Fluid Pressure Responsive Discharge Modifier* Or Flow Regulator* Patents (Class 239/533.1)
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Patent number: 7510131Abstract: A nozzle, comprising a housing; and an assembly including at least two deformable conjugated parts separated by a spacer seal, the assembly being arranged in the housing so as to form a nozzle outlet, the housing and the parts and the spacer seal being deformable so as to define a geometry of the nozzle outlet and seal surfaces between the parts and the spacer seal and between the parts and the housing; wherein the parts and the spacer seal are configured so that a force needed for inserting the assembly into the housing exceeds an assembly force that deforms of at least one of the housing and the assembly, and wherein the parts and the housing are deformed by the assembly force when assembled together to create a seal between the parts and the housing; and wherein the housing is fabricated from material having a lower hardness than the parts and the spacer seal.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Inventors: Ernest Geskin, Boris Goldenberg, Thomas Ursic
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Patent number: 7506825Abstract: A control system for a fuel injector is disclosed. The control system has a nozzle member with at least one orifice, and a needle check valve. The needle check valve is recipratingly disposed to open and close the at least one orifice. The control system also has a control chamber located at the base end of the needle check valve, and a control valve movable to selectively drain and fill the control chamber. The control system further has an injector body, a first piston located within the injector body, and a second piston located within the injector body. The first piston is operatively connected to the control valve to move the control valve. The second piston is located a distance from the first piston to form a coupling chamber. The control system additionally has a partial-ball check valve associated with the coupling chamber to selectively replenish the coupling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Dennis H. Gibson, Mark F. Sommars, Jinhui Sun, Mohammad S. Dar
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Publication number: 20090032619Abstract: A check valve which includes a body adapted at one end to receive a liquid source and at the other end to engage with a spray nozzle and having a bore therethrough, an internal annular recess within the body, the upstream end of which body provides a valve seat, a valve assembly located in the recess and having a valve member having a generally curved end directed towards the seat and bias means to normally hold the member against the seat until the pressure at the inlet reaches a predetermined minimum.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Stuart Morgan, Sean Morgan
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Publication number: 20090020630Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus with a deterioration detection device that includes a volume changing chamber, the volume of which is determined by fuel pressure inside the injector. After injector nozzle opens, the time for the volume changing chamber to change from an initial volume to a target volume is measured and used for calculating changes in nozzle orifice size. The value of orifice size change can be used for both diagnosing injector deterioration and compensating fuel flow rate in a feedback control. In addition to detecting injector deterioration and failures, the volume changing device also dampens effects of noise in fuel pressure to fuel flow rate control and decreases chances of after-injection and second injection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventor: Mi Yan
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Patent number: 7464885Abstract: A spraying head assembly has a tubular body, a cap, an upper plug, a lower plug and a spring. The cap is attached to the body and has a spraying channel, a conical cavity and a spraying hole. The conical cavity is defined inside the cap and communicates with the spraying channel and the spraying hole. The upper plug is held in the body and comprises a spraying end, a connecting end, a head and shaft. The head has a recess communicating with the spraying channel having a conical bottom. Multiple passages are defined in the head and communicate with the recess. The lower plug is mounted movably in the chamber in the body and is connected to the upper plug using the spring. In this arrangement, a liquid supplied to the connecting end forms vortexes in the body to reduce particles of liquid nebulization and raise ejection speed and therefore distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Tanong Precision Technology Co., LtdInventor: Ming-Sheh Chang
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Patent number: 7464883Abstract: A valve (10) is described for use in oil injection of an oil mist (8) for lubricating/flushing cylinders in large engines and arranged with mounting means (14) for fastening in a cylinder wall (2) with a valve stem (12, 13) extending through the cylinder wall and with a nozzle outlet (6) at the inner end of the valve stem. A valve is made, the spray direction of which may be adjusted after mounting. Therefore, the valve is peculiar in that the nozzle outlet (6) is disposed in the inner valve stem part (13) which is rotatable relative to an outer valve stem part (12) . The outer valve stem part (12) is fastened to or made as an integral part of the mounting means (14).Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Hans Jensen Lubricators A/SInventors: Leif Eriksen, Sven Lauritsen
