Patents Issued in March 1, 2022
  • Patent number: 11261860
    Abstract: A method to control the temperature of an electromagnetic pump in an apparatus wherein a liquid metal is supplied through a feed tube from a container adapted to contain a liquid metal to an evaporator device in a vacuum chamber, wherein the temperature of the electromagnetic pump is controlled by controlling one or more of the force exerted on the liquid metal in the container, the current of the electromagnetic pump, and/or the strength of the magnet field of the electromagnetic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V.
    Inventors: Edzo Zoestbergen, Colin Commandeur, Roland Jan Snijders, Eduard Paul Mattheus Bakker, Peter William Hazelett, Douglas Alexander Hamilton, Stephen James Widdis, Timothy Dean Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11261861
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston machine has an adjustment element that is adjustable for varying a displacement volume, and a rotating cylinder part having a plurality of cylinder bores with pistons that are supported on the adjustment element and delimit a displacement chamber. Each displacement chamber is moved in an alternating manner by a connecting opening to overlap a low-pressure control opening situated on a low-pressure side of a stationary control part and a high-pressure control opening situated on a high-pressure side of the control part. Two switching regions are situated between the low-pressure control opening and the high-pressure control opening, the pistons changing direction at a dead center within the switching regions. The position of the adjustment element is determined from a pressure profile which is a function of the variable size of the displacement chambers in a switching region, the variable size depending on the position of the adjustment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11261862
    Abstract: A prime mover and a plurality of hydraulic actuators, a hydraulic machine having a rotatable shaft in driven engagement with the prime mover and comprising working chambers, a hydraulic circuit between working chambers of the hydraulic machine and the hydraulic actuators, each working chamber of the hydraulic machine comprising a low-pressure and high-pressure valves regulating the flow of hydraulic fluid between the working chamber and a corresponding low-pressure manifold and a high-pressure manifold. The hydraulic machine being configured to actively control the low-pressure valves of the working chambers to select the net displacement of hydraulic fluid by each working chamber on each cycle of working chamber volume, and thereby the net displacement of hydraulic fluid by the working chambers, responsive to a demand signal, wherein the apparatus further comprises a controller configured to calculate the demand signal in response to a measured property of the hydraulic circuit or actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Niall James Caldwell, Matthew Green, Jill MacPherson
  • Patent number: 11261863
    Abstract: A hose for a reciprocating pump, the hose comprising: a first end and a second end separated by a length (L) along a centerline of the hose, wherein the first end reciprocates with a reciprocating element of the reciprocating pump during operation of the reciprocating pump; an inner surface and an outer surface separated by a thickness; and a variable bend radius wherein a bend radius of a first section of the hose is different from a bend radius of at least one second section of the hose, such that, during operation of the reciprocating pump, a stress on the first end of the hose, the second end of the hose, or both the first end of the hose and the second end of the hose is reduced relative to that of a hose that does not contain the variable bend radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Beisel, Justin Lee Hurst, David Mark Stribling
  • Patent number: 11261864
    Abstract: Scroll compressor includes a shaft rotatably supported to a casing; an eccentric bush having a recess part into which one end portion of the shaft is inserted, an eccentric part eccentric to the shaft, and a balance weight disposed at the opposite side of the eccentric part with respect to the recess part; an orbiting scroll for performing the orbiting motion in interlock with the eccentric part; and a fixed scroll for forming a compression chamber together with the orbiting scroll. The casing has an orbiting groove in which the eccentric bush performs the orbiting motion, a buffer member is interposed between the orbiting groove and the balance weight. Rotation clearance is formed between the recess part and the shaft. The buffer member is compressed between the balance weight and the orbiting groove before the recess part and the shaft contact each other by the rotation clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Chi Myeong Moon, Chang Eon Park, In Cheol Shin, Hyun Seong Ahn, Kweon Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 11261865
