One Fluid Discharges Into Other In Concentric Conical Portion Of Outer Conduit Patents (Class 239/434.5)
  • Patent number: 11912558
    Abstract: A beverage dispense head assembly is made of a liquor port assembly, a mixer port assembly, a diffuser and a mixing bowl. The liquor port assembly has liquor ports that dispense liquid at an inward angle and outside the mixing bowl. The mixer port assembly has a first mixer port that dispenses liquid into the diffuser, and a second mixer port that dispenses liquid directly into the cavity of the mixing bowl. The diffuser has a cavity that dispenses liquid onto a shoulder extending from the diffuser wall, and a flange with ports to allow liquid to escape from the diffuser and into the cavity of the mixing bowl. The mixing bowl has a second opening at a second end thereof providing an exit to the mixing bowl for the liquids therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Bar USA LLC
    Inventor: Josh Augsburger
  • Patent number: 10926429
    Abstract: Shaping systems and methods suitable for cutting a material, and deburring devices for performing a deburring operation on an edge of the material. Such deburring devices include a manifold having at least first, second, and third nozzles having first, second, and third axes on different first, second, and third planes, respectively. The first, second, and third nozzles are adapted to project first, second, and third gas streams therefrom in the first, second, and third planes axes. A mechanism is provided for orienting the manifold to project the first, second, and third gas streams at the edge of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventor: Thierry Rozot
  • Patent number: 10220398
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new atomizing device with improved droplet formation. Smaller droplets are formed with increased micronized volume throughput, wherein high volumes of air are fed to a liquid sprayed from a liquid nozzle (2). High volume ratios result in mean free path between droplets being conveyed so as to minimize collisions and to prevent aggregation of the droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: George Saunders, Ryan Kittredge
  • Patent number: 9217567
    Abstract: A radiant wall burner apparatus. The apparatus includes an orifice for the introduction of fuel gas into an elongated mixing conduit for the directional flow and mixing of the fuel gas with combustion air provided through an inlet. The fuel gas and air mixture terminates through an adjustable burner tip. The radiant wall burner apparatus and burner tip allow for a two-leaf, adjustable radiant wall burner tip design that is less susceptible to heat deformation, flashback, and self-destruction, having fewer manufacturing issues, and having the capability to use hydrogen as a fuel source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Martin
  • Patent number: 9095858
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cold-spray nozzle that can be continuously used for a long time without causing clogging up of the nozzle compared to a conventional case to effectively obtain a high-quality film by a cold-spray method. To achieve the object, the cold-spray nozzle that is a convergent-divergent type cold-spray nozzle comprising a convergent part, a throat part, and a divergent part sequentially arranged in this order for constituting a working gas flow path along a working gas flow direction from an inlet side to an outlet side is employed. The inner peripheral surface of the divergent part has a conical shape and at least a part of the inner peripheral surface is constituted by a glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Plasma Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Fukanuma
  • Patent number: 9010663
    Abstract: Apparatus for generating a mist comprising a conduit having a mixing chamber and an exit; a transport nozzle in fluid communication with the said conduit, the transport nozzle being adapted to introduce a transport fluid into the mixing chamber; a working nozzle positioned adjacent the transport nozzle intermediate the transport nozzle and the exit, the working nozzle being adapted to introduce a working fluid into the mixing chamber; the transport and working nozzles having an angular orientation and internal geometry such that in use interaction of the transport fluid and working fluid in the mixing chamber causes the working fluid to atomize and form a dispersed vapor/droplet flow regime, which is discharged as a mist from the exit, the mist comprising working fluid droplets having a substantially uniform size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Brian Mayhall Fenton, John Gervase Mark Heathcote, Alexander Guy Wallis
  • Patent number: 9004375
    Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and method for generating a mist comprising a conduit having a mixing chamber and an exit; a working fluid inlet in fluid communication with said conduit; a transport nozzle in fluid communication with the said conduit, the transport nozzle adapted to introduce a transport fluid into the mixing chamber; the transport nozzle having an angular orientation and internal geometry such that in use the transport fluid interacts with the working fluid introduced into the mixing chamber through the working fluid inlet to atomize and form a dispersed vapor/droplet flow regime, which is discharged as a mist comprising working fluid droplets, a substantial portion of the droplets having a size less than 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Brian Mayhall Fenton, John Gervase Mark Heathcote, Alexander Guy Wallis
  • Patent number: 8991727
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a mist is provided. The apparatus has at least one working fluid supply conduit having an inlet in fluid communication with a supply of working fluid and an outlet in fluid communication with a first mixing chamber. The apparatus also includes a plurality of transport fluid passages, each of which has an inlet adapted to receive a supply of transport fluid and an outlet in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. Downstream of the mixing chamber is a nozzle having an inlet in fluid communication with the mixing chamber, an outlet, and a throat portion intermediate the nozzle inlet and outlet. The throat portion of the nozzle has a cross sectional area which is less than that of either the nozzle inlet or the nozzle outlet. The apparatus enhances the atomization of the working fluid to generate the mist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Jude Alexander Glynn Worthy, James Oliver French
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8870093
    Abstract: A pneumatic dispenser for dispensing viscous material, for example, mastic caulk, from a container is described. The dispenser comprises a fluid supply arrangement for accepting a dispensing nozzle of the container and providing a flow of pressurized fluid to the dispensing nozzle to enable the material to be dispensed as a spray. A moveable member can be used to control the flow of pressurized fluid, for example a member disposed on a cap for closing a container containing compartment of the dispenser and/or a moveable member disposed around the dispensing nozzle. The arrangement of the fluid supply arrangement allows for convenient control of the pressurized fluid flow for spraying the material. Also disclosed is a dispenser with a readily exchangeable pressure application interface for applying a dispensing pressure to the container, enabling the dispenser to be used with both cartridge and foil pack containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: P.C. Cox Limited
    Inventor: Richard Brummitt
  • Patent number: 8863502
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metering module (15) for a liquid reducing agent, in particular a urea-water solution, for mixing the reducing agent with a gas, in particular air, for further introduction into an exhaust pipe (5) of an internal combustion engine (1). The metering module (15) comprises a metering valve (31) having a conduit (33), a compressed air duct (49) and a mixing chamber (35). An outlet opening of the conduit (33) for the reducing agent is arranged in the mixing chamber (35) at a distance from the mid-axis of the metering module (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Feistritzer, Markus Foetschl, Werner Pape
  • Patent number: 8783584
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a cold spray method in which spray efficiency is improved by using a device comprising a similar construction to the conventional ones with minor change in conditions. The cold spray method employs the nozzle for cold spray system which comprises a convergent shape part, a throat part and a conical divergent shape part widened forward from the throat part used for making the raw material powder introduce from an inlet of the nozzle, which is located in the convergent shape part, into and shoot as a supersonic flow by using a working gas having temperature equal to or lower than a melting point of the raw material powder from a spout provided at the tip of the divergent shape part, wherein the convergent shape part is composed of a preheating region and a convergent region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Plasma Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Fukanuma
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8764412
    Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the mouth and over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan, that is, the air flow is created by a bladeless fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter David Gammack, Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
  • 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: 8590804