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Patent number: 7458522Abstract: A protective cover is provided for substantially enclosing and protecting a bubbler head of a drinking fountain or the like against contamination when water flow to the bubbler head is turned off. In one preferred form, when the water flow is turned on, the protective cover is hydraulically elevated or pops up to a raised position permitting substantially unimpeded projection of a water stream from the bubbler head for drinking, etc. In an alternative preferred form, the bubbler head is hydraulically elevated or pops to a raised position within a stationary protective cover when the water supply is turned on for substantially unimpeded projection of water stream from the bubbler head through an open flow port formed in the cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2005Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Haws Drinking Faucet CompanyInventor: Sam T. Hong
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Patent number: 7448559Abstract: A fluid product spray head (40) comprises a spray orifice (45) and a spray profile (100) upstream from this spray orifice (45). Said spray profile has a swirling chamber (101) connected, during the spraying of the product, to the spray orifice (45) and to at least one non-radial channel (110) connected to the swirling chamber (101). The spray profile (100) is provided in the bottom of the spray head (40). A obturator (38) interacts with the spray orifice (45) while being able to be displaced and/or deformed between a closing position of the spray orifice (45) and an open position of the spray orifice (45). The inventive spray head (40) has an axially hollow sleeve (150) that accommodates the spray profile (100), and said obturator (38) axially displaces and/or deforms at least partially in said sleeve (150).Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Valois S.A.S.Inventors: François Le Maner, Wilfrid Beaujour
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Publication number: 20080265064Abstract: A fluid flow regulator (20) comprising: a fluid inlet port (34) and a fluid outlet port (54); at least one open-faced flow control channel (60) defined by a planar bottom (62) and two side-walls (64) that communicates with the outlet port (54) at a junction (66) and has a cross-section that decreases with distance from the junction; an elastic diaphragm (40); a support shelf (58) on which the diaphragm (40) seats and which supports the diaphragm (40) along a planar contour parallel to the bottom of each of the at least one channel (60); wherein to regulate fluid flow, with increasing inlet fluid pressure the diaphragm (40) covers portions of the open face that are farther from the junction (66) in a region where the cross-section decreases with distance from the junction (66).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventor: Ron Keren
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Patent number: 7431224Abstract: The present invention provides a device for reducing the amount of water or other fluid discharged at a tap (4), which device comprises a body member (1) having an inlet adapted to be connected to a supply of water or other fluid, dual outlets through which the fluid is to be discharged to the locus, one fluid path between said inlet and said outlet is controlled by a flow/pressure responsive valve mechanism (10) located in the inner fluid path (9) between said inlet and outlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Inventor: Jonathan Paul Laker
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Publication number: 20080230634Abstract: A injector nozzle for a cryogenic fluid wherein both the kinetic energy of the discharge stream, and the residual volume of cryogenic fluid contained within the nozzle is reduced, the dispensing nozzle of a generally showerhead type configuration, with discharge ports disposed at the periphery of the showerhead discharge face, and a filler member disposed internal to the showerhead assembly, to reduce the volume of the conical chamber immediately upstream of said discharge faceplate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventor: Alan T. Ziegler
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Publication number: 20080216903Abstract: A flow regulator including a body that includes a first flow passageway and a second flow passageway, and a deformable blocking element disposed in the body, the deformable blocking element deforming due to pressure of fluid flow thereagainst, wherein the deformable blocking element is arranged to variably block the first flow passageway in accordance with its deforming due to pressure of fluid flow thereagainst, and wherein the deformable blocking element does not block fluid flow through the second flow passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventor: Gideon Lipshitz
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Publication number: 20080191061Abstract: A trigger-type liquid sprayer of the present invention is provided with a liquid sprayer body 2 having a nozzle 21 and a trigger lever 22 and a shroud 3 covering the liquid sprayer body 2 and sprays a liquid from a spray hole 211 in the nozzle 21 by a pulling operation of the trigger lever 22. The nozzle 21 is rotatable with respect to the liquid sprayer body 2 and provided so as to open/close a flow passage for the liquid according to a rotational position of the nozzle 21 when an operation lever 24 mounted on the nozzle 21 is rotationally moved, and an abutment portion 31 for positioning the nozzle 21 at a position where the flow passage is opened through abutment of the operation lever 24 is provided at the shroud 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicants: KAO CORPORATION, YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi INABA, Takeshi Omi, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Takayuki Abe, Masayuki Nakamura, Hidesato Kizaki
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Patent number: 7389942Abstract: A pop-up bubbler assembly for drinking fountains or other appliances that includes a head with a dispensing spout that rises upward out of a housing to dispense an arc of clean water when activated. The bubbler head then drops back down into the housing after water flow stops such that the dispensing spout is covered when not in use.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Inventors: Patrick Kenyon, Tu Hung-Chieh
