Patents Issued in December 6, 2016
  • Patent number: 9512810
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent a short circuit and disconnection between coil wires 52 in a crossing portion 52c in a solenoid device 5 of a fuel injection valve 1 that has a structure in which the coil wires 52 intersect with each other on a winding initiation side 52a and a winding completion side 52b of the coil wires 52. A groove that is deeper in depth than the coil wire 52 is disposed in a bobbin 53, around which the coil wire 52 is wound, and the winding initiation side and the winding completion side of the coil wire is separated into upper and lower stages of a groove portion in the crossing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Shingu, Keishi Nakano, Tsuyoshi Munezane
  • Patent number: 9512811
    Abstract: A fuel supply pump includes a low-pressure pump and a high-pressure pump. The low-pressure pump pumps up fuel from a fuel tank. The high-pressure pump includes a pressurizing chamber to which fuel pumped up by the low-pressure pump is supplied, and pressurizes fuel in the pressurizing chamber. The high-pressure pump further includes a cam shaft, a cam, a plunger, a housing, and a bush. The cam is provided eccentrically to a central axis of the cam shaft and is rotated integrally with the cam shaft. The plunger is driven by the cam to pressurize fuel in the pressurizing chamber. The housing accommodates the cam shaft. The bush is fixed to the housing to bearing-support the cam shaft. The housing includes a cooling passage, through which fuel discharged from the low-pressure pump flows on an outer peripheral side of the bush to serve as a medium for cooling the bush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoto Oki
  • Patent number: 9512812
    Abstract: It is possible to obtain an engine starting device in which, at the time of initial engagement of a first pinion gear and an engine starting gear, in a case where the first pinion gear collides with the engine starting gear, the first pinion gear is inclined with respect to the second pinion gear, a void having a predetermined size for expanding the inclined state is formed between a surface of an end surface portion of the first pinion gear on the side of an end surface portion of the second pinion gear, and a surface of an end surface portion of the second pinion gear on the side of the end surface portion of the first pinion gear, even in a case where any one of the rotation speed of the engine starting gear and the rotation speed of the pinion gear is larger than the other, rotation synchronization of the engine starting gear and the pinion gear and phase focusing of the teeth between the engine starting gear and the pinion gear is further rapidly and further reliably performed at the time when the engine
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Odahara, Koichiro Kamei, Daisuke Mizuno, Masami Abe, Naohito Kaneda
  • Patent number: 9512814
    Abstract: A control method of a spark ignition engine and a spark ignition engine capable of warming up an engine more promptly while promptly activating a catalyst are provided. Implemented is the control of igniting a mixture at an ignition timing that is set on a more lag side than an MBT, which is an ignition timing in which an output torque of the engine becomes maximum until the catalyst is activated after the engine is started. After the catalyst is activated, until the engine is warmed up control of increasing a ratio of burned gas contained in the mixture within the combustion chamber to be more than the ratio of the burned gas in the mixture during a first period, and control of igniting the mixture containing more burned gas than the burned gas in the first period are implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahisa Yamakawa, Takashi Youso
  • Patent number: 9512815
    Abstract: A multipurpose rotary device includes a rotor configured to include a plurality of blades in a circumferential direction; and a load guide body configured to guide a flow of fluids flowing into the inside of the rotor, wherein the load guide body includes an upper support member and a lower support member configured to be disposed to face each other at the upper and lower sides thereof and connected to one another such that the rotor is rotatably installed; load guide plates configured to correspond to the blades and are rotatably installed between the upper and lower support members in a longitudinal direction; and stop pins configured to be formed on inner surfaces facing the upper and lower support members to control a rotational angle of the load guide plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Myung-soon Bae
  • Patent number: 9512816
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a drum may be submerged in water and extend horizontally along a center axis between a first point on a first side of the drum and a second point on a second side of the drum opposite the first side. Three curved vanes may be attached to the drum such that the vanes, when acted upon by a water flow perpendicular to the axis, are operable to cause rotation about the axis, wherein an edge portion of each vane, located substantially opposite the drum, defines a plane substantially parallel to a plane defined by a surface of the drum located between the edge portion and the axis. An electrical generator coupled to the drum may convert rotational energy produced by the rotation about the axis into electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: WATEROTOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Frederick D. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 9512817
    Abstract: An example wind turbine diffuser has an expanded outlet area where the diffuser outlet area is greater than it's cross sectional area. The diffuser may be formed of one or more diffuser rings, at least one of which may form a turbine cowling. Each diffuser ring may have an inlet area that is smaller than the outlet area of the directly upstream ring. The portion of an upstream ring outlet which is not occluded by the downstream ring may form a diffuser outlet such that the total outlet area of the diffuser is larger than the cross-sectional area. In another example, the diffuser may comprise at least one diffuser ring and one or more suction slots that are each connected to a vent, which allows air to be removed from the diffuser system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Anakata Wind Power Resources s.a.r.l.
