Patents Issued in January 29, 2019
  • Patent number: 10190591
    Abstract: A blower unit controller and an HVAC system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the blower unit controller includes: (1) an input configured to receive motor operating parameters, (2) an output configured to provide a motor speed control signal to an inverter, (3) a memory configured to store a mathematical model of airflow produced by a blower motor, the mathematical model being configured to relate a motor speed to the motor operating parameters and (4) a processor configured to produce the speed control signal based on the mathematical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Harold Gene Havard, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10190592
    Abstract: A turbopump includes a turbine fed with hot gas, a pump driven by the turbine and fed with liquid fluid, and a hot gas exhaust pipe situated downstream from the turbine. The turbopump includes a bleed-and-injection circuit including a bleeder for bleeding the liquid fluid at the outlet from the pump, a heater for heating the liquid fluid as bled off in this way so as to transform it into gaseous fluid, and an injector for injecting the gaseous fluid into an interface region of the turbopump situated between the pump and the turbine, so as to optimize the flow and temperature conditions of the fluid entering into the turbine cavity in order to eliminate the vibratory phenomena that result from interaction between the fluid and the turbine disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: ARIANEGROUP SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Le Louedec, Guillaume Chemla, Philippe Even, Frederick Millon, Laurent Collongeat
  • Patent number: 10190593
    Abstract: A sealless magnetic drive pump features in improving the stiffness of a stationary shaft. More particularly, the metal magnetic drive pump has an anti-corrosion casing liner. The magnetic drive pump is used in manufacture processes related to corrosive fluid. The pump is especially used in a highly corrosive and high-temperature (up to 200° C.) condition to improve the stiffness of a front support. The stationary shaft includes a metal front support integrated with the pump casing at a pump inlet and encapsulated with a resin enclosure made of a fluoropolymer; a rear shaft seat positioned on a sealed bottom side of a containment shell for offering auxiliary support for the stationary shaft; an impeller including a channel for reducing an inlet flow velocity to offer a low NPSHr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: ASSOMA INC.
    Inventors: Huan-Jan Chien, Chin-Cheng Wang, Chih-Hsien Shih, Chih-Kuan Shih
  • Patent number: 10190594
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vacuum pump including a bearing and a lubricant supply system for lubricating the bearing. The lubricant supply system includes: a lubricant reservoir comprising a reservoir matrix for receiving a lubricant; a lubricant transfer arrangement in contact with the reservoir matrix for transferring lubricant from the reservoir matrix to the bearing, the lubricant reservoir including a reservoir enclosure for locating the reservoir matrix in position relative to the lubricant transfer arrangement; wherein the lubricant reservoir includes a plurality of contact regions at which the reservoir matrix is in contact with the reservoir enclosure for locating the reservoir matrix in position relative to the lubricant transfer arrangement and a plurality of spacing regions between respective contact regions at which the reservoir matrix is spaced apart from the reservoir enclosure for receiving gas and lubricant foam caused by outgassing in the lubricant in the reservoir matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Waye, Emiliano Lucchetta
  • Patent number: 10190595
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine compressor blade includes an airfoil and a root section connected to a blade platform therebetween and an at least partially curved cropped corner of the blade platform. The corner shape and size may avoid resonance of blade during engine operation. The corner may be J-shaped including a straight section extending from the pressure side edge towards the suction side edge of the platform and a curved section extending from the straight section to an uncropped portion of the platform trailing edge of the platform. A method of designing the cropped corner includes choosing shapes and sizes of the cropped corner for numerically analyzing and determining shape and size for the cropped corner using a numerical model to iteratively numerically analyze aerodynamically the cropped platform with different shapes and sizes of the cropped corner. The numerical model may be validated with engine or component testing of the blade having a cropped platform with at least one of the shapes and sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Aaron Phillip King, Toby George Darkins, Jr., Anthony Joseph Maurer
  • Patent number: 10190596
    Abstract: A multi-stage compressor for a turbocharger includes a compressor housing that defines an aperture for receiving a compressor wheel for successively compressing air in first and second stages. First- and second-stage inlets are fluidly connected to the aperture in opposite axial directions, and first- and second-stage volutes extend at least partially annularly therearound so that each volute is configured to receive gas flowing generally radially outward from the compressor wheel. First and second passages fluidly connect the first-stage volute to the second-stage inlet. The passages approach the second-stage inlet from opposite radially inward directions, and are asymmetric with respect to any pair of orthogonal axes having an origin lying on the turbocharger rotary axis as viewed on a transverse cross-section that is normal to the turbocharger axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Vaclav Kares, Vit Houst, Ondrej Lednicky, Milan Nejedly, Michal Mokos, Zbynek Oslejsek, Daniel Turecek
