Patents Issued in February 19, 2019
  • Patent number: 10208715
    Abstract: A power train system includes an exhaust manifold having an exhaust flow and a control valve for releasing exhaust gas, and layered material defining an integrated engine cylinder head and an exhaust gas recirculator, connected to the exhaust flow and the valve, including a tubular inlet defining a plurality of branches around the cylinder head and having a plurality of nozzles extending into cavities of intake ports of the cylinder head. Each of the branches surrounding an exterior surface of one of the intake ports such that there is no seal between the recirculator and the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Wicks, James Henry Malo
  • Patent number: 10208716
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system includes a first EGR valve to control flow in a first flow path, and a second EGR valve to control flow in a second flow path. A temperature sensor is disposed in the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the exhaust purifying device, and a controller is in communication with the internal combustion engine and the temperature sensor and is operatively connected to the first and second EGR valves. The controller executes a routine to monitor the temperature of the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the exhaust purifying device and control the first valve to control flow of exhaust gas to the air intake system via the first flow path and control the second valve to control flow of exhaust gas to the air intake system via the second flow path based upon the temperature of the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the exhaust purifying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Armando Mogavero, Antonio Rodio
  • Patent number: 10208717
    Abstract: An intake apparatus includes: an air cleaner unit purifying air sucked from a suction port and discharge the air from a discharge port; a junction pipe section having a plurality of inlet ports while having a single outlet port, each of the inlet ports being connected to the discharge port of the air cleaner unit; a tapered pipe section connected to the outlet port of the junction pipe section and having an inner diameter gradually decreased toward a downstream; a straight pipe section connected to a downstream side of the tapered pipe section and having a constant inner diameter; and an air meter provided in the straight pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Sohei Iwamoto, Tetsuo Orita, Shohei Mantani, Shota Mido
  • Patent number: 10208718
    Abstract: An air intake system for directing intake air to an internal combustion engine of a machine is disclosed. The air intake system may comprise an air compressor configured to increase a pressure of the intake air, and a membrane unit downstream of the air compressor and having a membrane with selectivity for siloxanes. The membrane may have a first side and a second side, and the first side may be exposed to a higher pressure than the second side when the air compressor is operating. The membrane may be configured to separate the intake air into a permeate that traverses the membrane from the first side to the second side, and a retenate that remains on the first side. The permeate may have a higher siloxane content than the retenate. The retenate may be directed to the internal combustion engine for combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Robert D. Clayton
  • Patent number: 10208719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (1) for the thermal management of the intake air of an internal combustion engine (3) equipped with a turbocharger (5), said device comprising: a first heat exchanger (7) placed in the air intake circuit (9), a second heat exchanger (10) placed on the main exhaust line (12) and connected to the first heat exchanger (7) to form a heating loop (A), said thermal management device (1) furthermore comprising a so-called low-pressure exhaust gas recuperation system (14), comprising a first take-off (141) placed downstream of the turbine (5b), an outlet (142) placed upstream of the compressor (5a), and a control valve (140), the second heat exchanger (10) being placed between the turbine (5b) and the first take-off (141), the main exhaust line (12) comprising a take-off branch (26) between a second take-off (201) placed on the main exhaust line (12) upstream of the second heat exchanger (10), a take-off device (200) able to manage the circulation of the exhaust gases, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Bertrand Gessier, José Borges-Alejo, Zoulika Soukeur
  • Patent number: 10208720
    Abstract: An intake manifold made of synthetic resin includes first, second and third members stacked in sequence and welded to form the intake manifold; a collector extending inside the intake manifold in a direction of a line of cylinders, a part of wall of the collector being formed by the third member; a plurality of branch passages formed substantially by the first and second members and wound around an outer periphery of the collector; and a connector passage leading from the collector to an outer peripheral side of the branch passage. The first, second and third members are respectively provided with first, second and third cylinder portions that are coaxially arranged with each other in a position between adjacent two branch passages. The connector passage is formed by the first, second and third cylinder portions with the connector passage communicating with an inside space of the collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noritaka Tachikawa
