Plural Passages Discharge One Fluid To Other Patents (Class 239/424.5)
  • Patent number: 11596049
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for emitting electrons from a hollow cathode are provided. The cathode includes a plasma holding region configured to hold a plasma, a gas supply source configured to supply gas to the plasma holding region, and an orifice plate disposed on a periphery of the plasma holding region. The orifice plate comprises a plurality of openings constructed to receive electrons from the plasma. The plurality of openings decouple gas conductance and electrical conductance across the orifice plate. The diameters of the plurality of openings are within a range of 20%-60%, inclusive, of a diameter of a circular opening with an area equal to a sum of the areas of the plurality of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Michael McDonald
  • Patent number: 11230946
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an engine static structure. A rotating structure is configured to rotate relative to the engine static structure. The rotating structure has a target area with first and second directions. The first direction is greater than the second direction. A lubrication system includes a nozzle having a non-circular exit aimed at the target area. The exit provides a width and a height. The width is greater than the height. The width is oriented in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael M. Davis, Colin D. Craig
  • Patent number: 11015811
    Abstract: A swirler includes a swirler body defining a longitudinal axis. A stack of swirler plates is assembled to the swirler body stacked in a direction along the longitudinal axis. Each of the swirl plates defines a vane portion. The swirler plates are mounted rotated circumferentially about the longitudinal axis relative to neighboring ones of the swirler plates so the vane portions form a swirler vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Delavan Inc.
    Inventor: Jason A. Ryon
  • Patent number: 10851529
    Abstract: A sanitary outlet device (1, 2) including a housing (3) which has a fitting receptacle (6) with a thread (7) at an inflow end of a flow path (11). A mating thread (8) of a fitting outlet (12) can be screwed together with the thread (7). An outflow-side end of the thread (7) is equipped with a seal (9) by which the flow path (11) of the water flowing through a flow channel of the sanitary outlet device (1, 2) can be sealed outwards at a transition between a screwed-in fixture outlet (12) and the housing (3). The seal (9) forms an inner surface (10), which can be wetted by water flowing in the flow path (11) and which is free of rubber, at the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: David Birmelin
  • Patent number: 10690099
    Abstract: A metal valve body having a fuel injection port includes a nozzle plate accommodation part accommodating a nozzle plate of synthetic resin and aligning a center of the nozzle plate with a central axis of the valve body. A front end surface abutting against the nozzle plate is accommodated in the nozzle plate accommodation part. A swage projection fixes the nozzle plate to the front end side on which the fuel injection port is formed. The nozzle plate is swage-fixed in the state in which a spring action part is elastically deformed on the front end side of the valve body by the swage projection, and a nozzle hole formation part is constantly pushed against the front end surface of the valve body by the elastic force of the spring action part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10215413
    Abstract: A bundled tube fuel nozzle includes a forward plate, an intermediate plate, an aft plate and an outer sleeve. The forward plate, the intermediate plate and the outer sleeve define a fuel plenum therebetween. An aft plate axially is spaced from the intermediate plate and the intermediate plate, the aft plate and the outer sleeve define a cooling air plenum. A plurality of tubes extends through the forward plate, the fuel plenum, the intermediate plate, the cooling air plenum and the aft plate. Each tube of the plurality of tubes extends through a respective tube opening defined by the aft plate. A radial gap is defined between an outer surface of each tube and an inner surface of the respective tube opening. The plurality of tubes comprises at least one tube that is radially loaded against the inner surface of the respective tube opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy James Purcell, Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Lucas John Stoia
  • Patent number: 9932903
    Abstract: A fuel manifold and fuel injector arrangement has a fuel manifold and at least one fuel injector. The fuel injector has main and pilot fuel nozzles. The fuel manifold has at least one fuel pipe segment and each fuel pipe segment has an outer pipe, an intermediate pipe arranged within the outer pipe and an inner pipe arranged within the intermediate pipe. A thermally insulating medium is provided in a chamber defined between the outer pipe and the intermediate pipe. The chamber between the intermediate pipe and the inner pipe is fluidly connected to a first fuel supply and the chamber within the inner pipe is fluidly connected to a second fuel supply. The at least one pilot fuel nozzle is fluidly connected to the chamber between the intermediate pipe and the inner pipe and the main fuel nozzle is fluidly connected to the chamber within the inner pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Anthony Pidcock, Paul Ian Chandler
