Pilot Pawl Patents (Class 192/69.3)
  • Patent number: 11236835
    Abstract: A plug valve with adjustable actuation phases for controlling a flow rate by means of plug axial movement includes a power disk, a bearing, an inner spline, an outer spline, a valve stem, a pushing ring, a pushing fork, a plug body and a valve body. The plug body, the valve stem, the pushing ring and the outer spline are integrally formed, and are in spline connection with the power disk and the inner spline. The plug body has a special-shaped through hole in which a left portion thereof is narrow and a right portion thereof is wide. The valve body has a radial valve through hole, and the valve through hole corresponds to the plug special-shaped through hole provided at the same axial position segment, so that an actuating member for controlling actuation of a passageway is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Can Luo
  • Patent number: 11035421
    Abstract: A clutch system configured to transmit torque between an input shaft and an output shaft. The clutch system may include a clutch and a lubrication supply system. The clutch may include: an input portion disposed at an end of the input shaft; an output portion disposed at an end of the output shaft; and a sliding component that slides axially between the input and output portions to engage the clutch. The lubrication supply system may include: one or more lubricant feeds for delivering a lubricant to the clutch; and one or more lubricant drains for draining the lubricant from the clutch. The one or more lubricant feeds may include one or more respective valves. The one or more valves each may be configurable between settings that vary an amount of the lubricant delivered to the clutch via the respective one of the one or more lubricant feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jason Winfred Jewett, Thomas Joseph Farineau, Siddharth Navinchandra Ashar, Andrew John Lammas, Paul Richard Stukenborg, Eric Paul Knopf, Mateusz Wojciech Golebiowski, Chad Duncan Munkres, Eric Lorin Letterman
  • Patent number: 10533617
    Abstract: A one-way clutch having an anti-deployment feature operable to counteract hydraulic forces acting on the strut so as to assist in maintaining the strut in a non-deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: MAGNA POWERTRAIN INC.
    Inventors: Ranjit Uppal, Sean Steele, Alberto Passos, Dusan Milacic