Patents Issued in July 30, 2019
  • Patent number: 10364899
    Abstract: A valve (1), in particular a vacuum valve, having at least one valve housing (2), at least one closure element (3), and at least one valve seat (4). The valve seat (4) surrounds at least one valve opening (5) of the valve (1), and the closure element (3) can be moved back and forth between at least one open position, in which the closure element (3) at least partly releases the valve opening (5), and a closed position, in which a sealing surface (8) of the closure element (3) is pressed against the valve seat (4) in order to close the valve opening (5), by at least one closure element drive (6, 7). At least one surface (9) of the valve (1) has an average surface roughness RZ less than or equal to 0.4 um, preferably less than or equal to 0.25 um.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: VAT HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Klaus Albrecht
  • Patent number: 10364900
    Abstract: Provided are: a flow path switching valve that reduces the pressure load in a contact surface outer peripheral section of the flow path switching valve and inhibits friction between constituent components; and a liquid chromatographic device using the flow path switching valve. The flow path switching valve is provided with a stator having a plurality of through holes and a seal having conduction grooves for causing the through holes to conduct. The seal has a first portion present vertically beneath a region comprising at least a surface of contact with the stator, and a second portion having lower rigidity than the first portion, on the outside of the first portion. Due to this configuration, it is possible to reduce the pressure load when a flow path of a liquid is switched under high-pressure conditions, and inhibit the phenomenon of friction itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Hara, Hiroshi Moriya, Ayano Otsubo, Yoshihiro Nagaoka, Kiyotoshi Mori, Shoji Tomita
  • Patent number: 10364901
    Abstract: A vacuum gate valve includes a valve body open/close drive body provided between opposing housing bodies, a stem of the valve body open/close drive body, and a valve body provided to the stem. The housing bodies each has a piston rod vertically moving by a cylinder mechanism, a cam member of the piston rod, and a cam roller provided in a cam groove formed in the cam member. A spring receiving unit on both sides of the valve body open/close drive body and a spring which causes the spring receiving unit to be disposed in the cam member and resiliently supported between the spring receiving unit and the piston rod are provided. The housing body includes a vertical-movement guiding unit in which the valve body open/close driving body vertically moves between the housing bodies and a stopper by which the valve body open/close drive body is locked at ascending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KITZ SCT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 10364902
    Abstract: A rotary shear valve assembly for liquid chromatography applications comprises a rotor assembly having a rotor and a drive shaft with a head portion. The rotor has a substantially planar surface with one or more rotor grooves and a pair of holes. The head portion has two pins. The pins are disposed substantially diametrically opposite of each other on a line through a center of the head portion. Each pin mates with one of the holes in the rotor. The rotor assembly can further comprise means for urging the rotor surface against the stator surface such that each rotor groove aligns with and provides a fluidic channel between two of the stator openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark W. Moeller, Robert A. Jencks
  • Patent number: 10364903
    Abstract: A multifunctional softening valve and a water processing apparatus thereof. The multifunctional softening valve comprises a valve body, an ejector, a movable valve plate, a fixed valve plate, and a saline water control valve. The valve body is provided with a water inlet, a water outlet, a water drainage port, and a salt absorbing branch runner. The valve body is provided with a through-hole in communication with a filter element upper portion, a filter element lower portion and an ejector inlet. An ejector outlet is in communication with the filter element lower portion. The salt absorbing branch runner is provided with a saline water inlet. The saline water inlet is provided with a saline water control valve. The fixed valve plate is provided with a plurality of through-holes, and the through-holes are distributed according to a distribution mode of equally dividing the cross section of the fixed valve plate into six parts, and the movable valve plate is fitted to the fixed valve plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: WENZHOU RUNXIN MANUFACTURING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao-Rong Wu, Hai-Lin Yuan
  • Patent number: 10364905