  • Patent number: 10208721
    Abstract: A family of manifolds for a family of engines. A first and second engine respectively have a first and second number of cylinders. The second number is at least one and smaller than the first number. Each manifold has a plenum chamber and an inlet. The first and second manifolds respectively have the first and second number of outlets, each connected to one of a first number of runner passages. The first manifold is manufactured by inserting an outlet insert for forming at least one of the first number of outlets into a first or second mold, forming a first portion thereof using the first mold, forming a second portion thereof using the second mold, and connecting the portions. The second manifold is manufactured by forming a first portion thereof using the first mold, forming a second portion thereof using the second mold, and connecting the portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BRP-ROTAX GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Schallauer, Christian Stiebinger, Hermann Neubacher, Michael Sauer
  • Patent number: 10208722
    Abstract: A first injection hole included by an injection nozzle is formed such that an angle that a first virtual line passing a first inner-wall-side center point away from a center axis by a predetermined first distance, forms with the center axis becomes a first injection angle, and an angle that first injection hole inner walls form becomes a first open angle. A second injection hole included by the injection nozzle is formed such that an angle that a second virtual line passing a second inner-wall-side center point away from the center axis by a predetermined second distance, forms with the center axis becomes a second injection angle that is smaller than the first injection angle, and an angle that second injection hole inner walls form becomes a second open angle that is larger than the first open angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noritsugu Kato
  • Patent number: 10208723
    Abstract: A fuel rail assembly for gasoline direct injection fuel delivery to an engine. The assembly has a common rail tube. In the tube there are threaded orifices extending laterally. Injector sockets are adapted to mate with the threaded orifices. Each injector socket has a proximal nipple end region connected to the tube and a distal end region through which fuel is delivered to the engine. Screw threads are disposed around the proximal nipple end region. The screw threads include a lead thread that is received by the threaded orifices, thereby forming mechanical connections between the injector sockets and the tube that are adapted to withstand maximum pressures of fuel up to 5000 psi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: HI-VOL PRODUCTS
    Inventor: Paul G. Carey
  • Patent number: 10208724
    Abstract: A fuel supply device includes: a linear actuator; a reciprocating pump having a boosting piston driven by the linear actuator and configured to reciprocate in an axial direction, the reciprocating pump being configured to suck the fuel when the boosting piston moves in a first direction and configured to boost and eject the fuel when the boosting piston moves in a second direction; and a controller configured to control driving of the linear actuator so as to adjust an amount of the fuel ejected from a boosting cylinder per reciprocating time by adjusting a ratio of a fuel ejection time and a fuel suction time of the reciprocating pump without changing the reciprocating time of the boosting piston in accordance with a load of the internal combustion engine. The adjustment adjusts a stroke length of the boosting piston and a moving speed of the boosting piston in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsui E&S Machinery Co., LTD
    Inventors: Makoto Kounosu, Seiichi Kitamura, Renzo Kanda
  • Patent number: 10208725
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to internal combustion engines in general. Some embodiments may include a drive device for a high-pressure fuel pump of an internal combustion engine. It may include an eccentric ring in frictional connection with a drive shaft for converting a rotational movement of the drive shaft about a drive shaft rotational axis into a translational movement; a tappet spaced apart from the eccentric ring for passing on the translational movement from the eccentric ring; and at least two pivoting bodies disposed between the eccentric ring surface and the tappet surface and in contact with the eccentric ring surface and with the tappet surface. The eccentric ring may include at least one flat eccentric ring surface. The tappet may include at least one flat tappet surface. The pivoting bodies may each include a respective extension axis running parallel to the drive shaft rotational axis and pivot about the extension axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Schmidbauer
  • Patent number: 10208726
    Abstract: An inside projection is formed in one piece with a second tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward a third tubular member, and an outside projection is formed in one piece with the third tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward the second tubular member, while an inner wall of the outside projection is engaged with an outer wall of the inside projection. Another inside projection is formed in one piece with the second tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward a first tubular member, and another outside projection is formed in one piece with the first tubular member and projects in a tubular form toward the second tubular member, while an inner wall of the outside projection is engaged with an outer wall of the inside projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Oikawa, Eiji Mimura
