Patents Issued in November 14, 2017
  • Patent number: 9816465
    Abstract: A mixing block to supply a throttle-able hydrogen and air mixture to an internal combustion engine includes a bore through the mixing block between an air intake side and an engine intake side. A slider chamber is disposed orthogonal to and intersecting the bore, where the slider chamber houses a movable slider biased to at least partially block the bore but throttle-able to overcome the bias and reduce blockage of the bore. A jet chamber is disposed parallel to and intersecting the slider chamber and extending away from the slider chamber a distance sufficient to accommodate a shaped needle, where the needle is connected to the slider on one side such that the needle moves within the jet chamber as the slider moves in the slider chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hydrogen Energy Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Rick Saccone
  • Patent number: 9816466
    Abstract: An EGR-mixer system may include an exhaust gas recirculation valve and a venturi mixer. The venturi mixer may be constructed and arranged to facilitate condensation of water out of exhaust gas and/or intake air entering the EGR-mixer system after which the condensate may be collected and the exhaust gas and/or intake air may flow through the EGR-mixer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: David B. Roth, Robert Czarnowski, Christopher Thomas, Timm Kiener, Thomas Auer
  • Patent number: 9816467
    Abstract: A fuel separation system includes a fuel separator configured to receive a fuel stream and separate the fuel stream, based on a volatility of the fuel stream, into a vapor stream defined by a first auto-ignition characteristic value and a first liquid stream defined by a second auto-ignition characteristic value, the second auto-ignition characteristic value greater than the first auto-ignition characteristic value; and a heat exchanger fluidly coupled between a fuel input of the fuel stream and the fuel separator, the heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from the vapor stream to the fuel stream, and output a heated fuel stream to the fuel separator and a second liquid stream defined by the first auto-ignition characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Esam Z. Hamad, Ibrahim M. Algunaibet
  • Patent number: 9816468
    Abstract: An air filter retention interface for use with an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The interface is substantially secured in an opening of a wall and the interface attaches to an air filter at the front end of the interface and an air intake tube on the back end of the interface. The interface has a filter sleeve and a filter base. During operation of the engine the filter sleeve is disposed through the opening in the wall such that the wall is between beads disposed on the external surface of the filter sleeve and the filter base thereby substantially securing the interface in place and the front end of the filter base is attached to the filter and the back end of the filter base is attached to the air intake tube and air passes through the filter then through the filter base and filter sleeve and then into the air intake tube and toward the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced FloW Engineering
    Inventors: Shahriar Nick Niakan, Saul Daniel Zambrano, Stuart T. Miyagishima
  • Patent number: 9816469
    Abstract: An intake system may include an intercooler configured to cool an air supplied to an engine, and an intake manifold configured to supply the air which is passed through the intercooler into at least one cylinder, and having a first runner and a second runner, in which the air which is exhausted from the intercooler is selectively supplied into at least one of the first runner and the second runner, and at least one cylinder which is communicated with the first runner is separated from at least one cylinder which is communicated with the second runner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Won Rok Choi
  • Patent number: 9816470
    Abstract: A filtering device may includes a bag-shaped filter member that is capable of being connected to a fuel inlet port of a fuel pump disposed in a fuel tank in order to filtrate fuel drawn by the fuel pump, and a wall member that is connected to the filter member such that a fuel reservoir portion can be defined above the filter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshio Nishio
  • Patent number: 9816471
    Abstract: Provided is a configuration which prevents an engine from being unable to start in the state in which dew condensation occurred in a fuel injection pump and froze. The present invention relates to a fuel injection pump which is provided with a pump body and a hydraulic head and driven by an engine, and is characterized in that while the engine is in operation, the temperature of the hydraulic head is increased to a dew-point temperature or higher. Consequently, it is possible to increase the temperature of the hydraulic head and remove water in the fuel injection pump while the engine is in operation. Accordingly, the engine can be prevented from being unable to start in the state that dew condensation occurred in the fuel injection pump and froze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Shiba, Masaki Nankou, Tomoyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9816472
    Abstract: A connecting device for fuel injection systems is used for joining a fuel injector to a cup and to a fuel-conveying component. In this context, connecting elements are provided, which are insertable into the cup in such a manner, that they are situated at least approximately in one plane, which is oriented perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of a cup. Connecting elements take the form of pin-shaped connecting elements. In addition, the connecting elements are formed in such a manner, that they are inserted into the cup, inside an outer cross-section of the cup. A securing element is also provided for securing the connecting elements. Furthermore, a fuel injection system having such a connecting device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Lang
  • Patent number: 9816473
    Abstract: An injection system for an internal combustion engine may include a high-pressure pump for delivering fuel at high pressure into a high-pressure region, wherein the high-pressure pump includes an inlet valve and an electrically switched, digitally actuated outlet valve. The outlet valve is designed as a normally-open outlet valve. In this way, it is possible to dispense with a pressure relief valve for the high-pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Kraft, Tobias Ritsch, Christoph Klesse
  • Patent number: 9816474
    Abstract: A controller may be configured to respond to an engine start condition that occurs while an SOC of the battery is within a first predetermined range by running an engine until first occurrence of the start condition ceasing or the SOC achieving a target. The controller may further be configured to respond to an engine start condition that occurs while the SOC is within a second predetermined range less than the first by running the engine until the SOC achieves the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hafiz Shafeek Khafagy, Hanyang Chen, Gjergji Shaska, Ahmed Awadi, John T. Bremmer, Sr.
