Injection Nozzle Type Patents (Class 239/584)
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Patent number: 12155099Abstract: An ejector has a two-stage nozzle structure. The ejector is installed on a fuel cell recirculation line to supply new hydrogen and a recirculation gas. The ejector includes a housing having a first orifice defined therein and a poppet that is disposed in the housing and having a second orifice defined therein. A damage prevention member is disposed on a surface of the poppet to contact an inner surface of the housing, in which the damage prevention member contacts or is separated from the inner surface of the housing based on a pressure applied to the poppet.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Hyo Sub Shim
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Patent number: 12042817Abstract: A glue dispensing system and the glue supplying method thereof are disclosed. The glue dispensing system uses at least one feed tank to provide or supply the glue to a glue dispensing needle cylinder. Thus, the glue dispensing needle cylinder does not need to be replaced or the frequency of replacing the glue dispensing needle cylinder can be decreased in order to save more time, reduce manpower waste and decrease the cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.Inventor: Lu-Min Chen
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Patent number: 12037967Abstract: An injector includes a nozzle body extending along a longitudinal axis and at least one spray hole extending through a portion of the nozzle body to output a fluid from the injector. The spray hole includes at least one groove. The groove is configured to facilitate efficient mixing of the fluid with air or other surrounding materials for enhanced performance of the injector and/or other components associated with the injector.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Ross A. Phillips, Jordan P. Steele, Frank Husmeier, Bryan D. Rollin
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Patent number: 12017242Abstract: An atomiser assembly is provided, including: an oscillation chamber having a cavity containing a liquid to be atomized, a liquid inlet configured to provide a supply of the liquid to be atomized to the cavity, an elastically deformable element, and a mesh element comprising a plurality of nozzles; and an actuator configured to oscillate the elastically deformable element, the oscillation chamber and the liquid being contained in the cavity of the oscillation chamber form an oscillation system, in which oscillation of the elastically deformable element by the actuator varies pressure inside the cavity, and the actuator being further configured to oscillate the elastically deformable element at a resonant frequency of the oscillation system to eject liquid contained in the cavity from the cavity through the plurality of nozzles of the mesh element. An aerosol-generating system, an aerosol-generating device, and a method of operating an atomiser assembly are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Dara Bayat, Michel Bessant, Jerome Christian Courbat, Olivier Dubochet, Ivar Kjelberg, Philippe Niedermann, Pascal Andre Daniel Jean Pratte
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Patent number: 11919023Abstract: A mesh for an atomizer assembly is provided, including a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of nozzles extending between the first surface and the second surface, the first surface being at least partially coated with a hydrophilic coating or the second surface being at least partially coated with a hydrophobic coating, the plurality of nozzles defining an inner surface, and the inner surface being at least partially coated with the hydrophilic coating. An atomizer assembly for an aerosol-generating device, and an aerosol-generating device comprising an atomizer assembly, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Dara Bayat, Michel Bessant, Jerome Christian Courbat, Olivier Dubochet, Ivar Kjelberg, Philippe Niedermann, Pascal Andre Daniel Jean Pratte
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Patent number: 11879418Abstract: A fuel injector includes a nozzle body, and spray ducts coupled to the nozzle body and in spray path alignment with spray orifices therein. A nozzle check is movable within the nozzle body to open and close the spray orifices. Each of the spray ducts defines a duct center axis, and includes a center body forming, together with a duct inner surface, a spray jet passage circumferential of the duct center axis and reduced in area in a direction of spray jet advancement from the nozzle body.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Russell P Fitzgerald, Glen Clifford Martin
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Patent number: 11865568Abstract: A spray tip for a fluid applicator includes a stem configured to be inserted into the fluid applicator. The stem includes a stem pre-orifice portion and an insert receiving portion. The spray tip includes a pre-orifice insert having an inlet and an outlet. The pre-orifice insert is disposed within the insert receiving portion and disposed against a rearward shoulder of the stem.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventors: Ross D. Rossner, Eric R. Seckerson