    Inventor: Ben David Wood
  • Patent number: 9512818
    Abstract: An optimally-shaped single part molded wind turbine blade is provided for small wind turbines. Two mold bodies are brought together to form a cavity, and a third retractable mold body is inserted into the cavity. A flowable material such as filled thermoplastic resin is introduced into the space between the mold bodies and solidified. The retractable mold body is retracted and the mold is opened to reveal a single-part wind turbine blade with a hollow root region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Pika Energy LLC
    Inventors: Keith Thomas Richtman, Benjamin Francis Polito, Joshua Daniel Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9512819
    Abstract: A wind of the type having a tower and a nacelle with a rotor rotatably connected to the nacelle for rotating about a rotor axis and having a plurality of equally spaced blades has the rotor balanced by firstly taking a measurement of torsional vibration and then by using photographic techniques to analyze dynamic imbalance caused by differences in the angle of attack of the blades. The torsional vibration is detected using two sensors at positions mirrored exactly in distance to the left and right of the rotor axis and detecting vibration in the axial direction. The angle of attack is measured by analyzing images of the tip of the blade where, during the analysis, distortion in angles at different locations in the image are corrected, in dependence upon a prior analysis of an image taken by the camera relative to a known image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Steffen Bunge
  • Patent number: 9512820
    Abstract: A method and system for improving power production efficiency on a wind farm having of a plurality of spatially distributed wind turbines is provided. The method includes receiving a wind measurement that includes a wind direction impinging on a turbine (20), determining a misalignment of the wind turbine with respect to the wind direction, and activating a wake steering control for the wind turbine (20) to implement the misalignment of the wind turbine (20) with the wind direction such that the misalignment is adapted to steer a wake of the wind turbine away from a neighboring wind turbine (30). A wind turbine arrangement including a nacelle, a yaw controller, and a yaw drive is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: John M. Obrecht
  • Patent number: 9512821
    Abstract: An airfoil active bleed system and related method. A housing includes an induction wall, an exhaust wall having one or more exhaust ports, and a chamber between the induction and exhaust walls. Zero-net-mass-flux actuators are located in the chamber and configured and positioned to collectively induct fluid through the induction wall and selectively exhaust fluid through the exhaust port(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Baruzzini, Neal David Domel, Jeffrey G. Hakes, Daniel N. Miller
  • Patent number: 9512822
    Abstract: Rotation device of a wind turbine blade, which comprises a hydraulic actuator to rotate said blade in relation to a longitudinal axis of rotation, and a hydraulic system to drive the actuator, wherein said actuator comprises a substantially toroidal hydraulic chamber concentric with the axis of rotation of the blade, said hydraulic chamber comprising at least one moving piston linked to the blade, and at least one respective fixed stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: DCO Servosistemas, S.L.