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes screw and gate rotors, a cylindrical wall, and a slide valve including a valve body and a guide portion. The valve body extends in an axial direction of the cylindrical wall and has a crescent shape in a cross section in a perpendicular direction to the axial direction. A radius of curvature of an inner arc shaped curved surface of the crescent shape is substantially equal to a radius of curvature of an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall. A radius of curvature of an outer arc shaped curved surface of the crescent shape is smaller than the radius of curvature of the inner arc shaped curved surface, and a central angle of the outer arc shaped curved surface is 180° or less. The guide portion allows movement of the valve body in the axial direction and restricts movement in the perpendicular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromichi Ueno
  • Patent number: 11261866
    Abstract: A compressor includes a casing having a cylindrical portion, a compression mechanism fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion, an external portion, a weld nut, and a bolt. The external portion includes a temperature reaction portion that reacts to a temperature change of the cylindrical portion. The external portion is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. The weld nut is welded to the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion to mount the external portion on the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. The bolt fixes the external portion to the weld nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohito Kaida, Takekazu Obitani, Hitoshi Shibata, Yasutaka Ueno, Yuusuke Fujii
  • Patent number: 11261867
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compression mechanism that compresses refrigerant; a main shaft that transmits a rotational driving force to the compression mechanism; a balance weight provided below the compression mechanism and integrated with the main shaft, the balance weight having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface centered at the main shaft; and an oil sump portion provided below the balance weight and stores lubricating oil to be supplied to the compression mechanism. The balance weight has an annular oil-receiving recessed portion in an upper surface, the oil-receiving recessed portion being centered at the main shaft and integrated with the balance weight. The balance weight has a hollow portion in a lower surface, the hollow portion extending in part of the lower surface in a peripheral direction around the main shaft and being integrated with the balance weight. The oil-receiving recessed portion communicates with at least part of the hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Tatsuwaki, Fumihiko Ishizono, Tomokazu Matsui, Shuhei Koyama
  • Patent number: 11261868
    Abstract: A vane type gas pump for a compressible fluid. The vane-type gas pump includes a pump housing which forms a pump chamber in which a pump rotor with at least one slidable sliding element is rotatably mounted. At least one fluid inlet opening and at least one elongated fluid outlet opening are dedicated to the pump chamber. The at least one slidable sliding element has a tangential width. The at least one elongated fluid outlet opening has a tangential width. The tangential width of the at least one slidable sliding element at least corresponds to the tangential width of the at least one elongated fluid outlet opening so that the at least one slidable sliding element temporarily completely covers the at least one elongated fluid outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Steffen Schnurr, Sebastian Cramer, Nabil Salim Al-Hasan, Stanislaus Russ, Tobias Gruene
  • Patent number: 11261869
    Abstract: An electrical motor vehicle vacuum pump arrangement includes a housing assembly, a pump apparatus arranged therein, a drive motor, and a sound dampener. The housing assembly includes an inlet and an outlet opening arrangement. The pump apparatus includes a pump rotor housing with an inlet- and an outlet-side face wall, and a pump rotor housing part arranged therebetween. The inlet- and the outlet-side face wall and the pump rotor housing part enclose a pump rotor chamber with a pump rotor arranged therein. The drive motor is arranged in the housing assembly. The drive motor includes a motor rotor and a motor stator. The sound damper includes a first and a second sound damping chamber, and a sound dampener element. The first sound damping chamber is connected to the pump rotor chamber and to the second sound damping chamber. The second sound damping chamber is connected to the outlet opening arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Cramer, Nabil Salim Al-Hasan, Daniel Mueller
  • Patent number: 11261870
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for pump devices that include an adaptive cutwater and impeller arrangement. The power end of the pump device can be coupled to a motor to drive an impeller. The primer plate and impeller of the pump device are removable from the pump casing such that the primer plate and impeller can be replaced or modified as desired for different applications. In some examples, the pump casing includes a primer plate that is removable from the pump casing, where the primer plate includes a discharge cutwater tongue that is specifically spaced and sized to service an impeller of a desired design. The discharge cutwater tongue and impellers in the pump device may thus be serviced for replacement parts, as well as to modify the pump device for different fluids of different fluids properties or hydraulic requirements as may be needed in different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Edward Kupp, Mark Playford