  • Patent number: 10208727
    Abstract: A fluid conditioning module having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet is provided. The fluid conditioning module includes a first pump element, a second pump element, a pressure regulator, a controller, and a prime mover to impart rotational motion in the first and second pump elements. A first pump inlet is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet. A filter inlet is in fluid communication with a first pump outlet and a second pump outlet, and a filter outlet is in fluid communication with the fluid outlet. A pressure regulator inlet and a pressure regulator outlet are in fluid communication with the filter outlet and a recirculation conduit, respectively. The control valve has a first position and a second position, which allows fluid flow through the recirculation conduit. The controller adjusts operation of one or more of the prime mover and the control valve based upon a predetermined parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew O. Marrack, Scott F. Shafer, Martin A. Lehman, Kenneth C. Adams
  • Patent number: 10208728
    Abstract: A fuel amount distribution method is provided to distribute fuel to a plurality of injectors on each of multiple cylinders of an engine with a dual injector. The fuel amount distribution method includes performing, by a controller, a single injection operation in which a single injector of the plurality of injectors constituting the dual injector injects fuel into a corresponding cylinder when a required fuel injection time of the dual injector of at least one cylinder of the multiple cylinders is less than a minimum injection time of each injector of the plurality of injectors of the dual injector. Thereby, precise air-fuel control in a low fuel rate section is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min-Kyu Han
  • Patent number: 10208729
    Abstract: A specialty nut and specialty ratchet driver device used to start an internal combustion engine, each with an integrated one direction clutch, designed to be an attachment for a commercially available battery operated drill/driver gun. The specialty ratchet driver with an integrated one direction clutch is inserted into the driver receptacle of the socket placed over the nut on the crank shaft of the engine. One end of a drive shaft is inserted into the one direction clutch portion of the specialty ratchet driver device and the other end of the drive shaft is inserted into the chuck of a battery operated drill/driver gun. The torque of the drill/driver gun turns the crank shaft of the engine with sufficient force to initiate starting of the engine. The one direction clutch then allows the engine to turn faster than the drill/driver so as not to impede the engine start up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Skunk Works, LLC
    Inventor: Robert H. Koehler
  • Patent number: 10208730
    Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine is provided which improves ignition while reducing electric power consumption. An ignition device for an internal combustion engine includes an ignition plug that is placed with a tip exposed on an end in an axial direction of a combustion chamber formed in a cylinder and that includes a central electrode and a grounding electrode provided opposing each other at the tip, and a magnetic field former that forms a magnetic field in a direction in which a magnetic field vector substantially vertically passes through an approximate two-dimensional plane including a spark discharge path formed, by a gas flow ejected to the end in the axial direction of the combustion chamber, between the central electrode and the grounding electrode, and extending in an approximate U shape in a direction orthogonal to the opposing direction of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Masao Kinoshita, Takayuki Fuyuto, Ryou Masuda, Yoshihiro Hotta
  • Patent number: 10208731
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus and method for extracting useful work from a fluid stream are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise balanced hydrofoils comprising upper and lower semifoils joined by a member. Some embodiments comprise an array of removable hydrofoil modules wherein each module is adapted to provide an independent power contribution to an overall system, depending on speed of the fluid stream in the vicinity of the module, and each module is further adapted to provide its power contribution at a substantially consistent pressure to an array-wide high pressure fluid circuit. These and other embodiments are further disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ResHydro LLC
    Inventor: Colin Kerr
  • Patent number: 10208732
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an intelligent wind turbine generator, which comprises a first blade module, a second blade module, a power generating module, and a control module. The second blade module is disposed at the first blade module. The power generating module is connected with the first and second blade modules. The control module is connected with the power generating module, the first blade module, and the second blade module. The first and second blade modules rotate, driving the power generating module to generate power. The control module detects a voltage value generated by the power generating module and judges if the voltage value is greater or lower than a predetermined value. The control module controls whether the first and second blade modules overlap or not. The intelligent wind turbine generator is able to switch automatically the blade number of the wind turbine generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Chung Yuan Christian University