  • Patent number: 10190597
    Abstract: A rotor of a vacuum pump has a circular member that is driven rotatably, a cylindrical member joined to an outer circumference of the circular member, and a thread groove pump flow path formed between the cylindrical member and a stator member surrounding an outer circumference of the cylindrical member. The cylindrical member is made of a material having at least a feature of lower thermal expansivity or lower creep rate than that of a material of the circular member. A gap of a second region provided between a non-joint portion of the cylindrical member and the stator member is set to be smaller than a gap of a first region provided between a joint portion of the cylindrical member and the stator member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Takashi Kabasawa
  • Patent number: 10190598
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine casing apparatus includes annular first and second annular cases connected by a spigot joint. The spigot joint includes an annular projection of the first annular case fitted into an annular recess of the second annular case. A plurality of circumferentially spaced apart scallops are formed on one of surfaces of the annular projection or of the annular recess, and are located in selective circumferential locations adjacent respective enhanced stiff areas of the first and second annular cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Veitch, Tibor Urac, Tyler Richardson
  • Patent number: 10190599
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an actuator, a harmonic drive driven by the actuator, an engine case containing a multiple of variable vanes, a firewall transverse to the engine case, a first temperature on one side of the firewall and a second temperature on the other side of the firewall, the first temperature different than the second temperature and a drive shaft driven by the harmonic drive, the drive shaft extends through the firewall to operate the multiple of variable vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel L Suciu, Jesse M Chandler
  • Patent number: 10190600
    Abstract: A pressure increasing system includes a plurality of stages of compressors configured to compress carbon dioxide to a pressure higher than a critical pressure; intermediate coolers cooling the carbon dioxide discharged from a compressor in a preceding stage; a subcooler provided between a seventh stage compressor in the final stage and a sixth stage compressor in a preceding stage and cools the carbon dioxide; a bypass line through which the carbon dioxide in the inlet of the seventh stage compressor is extracted, depressurized and supplied to the subcooler as a refrigerant; a flow rate adjusting valve provided on the bypass line; and a control unit configured to regulate a degree of opening of the flow rate adjusting valve so that at least one of a temperature and a pressure of the carbon dioxide in the inlet of the seventh stage compressor remains constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nagao, Naoto Yonemura
  • Patent number: 10190601
    Abstract: A fan assembly (10) includes a shrouded fan rotor (24) including a plurality of fan blades (28) extending from a rotor hub (30) and rotatable about a central axis (26) of the fan assembly and a fan shroud (32) extending circumferentially around the fan rotor (24) and secured to the plurality of fan blades (28). The shroud (32) has a first axially extending annular portion (38) secured to the plurality of fan blades (28), a second axially extending annular portion (40) radially outwardly spaced from the first axially extending annular portion (38), and a third portion (44) connecting the first (38) and second (40) axially extending annular portions. A casing (22) is positioned circumferentially around the fan shroud (32) defining a radial clearance between the casing and the fan shroud. The casing (22) includes a plurality of casing elements (48) extending from a radially inboard surface (46) of the casing toward the shroud (32) and defining a radial element gap and an axial element gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryan K. Dygert, Peter R. Bushnell
  • Patent number: 10190602
    Abstract: A cooling fan includes a frame base including a frame wall, a bottom plate and a cover plate for enclosing and defining a containing space. The vane wheel is installed in the containing space and provided for producing a cooling forced airflow when the vane wheel is in a forward rotation status and forming a strong wind area, and producing a dust discharging forced airflow when the vane wheel is in a reverse rotation status. The moving baffle module is rotably installed in the strong wind area, and the frame base includes a dust discharging opening configured to be corresponsive to the periphery of the strong wind area, and the dust discharging forced airflow is affected by the moving baffle module to discharge dust from the dust discharging opening to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Han-Tsung Hsin, Shih-Hao Feng
  • Patent number: 10190603
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a channel with an inlet which receives injected air and an outlet through which injected and drawn-in ambient air exit. The channel also comprising of inlet slit and airfoil which help drive flow of ambient air into the channel to increase the mass of air flowing through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Spar Energy LLC
    Inventor: Gaurav Bazaz
  • Patent number: 10190604