    Abstract: A two stage kinetic energy spray device has a first stage first nozzle having a receiving end that receives a particulate stream, an injection end located axially to the first nozzle receiving end, the injection end receiving the particulate stream from the receiving end. A second stage has a second nozzle, the second nozzle having a gas receiving portion that receives an effluent gas, a convergent portion that is downstream from the gas receiving portion and a divergent portion that is downstream from the convergent portion, the convergent portion and the divergent portion meeting at a throat. The particle stream is accelerated to a first velocity in the first nozzle located within the second nozzle divergent portion The effluent gas is accelerated to a second velocity in the second nozzle. First nozzle injection end chevrons allow mixing of particulate and supersonic effluent streams prior to exiting the spray device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sulzer Metco (US) Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Muggli, Marc Heggemann, Ronald J. Molz
  • Patent number: 8557051
    Abstract: A system for cleaning a substrate with a foam performs a method for generating a cleaning foam. In the first operation of the method, the system pumps a fluid into a premix chamber. The premix chamber is a component of a male plug which fits into a female housing in the system. Then the system injects a gas into the premix chamber to initiate generation of the foam from the fluid. The foam flows from the premix chamber into a sealed helical channel formed by a helical indentation on an outside surface of the male plug and an inner surface of the female housing to allow the foam to reach a desired state along a length of the sealed helical channel. In the last operation of the method, the foam outputs from an exit end of the helical channel through the male plug to a component of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Arnold Kholodenko, Anwar Husain, Gregory A. Tomasch, Cheng-Yu (Sean) Lin
  • Patent number: 8529226
    Abstract: A bladeless air fan includes a host and an airflow guiding frame. The host divides into a housing section to hold an airflow generator and a pivoting section to include two first pivoting portions. The airflow generator is connected to an airflow guiding manifold extended from the housing section to the pivoting section. The airflow guiding frame includes an air discharging portion and an airflow guiding passage and two second pivoting portions being annular to form two air intake ports communicating with the airflow guiding passage. The second pivoting portions are rotatably coupled with the first pivoting portions such that the airflow guiding passage communicates with the airflow guiding manifold. The air discharging portion encircles an airflow passage being formed at an inner diameter allowing the housing section to pass through to enlarge the range of the second pivoting portions rotating against the first pivoting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Kable Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: De-Zheng Li
  • Patent number: 8430379
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing fog by means of continually discharging water particles for humidification, sanitation, and dust suppression. The apparatus provides the user a device that utilizes pressurized gases for the de-correlation of water to generate and dispense water particles. The present invention makes use of a uniquely structured nozzle to dispense water particles that will not be attracted to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Inventor: Ido Goldstein
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8403650
    Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the mouth and over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan, that is, the air flow is created by a bladeless fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter David Gammack, Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8308445
    Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the mouth and over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan, that is, the air flow is created by a bladeless fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter David Gammack, Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
  • 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: 8172566
    Abstract: An apparatus for combustion of a liquid fuel, such as an atomizer or burner, and an associated method using the apparatus for combusting an atomized liquid fuel. The apparatus for combustion has an outer conduit, an inner conduit and a spray tip. The spray tip has a mixing chamber for receiving a liquid fuel and an atomizing gas, and an orifice for discharging the liquid fuel and atomizing gas mixture as an atomized liquid fuel. The inner conduit has external fins where at least some of the external fins contact the inner surface of the spray tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew James Watson, Xiaoyi He
  • Patent number: 8161984
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a device for generating a cleaning foam includes a female housing and a male plug. The plug includes an aperture into which a fluid flows from another component of the cleaning system. The plug includes a premix chamber which receives the fluid from the aperture and into which a gas is injected to form a foam. In an example embodiment, the chamber is a hollow cylinder and the gas is injected into the cylinder through channels which are tangential to the cylinder. The plug also includes a solid cylinder with a continuous helical indentation on the outside of the solid cylinder. When the male plug is inserted into the female housing, the continuous helical indentation and the inner surface of the housing form a helical channel through which the foam flows and is further mixed on its way back into the cleaning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Arnold Kholodenko, Anwar Husain, Gregory A. Tomasch, Cheng-Yu (Sean) Lin
