Patents Issued in July 4, 2017
  • Patent number: 9695803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wind direction adjustable blade type vertical axis wind turbine that is configured to allow blades to be automatically swung, thereby making more efficient use of wind power. The wind turbine includes: a rotating shaft adapted to be rotated by means of wind power; an upper plate adapted to be coupled to the upper portion of the rotating shaft; a lower plate adapted to be coupled to the lower portion of the rotating shaft; a plurality of blades disposed between the upper plate and the lower plate; and swing motion units disposed between the top end of each blade and the upper plate and between the underside end of each blade and the lower plate in such a manner as to form the center of rotation of each blade, while allowing each blade to be rotatable in accordance with the wind direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventors: Ok Rye Kang, Meong Jin Shin, Meong Cheol Shin, Hyun Dai Yang
  • Patent number: 9695804
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for reducing the load on a supporting structure comprising a housing defining a chamber, at least one object having a first face and a substantially opposite second face mounted in the chamber by means of the supporting structure and is displaceable relative to the housing leaving free a gap provided with a seal separating a first section and a second section of the chamber, an exposing means for exposing at least the first face to a gas pressure, thereby generating an upward differential pressure force at least partially compensating the object weight, wherein the seal is supported by a movable part of the housing and the device further comprises a means for adjusting the position of at least said movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: S4 Energy B.V.
    Inventor: Carl Maria De Vries
  • Patent number: 9695805
    Abstract: A solar thermal power system includes a solar receiver for heating thermal energy storage fluid to be stored and utilized from a thermal energy storage arrangement having hot and cold storage tanks. The system includes a steam generator arrangement, which utilizes the heat of the thermal energy storage fluid to produce steam to run a turbine. The arrangement includes a bypass line configured to bypass the hot storage tank from the steam generator arrangement, and to supply the hot thermal energy storage fluid from the solar receiver directly to the steam generator arrangement, during day times, when the solar receiver the steam generator arrangement are both in operating mode, thereby recovering stored potential energy available in the down corner hot thermal energy storage fluid from the solar receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Alain Adrien Kukonya, Abhinaya Joshi, Apurba Das, Rahul J. Terdalkar, Lionel Aimi
  • Patent number: 9695806
    Abstract: A method of controlling a fluid pump. The pump has a plurality of oscillating pistons that travel along a central axis of a piston sleeve. A plurality of pistons is of similar mass within a piston sleeve are provided, and adjacent pistons are positioned to be 180 degrees apart in phase oscillations. An electric coil is provided for each piston, and the position of adjacent pistons is determined. The current to one of the electric coils for a piston is adjusted to maintain the 180 degree difference in phase between oscillations of adjacent pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Vbox, Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Van Brunt, John A. Kivisto, Theodore W. Jagger
  • Patent number: 9695807
    Abstract: The micropump includes continuous cylindrical separating pipes having at least two alternating stages of pipes of small radius and large radius connected in succession. Each pipe of a large radius has one end as a hot zone, and the opposite end as a cold zone. The pipes alternate straight pipes with a large radius and U-shaped curved pipes with a small radius. The relationship of the large radius (R) to the small radius (r) is in a range of R/r=2 to 10000, while the relationship of the temperature (T2) of a hot zone to the temperature (T1) of a cold zone is T2/T1=1.1 to 3.0. The length and radius measurements of a straight pipe and a U-shaped pipe ensure a given change in temperature of the gas from the temperature of the hot zone to the temperature of the cold zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, MIPT), Federal State Budgetary Institution, Federal Agency for Legal Protection of Military, Special and Dual Use Intellectual Activity Results (FSBI-FALPIAR)
    Inventors: Yury Yrevich Kloss, Feliks Gregorevich Cheremisin, Denis Vladimirovich Martynov
  • Patent number: 9695808
    Abstract: A positive displacement pump includes a drive unit and a pump unit. The pump unit comprises a plurality of working chambers, a plurality of displacement elements, and at least three cylinders. The pump unit is configured to be double-acting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MHWIRTH GMBH
    Inventors: Alfred Giessbach, Norbert Jaeger
  • Patent number: 9695809