    Inventors: Juan Gorostegui Eceiza, Juan Gorostegui Garmendia
  • Patent number: 9512823
    Abstract: A heli-hoist pad (18) that is incorporated into a wind turbine nacelle (12) in a manner that is optimized for helicopter approach and positioning of the heli-hoist pad (18), such as by being located within a recess (20) in an upper surface (28) of the wind turbine nacelle (12). Heat exchangers (50) may also be positioned within the free flow of wind outside of a nacelle (12) in manners that provide for serviceability while also allowing for optimal positioning of a heli-hoist pad (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MHI VESTAS OFFSHORE WIND A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Nyvad, Michael Lundgaard Bitsch, Mazyar Abolfazlian, Morten Mogensen, Antonino Pizzuto, Mads Damgaard
  • Patent number: 9512824
    Abstract: A mounting system for strand-shaped functional elements (5) such as cables or lines, particularly for wind power plants, has a main body (1) having strand passageways (3) formed by receiving spaces (7) with openings (13) for inserting functional elements (5). The openings are closable by a cover devices (49, 43). The spaces define receiving axes (15) extending from the outer opening (13) to the inner end (17) of the receiving spaces (7). The main body (1) is formed from at least two sector elements (11, 12) each having at least one strand passageway (3) and coupleable to one another at at least one connecting point (21). The receiving axes (15) of successive strand passageways (3) on the main body (1) diverge outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: HYDAC ACCESSORIES GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bräbander, Jochen Caspari, Rainer Even, Burhan Yagci
  • Patent number: 9512825
    Abstract: The structure disclosed within creates shelter, insulating the contents or individuals inside from the elements, while also generating electrical power. The electrical power is generated using one or more methods, the methods being interchangeable and varying depending upon the location of the structure, the time of day, and the seasons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Mohammad Omar A. Jazzar
  • Patent number: 9512826
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power plant includes a solar heat collector which collects solar heat and then supplies the solar heat to a heat medium. The power plant includes a heat exchanger which changes a secondary medium into steam by heat exchange with the heat medium. The power plant includes a turbine. The power plant includes a temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the heat medium. The power plant includes and a controller which supplies the heat medium with heat obtained by the conversion of an output variation component having a period shorter than a predetermined value in electricity generated by a wind power generator when the temperature does not satisfy a predetermined condition associated with the driving of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Mikhail Rodionov, Nobuo Okita
  • Patent number: 9512827
    Abstract: A steam or vapor condensing system (10) for use with radiant solar energy collecting apparatus (17) of the type having solar energy concentrators (20) and in which steam or vapor is generated for supply to a load such as to a steam turbine, the system (10) using the solar energy concentrators (20) to directly or indirectly radiate heat energy of exhaust steam or vapor from the load. The collecting apparatus (17) may float on a body of liquid (19) and heat energy of the exhaust steam or vapor is transferred to the body of liquid for example by being passed through a duct (23) in the body of liquid (19) and heat energy transferred to the body of liquid (19) is radiated by the concentrators (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Allan James Yeomans
  • Patent number: 9512828
    Abstract: A bi-field solar geothermal system and method. A ground source geothermal heat pump system comprises two discrete hot and cold loops operated in conjunction with solar panels. Heat acquired from the solar panels is stored in a hot geothermal loop for use during colder weather. The alternative use of cooled fluid, passed through the solar panels, enables removal of heat from a cooled geothermal loop for use during hot summer months. The system comprises a valve system in working communication with the hot geothermal loop and the cold geothermal loop and a control system for controlling the operation of valves and determining when to switch from the hot geothermal loop to the cold geothermal loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Crowder College
    Inventors: Alan Marble, Art Boyt, Dan Eberle
  • Patent number: 9512829
