Patents Issued in October 1, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200309082
    Abstract: A nitrous oxide (N2C) air intake control module for conventional vehicle engines is disclosed. The invention essentially being comprised of a plugin module that masks the engine's existing cold air intake temp sensor data being sent to the engine control unit (ECU) to accommodate N2O injection systems. Said device lowering engine emission timing to accommodate the higher N2O temperatures thereby enhancing the ignition and combustion sequences normally designed for gasoline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Mario Mikha
  • Publication number: 20200309083
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for igniting fuel for an internal combustion engine, an ignition system include a first ignition device associated with a pre-combustion chamber of a cylinder and a second ignition device associated with a main combustion chamber of the cylinder. An engine control unit is operably connected to both the engine and the ignition system to ignite fuel for the cylinder with the first ignition device independently of igniting fuel with the second ignition device. The engine control unit determines an occurrence of a combustion condition and in response thereto (i) ignites fuel for combustion with both the first and the second ignition devices or (ii) ignites fuel for combustion only with the second ignition device. The engine control unit determines a second combustion condition and in response thereto ignites fuel only with the first ignition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel J. O'Connor, Robin J. Bremmer, J. Steven Kolhouse
  • Publication number: 20200309084
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device which incorporates a process by which an absorptive material is used to absorb fluid, the weight of said fluid causes the device to move without any outside energy source. The fluid, by way of evaporation or by being absorbed into another absorptive material, substantially disappears, causing the device to return back to its starting position on its own, and repeat the process. The fluid, which is stocked in a holding area, remains stagnant, until the device in its starting position is made in contact with the fluid by use of a counterweight, and thereby absorbs the fluid, however, when the device is saturated, the greater volume of absorbent on one side causes the device to move to its activated position. In its activated position, the device is not exposed to the fluid and therefore remains until the fluid is evaporated or absorbed into another absorbent. In doing so, the device has converted the potential energy in an unsaturated absorbent into kinetic energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Joseph Paul Bakhos
  • Publication number: 20200309085
    Abstract: An air-driven generator for generating electric power from movement of a working fluid. Upper ends of buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with an upper end of a gravitational distribution conduit, and a lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit is in fluidic communication with lower ends of the buoyancy conduits. An air injection system injects air into the buoyancy conduits. A closed fluid loop is formed with working fluid flowing from the gravitational distribution conduit driving a fluid turbine system that is interposed between the lower ends of the gravitational distribution conduit and the buoyancy conduits. Flow of working fluid can be induced by an injection of air into working fluid disposed in the buoyancy conduits to achieve a generation of power by actuation of the fluid turbine system. An upper chamber can remove entrained air. A Rankin Cycle Generator can receive and be actuated by exhausted air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Mark J. Maynard
  • Publication number: 20200309086
    Abstract: The disclosed invention is a description of the means to create increased mechanical advantage by taking advantage of the rotation of confined liquid matter. The process described uses liquid both as a mass to store rotational energy, and at the same time the rotating liquid is used as a motive force to drive a rotating shaft. A description of the process and one possible embodiment are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: John B. Mcclurkin, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200309087
    Abstract: A hydropower system has a channel and at least one water turbine. The channel has a flowing path, two side walls, and at least one turbine recess recessed in at least one of the side walls and having an opening communicating with the flowing path. The at least one water turbine is mounted in the at least one turbine recess and has a shaft, a blade wheel, and a generator. The blade wheel is mounted on and rotatable with the shaft and partially protrudes into the flowing path. The generator is connected to the shaft. The blade wheel may be propelled to rotate by flowing water flowing through the flowing path to drive the generator to generate power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Shun Tsung Lu
  • Publication number: 20200309088