    Inventors: Huei-Chu Weng, Chen-Ming Fan, Hung-Yu Chen, Kevin Buana
  • Patent number: 10208733
    Abstract: A rotor blade system includes a hub for rotational movement in a defined direction of rotation. A first airfoil having a quarter-chord defined along a span thereof is coupled to the hub, but is uncoupled from the rotational movement of the hub. A second airfoil having a quarter-chord defined along a span thereof is coupled to the hub for rotation in direct correspondence with the rotational movement of the hub. The quarter-chord of the first airfoil leads the quarter-chord of the second airfoil when the hub experiences its rotational movement in the defined direction of rotation. A connector couples the tip of the first airfoil to the tip of the second airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventor: Michael L Barrows
  • Patent number: 10208734
    Abstract: A lift-driven wind turbine has a turbine rotor with blades mounted to the turbine shaft by two struts hinged to the shaft and each blade to form a four-bar linkage. The blades' airfoil cross section generates lift that rotates the blades around the axis in the presence of a prevailing wind. The airfoil chord forms a geometric angle of attack ?G relative to the tangent of the blade path and the struts orient the blades with an outward tilt angle ?. The turbine is designed with values of ?G and ? that cause the lift generated by each blade to have an upward component that supports the blade against the force of gravity and a mean radially inward component that substantially balances centrifugal forces on the blade. Wind turbines designed according to the principles disclosed herein facilitate the construction of free-floating utility scale wind turbines for deep water installations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Continuum Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander H. Boschitsch, Alan J. Bilanin, Glen R. Whitehouse
  • Patent number: 10208735
    Abstract: A thermal engine includes a thermal battery with a thermal mass for storing regenerative wind and solar energy using a solar lens and mechanical friction generated by the rotation of a wind turbine. The thermal engine comprises a thermal battery; a thermal engine; means of charging the thermal battery using natural energy including a solar lens; a wind turbine; and charging by electrical means. The invention further comprises a means of converting stored thermal energy to mechanical power using non-combustible fluids to drive devices such as an electric generator, a water pump; a means of using said thermal energy to directly heat homes and industrial facilities; a means of using said thermal energy for cooling homes and industrial facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Mark Anthony
  • Patent number: 10208736
    Abstract: A high-pressure fluid mixing pump control system and a fluid suction control method, the system comprises a transmission threaded rod and a resolver sensor, wherein: one end of the transmission threaded rod is connected to an oil cylinder piston of a mixing pump, while the other end of the transmission threaded rod is connected to the resolver sensor either directly or via a rotary element that rotates coaxially with the transmission threaded rod. The high-pressure fluid mixing pump control system implements precision control via a mechanical means, converts a linear motion of the piston into a rotary motion, and utilizes the resolver sensor for precision measurement of a rotation angle, thus acquiring a piston displacement amount, and finally acquiring a suction volume. At the same time, an accelerator and an electric brake are also designed, for controlling starting and stopping of the mixing pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China Oilfield Services Limited
    Inventors: Yongren Feng, Minggao Zhou, Guiqing Hao, Zhijie Yu, Zhongtian Hao
  • Patent number: 10208737
    Abstract: Thermal energy recovery systems include a piston assembly including a primary cylinder adapted to receive vapor; a single-acting secondary cylinder/piston assembly extending from opposite ends of the primary cylinder; a primary piston disposed for displacement in the primary cylinder; first and second secondary pistons disposed for displacement in the secondary cylinder/piston; and a piston connecting member connecting the first and second secondary pistons to the primary piston. Alternatively, a secondary piston is of the type of a double-acting piston for a more compact reciprocating function to reduce piston friction losses. Metering valves regulate the vapor pressure being introduced into displacement volume chambers at a constant pressure. A working fluid pressure-tank/accumulator/transfer-conduit is in communication with the displacement volume chambers to help regulate pressure of the working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventor: Walter B. Freeman
  • Patent number: 10208738