    Abstract: A shape memory actuator is described. The shape memory actuator has a supporting body, a driven element slidably mounted on the supporting body for movement between a stable rest position and a stable operative position, a driving element that drives the driven element, the movement of the driving element being determined by a SMA wire and by first resilient return means acting to return the driving element to the rest position upon deactivation of the SMA wire, second resilient return means acting on the driven element in opposition to the SMA wire, engaging means suitable to achieve at the operative position a reversible engagement between the driven element and the supporting body, either directly or indirectly, said engagement being able to resist the action of second resilient return means, and a control system for the engagement and disengagement of the engaging means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SAES GETTERS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Alacqua, Francesco Butera, Matteo Mazzoni
  • Patent number: 9512830
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor of the present invention includes an electric component (6), a compression component (9), and a container (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Hikichi, Ichiro Kita
  • Patent number: 9512831
    Abstract: A hydraulic fan drive for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, in particular a diesel engine of a mobile working machine or a construction machine, is configured to be switched off for a short time or by way of a transition in dependence on a load of the internal combustion engine. A shut-off valve, which is arranged in a working line connecting a variable-displacement pump to a fan motor, is configured to switch off the fan drive. The fan drive is further configured to be switched off by rotational speed monitoring of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Egon Rill
  • Patent number: 9512832
    Abstract: In a swash plate type variable displacement compressor, a lug plate includes a cylinder chamber and first and second guide surfaces. Inner peripheral edges of the first and second guide surfaces are defined respectively at parts where the peripheral edge of the cylinder chamber and the guide surfaces overlap with each other. When the inclination angle of a swash plate of the compressor is maximum, first and second guided surfaces and the first and second guide surfaces, respectively are brought into line contact with each other at a first position. At this time, first and second slide contact widths are maximum. When the inclination angle of the swash plate is minimum, the first and second guided surfaces and the first and second guide surfaces, respectively are brought into line contact with each other at a second position. At this time, the first and second slide contact widths are minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Nakaima, Kengo Sakakibara, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9512833
    Abstract: A control valve according to one embodiment includes a shaft that transmits the solenoidal force to a valve element. The control valve also provides for stable operation of a variable displacement compressor even under high-temperature and high-pressure environments. A solenoid includes a bottomed sleeve into which the pressure of refrigerant is introduced, a core secured coaxially to the sleeve, a plunger, contained in the sleeve on its bottom side, which is displaceable integrally with the shaft in a direction of axis line, a first spring that applies the biasing force in a valve opening direction to the shaft, a second spring that applies the biasing force in a valve closing direction to the plunger, and a shaft support member, which is press-fitted such that the shaft support member is secured to an inner wall of the sleeve near its bottom portion. The second spring is set between the shaft support member and the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TGK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryousuke Yoshihiro, Morimitsu Kajiwara
  • Patent number: 9512834
    Abstract: A compressor assembly for an intake system includes: a monolithic housing; a first resonator section formed in the monolithic housing, the first resonator section defining two or more volumes configured to attenuate noise associated with fluid flowing through the monolithic housing; a compressor section formed in the monolithic housing, the compressor section including a compressor configured to compress the fluid flowing through the monolithic housing; and a second resonator section formed in the monolithic housing, the second resonator section defining two or more volumes configured to attenuate noise associated with the fluid flowing through the monolithic housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Scot Marc Streeter
  • Patent number: 9512835
    Abstract: A high pressure bellows assembly is disclosed herein. The high pressure bellows assembly includes a first bellows being reversibly expandable. The high pressure bellows assembly also includes a second bellows being reversibly expandable. The high pressure bellows assembly also includes a chamber including a first portion encircling the first bellows, a second portion including an interior of the second bellows, and a third portion placing the first and second portion in fluid communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Alloy Bellows and Precision Welding, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Casella
  • Patent number: 9512836
    Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump for an internal combustion engine. The high-pressure fuel pump includes an improved configuration that beneficially simplifies certain features of the high-pressure fuel pump. The fuel pump possesses an inlet check valve positioned along an inlet fuel circuit and an outlet fuel circuit of the high-pressure pump that provides a path for a low-pressure inlet fuel flow to and a path for a high-pressure output fuel flow from a pumping chamber of the fuel pump. Because of the configuration of the inlet check valve and the outlet check valve, the complexity of high-pressure fuel pump is beneficially reduced, decreasing the cost of components and assembly and improving the life and reliability of high-pressure fuel pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony A. Shaull, Wesley R. Thayer
  • Patent number: 9512837
    Abstract: An oil pump is provided. The oil pump comprises a shell, a rotor mounting part disposed at an end of the shell, and a rotor mechanism disposed on the rotor mounting part. The shell has an inlet and an outlet and defines a low-pressure oil chamber and a high-pressure oil chamber therein. The high-pressure oil chamber and the low-pressure oil chamber are located at the same side of a periphery of the rotor mounting part. An engine cover comprising the oil pump and an engine comprising the engine cover are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: SHENZHEN BYD AUTO R&D COMPANY LIMITED, BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Liu, Junli Zheng, Haibin Li, Jinchen Lin
  • Patent number: 9512838
    Abstract: A torque generator is disclosed. The torque generator includes a valve arrangement including a spool valve and a valve sleeve. A torsion bar biases the valve arrangement toward a neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Kelly Krahn, Vance Richard Murray
  • Patent number: 9512839
    Abstract: A fluid pump device changeable in diameter is provided. The device has a pump housing which is changeable in diameter and with a rotor which is changeable in diameter. The device has at least one delivery element for fluid, as well as a drive shaft on which the rotor is rotatably mounted. A bearing arrangement is arranged on the drive shaft or its extension, at the distal end of the drive shaft behind the rotor seen from the proximal end of the drive shaft. The bearing arrangement has struts, which elastically brace between a hub of the bearing arrangement and the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Reiner Liebing
  • Patent number: 9512840
    Abstract: A scroll-type compressor for a CO2 vehicle air conditioning system, having a movable displacement spiral which is rotatably connected to an eccentric bearing and which engages into a counterpart spiral such that, between the windings of the displacement spiral and of the counterpart spiral, there are formed chambers which travel radially inward in order to compress the refrigerant and discharge the refrigerant into a pressure chamber, wherein the displacement spiral is arranged on the suction side and the counterpart spiral is arranged on the high-pressure side. The scroll-type compressor is wherein the eccentric bearing is arranged in the displacement chamber between the displacement spiral and the counterpart spiral and has a bearing bushing which is formed integrally with the displacement spiral and the base of which is in alignment with the face side of the windings of the displacement spiral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Obrist Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Obrist, Oliver Obrist, Christian Schmaelzle, Christian Busch
  • Patent number: 9512841
    Abstract: A rotary compressor (100) includes a closed casing (1), a cylinder (15), a piston (28), a lower bearing member (72), a vane (33), a suction port (20), a discharge port (41), and a partition member (64). The partition member (64) is attached to the lower bearing member (72) so as to form a space enclosed by the partition member (64) and the lower bearing member (72) at a position adjacent to the lower bearing member (72). A portion of an oil stored in the oil reservoir (22) flows into the enclosed space, and thereby an oil retaining portion (53) is formed. The oil retaining portion (53) is located on the same side as the suction port (20) with respect to a reference plane (H1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogata, Yu Shiotani, Takumi Hikichi, Kentaro Shii, Tadayoshi Shoyama, Masanobu Wada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hirofumi Yoshida, Hiroaki Nakai, Akira Hiwata, Daisuke Funakosi, Ryuichi Ohno, Tsuyoshi Karino
  • Patent number: 9512842
    Abstract: A high pressure dome type rotary compressor including a casing and a compression mechanism disposed in the casing to compress gas in a cylinder chamber. The compression mechanism has a discharge port and a discharge valve. The discharge valve is opened in a discharge process and is closed during a period from when the discharge process is finished to when a next compression process is started. The compressor is arranged such that high pressure gas discharged from the discharge port in the discharge process is discharged outside the casing through space in the casing. An oil feed path is arranged to feed lubricant oil contained in a bottom of the casing to an inside of the discharge port in a period from a point in time in the discharge process to when the compression process is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Kazutaka Hori, Hirofumi Higashi
