Pervious Material Interposed In Flow Path Patents (Class 181/258)
  • Patent number: 11898474
    Abstract: A constant velocity muffler assembly for maximizing the exhaust performance of an internal combustion engine includes a muffler that is fluidly coupled to an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine to facilitate exhaust gasses to pass through the muffler. A cylinder is disposed within the muffler and the muffler swells outwardly at a middle of the muffler to accommodate the cylinder. The cylinder is oriented to extend along a flow axis of the muffler with respect to the exhaust gasses. In this way the cylinder is configured to deflect sound waves from the internal combustion engine thereby reducing a noise level of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: John Ulishney
  • Patent number: 11788526
    Abstract: An air compressor comprises a compressor that compresses introduced air and a tank that stores the compressed air generated by the compressor. The air compressor also comprises a discharge pipe from which the compressed air and a condensate in the tank are discharged to an outside of the tank. The air compressor also comprises a drain cock that is disposed in a passage of the discharge pipe and serves to open and close the discharge pipe. The air compressor also comprises a discharge pipe end portion that includes a discharge port facing upward at a tip end of the discharge pipe. The air compressor also comprises a tubular cover including a top portion that covers the discharge pipe end portion from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Nishido, Tomohiro Hachisuka, Makito Teramoto
  • Patent number: 11761410
    Abstract: A sealed intake air system incorporates a positive connection seal interface between the air filter and the airbox with captive fasteners to provide a positive connection between the air filter and the one-piece airbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Shahriar Nick Niakan, George R. Chiang
  • Patent number: 11639706
    Abstract: A flow control member for a vehicle includes a body, a plurality of mounting tabs, and a panel member. The body has an outer surface and an inner surface. An air passage through the body is defined by the inner surface. A plurality of mounting tabs extends outwardly from the outer surface of the body. Each of the mounting tabs is configured to receive a fastener to connect the flow control member to an intake passage of the vehicle. A panel member is disposed in the air passage. The panel member defines a plurality of openings therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Manuel Salazar
  • Patent number: 11602708
    Abstract: A silencer element is disposed in the throat void space of a filter element. A carrier includes a first seat upon which the filter element sits and a sealing surface which forms an airtight seal with the silencer element. The silencer element includes sound absorbing media. The sound absorbing media inward surface delimits a throat void space. Inward of the sound absorbing media inward surface, is an, air permeable, porous, sound permeable inner sidewall which delimits void spaces which comprise through openings to the sound absorbing media inward surface. Outward of the sound absorbing media outward surface is a cylindrical, air permeable, porous, sound permeable outer sidewall which delimits void spaces which comprise through openings to the sound absorbing media outward surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tor Solberg, Clint Browning
  • Patent number: 11505171
    Abstract: A noise damper for a compressed-air system, for a brake system of a utility vehicle, including: a housing having an inlet channel for a compressed-air stream and with a chamber for accommodating sound-damping material, in which the inlet channel and the chamber are separated, perpendicularly with respect to the compressed-air stream, by a separating plate which is closed in a central region and which, in an outer peripheral region of the compressed-air stream, has multiple openings for introducing the compressed air directly into the chamber. Also described are a related pneumatic brake system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Szabolcs Sovago, Miklos Tanczos, Marton Fekete, Daniel Bujdoso
  • Patent number: 11319877
    Abstract: An inlet bleed heat (IBH) system for use in a turbine engine including a silencer assembly. The inlet bleed heat (IBH) system includes a feed pipe for delivering compressor discharge air. The feed pipe includes a plurality of orifices along at least a portion of a length of the feed pipe, and each orifice of the plurality of orifices extends through a wall of the feed pipe for allowing the compressor discharge air to exit the feed pipe. The system also includes a heat shielding component that extends across the feed pipe, wherein the heat shielding component is configured to reduce heat transfer between the feed pipe and the silencer assembly of the turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Laxmikant Merchant, Hua Zhang, Naveen Parmeshwar
  • Patent number: 10473066