  • Patent number: 9816475
    Abstract: A system for starting an internal combustion engine includes a battery system, a charger to receive DC battery power from the battery system and convert the power to a DC charging current, a supercapacitor array having a plurality of supercapacitor cells connected to the charger to receive the DC charging current therefrom, and a motor starter to start the internal combustion engine responsive to a DC input from the supercapacitor array. The charger modifies a voltage of the supercapacitor cells in an on-demand fashion, with the charger programmed to provide DC charging current to the supercapacitor array to hold the supercapacitor cells at a first voltage, receive a bump-up command indicative of an upcoming engine start and, responsive to receiving the bump-up command, provide DC charging current to the supercapacitor array to increase a voltage of the supercapacitor cells temporarily to a second voltage higher than the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Marlowe James Buchanan
  • Patent number: 9816476
    Abstract: An ignition coil system is configured for use with a spark ignition internal combustion engine. The system includes a first switching circuit electrically connected to the primary coil that provides electrical power to the primary coil. The system includes a second switching circuit connected to the primary coil that is configured to short the terminals of the primary coil after the secondary current has been induced in the secondary coil, whereby the secondary coil induces a current in the primary coil, thereby reducing the secondary current in the secondary wire coil. A controller in communication with the first and second switching circuits is configured to receive a single electronic spark timing (EST) signal and to control the conductive states and the non-conductive states of the first and second switching circuits based on this single EST signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Albert A. Skinner, Salah Derrouich, Frank Lorenz
  • Patent number: 9816477
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control apparatus for controlling power supply from a power source to a glow plug, including a plurality of semiconductor switching elements arranged to turn on and of power supply to the glow plug, a temperature fuse actuated by a temperature rise thereof to interrupt power supply to the semiconductor switching elements, a failure detection portion that detects the occurrence or non-occurrence of an ON failure in each of the semiconductor switching elements, and a control portion that performs drive control of the semiconductor switching elements. When the failure detection portion detects the ON failure in at least one of the semiconductor switching elements, the control portion increases the amount of heat generation of either the at least one of the semiconductor switching elements in which the ON failure is detected or any of the semiconductor switching elements in which the ON failure is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Toda
  • Patent number: 9816478
    Abstract: A method for regulating or controlling the temperature of a sheathed-element glow plug in a heating phase of the sheathed-element glow plug, where a temperature value is determined as a function of a resistance of the sheathed-element glow plug. To render possible the regulation or control of the temperature of the sheathed-element glow plug also during a transient temperature distribution within the sheathed-element glow plug, the resistance used for determining the temperature value during a transient thermal response within the sheathed-element glow plug is calculated with the aid of a physical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Rapp, Sascha Joos
  • Patent number: 9816479
    Abstract: A pod of an ocean current power generation device which is serving as an underwater floating-type underwater device is provided with a ballast tank and an air storage tank. When discharging water from the ballast tank, by opening a water discharge valve and driving a water discharge pump, water inside the ballast tank is discharged to the outside through a water conduit. When supplying water, by opening a water supply valve while the water pressure outside the pod is greater than the water pressure inside the ballast tank, water is made to flow from the outside of the pod through an aperture portion, and into the ballast tank via the water conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihisa Handa, Shigeki Nagaya, Yoshiyuki Yamane
  • Patent number: 9816480
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drag-type turbine capable of efficiently extracting kinetic energy of fluid particles orbiting in waves and a wave power generator comprising said drag-type turbine. This turbine is a single bucket drag-type turbine with a single half-pipe bucket and a counterweight oppositely facing the bucket, where fluid particles in orbital motion in a wave impel the bucket and the counterweight to rotate them as a unitary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ALBATROSS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Hiromichi Akimoto
  • Patent number: 9816481