    Abstract: A brake system configured to brake a hydraulic motor includes a valve device configured to open and close supply passages through which working oil pressurized in a hydraulic pump is supplied to a brake device, the valve device has a first connection port to which the working oil is led from the hydraulic pump, a second connection port from which the working oil is led to the brake device, and a valve element provided with a pressure receiving surface facing the first connection port, and the valve element permits communication between the first connection port and the second connection port when pressure of the working oil led to the first connection port reaches predetermined pressure, and shuts off the communication between the first connection port and the second connection port when the pressure of the working oil led to the first connection port becomes less than the predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: KYB Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke KATSURA, Kenji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200309089
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind turbine, where the wind turbine includes a tower and a rotor and comprises at least one rotor blade with an adjustable blade pitch angle. A change in a power value takes place in a time interval (TE) and by control of one or more operating parameters which determine power to be fed in by the wind turbine. The method comprises determining a parameterized time function of a tower deflection for the time interval (TE). A series of boundary conditions are defined for the parameterized time function of the tower deflection. A thrust of the rotor of the wind turbine is determined for the parameterized time function of the tower deflection. A function is calculated for controlling the one or more operating parameters from the thrust of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Drossel, Oliver Fleischmann
  • Publication number: 20200309090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic matching method for improving wind power generation efficiency at medium and low wind speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yingtang Li, Ningning Zhu, Yingyong Li, Xiaojian Zhou, Penggao Chen, Bin Song
  • Publication number: 20200309091
    Abstract: A ram air turbine (RAT) can include a housing and a turbine shaft configured to connect to one or more turbine blades and be turned by the one or more blades. The turbine shaft can be disposed in the housing to rotate relative to the housing along a rotational axis. The RAT can include a first bearing and a second bearing mounted between the turbine shaft and the housing to allow the turbine shaft to rotate relative to the housing. The RAT can include a whirl reduction system configured to dampen or eliminate whirl around the rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Bortoli, Daniel Kuehn
  • Publication number: 20200309092
    Abstract: In a wind turbine comprising a tower supporting a nacelle, at least one blade rotationally attached to the nacelle and having a blade-tip section, a system for measuring the separation distance between the tower and the blade-tip-section of the wind turbine, comprising an indicator stripe on the surface of the blade-tip section, an indicator ring encircling the tower, a camera in the nacelle and positioned such that the blade-tip section and the indicator ring are within the camera's field of view when the blade-tip is at its closest approach position to the tower, the camera digitally recording an image of its field of view at this closest approach position, the distance between indicator ring and camera being essentially equal to the distance between the indicator stripe and the camera at this closest approach position, and an image processor and tip-tower clearance calculator unit receiving the digitally recorded image and calculating a physical separation distance between the indicator stripe and the indi
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC SSB WIND SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventor: Fabio BERTOLOTTI
  • Publication number: 20200309093
    Abstract: Provided is a method of determining a power curve, which specifies a correlation between wind speed and a power output of a first turbine. Wind speed is calculated based on a measurement correlation, specifies a correlation between the rotor behavior and the wind speed, derived from rotor behavior. The measurement correlation is trained using a second turbine of identical construction having a sensor. While the second turbine is operated at varying wind speeds, the sensor repeatedly records and assigns a wind speed to a simultaneously recorded rotor behavior of the second turbine to produce the measurement correlation. The power curve is produced by repeatedly and simultaneously recording a power output of the first turbine and an associated wind speed while operating the first turbine at varying wind speeds. The wind speed is calculated from rotor behavior of the first turbine based on the measurement correlation trained using the second turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Rodolphe LEBOSQ, Dennis PETER
  • Publication number: 20200309094
    Abstract: In a vertical rotor apparatus that rotates in response to a moving fluid, a shaft defines an axis of rotor rotation. Rotor blades are longitudinally aligned in parallel with the shaft and each rotor blade defines an axis of blade rotation. A sensor generates a signal when any of the rotor blades are within rotor azimuthal angles of blade stall regions. A controller generates blade pitch information for the blade stall regions and an actuator, which is mechanically coupled to each of the rotor blades, alters blade pitch about the axis of blade rotation in accordance with the blade pitch information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Farooq SAEED