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel supply system having improved assembly and pulsation reducing efficiency. A housing (20) of a fuel supply system (1) is formed by joining a first housing member (20a) forming one end side of a tubular chamber (23) in the direction of the backward and forward movement of a plunger (10) and a second housing member (20b) forming the other end side. A pulsation reducing mechanism (60) includes a tubular bellows damper (61) housed in the tubular chamber (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: Eagle Industry Co., Ltd., Kelhin Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Suda, Toshiaki Iwa, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Naoki Murata
  • Patent number: 10208739
    Abstract: A microfluidic pump with thermal control. The microfluidic pump employs a fluid motivation mechanism that moves microscopic fluid volumes through a conduit using thermal vapor bubbles generated using supercritical heating. Aspects of the microfluidic pump include the use of a pump temperature controller that monitors temperatures associated with the microfluidic pump and slows or pauses operation of the microfluidic pump to reduce the rate at which heat is generated allowing additional time for heat to be passively dissipated. Controlling the upper microfluidic pump temperature prevents or reduces overheating of the fluid being pumped that renders the fluid less suitable or unsuitable for its intended purpose or harm to the microfluidic pump. Other aspects of the pump temperature controller include an optional substrate heater that helps raise the fluid temperature to a selected operational range for better performance of the fluid and/or the microfluidic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Steven W. Bergstedt
  • Patent number: 10208740
    Abstract: A compressor valve plate (80) for a reed valve (94) has a mounting surface portion for mounting a base portion (104) of a reed (100). The compressor has a port (90). A seat (150) surrounds the port. A trepan (154) surrounds the seat. A relieved area (180, 182) less deep than the trepan extends proximally (182) of and distally (180) of the trepan. A reciprocating piston compressor comprises a valve assembly having such a compressor valve plate and a reed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Paul J. Flanigan
  • Patent number: 10208741
    Abstract: A method for operating a linear compressor is provided. The method includes estimating an acceleration of the motor of the linear compressor using at least a robust integral of the sign of the error feedback. A position of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor of the linear compressor is at the bottom dead center point is also determined based at least in part on a measured current to the motor of the linear compressor and an estimated acceleration of the motor. The position of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor of the linear compressor is at a top dead center point is calculated based at least in part on the position of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor of the linear compressor is at the bottom dead center point and a stroke length of the motor of the linear compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Srujan Kusumba, Gregory William Hahn, Michael Lee McIntyre, Joseph W. Latham
  • Patent number: 10208742
    Abstract: An arrangement for damping vibrations during microscopic examinations of inorganic and organic material specimens in an evacuated measuring at low temperatures that are cooled by an electromechanical cryocooler suppresses transfer of vibrations from the cryocooler onto the specimen, the microscope table and the instrument table. The arrangement includes a cryocooler unit and a microscopy unit combined with a damping unit preferably located on a common longitudinal axis. The damping unit has a series arrangement of inter-coupled evacuable compensation chambers arranged along the longitudinal axis, the series arrangement being combined with damper groups, two of which act at least diametrically. A clamping unit is operationally connected to the damping unit at at least two points on the series arrangement. A tension force of the damping unit is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Life Science Inkubator Sachsen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dietrich Roscher
  • Patent number: 10208743
    Abstract: A piston cylinder arrangement for an air compressor including a cylinder, a connecting rod having a wrist pin receiving end, a wrist pin provided in the wrist pin receiving end of the connecting rod, and a piston provided on the connecting rod via the wrist pin and positioned within the cylinder. At least one passageway may be defined in the wrist pin to permit air to flow into the wrist pin from the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey Hritz
  • Patent number: 10208744
    Abstract: A fluid sending apparatus includes a signal generator that generates a signal including a signal component that has a one-sided waveform and is composed of a rising component in a positive voltage direction, a falling component in the positive voltage direction, and a vortex ring formation time component T, and a damping component for driving for a predetermined time with a voltage less than or equal to one-half of a voltage in the positive voltage direction, the waveform of each of the signal component and the damping component corresponding to a single wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Fujiwara, Naho Misumi, Shiro Takeuchi, Junichiro Hoshizaki
  • Patent number: 10208745