    Abstract: A hydraulic hammer includes a power cell. A work tool is partially received in, and movable with respect to, the power cell. A sleeve is positioned in the power cell that defines a centerline. A piston is concentrically positioned in the sleeve and movable in the sleeve between a first position in contact with the work tool and a second position out of contact with the work tool. A magnetic guide system includes at least one of a first magnetic guide component disposed in the piston and at least one of a second magnetic guide component disposed in the sleeve that interact to produce magnetic repellent forces therebetween to urge the radial position of the piston towards the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Dimitar Dostinov
  • Patent number: 10190605
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a nacelle for an aircraft turbojet engine that includes a thrust reverser having a cowl displaceable between a deployed position and a stowed position, a fixed structure, and a secondary nozzle. The nozzle includes panels movable in rotation, and hydraulic actuators for sequenced actuation of the cowl and panels. The actuators include a body mounted on the fixed structure, and a rod mounted in the body and is linked to the cowl and panels via a device for transmitting movement of the actuator to the panel. An actuation system having a hydraulic control device controls the displacement of the rod of the actuator. The actuator further includes a device for alternately displacing the rod in translation relative to the body to cause translation of the cowl, or in rotation relative to the body to cause rotation of the nozzle panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Vincent Le Coq
  • Patent number: 10190606
    Abstract: An actuator includes a stiff base member defining a bottom of the actuator; a flexible member connected to the stiff base member and having a sidewall and a contact surface on top of the flexible member, the flexible member and the stiff base member defining a fluid chamber therebetween, the sidewall having a first end connected to the stiff base member and a second end, the second end and the contact surface defining a transition area therebetween, the flexible member being configured to expand when the fluid chamber is filled with fluid; and a reaction feature placed on the transition area that is configured to govern movement of the sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC
    Inventor: Joshua R. Leonard
  • Patent number: 10190607
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes composite actuator piston rods and methods for making such rods. Composite actuator piston rods of the present disclosure may include a tapered end and an embedded bolt positioned within the tapered end. A piston head may be secured to the embedded bolt by a nut. Further, a keyed locking cup washer and jam nut may further secure the piston head to the embedded bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Goldring, Rony Ganis
  • Patent number: 10190608
    Abstract: An actuator comprising: an inner cylinder received in an outer cylinder and a piston received in the inner cylinder that extends from the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder, the piston being slideable relative to the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder in response to the application of fluid pressure to cause the piston to extend further from the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder; and an auxiliary drive mechanism operable to cause the inner cylinder to extend from the outer cylinder, wherein the piston moves together with the inner cylinder relative to the outer cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: Eric Wildman
  • Patent number: 10190609
    Abstract: An accessory clamp for use with a rod includes an accessory interface and a corresponding rod clamp. The accessory interface includes at least one of at least one accessory hook and at least one accessory T-slot. By one approach, at least one of the accessory hooks comprises a pivoting accessory hook. By one approach the rod clamp can comprise a universal rod clamp. As one example in these regards, the universal rod clamp can include a selectively variable gripping surface to accommodate a variety of rod diameters. By one approach the accessory interface and the corresponding rod clamp can pivot with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Turturro, Matthew Kruse, Stacey Kiefer
  • Patent number: 10190610
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for a rearview device. A windshield bracket defines a central aperture and includes internal ledges disposed about the central aperture. A mount is operably coupled with the rearview device. The mount includes pre-loading posts. A spring clip includes a base and a plurality of legs. Each leg includes an upright portion extending from the base. A connecting portion extends inwardly from the upright portion. An engagement portion extends upward away from the base. At least one loading lever extends laterally from the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley L. Busscher, Timothy J. Cercone
  • Patent number: 10190611
    Abstract: A panel including an upper side, an underside, a basic body, complementary locking elements, which are provided in pairs on mutually opposite panel edges, and at least one pair of locking elements 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: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AKZENTA PANEELE + PROFILE GMBH
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Hannig
  • Patent number: 10190612