    Abstract: A module for generating electricity from waves in a body of water is disclosed. The module comprises: a housing operable to float in the body of water; a tube formed into a circle integrated within the housing; a magnet element operable to move within the tube; and an electrically conductive coil surrounding substantially all of the tube. The housing is operable to be angularly displaced by waves within the body of water and the angular displacement of the housing is operable to cause movement of the magnet element within the tube surrounded by the coil. The movement of the magnet element through the tube surrounded by the coil generates a voltage on the coil through electromagnetic induction. The voltage on the coil can be rectified and subsequently stored, transmitted or utilized. In some implementations, a plurality of modules may be integrated together to form an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: William Paul Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9816482
    Abstract: A spar cap for a rotor blade of a wind turbine is disclosed. The rotor blade includes a blade root and a blade tip, leading and trailing edges, pressure and suction sides, and at least one spar cap configured on an internal surface of either or both the pressure or suction sides. The spar cap includes one or more layers of a first material and a second conductive material contacting at least one of the layers of the first material. Further, the conductive material is different than the first material. Thus, the conductive material is configured with the first material so as to create an equipotential spar cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Daniel Caruso, Aaron A. Yarbrough, Richard Allen Hardison
  • Patent number: 9816483
    Abstract: An operation control system for a wind farm having wind turbines includes: a remaining-lifetime estimation unit for estimating remaining lifetime of a component of each wind turbine; a sales-income estimation unit for estimating, for each wind turbine, an income from sales of electric power under a plurality of output control conditions; a maintenance-cost estimation unit for estimating, for each wind turbine, maintenance cost based on the remaining lifetime of the component under each of the plurality of power limit conditions; a power-limit-condition selection unit for selecting, for each wind turbine, a power limit condition that maximizes income obtained from the wind farm, based on the income from sales of electric power and the maintenance cost estimated for each wind turbine under each of the power limit conditions; and an operation command unit for sending an operation command to each wind turbine based on the selected power limit condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeaki Nakamura, Tohru Minami
  • Patent number: 9816484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety system for a wind turbine, comprising a pitch system (23), which comprises a plurality of drive systems (15, 16, 17) and at least one safety switching device (24), by means of which each of the drive systems (15, 16, 17) can be controlled to carry out a travel to a safe position in accordance with at least one control signal, a safety circuit, which is provided in a machine part adjacent to the pitch system (23) and which comprises a transmission device (32) and a controller (29), by means of which the at least one control signal can be generated, which can be transmitted from the controller (29) to the safety switching device (24) by means of the transmission device (32), wherein the control signal can be generated and/or output by the controller (29) in the form of at least two control signals (EFC 1, EFC 2), the control signals (EFC 1, EFC 2) can be transmitted from the controller (29) to the safety switching device (24) by means of the transmission device (32), a safety-r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SSB Wind Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christof Rickeshenrich, Jan De Veen, Dirk Klein, Ronald Horstjan
  • Patent number: 9816485
    Abstract: A vibration sensor (5) mountable to a wind turbine generator for detecting excessive vibration of the wind turbine generator, the sensor comprising a pendulum having a pendulum bob (25) of pre-determined mass coupled to a detection switch (10), the detection switch arranged to detect oscillation of the pendulum exceeding a predetermined oscillation threshold; said pendulum bob selectively adjustable along said pendulum so as to vary the oscillation threshold of said sensor; wherein the sensor is arranged to exceed the oscillation threshold on receiving a forced vibration corresponding to a vibration threshold of the wind turbine generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Lip Pang Wong, Hans Brorsen
  • Patent number: 9816486
    Abstract: An automated system for mitigating risk from a wind turbine includes a plurality of optical imaging sensors. A controller receives and analyzes images from the optical imaging sensors to automatically send a signal to curtail operation of the wind turbine to a predetermined risk mitigating level when the controller determines from images received from the optical imaging sensors that an airborne animal is at risk from the wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: IdentiFlight International, LLC
    Inventors: Eric S. Wenger, Andrew G. Oliver, Victor L. Babbitt
  • Patent number: 9816487
