Having Interior Filter Or Guide Patents (Class 239/590)
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Patent number: 11981296Abstract: A nozzle in a vehicle includes a nozzle insert to provide pulsed flow of a cleaning agent from an outlet to clean a sensor of the vehicle. The nozzle also includes a cleaning agent supply line to provide the cleaning agent to an inlet of the nozzle insert.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Guangzhi A. Zhao, Julien P. Mourou
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Patent number: 11319697Abstract: The present invention provides a water discharging device, including: a housing; a dispenser disposed at an upper portion of the housing or embedded at an upper end of the housing, water flow entering the interior of the housing through the dispenser; a filter provided at an inlet end of the housing, the water flow entering the dispenser first passing through the filter to remove impurities in the water entering the dispenser; the dispenser includes a plurality of dispensing holes each having an inlet section and an outlet section along a water flow direction, the inlet section including a water outlet having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the outlet section.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hailang Gong, Huixiang Chen, Shilong Wu
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Patent number: 11274024Abstract: A filling member for filling a container with a filling product, for example in a beverage filling system, includes a product outlet which is designed to dispense the filling product into a container located thereunder; and an equipment portion which as a first equipment means includes a screen device with a screen and which is designed to transfer the screen as required into a screen state, in which the screen is located between the product outlet and the container so that the filling product is filtered by the screen when introduced into the container, and out of the screen state.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: KRONES AGInventors: Thomas Knitl, Juergen Soellner, Sven Fischer
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Patent number: 11230976Abstract: A gas turbine includes a compressor, a turbine, and a combustor disposed downstream from the compressor and upstream from the turbine. The combustor includes an end cover. The combustor also includes a flange. The flange includes an internal fluid passage defined within the flange and the flange is coupled to an internal face of the end cover. A fuel port is integrally joined with the flange. The fuel port extends through the end cover between the flange and an inlet positioned outside of the end cover. The inlet of the fuel port is in fluid communication with the internal fluid passage of the flange.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Subramanian Annamalai, Lucas John Stoia, Mohan Krishna Bobba
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Patent number: 11103889Abstract: A filter jet-director unit for a high-pressure nozzle for descaling metal products, having a housing, wherein the housing has an entry filter, a connector end for connecting to a nozzle, a flow duct between the entry filter and the connector end, and a jet director having flow-guiding faces in the flow duct. The flow-guiding faces of the jet director at least in portions are disposed in the region of the entry filter.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: LECHLER GMBHInventors: Siegfried Foshag, Tobias Huber, Alfonso Stein
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Patent number: 11103907Abstract: Device and method for descaling a workpiece that is in motion in relation to the device in a movement direction. The device includes a rotor head rotatable about a rotational axis and inclined diagonally at an angle (Y) with respect to an orthogonal on a surface of the workpiece. The device includes jet nozzles attached to the rotor head which dispense a pressurized liquid onto the workpiece at an angle of attack (?) inclined to the workpiece surface. The nozzles are fixedly attached on the rotor head such that during rotation of the rotor head about its axis of rotation, the spraying direction of the liquid dispensed from the nozzles with respect to a projection in a plane parallel to the surface of the workpiece, is aligned opposing to and at a spraying angle (?) of approximately between 170 and 190 degrees to the movement direction of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBHInventors: Angela Ante, Jan Schroeder, Jens Marburger, Wolfgang Fuchs, Michael Jarchau
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Patent number: 11071293Abstract: A treatment system for spraying treatment fluid onto plants in a field is described. The treatment system includes a configurable treatment mechanism including an array of nozzles and valve assemblies coupled into manifolds, and manifold assemblies. The nozzle comprises a nozzle housing and an insert assembly contained within the nozzle housing. When coupled, a top casing including a fluid inlet and a bottom casing including at least one fluid outlet form the nozzle housing. The insert assembly comprises at least one nozzle insert to fluidically couple the fluid inlet and the fluid outlets such that fluid entering from the fluid inlet exits the nozzle housing through the fluid outlets.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Thomas Welch Brown, Eric M. Gawehn
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Patent number: 11065631Abstract: A spraying nozzle, intended for spraying a product, defines a passage for the circulation of the product through the nozzle, wherein the passage opens through a wide connection orifice to the outside of the nozzle at an upstream end thereof, and through a narrow spraying orifice at a downstream end of the nozzle in order to spray the product; the passage has, between the connection orifice and the spraying orifice, at least one pre-atomization narrowing capable of atomizing the product, followed by a broadening downstream of the pre-atomization narrowing.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: EXEL INDUSTRIESInventors: Tarik Bennani, Thibault Cognon