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an air filter configured to be mounted onto air inlets of turbochargers and superchargers. The air filter comprises a proximal base including an inlet receiver configured to receive an air inlet, a clamp to secure the air inlet within the inlet receiver, and a first opening aligned with a screw mechanism of the clamp. A filter medium fastened to the proximal base is configured to remove particulate matter and other contaminates from an incoming air stream. A distal end cap fastened to the filter medium comprises a second opening aligned with the first opening. A conduit within an interior cavity of the air filter is disposed between the first opening and the second opening, facilitating tightening and loosening the clamp by extending an appropriate tool through the interior cavity so as to engage the screw mechanism of the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: K&N Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Williams
  • Patent number: 10337748
    Abstract: Provided is a muffler for an air-conditioning apparatus, which is compact and has a small pressure loss, and an air-conditioning apparatus including the same. The muffler for an air-conditioning apparatus including a muffler main body which has small diameter portions on an inlet side and an outlet side, the small diameter portions having inner diameters smaller than an inner diameter of a central portion of the muffler main body, an inlet pipe connected to the small diameter portion on the inlet side of the muffler main body; and an outlet pipe connected to the small diameter portion on the outlet side of the muffler main body. The inlet pipe is inserted into the muffler main body, and has a distal end positioned at a center of a length from an inlet to an outlet of the muffler main body. The distal end side of the inlet pipe inserted into the muffler main body has an inner diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the inlet pipe on an upstream of the distal end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Tada
  • Patent number: 10036394
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a housing defining a top surface, a bottom surface, and first and second side surfaces. Also included is a first rail extending from the first side surface and a second rail extending from the second surface such that when the first and second rails are slidably engaged with a third surface. A blower device is included that is axially disposed between the top and bottom surface, wherein a first end of the housing defines a first plenum outlet, the top surface defines a plenum inlet, the bottom surface defines a second plenum outlet that is positioned on a second side of the blower device and that fluidly couples the first plenum chamber to the second plenum chamber. Further, the second plenum chamber is formed by the first and second rails, the bottom surface and the third surface has a third plenum outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Dale Shaul, Soheil Farshchian, Roy Micheal Bannon, Angela Chen, Jonathan D. Beck
  • Patent number: 9771959
    Abstract: A fluid flow modifier device comprising: an inlet portion for receiving a flow of fluid; an outlet portion for outputting the flow of fluid; and a flow modifier portion disposed between the inlet portion and the outlet portion, the flow modifier portion comprising an outer portion comprising a closed cross-section to the flow of fluid and an inner porous portion configured such that at least a portion of the flow received in the inlet portion must pass through the inner porous portion to reach the fluid outlet. The fluid flow modifier device is ideally used to transition fluid flow between an fluid supply line and a fluid treatment zoneā€”for example, a pressure water supply line and an ultraviolet radiation treatment device (e.g., drinking water treatment device).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Trojan Technologies
    Inventor: Jim Fraser
  • Patent number: 9587765
    Abstract: A sound treatment assembly includes an outlet member having a bore extending along a longitudinal axis, and a first flange portion is adapted to be coupled to portion of a valve body of a regulator valve. The first flange portion includes a contoured mating surface adapted to mate with a corresponding contoured portion of an exterior surface of the valve body. The outlet member also includes a second flange portion disposed at the second end. A diffuser assembly includes diffuser housing extending along the longitudinal axis, and a first flange portion is disposed at the first end of the diffuser housing and is adjacent to the second flange portion of the outlet member. One or more diffuser elements are disposed within an interior of the diffuser housing to reduce noise levels in the fluid exiting the outlet member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT REGULATOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Chun Lin, Robert J. Watson
  • Patent number: 9457214
    Abstract: A gas fire-extinguishing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention is configured such that a silencer is disposed on an ejection head which ejects fire-extinguishing gas supplied from a fire-extinguishing gas supply source via a conduit pipe, a diverging pipe and a branch pipe. The configuration suppresses ejection sound caused by an ejection flow of the fire-extinguishing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AIR WATER SAFETY SERVICE INC.