    Abstract: An air pump capable of twist-locking engagement includes a body housing, a head housing, a leakproof ring, an elastic sleeve, a pushing member and an end cap. The body housing has a cam section formed as a tube having a quarter-round section. The head housing has an opening segment. The head housing and the body housing are rotatably coupled with the leakproof ring arranged therebetween. The elastic sleeve is located at the opening segment of the head housing. The pushing member is located at one end of the elastic sleeve and received in the cam section. The end cap is screwed to the opening segment for pressing against and positioning the elastic sleeve. By a twisting operation of the air pump, the cam section can be turned to engage or release an air valve of an article to be inflated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Beto Engineering and Marketing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lopin Wang
  • Patent number: 9695810
    Abstract: A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a shell having a refrigerant inlet, a cylinder provided within the shell, a piston that reciprocates within the cylinder to compress a refrigerant, a motor assembly that provides a drive force to the piston, a support provided for the magnet assembly, to support an end of a permanent magnet, and a frame engaged with the cylinder to support the motor assembly, and that includes a contact to absorb impact when the piston collides against the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungseok Kang, Wonhyun Jung, Chulgi Roh, Jungwan Heo, Sangsub Jeong
  • Patent number: 9695811
    Abstract: A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a shell having a refrigerant inlet, a cylinder arranged in the shell, a piston that reciprocates in the cylinder, a motor assembly that provides a drive force to the piston and having a permanent magnet, and a frame arranged on or at a side of the motor assembly. The cylinder may include a first outer circumference with which an inner stator of the motor assembly may be combined, and a second outer circumference that extends from the first outer circumference and forcibly press-fit into the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungseok Kang, Wonhyun Jung, Chulgi Roh, Kiwook Song, Jookon Kim, Sangsub Jeong
  • Patent number: 9695812
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump assembly having a power end housing and a fluid end housing and a cylinder having at least a portion within the power end. A plunger assembly reciprocates between the power end housing and the fluid end housing of the pump assembly, the plunger assembly having a crosshead, a first section limited to movement within the power end and a second section moveable within the fluid end housing. The pump assembly also includes a seal housing disposed within the cylinder, the seal housing having a proximal end adjacent an entrance to the cylinder, and a distal end disposed within the cylinder. A power end seal is secured to the seal housing proximate the distal end and a fluid end seal is disposed within the fluid end housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: S.P.M. Flow Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Dille, David Arnoldy, Wesley D. Freed
  • Patent number: 9695813
    Abstract: A peristaltic pump comprises a tube to transport a material in a transport direction and a conveying screw, which is configured to cause a transport of the material by causing a successive squeezing of the tube along the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe Nzike, Michael Schabbach, Olaf Zeckai, Meinolf Werner, Ole Simonowsky
  • Patent number: 9695814
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing undesirable noise generated by a vacuum pumping system. The vacuum system operates to reduce the pressure in a chamber to a first pressure value. The system then detects that the pressure at the vacuum pump system's inlet is about to change to a second higher pressure and, in response, the speed of a booster pump in the vacuum pump system is reduced below the rated speed for the pump. When the pressure at the vacuum pump's inlet is above the second pressure, the speed of the booster pump is increased to the rated speed. Thus, the booster pump is slowed down prior the pump system becoming exposed to a rapid increase in inlet pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Philip John Stephens, Michael Geoffrey Thompson
  • Patent number: 9695815
    Abstract: A pump device and method for stabilizing a suction flow rate irrespective of an outside air temperature. The method includes: outputting a drive signal for driving a motor at a rotation speed for discharging gas of the reference flow rate from the suction port of the pump main body; measuring a temperature of gas discharged from the suction port or a temperature of the pump main body by a temperature sensor attached to the pump main body; calculating an actual flow rate of the gas discharged from the suction port based on a temperature signal relating to the temperature of the gas included in an output of the temperature sensor; and correcting the drive signal such that the actual flow rate equals the reference flow rate and outputting the corrected drive signal to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ulvac Kiko, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Nonomura, Sachie Suzuki, Ryuji Itoyama, Akhiro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9695816