    Abstract: An integrated axis wind turbine system is provided. The system includes a support tower on which is mounted a turbine whose nacelle comprises of drive train consisting of a horizontally aligned main shaft and an associated a set of horizontal shafts at different elevations which transfer rotary motion from a set of blades and which culminates in electricity generation. When the set of blades rotate at an angular speed exceeding a predefined threshold, excess torque is transmitted by a right angle transmission, via a Continuously Variable Transmission, to a vertically aligned central shaft which is coupled to a second turbine's set of blades whose rotary motion also culminates in electricity generation. The angle of attack of wind on the secondary set of blades is adjusted by a blade positioning system. By the integrated operation of the two turbines, the operational capacity of the combined system is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventors: Bala Govind, Vignesh Gurumurthy
  • Patent number: 9816488
    Abstract: A rotor turning system includes a fixture plate configured for attachment to a gearbox, a locking mechanism configured for attachment to the fixture plate, and a reaction fixture configured for attachment to the locking mechanism. The rotor turning system is configured to permit rotation of the rotor only when rotational torque is applied to the locking mechanism, and this rotation is in only one rotational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Raymond Francis Rose, Jr., Jeffrey Eric Bergman, Brent Hamilton Holloway, Drake Joseph Viscome
  • Patent number: 9816489
    Abstract: Towers for wind turbines are provided. In one embodiment, a tower includes a hollow shell defining an interior, the hollow shell extending generally along a longitudinal axis. The tower further includes a platform disposed in the interior and connected to the shell. The platform includes a first plate fixedly connected to the shell. The platform further includes a second plate movably connected to the first plate such that relative movement of the first plate and second plate is permitted in a plane generally transverse to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Raghunandan Chickballapur Venkatakrishnappa, Umesh B. Shingne
  • Patent number: 9816490
    Abstract: A solar hybrid power plant comprises a combustion turbine generator, a steam power system, a solar thermal system, and an energy storage system. Heat from the solar thermal system, from the energy storage system, or from the solar thermal system and the energy storage system is used to generate steam in the steam power system. Heat from the combustion turbine generator exhaust gas may be used primarily for single phase heating of water or steam in the steam power system. Alternatively, heat from the combustion turbine generator exhaust gas may be used in parallel with the energy storage system and/or the solar thermal system to generate steam, and additionally to super heat steam. Both the combustion turbine generator and the steam power system may generate electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: William M. Conlon
  • Patent number: 9816491
    Abstract: A solar power system includes a solar energy collector that has at least one solar receiver that is operable to carry a working fluid and at least one solar reflector that is operable to direct solar energy towards the at least one solar receiver to heat the working fluid. The working fluid has a maximum predefined operational temperature up to which it can be heated. A first storage unit is connected to receive the working fluid from the at least one solar receiver, and a second storage unit is connected to provide the working fluid to the at least one solar receiver. A power block generates electricity using heat from the heated working fluid. A heater is operable to heat the working fluid to approximately the maximum predefined operational temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SOLARRESERVE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventor: Michael L. Perry
  • Patent number: 9816492
    Abstract: A system and method for converting solar energy into mechanical and electrical energy is described. This method is based on the phase change of a material due to temperature. The change of phase is accompanied with displacement at high forces that can easily be converted into useful mechanical and electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: Jacob Van Reenen Pretorius
  • Patent number: 9816493
    Abstract: A fuel pump comprises a cam assembly having a lobe, and a body assembly including a cavity for receiving the cam assembly. The body assembly includes both a body portion and a cover portion that cooperatively form the cavity. The body portion includes a lobe cavity, an engagement surface and an opening at the cavity, with the cover portion including a respective engagement surface and opening. The engagement surfaces are mated together with the cam assembly disposed in the cavity and extending through the openings, and is configured to rotate in the cavity with the lobe disposed in the lobe cavity. A groove is formed in one of the engagement surfaces of the body portion or cover portion for receiving a seal cap at least partially therein adjacent the lobe cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Exergy Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Mike Van Allsburg, Philip J. DeVries, Gregg R. Spoolstra, Randall C. Harkema
  • Patent number: 9816494
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a fluid end with a modular intake manifold for use in a pressurized fluid delivery system having two or more modules. According to one embodiment, an intake manifold for a modular multiplex pump includes a reducer coupled to an intake end of each module of the pump, a tee body coupled to a reduced diameter end of each of the reducers, and a damping material disposed within a volume of the reducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: FORUM US, INC.