    Inventor: Hideaki Goto
  • Patent number: 9399436
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sound reduction system comprising a sound reduction device. The sound reduction device comprises a sound reducing material. The system further comprises a channel wherein a gaseous medium is arranged to flow. The sound reduction device is mounted inside the channel, thereby placing the sound reducing material inside the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Johan Brunberg, Niclas Bratt, Christopher Henriksson, Bo Larsson
  • Patent number: 9381637
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a compressed air tool having a silencer structure. A silencing element and an outer cover are disposed in an air exhaust channel of a main body of the compressed air tool. The silencing element has two walls and a channel. The two walls both have long slits, the long slits of the two walls are misaligned and not directly faced with each other. After the exhaust is inputted via the long slits of one of the two walls, the exhaust is flowed through the channel and emitted to the outside via the long slits of other of the two walls. Therefore, the air flow of the exhaust can be weakened, and the exhaust is then entered the countersink of the outer cover and emitted from the side hole, whereby the effect of silencing and reducing the noise caused by the emitted exhaust can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: STORM PNEUMTIC TOOL CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yung Yung Sun
  • Patent number: 9179823
    Abstract: Devices and methods for visually confirming the positioning of a distal end portion of an illuminating device placed within a patient include inserting a distal end portion of an illuminating device internally into a patient, emitting light from the distal end portion of the illuminating device, observing transillumination resulting from the light emitted from the distal end portion of the illuminating device that occurs on an external surface of the patient, and correlating the location of the observed transillumination on the external surface of the patient with an internal location of the patient that underlies the location of observed transillumination, to confirm positioning of the distal end portion of the illuminating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Goldfarb, John Morriss, John Y. Chang, William M. Facteau
  • Patent number: 9115667
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, the noise of a supersonic jet of gas venting from a lower stack having a flow control means may be reduced by at least about 20 dBA by attaching an upper stack to the lower stack, said upper stack being packed with granulae to provide a bed height at least one diameter of the upper stack the cross section area of the interstitial voids between the granulae being at least about 2.25 times larger than the cross section area of the flow controlling means installed in the lower stack. The said bed is contained in the upper stack and kept in place by suitable upper and lower retainers such as, for example, a mesh or a perforated plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Grazyna Petela, Kamal K Botros
  • Patent number: 9062590
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler includes a pair of base members disposed substantially parallel to one another and defining an exhaust entry and exhaust exit. At least one wall member is coupled to the base members. The at least one wall member is intermediate the base members and intermediate the entry and exit. The at least one wall member includes a linear portion coupled to a semicircular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventor: Lewis S. Schooler
  • Patent number: 9038772
    Abstract: A hybrid silencer in a fuel cell system includes an expansion chamber connected to a predetermined apparatus of the fuel cell system, where the expansion chamber reduces acoustic noise of a fluid discharged from the predetermined apparatus, a water-absorber disposed inside the expansion chamber, where the water-absorber absorbs a liquid component of a fluid which flows into the expansion chamber; and a perforated silencer which discharges the fluid from which the liquid component is removed by the water-absorber while reducing acoustic noise of the fluid discharged therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-suck Heo, Won-ho Lee, Hye-jung Cho, Jong-rock Choi
  • Patent number: 8985269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for reducing the noise emitted by a conduit belonging to an aircraft system that comprises an acoustic grid positioned in a segment of the conduit. Said grid has a length L1, along the axis (X-X) of said segment, and includes multiple meshes, each of which fits into a square with side m, the following relationships being satisfied: L1>1.8?fmin, m<?fmax/2, where fmax is the maximum frequency of the noise to be attenuated, fmin is the minimum frequency of the nice to be attenuated, ?fmax is the wavelength of the noise at frequency fmax, and ?fmin is the wavelength of the noise at frequency fmin. Application to air intake and outlet conduits of aircraft systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dassault Aviation
    Inventor: SƩbastien BarrƩ
  • Publication number: 20150059312
    Abstract: An exhaust stack includes an inlet section extending along a first axis and an outlet section extending along a second axis. A co-axial silencer is arranged in one of the inlet section and outlet section. The co-axial silencer includes a plurality of concentric baffles configured and disposed to absorb acoustics generated by fluid flow through the exhaust stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Prabhakaran Saraswathi Rajesh, Keshava Kumar Chilkunda Keshavamurthy, Rajkumar Jain