    Abstract: A fluid detection apparatus and a fluid detection method are provided. The fluid detection apparatus includes a plurality of capacitive detection units and a sensing circuit. The capacitive detection units are sequentially arranged along a detection direction, wherein each of the capacitive detection units generates an impedance variation in response to the submergence of the fluid and accordingly generates a corresponding fluid detection signal. The sensing circuit is coupled to the capacitive detection units so as to receive the fluid detection signals and send a first status indication signal indicating a spread circumstance of the fluid along the detection direction according to the fluid detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Tatung Company
    Inventors: Tai-Jee Pan, Chih-Jou Lin, Jia-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 9695817
    Abstract: Methods of and devices for testing medical pumps via tracking induced bubble trajectories within a fluid flow conduit comprising a valve and methods of synchronized corrections of flow data estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: PRONK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Karl A. Ruiter, Mirik Hovsepian
  • Patent number: 9695818
    Abstract: A compressor (100) has a compressor main body (60) formed so that one stroke cycle is performed in a compression room (43) which is partitioned by a rotor (50), cylinder (40), side blocks (20, 30), and vanes (58) during one revolution of the rotor (50). A cyclone block (70) separates a refrigerant oil (R) from refrigerant gas (G), wherein a second discharge section (46) which discharge the refrigerant gas (G) when the pressure inside the compression room (43) reaches the discharge pressure before the compression room (43) faces a first discharge section (45) is formed, and a communicating path (39) which connects a discharge chamber (45a) in the first discharge section (45) and a discharge chamber (46a) in the second discharge section (46) is formed on the upper stream side from the cyclone block (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsuda, Hirotada Shimaguchi, Tatsuya Osaki, Kouji Hirono, Shizuma Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9695819
    Abstract: A rotary compressor (100) includes a closed casing (1), a cylinder (15), a piston (28), a lower bearing member (7), a vane (33), a suction port, a discharge port (41), and a partition member (10). The partition member (10) is attached to a second principal surface (7a) of the lower bearing member (7) located on the opposite side to the cylinder (15) so as to form a refrigerant discharge space (52) serving as a flow path of a refrigerant discharged from a discharge chamber through the discharge port (41). The refrigerant discharge space (52) is limited so that a region where the refrigerant discharge space (52) is not present is formed on the same side as the suction port with respect to a first reference plane, and in that region, the second principal surface (7a) of the lower bearing member (7) is in contact with an oil in an oil reservoir (22) directly or via the partition member (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogata, Yu Shiotani, Takumi Hikichi, Kentaro Shii, Tadayoshi Shoyama
  • Patent number: 9695820
    Abstract: A compressor capable of reducing oil foaming and reducing the waiting time taken until the heating of the compressor is completed, and a method of controlling the same, the method of controlling a compressor including sensing temperature of the oil in the compressor, if the temperature of the oil is below a reference temperature, performing a loss operation, in which an amount of heat radiation of the motor part is increased, while operating the motor part at a low speed, and if the temperature of the oil increases to be equal to or higher then reference temperature, performing an efficiency operation by converting an operation of the motor to a normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Hwan Lee, Kyoung Rock Kim, Byoung Guk Lim
  • Patent number: 9695821
    Abstract: An apparatus for compressing or pumping fluid includes a housing having an interior chamber. A rotating cam is rotatably mounted within an interior chamber and includes a reversible cam body configured to enable fluid to flow in a foreword direction and a reverse direction. The reversible cam body has a first sloped annular channel formed therein. The first end of the reversible cam body includes a ramp up portion, a ramp down portion, and inner and outer circumferential sidewalls that circumscribe the ramp to define the first sloped annular channel. The apparatus may include a circumferential cam gear located on the outer circumferential sidewall and a secondary drive shaft with a pinion gear to rotate the circumferential cam gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Albert's Generator Services Inc.