    Abstract: A plug insert comprising a shank configured to be removably received in a fastener hole in a panel in a position where an outer end of the plug insert is disposed adjacent an outer surface of the panel. A longitudinal cavity is disposed within the shank and a barrier is disposed on the plug insert to protect against damage and/or contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Richard A. Luepke
  • Patent number: 10190613
    Abstract: The present invention provides a removable blind fastener 2 having a first tubular element 4 comprising an arm portion 24, 26, 28, a second tubular element 6 comprising an arm portion 30, 31, 32, and an elongate screw member 8. The elements are arranged in telescoping relationship one with the other and which fastener, when in use as a temporary fastener, is caused to secure the component parts of an airframe by causing telescoping movement of the elements towards each other when the screw member is turned in one direction and is caused to release the component parts of the airframe by causing telescoping movement of the elements away from each other when the screw member is turned in an opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Kwikbolt Limited
    Inventors: Jan Niklewicz, Dean Carran
  • Patent number: 10190614
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member adapted to be mounted on a wall, a hollow shell body made of metal and being formed with a through groove, and plastic first and second connecting members. The through groove has a first groove portion extending in a first direction, and a second groove portion extending in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The first connecting member is securely connected to the fixing member, and has a linking portion inserted into the first groove portion. The second connecting member has a connecting portion inserted into the second groove portion and connected to the linking portion, and is adapted for connection with an object holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Inventor: Jerry Kuo-Yung Kuo
  • Patent number: 10190615
    Abstract: A fastener with a freely translatable collet body, which at least partially translates within an auxiliary structure, and further comprise a captive threaded screw for rotationally engaging with the collet body to transform rotational movement into translational movement through substantial arresting of collet body rotation by way of an anti-rotation means. The screw comprises a free-spin feature that functionally, but not physically, decouples a drive tool from the collet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Centrix Aero, LLC
    Inventor: Travis McClure
  • Patent number: 10190616
    Abstract: A roof cover fastener may include a cover plate having a planar body with a perimeter. A central aperture may be disposed centrally in the body. A first annular rib may be formed into the body and may encircle the central aperture. A second annular rib may be formed into the body and may encircle the first annular rib. A first channel may separate the first annular rib from the second annular rib. A medial aperture may be disposed in the channel between the first annular rib and the second annular rib. The fastener may also include an auger element having a first end and a second end. A head may be coupled to the first end, and a tip may be coupled to the second end. A thread crest with a thread root may extend from the second end towards the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: CELCORE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: William R. MacDonald, Peter C. Garrigus, Derek J. Krueger
  • Patent number: 10190617
    Abstract: A blind fastener device for fastening at least two workpieces, including a sleeve, an expander having a tensioning section, a locking section, and an expansion section, and a nut. A portion of the expander passes through the sleeve to cooperate with the nut so that relative rotation of the expander and nut draws the expander's distal end toward the sleeve's proximal end thereby drawing a portion of the expansion section of the expander into a structural region located on the sleeve and expanding at least a portion of the sleeve's structural region, and drawing a portion of the locking section past the sleeve's distal end toward the sleeve's proximal end and deforming at least a portion of the sleeve's distal end to a locked state. The sleeve may be configured as a multi-section sleeve having a sleeve retainer to locate the sections in a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: PRECISION TOWER PRODUCTS
    Inventors: George M. Anasis, David W. Hawkins
  • Patent number: 10190618
    Abstract: A track bolt for an undercarriage system includes a head portion. The track bolt also includes a body portion extending from the head portion. The track bolt further includes a piezo ceramic sensor mounted in a counter bore provided in the track bolt. The piezo ceramic sensor measures a value of track bolt elongation such that the value of the track bolt elongation is used to calculate a clamping force in the track bolt. The track bolt includes a plug member disposed in the counter bore for sealing the piezo ceramic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Allen McKinley, Zachary Tyler Donlan
  • Patent number: 10190619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing nut comprising a nut and a deformable sealing ring, wherein the nut comprises an annular body, a base comprising a counterbore, and a bore made in the base, the bore comprises an annular back wall having a length extending between a first inner radius and a second inner radius, the sealing ring comprises an annular body and an end face suitable for resting against the back wall, and the end face has a length extending between an inner radius and an outer radius. The ratio between the length of the back wall of the bore and the length of the end face of the ring is between 20 and 45%. The invention can be used in assemblies of airplane structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LISI AEROSPACE