  • Patent number: 8807273
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler device has a ceramic catalyst body, and a holding tube having an end portion configured to hold the ceramic catalyst body therein with a holding mat therebetween. The end portion is reduced in diameter to form a reduced diameter portion. An exhaust pipe is connected to the holding tube, with a downstream end portion thereof being fitted to an inner circumference of the reduced diameter portion of the holding tube. An inner circumferential surface of the downstream end portion of the exhaust pipe is in proximity to a boundary portion of the holding mat and the ceramic catalyst body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Murakami, Hiroshi Mahira, Tadahisa Masatani, Kensuke Honma, Shiro Kokubu
  • Patent number: 8739923
    Abstract: A muffler for a vehicle exhaust system includes a first outer shell, a second outer shell that cooperates with the first outer shell to define a muffler interior cavity, and at least one porous partition that separates the muffler interior cavity into at least first and second sub-cavities. In one example, the porous partition is integrally molded with at least one of the first and second outer shells. In one example, an exhaust tube extends through the first sub-cavity and acoustic fiber material is located within the first sub-cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Faurecia Emmissions Control Technologies
    Inventor: Joseph E. Callahan
  • Patent number: 8701824
    Abstract: The inside of a muffler main body formed from an outer plate into the shape of a cylinder is divided into an upstream-side expansion chamber and downstream-side expansion chambers by partition walls. A catalyst is contained in the upstream-side expansion chamber having a larger volume, and a cylinder-shaped reinforcement member is attached to an inner surface of the outer plate of the upstream-side expansion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hayama, Kenichiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8511427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blower arrangement for gas. The blower arrangement comprises a blower with a blower housing, at least one gas-inlet opening formed in the blower housing and gas-outlet opening, and at least one rotary-driven blower wheel arranged in the blower housing. Furthermore, the blower arrangement has at least one silencer device with at least one gas guiding element, wherein the gas-guiding element comprises a plurality of silencer openings and is designed as a gas guiding pipe. The gas guiding pipe varies its cross section along its longitudinal extension and has a wall, which is designed to be wave-like along the longitudinal extension of the gas guiding pipe. The silencer device also comprises at least one silencer chamber, which is in flow connection with the silencer openings and is arranged at least in sections laterally behind the gas guiding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Gardner Denver Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Rudi Dittmar, Peter Fischer
  • Patent number: 8505682
    Abstract: Disclosed is a muffler assembly including: a) polymeric housing having an interior surface and at least one opening for at least one inlet and one outlet exhaust pipe; b) at least one metal inlet exhaust pipe and at least one metal outlet exhaust pipe positioned within the openings to provide housing-exhaust pipe interfaces; c) a thermal insulating material coating the interior surface of the polymeric housing and extending through the housing-exhaust pipe interfaces; wherein the thermal insulating material seals the muffler assembly at the housing-exhaust pipe interfaces; and wherein the muffler assembly has a leak rate of 105 Liters/minute or less at 4.5 psig pressure. An optional muffler assembly has body mounting adapters attached to the inlet and outlet exhaust pipes and positioned within the openings to provide housing-body mounting adapter interfaces. Also disclosed are processes for manufacturing the muffler assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Daniel P. Jones, Philippe Leboeuf, Karl Paul Maurer
  • Patent number: 8485153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air intake duct for an internal combustion engine that is capable of reducing the noise associated with the induction of air. The air intake duct includes an inlet and an outlet as well as an opening in a side wall located between the inlet and outlet. Mounted within this opening is a woven acoustic membrane. The acoustic membrane reduces inlet snorkel noise by dissipating pressure waves in the duct. The woven acoustic membrane is formed from a material that allows sufficient air flow into the air intake duct and also resists water penetration into the air intake duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Toledo Molding & Die, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Satarino, Jeffrey Lapp
  • Patent number: 8397863
    Abstract: A muffler having an inlet and an outlet, through which exhaust gas flows; a tubular main body; a heat exchanger inside the main body; a noise-deadening first conduit, which extends at least partly inside the main body, from a fork region located directly downstream from the inlet, to a converging region directly upstream from the outlet; a second conduit, which extends through the heat exchanger and at least partly inside the main body, from the fork region to the converging region and parallel to the first conduit; and a regulating valve located outside the main body, to selectively direct exhaust gas flow along the first conduit or the second conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.