    Abstract: A fluid transport system includes at least one flow control device and a multiphase pump configured to transport fluid. At least one pump sensing device is configured to measure at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump. A controller is programmed with a pump map including a correlation of the at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump with at least one operating characteristic of the fluid. The controller is configured to determine an estimated value of the at least one operating characteristic of the fluid based on the measured value of the at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump and the pump map. At least one regulating device coupled to at least one flow control device is modulated based on the estimated value of the at least one operating characteristic of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Sidharth Abrol, Rosa Castane Selga, Guillaume Becquin, Axel Busboom, Rogier Sebastiaan Blom
  • Patent number: 10208746
    Abstract: A system for controlling the mixing ratio of a multi-component mixture including a first pump connectable to a source of a first component and a second pump connectable to a source of a second component. The first and second pump being associated with at least one linear sensor for generating an output indicative of actual pump speed or shaft displacement of the pump. The system further includes a control circuit operative to utilize the output of the linear sensor of one of the pumps to generate a control signal for controlling the output of the other pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: EPIC SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Arnold Wilkens, Timothy John Marthe, Justin D. Almen
  • Patent number: 10208747
    Abstract: A liquid barrier trap for a pump testing and monitoring system is disclosed herein. The liquid barrier provides a barrier to exhaust gases and fluids from escaping a pit that includes the pump under test. The pit may be a sump pit or an ejector pit. The liquid barrier may include a P-trap. The liquid barrier may include an inlet conduit in fluid communication with a valve for admitting water thereto. The liquid barrier may include an outlet fluid conduit extending through a pit cover and permitting water to be admitted into the pit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Beacon Technical Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Eugene M. Cummings
  • Patent number: 10208748
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an installation for pumping hydrocarbons, including a pump submerged in a well and a motor for driving the pump, said motor being linked to a variable frequency drive powered during normal operation by an external network, the drive including a rectifier supplying a DC bus, an inverter supplied by the DC bus and linked to the motor, and a controller, said installation wherein it further includes an electricity storage element linked by a reversible DC-DC converter to the DC bus, the installation being arranged to ensure the variable frequency drive is supplied by the storage element in case of an interruption to the supply via the external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Mathias Tientcheu-Yamdeu, Jean-Marie Andrejak, Ludovic Bourlier, Daniel Ehanno
  • Patent number: 10208749
    Abstract: The present invention relates a scroll compressor. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the scroll compressor includes: an orbiting scroll configured to be seated on one surface of a main frame and provided with a plurality of seating grooves along a circumferential direction; a stepped part configured to be formed in the seating groove; a ring member configured to be inserted into the seating groove and have a lower surface adhering to the stepped part; and a guide pin configured to have one end fixed to the main frame and the other end extended in an inside length of the ring member, in which the guide pin has the end maintained in a spaced state from the stepped part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lim, Kweon Soo Lim, Soo Cheol Jeong, Hong Min Kim
  • Patent number: 10208750
    Abstract: A posture control unit (contact portion) that controls a posture of a balance weight-equipped slider so that a slider portion of the balance weight-equipped slider maintains the posture parallel to an orbiting bearing is provided at a position corresponding to a central portion in an axial direction of the orbiting bearing between an eccentric direction-side side surface of an eccentric shaft portion of a rotary shaft and an inner wall surface of a slide hole facing the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Raito Kawamura, Shin Sekiya, Shinichi Wakamoto, Mihoko Shimoji, Hideaki Nagata
  • Patent number: 10208751
    Abstract: A second space communicated with a first space through communicating paths is provided on an outer circumferential side of first and second scroll bodies. Scroll end portions of the first and second scroll bodies form an inlet port configured to suck gas refrigerant into a compression chamber from the second space. Open ends of the communicating paths on a side of the second space are located at an angle larger than 0° and less than or equal to 180°, around a central axis of a rotating shaft portion, from the inlet ports in a scroll involute direction of the first scroll body and the second scroll body, respectively. Injection ports in a part of an outer circumference of the second space between the open ends and the inlet ports in a circumferential direction are configured to eject liquid refrigerant in a direction toward the inlet ports, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Raito Kawamura, Shin Sekiya, Shinichi Wakamoto, Masayuki Kakuda