  • Patent number: 9512843
    Abstract: A turbocharger system for achieving both improvement of fuel efficiency by engine downsizing and excellent shock loading resistance. The system includes: a power-assisted turbocharger mounted on a vehicle having an accessory and including a turbine disposed on an exhaust passage of an engine and driven by exhaust, a compressor disposed on an intake passage and driven by a rotational torque of the turbine, and an electric motor that assists a drive force of the compressor; and an electric motor control unit that drives the electric motor when the accessory is being driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Isao Kitsukawa, Tomohiro Sugano, Yoshiyuki Abe, Haruyo Kimura, Akira Iijima, Naoki Ishibashi, Syougo Sakashita
  • Patent number: 9512844
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes a centrifugal pump driven by an electric motor and is provided with a time display which is formed by an annular row of light diodes, wherein a time is assigned to each light diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Grundfoe Holding a/s
    Inventors: Georg Blaser, Jens Kehrbaum
  • Patent number: 9512845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive and negative rotation control circuit and fan system, which can positively or negatively rotate a fan motor according to an end connecting to different external components or being floating. When the end generates an oscillatory fan signal, the positive and negative rotation control circuit negatively rotates the fan motor for a period of time after the positive and negative rotation control circuit is started for a delay time, to execute the operation of exhausting the accumulated dust, so that a fan connecting to the fan motor may exhaust the accumulated dust from an electronic device. Then the control circuit positively rotates the fan motor to execute the operation of dissipating heat, so that the fan may dissipate heat in the situation of having less dust within the electronic device. Accordingly, the heat dissipation effect of the fan may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Liu, Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Sheng Li
  • Patent number: 9512846
    Abstract: A centrifugal blower system includes a series of blower units, each blower unit in the series comprising a casing having an axial inlet and a radial outlet, an impeller disposed within the casing for drawing a gaseous medium at a first pressure into the inlet and expelling gaseous medium at a second higher pressure through the outlet and a motor for driving the impeller; and, a duct connecting the outlet of at least one blower unit in the series with the inlet of at least one other blower unit in the series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: WATT FUEL CELL CORP.
    Inventors: Paul DeWald, Caine Finnerty, Robert P Donley
  • Patent number: 9512847
    Abstract: A dual-flow turbine engine including: a fan rotatably mounted on a fan shaft and a stationary structural element, the fan shaft and the structural element being connected to one another at an upstream bearing and at a downstream bearing via an upstream bearing bracket and a downstream bearing bracket, respectively; and a decoupling device surrounding the fan shaft, and including a set of attachment screws joining the downstream bearing bracket to the structural element and a set of fusible screws joining the upstream bearing bracket to the downstream bearing bracket. At least some of the fusible screws are arranged between at least some of the attachment screws over a single circumference surrounding the fan shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Regis Eugene Henri Servant
  • Patent number: 9512848
    Abstract: A turbine assembly mounted to a pump rotor via mounting bolts. The turbine includes fins extending therefrom for pumping gasses and suspended particles from a semiconductor processing chamber. The tops of the bolts are recessed from the top surface of the turbine in a bolt cavity having an open end. A cap member is mounted over and seals the open end of the bolt cavity via a center bolt. The cap member has a shaped upper surface (conical, parabolic, squared, rounded) for deflecting particles away from the center of the turbine and toward the turbine's fins. The cap member's upper surface can include particle deflecting features such as fins, channels or asymmetric shapes to enhance particle deflection as the cap member rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Texas Capital Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger L. Bottomfield
  • Patent number: 9512849
    Abstract: A multi-stage integrally geared compressor includes a first process stage, a second process stage and a gearbox for coupling the two process stages to each other at different rotational speeds. The gearbox further couples a compressor drive shaft to the two process stages at a further rotational speed, which is different from the rotational speeds of the process stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Dieter Naβ, Lars SchlĂ¼ter