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Patent number: 10508623Abstract: A filter system for filtering a fluid, in particular an air filter system, is provided with at least a filter element arranged in a filter housing that is provided with at least an inlet and an outlet for the fluid. An insulating body which is formed of a flat insulation material is arranged so as to surround and tightly enclose an outer contour of the filter housing. An insulating body and a method for manufacturing the insulating body are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Andrew Glynn, Dennis Stark, Benoit Tronet
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Patent number: 10501356Abstract: A hospital faucet assembly is provided that includes an outlet adapted to direct a flow water stream into a sink. An ozone chamber is provided having a water inlet and a water outlet. A flow control valve is connected to the water inlet, and the water outlet is connected to the faucet armature. A sensor is provided which is adapted to control the flow control valve. An ozone generator is located within the chamber, and when a user activates the sensor, the valve opens allowing more water to enter the chamber and then travel out through the water outlet of the ozone chamber to the faucet armature which dispenses the water flow into the sink. A controller is provided and is connected to the control valve and the sensor. The controller is configured to run an automatic cycle on an occasional basis to flush the sink with ozone-rich water in order flush and/or disinfect water located in a trap of the sink drain, or provide other disinfecting functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Franke Technology and Trademark LtdInventor: Cory Macey
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Patent number: 10315207Abstract: A pneumatic spraying assembly for a coating product including a pneumatic sprayer and a supply line for the pneumatic sprayer from a pressurized coating product source to which the supply line is connected by its upstream end, the pneumatic sprayer including a sprayer body and a control valve for controlling flow of the coating product toward a spraying area for the coating product, the controlling valve including a needle selectively closing off an outlet orifice of an inner volume of the sprayer body and the spraying assembly defining a flow path for the coating product, from the upstream end of the supply line to the outlet orifice of the inner volume, wherein a restrictor for restricting flow of the coating product is mounted on the flow path to create a pressure loss upstream from the outlet orifice.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Exel IndustriesInventors: Johan Le Cardinal, Thibault Cognon
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Patent number: 10287759Abstract: A hospital sink and faucet assembly includes a sink with a sink body having an angled faucet deck, a bowl adapted to receive water, and a rim. A laminar flow faucet is connected to the faucet deck and includes an outlet adapted to direct a laminar flow water stream into the bowl. The faucet includes a chamber with a preferably tangential water inlet at the bottom and at least one mesh layer that extends across a cross-section of the chamber to creates a generally constant velocity profile for the water flow across the cross-section of the chamber. The water flow progresses upwardly in the chamber to the outlet where a laminar flow nozzle cuts the water and discharges a circular stream of water out an angle generally perpendicular to the deck and toward the sink bowl. An ozone generator is preferably also in the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Franke Technology and Trademark LtdInventor: Cory Macey
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Patent number: 10179351Abstract: A method and apparatus for pulsed jet cleaning of flat objects based on the principle of enhancing formation of droplets of the cleaning medium by increasing the boundary surface area between the jets emitted though the nozzles of the cleaning unit and the surrounding atmosphere. In various embodiments of the invention, these droplet formation enhancement means are located inside the nozzle at the nozzle outlet end and are made in the form of a jet splitter, threaded grooves on the inner surface of the nozzle body, or in the form of a thin tube for the supply of gas into the flow of the liquid cleaning medium for the formation of gas bubbles in the medium. The method also takes into account such factors as a mass ratio between the droplets and the contaminant particles, velocity of droplets, organization and sequence of jets that attacks the surface of the wafer and flows that wash-out the separated particles, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Planar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Rubinder Randhawa
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Patent number: 10076001Abstract: A mineral insulated heating cable for a heat tracing system. The heating cable includes a sheath having at least a first, and optionally a second layer, wherein the thermal conductivity of the second layer is greater than a thermal conductivity of the first layer. In addition, the first and second layers are in intimate thermal contact. The heating cable also includes at least one heating conductor for generating heat and a dielectric layer located within the sheath for electrically insulating the heating, conductor, wherein the sheath, heating conductor and dielectric layer form a heating section. In addition, the heating cable includes a conduit for receiving the heating section. Further, the heating cable includes a cold lead section and a hot-cold joint for connecting the heating and cold lead sections. In addition, a high emissivity coating may be formed on the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: nVent Services GmbHInventors: Paul Becker, Fuhua Ling, Ningli Liu, Lawrence Joseph White, Louis Peter Martin, II, Scott Murray Finlayson, James Francis Beres, Marcus Kleinehanding
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Patent number: 9743679Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to plant extract compositions and methods to isolate cutin-derived monomers, oligomers, and mixtures thereof for application in agricultural coating formulations, and in particular, to methods of preparing plant extract compositions that include functionalized and non-functionalized fatty acids and fatty esters (as well as their oligomers and mixtures thereof), which are substantially free from accompanying plant-derived compounds (e.g., proteins, polysaccharides, phenols, lignans, aromatic acids, terpenoids, flavonoids, carotenoids, alkaloids, alcohols, alkanes, and aldehydes) and can be used in agricultural coating formulations.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: aPEEL Technology, Inc.Inventors: Louis Perez, James Rogers, Ronald C. Bakus, II, Chance Holland, Jenny Du