  • Patent number: 9597700
    Abstract: A method and system for generating vapors of liquid solutions where a pneumatically modulated liquid delivery system maintains a defined flow rate for a liquid solution. The pneumatically modulated liquid delivery system includes a flow meter configured to measure a flow rate for the liquid solution flowing from a pressure vessel; a microcontroller configured to determine a pressure necessary to achieve the defined flow rate; and an electronic pressure control unit configured to adjust the pressure inside the pressure vessel. The system includes a nebulizer coupled to the pneumatically modulated liquid delivery system configured to receive the liquid solution from the pneumatically modulated liquid delivery system at the defined flow rate and configured to generate an aerosol of the liquid solution. A heat tube can vaporize the aerosol generated by the nebulizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Christopher Field, Alexander V Terray, Sean J Hart, Duane A. Rogers, Adam Lubrano, Michael P. Malito
  • Patent number: 9297535
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle includes an inner wall defining a central passage extending in an axial direction of the fuel nozzle, a hub wall surrounding the inner wall and defining a first annular passage, an outer wall surrounding the hub wall and defining a second annular passage, and a shroud surrounding the outer wall and defining a third annular passage. A swirler may receive air and direct the air into the first annular passage. The swirler includes at least one swirl vane extending from the shroud to the hub wall that has an air passage extending between the shroud and the hub wall. The air passage is coupled to the first annular passage and has a first width adjacent the shroud and a second width adjacent the hub wall. The second width is larger than the first width defining a diverging outlet into the first annular passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jong Ho Uhm, Bryan Wesley Romig, Yon Han Chong
  • Publication number: 20150097060
    Abstract: An attachment to be employed with any spray device is disclosed. The attachment includes four vanes which are radially attached to an air hub with a central aperture, the central aperture adapted to receive the front portion of the spray device therethrough which when activated dispenses an atomizable substance in a pattern toward a workpiece. At the distal end of each of the four vanes, the vane is angled forward such that it generally points toward the workpiece. At the terminal end of each vane is a plurality of compressed air exit apertures. A compressed air source is attached to the air hub which guides the air through air conduits interiorly disposed within each of the vanes, where the compressed air is forced to exit each of the compressed air exit apertures forming an a second pattern which surrounds the atomizable substance pattern, and further boosts or pushes the atomizable substance onto the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventor: William C. Smith
  • Patent number: 8979004
    Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a nozzle. The nozzle includes a liquid passage, a first pneumatic passage, and an exit surface. The exit surface includes at least one recirculation inducing feature configured to reduce deposits adjacent to the first pneumatic passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Kui-Chiu Kwok
  • Patent number: 8967492
    Abstract: A droplet generation system includes a first nozzle configuration structured to receive a liquid and a gas under pressure in a controllable feed ratio, and to merge the liquid and gas to form an intermediate stream that is a mixture of the gas and of a dispersed phase of the liquid. A second nozzle configuration is connected to receive the intermediate stream from the first nozzle configuration and has a valve mechanism with one or more controllable operating parameters to emit a stream of droplets of the liquid. The mean size of the droplets is dependent on the controllable feed ratio of the liquid and gas and the flow rate of the stream of droplets is dependent on the controllable operating parameter(s) of the valve mechanism. A corresponding method is disclosed, as is the application of the system and method to the production of nanoparticles in a thermochemical reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Jonian Nikolov, Kok Seng Lim, Han Kwon Chang, Hee Dong Jang
  • Publication number: 20150041561