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Patent number: 7341205Abstract: An existing diesel engine vehicle of light oil fuel is enabled to run as a diesel engine vehicle using DME as fuel without exchanging a whole diesel engine and at very low cost and easily. The shape of a tip part 21 of a needle valve 2 is set by a center diameter L3 for regulating a minimum flow path area at full lift of a fuel injection nozzle 1, a seat diameter L2 of a seat part 211 coming in contact with a valve seat part 33 and blocking communication with a fuel injection hole 31, and a shaft diameter L1, and a tip end angle is about 92 degrees. The center diameter L3 is set to ?2.5 mm, the seat diameter L2 is set to ?3.0 mm, and the shaft diameter L1 is set to ?3.25 mm. The ratio of the center diameter L3 and the seat diameter L2 is L3/L2=2.5 mm/3.0 mm=about 0.833, and the ratio of the seat diameter L2 and the shaft diameter L1 is L2/L1=3.0 mm/3.25 mm=about 0.92.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2003Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Bosch Automotive Systems CorporationInventors: Shinya Nozaki, Toshifumi Noda, Daijo Ushiyama, Yukihiro Hayasaka
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Patent number: 7320441Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection nozzle (1) for an internal combustion engine, in particular in a motor vehicle. A first nozzle needle (3) controls at least one first injection opening (5). A second nozzle needle (4) controls at least one second injection opening (6). A control chamber (32) is connected via a throttle line (35) to a pressure chamber (34) in which it is possible to adjust the injection pressure. A first control piston (41) cooperates with a first needle unit (17) that includes the first nozzle needle (3) and the first control surface (43) of this first control piston (41) can be acted on by the control pressure prevailing in the control chamber (32). In the closed position of the first nozzle needle (3), there is an axial play (44) between the first control piston (41) and the first needle unit (17).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2004Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Peter Boehland
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Patent number: 7284712Abstract: A valve back pressure chamber is provided to exert a back pressure of a first valve needle. Furthermore, a hydraulic pressure passage is provided to extend through the valve back pressure chamber. A valve body is provided to a second valve needle and is driven to connect and disconnect between the hydraulic pressure passage and a fuel tank and thereby to drive the first valve needle. The second valve needle is driven by hydraulic pressure induced by an actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kenji Funai, Masatoshi Kuroyanagi, Akira Shibata, Kenji Date
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Patent number: 7278592Abstract: A processing apparatus for fluid with a simple structure, high productivity, ability of precise dispersion, emulsification and grinding, is provided. The apparatus of the present invention comprises at least two processing faces of a first face and a second face, both of which are arranged in a tight-closed passage and positioned opposite to each other to constitute part of said passage, and a contact pressure applying mechanism for putting both faces 1, 2 into closed contact with each other, wherein the rotation of the second processing face 2 in respect of the first processing face 1 may cause dispersion or emulsification of the fluid to be processed between both processing faces 1, 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: M Technique Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masakazu Enomura
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Patent number: 7273185Abstract: The invention relates to a device for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, and which includes a fuel injector which can be acted upon by fuel at high pressure via a high-pressure source and is actuatable via a metering valve. Associated with the injection valve member is a damping element, which is movable independently of it and defines a damping chamber. The damping element has at least one overflow conduit for connecting the damping chamber to a further hydraulic chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Hans-Christoph Magel
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Patent number: 7261246Abstract: A sealing element for a fuel injector insertable into a receiving bore of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine for direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine includes a sealing element surrounding a nozzle body of the fuel injector peripherally. The sealing element includes a base body having an axial recess through which the nozzle body extends. The base body also has an annular recess which communicates with the recess and into which the sealing element is introduced. At a first contact face, the base body is in at least indirect contact with an end face of the fuel injector, and at a second contact face opposite the first contact face, the base body is at least in indirect contact with a step of the receiving bore.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinz-Martin Krause, Stefan Lauter
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Patent number: 7258285Abstract: An adjustable nozzle comprising a nozzle body with an inlet, an outlet, and a passageway having a smooth bore extending between the inlet and the outlet. The passageway has an inner dimension transverse to the central axis of the nozzle and a compressible wall wherein the inner dimension is adjustable to adjust the flow rate through the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Elkhart Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Eric Combs, Todd Lozier
