract: A spindle attachment includes a device body having an attachment surface detachably attached to an end face of a spindle head. Fixed and movable teeth move the body in a direction of an axial line of the spindle to engage the spindle head and the body so as to freely restrict or release rotation of the body with respect to the spindle head. A coil spring urges the body so that the attachment surface is pressed onto the end face of the spindle head with the fixed and movable teeth ready for engagement. A pressure cylinder causes fluid pressure to act on the attachment surface against the spring force to release engagement between the fixed and movable teeth. A key and a key groove transmit rotation of the spindle to the body with the fluid pressure of the cylinder acting on the attachment surface of the device body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru Hongou
  • Patent number: 8790055
    Abstract: Methods and systems for conducting operations to subterranean formations are provided. The system includes a platform, a grillage mounted on the platform, at least one module for treating the subterranean formation, and a plurality of locks that mechanically engage the grillage with the module. Each lock includes a first plate, a second plate and a connector that connects the first plate and the second plate. The first plate is configured to mechanically engage the grillage, the second plate is configured to mechanically engage the module for treating the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Rettie, Alan Dyble, Natasha Bortkevich
  • Patent number: 8790056
    Abstract: A REMOVABLE AND REUSABLE QUICK NUT, of the type used to fasten panels and/or accessories thereto, principally in the automobile industry, wherein on said nut, originating from a planar base, emerge individual opposite compression tabs that rise and fold toward an inner zone of the nut and that, by means of another fold, invert their direction in order on the outside to return to the height of the base, forming joining surfaces; from said surfaces there originate individual lugs or fins that, by means of successive folds, converge toward the inner zone of the nut in a position designed to engage with the screw thread of the screw for fastening the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Ismael Fuentes Domingo, Isaac Tejero Salinero, Raul Ortega Dona
  • Patent number: 8790057
    Abstract: A fastener having a shaft, a threaded portion, a positioning member and a rivet head. The shaft has a first diameter and extends from a first end to a second end. The threaded portion is positioned on the shaft. The positioning member is provided on the shaft proximate the second end. The rivet head extends from the second end of the shaft in a direction away from the first end, with the rivet head having a second diameter which is less than the first diameter of the shaft. The rivet head is configured to be deformed such that the deformed rivet head has a third diameter which is greater than the first diameter, thereby securing the fastener to a mating member which is positioned between the positioning member and the deformed rivet head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Brasil LTDA
    Inventors: Mauricio Gisoldi, Leandro Westmann Prado
  • Patent number: 8790058
    Abstract: A method for baffling and/or sealing a vehicle structure by providing a unitary structure including a sealing body with an integrated fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Zephyros, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Quaderer, Eric N. White
  • Patent number: 8790059
    Abstract: A washer assembly includes a threaded fastener head engaging portion and a surface engaging portion. The threaded fastener head engaging portion includes a head engaging face configured to lie in a plane substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal length of a threaded fastener passed through an opening at an axial center of the threaded fastener head engaging portion. The surface engaging portion includes a slot and a surface engaging face. The slot extends through the surface engaging portion along a line extending through an axial center of the surface engaging portion. An adjustable interface is defined between the surface engaging portion and the threaded fastener head engaging portion to enable the slot to receive the threaded fastener such that the surface engaging face lies parallel to a surface that is not perpendicular to the longitudinal length of the threaded fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventor: Charles W. Kerechanin, II
  • Patent number: 8790060
    Abstract: Device for joining book block and book cover includes conveyor device, embodied to lift a book block from a lower position into an upper position, and an adhesive application station applying adhesive to the outsides of the book block. Conveyor device and the adhesive application station are arranged so adhesive is applied to the outsides of the book block as it is conveyed by the conveyor device. A removal station is arranged below the adhesive application station and the conveyor device is structured to reverse a direction of movement and to lift and lower the book block and cover in a same vertical plane between the lower position and the upper position. Adhesive application station deactivates adhesive dispensing during the downward movement of the book block with cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kugler-Womako GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Müller
  • Patent number: 8790061
    Abstract: A transferring shuttle, which transfers package(s) between a pair of layered stacked racks in a three dimensional automated warehouse, includes a mobile platform which runs between the stacked racks; elastic mechanisms, which include telescoping rails that extend into the stacked racks and surround a package; and terminal fingers placed at the ends of the rails, which can move between an extended position, which allows the package to be engaged and a contracted position. The rails also contain inner fingers between the terminal fingers. The inner fingers can push the package further into the stacked rack than previously possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Dematic Accounting Services GmbH