    Inventor: Costanza Pazeā€²
  • Patent number: 8307944
    Abstract: A muffler (1) for an exhaust system (2) of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, with a muffler housing (3), which encloses a housing interior space (5), and with at least one exhaust gas-carrying hollow body (4) with two half shells in a half shell construction. The hollow body is arranged in the housing interior space (5). The two half shells (14, 15) of the hollow body (4) are fastened to one another in the area of a separating plane (16). The assembly of the muffler (1) or of the hollow body (4) can be simplified if the two half shells (14, 15) are fastened to one another by fastening elements (17, 18), which are formed directly on the half shells (14, 15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: J. EberspƤcher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Reinheimer, Michael Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8307948
    Abstract: A silencer device for a hair dryer comprises a container structure (2) exhibiting a plurality of inlet openings (8), an outlet opening (9) and a conduit (10) connecting the inlet (8) and outlet (9) openings to one another and further comprising a ring (14) made of sound-absorbent material, inserted in the conduit (10) such as to interfere with a flow of air between the inlet openings (8) and the outlet (9) opening in such a way as to at least partly attenuate sound vibrations associated to the air flow. The inlet openings (8) are made on a lateral wall (6) of the container structure (2) and face the axis (X) such as to define an air flow along a first transversal direction to the axis (X) such as to define a flow of air along a first transversal direction to the axis (X), and deviating means (12) arranged in the conduit (10) impress an axial deviation along the axis (X) on the air flow coming from the inlet openings (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Parlux S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Parodi
  • Patent number: 8307943
    Abstract: A system for venting a high-pressure flow stream is disclosed, the system comprising a device having a plurality of orifice plates, each orifice plate having a plurality of orifices, wherein the plurality of orifice plates are oriented relative to each other such that the pressure of the flow stream substantially drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kevin Samuel Klasing, Bradley Willis Fintel, John Carl Glessner, Jeffrey Lee Mason, Christopher Jon Potokar, Robert Proctor
  • Patent number: 8210307
    Abstract: A sonic absorption device for an air pipeline of an aircraft, which sonic absorption device comprises at least one curved pipe section whose respective interior wall is clad with a sound absorption material, wherein within the curved pipe section at least one air guidance means is arranged for a flow optimization, wherein for further weight-neutral sound absorption the air guidance means arranged within the curved pipe section comprises a microperforation on at least one side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Nikolai Potschka
  • Patent number: 8191675
    Abstract: A silencer is described for damping the outflow noise of compressed air from compressed air appliances, in particular compressed air appliances of vehicles, with an inlet port, with at least one outlet port and with a pot-like housing which is arranged between these ports and which has a pot casing and a pot bottom, a sound-absorbing material in the form of a cartridge of a filter knit, serving for noise damping, being arranged in the inner space of the pot-like housing, characterized in that a layer of fibrous material is arranged between the cartridge and the pot casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Weber, Hans Haecker, Frank Roeckle
  • Patent number: 8181671
    Abstract: An elongate flow tube having an interior cross-section surrounding a long axis, an inlet end for receiving a fluid flow and an outlet end for discharging the fluid flow, and a diffuser plate spanning the interior cross-section to separate the flow tube into an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber. The diffuser plate includes a plurality of apertures formed therein for directing the fluid flow from the inlet chamber to the outlet chamber. Furthermore, the diffuser plate is orientated longitudinally at a shallow angle with respect to the long axis of the flow tube to provide an indeterminate pulsation reflective surface, with the inlet chamber gradually decreasing in cross-sectional area and the outlet chamber gradually increasing in cross-sectional area across the length of the flow tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventor: Boyd L. Butler
  • Patent number: 8172038
    Abstract: A silencer for a two-stroke engine includes a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein a flow channel is provided between an outlet of a combustion chamber and the first chamber. A high charge degree of the combustion chamber has a pressure ratio in the region of the outlet which reduces or prevents an escape of fresh gas from the combustion chamber. The flow channel between the outlet and the first chamber is flow-favorably shaped in such a manner that the exhaust gas that flows out of the outlet because of its mass inertia predominantly flows into the first chamber and following charging of the first chamber flows back again and as a result a back pressure is formed in the direction of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: DOLMAR GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Kellermann
  • Patent number: 8146708
    Abstract: Disclosed is a muffler (1, 21, 41) integrated with a catalytic converter bed (9, 32, 52) including a polymeric muffler body (2, 22, 42), an inlet pipe (3, 23, 43) in flow communication with engine exhaust, said inlet pipe connected to a first body mounting adapter (5, 25, 45) so as to hold the inlet pipe a heat insulating distance from said polymeric muffler body, said inlet pipe in flow communication with an inlet of said catalytic converter bed (9, 32, 52), and a perforated exhaust pipe (4, 34, 44) in flow communication with an outlet of the catalytic converter bed, said perforated exhaust pipe mounted on a second body mounting adapter (6, 26, 56) so as to hold the perforated exhaust pipe a heat insulating distance from the polymeric muffler body; said inlet pipe and said perforated exhaust pipe holding said catalytic converter bed a heat insulating distance from the polymeric muffler body, said first body mounting adapter, polymeric muffler body, and second body mounting adapter forming a sealed internal c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Karl Paul Maurer, Daniel P. Jones
  • Patent number: 8087492
    Abstract: A filter bank is provided. The filter bank includes a housing having a front face and a back face. Air flows along an air flow path from the front face to the back face. A filter layer is held in the housing. The filter layer is oriented between the front and back faces such that air flows through the filter layer before discharging from the back face. An attenuation layer is positioned within the housing to attenuate sound as the sound propagates between the front and back faces. The attenuation layer is oriented to extend along the air flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Huntair, Inc.