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Patent number: 7225996Abstract: A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection unit provided with a plurality of fuel injection members. The fuel injection unit is held by a holding-and-supplying unit. The fuel injection members are connected to the holding-and-supplying unit by a connecting-and-supplying unit. A fuel is supplied to the fuel injection members through fuel supply passages formed in the holding-and-supplying unit and the connecting-and-supplying unit so as to extend from the holding-and-supplying unit through the connecting-and-supplying unit to the fuel injection members.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Takeo Oda
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Patent number: 7216815Abstract: A servo-valve for a fuel injector equipped with a pressure booster whose working chamber is separated from a differential pressure chamber by a booster piston in which an actuator can connect a control chamber to a first low-pressure return and the differential pressure chamber can be connected to a second low-pressure return or to a return system in which the returns are connected to each other. A first servo-valve piston has a first sealing seat, and a second piston, embodied as a sealing sleeve, is accommodated on the first servo-valve piston and, together with a valve housing, constitutes a second sealing seat. When the pressure in the control chamber is relieved, this second sealing seat is closed with a shorter stroke, sooner than the first sealing seat. When the control chamber is subjected to pressure, the second sealing seat opens only after the first sealing seat is closed.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Hans-Christoph Magel
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Patent number: 7216821Abstract: A pressurized fluid handling nozzle has a body with a first end and a second end, a fluid conduit and a recess at the second end. The first end is configured for connection to a pressurized fluid source. The fluid conduit has an inlet at the first end and an outlet at the recess. The nozzle uses the Bernoulli effect for lifting a part.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of EnergyInventors: Mark Reece, Gerald A. Knorovsky, Danny O. MacCallum
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Patent number: 7195182Abstract: A dosing device comprises a housing (1) provided with an actuator, a dosing opening (8), a guiding shaft (6) which surrounds part of the valve needle (7) and forms a valve chamber (10) with the same, and a fluid chamber module (4) which is welded to the housing (1) in the form of a duct for guiding the valve needle (7) into the housing (9). The fluid chamber module (4) and the housing (1) are assembled along a separation surface (13) which is subjected to pressure by the dosing liquid and is formed almost only by axial cylinder wall surface parts (13) in order to reduce the pressure load on the weld seam (13).Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Fischer, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Enrico Ulivieri
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Patent number: 7191961Abstract: In an injection hole plate of a fuel injection apparatus, a second-side hole section of each injection hole extends from a downstream end of a base wall of the injection hole plate and is communicated with first-side hole sections, which extends from an upstream end of the wall of the injection hole plate to an axially intermediate point of the wall. The first-side hole sections may discharge fuel into the second-side hole section in a manner that forms a swirl fuel flow in the second-side hole section. The injection hole plate may includes a collision portion, in which fuel flows supplied from the first-side hole sections collide with one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Atsuya Okamoto, Takeshi Mizobuchi, Takehiko Kato
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Patent number: 7185833Abstract: A nozzle having a housing and an assembly including at least two conjugated parts separated by a spacer seal. The assembly is arranged in the housing so as to form a nozzle outlet. At least one of he housing, the parts, and the spacer seal are deformable so as to define a geometry of the nozzle outlet and seal surfaces between the parts and the spacer seal and between the parts and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Inventors: Ernest Geskin, Boris Goldenberg, Thomas Ursic
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Patent number: 7185828Abstract: A supplying unit supplies energy to an actuator so that the supplied energy is kept therein, making displacement the actuator. An interrupting unit interrupts the supply of energy to cause the actuator to discharge the kept energy, making displacement the actuator. A converting unit is adapted to convert the displacement of the actuator corresponding to the kept energy into hydraulic pressure applied to the valve member, moving the valve member to open the low pressure port and close the high pressure port. The convert unit converts the displacement of the actuator corresponding to the discharged energy into hydraulic pressure applied to the valve member, moving the valve member to open the high pressure port and close the low pressure port. Energy which the actuator requires to move the valve member so as to close the high pressure port is larger than energy which the actuator requires to move the valve member so as to open the low pressure port.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshihiko Igashira, Satoshi Hayashi
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Patent number: 7182277Abstract: A spray device including a barrel having a bypass and at least two spaced stoppers defining a first and second chambers and a spray nozzle. Movement of the first stopper drives the second stopper to the bypass and the fluid in the first chamber into the second chamber, mixing the fluid and substance. Continued movement of the first and second stoppers drives the mixture through the spray nozzle. The spray device may include a third stopper having a body in the tubular barrel which is moved toward the spray nozzle. The movement of the third stopper provides space for the mixture and prevents unpressurized fluid from flowing through the spray nozzle. The third stopper includes an axial stalk. The stalk may be deformable or the stalk may be separate from the body and the spray nozzle includes a longitudinal internal passage which provides communication with the spray port.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Lionel Vedrine, Laurent Barrelle