    Inventors: Julien Goyer, Antoine Villet, Nicolas Naretto
  • Patent number: 10190620
    Abstract: A remote control assembly includes a sheath having a longitudinal axis along a length thereof and defining an interior. A liner is disposed within the interior and coupled to the sheath. A wire has an outer surface and the wire disposed between and coupled to the sheath and the liner. The outer surface of the wire defines a plurality of notches separated into a first group of notches and a second group of notches. Each notch within each of the first and second groups defines a first distance therebetween substantially along the longitudinal axis. The first group of notches and the second group of notches define a second distance therebetween. The second distance is greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Kongsberg Driveline Systems I, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Jusick
  • Patent number: 10190621
    Abstract: An outer casing for a control cable 10 has an inner tube 12, which includes a crystalline resin, and an outer tube 14, which includes an outer resin layer 16 covering the outer periphery of the inner tube and, in the outer resin layer, includes plural metal wires 18 buried in parallel with the axial direction of the inner tube and at equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kitazawa, Iroku Suzuki, Kouichi Kusakawa
  • Patent number: 10190622
    Abstract: A wear resistant coating is applied to the thrust surfaces and bore surfaces of a connecting rod. The wear resistant coating includes a polymer matrix, such as polyamide imide (PAI), solid lubricant, and hard particles including Fe2O3. The wear resistant coating is typically applied by spraying or rolling. The wear resistant coating adheres well to metal and provides lubrication. Thus, the wear resistant coating can reliably reduce wear, scuff, and seizure along the surfaces of the connecting rod as the piston reciprocates and crank shaft rotates during operation of the internal combustion engine. The likelihood of engine contamination caused by metal shavings from wear of the connecting rod is reduced, and the life of the connecting rod and engine is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Tenneco Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Matthew Ovares, James R. Toth
  • Patent number: 10190623
    Abstract: A sliding element with one substrate and at least one layer of a sliding layer material applied to the substrate is described. The sliding layer material can consist of a sliding coating with at least one cross-linkable bonding agent or at least one high-melting thermoplastic material or which consists of a material with a matrix of at least one high-melting thermoplastic material or at least one duroplastic material. This sliding layer material contains Fe2O3 with a preferred proportion 0.1 to 15% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Adam, Joachim Schluter
  • Patent number: 10190624
    Abstract: A spacer device for roller elements of a toroidal roller bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring. The toroidal roller bearing allows for axial and angular displacement between the inner and outer rings. The spacer device comprises a first roller element-contacting surface and a second roller element-contacting surface on opposite sides thereof. First and second roller-contacting surfaces are arranged to separate two adjacent roller elements in a tangential direction of the toroidal roller bearing when the spacer device is in use. Each of the first and second roller element-contacting surfaces has a concave shape adapted to conform to respective convex contacting surfaces of the roller elements. The spacer device comprises end members that have projections that extend outwards from first and second roller-contacting surfaces and which are arranged to extend at least partly over the ends of two adjacent roller elements when the spacer device is in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventor: Arne Lars Jonas Kullin
  • Patent number: 10190625
    Abstract: A thrust roller bearing cage (11) includes a thrust roller bearing (20) and a plurality of pockets (21) accommodating rollers (13). The thrust roller bearing cage (11) includes: a radially outer area bent portion (41) formed by bending an area located radially outside the pockets (21) inward in a radial direction; and projecting portions (44) that are formed in a tip end of the radially outer area bent portion (41) at positions aligned with the pockets (21) and project inward in the radial direction beyond radially outer edges of the pockets (21) so as to contact end faces (16) of the rollers (13) accommodated in the pockets (21). The projecting portions (44) have a width that is ? or more and ? or less of the width of the pockets (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Hisataka Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10190626
    Abstract: A thrust roller bearing cage (11) a thrust roller bearing (20) and a plurality of pockets (21) accommodating rollers (13). The thrust roller bearing cage (11) includes: a radially outer area bent portion (41) formed by bending an area located radially outside the pockets (21) inward in a radial direction; and projecting portions (44) that are formed in a tip end of the radially outer area bent portion (41) and project inward in the radial direction so as to contact end faces (16) of the rollers (13) accommodated in the pockets. Radially outer edges (21a) of the pockets (21) are located radially outside base end parts (44a) of the projecting portions (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Hisataka Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10190627