  • Patent number: 11261871
    Abstract: A dual stage blower assembly includes a first fan configured to rotate about the rotational axis and including a first plurality blades. The first plurality of blades include a plurality of backward curved blades. The dual stage blower assembly also includes a second fan circumscribing the first fan and configured to rotate about the rotational axis. The second fan includes a second plurality of blades, wherein the second plurality of blades include one of a plurality of forward curved blades, a plurality of a radial blades, or a plurality of backward curved blades. At least one motor is coupled to the first fan and the second fan and configured to rotate the first fan and the second fan about the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Sahand Pirouzpanah, Joseph A. Henry
  • Patent number: 11261872
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes modular fan unit systems and assemblies. A modular fan unit system assembly may include a mounting structure; and a modular fan unit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Richard John Smailes
  • Patent number: 11261873
    Abstract: To solve the problems of compressor wheel blade flow separation causing surge type noises when an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) duct introduces into the compressor exhaust gases to be returned to the engine, the exhaust gas is fed into an annular volume, defined between inner and outer walls or an annular transition cavity shaped as a radially expanded, axially flattened cylindrical space in the compressor inlet, so that the generally unidirectional radial flow from an EGR duct is re-directed and organized as it is turned from generally radial to generally axial, merging with the general inlet flow and presenting the compressor wheel with airflow of “circumferentially uniform” flow velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Paul K. Anschel, David G. Grabowska, Brock Fraser
  • Patent number: 11261874
    Abstract: An axial flow fan with high-temperature resistance for a ship desulfurization system includes a fan casing, axial flow fan blades, a high-temperature resistant bearing, and a cold water pipe. The axial flow fan blades are coaxially configured at an inner front end of the fan casing, and a rotating shaft is inserted in a middle of the axial flow fan blade. A middle part of the rotating shaft is sleeved with two high-temperature resistant bearings, and outsides of the two high-temperature resistant bearings are fixedly provided with a cruciform axis support. A rear end of the rotating shaft is sleeved with a worm gear, and an upper end of the worm gear is provided with a worm. The worm gear meshes with the worm. The worm gear and the worm are configured inside a lubricating oil casing, and the lubricating oil casing is covered with the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Shandong Pure Ocean Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xiaotian Wang
  • Patent number: 11261875
    Abstract: A turbomachine comprises a hub and a plurality of blade elements. Each blade element comprises a blade, a platform, and a tang. The plurality of blade elements are arranged circumferentially around the hub, each interlocking or affixed with an adjacent blade element and retained in position by the hub. Each blade elements formed from a single stamped blank to provide an inexpensive method of manufacture, for low cost turbomachinery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward C. Rice
  • Patent number: 11261876
    Abstract: A cooling fan or use with a hydraulic pump having an input shaft in a hydrostatic transmission includes a rotatable hub having a central body portion and an axially extending peripheral surface and a plurality of blades that extend radially outward from the peripheral surface. The cooling fan also includes an attachment aperture defined by the central body portion and an integral flange that axially extends from the central body portion. The integral flange defines a guard space having an area that is less than an area defined by the peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Scot Richardson, Thomas Kevin Castle
  • Patent number: 11261877
    Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. The blade can include a body having an outer surface with a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface, and a side edge. The top surface includes a chamfered portion extending between a flat portion, and the side edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Charles William Botkin
  • Patent number: 11261878
    Abstract: A vaned diffuser provided on a downstream side of an impeller of a centrifugal compressor. The vaned diffuser includes: a diffuser passage forming portion having a hub-side surface and a shroud-side surface and forming an annular diffuser passage on a downstream side of the impeller; and a plurality of diffuser vanes provided in the diffuser passage at intervals in a circumferential direction of the impeller. A fillet is formed in a connection portion between each of the diffuser vanes and at least one of the hub-side surface and the shroud-side surface. Also, where R is a radius of the fillet and b is a vane height of each of the diffuser vanes, and a maximum value of R/b on a downstream side of a throat position of the diffuser passage is larger than a maximum value of R/b on an upstream side of the throat position of the diffuser passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Isao Tomita, Kenichiro Iwakiri