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Patent number: 7175113Abstract: A drip irrigation hose includes a plurality of emitter elements secured to a tube at longitudinally-spaced locations to define, with an inner surface of the tube, a plurality of labyrinths each having an inlet in communication with the interior of the tube, and an outlet in communication with a tube outlet for discharging water from the tube outlet at a slow rate. The labyrinths are defined by a continuous strip of a relatively inelastic material bonded to the inner surface of the tube, and a formation of a relatively elastic material shaped to define at least the tips of a group of teeth for each of the emitter elements producing, with the inner surface of the tube a turbulent flow passageway at each of the longitudinally spaced locations along the length of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Inventor: Amir Cohen
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Patent number: 7108201Abstract: The injector tip of an injection valve which injects directly into the combustion chamber protrudes therein, thereby incurring the risk that combustion residues can become deposited on the injector tip. When the injection valve is in a closed state, the possible attachments of combustion residues along a separation line (10) are eliminated by means of a special configuration of the surface at the separation line (10) between the valve body and a valve plate. The surface is represented in a smooth, step-less, edge-less and curved manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2004Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Fischer, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Tim Schwebel
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Patent number: 7108205Abstract: A drip irrigation tube having a plurality of sequentially placed emitters formed on an interior wall of the tube. Each emitter employs a series of parallel flowpaths axially positioned along the tube to provide for closer proximity of inlet ports to discharge chambers thereby providing for closer spacing of the emitters. Overlapping of the inlet portion of the sequentially positioned emitters with the outlet portion of any preceding emitter provides for even more compact positioning of the emitters along the tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: D.R.T.S. Enterprises Ltd.Inventors: Rami Hashimshony, David Havazelet, Shay Joseph Mamo
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Patent number: 7089789Abstract: A fuel injection system (18) is calibrated as an assembled system. The fuel injection system (18) includes a unit pump (10) a cam follower (24), a joined fuel injection line (14) and injection nozzle (16). The fuel injection system (18) is mounted to a test stand an is subsequently calibrated to a specified fuel delivery and timing. The relative positions of the unit pump (10) and fuel injection nozzle (16) are fixed during calibration. The assembled fuel injection system is packaged and delivered so that the calibrated system can be installed in the relative positions fixed during calibration.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2003Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Stanadyne CorporationInventors: Kenneth H. Klopfer, Michael O'Brien
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Patent number: 7090151Abstract: The invention relates to a device for actuating a control piston or nozzle needle (27) via a control chamber (26). The control chamber communicates via a control chamber line (25) with valve chambers (3, 22) of a 3/2-way valve (5). The valve body (6, 40, 51) of this valve is switchable by means of an actuator (11). By means of a restoring spring (14), the valve body (6, 40, 51) is acted upon such that a seat portion (7), embodied in the housing (4) on the valve body (6, 40, 51), is put into its valve seat (20). The valve body (6, 40, 51) of the 3/2-way valve (5) has a seat portion (7) and a longitudinal slide portion (8), as well as hydraulic faces (31,32), facing one another, that make the state of pressure equilibrium of the valve body (6, 40, 51) possible. The valve body (6, 40, 51) is moved to different stroke lengths (10; 23, 24) by means of an actuator (11).Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Roger Potschin, Peter Grabandt
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Patent number: 7044407Abstract: A fluid dosing device for a pressurized liquid is disclosed, which comprises a chamber (35) which is supplied with pressurized liquid by means of a liquid supply line (17, 19); a valve needle (9) which is guided through the chamber (35), the first end section of said valve needle being able to be lifted and the second end section thereof forming a valve in conjunction with a valve seat disposed on the housing (3). Metal bellows (33) are provided as a leadthrough element for the first end section of the valve needle (9). The metal bellows seal the chamber in said region in a tight manner. A throttle point (37, 39) is provided between the valve needle (9) and the inner wall of the chamber between the metal bellows (33) and the mouth (18) of the liquid supply line (17) leading into the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Fischer, Bernhard Gottlieb, Andreas Kappel, Randolf Mock, Enrico Ulivieri