    Inventor: Mark C. Dille
  • Patent number: 9816495
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering fluid under pressure, the fluid feed being independently controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: Duane Aiken
  • Patent number: 9816496
    Abstract: An oscillating armature pump, in particular high-pressure oscillating armature pump, for a household appliance, with a piston guidance for guiding a piston element, with a pump spring provided for supplying an actuation force onto the piston element, and with a housing unit comprising at least one flux-conducting element which is provided to conduct a magnetic flux generated by a magnetic actuator. It is proposed that the flux-conducting element is in a mounted state arranged in a radial direction between the pump spring and the piston guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SYSKO AG
    Inventors: Hubert Ott, Norbert Helbling
  • Patent number: 9816497
    Abstract: A natural gas compressor can include a pre-staging chamber that couples with a supply line to receive natural gas from the supply line. The compressor can additionally include a first-stage chamber that couples with the supply line to receive natural gas from the supply line. The first-stage chamber can additionally be coupled with the pre-staging chamber to receive from the pre-staging chamber natural gas that has been compressed by the pre-staging chamber. The compressor can also include a second-stage chamber configured to receive natural gas that has been compressed by the first-stage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Go Natural CNG, LLC
    Inventors: Jessie Daniel Strickland, Matthew M. Matsukawa, Richard R. Oliver
  • Patent number: 9816498
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a swash plate, and an actuator, which changes the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator includes a partition body and a movable body, which moves in a direction along the rotational axis of the rotary shaft. The movable body includes a guide surface, which changes the inclination angle of the swash plate, and a sliding portion, which slides on the rotary shaft or on the partition body. When viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to the direction in which the rotational axis of the rotary shaft extends and perpendicular to a first direction, the guide surface is configured such that a perpendicular line or a normal line to the guide surface intersects with the rotational axis of the rotary shaft in a zone surrounded by the sliding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Shinya Yamamoto, Hideharu Yamashita, Kazunari Honda, Kei Nishii, Masaki Ota, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9816499
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression unit that compresses a refrigerant, an electric motor that is coupled with the compression unit via a main shaft and a housing that accommodates the compression unit and the electric motor. The electric compressor further includes an end-side bearing holding part that is provided near an axial end of the housing closer to the electric motor and a rolling bearing that has an outer ring press-fitted into the end-side bearing holding part and an inner ring into which an end of the rotating shaft is press-fitted, and that supports the main shaft, in which an opening into which an assembly jig for supporting the rolling bearing when the main shaft is press-fitted into the inner ring can be inserted and removed is provided in an end surface of the housing near the end-side bearing holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AUTOMOTIVE THERMAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishikawa, Takayuki Hagita, Yuki Ichise, Takeshi Hirano, Takayuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9816500
    Abstract: Disclosed is an embodiment that introduces a novel system to pump fluids, or, gases or, semi-solids, or, solids, from one place to another. Conventionally, a motorized pump systems are used to pump any given fluid from one position to another, nonetheless, in this invention not only a new system of pumping fluids is so introduced, but, existing functions of a conventional motorized pumping systems are saliently augmented by the pipe pump system. The pipe pump functions basically, by a series of electromagnets, that are placed around a flexible and resilient tube, (a rubber tube, for instance), and when these said electromagnet arrangements are actuated, then, that causes the pipe pump to pump out fluids, by squeezing on the fluids, or gases, contained within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventors: Ravindra L. Kashyap, Govind Sahu
  • Patent number: 9816501
    Abstract: A window has a pane of transparent material. A first set of microfluidic channels pass through a first area of the pane, and a second set of microfluidic channels pass through a second area of the pane. Microfluidic planes are in fluid communication with the first and second sets of microfluidic channels. A first pump is in fluid communication with the first set of microfluidic channels, and selectively moves a first fluid having a first level of opacity through the microfluidic planes via the first set of microfluidic channels. A second pump is in fluid communication with the second set of microfluidic channels, and selectively moves a second fluid having a second level of opacity through the microfluidic planes via the second set of microfluidic channels. Moving the second fluid into the microfluidic planes pushes the first fluid out of the microfluidic planes, thereby adjusting an opacity of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Simon A. S. Briggs, James K. Hook, Hamish C. Hunt, Nicholas K. Lincoln
  • Patent number: 9816502