  • Patent number: 9512850
    Abstract: An air circulator that includes an electronically commuted motor that is devoid of a transformer and utilizes line voltage as the signal voltage. The motor includes a rotatable blade assembly having at least one blade, wherein the blade assembly is connected to the electronically commuted motor, a housing that is operatively connected to the electronically commuted motor and having a line voltage input, and a switch that is secured to the housing and electrically connected to a signal voltage input of the electronically commuted motor and the line voltage input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Kunze, Jay Matthew Cupps, Steven W. Post
  • Patent number: 9512851
    Abstract: If a fan motor in a stopped state remains stopped even when it is powered on, restart processing of the fan motor is carried out by rotating the fan motor forward and backward. If the fan motor rotates as a result of the restart processing, an indication to prompt replacement of it is displayed. If the fan motor remains stopped without rotating, in contrast, it is determined to be defective, and an electronic apparatus is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Suwa, Shingo Odauchi
  • Patent number: 9512852
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotary blood pump with both an attractive magnetic axial bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. In one embodiment according to the present invention, a rotary pump includes an impeller assembly supported within a pump housing assembly by a magnetic axial bearing and a hydrodynamic bearing. The magnetic axial bearing includes at least two magnets oriented to attract each other. One magnet is positioned in the spindle of the pump housing while the other is disposed within the rotor assembly, proximate to the spindle. In this respect, the two magnets create an attractive axial force that at least partially maintains the relative axial position of the rotor assembly. The hydrodynamic bearing is formed between sloping surfaces that form tight clearances below the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Thoratec Corporation
    Inventors: Richard K. Wampler, David M. Lancisi
  • Patent number: 9512853
    Abstract: A turbine assembly mounted to a pump rotor via mounting bolts. The turbine includes fins extending therefrom for pumping gasses and suspended particles from a semiconductor processing chamber. The tops of the bolts are recessed from the top surface of the turbine in a bolt cavity having an open end. A cap member is mounted over and seals the open end of the bolt cavity via a center bolt. The cap member has a shaped upper surface (conical, parabolic, squared, rounded) for deflecting particles away from the center of the turbine and toward the turbine's fins. The cap member's upper surface can include particle deflecting features such as fins, channels or asymmetric shapes to enhance particle deflection as the cap member rotates. The cap member can include a compressible o-ring for a friction fit mounting to the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Texas Capital Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger L. Bottomfield
  • Patent number: 9512854
    Abstract: Fast assembling ceiling fan blades includes a motor housing having its outer circumferential side longitudinally provided with a plurality of gaps respectively secured therein with plural transverse engage blocks. A plurality of blades respectively have one side formed with a plurality of transverse guide grooves corresponding with the engage blocks of the gap, and each guide groove has its bottom extending upward to form an engage slot. Thus, one side of the blade, which corresponds to the engage blocks of the gap, can be pushed and fixed in the gap to have the engage blocks moved along the guide grooves and guided into the engage slots to enable the blade to be firmly engaged in the gap of the motor housing for quickly assembling the blades, simple, time-saving and convenient in assembly and disassembly of the ceiling fan blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: AIR COOL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cliff Wang
  • Patent number: 9512855
    Abstract: A ceiling fan includes a motor, a bracket unit connected fixedly on the motor and including a plurality of angularly spaced-apart blade-installation members, a plurality of blades and a mounting unit. Each blade has a locking segment registered with a respective one of the blade-installation members and a covering wing registered with a respective one of the blade-installation members. The locking segment and the covering wing of each of the blades are registered with two adjacent ones of the blade-installation members. The mounting unit includes a plurality of fastener sets, each securing the locking segment of a respective blade to a corresponding blade-installation member, and having a bottom end that is covered by a corresponding covering wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Hsun-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 9512856