    Abstract: A gas cutting tip includes a flow path connector coupled to an outlet of a cutter head; an oxygen nozzle coupled to a center of a lower end of the flow path connector; a gas nozzle, wherein a first front end part of the oxygen nozzle protrudes to the outside farther than a second front end part thereof, a semispherical recess is formed inside the second front end part, a waterproof protrusion is formed at an upper end of the gas nozzle, a waterproof groove is formed at a lower end of the flow path connector, a first screw part is formed along an upper periphery of the flow path connector, a coupling nut is coupled to the first screw part, an insertion groove is formed at a center of an upper surface of the coupling nut, and a sealing pad is inserted into the insertion groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Taehan YANG
  • Publication number: 20140339340
    Abstract: The sprayhead device includes a housing (60) having an orifice plate (62) therein with at least one orifice opening (64) therethrough. A liquid line (36) delivers liquid to the sprayhead, where it proceeds through the orifice opening, wherein the liquid flow rate through the orifice and the liquid pressure are sufficiently great relative to the size of the orifice that the liquid moves through the orifice as a continuous stream. Gas is delivered to the housing and gas flows to the interior of the sprayhead through at least two openings (68) in the housing. The gas streams (flows) intercept the liquid flow perpendicularly, approximately 180° apart. The velocity of the gas flows is sufficient to break up the liquid stream from the orifice into a spray of droplets of desired size and velocity, accelerating them out of an acceleration duct (66) exit portion of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: PAULUS CORNELIS DUINEVELD, ALEXANDRA KULAS, MARTINUS BERNARDUS STAPELBROEK, JASPER ZUIDERVAART
  • Patent number: 8876022
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a droplet discharge apparatus that includes a nozzle for discharging a droplet from a tip thereof, and a discharge unit for injecting a gas toward the tip of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Postech Academy—Industry Foundation
    Inventors: In-Tae Kim, Geunbae Lim, Seong-Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 8870099
    Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a nozzle. The nozzle includes a liquid passage, a first pneumatic passage, and an exit surface. The exit surface includes at least one recirculation inducing feature configured to reduce deposits adjacent to the first pneumatic passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Kui-Chiu Kwok
  • Patent number: 8828182
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide plasma etch process chamber improvements. An improved gas injection nozzle is provided for use at a central location of the lid of the chamber. The gas injection nozzle may be used in an existing plasma etch chamber and is configured to provide a series of conic gas flows across the surface of a substrate positioned within the chamber. In one embodiment, an improved exhaust kit for use in the plasma etch chamber is provided. The exhaust kit includes apparatus that may be used in an existing plasma etch chamber and is configured to provide annular flow of exhaust gases from the processing region of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Detmar, Brian T. West, Ronald Vern Schauer
  • Patent number: 8807460
    Abstract: Embodiments of a spray gun incorporating a needle for applying multiple component materials are provided. In accordance with certain embodiments, the spray gun includes a fluid delivery tip assembly comprising an inner passage, a hollow needle disposed within the inner passage of the fluid delivery tip assembly, wherein the hollow needle comprises at least two indentions along an outer circumferential surface of the hollow needle near an end of the hollow needle, a first passage configured to deliver a first spray fluid to a fluid tip exit of the fluid delivery tip assembly, wherein the first passage is defined by a volume between the fluid delivery tip assembly and the hollow needle, and a second passage through the hollow needle, wherein the second passage is configured to deliver a second spray fluid to the fluid tip exit of the fluid delivery tip assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Finishing Brands Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Charpie, Marvin D. Burns
  • Patent number: 8720801
    Abstract: A lightweight spray device with spray body that is suitable for precision cast molding, solving general casting problems, such as shrinkage and bubbling; and a process for manufacturing the same. The spray device is one with magnesium spray body provided with a spray part and a handle part, characterized in that the magnesium spray body is one formed with the use of a mold for magnesium spray body wherein a first slide pin is provided at a region where the spray part and the handle part cross each other and wherein around the first slide pin, there is provided a product melt orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Ransburg Industrial Finishing K.K.