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners that remove debris from water using a plurality of cyclonic flows, or that include a removable impeller subassembly, a check valve for a debris canister, a particle separator assembly having a handle that locks to the pool cleaner, a modular roller drive gear box, or a roller latch that secures a roller to the pool cleaner. Exemplary embodiments are also directed to the check valve and the roller latch themselves. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a filter medium for pool cleaners that includes embossments providing flow channels for water, and to roller assemblies for pool cleaners. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners including alternative pump motor engagements. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners power supplies that include a potted and contoured power board assembly, and to kickstands therefor. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a pool cleaner caddy, and removable wheels therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Graham M. Hayes
  • Patent number: 10364906
    Abstract: A dielectric regulator comprises a regulator and an inlet group. The inlet group comprises: an inlet nozzle assembly and an inlet fitting. The inlet nozzle assembly comprises: a nozzle, a bushing, a first sealing ring, a second sealing ring, a nut, a first dielectric interface, and a second dielectric interface. The nozzle defines a sealing block void, a funnel void, a first cylindrical void, and a polygonal void. The bushing surrounds the nozzle and compresses the first sealing ring between the nozzle and the bushing. The second sealing ring surrounds the nozzle and compressed via the nozzle and the bushing. The first dielectric interface is ring-shaped and is compressed via the nut and the nozzle. The second dielectric interface is ring shaped and is compressed via the nozzle and the inlet fitting. The inlet fitting defines a central void and is threadably engaged with the nozzle assembly via the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Engineered Controls International, LLC
    Inventor: Thad Cassidy
  • Patent number: 10364907
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a valve body structure facilitating maintenance of hose solving problem that prior valve body structure is inconvenient to install hose and unremovable. Valve body structure comprises hollow valve body, valve body provided with at least one water guide channel; hose inserted one end into valve body and connected with water guide channel, outer surface of one end of hose connected with water guide channel provided with clamping slot; clamping ring provided inside of valve body, which is located on the same plane as clamping slot, and one end of clamping ring provided with an elastic body which drives a clamping ring arm to locate in clamping slot and to clamp hose, if hose needs to be removed, compressing elastic body to move clamping ring arm away from clamping slot. The valve body structure facilitates user to repair or replace hose, and greatly saves user's maintenance costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU SEAGULL KITCHEN AND BATH PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuqi Gao, Qianfeng Peng, Mingzi Zhang, Kunhua Zhong
  • Patent number: 10364908
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a central housing part (1) of a high-pressure slide gate valve from high-temperature steel, in the case of which two die-forged central-housing-part half-shells (1a, 1b) with forged-on connectors (4a, 4b) are welded to one another, using electron-beam welding without any welding filler material, by a butt weld seam (2), which runs in a plane (3) which runs transversely to the connectors (4a, 4b) and subdivides the central housing part (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: STAHL-ARMATUREN PERSTA Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Klaus Westerwell, Elmar Floer
  • Patent number: 10364909
    Abstract: A fluid flow control device includes a resilient substrate translatable between a first flattened position and a second extended position, and an actuator attached to the resilient substrate. The actuator is configured for translating the resilient substrate from the first flattened position to the second extended position. The actuator is formed from a shape memory alloy transitionable between a first state and a second state in response to a change in temperature of the shape memory alloy. A fluid flow control system includes a rotor shield and the fluid flow control device attached to the rotor shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Dynalloy, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Skurkis, Paul W. Alexander, Anthony L. Smith, James H. Brown, Tyler P. Ownby, Xiujie Gao
  • Patent number: 10364910
    Abstract: A fluid control device includes a piezoelectric actuator and a deformable substrate. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element and a vibration plate. The piezoelectric element is attached on a surface of the vibration plate. The piezoelectric element is subjected to deformation in response to an applied voltage. The vibration plate is subjected to a curvy vibration in response to the deformation of the piezoelectric element. The deformable substrate includes a flexible plate and a communication plate, which are stacked on each other. Consequently, a synchronously-deformed structure is defined by the flexible plate and the communication plate collaboratively. There is a specified depth between the flexible plate and the vibration plate. The flexible plate includes a movable part corresponding to the vibration plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yung-Lung Han, Chi-Feng Huang
  • Patent number: 10364911