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining substantially a baseline pressure in a chamber of a pumping apparatus are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention may serve to control a motor to compensate or account for a pressure drift which may occur in a chamber of the pumping apparatus. More specifically, a dispense motor may be controlled to substantially maintain a baseline pressure in the dispense chamber before a dispense based on a pressure sensed in the dispense chamber. In one embodiment, before a dispense is initiated a control loop may be utilized such that it is repeatedly determined if the pressure in the dispense chamber is above a desired pressure and, if so, the movement of the pumping means regulated to maintain substantially the desired pressure in the dispense chamber until a dispense of fluid is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventors: James Cedrone, George L. Gonnella
  • Patent number: 9816503
    Abstract: A uniaxial eccentric screw pump for rotating a rotor about its axis and revolving the rotor without involving complicated operations and control is provided. The uniaxial eccentric screw pump includes a rotor drive mechanism capable of revolving a rotor while rotating the rotor about its axis. The rotor drive mechanism includes a rotation power transmission member rotatable about a predetermined center axis, and a revolution track formation member capable of revolving a proximal shaft portion of the rotor while allowing rotation of the proximal shaft portion about its axis. The rotor drive mechanism distributes power output from the same motor in parallel and transmit the power to the rotation power transmission member and the revolution track formation member, enabling the rotation power transmission member and the revolution track formation member to rotate about their axes while being synchronized mechanically, and enabling the rotor to revolve while rotating about its axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: HEISHIN LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhisa Suhara
  • Patent number: 9816504
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor having an improved structure in which reliability of a compression portion can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hee Cho, Moo Seong Bae
  • Patent number: 9816505
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that may prevent an oil-feeding hole from being blocked due to a high pressure refrigerant, which is compressed in compression chambers and introduced into the oil-feeding hole through an oil-feeding slit, by blocking one of both end portions of the oil-feeding slit, adjacent to the compression chambers, when the oil-feeding hole is formed through an outer circumferential surface of a bearing and the oil-feeding slit, which communicates with the oil-feeding hole, is formed on the outer circumferential surface. This may allow for smooth oil supply onto the outer circumferential surface of the bearing through the oil-feeding hole, thereby enhancing a bearing performance. Also, the oil-feeding hole or slit may be formed at a closest position to an oil feeding-required section, not within the section. This may allow for quick oil supply into the oil feeding-required section, resulting in further enhanced bearing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kangwook Lee, Taekyoung Kim, Cheolhwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9816506
    Abstract: An oil lubrication system for a multi-stage compressor separates oil from a refrigerant at an intermediate pressure following the first stage of compression and then routes the separated oil at the intermediate pressure to the compressor suction cavity bearings at the intermediate pressure, thus avoiding further compression of oil in subsequent stages of compression. The efficiency of the multi-stage compressor can be increased by not raising the pressure of the oil through the subsequent stages of compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jerry Allen Rood, Michael Gerard Benco, Scott Joseph Smerud, John Robert Sauls, Rodney Lakowske
  • Patent number: 9816507
    Abstract: A back-up sump pump kit for use with a battery and an alternating current power source. The kit can be adapted to be a portable power source for an external electric device. The kit can include a portable case, a battery-operated back-up sump pump removably stored in the portable case, and a control charger integrated into the portable case. The control charger can include a battery charger, cables, a power input socket to charge the battery, and a power output socket to provide power from the battery to the external electric device. The portable case can include a handle and wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Pentair Flow Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Senthilkumar Vijayakumar
  • Patent number: 9816508
    Abstract: A dry-type cable wire outlet device for a submersible electrical pump includes a wire outlet box positioned in a wellbore, a cable protection pipe, a wire outlet sealing device and a cable. The wire outlet box is connected to the top of a submersible electrical pump. One end of the cable protection pipe is connected to the top of the wire outlet box, and the other end extends out of the well cover of the wellbore. The cable is positioned in the cable protect pipe and connected with the submersible electrical pump through the wire outlet box. The wire outlet sealing device is connected to the well cover, and an end of the cable protection pipe extending outside the well cover is positioned in the wire outlet sealing device. When the device is in use, the opening at the top end of the cable protection pipe is no longer exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NINGBO JUSHEN PUMPS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianguo Ying, Songmao Zhai, Quanmin Li