    Abstract: The invention relates to a patient ventilation or breathing device and components therefore for use in all forms of respiratory apparatus ventilation systems including invasive and non-invasive ventilation, positive airway pressure therapy, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), and particularly Bi-Level therapy and treatment for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) conditions such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), and for various other respiratory disorders and diseases. The invention particularly relates to a blower, to a blade, to a gasket, to a cable, to an impeller, to a gas inlet and inlet member, to an improved air path or fluid flow path and components thereof, and/or to a modular ventilation or breathing device as referred to above and particularly incorporating one or more of the other aspects of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Adel Nibu, Johannes Nickol, Achim Biener, Johann Sebastian Burz, Bernd Christoph Lang, Saad Nasr, Robert Eibl, Andreas Kirchberger, Christian Bayer
  • Patent number: 9512857
    Abstract: A liquid lifting device includes: a liquid supply section storing liquid, a tank provided at a position higher than the liquid supply section; a liquid lifting pipe of which one end is inserted into the liquid in the liquid supply section and the other end is connected to the tank; an air pump configured to depressurize the interior of the tank; an air supply pipe in which one end portion of the air supply pipe is connected to the liquid lifting pipe via a branching section at a position halfway in the liquid lifting pipe, and an upright section is provided in the other end portion of the air supply pipe while standing upright from the one end portion; and an air valve provided in the other end portion of the air supply pipe and capable of being opened/closed with respect to the outside air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhira Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 9512858
    Abstract: An ejector includes (i) a body part including a depressurizing space in which a refrigerant flowing out of a swirling space is depressurized, a suction passage that draws a refrigerant from an external, and a pressurizing space in which a jet refrigerant jetted from the depressurizing space and a suction refrigerant drawn from the suction passage are mixed with each other to be pressurized, (ii) a conical passage formation member which is arranged inside the body part, and (iii) a swirling promotion part. A nozzle passage is provided in the depressurizing space on an outer peripheral surface of the passage formation member, and a diffuser passage is provided in the pressurizing space on the outer peripheral surface of the passage formation member. The swirling promotion part includes a flow regulation plate that promotes a swirling flow of the refrigerant flowing in the diffuser passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakajima, Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Hideya Matsui, Kenta Kayano, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama, Tatsuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9512859
    Abstract: A hydraulic transmission circuit comprising three or four coupled hydraulic elementary motors, each elementary motor having a first and a second secondary enclosure. The circuit includes four distribution valves for which the respective outlet channels may be selectively connected to two main conduits for supplying fluid to and discharging fluid from the circuit. The outlet channels of the first and second valves are connected to at least one of the first secondary enclosures; those of the third and fourth valves are connected to at least one of the second secondary enclosures. Each of the elementary motors has a first secondary enclosure connected to a single valve from among the first or second valve and a second secondary enclosure connected to a single valve from among the third or fourth valve. The valve pairs thereby connected to said elementary motors respectively, are all distinct, two by two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: POCLAIN HYDRAULICS INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Clement Recoura, Guillaume Charrier
  • Patent number: 9512860
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid pressure cylinder improved in assembling performance so as to easily fix a partition wall to a cylinder main body. A plurality of pistons 15a and 15b are incorporated in a cylinder main body 11, axially aligned with each other, reciprocable in an axial direction, and respectively provided with piston rods 17a and 17b. A partition wall 14 is attached to the cylinder main body 11 so as to form pressure chambers 21a and 21b. A stopper space is formed by an engagement groove 31 provided to the partition wall 14 and a slit 32 formed so as to extend in a transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11. A stopper 34 is inserted in the stopper space in the transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11 so as to fix the partition wall 14 to the cylinder main body 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Horikawa, Yu Takebayashi