  • Patent number: 8146837
    Abstract: An air-blast fuel injector is disclosed which includes an outer air circuit having an exit portion, an inner air circuit having an outlet configured to direct air toward the exit portion of the outer air circuit, and a fuel circuit radially outboard of the inner air circuit and having an exit communicating with the outer air circuit upstream from the exit portion of the outer air circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Neal A. Thomson, Philip E. O. Buelow, David H. Bretz
  • Patent number: 8128007
    Abstract: An air-blast fuel injector is disclosed which includes an outer air circuit having an exit portion, an inner air circuit having an outlet configured to direct air toward the exit portion of the outer air circuit, and a fuel circuit radially outboard of the inner air circuit and having an exit communicating with the outer air circuit upstream from the exit portion of the outer air circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Neal A. Thomson, Philip E. O. Buelow, David H. Bretz
  • Publication number: 20110277481
    Abstract: A fuel injector is provided and includes an outer body, a converging tubular body including a converging section, defining a converging annular passage therein and being disposed within the outer body to define an outer annular passage between an interior surface of the outer body and an exterior surface of the converging tubular body, the annular passages each being receptive of a fluid at respective inlets thereof such that the fluid is directed to flow toward respective outlets thereof and a fuel line to deliver fuel through at least the converging tubular body at the converging section to the converging annular passage in a substantially tangential direction relative to a circumferential curvature of the converging tubular body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Reena Bhagat
  • Patent number: 8016949
    Abstract: In particular a porous substrate (FS) like a fabric. Process to clean a substrate, comprising a step of subjecting the substrate to an air-water spray (SPR), generated using a spraying means (N) comprising an air passage (OPA) and a water passage (OPW), wherein air is greater than 90% by volume of the spray, the air velocity is greater than 80 m/s and wherein said air passage does not coaxially surround said water passage. Device to clean soiled fabric (FS) comprising a feed water container (CW) and an air compressor (AC) in fluid communication with a spray nozzle (N) comprising an air passage and a water passage, said device being capable of generating an air pressure in the range of 1 to 3 bar (absolute) and an air velocity greater than 80 m/s at the exit of said nozzle; and the air is greater than 90% volume of said spray, and wherein said air passage does not coaxially surround said water passage. An external mix spray nozzle is especially preferred in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Sambamurthy Jayaraman, Kirtan Shravan Kamkar, Lalit Kumar, Amit Sah, Rudra Saurabh Shresth
  • Patent number: 7992805
    Abstract: A feed nozzle assembly for introducing a mixture of a gas and a liquid hydrocarbon droplets into a vessel in the form of a substantially sheet-like spray, which feed nozzle assembly comprises a nozzle body provided at its upstream part with means to supply the gas and means to supply the liquid hydrocarbon to said nozzle body and at the downstream end with a closed outlet end which outlet end is provided with an elongated opening wherein in the opening an insert is positioned such that a continuous loop opening results for discharge of the mixture of gas and liquid droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Ye-Mon Chen
  • Patent number: 7926744
    Abstract: An air-blast fuel injector is disclosed which includes an outer air circuit having an exit portion, an inner air circuit having an outlet configured to direct air toward the exit portion of the outer air circuit, and a fuel circuit radially outboard of the inner air circuit and having an exit communicating with the outer air circuit upstream from the exit portion of the outer air circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Neal A. Thomson, Philip E. O. Buelow, David H. Bretz
  • Patent number: 7637441
    Abstract: A cold gas spray gun is disclosed. The spray gun includes a high-pressure gas heater which has a pressure vessel through which gas flows and a heating element situated in the pressure vessel, as well as a mixing chamber in which particles can be admixed with the gas through a particle feed. A Laval nozzle is arranged downstream in the direction of flow of the gas and consists of a convergent section, a nozzle throat and a divergent section. The high-pressure gas heater and/or the mixing chamber is/are at least partially insulated on the inside in the areas of contact with the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Heinrich, Heinrich Kreye, Tobias Schmidt, Peter Richter