    Abstract: A valve actuation system includes a drive device, equipped with an axial extension, which includes an actuating drive with a drive output side intended for coupling with a valve and an axial rear side opposite this, wherein the actuating drive has on its axial rear side a mounting interface for the attachment of an auxiliary device which interacts with the actuating drive wherein, in order to allow attachment of the particular auxiliary device which is to be mounted, or which is mounted, the mounting interface of the actuating drive is equipped with several different attachment devices which differ in their attachment possibilities and which can be used selectively. In this way, a high degree of variability in the attachment of auxiliary devices is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FESTO AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marcel Heimroth, Markus Dreher, Michael Kanthack
  • Patent number: 10364912
    Abstract: An actuator assembly includes a cylinder disposed in an actuator housing, the cylinder having a cylinder interior is in fluid communication with a source of pressurized fluid. A ram member has a piston head within the cylinder interior, and pressure on the piston head moves the ram member. An end of the ram member acts on a collar having a collar interior, and an end of a rod member is disposed within the collar interior. The rod member is displaceable relative to the collar such that the end of the rod member does not contact the collar. Accordingly, fluid in the cylinder interior acting on the ram member may expand due to thermal expansion without damaging a hard stop at an opposite end of the rod member and without losing system pressure by triggering a relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: William K. LeBlanc, Jason T. Hoffbauer
  • Patent number: 10364913
    Abstract: A device for regulating flow rate of a gas in a duct, the device including a valve member having an actuator, the valve member being configured in such a manner as to shut off the duct selectively, wherein movement of the valve member is controlled by the resultant firstly of pressure in the duct upstream from the valve member acting on a proximal surface of the valve member, and secondly of a control pressure applied to a distal surface of the valve member of area greater than that of the proximal surface of the valve member, the control pressure being established in an amplification chamber having a feed line and an emptying line, one of the feed and emptying lines presenting a flow rate that is constant and the other presenting a flow rate that is variable and that is controlled by an actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Philippe Nomerange
  • Patent number: 10364914
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a valve device that includes a valve member located within a housing in which the valve member's operation can be bypassed. For example, the valve device can include a bypass device that has an input structure, a motion conversion structure, and an output structure. The input structure can include a portion configured to resiliently deform if a valve opening input force is applied to the input structure in an input direction. The motion conversion structure can be configured to convert the valve opening input force into motion of the output structure in an output direction that is non-parallel to the input direction. The output structure can be configured to move the valve member (e.g., from a closed state to an opened state in order to bypass normal valve operation) if the motion conversion structure is displaced in the input direction. The valve device can be used in various manners, and is particularly suitable for use in a patient fluid delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Edwin Burnard, Murat Ozgu, Benjamin Loomis
  • Patent number: 10364915
    Abstract: The present discloses valve systems that include valve shift detection systems that can be employed to determine when a valve has shifted. In certain embodiments, the valve shift detection systems include a switch integrated into a valve block that may be closed upon shifting of the spool valve. In certain embodiments, the switch may include a component that completes a circuit upon contacting the valve. The valve shift detection systems also may include a controller designed to detect a voltage or current change produced by completing the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeremy Murphy, Kent D. Harms, Albert Hoefel
  • Patent number: 10364916
    Abstract: A method of installing a subsea pipeline having a direct tie-in to a subsea structure includes, during introduction of the pipeline into the sea from a pipe laying vessel, applying a plastic deformation to a region of the pipeline at or close to an end of the pipeline to be tied-in and, either during or following tie-in, elastically deforming the region to increase its radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: STATOIL PETROLEUM AS
    Inventors: Johan K. Moen, Geir Endal, Rolf Morten Nes, Ståle Størkersen
  • Patent number: 10364917