    Inventor: Shin Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8790062
    Abstract: A distribution system (100) is disclosed. The system includes the steps of: providing (105) a multi-level pathfinder with a containment cavity having a ground level cell and an elevated level cell; configuring (110) the containment cavity to receive containers; and loading (115) the containment cavity with a first container and moving the first container vertically to allow a second loading of a second container. This system provides a simple, robust and efficient automatable buffer to load and unload, a container between a chassis and rail or port terminal and/or at distribution hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mi-Jack Products, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Lanigan, Sr., Peter W. Mirabella, John Lanigan, Jr., Myron Glickman, Richard Marec
  • Patent number: 8790063
    Abstract: A loader attachment mounting apparatus for movable work vehicles is provided, which is used for mounting a work attachment, such as a bale gripper, a bucket or a hook, to the front end of a loader that is movably installed on the front surface of the movable work vehicles, such as a tractor. A loader equipped with the loader attachment mounting apparatus is also provided. In the loader attachment mounting apparatus, an attachment can be easily attached to and easily detached from the attachment mounting apparatus and the attachment mounted to the loader can be easily movable to the left and right, thus improving work efficiency and work reliability of the movable work vehicles. The apparatus includes left and right attachment coupling brackets connected to the loader, and an attachment transfer device including left and right attachment coupling units connected to the attachment coupling brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Daeho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joong-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8790064
    Abstract: A device is proposed for the positional orientation of plate-shaped parts (12), comprising continuous conveying equipment (13) for conveying plate-shaped parts (12), an optical measuring device (15) assigned to the continuous conveying equipment (13) for determining the actual position of at least one specific plate-shaped part (12) and for comparing this actual position to a stored set position and for determining the deviation of the actual position from the set position, and a control unit (20) coupled to the optical measuring device (15) for controlling a positioning unit (19) such that at least one specific plate-shaped part (12) the deviation of which from the set position was determined can be picked up by the positioning unit (19) in a pick-up region and deposited in a defined delivery region in the correct position corresponding to the set position for transfer on the continuous conveying equipment (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Schuler Automation GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Reiner Dörner, Joachim Pottiez
  • Patent number: 8790065
    Abstract: A convertible mail container and related method. The convertible mail container includes a bottom, two fixed side walls connected to the bottom, and a fixed end wall connected to the side walls and to the bottom. The convertible mail container also includes a movable wall that is movable from a first position where the movable wall forms a second end wall of the convertible mail container, opposite the fixed end wall, to a second position where the movable wall is adjacent to the two fixed side walls and the fixed end wall so that it covers a portion of a top opening of the convertible mail container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Floyd W. Worth, II, Michael O. Norris
  • Patent number: 8790066
    Abstract: An exemplary turbocharger assembly includes a housing with a through bore having a central axis extending between a compressor end and a turbine end of the housing and a bearing, configured for receipt by the through bore, where the bearing includes an inner journal configured to rotatably support a turbocharger shaft and where the inner journal includes a central axis, an axial length, a lubricant opening, an axially confined lubricant well, a lubricant ramp, and a lubricant channel that spans the axial length of the inner journal. Various other exemplary devices, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Allen Gutknecht
  • Patent number: 8790067
    Abstract: An engine has a blade stage and a circumferential array of blade outer air seal segments. A support ring carries the blade outer air seal segments. The support ring has a low-CTE member and a high-CTE member intervening between the blade outer air seal segments and the low-CTE member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Eric A. Hudson
  • Patent number: 8790068
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a low-wind, dual-stage, vertical-axis, wind-generated power turbine comprising a structural support tower, at least four turbine assemblies stacked on top of one another within individual turbine bays, a central drive shaft connecting the turbine assemblies, a draft induction channel surrounding the drive shaft, a spiral blade running through the induction channel, a paddle turbine assembly at the base of the tower which propels the spiral blade, a blower source which powers the paddle turbine, a built-in solar system which feeds the blower, external, natural wind directional slats, and a high pressure, fluid-drive, Hydrabine turbine mechanically coupled to a transmission or CTV, coupled to a one Mega Watt output generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Larry Cantwell
  • Patent number: 8790069