  • Patent number: 7621466
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nozzle for cold spray and a cold spray apparatus using the same. The nozzle for cold spray includes a hollow-type nozzle section. The nozzle section includes a convergence inlet section in which the cross-sectional area is converging, a throat area connected to the convergence end point of the inlet section, and an outlet section connected to the end point of the throat area. The nozzle for cold spray is provided with a spray tube located inside the convergence inlet section, the spray tube having a spray hole formed at its end point in such a way as to be placed at the throat area or the outlet section beyond the throat area. The speed of the powder flow at the outlet end point of the outlet section reaches 300-1,200 m/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: SNT Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-hyun Ko, Ha-yong Lee, Jea-hong Lee, Jae-jeong Lee, Young-ho Yu
  • Patent number: 7427039
    Abstract: A siphon type of drying gun includes an arc diverter disposed between an inner end surface in an accommodation space in a body of the gun and a flared hole. A rear cover having a flange is screwed into the body. An exhaustion gap is defined between the flange of the rear cover and the arc diverter. A front tapered hole in the rear cover corresponding to the arc diverter to guide the compressed air admitted into the exhaustion gap to flow by following the arc diverter and taking a turn into the flared hole so to produce siphon effects against ambient air to reduce noise level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Inventor: Wuu-Cheau Jou
  • Publication number: 20080191052
    Abstract: In a supply system fluids are supplied separated from each other to a delivery head through chambers (1, 3, 5) formed in a single supply line. In the delivery head a fluid mixture is produced and delivered to the outside in the form of mist. It is possible to deliver different fluids or fluid mixtures within individual cycles by a control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventor: Eugen Malamutmann
  • Patent number: 7353657
    Abstract: A controlled stream of droplets, including liquid droplets contained within an atomized or nebulized stream, are directed toward or onto a target. The target may be a measuring instrument, a gas or mixture of gases, or a solid, liquid, or slush surface. A particularly promising application of this invention is the generation and control of a high speed stream of small liquid droplets directed against a cryogenic surface resulting in very rapid freezing of the droplets. This rapid droplet freezing device would have numerous commercial, industrial, and research applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Inventor: H Randall Craig
  • Patent number: 7306171
    Abstract: A plural component spray gun (10) is designed for spraying quick setting materials such as foams and the like. A mix module (14) plastic material provides at least twice the life with ½ the wear of currently marketed mix modules and is made of poly ether ether ketone reinforced with graphite and PTFE lubricants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Weinberger, Richard D. Anderson
  • Patent number: 7300039
    Abstract: This invention relates to remediation systems, and more particularly to remediation systems for water, soil, and sediment bodies using thin-layer coated microbubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Inventor: William B. Kerfoot
  • Patent number: 7264179
    Abstract: A nebulization system, which creates a uniform fog of tiny suspended liquid droplets, to lubricate the surfaces of MEMS devices. These droplets fall over the edge of a baffle and are then mixed with an umbrella-like sheet of N2 turbulation gas to generate a uniform cloud of droplets that fill a passivation chamber. The MEMS device is then positioned in this uniform cloud of lubricant droplets for a specified amount of time, thereby uniformly lubricating all the surfaces of the device. The system uses a laser monitoring approach to control the uniformity of the lubricant cloud by providing feedback to the system to control the flow of gases. The system also equalizes the pressure around the sample device seal to prevent gases from entering or exiting the chamber and thereby influencing the environment inside the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Roger A. Robbins
  • Patent number: 7143967
    Abstract: A cold gas spraying method and device, whereby the sprayed particles are accelerated in a gas flow. A powder tube and an outer nozzle body together form a Laval nozzle that produces high gas flow velocities. The injection of the sprayed particles occurs in the divergent section of the Laval nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Heinrich, Thorsten Stoltenhoff, Peter Richter, Heinrich Kreye, Horst Richter