    Inventors: Manobu Kinoshita, Kanji Mori, Tomio Tsushima
  • Patent number: 8646703
    Abstract: Flow adjustment orifice systems for fuel nozzles include a metering plate that connects to an air/fuel inlet end of a fuel nozzle and a plurality of metering orifices disposed about the metering plate that align with a plurality of air/fuel inlet orifices on the air/fuel inlet end of the fuel nozzle, wherein at least one of the plurality of metering orifices reduces an open cross-sectional area for at least one of the air/fuel inlet orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bryan Eugene Hodgson, Rachel Christner Howard
  • Patent number: 8616003
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly comprises a first-fuel-inlet tube, a second-fuel-inlet tube, and a plate stack. The nozzle-plate stack (100) defines a central circuit, corner air circuits, a first fuel circuit and a second fuel circuit. The fuel circuits include a swirl chamber in which the fuel is swirled prior to being merged with the central circuit. The corner air circuits merge with the central circuit downstream of the fuel circuits' merge and provide an additional swirling component to further shape the fuel-air stream prior to ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Hollon, Adel B. Mansour, Erlendur Steinthorsson
  • Patent number: 8590814
    Abstract: A nozzle for use with a sprayer, such as a spray gun for a pressure washer or a garden hose system, includes a body, which has an inlet for receiving a pressurized flow of water. The nozzle further includes first and second outlets, and first and second passages. The first and second outlets are formed in an end of the body. The first passage extends between the inlet and the first outlet, and the second passage extends between the inlet and the second outlet. The first and second passages are substantially straight and parallel to one another. During operation of the nozzle, the pressurized flow of water from the inlet is split, passes through the first and second passages, and exits the body from the first and second outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Gilpatrick, James A. Louden
  • Patent number: 8490635
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement of two conduits, wherein the conduits are positioned parallel with respect to each other and wherein each conduit is provided with means suitable to remove solids from its surface and positioned along the length of one of the two sides of the conduit, wherein the means are one or more pairs of oppositely oriented nozzles, each nozzle having an outflow opening for gas directed, along the surface of the conduit, towards the outflow opening of the other nozzle of said pair, wherein the pairs of oppositely oriented nozzles of one conduit are arranged in a staggered configuration relative to the pairs of oppositely oriented nozzles of the other conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Mathew Baker, Wouter Koen Harteveld, Hans Joachim Heinen
  • Publication number: 20130175354
    Abstract: A water atomisation device for water evaporation and/or dust control. The device includes: a generally longitudinally hollow housing; a fan; a motor; and a hollow manifold. The housing extends between an inlet end and an outlet end, with the inlet end defining a first air inlet to an interior of the housing. The fan is within the housing, between the inlet end and the outlet end. The motor drives the fan. The manifold is shaped to generally correspond to that of the outlet end and has a plurality of water injector nozzles directed substantially inwardly and away from the outlet end. A distal edge of the outlet end is longitudinally spaced apart from a proximal edge of the manifold to define a second air entrainment inlet to an interior of the manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Industrial Equipment Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Industrial Equipment Pty Ltd
  • Patent number: 8464539
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly (10) comprising a first inlet tube (14), a second inlet tube (15), and a nozzle (16). The nozzle (16) is formed from a stack of plates (20-38) which are joined together in face-to-face contact. The plates (20-38) collectively have openings which define a nozzle outlet, a first inlet, a second inlet, a first circuit from the first inlet to the nozzle outlet, a second circuit from the second inlet to the nozzle outlet, and a fluid-outlet chamber through which both the first circuit and the second circuit pass. The nozzle assembly (10) can be used as a fuel injector for a gas turbine engine, with jet fuel being supplied to the first circuit during start-up and low power conditions and jet fuel being supplied to both the first circuit and the second circuit during high power conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Pelletier, James R. Pavlik
  • Publication number: 20130040255
    Abstract: A system includes a gasification fuel injector, which includes a first fuel conduit configured to inject a first fuel flow from a first fuel tip, a second fuel conduit configured to inject a second fuel flow from a second fuel tip, a first gas conduit configured to inject a first gas flow from a first gas tip, a second gas conduit configured to inject a second gas flow from a second gas tip, and a third gas conduit configured to inject a third gas flow from a third gas tip. At least one of the first fuel tip, the second fuel tip, the first gas tip, the second gas tip, or the third gas tip is recessed a distance away from an outlet of the gasification fuel injector. The first and second fuel conduits and the first, second, and third gas conduits are coaxial with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shaoping Shi, Constantin Dinu, Shashishekara Sitharamarao Talya
  • Patent number: 8371845