  • Publication number: 20200309095
    Abstract: A method of securing a cable (22) to a wind turbine blade is described. The method involves providing a pre-assembled cable assembly (34) comprising a cable (22) and a plurality of mounts (40a-e) pre-attached to the cable (22) at intervals along the length of the cable (22). The plurality of mounts (40a-e) is attached to a surface (20) of a wind turbine blade such that the mounts (40a-e) are spaced apart along the surface (20) of the blade. The spacing between adjacent mounts (40a-e) when the mounts (40a-e) are attached to the blade is less than the length of the cable (22) between said adjacent mounts (40a-e) such that a predetermined amount of slack is provided in the cable (22) between said adjacent mounts (40a-e). A pre-assembled cable assembly for use in the method is also described together with a method of assembling the cable assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Luke Spandley, Paul Badger, Stephen Buggy
  • Publication number: 20200309096
    Abstract: The offshore jack-up has a hull and a plurality of moveable legs engageable with the seafloor. The offshore jack-up is arranged to move the legs with respect to the hull to position the hull out of the water. The method comprises securing the vessel with respect to the hull of the offshore jack-up when the hull is positioned out of the water and the legs engage the seafloor. A lifting mechanism mounted on the offshore jack-up engages with a cargo carrying platform positioned on the vessel. The platform is lifted with the lifting mechanism between a first position on the vessel and a second position clear of the vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Maersk Supply Service A/S
    Inventors: Hoegni Hammer, Steen Tange Hasholt
  • Publication number: 20200309097
    Abstract: The offshore jack-up has a hull and a plurality of moveable legs engageable with the seafloor. The offshore jack-up is arranged to move the legs with respect to the hull to position the hull out of the water. The method comprises securing the vessel with respect to the hull of the offshore jack-up when the hull is positioned out of the water and the legs engage the seafloor. A lifting mechanism mounted on the offshore jack-up engages with a cargo carrying platform positioned on the vessel. The platform is lifted with the lifting mechanism between a first position on the vessel and a second position clear of the vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: MAERSK SUPPLY SERVICE A/S
    Inventors: Hoegni HAMMER, Steen Tange HASHOLT
  • Publication number: 20200309098
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a gearbox assembly for a wind turbine. The gearbox assembly has a maximal installed width and a maximal transport width. The maximal installed width is greater than the maximal transport width. The gearbox assembly includes at least one torque arm coupled to opposing sides of the gearbox housing. Each of the torque arms includes a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal ends are removably coupled to the exterior surface of the gearbox such that the distance between the distal ends define the maximal installed width. The torque arms are coupled to at least one support element and to a bedplate of the wind turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Aaron Joseph Wertz, Boobalan Ayyasamy, Hayden Patrick Mcgarity-Bashiri, Martxel Ruiz Luisa, Raed Zuhair Hasan, Fulton Jose Lopez
  • Publication number: 20200309099
    Abstract: A method and device for predicting a wind turbine fault is provided. The method includes: initializing a wind turbine model of the wind turbine; updating wind turbine model parameters of the wind turbine model based on a current environment condition and current actual wind turbine state parameters of the wind turbine periodically; establishing a variation model of the wind turbine model parameter based on historical wind turbine model parameters and corresponding historical environment conditions; predicting the wind turbine model parameters at a future moment by using the variation model of the wind turbine model parameters based on a future environment condition at the future moment; establishing a wind turbine fault model based on the historical wind turbine model parameters and corresponding historical wind turbine faults; predicting the wind turbine fault at the future moment based on the predicted wind turbine model parameters and the wind turbine fault model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Guanglei ZHANG, Yuan LIU, Jie ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200309100
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and methods for the service and exchange of a yaw bearing for a machine head of a wind turbine. The yaw bearing servicing and exchange system has a support stand. The support stand includes a base assembly and at least one support post extending perpendicularly from the base assembly. The support stand also includes at least one first post cap removably coupled to the support post and at least one leveler operably coupled to the at least one first post cap for establishing a level orientation of a support surface with respect to a horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Darrick Adam Vanderwalker, Joshua Adam Klinghagen, Gregory Clarence Thomas
  • Publication number: 20200309101