  • Patent number: 7114663
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided whereby pumpable viscous fibrous material may be applied onto surfaces of high temperature process vessels while hot (i.e., while at or near such vessels' high operational temperatures of several hundreds up to several thousands of degrees Fahrenheit). More specifically, there are preferably provided a lance having a nozzle structure at a distal end thereof, and a pump system for pumping a pumpable fibrous refractory material to the nozzle. The lance has a length sufficient to allow it to be inserted into the high temperature process vessel so that the nozzle structure is adjacent an area in need of repair while an operator holds a proximal end thereof outside the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Fosbel Intellectual Limited
    Inventors: Kevin D. Pendleton, Stephen D. Cherico
  • Patent number: 6997401
    Abstract: A fuel injector adapter for providing nitrous oxide to an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The nozzle has a fuel injector passage, having a central axis and terminating at an injector outlet, for passing fuel from a fuel injector to an engine. The nozzle also has one or more first auxiliary passages, which may be arranged in an annular pattern around the fuel injector passage, and which terminate at first outlets. The nozzle furthermore may have one or more second auxiliary passages, which also may be arranged in an annular pattern around the fuel injector passage, and which terminate at second outlets. The first auxiliary passages and second auxiliary passages are adapted to supply nitrous oxide or other additional combustion reactants to the engine. The nozzle may be attached to an engine intake and may be adapted to fit between a fuel injector and an engine without substantial modification to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Holley Performance Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Oswald Baasch, Douglas Joseph Flynn, Laura Beth Rucker, Shane Wilson
  • Patent number: 6994276
    Abstract: A device for mixing fluids, in particular a gas injection valve, nozzle valve, mixing nozzle or jet compressor, is proposed. To that end, a first fluid-carrying device (12) for carrying a first fluid and a second fluid-carrying device (13) for carrying a second fluid are provided; the fluids are mixed with one another in a mixing region (16) that is in communication with the fluid-carrying devices (12, 13). In addition, a means (20) for generating turbulence in the applicable fluid and a heater, with which the fluid can be heated before reaching the mixing region (16), disposed downstream of the means (20) for generating turbulence in terms of the flow direction of the applicable fluid are associated with at least one of the fluid-carrying devices (12, 13). The proposed device is used in particular for mixing hydrogen and saturated steam and to deliver this mixture to a fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ian Faye, Thanh-Hung Nguyen-Schaefer
  • Patent number: 6936227
    Abstract: A feed-dispersion system for hydrocarbon feeds of fluid catalytic cracking units is described, which comprises: a feed-injection system made up of two concentric conduits, where the atomization fluid flows through the inner conduit, while the liquid feed flows through the annular space formed by the outer surface of the inner conduit and the inner surface of the outer conduit; an atomization unit having nozzles arranged in rows, with one row having central nozzles connected to the inner conduit for atomization fluid, and two or more rows of side nozzles, connected to the outer feed conduit, the central nozzles and side nozzles of the atomization unit being geometrically placed so that the energy of the atomization fluid is fully transferred by contact to the flow of feed, this resulting in the complete atomization of the feed; a mixing chamber formed by the edges of the central nozzles, the dimensions of which are able to prevent the coalescence of the formed oil droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras
    Inventors: Edson José Joaquim De Souza, Aurélio Medina Dubois, Cláudio Damiance Baptista, José Geraldo Furtado Ramos, José Loreto Moreira De Faria, Moacir José Bampi
  • Patent number: 6899289
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle (10) for mixing a gaseous fluid such as air and a liquid such as water and for ejecting an atomized mist of liquid droplets. The nozzle includes a nozzle body defining first (60), second (44) and third (52) annular passages along the length thereof. Pressurized fluid is introduced into the first annular passage (60) and a first restricted annular orifice (68) leads from the first annular passage (60) to the third annular passage (52). Liquid is introduced into the second annular passage (44) and a second restricted annular orifice (48) leads from the second annular passage (44) to the third annular passage (52). Liquid and gaseous fluid are aggressively mixed in the third annular passage (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: Thomas W. McCracken, Adam J. Bennett, Ronald J. R. Dignard, Charles Poulin