    Abstract: Tapered bearings are used on each end of each link arm on an agricultural seed row planter mounted on a toolbar. The bearing is a low friction material and greaseless. The tapered design of the bearings allows the bearings to be adjusted as wear occurs, by tightening the link arm mounting nut which extends through the tapered bearing. The tapered bearing has an increased life and reduced maintenance, as compared to prior art roller bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Harvest International, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Alan Sivinski
  • Patent number: 10190628
    Abstract: Disclosed are a magnetic bearing and a centrifugal compressor. The magnetic bearing comprises a revolving shaft (110) and an electromagnetic component, wherein the electromagnetic component is arranged around an outer periphery of the revolving shaft (110), and a gap is formed between the electromagnetic component and the revolving shaft (110) for adjusting a position of the revolving shaft (110). The electromagnetic component comprises an iron core (120) with a winding slot, and coils (150). The coils (150) are arranged in the winding slot. The magnetic bearing (100) also comprises a protection mechanism (140), which is configured to prevent the revolving shaft (110) from colliding with the electromagnetic component, thereby achieving the purpose of axially protecting the magnetic bearing (100). The centrifugal compressor comprises the magnetic bearing (100), thereby obtaining axial protection and prolonging service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Green Refrigeration Equipment Engineering Research Center of Zhuhai Gree Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Yusheng Hu, Dongsuo Chen, Fang Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Jianning Liu
  • Patent number: 10190629
    Abstract: A structure generally comprising a support structure with a rotating form is disclosed. The support structure may be an upright tube or other shape, and the rotating form may be a ring or other shape configured with the tube. Holes may be in the outer circumference of the tube and in the inner circumference of the opening of the ring. Pressurized air may pass into the tube and out its holes, and then into the ring. In this way, the air may apply a lift to the ring and may minimize friction between the tube and the ring, thus allowing it to rotate freely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Inventors: Sarmen Bagumyan, Arthur Bagumyan, Andranik Andy Bagumyan
  • Patent number: 10190630
    Abstract: A tin-based sliding bearing alloy contains zinc as its principal alloying element at a content of 2 to 14% w/w and has the Sn—Zn eutectic as its main structural element. The content of zinc as the principal alloying element can be expanded to 2 to 30% w/w by the addition of additional alloying elements. Antimony and/or copper can additionally be used as further principal alloying elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Zollern BHW Gleitlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kostyantyn Gzovskyy, Frank Reimer, Hans-Juergen Hentschel, Edgar Gust
  • Patent number: 10190631
    Abstract: A sliding engine component may include a sliding surface, and the sliding surface may include a plastic polymer-based layer disposed on a metallic substrate. The plastic polymer-based layer may have a composition including a plastic polymer-based material having distributed throughout the polymer-based material a thermochromic material configured to change color irreversibly when thermally activated by heating beyond a threshold thermal treatment condition. The polymer-based material may be cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignees: Mahle International GmbH, Mahle Engine Systems UK Ltd
    Inventors: Roger Gorges, James P. De Blaquiere
  • Patent number: 10190632
    Abstract: In a copper alloy machined cage for a thrust ball bearing, an inside surface of a pocket includes a cylindrical surface, a support surface which is continuous with the cylindrical surface and contacts a ball in an axial direction, and two protruding portions which are formed at an equal interval in a circumferential direction of the pocket, at a ball insertion side of the pocket which is opposite to the support surface in the axial direction and protrude from the cylindrical surface. The protruding portions prevent falling out of the ball from a ball insertion side opening of the pocket and are either elastically deformed or elastic-plastically deformed by the ball during insertion of the ball into the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Sakase, Takanori Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 10190633
    Abstract: To provide a rolling bearing having excellent rust prevention capability and capable of being used for a long period of time in a highly corrosion environment. A rolling bearing 1 utilized for a power generator which generates power from natural energy or for generator equipment has one or more bearing members which form the bearing having a rust prevention film formed in a predetermined region of a surface of a base material. The rust prevention film is formed by a porous film with a sacrificial anode action against the base material in the whole of the predetermined region. The porous film in a part or the whole of the predetermined region is subjected to sealing treatment which impregnates the porous film with a sealing treatment agent from a surface of the porous film. A surface of a sealing treatment body obtained from the porous film subjected to the sealing treatment is subjected to first coating treatment which coats the surface of the sealing treatment body with epoxy resin coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventor: Kengo Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10190634