    Inventors: Albert W. Patterson, Tyler J. E. Clark
  • Patent number: 9695822
    Abstract: A turbocharger is provided herein. The turbocharger includes a housing and an adjustable core at least partially circumferentially surrounded by the housing, the adjustable core having a turbine rotor coupled to a compressor rotor via a shaft. The turbocharger further includes an adjustment mechanism coupled to the adjustable core configured to adjust an axial position of the housing relative to the adjustable core in response to adjustment commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Douglas Ervin, August Thomas Vaught
  • Patent number: 9695823
    Abstract: A compressor is provided and may include a shell, an orbiting scroll, a driveshaft and an unloader counterweight. The orbiting scroll may be disposed within the shell and include a boss portion. The driveshaft may include an eccentric pin and rotate about a longitudinal axis. The unloader counterweight assembly may include a first, a second end, and a longitudinal opening extending therebetween. The eccentric pin of the driveshaft may be disposed within the longitudinal opening at the first end of the unloader counterweight assembly. The boss portion of the orbiting scroll may be disposed within the longitudinal opening at the second end of the unloader counterweight assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeff Berning
  • Patent number: 9695824
    Abstract: A pump shaft (10; 12) and a pump member (16; 18) mountable on the shaft for rotation with the shaft have respective contact surfaces that contact when the pump member is mounted on the shaft. At least one of the contact surfaces is formed such that corrosion products of the surface are substantially incompatible with the other contact surface so that joining of the shaft and pump member at the contact surfaces by corrosion is substantially prevented. The pump shaft and pump member may be parts of a dry pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventor: Emmanuel Uzoma Okoroafor
  • Patent number: 9695825
    Abstract: A rotary compressor (100A) includes a closed casing (1), a compression mechanism (48), a lower end-face plate (34), and a communication hole (50). An oil reservoir (12) is formed at the bottom of the closed casing (1). The lower end-face plate (34) divides the oil reservoir (12) into a plurality of sections (12a) and (12b) in the vertical direction. The plurality of sections of the oil reservoir (12) communicate with each other through the communication hole (50). The communication hole (50) is located on the same side as a discharge port (8b) of the compression mechanism (48) with respect to a reference plane (H1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Hikichi, Kentaro Shii, Masanobu Wada, Tadayoshi Shoyama
  • Patent number: 9695826
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump comprises a pump assembly, through which a fluid can be impelled. The pump assembly includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a fluid casing, and an impellor positioned within the fluid casing, the impellor being driven by a power source and being operable to generate fluid flow within the fluid casing from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. The pump assembly also includes a volute area formed on a periphery of the fluid casing, the volute area being operable to receive fluid pressurized by flow induced by the impellor. A pitot tube is positioned within the volute area, the pitot tube being operable to receive pressurized fluid from the volute area and pass the fluid through an outlet having an expanding geometry that increases the flow rate of the fluid as it passes through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventor: James Harmon
  • Patent number: 9695827
    Abstract: In an electric water pump for circulating cooling water of an engine mounted on a vehicle or similar, a time interval to switch energized phase of a pump motor is set to longer than a time interval during a normal flow rate control (during a flow rate control at a flow rate equal to or more than a flow rate where an electromotive force generated at a non-energized phase is detectable). In the case where a pump discharge pressure (or a water temperature of the cooling water) repeatedly increases and decreases in this extremely low flow rate state, it is determined that the electric water pump normally rotates as required. This allows providing the extremely low flow rate state between a water stop state and a water circulation state in a control for stop of water in an engine cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukari Araki, Osamu Shintani, Takasuke Shikida
  • Patent number: 9695828
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an air delivery device with an impeller mounted rotationally about the axis of rotation, designed for essentially axial intake of air and essentially radial expulsion of air relative to the axis of rotation, and which is arranged in a housing that has at least one intake opening and at least one blowing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: GENTHERM GMBH
    Inventor: Winfried Helmenstein
  • Patent number: 9695829
    Abstract: A cooling system that includes two or more fans that each have a chassis. The chassis includes a first face, a second face, and a sidewall. The fans then can be attached to each other by attaching a sidewall of a first fan chassis to a sidewall of a second fan chassis. An adjustable vane is attached perpendicularly and approximately equidistant between the fans, with an angular control element that is attached to the first fan chassis. The vane can be oriented such that the vane divides the airflow distributed to the fans. The vane then can be adjusted radially by the angular control element, which is attached to the fan chassis. If an impeller of a fan chassis fails the vane can be adjusted radially using an angular control element to distribute more airflow to the failed fan superimposing the non-failed fan chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Anderl, Karl Stathakis
  • Patent number: 9695830