    Abstract: Tiered or stacked geothermal loop energy systems may include closed-loop pipe systems disposed within a heat producing geologic formation. The pipe systems are emplaced in wellbores drilled so as to efficiently and effectively take advantage of localized formation properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: GreenFire Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Mark P. Muir, Alan D. Eastman
  • Publication number: 20200309102
    Abstract: An actuator system includes a shaft hub having a shaft and one or more rotation arms coupled to the shaft, one or more shape memory alloy springs coupled to the one or more rotation arms, and as a voltage source configured to apply a voltage to the one or more shape memory alloy springs. The voltage causes the one or more shape memory alloy springs to change in size or shape, thereby applying a force to the one or more rotation arms and causing the shaft hub to rotate. The actuator system also includes a processing circuit configured to receive an indication of a desired incremental rotation for the shaft hub and apply a voltage corresponding to the desired incremental rotation to the one or more shape memory alloy springs, causing the shaft and the shaft hub to rotate about a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Kirk P. Henderson, John T. Pierson, Julie Ahl, Kevin A. Weiss
  • Publication number: 20200309103
    Abstract: A piston type pump includes a pump housing having at least one pump inlet, at least one pump outlet, and a piston arrangement connected to a drive shaft configured to, when driven, set the piston arrangement into movement. The piston arrangement includes a first primary stage piston, the first primary stage piston being slidably seated in a first primary stage cylinder formed in the pump housing, and a first secondary stage piston. The first secondary stage piston is slidably seated in a first secondary stage cylinder formed in the first primary stage piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Todman
  • Publication number: 20200309104
    Abstract: A pump including: a stator (4), a rotor (6) slidably and rotatably mounted at least partially in the stator, the rotor comprising a first axial extension (24) having a first diameter (D1) and a second axial extension (26) having a second diameter (D2) greater than the first diameter, a first valve (V1) formed by a first valve seal (18) mounted on the stator around the first axial extension, in conjunction with a first channel (42) in the rotor that is configured to allow liquid communication across the first valve seal when the first valve is in an open position, a second valve (V2) formed by a second valve seal (20) mounted on the stator around the second axial extension, in conjunction with a second channel (44) in the rotor that is configured to allow liquid communication across the second valve seal when the second valve is in an open position, and a pump chamber (8) formed between the rotor and stator and between the first valve seal and second valve seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Fabian BÜRLI, Alexandre PERRIER, Thomas WYSS
  • Publication number: 20200309105
    Abstract: A capacity control valve includes: a valve body (10) including first communication passages (11), second communication passages (12), third communication passages (13), and a main valve seat (15a); a valve element (21) including an intermediate communication passage (29), a main valve portion (21b), and an auxiliary valve portion 21c; a solenoid (30) that drives a rod (36) provided with an auxiliary valve seat (23c); a first biasing member (43) that biases in a valve closing direction of the main valve portion (21b); and a second biasing member (44) that biases in a valve closing direction of the auxiliary valve portion (21c), wherein the rod (36) moves relative to the valve element (21) to open and close the auxiliary valve portion (21c). The capacity control valve allows a liquid refrigerant to be efficiently discharged and allows a driving force of a compressor to be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYAMA, Hiroyuki NISHINOSONO, Keigo SHIRAFUJI, Kohei FUKUDOME, Yoshihiro OGAWA, Daichi KURIHARA, Wataru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200309106
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a displacement control valve that is configured to change crank chamber pressure, and an opening adjusting valve that adjusts an amount of refrigerant sucked into a suction chamber. The opening adjusting valve includes a valve case, a first valve element, a second valve element, and an urging spring. The valve case has a valve seat on which the second valve element is seated. The valve seat regulates movement of the second valve element toward the first valve element. A sealing member is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the valve case that defines a second valve chamber and an outer peripheral surface of the second valve element to prevent refrigerant in the second valve chamber so that leakage between a bleed passage and a control passage is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAMOTO, Noriaki SATAKE, Shinichi KAKEGAWA, Shuhei SEKINAGA, Shiro HAYASHI, Akinobu KANAI
  • Publication number: 20200309107
    Abstract: A screw member that has passed through a holder insertion hole and a resistor insertion hole being screwed into an internal threaded hole fixes a holder and a resistor to a bottom wall of a motor housing member. Thus, the resistor is attached to the motor housing member using the screw member that attaches the holder to the motor housing member. This reduces the space in the inverter accommodation chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yusuke KINOSHITA, Keiji Yashiro, Kazuhiro Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20200309108