    Abstract: A turbocharger including a housing and a rotary assembly disposed within the housing and including a turbine wheel and a compressor wheel attached to one another by a shaft. The rotary assembly being subject to aero-load in a lateral direction. A bearing is disposed in the housing and rotatably supports the shaft, the bearing including an inner bearing surface that engages the shaft and an outer bearing surface that engages the housing, the outer bearing surface having a pair of axially extending recessed grooves extending at least partially along the bearing. The pair of axially extending grooves being located perpendicular to the aero-load direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Fanghui Shi, Dingfeng Deng, Ran Wu, Louis P. Begin, Yuli Huang
  • Patent number: 10190635
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotatable hollow shaft having a first side and an opposite second side. The hollow shaft has an oil collecting area in which an internal diameter of the hollow shaft is greater than an internal diameter of the hollow shaft on the second side of the hollow shaft. A first bearing is arranged on the first side of the hollow shaft and has a fluid connection to the oil collecting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Martin Kuhn
  • Patent number: 10190636
    Abstract: A support assembly for movable shafts including a bearing for receiving the movable shaft, a bearing housing having an annular housing, in an internal seat that is mounted to the bearing, and a lid to close fluid tight an opening of the seat for the bearing, the cover is made in one piece in a polymeric material and has a portion that is coupled on a radially outer lateral surface for housing the annular element and that is provided with an annular sealing lip which extends frontally projecting from a front edge of the coupling portion, which is made of the same polymeric material of the cover and which is elastically deformable in the radial direction from the inside towards the outside. The annular sealing lip being coupled with interference with a portion of the radially outer conical lateral surface housing the annular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Fabio Falaschi, Davide Zanghi
  • Patent number: 10190637
    Abstract: A sealed bearing assembly includes seal members each including a seal lip with multiple protrusions, and being arranged such that oil passages are defined between the seal lip and a seal sliding surface which is configured to slide circumferentially relative to the protrusions such that the oil passages communicate with a bearing internal space and an exterior of the bearing, and prevent passage of foreign objects having particle diameters larger than a predetermined value therethrough. The seal lip and the seal sliding surface are arranged such that, when the bearing rotates, lubricating oil in the oil passages is pulled into spaces between the seal lip and the seal sliding surface such that a fluid lubricating condition is created between the seal lip and the seal sliding surface, due to a wedge effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Inamasu, Yugo Yoshimura, Takahiro Wakuda, Katsuaki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10190639
    Abstract: A sensor unit for a bearing includes a main body, a sensor holder and a mounting bracket. The sensor holder has a measurement surface in a first plane on which at least one sensor is provided for measuring an operating parameter of the bearing. Each mounting bracket has an attachment portion having an attachment surface. The sensor unit is configured to contact the bearing ring that forms part of an assembly in which the bearing is mounted. The sensor holder has one or more extendable legs that are extendable in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the first plane, such that the measurement surface is adjustable in longitudinal direction relative to the main body. The mounting brackets are linearly movable and pivotable relative to the main body. The sensor unit has a first attachment position and a second attachment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventor: Andrew Campbell
  • Patent number: 10190640
    Abstract: A bearing assembly having an inner ring, outer ring, and a plurality of rolling elements and an integrated electrically conductive element, such as an electrical shunt system manufactured of bundled or braided conductive filaments. The bearing integrated electrical shunt system consists of a fixed ring and an integrated electrically conductive element, such as bundled carbon fiber filaments, that contact a rotating ring. The integrated electrical conductive element can be integrated with the bearing seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Chris Hutchison, Michael White
  • Patent number: 10190641
    Abstract: A flanged component for a gas turbine engine is disclosed herein. The flanged component includes a flange body with a flange mating surface and a plurality of threaded features. Each threaded feature includes a threaded portion and a relief portion. The threaded portion has threads and extends into the flange body from the flange mating surface. The relief portion extends into the flange body from the flange mating surface located outward from the threaded portion forming a rim portion therebetween. The rim portion includes an upper rim surface having an annular shape. The relief portion includes an inner surface extending from the rim and tapering outward from the upper rim surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventor: Bruno E. Struck