    Abstract: A control device controls a plurality of inverter-driven pumps disposed between a heat source device and an air-conditioner. The control device includes a perceiving unit that perceives a cumulative operation time and a rotation speed distribution during operation of each of the pumps, a degradation degree derivation unit that derives a degradation degree of each of the pumps based on the cumulative operation time and the rotation speed distribution during operation of each of the pumps, and a determining unit that determines the pump to be next operated/stopped based on the degradation degree of each of the pumps. The degradation degree derivation unit further derives an increased amount of the degradation degree of each of the pumps in a predetermined period. The determining unit determines the pump to be next operated/stopped based on the increased amount of the degradation degree of each of the pumps in the predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakahara, Mizuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9695831
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving one or more surge value parameters, selecting a first value from a selected parameter of the one of the parameters, determining a moving average, determining a rate of change, identifying a first phase of a surge cycle based on determining that the rate of change exceeds a threshold rate change, memorializing the first value, the moving average value, and a first time index, receiving a second value of the selected parameter, identifying a second phase of the surge cycle, receiving a third value of the selected parameter, identifying a third phase of the surge cycle, and providing an indication that one or more compressor surge cycles have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Benim
  • Patent number: 9695832
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for controlling operation of a motor of a fan assembly. The fan assembly includes a housing and a fan. The motor is in the housing. The housing is void of sensors. The motor is configured to rotate the fan. The integrated circuit includes a detection module and a first control module. The detection module is separate from the fan assembly. The detection module is configured to detect a voltage induced in a first coil of the motor or a back electromotive force received from the first coil of the motor. The first control module is configured to receive a control signal from a second control module and control the operation of the fan based on (a) the control signal, and (b) the voltage induced in the first coil of the motor or the back electromotive force. The second control module is separate from the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Ravishanker Krishnamoorthy, Foo Leng Leong, Edy Susanto, Yayue Zhang, Cheng Yong Teoh
  • Patent number: 9695833
    Abstract: A rotational speed control system includes a fan controller and a fan controlling circuit. The fan controlling circuit is coupled to the fan controller. The fan controlling circuit can receive a rotational speed control signal and output a fan driving signal to the fan controller. The fan driving signal is a regulated high level voltage signal. The fan controller can adjust rotational speed of the fan according to the driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhang-Long Peng, Chun-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9695834
    Abstract: A compressor system includes a compressor train including two or more compressors connected in series and a control mechanism. The control mechanism is controlled by a performance controller. The performance controller is operable to identify a process variable of the performance controller; receive, on a recurrent basis from a load sharing controller, a setpoint for the process variable of the performance controller; and control the control mechanism based on the setpoint and the process variable of the performance controller. The setpoint is determined dynamically during operation of the two or more compressors by the load sharing controller based on a load sharing parameter associated with the two or more compressors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Grassens, Brian Eldredge
  • Patent number: 9695835
    Abstract: A liquid ring pump is provided. The liquid ring pump is designed to reduce the overall envelop of the ring pump. The liquid ring pump includes a housing and an impeller. The housing defines an impeller cavity. The impeller cavity has an inlet port and a discharge port. The impeller is positioned within the impeller cavity for rotation about a central rotational axis. The impeller includes a central hub defining a conical outer surface and a plurality of angularly spaced apart main vanes extending radially outward from the conical outer surface relative to the central rotational axis. The inlet and discharge ports may be located on a same side of the impeller housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventor: Austin Wade Mueller
  • Patent number: 9695836
    Abstract: Provided is a fly wheel, including: a fly wheel body provided with a receiving part in which air is filled and mounted on driving shaft; a blade radially coupled to the fly wheel body, including a ventilation passage formed therein to be communicated with the receiving part and a puncturing part formed on an outer race thereof to be communicated with the ventilation passage, and generating thrust by discharging the air filled in the receiving part to the puncturing part at the time of rotating the driving shaft; and a check valve installed on the fly wheel body and being opened and closed by a pressure difference between the receiving part and the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventors: Sang Tae Ahn, Chun Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 9695837
    Abstract: The device is configured for moving a fluid within a gearbox. In one illustrative embodiment, the device includes a base portion coupled to a rotatable member within the gearbox. An inlet portion of the device is configured to draw the fluid from a reservoir portion of the gearbox. The device is configured to utilize a centrifugal force for moving the fluid from the inlet portion toward the base portion along an interior surface of a conical portion. In another illustrative embodiment, the device includes a conical portion having an external threaded portion configured to capture a fluid during a rotation of the device. In such an embodiment, the threaded portion is configured to utilize a centrifugal force for moving the fluid captured by the threaded portion along an exterior surface of the conical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Sinusas, Walter West Riley