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Patent number: 11852112Abstract: A fuel injector for a common rail fuel system includes an energizer section, an injector section, and control section axially disposed along an injector axis. To control and injection event, the control section includes a control orifice manifold that has a plurality of control orifices and control passages to distribute high pressure fuel with the injector assembly. To prevent plugging of the control orifices and passages, an internal filter element with a plurality of filtration orifices is located in proximity to the control orifice manifold.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Benjamin R. Tower, Daniel R. Ibrahim
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Patent number: 11766681Abstract: A liquid outlet device for reagent kit includes a spray pipe and a nozzle that is arranged at one end of the spray pipe, where each blocking strip extends along an axial direction of the spray hole and one end of each blocking strip is provided with a shoulder that extends towards a center of the spray hole. The spray pipe includes a spray pipe body, a plurality of blocking strips and a magnet bar that is movable along the axial direction of the spray hole in a space defined by the shoulders and the blocking strips. The nozzle includes an annular sleeve connected with the spray pipe body through threaded connection or clamped connection, an end plate, a nozzle pipe, a conical nozzle opening and an annular blocking flange.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Shijiazhuang Hipro Biotechnology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shushun Hao, Yanjun Sui, Yi Liu, Lizhu Chen, Zhaohui Yao
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Patent number: 11655787Abstract: An insert for use with a fuel injector comprises a shaft including a substantially cylindrical configuration defining a shaft cylindrical axis, a shaft radial direction, and a shaft diameter; and a head including a substantially cylindrical configuration defining a head cylindrical axis, a head radial direction, and a head diameter. The shaft and head may be attached to each other, the shaft cylindrical axis and the head cylindrical axis may be parallel to each other, the head diameter may be greater than the shaft diameter, and the shaft cylindrical axis may be spaced away from the head cylindrical axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Diego Caceres
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Patent number: 11598430Abstract: A valve device capable of precisely adjusting a flow rate includes: an operating member for operating a diaphragm and provided movably between a closed position at which diaphragm closes a flow path and an open position at which diaphragm opens the flow path; a main actuator that receives pressure from a supplied drive fluid and moves the operating member to the open position or the closed position; an adjusting actuator for adjusting the position of the operating member positioned in the open position by using a passive element which expands and contracts in response to a given input signal; a position detecting mechanism for detecting the position of the operating member with respect to a valve body; and an origin position determining unit that uses a valve closed state in which the diaphragm contacts to valve seat to determine an origin position of the position detecting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Daihi Tsuchiguchi, Toshihide Yoshida, Ryutaro Tanno, Yuya Suzuki, Kenta Kondo, Tomohiro Nakata, Tsutomu Shinohara, Masahiko Takimoto
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Patent number: 11536259Abstract: A liquid material ejection device in which a plunger is efficiently accelerated. The device includes a liquid chamber communicating with an ejection port and being supplied with a liquid material, a plunger including a tip portion having a smaller diameter than the liquid chamber and is moved in the liquid chamber, an elastic member urging the plunger upward, an arm disposed in a state extending in a substantially horizontal direction, an arm driver serving as a driving source to operate the arm, and a base member on which the arm driver is disposed. The device further includes a rocking mechanism unit connected to the arm driver and rockingly supporting the arm, the arm driver includes a plurality of actuators, the arm includes a pressing portion pressing the plunger downward, the plunger is pressed by the pressing portion, and the plunger is linearly reciprocated with rocking motion of the arm.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MUSASHI ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Kazumasa Ikushima
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Patent number: 11506163Abstract: A fuel injector nozzle assembly includes a two-piece outlet check having a timing control piece and a rate control piece. A nozzle passage is formed between a nozzle body and a two-piece outlet check, and a sac cavity is formed by the rate control piece and the nozzle body and fluidly connects a through-hole in the rate control piece to nozzle outlets. A starting-flow clearance is formed by the rate control piece and the timing control piece, and is opened by moving the timing control piece relative to the rate control piece. Moving the rate control piece relative to the nozzle body opens a main-flow seat. The nozzle assembly provides a slow starting injection rate shape in a common rail or similar fuel system and improved controllability over minimum delivery quantities.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Sana Mahmood, Glenn Brian Cox, Dana Ray Coldren
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Patent number: 11484893Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a coating head of a mist coating film formation apparatus including a main body is provided. The main body includes a top plate in which a supply port capable of supplying one of a cleaning liquid or a mist of a source material solution is provided, a bottom plate provided below the top plate in a vertical direction, and a sidewall provided between the top plate and the bottom plate; and the sidewall includes an upper end and a lower end connected respectively to the top plate and the bottom plate and forms an interior space with the top plate and the bottom plate. The sidewall includes a slit spraying the mist externally from the interior space, and a recovery port capable of recovering the supplied cleaning liquid or a mist coalescing in the interior space. The bottom plate includes a slope having a height becoming lower from an inner perimeter of the sidewall toward the recovery port.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Tianming Li
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Patent number: 11466652Abstract: A fuel injector device for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is provided. Included in the fuel injector is a body having a chamber and a pilot valve assembly including a seat retainer configured to be detachably insertable into the chamber of the body. A pilot valve seat is disposed in the seat retainer and substantially enclosed by the seat retainer. A stator assembly is disposed in the seat retainer and at least partially enclosed by the seat retainer. The pilot valve seat and the stator assembly in the pilot valve assembly are replaceable as a single unit of the pilot valve assembly for the fuel injector.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: CUMMINS INC.Inventors: Raymond V. Primus, Ryan S. Gray, Jr.
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Patent number: 11441524Abstract: A piezoelectric injector includes: a first piezo actuator and a second piezo actuator; a control valve connected to the first piezo actuator and the second piezo actuator through a control piston; at least one drain chamber in which the control valve and the control piston are movably received; a control chamber connected to the drain chamber through a first drain throttle and a second drain throttle having different diameters; and a needle movable by a change in fuel pressure of the control chamber to open and close at least one nozzle orifice. As at least one of the first piezo actuator and the second piezo actuator expands, a fuel is drained from the control chamber to the drain chamber through at least one of the first drain throttle and the second drain throttle.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Hyeon Jin Lee
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Patent number: 10975821Abstract: An injection device for metering a fluid, having the following: a valve, which has a valve needle and a valve seat; a nozzle shaft, which surrounds the valve needle and which holds a volume of the fluid; and an inlet chamber, which adjoins the nozzle shaft on the side of the nozzle shaft facing away from the valve and which has a flow connection to the nozzle shaft. The injection device has at least one compressible volume compensation element, which is filled with a gas and which, within the injection device, is in contact with the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Dejan Jovovic, Anatoliy Lyubar
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Patent number: 10794349Abstract: A mounting system for fuel injection systems connects a fuel injection valve to a fluid-conveying component and includes a connector piece of the metering valve being inserted at least partly into a receiving space of a connector body of the component; a support part disposed on the connector piece; a decoupling element; a dished disk inserted into a receiving space of the connector body and immobilized along a longitudinal axis of the receiving space relative to the connector body. The support part has a spherical support surface that faces toward a dished surface of the dished disk. The decoupling element is disposed between the spherical support surface of the support part and the dished disk. The connector piece is mounted on the connector body via the support part, decoupling element, and dished disk.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Rehwald, Prakash Gurushantappa Yadawad, Rao Bharath Narahari, Sunil Makarabbi
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Patent number: 10718304Abstract: It is prevented that residual fuel left in the vicinity of an injection nozzle outlet is carbonized to cause adherence of the carbonized fuel as deposit and changing of a spray pattern or an injection flow rate. A fuel injection valve includes a seat portion on which a valve body is seated and a seat portion in which an injection hole for injecting fuel downstream from the seat portion is formed, in which a concave surface denting in a direction opposite to a fuel injecting direction is formed on an outer peripheral side away from the injection hole at an end face located downstream of the seat member, and the concave surface is formed such that a material surface in an outer peripheral region has a larger wettability for the fuel than in an inner peripheral region.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Ishii, Kazuki Yoshimura, Taisuke Sugii
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Patent number: 10487784Abstract: A device and a method for improving combustion are disclosed. In an embodiment the device includes a combustion chamber including at least one combustion chamber inlet for feeding in fuel or air or the fuel/air mixture, a reactor chamber connected upstream of the combustion chamber, the reactor chamber comprising a plasma generator, wherein the plasma generator is a piezoelectric transformer configured to operate with a low voltage and a control apparatus for the plasma generator, wherein the device is configured in such a way that even before a start of an actual combustion process at least one gaseous component in the reactor chamber is enriched with radicals and ions by the plasma generator.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignees: EPCOS AG, RELYON PLASMA GMBHInventors: Georg Kügerl, Markus Puff, Christoph Auer, Stefan Nettesheim
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Patent number: 10253712Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for operating an injector of an internal combustion engine, the nozzle needle of said injector being operated by a piezo actuator by means of a servo valve. The method may include eliminating the idle travel of the piezo actuator by maintaining a permanent direct force connection between the piezo actuator and the servo valve, so that a change in force on the servo valve due to a change in pressure in the valve chamber when the servo valve is opened and closed and when the nozzle needle of the injector is closed is always transmitted to the piezo actuator as a change in force, detecting the resulting change in voltage and/or capacitance of the piezo actuator, and ascertaining parameters with which the injection quantity which is output by the injector is regulated based on the result of the detection.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventor: Hong Zhang
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Patent number: 10156295Abstract: A piezoelectric linear actuator includes a laminated piezoelectric actuator, a lower support member that supports the laminated piezoelectric actuator, a pressing member that biases the laminated piezoelectric actuator from the top thereof, a guide member connected to the lower support member to guide the pressing member; and a displacement transmission member which includes a pair of displacement transmission plates, an adjustment screw connected to the pair of displacement transmission plates, an output section connected to the pair of displacement transmission plates, and an elastic body that biases the output section downward.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Naofumi Yasumoto, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kohei Shigyou
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Patent number: 10132281Abstract: A fluid injector for injecting fuel into a combustion engine includes a valve, a tubular valve body and an orifice disc, wherein the valve comprises valve seat and a movable opening device in order to open and close the valve, wherein the orifice disc is arranged at the valve seat on the opposite side of the opening device and is configured to shape a spray of the fluid dispensed by the fluid injector in an open position of the valve. A compensation element and a fastening element are provided, wherein the compensation element is arranged between the valve seat and the fastening element, wherein the fastening element is configured and arranged to fasten the compensation element to the valve in the valve body in a pre-stressed manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMATIVE GMBHInventors: Stefano Filippi, Marco Bartoli, Antonio Liuzzo, Tommaso Galgani
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Patent number: 10125734Abstract: The invention relates to a method for nitriding a component of a fuel injection system, said component being loaded under high pressure and being composed of an alloyed steel. The method comprises the following steps: —activating the component in inorganic acid, —pre-oxidizing the component in oxygen-containing atmosphere between 380° C. and 420° C., —nitriding the component between 520° C. and 570° C. at a high first nitriding potential KN,1 in the ? nitride range, —nitriding the component between 520° C. and 570° C. at a lower second nitriding potential KN,2 in the ?? nitride range.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Christian Paulus, Heinrich Werger
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Patent number: 9835124Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector for internal combustion engines for injecting fuel at high pressure, comprising a pressure chamber formed in an injector body, in which pressure chamber a nozzle needle is arranged in a longitudinally movable manner, which nozzle needle has a cone region tapered in a combustion chamber direction and a pin region having a constant diameter d23 at a combustion-chamber end of the nozzle needle. The injector body has a substantially conical nozzle needle seat, from which a first injection opening extends, and a blind hole, which adjoins the nozzle needle seat on the combustion chamber side. The blind hole has a cylindrical segment, which has the diameter d31, and a hole base, from which a second injection opening extends. The cone region of the nozzle needle interacts with the nozzle needle seat and thereby opens and closes the first injection opening and the second injection opening with respect to the pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Koeninger, Gerhard Suenderhauf
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Patent number: 9828957Abstract: A fuel injector 100 includes a nozzle member 60 having a fuel passage 60a leading to an injection port 60b; a valve main body 51 adapted to reciprocate for opening and closing the fuel passage 60a; an elastic portion 56 elastically deformable in closing the fuel passage 60a by movement of the valve main body 51 in a closing direction, the elastic member being attached to one of the nozzle member 60 and the valve main body 51 and adapted to be abutted against the other of the nozzle member 60 and the valve main body 51 to close the fuel passage 60a by moving the valve main body 51 in the closing direction; and a stopper 70 adapted to restrict movement of the valve main body 51 in the closing direction by being abutted against the valve main body 51, the stopper 70 being formed of material different from the nozzle member 60.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Fujino, Takashi Furukawa, Yusuke Hongo
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Patent number: 9719474Abstract: An injector is designed to provide continuously variable injection rate shaping. With a hydro-mechanical internal feedback mechanism, injector needle position can be determined by controlling a feedback valve's on/off timing. According to the needle position, an injection needle valve opening can be controlled, and then the injection flow rate can be delivered proportionally. Also in accordance with the present invention a CRDI systems are provided including injectors of the present invention, wherein results demonstrate that injector designs of the present invention not only achieve rate shaping capability but also solve the above-noted problems of the current CRDI system. Finally, an iterative learning controller has also been developed to track the desired injection rate, and an injection rate estimator is designed to realize a cycle to cycle feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Regents of the University of MinnesotaInventors: Zongxuan Sun, Chienshin Wu
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Patent number: 9556844Abstract: A nozzle for a member of a fuel combustion system of an engine includes a hollow nozzle body. The nozzle body includes an outer surface, an inner surface, and an orifice surface. The outer surface defines an outer opening. The inner surface defines an interior chamber and an inner opening. The orifice surface defines an orifice passage extending between, and in communication with, the outer opening and the inner opening. The orifice passage is in communication with the interior chamber via the inner opening. The orifice surface includes a boundary surface and a protrusion. The protrusion projects from the boundary surface radially inwardly into the orifice passage.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Matthew I. Rowan, Lucas Burger
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Patent number: 9192395Abstract: An improved apparatus and method of securing body tissue may be performed with a robotic mechanism. The robotic mechanism may be utilized to tension a suture with a predetermined force and urge a suture retainer toward body tissue with a predetermined force. Ultrasonic vibratory energy may be transmitted to the suture retainer to effect a gripping of the suture by the suture retainer. The body tissue may be secured with a staple. Legs of the staple may be bonded together to secure the staple. The legs of the staple may be bonded together by transmitting ultrasonic vibratory energy to the legs of the staple. A tissue positioning assembly may be used to hold the body tissue in a desired position. Images of the body tissue being secured may be obtained using various known devices including one or more endoscopes, a fluoroscope, a magnetic resonance imaging device, and/or other known imaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: P Tech, LLCInventor: Peter M Bonutti
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Patent number: 9175640Abstract: A fuel injector assembly is provided herein. The fuel injector assembly includes an insulated delivery conduit in fluidic communication with a fuel pump and a conductive enclosure at least partially surrounding the insulated delivery conduit. The fuel injector assembly further includes a seal positioned between the insulated delivery conduit, conductive enclosure, and the fuel injector outlet with radial and axial forces against an exterior surface of the insulated delivery conduit, interior surface of the conductive enclosure, and the exterior surface of fuel injector outlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stephen Raymond Ryan, Brendan John Butcher
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Patent number: 9108214Abstract: A dispensing module and method of dispensing an adhesive includes a dispenser body having a valve element and a nozzle. The nozzle includes a nozzle member, a sealing zone, and a valve seat. The nozzle member includes a liquid passageway having a bore, a cylindrical surface, a second converging surface, and a shoulder. The sealing zone is defined by the cylindrical surface and extends from the bore toward the shoulder and engages the valve element to close a first volume of the liquid passageway from the inlet. The valve seat is defined by the shoulder and the second converging surface and has a circular line of contact that engages the valve element to close a second volume of the liquid passageway from the inlet. The first volume reduces to the second volume as the valve element moves distally along the sealing zone for discharging the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: John M. Riney, Joel E. Saine
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Publication number: 20150144710Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injector for use in delivering fuel to an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector includes a nozzle having a valve needle which is movable with respect to a valve needle seat. The valve needle travels through a range of movement between a closed position and an open position to control fuel delivery through at least one nozzle outlet. The valve needle cooperates with a needle sleeve or a control member which is located in a piston guide. The valve needle is movable relative to the needle sleeve or the control member. The needle sleeve or the control member is movable relative to the piston guide. The invention also relates to a method of operating a fuel injector; and a fuel injector control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventor: Mark S. Graham
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Publication number: 20150144094Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to injectors with integrated igniters providing efficient injection, ignition, and complete combustion of various types of fuels. These integrated injectors/igniters can include, for example, multiple drivers used to shape charges, controllers used to modify operations based on ionization parameters, and so on.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
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Publication number: 20150136877Abstract: When injection-hole inlets and injection-hole outlets are projected vertically onto an X-Y plane (N) perpendicular to a valve-seat axial center, an injection-hole arrangement angle (A), which is formed by a straight line (a) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet of a reference injection hole and the valve-seat axial center and a straight line (b) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet of the injection hole neighboring the reference injection hole and the valve-seat axial center on the plane (N), is set so as to become smaller as being closer to a Y-axis. A fuel turn angle (a) on a wide-angle side, which is formed by the straight line (a) and a straight line (c) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet and a center of the injection-hole outlet on the plane (N), has a relationship: 90°<?<180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukitaka Sakata, Tsuyoshi Munezane, Naoya Hashii, Keisuke Ito, Kyosuke Watanabe, Shota Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20150136099Abstract: A valve (4, 4?) for a fuel system for a combustion engine: A ball retainer (26) is provided with a cavity (28) to accommodate a ball (22). The ball (22) has a first seal surface (30) to cooperate with and abut sealingly against a seat (32). The ball retainer (26) has a secondary seal surface (34) to cooperate with and abut sealingly against the seat (32) when the ball (22) is not in the ball retainer (26). Also, a method for controlling a fuel system for a combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventor: Kim Kylström
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Publication number: 20150122918Abstract: A nozzle needle for an injector for injecting fuel includes at least one guiding section with a recess and a guiding surface configured to rest against an inner surface of a nozzle body of the injector, the recess at least partially delimiting the guiding surface and being configured to allow a flow of fuel along the guiding section, and the guiding surface being guided about the longitudinal axis of the nozzle needle in a helical manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Stephan Aurich, Carsten Hampel, Thomas Sarfert, Ferdinand Loebbering
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Publication number: 20150122917Abstract: A fluid injector includes a body associated with an outlet of the injector. An inlet tube is coupled to the body and has an open end for receiving fluid to be injected. An inlet cup has an open end and covers the open end of the inlet tube and also covers a portion of the body. The injector includes sealing structure including a primary seal providing a seal between the inlet cup and the inlet tube, a secondary seal between the body and the inlet cup and constructed and arranged to prevent liquid that is external to the injector from entering an interior of the injector through the open end of the inlet cup, and a surface feature on the body or on the inlet cup constructed and arranged to compress a portion of the secondary seal between the inlet cup and the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Aaron Shaw, Robert Wayne McFarland
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Publication number: 20150115068Abstract: A fuel injector configured as a high-pressure injection valve for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber includes: a housing having an housing end face on the combustion chamber side; an actuator; a valve-closure member operable by the actuator; at least one outlet orifice in the housing end face on the combustion chamber side for the fuel, the valve-closure member selectively closing or opening the outlet orifice; and a ring provided round about the outlet orifice in the housing end face on the combustion chamber side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Martin Kochanowski, Detlef Nowak, Guido Pilgram, Rainer Ecker
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Publication number: 20150115055Abstract: A fuel injection valve injects a fuel into the combustion chamber or into the injection port of an internal combustion engine, the valve being actuated by an actuator assembly that includes a small displacement actuator and a large displacement actuator. The method includes commanding the small displacement actuator to move the valve member to a first open position corresponding to a first flow area and commanding the large displacement actuator to move the valve member to a second open position corresponding to a second flow area that is larger than the first flow area such that the ratio between the second flow area and the first flow area is at least 15:1. The fuel injection valve can also be operated to alternatively inject two different fuels, one of the fuels being a gaseous fuel and the other one being a liquid fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: David R. Wager, Gordon P. McTaggart-Cowan, David K. Mumford, Sandeep Munshi
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Publication number: 20150115069Abstract: A fuel injection valve that injects fuel directly into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine includes: a nozzle inserted into a fuel injection valve fitting hole formed in the cylinder; a cylindrical tip seal holder attached to the nozzle; and an annular seal member that is fitted to the tip seal holder and seals between an inner circumferential surface of the fuel injection valve fitting hole and an outer circumferential surface of the tip seal holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Shusuke Akazaki, Atsushi Takaoku, Masahiro Soma
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Publication number: 20150101572Abstract: A fluid injection assembly for a combustion engine includes an injector body having a notch, an injector cup, which radially encloses an axial end of the injector body and has a projecting part, and a spring clip arranged between the injector body and the injector cup. The spring clip includes a ground plate, at least one spring element, and at least one holding element engaging behind the projecting part of the injector cup. The ground plate is arranged in the notch of the injector body. The injector body and the injector cup are coupled together by the spring clip by mechanical interaction via the projecting part and the notch, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Giandomenico Serra, Daniel Marc, Andrea Puccini
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Publication number: 20150102134Abstract: A method of fabricating an injector of a combustion engine includes providing a first base body and a second base body for a valve needle of the injector, forming the first base body such that a first base part with a first stop face is formed, providing an armature with a bore, forming the second base body such that a second base part with a second stop face and a third stop face is formed, disposing a section of the first base part and a section of the second base part in a bore of the armature, disposing the first and second base parts relative to each other such that the first stop face abuts the second stop face, and establishing a fixed coupling between the first and second base parts, wherein the armature is movable between the first stop face and the third stop face.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Stefano Filippi, Mauro Grandi, Francesco Lenzi, Valerio Polidori
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Publication number: 20150096538Abstract: A fluid injector for injecting fuel into a combustion engine includes a valve, a tubular valve body and an orifice disc, wherein the valve comprises valve seat and a movable opening device in order to open and close the valve, wherein the orifice disc is arranged at the valve seat on the opposite side of the opening device and is configured to shape a spray of the fluid dispensed by the fluid injector in an open position of the valve. A compensation element and a fastening element are provided, wherein the compensation element is arranged between the valve seat and the fastening element, wherein the fastening element is configured and arranged to fasten the compensation element to the valve in the valve body in a pre-stressed manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Stefano Filippi, Marco Bartoli, Antonio Liuzzo, Tommaso Galgani
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Publication number: 20150096301Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector (101) for a turbine engine such as an airplane turboprop or turbojet, the injector comprising a body (102) including admission means (104) for admitting fuel under pressure, a stop valve (107) mounted in the body (102) downstream from the admission means (104) and designed to open at a first determined fuel pressure and to remain open beyond that first pressure in order to feed a primary fuel circuit (136), and a metering valve (115) mounted in the body (102) downstream from the stop valve (107) and designed to open above a second determined fuel pressure, greater than the first pressure, and to remain open above the second pressure in order to feed a secondary fuel circuit (117). The stop valve (107) and the metering valve (115) form a common movable assembly (133).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Christophe CHABAILLE, Sebastien Christophe LOVAL
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Publication number: 20150076256Abstract: A system and method for operating a valve for an engine utilizing a high pressure actuating fluid that is used in the operation of fuel injectors. A pump may be used to increase the pressure of the actuating fluid, such as, for example, to 4000 psi. At least a portion of this high pressure actuating fluid may be delivered to a fuel injector. Additionally, at least a portion of the pressure actuating fluid may be delivered to an electro-hydraulic actuator. According to certain embodiments, the flow of the high pressure actuating fluid to the actuator may be controlled by spool valve. The spool valve may be part of the actuator. The use of the high pressure actuating fluid to operate the actuators may allow for a reduction in the actuators' size, which may allow for the actuator to be located in the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventor: Oswald Baasch
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Patent number: 8978364Abstract: An injector for injecting a reagent into an exhaust stream includes an outer tube extending through an electromagnet and surrounding an inner tube. A first end of the inner tube is sealingly fixed to an inner surface of the outer tube. A guide member and an orifice plate are each sealingly fixed to the inner surface of the outer tube. A second end of the inner tube is aligned by the guide member. A moveable valve member includes a pintle head guided by the inner surface of the outer tube to align the valve member with an orifice extending through the orifice plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Keith Olivier, Thomas P. Mallin, Matthew L. Roessle, Rick Simpson
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Publication number: 20150069151Abstract: A fluid injection valve includes a fluid inlet tube with a recess and a valve body including a central longitudinal axis. The valve body includes a cavity with a fluid outlet portion. The injection valve also includes a valve needle received in the recess and in the cavity. The valve needle is axially displaceable with respect to the fluid inlet tube and the valve body for preventing a fluid flow through the fluid outlet portion in a closing position and releasing the fluid flow through the fluid outlet portion in other positions. The injection valve includes a spring element arranged in the recess and operable to interact with the valve needle for biasing the valve needle in axial direction towards its closing position, wherein the spring element is configured such that a spring stiffness of the spring element depends on a pressure of fluid in the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Stefano Filippi, Mauro Grandi, Francesco Lenzi, Valerio Polidori, Marco Bartoli
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Publication number: 20150069144Abstract: The present technology relates generally to amplification for fuel injectors. In some embodiments, an injector for introducing gaseous or liquid fuel into a combustion chamber includes an injector body having a base portion configured to receive fuel into the body and a valve coupled to the body. The valve can be movable to an open position to introduce fuel into the combustion chamber. The injector further includes a valve operator assembly. The valve operator assembly can include a valve actuator coupled to the valve and movable between a first position and a second position upon receipt of an initial motion. The valve operator assembly can also include an amplifier configured to receive the initial motion from the valve actuator, amplify the initial motion, and transfer the amplified motion to the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: McAlister Technologies, LLCInventor: Roy Edward McAlister
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Publication number: 20150060573Abstract: A valve assembly for an injection valve includes a valve body with a central longitudinal axis, the valve body having a valve body groove extending circumferentially around the valve body and being designed to take in a gasket, the valve body groove having a first wall section and a second wall section, the wall sections configured to be coupled to the gasket in a manner that the valve assembly is sealingly coupable with a cylinder head of a combustion engine, and an injection nozzle enabling a fluid flow through the valve assembly. The second wall section is arranged relative to the first wall section in axial direction away from the injection nozzle. The first wall section extends to a first radius and the second wall section extends to a second radius, and the first radius is bigger than the second radius.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Marco Mechi, Roberto Ricci, Nicola Iannaccone, Luigi Gargiulo
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Publication number: 20150060574Abstract: A component having an insert part and an overmold that extends at least partly around the insert part, the insert part having at least one groove and the groove having an undercut at at least one edge, and the overmold at least partly filling the groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Robert Bodch GmbHInventor: Ralf Kromer