    Abstract: An apparatus for securing a road tube to a roadway is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a locking component configured to engage a portion of the road tube. The apparatus may additionally comprise a base assembly configured to be secured to the roadway. The base assembly may include a planar base, a first side portion extending from the base, and a second side portion extending from the base. The first and second side portions may define a channel therebetween. The channel may be configured to receive the locking component. As the locking component is moved into the channel, at least one of the first and second side portions may be configured to move the locking component toward the base to secure the portion of the road tube therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: TMARK, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Gossack
  • Patent number: 10364918
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method and apparatus for suspending air conditioning duct works from a support structure comprising unistrut type support beams which apparatus includes a plurality of support brackets arranged and configured for being slidably interlockable with the interior of the unistrut beam members. The support brackets can be slid inside the interior of the support beam until adjacent a support beam which support beam can be connected to the support bracket. In like manner additional support brackets can be inserted into the interior of the support beam members to be adjustably located next to their respective support rod. In such manner multiple support rods can be used to support a frame member even where the support rods are not symmetrically located along the length of the support beam as the support bracket can be slid/moved inside the support beam until lining up with its respective support rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Jay G. Bianchini
  • Patent number: 10364919
    Abstract: Invention relates to a manufacturing process for making a bracket and subset assembly, process including: step (a) of placing bracket within a forming tool and putting between first portion of said bracket and second portion of said bracket a subset having a tube element and an elastic pad, step (b) of actuating the forming tool for plastically deforming the bracket so the first and second portions of the bracket come closer one to the other and press subset, thus gripping subset between the first and second portions of bracket, and during the step of actuating the forming tool for plastically deforming bracket, step (c) of using a propping spacer, distinct from the subset, for stopping the second portion of the bracket at a predetermined clamping distance from the first portion of the bracket, to secure the subset without crushing it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: AUTOTUBE AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Jan Borjesson, Per Antonsson, Jan Olofsson, Viktor Rosen, Jan-Inge Hilmersson
  • Patent number: 10364920
    Abstract: A hose holder system includes a rigid holder having a substantially vertical section and a substantially horizontal section. A flexible sling movably couples with the substantially horizontal section and includes a first flap and a second flap. A hose couples with the rigid holder through the sling, the hose coupled between the first flap and second flap, the sling supporting a portion of the hose in a position substantially parallel with the substantially horizontal section of the rigid holder. A swiveling base is coupled with the rigid holder and includes an opening therethrough through which the hose passes substantially perpendicularly. In implementations the hose holder system is configured to allow the hose to contact no rigid element of the hose holder system between the opening and a dispenser during use. The hose may enter the sling at an about 90 degree angle and exit at an about 30-35 degree angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventors: Robert D. Dundas, Evan S. Dundas
  • Patent number: 10364921
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a compression wedge of a lead-through system. The compression wedge comprises a number of wedge elements (1, 2, 3, 4). At least one of the wedge elements (1, 2, 3, 4) has a core (9, 10, 11, 12) of a harder material than an outer part surrounding the core (9, 10, 11, 12). The part surrounding the core (9, 10, 11, 12) is made of an elastic material. The wedge is moved between a non-compression state and a compression state by means of one single screw (6) co-operating with a socket (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Roxtec AB
    Inventor: Stefan Milton
  • Patent number: 10364922
    Abstract: A flexible joint including: a socket including a front end portion provided with O-ring grooves, and a male threaded portion extending outward radially, circumferentially, and stepwisely from the front end portion with male threads formed thereon; a nut including an engaging portion engaged with an outer circumferential surface of the front end portion, and a female threaded portion extending stepwisely from the engaging portion and engaged with the male threaded portion; a sprinkler flexible tube communicating with an inner circumference of the socket, and having an enlarged portion inserted between the front end portion of the socket and the engaging portion of the nut, and a leak-proof portion or a double bent portion bent outward from an end of the enlarged portion; and O-rings fitted over the O-ring grooves, whereby the enlarged portion presses the O-rings to come into close contact with each other, thereby preventing leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SEUNGJIN IND. CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ho Jin Jung