    Abstract: A head-mountable flashback arrestor for a gas torch having body, head, and tip sections. The head-mountable flashback arrestor may be disposed in a variety of gas torches, such as cutting torches, welding torches, heating torches, and so forth. The flashback arrestor also may embody a variety of filtering mechanisms, such as a porous metal structure. For example, the porous metal structure may be sintered from a metal particulate, such as a stainless steel powder, to form a non-linear or random flow pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Wakeman
  • Patent number: 8297530
    Abstract: A spray nozzle assembly that utilizes ultrasonic atomization techniques to atomize a liquid into a cloud of small or fine droplets is disclosed. The nozzle assembly also can use various air or gas atomizing technologies to propel the generally directionless droplet cloud toward a surface or substrate to be coated. The propelled droplet cloud may at this state have a conical or cone-shaped spray pattern. Additional air or gas atomizing technologies can be utilized to shape the propelled droplet cloud into a flattened fan-shaped spray pattern that can be usable in various industrial applications. The shape of the spray pattern and the distribution of droplets within the pattern can be adjusted by manipulation of the gas pressure used in gas atomization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Filicicchia, David C. Huffman, Michel R. Thenin
  • Patent number: 8292615
    Abstract: A method for burning gas in a burner, including leading the gas through an inner fuel tube and introduction of combustion air through an annular space surrounding the inner fuel tube. This space forms of an outer tube terminated by a conically converging section, wherein the end of the inner fuel tube forms a burner head. The major part of the primary gas is introduced into the upstream end of the burner head, to go into the combustion air that flows past the burner head, whereas a smaller part of a secondary gas is introduced into the free end of the burner head and into the constricted part of the annular channel that surrounds the burner head. The gas flow is accelerated past the burner head due to the reducing cross section and is burned downstream in relation to the burning head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
    Inventors: Øystein Spangelo, Otto Kristian Sonju, Torbjorn Slungaard, Mario Ditaranto
  • Patent number: 8104107
    Abstract: A nozzle structure of a bidet with swirling water current is provided, in which a user controls water spraying angle of water current sprayed from an outlet of a cleaning nozzle, and the water current with swirling force is sprayed in a circular pattern without causing an eccentricity, thereby increasing cleaning power and reducing water consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Woongjin Coway Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Worl Jin
  • Patent number: 7992808
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, a system includes a spray device having a liquid pathway leading to a liquid exit, an air pathway leading to an air exit directed toward a spray region downstream of the liquid exit, and an assembly disposed in the liquid pathway adjacent the liquid exit. The assembly includes a threadless pintle generally fit into a sleeve in a concentric manner without threads. The assembly also includes a generally annular passage between the threadless pintle and the sleeve and a passage coupled with the generally annular passage. The generally annular passage also has a cross-sectional area that alternatingly increases and decreases in a lengthwise direction along the liquid pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Micheli
  • Patent number: 7988074
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for the dispersion of material into a drying gas stream are disclosed. The material dispersion apparatus can have a nozzle and a venturi positioned downstream of the nozzle. The drying gas stream can be generated by pulse combustion dryer or by spray dryer and pass over at least a portion of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: J. Jireh Holdings LLC
    Inventor: David A. Mirko
  • Publication number: 20110126529
    Abstract: An air-assisted fluid injector has an injector housing having a nozzle bore and an injector nozzle sealably disposed in the nozzle bore and having an exposed injector face on one end that projects from an end of the nozzle bore, the injector nozzle having a fluid conduit on an other end that extends from a fluid inlet toward the injector face and that opens into a plurality of fluid outlet conduits that extend to a corresponding plurality of fluid outlets spaced apart on the injector face and operable to provide a predetermined spray pattern. The injector also includes an air conduit having an air inlet on the other end of the injector nozzle extending through the injector housing and opening into a plurality of air conduit outlets proximate the injector face, each air conduit outlet extending to and opening into a respective fluid conduit outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: DEOKKYU (James) PARK
  • Patent number: 7926733
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, a spray coating device includes a body and a spray formation head coupled to the body. The spray formation head has a fluid delivery mechanism comprising a pintle, a sleeve disposed about the pintle, and a throat between the pintle and the sleeve, wherein the throat decreases in cross-section at least partially lengthwise through the fluid delivery mechanism toward a fluid exit between the pintle and the sleeve. The spray formation head also has a pneumatic atomization mechanism disposed adjacent the fluid delivery mechanism, wherein the pneumatic atomization mechanism comprises a plurality of pneumatic orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Micheli
  • Patent number: 7886991