  • Patent number: 6840463
    Abstract: A quick color change system for powder coating spray systems includes a powder pump having a powder inlet and a powder outlet, and a powder flow path extending straight from the powder inlet to the powder outlet on a single longitudinal axis, a pump frame on which the powder pump is mounted, and a carriage on which the pump frame is mounted, wherein the pump frame may be moved linearly along the carriage. The pump may be used with separate flow air and atomizing air inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Erich W. Selic
  • Publication number: 20040251320
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nozzle for mixing at least two fluid substances together for coating a surface with a reaction product of said fluid substances and possibly a reaction product of the aforesaid substances and the surface material to be sprayed with them, said nozzle comprising substantially concentric channels for each fluid substance, the orifices of said channels being disposed close to each other at the end of the nozzle. According to the invention, between the concentric channels for fluid substances to be mixed together, the nozzle has a likewise substantially concentric intermediate channel connected to a compressed air source, the orifice of the intermediate channel connected to the compressed air source has a tapered form and a diameter at most equal to the inner diameter of the intermediate channel, and the orifice of the intermediate channel is directed obliquely towards the center axis of the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventor: Vesa Koponen
  • Publication number: 20040140374
    Abstract: A method of forming droplets comprises flowing a liquid through a channel; spreading the liquid into a thin film in the channel; and impinging the thin film with a flowing gas to atomize the liquid into droplets. The droplets may then be dried to produce dried particles, such as particles comprising a pharmaceutical active agent. The droplets formed by the disclosed process have improved size and/or size distribution characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: Nektar Therapeutics
    Inventors: Herman E. Snyder, James Nasiatka, Christopher M. Varga
  • Patent number: 6729561
    Abstract: A cleaning nozzle includes a mixing portion with inner walls thereof formed of quartz given smoothing treatment. As a result, the inner walls of the mixing portion have smooth surfaces. This construction effectively suppresses abrasion of the inner walls of the mixing portion, and particle generation from the cleaning nozzle. Further, the cleaning nozzle has a supply pipe surrounding a gas introduction pipe. This reduces areas of contact in the mixing portion between a gas and inner walls of the cleaning nozzle, to suppress particle generation with increased effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Hirae, Masanobu Sato, Shuichi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 6626158
    Abstract: A MIXING DEVICE OF GAS FUEL WITH AIR FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES, apt to be inserted in an air supply conduit towards the carburetor, in coaxial arrangement and in direct communication with the air inlet opening of the same carburetor, of the type that comprises a cylindrical and hollow external body inside which a hollow body in the form of a truncated cone is seated, the open base of smaller diameter of the same faces the air inlet opening that defines said external cylindrical body, while its open bigger base corresponds with the outlet opening of the same external cylindrical body, the assembly being completed with a lateral connector pick that projects itself outwards from the same external cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ricardo Cayetano Algeri
  • Patent number: 6595163
    Abstract: The steam injector is characteristic in its high pressure and improved start-up. It uses an axial drain (10) positioned in the centre of the neck (5) downstream from the mixing chamber (4) and inserted in the diffuser (7) for the purpose of narrowing the section of the neck (5) and evacuating a large part of the steam which has not been condensed. The axial drain (10) may be mounted so that it is axially mobile. Application to the water supply for steam generators in pressurized water nuclear reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Patrick Dumaz, Bertrand Duc
  • Publication number: 20020125336
    Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine is disclosed which includes a nozzle body having a discharge portion defining a discharge orifice, the discharge portion including a fuel circuit for directing a hollow fuel film toward the discharge orifice from a fuel pump associated with the gas turbine, and an air assist circuit for directing pressurized air from a source external to the gas turbine toward the fuel film upstream from the discharge orifice to impinge on an inner surface of the fuel film issuing from the discharge orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventor: David H. Bretz