    Abstract: A enclosed vertical axis fluid rotor used as a wind turbine of two designs having multiple sails that are concave on the inside and convex on the outer side which allows omni-directional wind or other fluids to engage sails to create optimum fluid momentum. These are sectional segmentation of each rotor that can be stacked upon one another at locating lug points to be attached to each rotor to keep radial alignment precise during assembly. The preferred embodiment would be of composite materials or plastics that can be molded to a given design of three or more stages. The advantage of this turbine is using the fluids to their optimum efficiency. These designs have low starting speed, low precession, and low drag. One design has a central axis that turns with bearings with the rotor and the other design is a central static (non-turning) axis shaft that allows the turbine to turn on bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: No Fossil Energy, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce Elliot Anderson
  • Patent number: 8790070
    Abstract: A stator-rotor arrangement for a vacuum pump, in particular for a turbomolecular pump, includes a plurality of stator disks (18) that cooperate with a rotor element (14). The stator disks (18) are disposed between rotor disks (16). The stator disks (18) are held by way of stator rings (20, 22). At least two of the stator rings (20) include protrusions (24) that are connected together by way of holding elements (28, 30). This makes pre-installation of the rotor-stator arrangement (12) or placement of the rotor-stator arrangement (12) in a housing (10) possible. The protrusions (24) are disposed in the area of corners (32) of the housing (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Klingner, Markus Henry
  • Patent number: 8790071
    Abstract: In a turbomolecular pump, in connection with a dimensionless number X that is the ratio of an inter-vane distance S to a chord length C for moving vane blades of rotor impeller (4B) and stationary vane blades of stator impeller (2B), with dimensionless numbers at the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion of a first vane stage being termed Xo(R) and Xi(R) and dimensionless numbers at the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion of a second vane stage being termed Xo(S) and Xi(S), and with respect to vane stages that are adjacent along the direction of the rotational shaft, at least one vane stage is provided that satisfies a first relational equation “Xo(R)>Xo(S)” and a second relational equation “Xi(R)<Xi(S)”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Kouta Oishi
  • Patent number: 8790072
    Abstract: A bearing assembly for supporting a drive shaft of a pump is structured with a cylindrical body having an internal cavity filled with a lubricant, a sealing element arrangement positioned at one or both ends of the cylindrical body and a pressure equalization element that functions to equalize the pressure differential that exists between an area within the cylindrical body and outside of the cylindrical body to improve the operating life of the sealing arrangement and the bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Weir Floway, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel E. Boldt
  • Patent number: 8790073
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a stator vane directing hot combustion gases onto rotor blades is provided. The stator vane includes a platform disposed at the side of the vane radially inward/outward with respect to the axis of rotation of the engine, the platform having a trailing edge portion downstream with respect to the flow of gases past the stator vane. A support and cooling arrangement is included for directing a cooling fluid to an upstream end of a radially inwardly/outwardly facing side of the trailing edge portion of the platform, the arrangement also directing the cooling fluid to flow over the side in a generally axial direction to a downstream end of the side, the cooling fluid cooling the trailing edge portion as it flows over the side, wherein turbulators are included to increase heat transfer from the trailing edge portion as the cooling fluid flows over the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jonathan Mugglestone
  • Patent number: 8790074
    Abstract: An optical fiber wear detector that includes one or more FBG sensors positioned within the fiber that are operable to reflect a defined wavelength of an optical input beam. The wear detector includes a light source for generating the optical input beam that propagates down the optical fiber and interacts with the FBG sensor. The wavelength of the optical beam that is reflected by the FBG sensor is detected, where loss of the reflected signal indicates that the fiber before the FBG sensor or the FBG sensor itself is damaged, which would most likely be an indication of wear on the component. The depth of wear can be determined by providing multiple FBG sensors in a single optical fiber and/or providing multiple optical fibers with one or more FBG sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Johnston
  • Patent number: 8790075
    Abstract: A support assembly for a geared architecture includes an engine static structure. A flex support is secured to the engine static structure and includes a bellow. A support structure is operatively secured to the flex support. A geared architecture is mounted to the support structure. First members are removably secured to one of the engine static structure and the flex support and second members are removably secured to the support structure. The first and second members are circumferentially aligned with one another and spaced apart from one another during a normal operating condition. The first and second members are configured to be engageable with one another during an extreme event to limit axial movement of the geared architecture relative to the engine static structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: James B. Coffin, Alessio Pescosolido