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Patent number: 7021565Abstract: Common rail fuel injectors typically have difficulty in changing an injection rate during an injection event. Fuel injectors for this common rail fuel injection system include a multi-position admission valve. The admission valve is stoppable at a middle position to inject fuel at a low rate. The lower rate is accomplished by leaking some fuel to drain to reduce injection pressure. The admission valve is also stoppable at a fully open position to inject fuel at a high rate. Fuel injection events are ended, and the fuel injectors maintained between injection events, with the admission valve member in contact with a supply seat to close the high pressure supply passage. This strategy can be used in conjunction with a spring-biased needle valve member to expand fuel injector capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Dana R. Coldren, Richard R. Ohs, Scott F. Shafer, Yongxin Wang
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Patent number: 7021561Abstract: A spray device including a barrel having a bypass and at least two spaced stoppers defining a first and second chambers and a spray nozzle. Movement of the first stopper drives the second stopper to the bypass and the fluid in the first chamber into the second chamber, mixing the fluid and substance. Continued movement of the first and second stoppers drives the mixture through the spray nozzle. The spray device may include a third stopper having a body in the tubular barrel which is moved toward the spray nozzle. The movement of the third stopper provides space for the mixture and prevents unpressurized fluid from flowing through the spray nozzle. The third stopper includes an axial stalk. The stalk may be deformable or the stalk may be separate from the body and the spray nozzle includes a longitudinal internal passage which provides communication with the spray port.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Lionel Védrine, Laurent Barrelle
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Patent number: 7021562Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine includes a bulkhead having adjacent angled wall segments, each of which includes an injector opening. Fuel injectors are supported by the bulkhead on adjacent wall segments. Each fuel injector includes an inlet fitting including ports for receiving fuel, a feed stem extending through the opening, and a manifold supported at the downstream end of the feed stem and including a plurality of manifold segments. Each manifold segment includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in a linear, planar array; with each nozzle including a fuel distribution assembly and an air swirler assembly. The manifold segments are supported at angles to one another, such that that the sprays from one array of nozzles in one segment are provided in a different direction than the sprays from another array of nozzles in an adjacent manifold segment.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corp.Inventors: Adel B. Mansour, Michael A. Benjamin
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Patent number: 7014130Abstract: A high-pressure fuel system including a housing having first and second high-pressure bodies (3, 5), which contact one another at a contact face. A high-pressure chamber in the housing passes through the contact face, and at least intermittently a high fuel pressure is present in the chamber (23). A wall part having a longitudinal axis surrounds the housing at least in the region of the contact face, so that a leak fuel chamber (32) is formed between the wall part and the housing which chamber is sealed off from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Sieghart Maier, Siegfried Ruthardt, Klaus Wuerth, Thomas Pauer
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Patent number: 7000851Abstract: Fuel injector having a sleeve-shaped connector (22), injection nozzle (12) and injection line (14).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Stanadyne CorporationInventors: Michael J. O'Brien, Robert W. Martin, Jr., Kenneth H. Klopfer
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Patent number: 6974088Abstract: An actuator with a top plate comprises at least one duct opening for a respective electric contact pin. A contact stud carrier with a contact stud is placed over the contact pin. To prevent the possible ingress of plastic into the duct opening between a gap (s) between the contact stud carrier and the top plate during extrusion coating of the actuator or its top plate, according to the invention it is proposed that a sealing washer be located onto the open side of the duct opening of the top plate to provide a hermetic seal. As a result, the contact stud carrier can advantageously always be arranged independently of the thickness of the sealing washer such that a specified actuator length (L) can be precisely maintained. This simplifies the production process for the actuator and reduces its production costs.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Roland Albert, Johann Heigl, Markus Mohr, Klaus Niesslbeck
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Patent number: 6974089Abstract: An injector has two interconnected main sections, a body section and an injector section. The injector section is connected to the body section by way of a form lock, and the connection is produced by a partial material connection. The injector is preferably suitable for use in a fuel-injection device for an internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2004Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Neumaier, Karin Wels
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Patent number: 6971592Abstract: A fuel injection device of an internal combustion engine includes a housing with an injection region. The housing contains a recess in which two valve elements are disposed. The inner valve element is shorter than the outer valve element. A loading device at least sometimes acts on the inner valve element in the opening direction. A control piston cooperates with the inner valve element. It has a pressure surface, which delimits a control chamber and whose force resultant points in the closing direction. The loading device exerts an approximately constant opening force on the inner valve element. The fluid pressure in the control chamber can be temporarily reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2003Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Friedrich Boecking
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Patent number: 6959699Abstract: One strategy for reducing undesirable emissions from internal combustion engines relates to finding ways to better mix fuel and air prior to combustion. One such method is commonly referred to as homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI); however, that strategy is problematic in both controlling ignition timing and avoiding overstressing the engine at higher speeds and loads. The present invention addresses these issues by mixing air and fuel vapor within an injector instead of within the engine cylinder. The air/fuel mixture is then injected into the engine cylinder at some desired timing and over some desired duration. Such a strategy permits for lower emissions due to better mixing of air and fuel, while also permitting control over some aspects of combustion timing and duration not apparently possible with a conventional HCCI strategy. The present invention is generally applicable to all internal combustion engines, but especially applicable to diesel engines.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2003Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Caterpillar IncInventors: Ronald D. Shinogle, Berfan K. Kochgiri, Mark S. Cavanagh
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Patent number: 6953162Abstract: A fuel injector for the direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having external ignition, includes a valve housing formed from a nozzle body, and a sealing ring which seals the fuel injector from a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. In the mounted state, a radial extension of a stamping sleeve that is disposed on the intake side of the sealing ring acts upon the sealing ring in such a way that the axial extension of the sealing ring is reduced in favor of the radial extension of the sealing ring relative to the unstrained state of the sealing ring.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Waldemar Hans
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Patent number: 6938839Abstract: A fuel injector includes a valve body and a valve seat positioned at a lower end of the valve body. A needle assembly is positioned within an inner bore of the valve body, the needle assembly including a needle body and an armature connected to an upper end of the needle body. A pair of guides are integrally formed with the valve body for guiding the needle assembly. The pair of guides includes an upper guide and a lower guide; the upper guide guiding the armature and the lower guide guiding the needle body.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Min Xu, David Lee Porter
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Patent number: 6840456Abstract: An injection valve is provided. A first conduit is disposed between first and second chambers of the valve. An entrance to the first conduit is located within the first chamber. A second conduit is concentrically disposed within the first conduit so that there is a first flow passage between the first and second conduits connecting the first and second chambers. The second conduit has an entrance communicating with the first chamber via the entrance of the first conduit and an exit defining a first outlet port of the valve. A cover opens and closes a first inlet port of the first chamber, and a biasing device biases the cover closed. An actuator moves the cover from the closed position to open the first inlet port.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2002Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Waleed M. Maswadeh, A. Peter Snyder
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Patent number: 6817548Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an inline fluid distribution emitter includes a hollow cylindrical body with a flow-rate control path formed on the cylindrical body. The flow-rate control path extends over an axial length of the cylindrical body and at least seventy percent of the circumference the surface of the cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2001Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: R.M. Wade & Co.Inventor: Richard G. Krauth
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Patent number: 6793158Abstract: A fuel injector has a fuel inlet, and a metering valve which is activated by an electromagnetic actuator to open and close an injection nozzle; the metering valve has a control chamber communicating with the inlet and defined by an end wall, in which is formed an outlet hole closed by a shutter moved along an axis by the actuator; the end wall and the shutter are defined by respective parallel, facing surfaces which rest against each other to compress the film of fuel issuing from the hole during closure by the shutter, and which have channeling formed about the hole to generate, in use, a counterpressure for the outflowing fuel.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile Per AzioniInventor: Mario Ricco
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Patent number: 6789750Abstract: A fluid dispenser device comprising a reservoir (10) containing one or more doses of fluid, a dispensing orifice (20), and a dispensing member (30), said device being characterized in that said reservoir is of the syringe type (10) having a hollow tube (11) provided with an upstream opening (12) and with a downstream opening (13), said upstream opening (12) being provided with a piston (40) which, at rest, forms a leaktight stopper, and which co-operates with an actuating rod (30) forming the dispensing member, and said downstream opening (13) being provided with an end-piece (50) firstly incorporating closure means (51) for forming a leaktight stopper at rest, and secondly adapted to define a spray profile (55) when the device is actuated.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Valois S.A.Inventor: Frédéric Heldt