  • Patent number: 11261879
    Abstract: This fluid machine includes a motor housing, a rotating shaft which is inserted through the motor housing, an impeller which is mounted on a protruding portion of the rotating shaft, and a facing portion which faces the motor housing on a first end side in the axial direction. A first opening is provided on the first end side of the motor housing, a second opening is provided on a second end side of the motor housing, and an in-housing passage fluidly couples the first opening with the second opening. The fluid machine further includes an exhaust passage which is formed between the motor housing and the facing portion and which fluidly couples the first opening with external air, and a rotating blade which is disposed between the first opening and the exhaust passage, wherein the rotating blade is mounted on the rotating shaft and is rotatable with the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yosuke Akamatsu, Gen Kuwata, Kentaro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11261880
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor driven by a shaft and configured to compress air and a motor for driving the shaft. At least one bearing facilitates rotation of the shaft. A motor cooling loop is configured to provide motor cooling air to the motor. A bearing cooling loop is configured to provide bearing cooling air to the at least one bearing. A bearing support is configured to support the least one bearing, the bearing support includes an opening. A duct is configured to communicate air from the opening to an inlet of the compressor. A method for cooling a compressor is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Brent J. Merritt, Craig M. Beers, John M. Beck
  • Patent number: 11261881
    Abstract: The suction unit comprises: a cover having an air inlet; a noise reduction part provided in the cover, arranged outside the air inlet and spaced therefrom; an impeller for flowing the air which has passed through the noise reduction part and then the air inlet; a motor having a rotating shaft connected to the impeller; a guide apparatus for guiding the flow of the air which has flown from the exit of the impeller; and a shaft coupling part coupled to the rotating shaft connected to the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mantae Hwang, Jungbae Hwang, Dongseok Kim
  • Patent number: 11261882
    Abstract: A fan cleaning assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Angel L. Dobbs
  • Patent number: 11261883
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flow turning system for imparting a rotational, swirling motion to a fluid flowing through the flow turning system. The system may comprise a housing and a flow turning element supported within the housing. The flow turning element may have a plurality of circumferentially spaced vanes projecting into a flow path of the fluid as the fluid flows through the flow turning system. The vanes impart a swirling, circumferential flow to the fluid to help prevent contaminants in the fluid from adhering to downstream components in communication with the flow turning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Schaupp, Donald Lee Schultz, Bradley Peake
  • Patent number: 11261884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-hydrostatic system (1) with a hydraulic machine (11) which is driven by an electric motor (10) and has a variable volume and/or rotational speed for providing a volumetric flow rate of a hydraulic fluid, a differential cylinder (20) with a piston surface and with an annular surface, and at least one equalization container (30, 37), wherein the drive system (1) has a closed hydraulic circuit and during operation has an overpressure relative to the environment by means of the hydraulic machine (11) and/or a pretensioning source (15, 37), and the drive system (1) provides a movement of the cylinder in a first direction by means of a volumetric flow rate of the hydraulic machine (11) and a volumetric flow rate from the equalization container (30, 37), and provides a movement in a second direction by means of a volumetric flow rate of the hydraulic machine (11) and a volumetric flow rate into the equalization container (30, 37), and a power operating mode and a speed ope
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Händle, Achim Helbig, Tino Kentschke, Reiner Kohlhas, Klaus Kirch
  • Patent number: 11261885
    Abstract: A fluid pressure cylinder includes a first cylinder portion and a second cylinder portion disposed in parallel, and a supply-and-discharge port. The first cylinder portion is partitioned by a first piston into a head-side first accumulation chamber and a rod-side second accumulation chamber. The second cylinder portion is partitioned by a second piston into a head-side release chamber and a rod-side drive chamber. Pressurized fluid is supplied to and discharged from the second accumulation chamber and the drive chamber through the supply-and-discharge port. An end of a first piston rod connected to the first piston and an end of a second piston rod connected to the second piston are connected to each other. The first piston includes a communication switching valve switching communication between the first accumulation chamber and the second accumulation chamber, between enabled and disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Hiroyuki Asahara, Seiichi Nagura