    Abstract: A pneumatic pump silencer including a body defining an inner volume and having at least one wall including an air outlet orifice, and an attenuating pad having a face arranged across from the air outlet orifice, wherein a gap is arranged between the face of the attenuating pad and an outer face of the wall including the air outlet orifice, the thickness of the gap being between 0.5 mm and 5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Nicolas Plantard
  • Publication number: 20200309109
    Abstract: Mechanical tubular diaphragm pump features are presented herein. Such a tubular pump can include a resilient tube having a lumen and a pair of upstream and downstream check valves located along the same fluid pathway as the lumen. The tubular pump further includes a motorized reciprocating unit and a depressor configured to be moved by the motorized reciprocating unit to cyclically depress and release the resilient tube. The resilient tube forces fluid within the lumen downstream past the downstream check valve as the resilient tube is depressed by the depressor, and further pulls upstream fluid past the upstream check valve and into the lumen as the resilient tube returns upon release by the depressor. Multiple resilient tubes may be used in the same pump. The tube(s), depressor, and valves may be attached to a housing that is modularly removable from the motorized reciprocating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley H. Hines, Mark S. Emery, Adam K. Collins
  • Publication number: 20200309110
    Abstract: A method is for calibrating a peristaltic pump, and for dispensing a quantity of liquid by a peristaltic pump. A device for producing sterile preparations that can execute the methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: GRIFOLS, S.A.
    Inventors: Carles Xavier BELLONCH ORENES, David RODRIGUEZ JURADO, Ceferino RUZ TORRES, Ignacio BLAZQUEZ GARCIA-VALENZUELA, Xavier FERNANDEZ PEREZ
  • Publication number: 20200309111
    Abstract: A micro-electromechanical systems pump includes a first substrate, a first oxide layer, a second substrate, and a piezoelectric element. The first oxide layer is stacked on the first substrate. The second substrate is combined with the first substrate, and the second substrate includes a silicon wafer layer, a second oxide layer, and a silicon material layer. The silicon wafer layer has an actuation portion. The actuation portion is circular and has a maximum stress value and an actuation stress value. The second oxide layer is formed on the silicon wafer layer. The silicon material layer is located at the second oxide layer and is combined with the first oxide layer. The piezoelectric element is stacked on the actuation portion, and has a piezoelectric stress value. The maximum stress value is greater than the actuation stress value, and the actuation stress value is greater than the piezoelectric stress value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Rong-Ho Yu, Cheng-Ming Chang, Hsien-Chung Tai, Wen-Hsiung Liao, Chi-Feng Huang, Yung-Lung Han, Chun-Yi Kuo
  • Publication number: 20200309112
    Abstract: A surface unit can operate as a longer stroke unit to reciprocate a rod string for a downhole pump in a well. The unit has an end weight that gives the walking beam and head a zero-imbalance about the unit's fulcrum point. The unit can also operate as a phased unit in which the counterweights of the crank arms lag behind the pivot connection and/or the crank point is disposed rearward of the equalizer bearing of the walking beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Darius J. Yakimchuk, Don R. Connally
  • Publication number: 20200309113
    Abstract: Certain conditions require powering down an engine driving a pump. During the down sequence the pump may continue pumping servicing fluid which may not be desirable. Activating one or more control valves may throttle or prevent the servicing fluid from being pumped from the pump during the power down sequence. Activation of an input control valve may introduce pressurized fluid into a cylinder of the pump extending a rod to force or maintain a suction valve in an open position. While the suction valve is in the open position, the stroke of the plunger may not create enough pressure to pump the servicing fluid causing the servicing fluid to flow between a fluid header and a chamber of the pump. Activation of an output control valve may divert servicing fluid pumped from the pump to a reservoir instead of to the desired location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Tim H. Hunter, Stanley V. Stephenson, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja, Billy Don Coskrey, John C. Reid
  • Publication number: 20200309114