  • Patent number: 10364923
    Abstract: A grip element has a wedge shape including a wedging surface. One or more sets of elongate teeth are on the wedging surface. Another set of teeth with pointed corners are spaced from the elongate teeth in the circumferential direction. The grip element may be non-stamped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Krausz Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Avi Chiproot
  • Patent number: 10364924
    Abstract: A connecting assembly (10) for connecting to a corrugated tube (12) includes a base body (14) with a receptacle recess (14a) for receiving the corrugated tube (12), and a latching unit (16) which can be introduced through a circumferential opening (14c) of the base body (14) into the receptacle recess (14a) and which has a latching element carrier (20) and a plurality of latching elements (22) constructed as one piece with the latching element carrier (20). The latching elements (22) are constructed for the purpose of engaging in a trough (12b) of the corrugated tube (12) and to resist a movement of the corrugated tube (12) out of the receptacle. The latching element carrier (20) is constructed as a split ring. The latching elements (22) are arranged uniformly distributed along the circumference of the latching element carrier (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Fränkische Industrial Pipes GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Enrico Girola
  • Patent number: 10364925
    Abstract: A seal ring, a method of providing a fluid seal and end fitting are disclosed. The seal ring which provides a fluid seal between a polymer layer and an end fitting of a flexible pipe comprises an annular body that has a cross section comprising a first arm portion (500) and further arm portion (510) extending in a spaced apart relationship away from a body end portion (530).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GE OIL & GAS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Roberts, Zhimin Tan
  • Patent number: 10364926
    Abstract: A fluid sensing device of a fluid within a duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Taft, Jeffrey Leslie
  • Patent number: 10364927
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic connector, particularly for a motor vehicle windscreen wiper system. The connector is designed to be mounted on a wiper blade fitted with a perforated pipe carrying cleaning and de-icing fluid, and comprises at least one inlet coupling suitable for connection to a fluid feed, and at least one distributor provided with at least one outlet coupling designed to be connected to the perforated pipe. The connector also includes at least one internal path for carrying the fluid from the inlet coupling to the distributor. Thus, by means of the presence of the internal path through the connector, the inlet coupling can be positioned at various locations on the connector, without feeding directly into the distributor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Gerald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel
  • Patent number: 10364928
    Abstract: A resonator (1) has at least first and second annular chambers (2, 3, 17) arranged between inlet and outlet pieces (22, 21). An inner pipe (4) extends between the inlet piece (22) and the outlet piece (21) and has wall holes (23) that connect to the annular chambers (2, 3, 17). The first annular chamber (2) has a U-shaped circumferential wall (6) coaxial to the resonator longitudinal axis (5) and transitions at both ends to engage the inner pipe (4). The second annular chamber (3) has an L-shaped circumferential wall (12) coaxial to the resonator longitudinal axis (5). An end of the L-shaped circumferential wall remote from the first annular chamber (2) transitions into a cylindrical end piece (13), and an opposite end of the L-shaped circumferential wall lies on part of the outer wall (9) of the first annular chamber (2) extending parallel to the resonator longitudinal axis (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: UMFOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Andre Grieswald, Jens Fischer
  • Patent number: 10364929
    Abstract: A pipe coupling encapsulation assembly includes a repair coupling including an elastomeric seal, clamp members and one or more tightening elements for tightening the clamp members towards each other, and a grip member assembled in the repair coupling. The grip member is formed into an at least partially circumferential band. The band includes a plurality of pipe interface members with protrusions capable of digging into an outer surface of a pipe being sealed. The grip member includes a plurality of radially inner and radially outer bends. The pipe interface members and the protrusions are located at radially inward surfaces of the inner bends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Krausz Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Avi Chiproot
  • Patent number: 10364930