  • Patent number: 10208752
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that may include a first compression chamber, a second compression chamber separated from the first compression chamber, and having a greater compression ratio than the first compression chamber, a first discharge port that communicates with the first compression chamber and provided with a first discharge inlet and a first discharge outlet, and a second discharge port separated from the first discharge port, that communicates with the second compression chamber, and provided with a second discharge inlet and a second discharge outlet, the discharge outlet of at least one of the first discharge port or the second discharge port may have a larger sectional area than the discharge inlet. Accordingly, a discharge delay in each compression chamber may be prevented in advance, thereby suppressing compression loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongkyu Choi, Kangwook Lee, Cheolhwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10208753
    Abstract: The speed of a cooling fan of a scroll pump is controlled such that fan-generated noise can be kept low. The scroll pump includes a pump head, a pump motor, the fan, a controller and one or more sensors. The pump head includes a plate scroll set in which a tip seal is provided to create a seal between the blade and the opposing plates of the plate scrolls of the set. The speed of the fan is cycled by the controller, and the power draw on the pump motor as a result is checked. These results are used to infer the state of the pump, i.e., to discriminate several different states of the pump from one another, including a state in which a new tip seal is being worn in, and to control the speed of the fan accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Forni, Vannie (Yucong) Lu, Arti Desai
  • Patent number: 10208754
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system including an oil flooded compressor operable for compressing a working fluid. A dehumidifier is positioned upstream of the compressor to reduce the humidity of working fluid entering the compressor and to cool oil while regenerating the dehumidifier. A heat exchanger positioned upstream of the compressor includes passageways for oil and compressible working fluid to be transported in a heat transfer relationship therethrough such that the temperature of the oil is reduced within the heat exchanger. A control system including an electronic controller is operable for controlling an inlet temperature of the oil entering the compressor, controlling an inlet temperature and humidity of working fluid entering the compressor and a discharge temperature of the working fluid exiting the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Srinivasa Rao Yenneti, Premchand Reddy Punuru
  • Patent number: 10208755
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump assembly has a magnetic coupling between the motor shaft and the pump shaft. The coupling includes motor shaft disks mounted to the motor shaft, each having upward and downward facing disk surfaces joined by an outward facing disk cylindrical surface. Motor shaft magnets are mounted in each of the disk cylindrical surfaces and in the upward and downward facing disk surfaces. A pump shaft rotor mounted to the pump shaft has annular bands axially separated from each other by recesses into which the disks extend. Rotor magnets are mounted in each of the recess cylindrical surfaces and in upward and downward facing band surfaces. The magnets in the recesses interact with the magnets on the disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan P. Semple, Arturo L. Poretti, David Tanner
  • Patent number: 10208756
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for a ceiling fan, adapted to attach a rotating fan blade assembly to a ceiling suspension and electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly includes an electrical rotor and an electrical stator, the stator being horizontally disposed within the rotor and connected to the rotor via a double row angular ball bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: HUNTER PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD
    Inventors: David Stocks, Philip Allen, Scott Ibbotson
  • Patent number: 10208757
    Abstract: An adaptor for providing remote control of a mechanical actuator includes a housing having a bore formed therein for receiving a portion of the mechanical actuator. At least one engagement mechanism extends into the bore such that the at least one engagement mechanism engages the portion of the mechanical actuator. A motor is coupled to the at least one engagement mechanism and a sensor is operably coupled to the motor such that the motor is configured to actuate the mechanical actuator via the at least one engagement mechanism in response to a signal detected by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua A. Alger, David R. Cariello, Sean M. Franklin, Andrew J. Lohr
  • Patent number: 10208758