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pneumatically driven fluid pump apparatus having an outer pump housing for collecting liquid to be pumped, and a valve assembly in communication with liquid admitted through an inlet end of the outer pump housing and collecting within the outer pump housing. The valve assembly includes a housing assembly and a poppet valve assembly disposed within the housing assembly to act as a one-way check valve when pumping collected liquid out from the outer pump housing. The poppet valve assembly includes a poppet valve component including a relief area that helps to depressurize an interior area of the valve assembly, to facilitate rapid movement of the poppet valve element from an open position toward a closed position, when only a pressurized fluid flow being used to eject the collected liquid is flowing past the poppet valve component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John F. SCHAUPP, David A. FISCHER, Steven Richard WELLS, Donald Lee SCHULTZ, Matthew Thomas MCKEOWN, William C. ALLEN, III
  • Publication number: 20200309115
    Abstract: A method of operating a compressor system includes determining an efficiency of a compressor configured to operate at a plurality of output flow settings, including one or more of measuring, calibrating, calculating, or modeling motor efficiency over a range of supply voltage and pulse width modulation duty cycle combinations, each combination including a supply voltage of a plurality of supply voltages and a pulse width modulation duty cycle of a plurality of pulse width modulation duty cycles. The method further includes selecting a supply voltage and a pulse width modulation duty cycle for use at at least one output flow setting of the plurality of output flow settings based on the determined efficiency of the compressor, generating the selected supply voltage by maintaining, reducing, or increasing a nominal supply voltage, and applying the selected pulse width modulation duty cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Brenton Alan Taylor, Peter James Hansen, Daniel Wayne Chin, Patrick Fitzlindon Burgess, Michael Pollak
  • Publication number: 20200309116
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a piston compressor (100) having a reciprocating piston (111) in a cylinder (110), wherein an inlet valve (112) and an outlet valve (113) are provided in the cylinder (110) on the side of a medium (b) which is to be compressed and conveyed, wherein the reciprocating piston (111) is moved to and fro by way of a hydraulic drive (120, 121) with a hydraulic piston (120) with the use of a hydraulic medium (a) in a first volume (141), with which the reciprocating piston (111) is loaded on the side of the hydraulic drive (120, 121), wherein, if required, hydraulic medium (a) is fed into the first volume (141) and/or is discharged from the first volume (141) in a manner which is dependent on a position of the hydraulic piston (120) and/or a rotational angle ((p) of a shaft (121) which is provided for moving the hydraulic piston (120) in relation to a position (x) of the reciprocating piston (120) and/or a pressure (p) in the first volume (141), and to a piston compresso
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Sascha DORNER, Christoph NAGL, Johannes FRITZER, Klaus FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20200309117
    Abstract: A piston pump, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a piston that is movably mounted in a housing. The piston pump further includes a linear actuator for moving the piston in a first direction. The piston pump further includes a return spring for moving the piston in a second direction. The end face of a first end of the piston delimits a first pressure chamber that is associated with a first hydraulic circuit. The end face of a second end of the piston delimits a second pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Anton Paweletz, Dietmar Kratzer
  • Publication number: 20200309118
    Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device which includes a motor having a shaft extending along a first central axis, a pump portion driven by the motor, and a housing for housing the motor and the pump portion. The housing includes: a housing body portion which has a bottomed tube shape and extends in an axial direction, a flange portion which expands radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion, a seal portion which has a ring shape extending in a circumferential direction and is arranged at a corner portion in which the outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion and an end surface facing one axial side of the flange portion are connected, and a projection portion extending from a bottom portion of the housing body portion toward one axial side. A second central axis of the projection portion is arranged at a position shifted in a radial direction from the first central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Koji HIGUCHI, Kunihiro KAJITA, Tomokazu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200309119
    Abstract: A board surface of a control board is disposed on an outward side of a motor in a radial direction in a posture along an axial direction. A rotation angle sensor is disposed on a rear side of a control board in the axial direction. A power supply input portion on the control board is disposed in an end portion on the rear side in the axial direction. A main body of a motor includes the control board and a wiring assembly electrically connecting a connector and the rotation angle sensor to each other. The wiring assembly includes a power supply input wiring, a sensor wiring, and a wiring holder holding the power supply input wiring and the sensor wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200309120