  • Patent number: 11261886
    Abstract: A pneumatic cylinder includes a cylinder body, a piston assembly, a connecting rod, and at least one pressure-relief valve. The cylinder body is formed with a cylinder chamber, and has an exterior disposed with at least one inlet-outlet passage and at least one pressure-relief opening, wherein the inlet-outlet passage is connected to the cylinder chamber. The piston assembly is contained within the cylinder chamber. The connecting rod is connected to the piston assembly, and protrudes out from the cylinder body. The pressure-relief valve is disposed in the pressure-relief opening, and has two ends connected to an outside of the pneumatic cylinder and the cylinder chamber respectively. When a gas pressure within the cylinder chamber is greater than a threshold value, the pressure-relief valve works to allow the cylinder chamber connecting to the outside for pressure relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KING YUAN FU PACKAGING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Hui Chen, Ching-Chuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11261887
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of fluid process systems and discloses a manifold system for fluid delivery. The system comprises a first set of Solenoid Operated Valves (SOVs), a second set of SOVs, a plurality of isolating valves, at least one first shuttle valve, and at least one redundant shuttle valve. Each set of SOVs includes at least two SOVs arranged in parallel. The SOVs together form a series-parallel redundancy. Each isolating valve is coupled to an SOV and facilitates hot swapping of that SOV. The redundant shuttle valves provide redundancy to the first shuttle valve and facilitate the flow of a fluid from each of the first set of SOVs to each of the second set of SOVs, thereby promoting system safety and availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ASCO Numatics (India) Private Limited
    Inventors: Lakshmikantha Rudrapatna Janardana, Senthil Ashokkumar, Soundharrajan Sachidanandam, Nilesh Puntambekar
  • Patent number: 11261888
    Abstract: The pump has a body having a heat sink on the body underside. An extension rises from the body. A guide is provided for a piston, which together move up and down relative to the body and extension. The pump is within a tank filled with heating liquid. The heating liquid is separated (directly or indirectly) from a gas cavity with a bladder. The pump can have a coolant cavity partially bordered by a bladder that separates the heating liquid from the gas. A coolant then flows through the cavity over the top of the bladder keeping it cool and preventing bladder degradation. A high temperature liquid system maintains the temperature of the heating liquid. A coolant system maintains the temperature of the coolant. A pressure equalization system maintains balance in pressure between the heating liquid and coolant. A steam system is provided as is a control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Brian Lee Davis
  • Patent number: 11261889
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aircraft thermal management system. The aircraft thermal management system includes a first hydraulic system for circulating a first hydraulic fluid, a second hydraulic system for circulating a second hydraulic fluid, and a third hydraulic system for circulating a third hydraulic fluid. The aircraft thermal management system also includes a controller configured to: (i) determine a temperature of the first hydraulic fluid, a temperature of the second hydraulic fluid, and a temperature of the third hydraulic fluid, and (ii) based on the determined temperature of the first hydraulic fluid, utilize the second hydraulic fluid and/or the third hydraulic fluid to modify an operational temperature of the first hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jianmin Liao
  • Patent number: 11261890
    Abstract: A system includes an elongated cylindrical body having a first end extending to a second end; an outer surface and an inner surface; a thickness extending from the inner surface to the outer surface; and a plurality of openings extending from the inner surface to the outer surface. The system further includes a fluid injection apparatus disposed within the elongated cylindrical body, the fluid injection apparatus is configured to pass fluid through the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Khaled Abdullah Alhussan
  • Patent number: 11261891