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the subject matter described here can be implemented as a method. A location of an entrance to a pipeline pig launcher configured to launch a pipeline pig into a pipeline is determined by an automated pipeline pig handling system positioned at a starting location. The pipeline pig is self-aligned with the entrance to the pipeline pig launcher by the automated pipeline pig handling system. The entrance to the pipeline pig launcher is open. The pipeline pig is inserted by the automated pipeline pig handling system into the entrance to the pipeline pig launcher. The entrance to the pipeline pig launcher is closed by the automated pipeline pig handling system after the pipeline pig is inserted into the entrance. The automated pipeline pig handling system is self-returned to the starting location after inserting the pipeline pig into the entrance to the pipeline pig launcher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Pablo Daniel Genta
  • Patent number: 10364931
    Abstract: A multifunctional coating method involves cleaning a surface, applying a layer of corrosion-resistant alloy coating to the surface, and applying an oleo-hydrophobic composite coating over the corrosion-resistant alloy coating. An oil and gas pipe has an inner surface with a multifunctional coating applied using the multifunctional coating method, and has an inner oleo-hydrophobic composite coating, beneath the inner oleo-hydrophobic composite coating a corrosion-resistant alloy coating, and beneath the corrosion-resistant alloy coating untreated pipe or any other metallic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: OCEANIT LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ganesh Kumar Arumugam, Vinod Veedu
  • Patent number: 10364932
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a hybrid high temperature thermal insulation includes a mix of inorganic granules. The granular mix includes at least 70 weight percent porous inorganic granules in the form of expanded perlite, and at most 30 weight percent second porous inorganic granules other than expanded perlite. The hybrid insulation also includes a binder. In example formulations, the second porous inorganic particles may be made from crushed aerogel, from fumed silica, from precipitated silica, or from other substances. The hybrid insulation may be formed into preferred shapes, for example a board shape or a semi-cylindrical shape configured to fit over a round tube of a predetermined diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Ames Kulprathipanja, Rick Lee Dolin, Severiano Almidon Lopez
  • Patent number: 10364933
    Abstract: A transport puck vertically aligns a caulking cartridge, nozzle-down. The puck includes (i) a substantially solid lower plug portion, having a lead face and a bottom face and an center passageway that is at least partially inverted frustum-shaped that forms a side contact face that tapers from a wider lead face opening to a narrower bottom face opening; and or to a tubular sleeve from the side contact face to the bottom face opening; (ii) an upper sleeve, shaped to receive the caulking cartridge in a desired vertical alignment to the lower plug portion; and (iii) at least one funnel-shaped bore into the bottom face with an inserted connector comprising a head and stem, the head spaced within the bore to define a spacing that has been determined to identify bottom face wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Louis Fitzgerald, IV
  • Patent number: 10364934
    Abstract: A support structure for supporting a conduit of an engine includes a bracket assembly having a platform, a pair of brackets, and a pair of fixtures. The platform supports the conduit. Each bracket includes a first lateral post coupled to the platform, a second lateral post coupled to an engine block, a first longitudinal post, and a second longitudinal post. Also, a lateral distance between the first longitudinal post and the second longitudinal post increases in a direction away from the first lateral post towards the second lateral post. Each bracket also includes a stiffener connecting the first longitudinal post and the second longitudinal post. Each fixture includes a pair of legs and couples the platform to an engine head. Further, each fixture includes a web structure having a central portion and a plurality of stems connecting to the pair of legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas E. Jones, Darwin A. Garrison, Nicolae C. Pelei
  • Patent number: 10364935
    Abstract: A photographic mount may include an adapter and a receiving plate having a recess configured for receiving the adapter. The adapter may have a connector configured for attaching a camera and a recess configured for receiving a fitting of a flash unit. The receiving plate may have a receptacle configured for receiving a shaft of a photographic accessory such as an umbrella.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: LUMIQUEST VENTURES LLC
    Inventor: Quest C. Couch, III
  • Patent number: 10364936
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesion-type holding structure mounted onto a wall comprising: a main attaching member including a holding portion for bearing an external object, and an adhering portion for adhering to a wall; a backup attaching member including an adhering portion for adhering to a wall; and a safety mechanism including a replacement device disposed between the main attaching member and the backup attaching member. When the main attaching member and the backup attaching member are attached to a wall on positions close to each other and the main attaching member comes loose from the wall and falls down, the backup attaching member can prevent, by means of the replacement device, the main attaching member from falling down, and timely replaces the main attaching member to hold the holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Yung-Huei Lan