    Inventors: Zareer Cursetjee, David L. Baugh, David E. Benson
  • Patent number: 8020663
    Abstract: According to the invention, at least part of the edge of the hole is loosely surrounded with a mesh structure so as to create a space between the latter and said edge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alois Sengissen, Bastien Caruelle, Jean-FranƧois Piet, StƩphane Perrin Decroux, Nicolas Molin, Pascal Souchotte, Emmanuel Jondeau, Jean-Michel Perrin, Constantin Sandu
  • Patent number: 8011470
    Abstract: A hyperbaric oxygen therapy system includes a pressure vessel containing a gas, an oxygen concentration measurement apparatus for monitoring the concentration of oxygen in the gas, an environmental control apparatus for controlling the temperature of the gas in the vessel, and a pressure/ventilation control apparatus for controlling the pressure of the gas in the vessel. The pressure vessel is capable of accommodating a patient. The oxygen concentration measurement apparatus includes an oxygen concentration analyzer and a plurality of gas lines connecting the oxygen analyzer to the pressure vessel. The pressure/ventilation control apparatus includes a pressure controlling valve, a pressure sensor, a ventilation valve, and a controller having a programmable pressure profile. The environmental control apparatus includes a scrubber, a heat exchanger and a blower located within the pressure vessel. A compressor for the system includes a compressor silencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hyperbaric Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Gurnee, Juan Jose Garay
  • Patent number: 8002081
    Abstract: An exhaust system includes a tubular inner shell for passing therethrough exhaust gases from a combustion engine, and a tubular outer shell enclosing the tubular inner shell and cooperating therewith to define a sound silencing chamber into which the exhaust gases are introduced. The tubular inner shell forms an inner peripheral wall of the sound silencing chamber, and an upstream portion of the inner peripheral wall is formed with a perforated wall area having a plurality of communicating perforations for communicating between an interior of the tubular inner shell and the sound silencing chamber, and a downstream portion of the inner peripheral wall has a non-perforated wall area having no communicating perforation defined therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shiro Honma, Jun Tanimoto, Takashi Maruyama, Yuji Takasugi, Tatsuya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7942238
    Abstract: A marine muffler comprises an elongate cylindrical housing having an inlet and an outlet and defining an internal volume partitioned, by an angularly disposed internal baffle, into a lower chamber in communication with the inlet and an upper chamber in communication with the outlet. A vertically disposed duct is insertably secured to the baffle to allow exhaust gas and exhaust cooling water to flow from the lower inlet chamber to upper outlet chamber. The exhaust duct may preferably be further adapted with internal structure forming a plurality of individual flow conduits or passages. The duct is preferably positioned such that a plurality of flow passage inlets are positioned in proximity to the lower cylindrical housing wall, with flow passage outlets positioned in proximity to the upper housing wall. The lower duct wall may further be adapted with sidewall apertures for improving exhaust flow dynamics therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Inventors: Woodrow Woods, Darrin Woods, Craig McLeod
  • Patent number: 7931120
    Abstract: An exhaust device for a vehicle, such as a scooter type motorcycle, comprises an exhaust pipe and a muffler. A first end portion of the exhaust pipe is connectable to an engine of the vehicle. The muffler includes an outer wall defining an internal space of the muffler. A second end portion of the exhaust pipe is located within the internal space of the muffler. A secondary air induction pipe supplies air to the exhaust pipe and is connected to a portion of the exhaust pipe that is within the internal space of the muffler. The secondary air induction pipe extends to the outside of the muffler via a through hole that has an edge, at least a portion of which is defined by each of a first member and a second member of the muffler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidehiro Nishimura, Hiromi Suzuki, Manabu Shimoishi
  • Patent number: 7905321
    Abstract: The insert for an engine exhaust system has at least one conical section of flexible mesh or rovings of metallic or other high temperature resistant fiber or tape. Each section includes a rigid anchor or attachment ring having an outer diameter closely conforming to the inner diameter of the exhaust pipe, with the anchor ring being welded to the mesh or roving or tape material or the mesh or roving or tape being crimped between two concentric rings. A smaller diameter support ring may be provided at the opposite end of the conical mesh, with the support ring braced by a series of radial arms. The device may serve to reduce the sound output of the exhaust system, and/or may serve as a spark arrestor as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Inventor: Ebbin C. Ballard, III