    Abstract: A flow conditioning assembly comprising an integral elbow flow conditioner and a downstream flow conditioner. The elbow flow conditioner includes a pipe elbow with one or more flow conditioning elements. Each flow conditioning element includes one or more turning guides. Each turning guide is generally circular and radially spaced from one another and an inner surface of the elbow. Spaced vanes maintain the radial spacing of the turning guides. The vanes divide the radial space between the turning guides and pipe elbow into a plurality of flow channels that turn in generally the same direction as the inner surface of the pipe elbow. The downstream flow conditioner comprises a flow conditioning structure within a pipe element. The flow conditioning structure includes one or more flow guides of generally circular form radially spaced from one another and the pipe element. Spaced support vanes maintain the radial spacing of the flow guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KALSI ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary W Leutwyler, Manmohan S Kalsi
  • Patent number: 11261892
    Abstract: A pull aid structure includes a handle; a connecting element movably disposed at the handle; and a positioning element disposed at the handle and movably coupled to the connecting element. The pull aid structure enables a user to place the connecting element on an object, rotate the handle to fasten another object, confine the positioning element to the connecting element, and compress an elastic element, so as to couple together the two objects. To remove one of the objects, the user separates the positioning element and the connecting element to thereby separate the two objects, thereby achieving quick coupling and ease of removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FIVETECH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Ting-Jui Wang, Hornet Huang
  • Patent number: 11261893
    Abstract: A fastener unit and related method for securing a board to a support is provided. The fastener unit includes a spacer block, a grip element extending from the spacer block and configured to fit in and engage a groove of the board, and one or more resilient compression elements extending from the spacer block. The one or more resilient compression elements can be a joist leg configured to engage a joist, or it can be vertically compressible toward a first plane that is transverse to a vertical axis of the spacer block so that portions of it can compress from an open mode to a compressed mode and fit within, then forcibly expand within the groove, thereby securing the spacer block in a position adjacent the groove to establish a gap between the board and another board. A related method of use also is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: National Nail Corp.
    Inventors: Roger A. Vandenberg, Douglas F. Hutchings
  • Patent number: 11261894
    Abstract: An anchor having a sleeve, a bolt which passes through the sleeve and at least one expansion element that is positioned in front of the sleeve and that is axially supported on the sleeve, whereby the bolt has an expansion area for the expansion element, is provided. According to the invention, it is provided for the sleeve to have a wavy shape with axial wave peaks in which the outer radius of the sleeve as well as the inner radius of the sleeve each have a maximum, and with wave valleys in which the outer radius of the sleeve as well as the inner radius of the sleeve each have a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Simon Velten, Marc Schaeffer
  • Patent number: 11261895
    Abstract: A device for torque limiting, has a nut having a female thread. A holding element includes a top part having an entrainment profile in a rear area of the holding element for the rotatably fixed coupling of the top part with a setting tool and a receiving part having a receptacle in a front area of the holding element, in which the nut is rotatably fixedly accommodated, the top part having a passage, through which a threaded rod screwed into the nut may be led out of the holding element through the top part along the longitudinal axis of the device. The holding element includes a web connecting the receiving part and the top part and which forms a predetermined breaking point. In at least one longitudinal sectional plane of the device, the smallest wall thickness of the at least one web is present on a line segment of minimum wall thickness, which runs at an angle greater than 45° with respect to the longitudinal axis of the device. A fastening arrangement includes the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hideki Shimahara, Erich Infanger
  • Patent number: 11261896
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a rivet includes a first cap having a front side and a back side. The first cap includes a compressed region or a slotted region between a first edge of the first cap and a second edge of the first cap, a unique identifier on the front side of the first cap, a protruding portion extending from a central region on the back side of the first cap, a foam layer adhered to the back side of the first cap with a first layer of adhesive, and a protective film adhered to the foam layer with a second layer of adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Joshua Paul Davis
  • Patent number: 11261897