    Abstract: An injection nozzle having a main body portion with an outer peripheral wall is disclosed. The nozzle includes a plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes disposed within the main body portion and a fuel flow passage fluidly connected to the plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes. Fuel and air are partially premixed inside the plurality of the tubes. A second body portion, having an outer peripheral wall extending between a first end and an opposite second end, is connected to the main body portion. The partially premixed fuel and air mixture from the first body portion gets further mixed inside the second body portion. The second body portion converges from the first end toward said second end. The second body portion also includes cooling passages that extend along all the walls around the second body to provide thermal damage resistance for occasional flame flash back into the second body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Baifang Zuo, Thomas Edward Johnson, Benjamin Paul Lacy, Willy Steve Ziminsky
  • Patent number: 7883026
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, a system includes a spray device having a liquid pathway leading to a liquid exit, an air pathway leading to an air exit directed toward a spray region downstream of the liquid exit, and an assembly disposed in the liquid pathway adjacent the liquid exit. The assembly includes a threadless pintle generally fit into a sleeve in a concentric manner without threads. The assembly also includes a generally annular passage between the threadless pintle and the sleeve and a passage coupled with the generally annular passage. The generally annular passage also has a cross-sectional area that alternatingly increases and decreases in a lengthwise direction along the liquid pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Micheli
  • Patent number: 7877983
    Abstract: An arrangement for supplying a medium to an exhaust line of a combustion engine. The arrangement comprises a first exhaust passage defined by at least a first wall surface of an element, and a dosing device supplying the medium to the first exhaust passage. The arrangement is adapted to maintaining a degree of heating of the first wall surface so that the latter will be at a higher temperature than the medium's vaporization point when the liquid medium is supplied in the first exhaust passage. Therefore, even the medium which reaches the first wall surface will vaporize in the first exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Christian Künkel, Björn Westerberg, Anders Häggkvist
  • Patent number: 7819342
    Abstract: Atomizers (1) comprising a cartridge holder (4) which is arranged in the housing (3), a mouthpiece (5) which is provided on the housing (3) and in which an atomization device (6) is arranged, and a connecting tube system (7) which connects the atomization device (6) and the cartridge holder (4), wherein the atomization device (6) has at least one nozzle body (8) and the connecting tube system (7) has at least one passage (9) with a hollow plunger (10) mounted displaceably therein, wherein the hollow plunger (10) includes a valve body (21). In accordance with a first embodiment the atomizer (1) has a first hollow plunger (10a) mounted displaceably in a first passage (9a) and a second hollow plunger (10b) mounted displaceably in a second passage (9b), wherein the first hollow plunger (10a) and the second hollow plunger (10b) extend into the cartridge holder (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Spallek, Andree Jung
  • Patent number: 7762476
    Abstract: The present technique provides a system and method for improving atomization in a spray coating device by internally mixing and breaking up a desired coating fluid prior to atomization at a spray formation section of the spray coating device. An exemplary spray coating device of the present technique has an internal fluid breakup section comprising at least one fluid impingement orifice angled toward a fluid impingement region. In operation, the internal fluid breakup section forms one or more fluid jets, which impinge one or more surfaces or one another in the fluid impingement region. Accordingly, the impinging fluid jets substantially breakup particulate/ligaments in the coating fluid prior to atomization. The resulting spray coating has refined characteristics, such as reduced mottling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Micheli
  • Patent number: 7757964
    Abstract: An air cap for keeping a spray nozzle with a flat spray clean is presented. The air cap contain the nozzle and has a slit for the spray from the nozzle, through which opening an air flow is flowing in the same direction as the flat spray from the nozzle. The air cap is divided into a back component comprising an internal thread, and a front component comprising the slit. The components are rotatable relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Baldwin Jimek AB
    Inventor: Birger Hansson
  • Patent number: 7699245
    Abstract: A nozzle spray assembly for insecticide made in two halves that are connected together and define an internal reservoir. The lower half has an arcuate shaped exterior surface and includes an inlet tube in communication with the reservoir. The lower half also has nozzle openings adjacent the arcuate surface so that when air is directed over the arcuate surface past the nozzle openings fluid is sucked into the inlet tube and reservoir and out the nozzle openings to spray insecticide onto the surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Roll, LLC
    Inventor: Craig Rappin
  • Publication number: 20090277364
    Abstract: A nozzle tip [100] for a pulverized solid fuel pipe nozzle [200] of a pulverized solid fuel-fired furnace includes: a primary air shroud [120] having an inlet [102] and an outlet [104], wherein the inlet [102] receives a fuel flow [230]; and a flow splitter [180] disposed within the primary air shroud [120], wherein the flow splitter disperses particles in the fuel flow [230] to the outlet [104] to provide a fuel flow jet which reduces NOx in the pulverized solid fuel-fired furnace. In alternative embodiments, the flow splitter [180] may be wedge shaped and extend partially or entirely across the outlet [104]. In another alternative embodiment, flow splitter [180] may be moved forward toward the inlet [102] to create a recessed design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Richard E. Donais, Todd D. Hellewell, Robert D. Lewis, Galen H. Richards, David P. Towle