  • Patent number: 9816509
    Abstract: A device and a method for operating multiple centrifugal pumps are disclosed. The device can include a communication interface for receiving as at least one input information, an instantaneous pressure drop and an instantaneous flow rate per pump or speed of the centrifugal pumps, and for transmitting output information to the centrifugal pumps, where the output information reflects a reference value for the number of centrifugal pumps to be operated in parallel. The device can contain a data storage unit and a processing unit, which determine from input information and additional information an instantaneous efficiency, a first expected efficiency under the assumption that the actual number is reduced by one, and a second expected efficiency under the assumption that the actual number is increased by one, and which can generate the reference value depending on which of the instantaneous or first expected or second expected efficiencies has a highest value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Marcel Blaumann, RĂ¼diger Franke, Olaf Reismann
  • Patent number: 9816510
    Abstract: A fan containment system arranged to be fitted around an array of radially extending fan blades mounted on a hub in an axial gas turbine engine. Each fan blade has a respective tip. The system includes: a cylindrical fan case including a hook projecting in a radially inward direction and positioned axially forward of the radial array of fan blades; a fan track liner disposed on the radially inner surface of the fan case; and a damaging tool which projects radially inwards from the fan case towards the tips. The damaging tool has a tip radially outward of the fan blade tips. The damaging tool is configured that in the event that one of the fan blades is released from the hub, the tip of the damaging tool damages the fan blade tip of the released fan blade to promote penetration of the fan blade into the fan track liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Cedric Brett Harper
  • Patent number: 9816511
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a load is provided. The apparatus comprises a multiple-shaft gas turbine comprising a high pressure compressor and a high pressure turbine drivingly connected to one another by a first gas turbine shaft and a low pressure compressor and a power turbine drivingly connected to one another by a second gas turbine shaft extending coaxial with the first gas turbine shaft, the high pressure compressor and the high pressure turbine. The apparatus also comprises a load coupling drivingly connecting the power turbine to the load and a dual-speed turning gear with an output shaft drivingly engageable to and disengageable from the load, the dual-speed turning gear comprising a low speed turning motor and a high speed turning motor, wherein the low speed turning motor and the high speed turning motor are configured to selectively drive the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventors: Daniele Marcucci, Giuliano Milani
  • Patent number: 9816512
    Abstract: A product usable with a turbocharger may include a compressor wheel having an inducer section and an exducer section. Air may be collected by the inducer section and expelled by the exducer section. A cover may define a diffuser and a collection volute. The diffuser may lead away from the exducer section to the collection volute. The cover may define a collection cavity opening to the collection volute through a port and extending in an axial direction. The cover may define an inlet passage around the inducer section and the cover may include a dividing wall separating the inlet passage from the collection cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Smith, Andrew Day, Simon Jennings, Matthew Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9816513
    Abstract: A modular fan unit of a diagonal and/or axial fan having a housing that includes an inlet opening and an outflow opening. The housing accommodates a fan, that conveys the air at least in the axial direction and is divided perpendicularly to an axis (X-X) of the fan into at least two housing halves that are joined together. The housing forms a chamber in which the blades of the fan rotate around an axis and has a circumferential edge area in the vicinity of which the housing has a thickness B extending in the axis direction of the fan. A motor holding part has a dimension R as the maximum extension in the edge area and the chamber has an extension in the axis direction of the fan at a height of a dimension L, whereas the extension of the air inlet part has a dimension T in the area of the chamber. A ratio of the dimension B to the dimension R with respect to the ratio of the dimension L to the dimension T is within the range from 0.9 to 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Heli, Christian Schler, Ralf Balbach
  • Patent number: 9816514
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing device includes first and second radial electromagnets supporting a rotor shaft in a contactless manner in first and second radial directions. A controller controls each of a first excitation amplifier and a second excitation amplifier based on a result of demodulation by each of a first demodulation section and a second demodulation section. The phase of a second carrier signal differs by (?/2+?) radian from the phase of a first carrier signal. A first demodulation section samples a detection signal of a first current sensor at sampling timing shifted by a phase ? from timing at which a first carrier signal becomes a peak, and a second demodulation section samples the detection signal of a second current sensor at sampling timing shifted by a phase (??) from timing at which the second carrier signal becomes a peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Junichiro Kozaki