    Abstract: A strut receiver assembly provides springing attachment to a slotted structural member such as a strut. The strut receiver includes a bottom portion having a plurality of slots, a first side connected to the bottom portion and a second side connected to the bottom portion, thereby forming a U-shaped structure with the first and second sides. The plurality of first engagement springs each have an outward facing wing on the first side operable for springing attachment to a first rim on the slotted structural member. The plurality of second engagement springs each have an outward facing wing on the second side operable for springing attachment to a second rim on the slotted structural member. A band has a bottom portion, a first side having a first arm for engaging a first receiver slot and a second side having a second arm for engaging a second receiver slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAG DADDY, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Walter Smith, Daniel James Dickinson, Zach Reusch, John Heinzinger
  • Patent number: 11261898
    Abstract: A fastening clip includes a clip body (1) having a pair of side walls (2) provided with windows (3); a pair of retaining portions (4) that are deflected during the placement of the fastening clip in its use position, each of the retaining portions (4) includes an end portion (5); and a head portion (6) provided at an end of the clip body (1) and protruding from the side walls (2). The end portions (5) include a bent portion (7), each end portion (5) being divided in two side portions (8) by a groove (9), and the bent portion (7) being in one of the two side portions (8). The fastening clip also includes a base body (11) having verification elements (12) that in the use position are placed in the groove (9) between the side portions (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Thiemo Ammann, Victor Diez Herrera
  • Patent number: 11261899
    Abstract: A fastener includes a body, a fastener head having a flange extend radially outward from the body, and a plurality of shoulders that extend outwardly from the body. The body also includes a finger that extends from one end of each of the shoulders. The body further includes a plurality of cutouts positioned on the body between the shoulders. The body is flexible along the cutouts. The fingers are also flexible and cooperate with a plurality of locking features of a first component to sufficiently hold the first component and a second component between the fingers and the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Zander, James S. Tisol, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11261900
    Abstract: A bolt and a method for manufacturing the bolt are provided. The bolt includes a screw cap and a bolt bar, the bolt bar includes a positioning bar, a flexible bar and a threaded portion, the positioning bar is connected to one end of the screw cap, and the flexible bar is connected to the positioning bar and the threaded portion respectively. Wherein, an anti-shearing stand is formed on the flexible bar. The threaded portion includes standard threads and transition threads, the transition threads are formed between the flexible bar and the standard threads, and a thread height of the transition threads is smaller than a thread height of the standard threads, wherein the thread height of the standard threads keeps constant. The force distribution of the threads can be optimized, and the threads can effectively cooperate with the threads of the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guolong Zheng, Yongjun Guo, Junhao Ge, Yiping Shi
  • Patent number: 11261901
    Abstract: A fastener includes a connecting member and a handling member. The connecting member has a first axis and an accommodating space extended along the first axis. The handling member having a second axis is movably disposed in the accommodating space and movable between a first position and a second position. When located at the first position, the handling member is disposed in the accommodating space in a way that the second axis is approximately coaxial with the first axis of the connecting member. When located at the second position, the handling member is positioned on the connecting member in a way that an included angle is provided between the second axis and the first axis so that the handling member can be rotated by an external force to drive the connecting member to rotate at a to-be fastened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Cheng-Hung Yen
  • Patent number: 11261902
    Abstract: A pin lock fastener comprises a fastener component (e.g., bolt or nut) having an aperture formed through an outer surface of the fastener component, and a pin supported by the fastener component and slidable through the aperture. The pin can comprise a locking end portion to interface/lock with a pin lock feature of a fastener receiver structure. The pin lock fastener can comprise an actuator cap rotatably coupled to the fastener component, and a torsion spring can have a first end coupled to the fastener component and a second end coupled to the actuator cap. The pin can be secured to the torsion spring that applies a biasing force to the pin in a normal locked position to restrict rotation of the fastener component relative to the fastener receiver structure secured to the fastener component. The pin lock fastener can be repeatedly used. Associated fastened assemblies and methods are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Richard J. Adams
  • Patent number: 11261903
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fastener system for use in securing objects, such as stress skinned panels, to a structural support, such as an aircraft spar or cross member. The fastener may be provided with a radially-expandable collar assembly, an anti-rotator assembly, a shaft, and a bolt-lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SKY CLIMBER FASTENERS LLC