  • Patent number: 7604780
    Abstract: An ozone disinfection apparatus is provided whereby the ozone is dispersed in a vapor. The use of an ozonated vapor increases saturation of the article, surface or area being disinfected. Ozone from a generator on-board the apparatus is forced into contact with a fluid, such as water, to form the vapor. Particle size of the vapor is controlled by passing the vapor through an atomizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Agrimond USA Corporation
    Inventors: Alfredo J. Teran, Nidal A. Samad, Louis V. Mangiacapra
  • Patent number: 7506822
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are injectors and methods for use thereof. In one embodiment the injector comprises: an inner tip, a slurry tip disposed around the inner tip forming a second flow channel, and a wear insert disposed within the slurry tip and in contact with the second flow channel. The inner tip comprises a first flow channel attached to a first supply conduit that can supply a first media to the first flow channel. Attached to the slurry tip is a second supply conduit, which can supply a second media to the second flow channel. The wear insert comprises a metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ronald Ralph Cairo, Henry Choisun Chan, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 7503511
    Abstract: A bi-propellant rocket engine may include a primary propellant flowing in a central passageway, a secondary propellant flowing in a secondary passageway generally coaxial with central passageway and a pintle tip having a central chamber sidewall coaxial with the primary passageway and surrounding a central chamber, the central chamber sidewall having a first plurality of apertures there through so that some of the primary propellant exits the central chamber transverse to the flow of the secondary propellant in the secondary passageway. The pintle tip may have a secondary chamber sidewall, substantially thicker than the primary chamber sidewall, surrounding a secondary chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the primary chamber, the secondary chamber sidewall having a second plurality of apertures there through so that some of the primary propellant exits the secondary chamber transverse to the flow of the secondary propellant in the secondary passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies
    Inventor: Thomas J. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20080245282
    Abstract: A dispersion and aeration apparatus including a nozzle portion (11) having a first passage (14) having at least one inlet (15) and at least one outlet (16) for a first fluid, and a second passage (17) having at least one inlet (18) and at least one outlet (19) for a second material, the first passage outlets (16) located so that the first fluid mixes with the second material as it exits the second passage outlet (19) to aerate and disperse the second material in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: William Henry Richards
  • Patent number: 7422772
    Abstract: An applicator for dispensing a conformal coating material onto a substrate. The applicator has a body with a nozzle having a dispensing orifice at a distal end of the body, and assist air is supplied to a location adjacent the dispensing orifice. A seat is disposed in the nozzle around the dispensing orifice, and an end of a needle is movable into contact with and through the seat to terminate a flow of the coating material through the dispensing orifice and eliminate any coating material flow path downstream of the seat. A needle guide is used to laterally support the needle above the nozzle. The distal end of a nozzle is the distal end of the applicator and is exposed for cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Acum, Robert H. Hoffman, Jacques Mycke, Todd Weston
  • Patent number: 7404536
    Abstract: A suction cup removably attached to a housing lifts and moves an object. A venturi removably attached to the housing provides a vacuum effect to secure the suction cup to the object. The venturi includes a pair of opposing ears. When the venturi is inserted into a venturi hole of the housing, the ears compress a pin. When the venturi is rotated to an attached position, the ears do not contact the pin, and a spring biases the pin outwardly to secure the venturi to the housing. The pin is coupled to a button on the housing that can be slid to move the pin inwardly to allow rotation and removal of venturi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Syron Engineering & Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventor: James R. Kalb
  • Publication number: 20070278327
    Abstract: The fluids mixing nozzle includes a mixing chamber, a first fluid supply port, a second fluid supply port, a nozzle port and a converging-diverging nozzle. The mixing chamber includes a first side and a second side. The first fluid supply port flowably communicates with the mixing chamber. The second fluid supply port flowably communicates with the mixing chamber. The first fluid supply port and the second fluid supply port are disposed on the first side of the mixing chamber. The nozzle port is disposed on the second side of the mixing chamber and allows fluid communication between the mixing chamber and the converging-diverging nozzle. The converging-diverging nozzle includes a nozzle intake section, a convergent mixing flow zone, a throat section, a divergent mixing flow zone and a nozzle exit section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventor: Joseph E. Wolfe
  • Publication number: 20070262173
    Abstract: A spray nozzle comprises a cap 38 having an outlet orifice 41 formed therein for producing an atomised spray, the cap 38 having an outer surface 62, and further fluid outlet means 70 whereby a curtain of fluid can be directed over at least part of the outer surface 62.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: David Robert Percival, Frank Whittaker, Robert McCarthy