  • Patent number: 7878298
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a product including a fuel-cell exhaust diffuser; an air funnel; and at least two exhaust tubes attached to the diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Franz Winter, Wolfgang Heil, Steffen Doenitz, Michael J. Gorman
  • Patent number: 7849705
    Abstract: An air conditioning system, comprising: a channel to carry a flow of refrigerant, and a first noise reducer to change at least one property of the refrigerant as the refrigerant flows through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyuk Soo Lee, Young Hwan Ko, Byung Soon Kim
  • Publication number: 20100258377
    Abstract: An acoustic cooling apparatus for a computing system, includes a cooling muffler comprising sidewalls and an endwall, the sidewalls being substantially parallel to each other, each sidewall being substantially perpendicular to the endwall at one end, the walls forming an enclosure having an open end opposing the endwall. Each sidewall includes an exhaust opening. At least a portion of the interior of each wall of the enclosure being covered by sound absorbing material for attenuating air cooling sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin M. Cash, Steven E. Howell, Robert M. Lindsay, Tomothy A. Meserth, Gerard F. Muenkel
  • Patent number: 7753167
    Abstract: A silencer includes a cylindrical member held between a body connected to an exhaust side of a fluid pressure device and a disk-shaped retaining member. A net-shaped sound absorber is disposed around an outer circumference of the cylindrical member. A pressure fluid flows from the body into the interior of the cylindrical member and is discharged toward the sound absorber through a plurality of first through fifth exhaust holes formed in the cylindrical member. Accordingly, dust in the pressure fluid is removed by the sound absorber, which is formed of a plurality of stacked filters, and further, the pressure fluid is discharged to the outside after exhaust noises have been absorbed by the sound absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Fukano, Shoichi Makado
  • Publication number: 20100140015
    Abstract: A silencer is described for damping the outflow noise of compressed air from compressed air appliances, in particular compressed air appliances of vehicles, with an inlet port, with at least one outlet port and with a pot-like housing which is arranged between these ports and which has a pot casing and a pot bottom, a sound-absorbing material in the form of a cartridge of a filter knit, serving for noise damping, being arranged in the inner space of the pot-like housing, characterized in that a layer of fibrous material is arranged between the cartridge and the pot casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Stephan Weber, Hans Haecker, Frank Roeckle
  • Patent number: 7730997
    Abstract: The present invention provides an air intake noise reducing device, an internal combustion engine fitted with the air intake noise reducing device and a structure for fitting the air intake noise reducing device to the internal combustion engine. The air intake noise reducing device comprises a gasket (2) comprising a ring member (2a) held by connecting surfaces of an air intake passage (100) and protrusion holding portions (2b) extending from the ring member (2a) toward a center of the air intake passage (100); and a net member (3) comprising a net (3a) for rectifying intake air and connecting protrusions (3b) extending outward from the net (3). The connecting protrusions (3b) are held in the protruding holding portions (2b) such that the ring member (3) is firmly secured to the gasket (3). The air intake noise reducing device constituted by in the above-mentioned manner can reduce assembly man-hours without deteriorating a sealing property of the air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Kokoku Intech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Asada, Takuya Funatsu, Kenji Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7631726
    Abstract: An air induction silencer assembly includes an acoustic interference member disposed within a conduit. The acoustic interference member is tuned to acoustically cancel a selected noise energy frequency. An acoustic absorbing member is also disposed within the conduit. The acoustic absorbing member converts noise energy within the conduit into heat energy to attenuate noise energy within the air induction silencer assembly. The air induction silencer assembly connects to a flexible conduit that includes an inlet portion, an outlet portion, and a flexible joint that connects the inlet portion and the outlet portion together. The flexible joint includes a rolling lobe and a rolling surface. The rolling lobe moves along the rolling surface when the inlet portion moves relative to the outlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Donald McWilliam, Jason Lorne Pettipiece, Roderic Cole, Fran Warren