    Abstract: An automobile vehicle variable displacement pump includes a pump body having a pump shaft extending through the pump body. A rotor is connected to the pump shaft and co-rotates with the pump shaft. The rotor has multiple radially outwardly directed slots. A vane support ring supports multiple vanes, the vanes individually slidably received in one of the slots of the rotor. A slide is rotatably connected to the pump body having the rotor and the vane support ring positioned within an inner wall of the slide. A bow spring plate defining a biasing member directly contacts the slide to bias the slide to rotate about an arc of curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Andy Bennett, SR., Sean McGowan
  • Publication number: 20200309121
    Abstract: An electric hydraulic pump for a transmission includes: a motor including a motor cover, a motor case coupled with the motor cover, and a stator and a rotor disposed within the motor cover and the motor case; and a pump including a pump case forming a pump chamber, and a gear rotor which is disposed within the pump chamber, connected with the rotor through a motor shaft and receives rotational power of the motor. In particular, a plurality of oil circulation holes are formed in the motor cover and a connecting hole is formed in the motor cover corresponding to the pump case, and an oil flow channel is formed within the pump case for connecting the connecting hole and an oil inlet of the pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Wook JANG, Kihyup KIM, Woo Jung KIM, June Ho LEE, Jin Seung LIM, Seungwan NOH, Youngho MOON, Taegeun KIM, Jaeyeol YUN, Jungwook LEE, Chulwan PARK, Chi Hun CHO, Gyu Chull DOH, Kyoo Ho LEE, Hyun Chul KIM, Joung Chul KIM, Hyun Duk CHANG, Jin Hee LEE, Yongho JUNG, Chang Yeon CHO, Yun Seok SUNG, Hyeonjin KIM, Joo Hang LEE
  • Publication number: 20200309122
    Abstract: An oil pump includes: a housing case made of a metal and having a rotor housing portion in which a rotor is rotatably housed, and a discharge hole through which oil within the rotor housing portion is introduced to the outside of the rotor housing portion by rotation of the rotor; and a housing made of a resin and having a case holding portion in which the rotor housing portion is held, and a discharge groove portion provided on a bottom portion of the case holding portion . The housing case has a fitting groove portion that is provided on a bottom portion of the rotor housing portion and that is fitted to the discharge groove portion so as to cover the discharge groove portion. The discharge hole is formed in the fitting groove portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Shinya SAKAI, Wataru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200309123
    Abstract: A gear pump could be said to include a first gear and a second gear intermeshed with the first gear. An inlet side is configured to have an inlet connection connected thereto. A discharge side is configured to have a first discharge connection connected thereto. At least one shaft is in operable communication with each of the first and second gears. A bearing is configured to support at least one of the shafts via an inner bore and having an outer peripheral surface. A valve bore is formed into bearing between the inner bore and the outer peripheral surface. A second discharge connection is formed into the bearing. A tap provides fluidic communication between the valve bore and a pad defined in the inner bore. A valve is positioned in the valve bore. The valve includes a moving valve member. A spring biases the moving valve member in a direction toward the second discharge connection. A fuel pump system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy J. Franckowiak, Zachary Allen Ray Le Duc
  • Publication number: 20200309124
    Abstract: A compressor that includes a shell assembly, a compression mechanism and a conduit. The shell assembly defines a chamber. The compression mechanism is disposed within the chamber of the shell assembly and includes a first scroll member and a second scroll member in meshing engagement with each other. The second scroll member includes an externally located slot and a suction inlet. The conduit includes a first end that defines an inlet opening and a second end that defines an outlet opening. The second end includes a connecting arm that has a first boss extending therefrom. The second end snaps into engagement with the second scroll member such that the first boss is received within the slot of the second scroll member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua S. KING
  • Publication number: 20200309125
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll-type fluid machine that prevents wear of the parts of the fluid machine and improves the reliability thereof by reducing the amount of dust that reaches a face seal. The present invention comprises a revolving scroll that includes an end plate and a lap part provided to the end plate, and that moves in a revolving manner; a fixed scroll that includes an end plate, a lap part provided to the end plate such that a compression chamber is formed between itself and the lap part of the revolving scroll, and a flange that opposes the end plate of the revolving scroll; and a face seal that is provided between the flange of the fixed scroll and the end plate of the revolving scroll, and that seals a space between the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll, with the scroll-type fluid machine further comprising a shield part that suppresses dust from reaching the face seal from the outside in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Shumpei YAMAZAKI, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Sho WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200309126