    Inventor: Donald W. Rice
  • Patent number: 11261904
    Abstract: A semi-cylindrical half bearing for a sliding bearing includes at least one axial groove formed on its inner circumferential surface that includes a smooth groove surface formed back away from the inner circumferential surface toward a radially outer side of the half bearing. The groove surface forms a convex curve toward the radially outer side in a cross-section perpendicular to the axial direction of the half bearing, and forms a straight line extending in the axial direction in a cross-section parallel to the axial direction. The half bearing further includes a plurality of axial narrow grooves formed on the groove surface so as to be back away from the groove surface toward the radially outer side, that extend in the axial direction of the half bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Ito, Seiji Amano, Shiho Goto
  • Patent number: 11261905
    Abstract: A virtual device for the limited pivoting of an object about a base virtual pivot point by means of a pivoting device, where a limiting device is provided for the pivoting angle. The virtual device is a mechanically stable and yet space-saving limiting device that is rotatable about an outer axis on the base and about an outer axis (23?) rotatable on the object, or on the slide, where the limiting device limits the distance and/or the angular position of the two axes relative to one another, with the proviso that the axes always occupy the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: EB-invent GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Ehrenleitner
  • Patent number: 11261906
    Abstract: A ball joint for a chassis component in the form of a two-point linkage. The ball joint includes a housing and a ball stud fitted and able to be deflected in the housing, as well as a sealing element arranged between the housing and the ball stud, which surrounds the ball stud all round. Deflection movement of the ball stud, relative to the housing, is restricted at least in some areas by the sealing element. The sealing element is attached to the housing by an interlocked connection. The sealing element of the ball joint is attached to the housing by a snap-on connection. A two-point linkage having such a ball joint, and the two-point linkage is a steering rod or a track rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Dirk Sokolihs, Uwe Petersen, Holger Hardt, Marco Di Sarno
  • Patent number: 11261907
    Abstract: A bearing closure device has a externally threaded ring that can be slid onto a roll journal. One stop close to the roll barrel and one stop away from the roll barrel are provided on the roll journal in order to limit the axial movement of the threaded ring. A ring nut with an internal thread is screwed onto the external thread of the threaded ring. To facilitate safe screwing on and unscrewing of the ring nut and to keep screws pressure-free during the operation of the bearing a pressure ring is mounted between the bearing and the threaded ring in an axially displaceable manner. In addition, a plurality of screws can be screwed into axial threaded bores in the threaded ring in order to press against the pressure ring in the axial direction. Finally, the ring nut can be screwed or adjusted against the pressure ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej Tucak, Daniel Knie, Roland Will
  • Patent number: 11261908
    Abstract: A tilting pad bearing including pads disposed around a rotating shaft so as to face an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft, liners each supporting an outside of the pad in a radial direction with an axis of the rotating shaft as a center, and pivots each supporting an outside of the liner in the radial direction with the axis as a center at a central position of the liner in an axial direction of the rotating shaft so as to allow the pad to be swingable, wherein a recessed portion recessed in a direction away from the pad is formed on a surface of the liner facing the pad or a surface of the pad facing the liner at least at the central position thereof in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Yoshimine, Tanehiro Shinohara, Takuzo Shigihara, Shuichi Isayama, Yuichiro Waki
  • Patent number: 11261909
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a swing bearing and a wearable device. The swing bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of rolling elements, a plurality of first grooves arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction being formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring, a plurality of second grooves arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction being formed on an inner circumferential surface of the outer ring, each rolling element being disposed between the corresponding first groove and the second groove, and the rolling element, the first groove, and the second groove being configured to restrict relative rotational movement between the inner ring and the outer ring and allow the inner ring and the outer ring to produce shaft axis deflection movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rongjie Wei, Yun Jiang, Haijian Tang, Conghua Jiang, Jianfeng Yang