  • Patent number: 9695838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radial compressor (1) for an exhaust gas turbocharger, in particular of an internal combustion engine, with a compressor housing (2) comprising an axial inlet channel (3) and a radial outlet channel (4), with a compressor wheel (6) for delivering and compressing a gas, wherein the compressor wheel (6) has an axial inlet side (7) facing the inlet channel (3), a radial outlet side (8) facing the outlet channel (4) and an axial wheel surface contour (9), which extends from the inlet side (6) as far as to the outlet side (7), with an adapter element (10) which is substantially designed sleeve-like, which can be axially introduced into a fastening section (11) provided on the compressor housing (2), wherein the adapter element (10) at least in sections has a surface contour (13), which is designed substantially complementarily to the axial wheel surface contour (9), so that by axially moving the adapter element (10) in the fastening section (11) a gap width (w) of a passage gap (14) a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Max Fiedler, Urs Hanig, Fabian Haslinger
  • Patent number: 9695839
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cleaning containers using water within the container and a submersible pump exhibiting a nozzle. Air may be injected into the pumped water to increase its pressure as it exists the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: US Submergent Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Henry B. Polston
  • Patent number: 9695840
    Abstract: The reversible hydraulic pressure converter (1) employing tubular valves includes a medium-pressure stage (44) consisting of a medium-pressure cylinder (2) and a double-acting medium-pressure piston (3) the position of which is sent to a control computer of the converter (19) by a piston position sensor (14), the cylinder (2) and the piston (3) forming two medium-pressure chambers (5) that can be placed in communication with a medium-pressure inlet-outlet circuit (15) by at least one tubular valve (12), the converter (1) also including two high-pressure cylinders (9) each cooperating with a high-pressure piston (8) of smaller diameter and defining two high-pressure chambers (11) that can be placed in communication with a high-pressure inlet-outlet circuit (16) by at least one tubular valve (12), each of the various tubular valves (12) cooperating with an independent valve actuator (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventor: Vianney Rabhi
  • Patent number: 9695841
    Abstract: In a hydraulic closed circuit system with hydraulic pumps which maintains a well-balanced flow rate by automatically controlling the flow rate, a first hydraulic pump is connected to a hydraulic cylinder device such that the hydraulic closed circuit is made, a second hydraulic pump is connected at one of paired delivery ports to a bottom side of the hydraulic cylinder device and at the other of the ports to a tank, and a prime mover drives the first and second hydraulic pumps and recovers motive power from these pumps. A pump capacity control unit detects a moving direction of the hydraulic cylinder device, and a pressure in a lower-thrust side of the device, and controls a capacity of the second hydraulic pump so that the flow rate during the extension/retraction of the hydraulic cylinder device becomes balanced between the first and second hydraulic pumps and the hydraulic cylinder device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Udagawa, Hiroaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9695842
    Abstract: A hydraulic cylinder causes a work implement to be lowered due to the exhaust of hydraulic fluid from a first chamber and the supply of hydraulic fluid to a second chamber. A hydraulic fluid flowpath has a first flowpath and a second flowpath. The first flowpath connects a first pump port and the first chamber. The second flowpath connects a second pump port and the second chamber. The hydraulic fluid flowpath configures a closed circuit between a hydraulic pump and the hydraulic cylinder. A bleed-off flowpath branches off from the first flowpath. A portion of hydraulic fluid exhausted from the first chamber when lowering the work implement flows into the bleed-off flowpath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Teruo Akiyama, Noboru Iida, Koji Saito, Takayuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9695843
    Abstract: A hydraulic load-sensing control arrangement for a first and second hydraulic consumer has a variable displacement pump having load-sensing regulation, to which the highest respective load-sensing pressure of consumers is reported. The first consumer has the highest load pressure in normal operation and therefore the highest load-sensing pressure dependent on the load pressure. A pressure reducing valve is arranged in the pressure medium flow path between the variable displacement pump and the first consumer. A spring force from a regulating spring and a regulating pressure dependent on the load pressure of the first consumer are applied in the opening direction of a valve gate in this pressure reducing valve and pressure is applied directly downstream from the pressure reducing valve in the closing direction thereof. A pressure equivalent of the spring force of the regulating spring and the regulating pressure are greater than a pressure of the variable displacement pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Buettner, Robert Rueppel, Timo Ikonen
  • Patent number: 9695844
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump assembly having a main pump, a charge pump and an auxiliary pump driven by a single shaft is provided. A pair of hydraulic porting members cooperates to feed and distribute hydraulic fluid between the three pump units, and a single inlet may be used to provide hydraulic fluid to the charge pump and the auxiliary pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Nathan W. Bonny