    Abstract: An internal hot gas bypass device coupled with inlet guide vane for centrifugal compressor includes an inlet guide vane assembly, a driving motor assembly and a gas bypass valve assembly. The inlet guide vane assembly further includes a master vane, a plurality of slave vanes, a vane-front fixing ring, a vane-rear fixing ring, a vane-driving ring, a connecting pipe and a vane-opening indicating disk. The driving motor assembly further includes a motor, a driving unit and a motor fixing base. The gas bypass valve assembly further includes a valve, an external fixing-and-guiding ring, an internal fixing-and-guiding ring, a driven element, a spring, a sealing ring, a valve stud and a valve base. The driving motor assembly is connected with the driving unit and the master vane of the inlet guide vane assembly via a connecting rod, and is further connected with the slave vanes of the gas bypass valve assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jenn-Chyi Chung, Kun-Yi Liang, Kuo-Shu Hung, Chung-Che Liu, Hsu-Cheng Chiang
  • Patent number: 10208759
    Abstract: A turbo-machine for compressing or expanding a fluid comprises a housing, a rotary shaft, an electric machine, an impeller mounted at an end of the rotary shaft, radial magnetic bearings, an axial magnetic bearing, an axial detector, radial detectors, a control circuit, and auxiliary bearings. An auxiliary bearing is integrated within a stator portion of the axial magnetic bearing and this stator portion of the axial magnetic bearing is located opposite a rotor armature of the axial magnetic bearing. The rotor armature is made of iron or of a material which is adapted to be attracted in a magnetic field and is constituted by a rear face of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SKF Magnetic Mechatronics
    Inventors: Eduardo Carrasco, Eric Helene
  • Patent number: 10208760
    Abstract: A controller for a rotary machine includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store operating modes of the controller. The operating modes include a normal operating mode and a fault tolerant operating mode. The controller is configured to receive a signal from at least one sensor and determine an operating state of the rotary machine based on the signal. The controller is also configured to switch the operating modes based on the determined operating state of the rotary machine and regulate at least one electromagnetic bearing and at least one flow control device. The controller is further configured to adjust at least one of the at least one electromagnetic bearing and the at least one flow control device in the fault tolerant operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rosa Castane Selga, Mohamed Osama, Thomas Alban, Massimiliano Ortiz Neri
  • Patent number: 10208761
    Abstract: A housing of a fluid energy machine which extends along a longitudinal axis, includes a housing casing which extends axially, a housing cover for closing off a housing opening axially on the face side of the housing casing, an annular insert which extends in the housing in a circumferential direction and which bears against the housing casing and against the housing cover, a first seal between the housing cover and the housing casing. To save radial installation space, a second seal is between the housing casing and the annular insert, and a third seal is between the housing cover and the annular insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jan Weule
  • Patent number: 10208762
    Abstract: A device and method for reducing swirl in a gas compressor is provided. The device can include a tubular or annular seal body having an abradable interior surface for use in forming a seal. The tubular body can further have a plurality of swirl teeth arranged on a high pressure side of the seal body. The swirl teeth are disposed so as to form swirl slots between the adjacent swirl teeth. The swirl teeth can have a brake chord and a brake pitch describing the length and separation of each adjacent swirl tooth. The ratio of the brake pitch to the brake chord can be optimized in order to maximize creation of free vortices between the swirl teeth as the compressor rotates for swirl reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Balaji Venkataraman, David Howard Moulton, Michael James Cave
  • Patent number: 10208763
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a rotor with at least one rotatable impeller blade, the rotor having a compressed state and an expanded state, and a support device coupled to an outer radial edge of the at least one impeller blade. The support device is changeable between a first state in which the support device is radially compressed associated with the compressed state of the rotor, and a second state in which the support device is radially expanded associated with the expanded state of the rotor. In the expanded state of the rotor, the at least one impeller blade extends at least partly radially inward from the support device. The support device is a ring that at least partly surrounds the at least one impeller blade, the ring having a longitudinal axis parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Joerg Schumacher, Daniel Roehn
  • Patent number: 10208764
    Abstract: A rotor wheel for an engine includes a plurality of impeller vanes and a plurality of fluid passages defined by adjacent impeller vanes. The fluid passages are radially disposed across at least a portion of the rotor wheel. One or more impeller inserts may be disposed within one or more of the plurality of fluid passages, respectively. The impeller inserts define an impeller passage with a passage shape that controls a flow of fluid through the one or more of the plurality of fluid passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kiran Sreeram, John Herbert Dimmick, III, Gary Charles Liotta, John Robert Sech, Eric Richard Bonini, Patrick Shawn Reilly