  • Patent number: 10364937
    Abstract: An automobile transmission hydraulic oil fill system includes a transmission oil pan and a two-piece standpipe system. The two-piece stand-pipe system includes a clinch nut connected to the oil pan and having a threaded bore opening through the oil pan. A stand-pipe is fixed to the clinch nut. The stand-pipe includes a longitudinal bore in fluid communication with the threaded bore. An end cap defining a free end of the stand-pipe prevents entrance of hydraulic oil into the longitudinal bore of the stand-pipe during hydraulic oil fill of the transmission. Multiple ports created in a side wall of the stand-pipe allow entrance of the hydraulic oil into the longitudinal bore and to flow out of the threaded bore of the clinch nut. Each of the ports include an edge. The edges of the ports define a hydraulic oil fill level of the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Fred D. Lewis, Robert Seungmo/S Lee, Christopher B. Preston
  • Patent number: 10364938
    Abstract: A compressed fluid energy storage system includes a submersible fluid containment subsystem charged with a compressed working fluid and submerged and ballasted in a body of water, with the fluid containment subsystem having a substantially flat portion closing a domed portion. The system also includes a compressor and an expander disposed to compress and expand the working fluid. The fluid containment subsystem is at least in part flexible, and includes an upper portion for storing compressed energy fluid and a lower portion for ballast material. The lower portion may be tapered proximate the flat portion to prevent it from being collapsed by ballast materials. The region between the fluid and the ballast has exchange ports to communicate water between the inside and outside of the containment subsystem. In other embodiments, an open-bottomed fluid containment system is held in position underneath a ballast system by a tensegrity structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Bright Energy Storage Technologies, LLP
    Inventors: Scott Raymond Frazier, Brian Von Herzen, Alex Lau
  • Patent number: 10364939
    Abstract: A free-standing liner unit (1) is formed by integrating a planar outer tank liner plate (2), a planar secondary barrier plate (3), and a cold insulator layer (4) that is interposed between the outer tank liner plate (2) and the secondary barrier plate (3) into a single unit. According to this free-standing liner unit (1), when building a tank, it is possible to shorten the construction period by performing the formation of the outer tank shell plates and the formation of the tank internal structure concurrently with each other, and to achieve an improvement in the handleability of the free-standing liner unit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norio Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10364940
    Abstract: A sealed and thermally insulating tank wherein the distance between two adjacent corrugations of the corrugated metal sheets of the sealing membrane is equal to a predetermined corrugation interval io, the sealing membrane comprising, around a through-element: two notched rectangular metal plates 3io wide in the first direction and 7io long in the second direction, which are symmetrical to one another, each notched rectangular metal plate having three outer edges disposed in line with a plurality of anchor plates and welded onto the first plurality of anchor plates and an inner edge having a notch formed to avoid cutting a square window through which the through-element passes, and two metal retrofit plates disposed between the non-notched portions of the inner edges of the two notched rectangular metal plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GAZTRANSPORT ET TECHNIGAZ
    Inventors: Hilarion Givoloup, Edouard Ducloy, Marc Boyeau, Antoine Philippe
  • Patent number: 10364941
    Abstract: Pressurized gas bottles with integrated valves, in which a plurality of functional supports are integrated in an extraction unit, are equipped with complex fall protection means. Moreover, in such a valve, a new approval procedure is carried out for the entire valve in the event of multiple modifications, for example when supplementing it with an additional function. In order to reduce the effort associated with this, an extraction fitting for a pressurized gas bottle is provided with a modular design, wherein a base module comprising the shut-off member and a fall protection device securing the shut-off member complies with legal requirements regarding fall protection and the shut-off device of the pressurized gas bottle. All further functionalities of the extraction fitting are integrated in at least one additional module, which is connected to the base module in a fixed but removable manner and without impairing the fall safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Messer GasPack GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Kriese
  • Patent number: 10364942