  • Patent number: 8790076
    Abstract: A centerline suspension arrangement (42) for a turbine (40). A turbine inner casing (44) is supported within an outer casing (46) via a support member (60) that includes an inner portion (62) contacting the inner casing and an outer portion (66) extending into a slot (68) formed in the outer casing. The support member is slid into an axially oriented slot (64) formed in the inner casing and is body bound therein with respect to radial movements, with the support member and the inner casing slot including opposed vertical support surfaces (82, 90) and a pair of oppositely facing opposed horizontal support surfaces (80, 88 and 86, 92). Thus, dead weight and operating loads from the inner casing are reacted through the support member and into the outer casing without the necessity for any bolting or other fastener attachment in the design load path between the support member and the inner casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Demag Delaval Turbomachinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Golinkin, Russell V. Caggiano, Timothy Ewer, Gennaro J. DiOrio, Michael J. Lipski
  • Patent number: 8790077
    Abstract: An adjustment assembly for pump casing of a pump, the pump casing including a main part and a side part having a main axis and a side wall section extending laterally with respect to the main axis. The adjustment assembly is operable to cause relative displacement between the side part and the main part of the pump casing. The adjustment assembly includes a drive device and an actuator which can be activated externally of the pump, the drive device being operable to cause the relative displacement of the side part in response to activation of said actuator, the relative displacement capable of being a combination of axial and rotational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Weir Minerals Australia Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Edward Burgess, Michael Christopher Foreman
  • Patent number: 8790078
    Abstract: An abrasive coating on a rotor shaft interacts with cantilevered vanes to form an abradable air seal in a turbine engine. The abrasive coating includes a metal bond coat, and an abrasive layer containing a plurality of abrasive grit particles in a ceramic matrix. The grit particles may be selected from cubic boron nitride (CBN), zirconia, alumina, silicon carbide, diamond and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Paul H. Zajchowski, Christopher W. Strock, Matthew E. Bintz
  • Patent number: 8790079
    Abstract: An inlet for a ram air turbine. The inlet is positioned forward of a turbine shaft, which is configured to rotate about a portion of an object. The inlet has a fixed geometry that chokes airflow through the inlet to prevent overspeed of the turbine shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Trevor Andrew Tersmette, Christopher Allen Ryan
  • Patent number: 8790080
    Abstract: A turbine casing segment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a turbine casing segment is disclosed including: a plurality of stage segments; a plurality of ledge ring partitions separating the plurality of stage segments, wherein at least one of the plurality of ledge ring partitions has an axially extending aperture therethrough; and a substantially rounded extraction aperture located flush with an inner surface of one of the plurality of stage segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rajendra Gonoor, Erik Eduardo Lopez Partida, Daniel Ross Predmore
  • Patent number: 8790081
    Abstract: A constant torque propeller mechanism allows a propeller to operate very efficiently in both takeoff and cruise flight conditions, which significantly improves aircraft performance. The constant torque propeller mechanism introduces a lightweight and passive propeller control system which requires no electrical power to operate, but at the same time improves the efficiency of the motor propeller combination over the flight envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Auburn University
    Inventors: Christoph Burger, Roy Hartfield
  • Patent number: 8790082
    Abstract: A gas turbine blade (10) including a hollow mid-span snubber (16). The snubber is affixed to the airfoil portion (14) of the blade by a fastener (20) passing through an opening (24) cast into the surface (22) of the blade. The opening is defined during an investment casting process by a ceramic pedestal (38) which is positioned between a ceramic core (32) and a surrounding ceramic casting shell (48). The pedestal provides mechanical support for the ceramic core during both wax and molten metal injection steps of the investment casting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary B. Merrill, Clinton Mayer
  • Patent number: 8790083
    Abstract: A turbine airfoil, such as a rotor blade or a stator vane, in which a trailing edge region is cooled by a series of modules that extend along the airfoil in the trailing edge region and form a plurality of serpentine flow channels to cool the trailing edge. Each module is separated by partition ribs so that each module can be varied in flow to control metal temperature. The modules are supplied with cooling air from a radial extending cooling supply channel located adjacent to the trailing edge region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: George Liang
  • Patent number: 8790084
    Abstract: An airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pair of sides extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil also includes an internal cooling flow passage defined between the sides, wherein the passage has a passage axis along which cooling air is to flow. The airfoil further includes a plurality of flow paths extending through at least one of the sides such that the flow paths are configured to discharge cooling air from the passage, wherein each of the flow paths has a broken flow path axis oriented to intersect the passage axis at an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia