Rigid Fluid Confining Distributor Patents (Class 239/589)
  • Patent number: 12059772
    Abstract: The disclosure identifies an apparatus, system of and method for using an interchangeable fluid jet tool, the tool in at least one embodiment being a waterjet tool device that may be interchangeably integrated with a machine having any form of reciprocating or rotating pump (which may be used as a coolant or cutting fluid pump), and coupled with a motor powered rotatory drive machine, such as a spindle, having any type of tool interchange attachment and tool holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: FMG Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: David Giles
  • Patent number: 11970118
    Abstract: An optical unit includes an optical sensor, a protective cover disposed in a direction of view from the optical sensor, an actuator to drive the protective cover, and a casing including a space between the casing and the protective cover and to which the optical sensor and the protective cover are attached. A first region on the casing adjacent to an outer edge of the protective cover with the space interposed between the casing and the outer edge of the protective cover is a hydrophobic region where a contact angle of a droplet is equal to or larger than a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Masaki Nagata
  • Patent number: 11718274
    Abstract: Methods and systems for thermal management of sensors of a vehicle. The system includes a processor and a sensor cleaning subsystem including a cleaning fluid reservoir and a port that is positioned to direct cleaning fluid from the reservoir to a vehicle sensor. The processor is configured to: receive temperature data corresponding to the sensor from a temperature monitor, determine that a current temperature of the sensor is greater than a first threshold temperature, and cause the sensor cleaning subsystem to initiate a cleaning cycle and direct the cleaning fluid to the sensor to cool down the sensor in response to determining that the current temperature of the sensor is greater than the first threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Jackson, Dustin R. Yautz
  • Patent number: 11679454
    Abstract: A method of cavitation peening may include coupling a moveable water source to a portable nozzle, through a flexible conduit. The method may include positioning the nozzle adjacent a treatment surface and discharging a first and second stream of fluid through a first and second channel of the nozzle, with the second channel concentrically positioned around the first channel. The first stream may have a first pressure, and the second stream may have a second pressure, the first pressure being greater than the second pressure and the two streams combining to generate a cloud of cavitation bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel Gordon Sanders, Amanda Jean Thoreson, Hali The Diep
  • Patent number: 11617477
    Abstract: A total-use dispenser for dispensing a fluid product therefrom. A total-use dispenser may have a body forming an enclosure having both a top opening and a bottom outlet and a tapering portion that tapers down toward the bottom outlet and a pump configured in the top opening to dispense the fluid product from the dispenser. The pump may be configured in the top opening to pump air into the rigid body to force fluid product therefrom. The fluid product may be dispensed from a bottom outlet or from a spout coupled with a spout conduit that extends into the squeezable body of the total-use dispenser. The total-use dispenser enables substantially all the fluid product to be dispensed from the enclosure, such as at least 90% by weight, at least 97% by weight and most preferably 99% or more by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: EFFICIENCY PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Jim E. Fulbrook
  • Patent number: 11511304
    Abstract: A quick-connect system for a plumbing fixture includes an arm attachment, an intermediate fitting, and a collar. A first end of the arm attachment is mountable to a fluid conduit. At least a portion of the arm attachment at a second end of the arm attachment is sized to be received within the intermediate fitting and the collar. The collar is configured to slidably engage with the intermediate fitting and press against the intermediate fitting to deform the intermediate fitting over the second end of the arm attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: KOHLER CO.
    Inventors: Brandon H. Miller, Liam J. MacGillivray, Jack E. Davies
  • Patent number: 11331635
    Abstract: A minute bubble generator includes a flow path member including a flow path allowing a liquid to pass therethrough; and a colliding part provided in the flow path and generating minute bubbles in the liquid passing through the flow path by locally reducing a cross sectional area of the flow path. The colliding part is formed integrally with the flow path member and is provided closer to an upstream end or a downstream end relative to a lengthwise center of the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Sasaki, Satoshi Nagai, Yasuhiro Komori, Tomonori Uchiyama, Hiroshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11247644
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor including a sensor window; a nozzle aimed at the sensor window; a supply line to supply fluid to the nozzle; a primary reservoir to supply fluid to the supply line; a first valve actuatable to inject fluid from a first reservoir into the supply line; a second valve actuatable to inject fluid from a second reservoir into the supply line; a third valve actuatable to inject fluid from a third reservoir into the supply line; and a computer communicatively coupled to the sensor and the valves. The computer is programmed to actuate the first valve in response to determining a first condition based on data from the sensor, actuate the second valve in response to determining a second condition based on data from the sensor, and actuate the third valve in response to determining a third condition based on data from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Robertson, Jr., Tyler D. Hamilton, Ashwin Arunmozhi, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11136614
    Abstract: Methods for seeding live cells onto spatially defined regions of a substrate including multiple features (e.g., microwells or other microenvironments) utilize a stencil embodied in a hole-defining sacrificial film. A sacrificial film devoid of holes may be applied over features of a substrate, and a hole generating mechanism (e.g., hot needle or laser) aligned with features may be used to define holes in the film. Alternatively, holes may be predefined in a sacrificial film to form a stencil, and the stencil may be assembled to the substrate with the holes registered with features thereof. Thereafter, cells are seeded through holes in the film. Seeded cells are subject to incubation, further processing, and/or performance of one or more assays, and the hole-defining sacrificial film (stencil) may be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Jacob Messner, Clifford Anderson, Honor Glenn, Kristen Lee, Mark Richards, Laimonas Kelbauskas, Kimberly Bussey, Deirdre Meldrum
  • Patent number: 10829568
    Abstract: The present invention refers, in its generality, to a tubular reactor for homo or copolymerization of olefins, with one of more initiator injection devices. The invention also refers to an initiator device in a process fluid stream in a reactor polymerization reactor, and to a process for the production of polymers and copolymers of ethylene, particularly low density polymers (LDPE), that use the said device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Eduardo José Dotti, Paulo Henrique Konat Gandolfi, Vitor Dal Bó Abella
  • Patent number: 10687411
    Abstract: A nozzle for a plasma arc torch has a longitudinal nozzle axis, a nozzle orifice with a generally cylindrical orifice sidewall centered on the nozzle axis, and an orifice inlet that is formed as a surface of rotation about the nozzle axis; a gas-directing surface may also be provided. The orifice inlet has a variably-curved surface generated by rotating a variably-curved element about the nozzle axis, where the variably-curved element can be a portion of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, and can join to the orifice sidewall and to the gas-directing surface, if provided. Both the orifice sidewall and the gas directing surface can each join the variably-curved element in a substantially tangential manner. Using an elliptical contour for the orifice inlet was found to increase stability for the plasma arc, providing improved cut quality and faster cutting speed for the torch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: THERMACUT, K.S.
    Inventor: George A. Crowe
  • Patent number: 10640383
    Abstract: A graphene preparing apparatus for exfoliating graphite includes a high-pressure water pump for generating a high-pressure flow of water, a waterjet nozzle for receiving the water and for generating a pulsed or cavitating waterjet, a graphite supply vessel having a supply duct for supplying graphite powder, an exfoliation chamber that has a first inlet for receiving the waterjet and a second inlet for receiving the graphite powder, an outlet through which a graphite slurry is expelled from the exfoliation chamber, a filtering unit downstream of the exfoliation chamber for separating graphene from the slurry and a graphene collection tank for collecting the graphene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: VLN Advanced Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yan, Mohan Vijay, Andrew Tieu, Meisheng Xu, Bruce Daniels
  • Patent number: 10611159
    Abstract: A head cleaning mechanism includes a recording head and a wiper. The recording head includes an ink ejection face provided with an ink ejection region in which a plurality of ink ejection openings for ejecting ink onto a recording medium are open. The wiper wipes the ink ejection face in a predetermined direction. The ink ejection face has, downstream of the ink ejection region in the wiping direction, an elevated portion extending in the head width direction perpendicular to the wiping direction. The elevated portion includes an upstream side inclined face which inclines downward from the ink ejection face to the downstream side in the wiping direction, and a downstream face which is arranged downstream of the upstream side inclined face in the wiping direction and which faces the downstream side in the wiping direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsunobu Honda
  • Patent number: 10583454
    Abstract: A material dispense tip includes an elongated hole in an elongated neck that extends from an input end of the neck to an output end of the neck. The hole at the output end of the neck has a first diameter. The output end of the neck is positioned against a die surface. A punch is inserted into the hole at the input end of the neck. An external force is applied to the neck to cause the output end of the neck to be deformed under compression by the die surface, to reduce the diameter of the hole at the output end of the neck from the first diameter to a second diameter that is less than the first diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: DL Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Fugere
  • Patent number: 10343408
    Abstract: A head cleaning mechanism includes a recording head and a wiper. The recording head includes an ink ejection face having an ink ejection region where a plurality of ink ejection openings for ejecting ink onto a recording medium are open. The wiper wipes the ink ejection face in a predetermined direction. The ink ejection face has, downstream of the ink ejection region in the wiping direction, a depressed portion extending in the head width direction perpendicular to the wiping direction. The depressed portion includes an upstream side inclined face which inclines upward from the ink ejection face to the downstream side in the wiping direction, and a downstream side inclined face which is arranged downstream of the upstream side inclined face in the wiping direction and which inclines downward to the downstream side in the wiping direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsunobu Honda
  • Patent number: 10287423
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising the following: A) a first ethylene-based polymer, formed by a high pressure, free-radical polymerization process, and comprising the following properties: a) a Mw(abs)/Mw(GPC)<2.2; and b) a MS versus I2 relationship: MS?C×[(I2)D], where C=13.5 cN/(dg/min)D, and D=?0.55, c) a melt index (I2) from 0.1 to 0.9 g/10 min; and B) a second ethylene-based polymer; and wherein the second ethylene-based polymer has a melt index (I2) from 0.1 to 4.0 g/10 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Cornelis F. J. den Doelder, Teresa P. Karjala, Otto J. Berbee, Lori L. Kardos
  • Patent number: 10214814
    Abstract: Substrate treating apparatus including a cover that covers a substrate on a plate. The cover undersurface is substantially horizontal and adjacent to a surface of the substrate. Through a gas flow path, a treatment gas is supplied to the substrate. The gas flow path includes a swirl chamber, a diameter contraction chamber, and a diameter expansion chamber. In the swirl chamber, the treatment gas flows around the central axis. The diameter contraction chamber is disposed below and in communication with the swirl chamber, and has an inner diameter that decreases from its upper end toward its lower end. The diameter expansion chamber is disposed below and in communication with the diameter contraction chamber, and has an inner diameter that increases from its upper end toward its lower end. The lower end of the diameter expansion chamber includes an opening on the undersurface of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukumoto, Koji Nishi, Toru Momma, Shigehiro Goto, Atsushi Tanaka, Kenichiro Jo
  • Patent number: 10179549
    Abstract: A camera assembly of a motor vehicle includes a carrier which is adapted to be fastened to the motor vehicle and a camera unit which is immovably fastened to the carrier and has an objective. A cleaning unit is supported on the carrier and is connected to a fluid line that conducts a cleaning fluid which is used to clean the objective. A flap element is provided which is adapted to be moved into a cleaning position and into a resting position. The flap element is retracted in an accommodating chamber of the carrier in the resting position and is extended out of the accommodating chamber so that the flap element covers the objective of the camera unit in the cleaning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Buss
  • Patent number: 10093067
    Abstract: A manufactured component, method and apparatus for advanced manufacturing that includes a polymeric working material formed into a mandrel with a carbon fiber overlay formed in a continuation of the process. The mandrel build and the carbon fiber overlay of the component preferably take place at atmospheric temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Vlastimil Kunc, Randall F. Lind, Lonnie J. Love
  • Patent number: 10081091
    Abstract: A nozzle, a device, and a method for high-speed generation of uniform nanoparticles allow a particle generation gas formed of carbon dioxide to pass through the nozzle, thereby forming uniform nanoparticles at high speed. An orifice that adjusts an opening and closing cross-sectional area of a throat of the nozzle is provided to cause uniform nuclei generation without an additional cooling device, a dilating portion that has a cross-sectional area and a dilation angle increasing toward an outlet side of the nozzle is provided to grow the nuclei through a first dilation portion (having a relatively gradual dilation angle) and thus cause particle generation, and the generated particles are accelerated through a second dilating portion that has a steeper dilation angle than the first dilating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jin Won Lee, In Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 10018431
    Abstract: A nozzle block for a sootblower of the type for cleaning internal heat transfer surfaces of large scale coal fired combustion systems. For cleaning the internal surfaces, a cleaning medium is often used in the form of steam. Due to the cyclical operations and the process of condensation, condensate slugs of water can form in the sootblower fluid flow components. If these slugs are ejected against clean surfaces, undesirable erosion can occur. Several embodiments of nozzle blocks are described each having one or more ejection ports at their distal ends configured to maximize the ejection of condensates while minimizing their cross-sectional area which would diminish nozzle fluidic efficiency. Additional features enhance the ability of the nozzle block to separate and disperse condensate from the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: DIAMOND POWER INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew R. Harkleroad, Steven R. Fortner, Tony F. Habib, Clinton A. Brown
  • Patent number: 9933702
    Abstract: A processing fluid can be discharged according to a discharge type for a process involved, without a discharge defect. A substrate processing apparatus includes a nozzle and a pipeline. The nozzle is configured to discharge the processing fluid toward a substrate, and the processing fluid is supplied to the nozzle through the pipeline. The pipeline has a three-layer structure having a first layer, a second layer and a third layer in this sequence from an inner side thereof. Further, a leading end portion of the first layer and a leading end portion of the third layer are bonded to the nozzle, and the leading end portion of the first layer is located at a position which is not protruded more than a leading end portion of the second layer with respect to a discharging direction of the processing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Jiro Higashijima, Nobuhiro Ogata
  • Patent number: 9914144
    Abstract: A spray nozzle assembly includes a nozzle tip and a nozzle tip adapter. The nozzle tip adapter may include a visually perceptible indicia that corresponds uniquely to an offset angle value of the nozzle tip adapter. In one embodiment, the visually perceptible indicia may comprise a unique color for each offset angle among a selectable group of nozzle tip adapters. Another feature is a locator tool that includes an adjustable holder that is fixed in position relative to a spray nozzle tip or orifice during an alignment operation, and repositioned away from the nozzle tip during a spraying operation. The adjustable holder may include a measurement member to determine one or more distances between the nozzle tip or orifice and a location on a workpiece that will be coated or sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Deborah S. Kosovich, Vincent A. Prieto, James V. Bachman
  • Patent number: 9859135
    Abstract: An example waterfall apparatus includes (1) a first portion of a first width having (a) a first plenum, a second plenum, and a restricted fluid path therebetween; (b) a first coupling surface; and (c) an inlet opening that creates a fluid path between the first coupling surface and the first plenum; and (2) a second portion of a second width larger than the first width and having (a) a second coupling surface; and (b) an inlet aligned with the first portion inlet opening. The first and second coupling surfaces form a slot that extends along at least a portion of a length of the waterfall apparatus and that connects to the second plenum. Fluid introduced into the second portion inlet fills the first plenum, travels through the restricted fluid path to the second plenum, and exits the slot between the first and second portions to form a rinsing fluid waterfall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan S. Frankel, Brian J. Brown, Vincent S. Francischetti, Paul McHugh, Kyle M. Hanson, Ekaterina Mikhaylichenko
  • Patent number: 9656282
    Abstract: A fluid flow nozzle is provided that comprises an elongated body having an inlet end and an outlet end, and defining a channel extending therethrough in which the channel includes an inlet channel and an outlet channel having an outlet diameter that is less than the inlet diameter. The channel further defining a tapered channel extending from the inlet channel to the outlet channel with a plurality of vanes or grooves circumferentially spaced around the tapered channel to increase flow velocity while reducing turbulence and divergence of the discharge stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Fiskars Oyj Abp
    Inventors: Charles A. Lehmann, Chad James Mammen
  • Patent number: 9616451
    Abstract: The harmful effects of accumulating droplets of process liquid on the outer surface of a dispense nozzle are prevented by equipping an apparatus for process wafer-shaped articles with a blow-off block that blows the droplets off the nozzle outer surface before they can coalesce and drop in an uncontrolled manner onto the work piece. The nozzle preferably has a polished and tapered outer surface to aid in blowing off any accumulated droplets of process liquid from the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH AG
    Inventors: Mike Daniel Kollmann, Christian Thomas Fischer, Francisco Camargo
  • Patent number: 9415355
    Abstract: An improved venturi device and method for facilitating the mixture of fluid substances, such as wine and air. The device may be combined with a dispensing valve to further promote functionality. The improved venturi device is especially effective in drawing a second fluid into the primary flow of a first fluid, and when combined with a dispensing valve it obviates the need for a venturi independent from a valve to accomplish mixing at low flows and low liquid head pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas J Casper, Jeffrey Casper
  • Patent number: 9242770
    Abstract: A fluid dispense tip includes a bevel at an opening to reduce the amount of surface tension, or “land”, at the opening. The bevel is formed by grinding in a longitudinal direction such that any tooling scars resulting from the grinding operation are likewise longitudinally oriented, further reducing the amount of surface tension in the tip, thereby leading to heightened dispensing accuracy. The tip may be machined from stock as a unitary piece, to increase its lifetime, and may be formed with a bore of a relatively large diameter that is tapered down to a smaller diameter near the tip opening, to allow for delivery of fluid through the tip body at a decreased pressure. The tip may optionally be formed with a Luer™-style fitting on the body, such that the tip is compatible with pumps that utilize such a fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: DL Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Fugere
  • Patent number: 9169558
    Abstract: To provide a fluid control apparatus capable of reducing the space, while reducing the cost. A fluid control apparatus has a fluid controlling unit and a fluid introducing unit. The fluid introducing unit is divided into three parts: a first and a second inlet-side shutoff/open parts disposed on the inlet side, each made up of 2×N/2, disposed between the first and second inlet-side shutoff/open parts and the fluid controlling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jun Hirose, Kazuyuki Tezuka, Yohei Uchida, Mutsunori Koyomogi, Takahiro Matsuda, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20150129688
    Abstract: Microfluidic flow-through elements and methods for forming and using the same, particularly, low cost, easily sterilized, disposable microfluidic flow-through elements may include an orifice region suitable, for example, for fluid jet formation (such as in a droplet sorter or flow cell) or sample injection or hydrodynamic focusing (such as in a non-droplet flow cytometer). Laser drilling, for example laser ablation, may be used to form an orifice region extending through an orifice wall section of a base substrate. The base substrate may be unitarily-formed by injection molding a polymeric material. The orifice region may be advantageously configured to form a predetermined geometry by controlling the characteristics of the ablating beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Kristopher Scott Buchanan, Johnathan Charles Sharpe
  • Patent number: 9027861
    Abstract: A spray nozzle assembly including at least one wear part made from a hard and abrasion-resistant material and a protective housing made from a strong and resilient material and having a downstream chamber adapted to receive one or more of the wear parts in releasably trapped relationship, the downstream chamber having a wall including a post defined by a slot in the downstream chamber wall either side of the post, the post including an inwardly extending protuberance at or near its end and adapted to prevent the wear part from escaping from the downstream chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Spray Nozzle Engineering Pty. Limited
    Inventors: Sean Morgan, Stuart Morgan
  • Publication number: 20150125940
    Abstract: Disclosed is a container cleaning device which cleans a container for holding a sample. The device comprises: a container holding section for holding the container which has a substantially spherical inner bottom; a discharge section which is inserted into the container; and a cleaning nozzle which discharges a cleaning liquid into the container. The discharge section comprises an aperture at the bottom, and comprises a discharge flow path which is connected to the aperture and discharges the sample or the cleaning liquid in the container, and the discharge section is insertable to the deepest part of the container, and the bottom part of the discharge section conforms to the shape of the substantially spherical inner bottom of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiko OGURO, Ryuichiro EBI
  • Publication number: 20150115054
    Abstract: The present invention sets forth a fluid flow restrictor for attachment onto a fluid dispensing fixture and related methods. The restrictor includes a restrictor body having an internal flow passageway. The restrictor also includes an upstream fluid receiving chamber having a tapered interior configuration that tapers from an upstream end of the upstream fluid receiving chamber towards a downstream end of the upstream fluid receiving chamber. The restrictor further includes a downstream fluid passing chamber immediately adjacent the downstream end of the upstream fluid receiving chamber. The upstream fluid receiving chamber and the downstream fluid passing chamber are configured so that fluid flow proceeds (i) through the upstream fluid receiving chamber, (ii) then through the downstream fluid passing chamber, and (iii) then directly into air. The downstream fluid passing chamber comprises a substantially cylindrical configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: John Schommer
  • Publication number: 20150115070
    Abstract: A method (e.g., for creating a printing plate assembly of an ink jet print head assembly) includes coating one or more sides of plural planar subsection plates with a bonding material. The subsection plates include printing holes through which a fluid is to be ejected from the ink jet print head assembly. The method also includes placing the subsection plates of the printing plate assembly against each other with the printing holes axially aligned with each other and heating the bonding material between the subsection plates such that the subsection plates are affixed to each other. The subsection plates are coupled with each other to form a chamber printing assembly that is coupled to the ink jet print head assembly that prints fluid onto one or more objects by ejecting the fluid out of the printing holes of the subsection plates. The subsection plates may be hermetically bonded to each other by inductively heating the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Yufeng Wu, Tzer-Yi Chen
  • Publication number: 20150102126
    Abstract: A long throw Pop-Up Irrigation Nozzle assembly has no oscillating or rotating parts and includes a cylindrical body having a fluid inlet and a sidewall defining at least one fluidic circuit configured to generate a selected spray pattern when irrigation fluid flows through the body. In order to throw long distance, droplet velocity, droplet size and droplet initial aim angle determine the throw to provide a low precipitation rate (“PR”) for fluidic sprays. The nozzle assembly and method of the present invention achieve a PR of 1 in/hr or less and good spray distribution with a scheduling coefficient (“SC”) of about 1.5 without utilizing any moving components to provide a significantly more cost effective nozzle assembly, as compared to prior art rotator nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Russell, Shridhar Gopalan, Christopher South, Russell Hester, Eric Koehler, Kerrie Allen, Srinivasaiah Sridhara
  • Publication number: 20150097061
    Abstract: A nozzle for use in the bowl of a disc centrifuge is provided, comprising an inner sleeve forming a longitudinally extending passageway, the inner sleeve having an elevated region at its top, the elevated region having an extended front end; and an outer sleeve for supporting the inner sleeve along most of its length, the outer sleeve having a collar with an outermost edge at its top; whereby when the inner sleeve is inserted into the outer sleeve, the elevated region of the inner sleeve extends past the collar of the outer sleeve and the extended front end of the elevated region extends towards the outermost edge of the outer sleeve collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: KEVIN REID, DANIEL BULBUC, OLLE TÖRNBLOM, JIE ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20150083818
    Abstract: The present disclosure introduces a nozzle apparatus and method. In one embodiment, a spray nozzle apparatus is described. The spray nozzle apparatus includes a plurality of flow channels formed by the combination of a: sprayhead, a major element, and a minor element. The sprayhead may have a plurality of holes. The major element is retained within the sprayhead by a nozzle nut and spring, allowing a first annular gap to form between the sprayhead and the major element. The minor element is retained within the major element by a second nozzle nut and second spring, allowing a second annular gap to form between the major element and the minor element. The minor element may have an axial hole. Other embodiments also are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: King Saud University
    Inventors: Hany A. Al-Ansary, Kevin G. Schoonover, Said I. Abdel-Khalik
  • Publication number: 20150083452
    Abstract: Handle configurations are disclosed for powered implements having a shaft, allowing the implements to be holdable by both hands of a user. An exemplary implement has an elongated shaft having first and second end portions. A first handhold is adjustably mounted to the shaft and extends outwardly therefrom. A second handhold is adjustably mounted either to the shaft or to an elongated member coupled to the shaft. The elongated member can include a mounting portion and a handle portion providing the second handhold. The mounting portion mounts to the first end portion at a mounting location. The first and second handholds allow operation of the implement by a user with arms in respective neutral arm positions and hands in respective neutral gripping positions. The elongated member allows transmission of a force applied to the second handhold by the user through the elongated member and to the elongated shaft at the mounting location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Todd Rader
  • Publication number: 20150083829
    Abstract: A method for producing injection holes in fuel injection nozzles for internal combustion engines. An injection hole is formed by at least one abrading manufacturing method. An injection nozzle is subsequently subjected to a hardening treatment at least in the region of the injection hole, such that the injection hole surface is hardened over the entire axial length thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinrich Werger
  • Publication number: 20150076243
    Abstract: An improved mist generating apparatus is provided, the apparatus having a longitudinal axis (L), and first and second opposing nozzle surfaces (100,102) which define a nozzle between them. A first process fluid passage (28) has an inlet connectable to a supply of process fluid, and a process fluid outlet (110) on one or the first and second nozzle surfaces (100,102) such that the process fluid owlet (110) opens into the nozzle. The nozzle has a nozzle inlet (104) connectable to a supply of driving fluid, a nozzle outlet (108), and a throat portion (106) intermediate the nozzle inlet (104) and nozzle outlet (108). The nozzle throat (106) has a cross sectional area which is less than that of both the nozzle inlet (104) and the nozzle outlet (108). The nozzle extends radially away from the longitudinal axis (L) such that the nozzle defines a rotational angle about the longitudinal axis (L).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Marcus Brian Mayhall FENTON, Paul Stuart Hutcheson, James French, Jude Alexander Glynn Worthy
  • Patent number: 8980968
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition includes (a) a compound polymerizable in the presence of an acid, and (b) a photoacid generating agent including an onium salt having a cationic part structure represented by formula (b1) below and an anionic part structure represented by formula (b2) below, wherein the component (b) absorbs 50% or more of the amount of 365 nm wavelength light absorbed by the photosensitive resin composition,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hyo Takahashi, Ken Ikegame, Masako Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20150061237
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally provide chamber components with enhanced thermal properties and methods of enhancing thermal properties of chamber components including bonding materials. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a composite structure. The method includes applying a bonding material to a first component, and converting the bonding material applied to the first component to an enhanced bonding layer by heating the bonding material to outgas volatile species from the bonding material. The outgassed volatile species accumulates to at least 0.05% in mass of the bonding material. The method further includes contacting a second component and the enhanced bonding layer to join the first and second components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Jennifer SUN, Sumanth BANDA, Ren-Guan DUAN
  • Publication number: 20150047483
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for crushing coke in drums with of high-pressure water jets, which has a housing 2 with a feed system 4 for high-pressure water, and a housing wall 3 with outwardly directed boring and cutting nozzles 5a, 5b, out of the openings 7 of which high-pressure water jets 28 exit, as well as flow channels 4g, 4h, which connect the feed system 4 with the boring and cutting nozzles 5a, 5b. So that the opening of the boring and cutting nozzles is permanently protected and kept free of deposits of coke or the like, the opening of the boring or cutting nozzle is respectively closable by a one- or multi-part flap, which is adjustable between a dosed position and an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Wolfgang Paul, Thomas Hoppe, Andreas Wupper
  • Patent number: 8955776
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method of constructing a stationary wear-resistant stationary nozzle 200 and/or nozzle liner 230 for solid fueled furnaces. A transition section 210 is constructed from several flat pieces 211-218 several that may have identical starting shapes. This reduces manufacturing complexity and costs. All pieces 211-218 have a high-wear weld overlay on their inner surface 316, 416. Corner pieces 215-218 are folded into a corner shape at an outlet edge 412 and rolled into a curved shape at an inlet edge 411. Horizontal 211, 212 and vertical pieces 213, 214 are only rolled at an inlet edge 311. The pieces have seam tab 240 along longitudinal edges that are welded together to construct a transition section 210. The transition section 210 may be used as a liner to reduce wear in an existing stationary nozzle or may be constructed to be connected to an inlet piece 220 to form a strong, wear-resistant coal nozzle 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Daniel J. Adam, Paul M. Bovat, Jr., Thomas J. Campanelli, Kevin J. Grzebien, James P. Sutton
  • Publication number: 20150043195
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pool light assembly including cooling for the illuminating structure. The assembly includes a water inlet housing having a portion on the dry side and a portion immersed in the pool water. An assembly having sealing structure creates a leak proof connection with the pool wall. The submerged portion of the assembly includes a base. The base has an exterior exposed to the pool water and an enclosed interior including the illuminating structure. A notch is provided in the exterior of the base and extends into the interior for allowing pool water in the proximity of the illuminating structure. The assembly includes sealing structure for preventing water from entering electrically active elements, while allowing pool water to act as a cooling element. A retaining member locks and encourages waterproof sealing of the electrically active elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Wing-kin Hui, Wing-tak Hui
  • Patent number: 8950695
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel nozzle and a process of fabricating a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a fuel nozzle end cover and a fuel nozzle insert. The fuel nozzle insert is welded to the fuel nozzle end cover by a welding process selected from the group consisting of beam welding, solid state welding, and combinations thereof and/or the fuel nozzle insert includes a first fuel nozzle insert portion and a second fuel nozzle insert portion. The process includes welding the fuel nozzle insert to the fuel nozzle end cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bill Damon Johnston, Daniel Anthony Nowak, Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam
  • Publication number: 20150021324
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an article comprises providing a lid or nozzle for an etch reactor. Ion assisted deposition (IAD) is then performed to deposit a protective layer on at least one surface of the lid or nozzle, wherein the protective layer is a plasma resistant rare earth oxide film having a thickness of less than 300 ?m and an average surface roughness of 10 micro-inches or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Biraja P. Kanungo, Vahid Firouzdor, Ying Zhang
  • Patent number: 8936207
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a bayonet system for attaching a nozzle body to a nozzle turret. The bayonet system can be rotated with respect to a spray nozzle. A seal can be positioned between the spray nozzle and the nozzle turret. The seal can be compressed by moving the bayonet system without exerting any substantial torsion force on the seal. The bayonet system can help prevent unintentional disengagement of the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Pentair Flow Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Trevor William Bartlett Swan
  • Publication number: 20150014443
    Abstract: Dispensing head (1) intended to be fitted on a container that contains at least one product to be dispensed, this dispensing head comprising: a body (3) that is open at its two opposite axial ends, an engaging part (10) that is open at its two opposite axial ends, at least partially defining a dispensing orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: L'OREAL
    Inventor: Nicolas Albisetti
  • Publication number: 20150001320
    Abstract: Provided is an adapter configured for use with an aerosol can spray nozzle and an extension tube. The adapter is configured to fit onto the spray nozzle and to receive the extension tube to provide a more rigid and fluidly secure connection between the spray nozzle and the extension tube. The adapter includes a spray nozzle portion and an extension tube portion. The spray nozzle portion includes an opening sized and configured to allow the spray nozzle to be insertable therein to create frictional engagement therebetween. The extension tube portion includes an inner channel extending therethrough, and is sized and configured to allow the extension tube to be insertable therein to create friction-tight engagement between the extension tube and the adapter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Tyler Mason