  • Patent number: 9695845
    Abstract: A cushion mechanism for decelerating a piston rod includes a holder fastened to an end surface of a cylinder portion fitted with an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder tube, a plurality of fastening bolts for fastening the holder to the cylinder portion, an annular entry portion provided on the piston rod and advancing into the holder and the cylinder portion in the vicinity of the stroke end, a cushion passage formed by penetrating at least one of the plurality of fastening bolts and allowing a working chamber and a discharge port to communicate with each other and leading a working fluid in the working chamber to a discharge port, and an orifice portion provided on the cushion passage and applying resistance to a flow of the working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Funato
  • Patent number: 9695846
    Abstract: Apparatus for providing mechanical feedback of a position of an actuator to a controller in a high vibration environment. The apparatus includes a member that contacts a cam surface of the actuator such that movement of the actuator and cam surface causes the member to move. The apparatus also includes a spring that exerts a force on the member toward the cam surface to maintain contact between the member and the cam surface. The apparatus also includes a damper that dampens motion of the member, thereby eliminating resonant movement of the spring and member caused by vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Shahram Namvari
  • Patent number: 9695847
    Abstract: A power train and related vehicle are described for storage and delivery of supplemental power. A power conversion device may receive power from an engine or other component of a vehicle and may provide power to an energy storage device. A supplemental power device may receive power from the energy storage device and provide power to a supplemental power coupling via a one-way power transfer device. The supplemental power coupling may provide the power from the supplemental power device, as received via the one-way power transfer device, to a crank shaft or other component of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Steven R. Fliearman
  • Patent number: 9695848
    Abstract: A pinch weld clamp includes a clamp body and a channel formed in the body. The channel is configured to engage a flange or pinch weld on a vehicle. One or more set screws extend from an outer wall of the clamp body into the channel to clamp onto the pinch weld. A connecting screw is connected to the clamp body to attach a device, such as a running board, to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Owens Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Ray Thompson
  • Patent number: 9695849
    Abstract: A support includes a support member including a main body and an extension body extending from the main body; a clamping member coupled to the main body and being movable relative to the main body; and a holding portion defined between the support member and the clamping member and configured to receive the electronic device. The support member and the clamp member are configured to cooperatively clamp the electronic device in the holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao-Gang Zhou, Wei-Min Yang
  • Patent number: 9695850
    Abstract: A watertight clip may include a watertight clip main body and a packing. The watertight clip main body has a stabilizer, a pillar extending from the stabilizer, engagement legs formed in the pillar, and a packing retainer member. When the pillar is inserted into an attaching hole formed in a plate-shaped subject member, the subject member is positioned between the engagement legs and the stabilizer, so that an attached member connected to the stabilizer can be attached to the subject member. The packing is previously attached to the pillar. The packing is interleaved between the subject member and the stabilizer. The packing retainer member is configured to prevent the packing from separating from the pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: DAIWA KASEI KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuya Hirakawa, Osamu Asai, Norihito Itou
  • Patent number: 9695851
    Abstract: The invention relates to a panel including an upper side, an underside, a basic body, complementary locking means, which are provided in pairs on mutually opposite panel edges, and at least one pair of locking means having a receiving hook and an arresting hook. The receiving hook has a hook periphery and a receiving recess. The arresting hook has an arresting recess, an arresting shoulder, a transverse-joint surface and a vertically acting arresting contour. The receiving hook also has a transverse-joint surface and a form-fitting contour. The arresting hook also has a horizontal locking surface on its arresting shoulder. The receiving hook also has a horizontal locking surface in the receiving recess and contains a receiving opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: AKEZENTA PANEELE + PROFILE GMBH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Hannig
  • Patent number: 9695852
    Abstract: A floating fastener mounting structure includes a mounting socket having an annular bottom stop flange and mounting portion extending around a bottom end of a center hole thereof, a locking member including a shank inserted through center hole, a mounting head located at the top end of shank and suspending above center hole and an expanded locking end tip located at the bottom end of shank and movable in and out of the bottom end of center hole, a spring member mounted around shank and stopped between mounting socket and locking member, a cap member fastened to mounting head and having an outer diameter not larger than outer diameter of annular bottom stop flange and defining an accommodation chamber for accommodating a part of the mounting socket and a part of the mounting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: HANWIT PRECISION INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Ying-Chih Tseng