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new concept for a large-scale high-pressure Honeycomb Set Tank in an ISO container and for its manufacturing facilities. A process for manufacturing a plurality of honeycomb cells with a high degree of accuracy is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Tsukasa Nozawa
  • Patent number: 10364943
    Abstract: A light bulb apparatus has a plurality of LED modules, a substrate, a driver circuit board, a plastic piece, a radiator and a lamp cap. The substrate has aluminum material for mounting the plurality of LED modules, a first connection end and a second connection end. The first connection end and the second connection end is electrically connected to the plurality of LED modules. The plastic piece with a guiding groove is used for inserting the driver circuit board. The radiator has a top plate and a side wall. The substrate is fixed on the top plate, and the side wall are connected to the plastic piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Qiyuan Wang, Yunnan Lin, Liping Lin
  • Patent number: 10364944
    Abstract: A lighting system combines an arrangement of UV LEDs which face a light exit window and an arrangement of visible light LEDs which face a reflector arrangement. The reflection can be used to provide desired beam shaping or diffusion so that beam shaping components are not needed at the exit window. In this way, UV deterioration of beam shaping components is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 10364945
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle that is normally configured to receive AC voltage is configured to provide a low voltage DC instead. An LED bulb without a transformer can be plugged into the appliance and operate on the DC voltage from the wall outlet. An optional circuit interrupter can prevent damage to the LED bulb is it is inadvertently plugged into a source of AC voltage. Any appliance designed to be operated on DC voltage can be plugged into the DC outlet without a transformer. Multiple LEDs can be “piggybacked” onto a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventors: Curtis Alan Roys, Sidney Howard Norton
  • Patent number: 10364946
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lighting system including a bulb. The bulb includes a phosphor plate, and a scanning projector to emit a beam of collimated light and scan the beam of collimated light across the phosphor plate to thereby cause emission of light by portions of the phosphor plate impinged upon by the beam of collimated light. Control circuitry wirelessly receives configuration data and modulates the beam of collimated light during scanning so that the scanning forms a projection pattern on the phosphor plate. A control system is spaced apart from the bulb and processes the initial configuration data, and wirelessly sends the configuration data to the control circuitry of the bulb. A mobile wireless communications device wirelessly sends initial configuration data to the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Guido Marco Bertoni, Massimo Ratti
  • Patent number: 10364947
    Abstract: An LED module is disclosed. The LED module includes: light sources elongated in a first direction; a mount supporting the light sources; and a composite reflector integrated with the mount to guide light received from the light sources. The composite reflector includes a first region arranged adjacent to the light sources to reflect light in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, a third region arranged away from the mount to reflect light in the second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, and a second region whose portions overlap the first region and the third region and formed with a plurality of diffraction lines through which light is diffused in the second direction. The diffraction lines formed on the composite reflector diffract incident light and direct the diffracted light toward the light receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungsik Jo, Seunghyun Oh, Seunghoon Lee, Junghyun Park, Byeonggeon Kim
  • Patent number: 10364948
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a waveguide comprises a waveguide body comprising an optically transmissive material and one or more extraction features disposed on a surface of the waveguide body such that the extraction features comprise a reflective material disposed on a portion of the surface of the waveguide body. Still further, in accordance with this aspect, the waveguide comprises a light source directing light into the waveguide body through a coupling cavity extending along the waveguide body wherein the light travels through the waveguide body and is redirected by the plurality of extraction features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING LLC
    Inventors: Jin Hong Lim, Kurt S. Wilcox, Boris Karpichev
  • Patent number: 10364949
    Abstract: An elongate light includes a main body, being an extruded flexible plastic member, including a frame portion, a base board and two wing portions which are integrally formed of one piece. A longitudinal direction of the main body is defined as a first direction. The base board and the frame portion are connected to form a tubular structure. The two wing portions extend outwardly from two sides of the base board toward a direction away from the frame portion. A side of the base board away from the frame portion has at least one lighting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Yi-Wen Tang