    Abstract: A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a fixed scroll cooperating with the housing to define a discharge chamber, a movable scroll cooperating with the fixed scroll to define a compression chamber, and a shaft support member cooperating with the movable scroll to define a back pressure chamber. Fluid in the compression chamber is supplied to the back pressure chamber. The back pressure chamber and the discharge chamber communicate with each chamber through a relief passage. A check valve is disposed in the relief passage, and the check valve allows the fluid to flow from the back pressure chamber to the discharge chamber, when back pressure of the back pressure chamber is higher than discharge pressure of the discharge chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuya HATTORI, Takuro Yamashita, Takumi Maeda, Shinji Koike
  • Publication number: 20200309127
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a movable scroll, an eccentric shaft, an opposed wall, a looped elastic plate, a looped support portion, an annular protrusion, a back pressure chamber, and a back pressure supplying groove. The distance in the radial direction of the rotary shaft from the rotation axis of the rotary shaft to then outer end of the back pressure supplying groove in the radial direction of the rotary shaft is shorter than or equal to the distance obtained by subtracting the distance in the radial direction of the rotary shaft between the rotation axis of the rotary shaft and the axis of the eccentric shaft from the distance in the radial direction of the rotary shaft from the axis of the eccentric shaft to the part of the protrusion that contacts the elastic plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinji KOIKE, Takuro YAMASHITA, Yuya HATTORI, Takumi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200309128
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided. An orbiting angle of the orbiting scroll when the compression chamber is formed and compression of fluid is initiated is referred to as an orbiting initiation angle. An orbiting angle of the orbiting scroll when the compression of the fluid is completed is referred to as an orbiting termination angle. An orbiting angle of the orbiting scroll when an end of the orbiting spiral wall initiates contact with the arcuate portion of the fixed spiral wall before compression is completed is referred to as a distal end contact initiation angle. The formation point distance reaches a minimum value at least at one of a first orbiting angle or a second orbiting angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takumi MAEDA, Takayuki OTA, Takuro YAMASHITA, Yuya HATTORI, Tatsunori TOMOTA, Yasuhiro KONDOH, Ryou MASUDA, Etsuko HORI, Yu NOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200309129
    Abstract: A displacement compressor system for the refrigerant R718 includes a compressor machine, an evaporator, and a condenser. The open compressor machine is designed as a spindle compressor in the form of a double-shaft rotation displacement compressor for displacing and compressing gaseous conveying media. The displacement compressor has a spindle rotor pair which is arranged in a compressor housing and is designed with an electronic motor pair spindle rotor synchronization function. The compressor machine is arranged between the evaporator and the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Ralf STEFFENS
  • Publication number: 20200309130
    Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device which includes a motor having a shaft extending along a first central axis, a pump portion driven by the motor, and a housing for housing the motor and the pump portion. The housing includes: a housing body portion which has a bottomed tube shape and extends in an axial direction, a flange portion which expands radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion, and a projection portion extending from a bottom portion of the housing body portion toward one axial side. A second central axis of the projection portion is arranged at a position shifted in a radial direction from the first central axis. The flange portion has convex portions projected from the end surface facing the one axial side of the flange portion toward the one axial side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Koji HIGUCHI, Kunihiro KAJITA, Tomokazu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200309131
    Abstract: The present invention improves performance of a scroll fluid machine by effectively exhibiting a function of a tip seal installed at a tooth tip of a wall body even when a continuous slope is provided to the wall body. A slope in which the distance between opposing surfaces of opposing end plates continuously reduces from the outer peripheral surface toward the inner peripheral surface is provided, and a tip seal (7) that comes into contact with an opposing tooth bottom so as to seal a fluid is provided to a tip seal groove (3d) formed at a tooth tip of a wall body (3b) corresponding to the slope. A groove bottom (3d1) of the tip seal groove (3d) is formed into a shape in which the center portion (3d2) in the groove width direction deepest. The tip seal (7) is formed such that the center portion (7a1), in the width direction, of the bottom (7a) of the tip seal (7) facing the groove bottom (3d1) projects farther than both side portions (7a2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Yoshiyuki KIMATA, Yohei HOTTA