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Patent number: 9678016Abstract: A flow analyzer includes a flow body having a single-piece construction. The flow body includes a flow path extending through the flow body along a flow direction between opposing inlet and outlet ports and an enclosed wiring conduit extending substantially transverse to the flow direction between a first side of the flow body and a second side of the flow body. The enclosed wiring conduit is isolated from the flow path. An illumination unit is disposed on the first side of the flow body and configured to illuminate fluid within the flow path. An observation unit is disposed on the second side of the flow body and configured to visually observe the fluid within the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: J.M. CANTY INCInventors: Paul J. O'Brien, Thomas M. Canty, David E. Jean, Justin R. Hallbach, Michael F. Rizzo
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Patent number: 9446422Abstract: An adhesive dispensing module and method of spraying a plurality of droplets of a liquid adhesive includes a dispenser assembly and a nozzle. The nozzle includes a nozzle body, a dispersion baffle, and at least one channel. The nozzle body includes a nozzle outlet for discharging a liquid adhesive and at least partially defines a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a gas passage extending therebetween. The dispersion baffle is positioned within the gas passage to define a dispersion chamber and a consolidation chamber. The at least one channel extends through the dispersion baffle to fluidly connect the dispersion chamber to the consolidation chamber to restrict the pressurized gas received within the dispersion chamber and distribute the pressurized gas into the consolidation chamber according to a predetermined flow distribution. Thereby, the pressurized gas sprays a plurality of droplets of the liquid adhesive according to a predetermined pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventor: John D. Jones
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Patent number: 9315899Abstract: Semiconductor processing chamber showerheads with contoured faceplates, as well as techniques for producing such faceplates, are provided. Data describing deposition rate as a function of gap distance between a reference showerhead faceplate and a reference substrate may be obtained, as well as data describing deposition rate as a function of location on the substrate when the reference showerhead and the reference substrate are in a fixed arrangement with respect to each other. The two data sets may be used to determine offsets from a reference plane associated with the faceplate that determine a contour profile to be used with the faceplate.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: Karl F. Leeser, James S. Sims
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Patent number: 9307625Abstract: A droplet dispensing device includes a reservoir for receiving a liquid material, an outlet nozzle in fluid communication with the reservoir and a piezoelectric actuating means acting on the liquid material at the outlet nozzle to exit the outlet nozzle in a sequence of droplets. A piezoelectric actuating means that includes a piston, which is actuated by a piezoelectric actuator at one end and dips the other, free end into the liquid material is provided just upstream of the outlet nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: ETH ZurichInventors: Bob Rollinger, Reza Abhari, Andrea Giovannini, Ian Henderson
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Patent number: 9027854Abstract: A simple, compact construction and easy manufacture of a swirl nozzle having a plurality of inlet channels and an outlet channel extending transversely thereto are made possible by the fact that the inlet channels open directly and/or tangentially into the outlet channel. Alternatively or additionally, upstream of the inlet channels is provided a filter structure having smaller flow cross-sections than the inlet channels. The swirl nozzle is used, in particular, for atomizing a liquid medicament formulation. The swirl nozzle is produced from two plate-shaped components, the outlet channel first being etched as a blind bore in one component and then opened up by grinding the component away. Alternatively or additionally, the outlet channel is formed in a different component from the inlet channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbHInventors: Achim Moser, Klaus Kadel
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Patent number: 9027860Abstract: A spray nozzle assembly includes a body and a spray nozzle retainer cap, and further including a device for protecting wear components from damage. Preferably, housings are provided within the spray nozzle assembly for protecting wear components, such as a swirl chamber and an orifice disc from damage. A sealing device is included within the nozzle assembly, which is subject to only compressive forces.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Inventors: Stuart Morgan, Sean Morgan
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Patent number: 9027861Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Spray Nozzle Engineering Pty. LimitedInventors: Sean Morgan, Stuart Morgan
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Patent number: 8985478Abstract: A spray nozzle for two-component flue gas cleaning nozzles. The spray nozzle includes an output or mixing chamber and at least two through bores which lead to the output or mixing chamber and are each connected to a fluid line. At least one through bore is embodied in such a way that it is self-cleaning and/or a cleaning device is provided for at least one through bore.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Inventor: Dieter Wurz
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Patent number: 8960570Abstract: The present technique provides a system and method for improving a tip assembly for a spray coating device. An exemplary spray coating device of the present technique has a twist tip with air-assist channels. The twist tip may be applied to a spray gun and provides a portion of the fluid flow passage of the gun. Rotation of the twist tip alters the fluid flow path, resulting in increased operator control.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Finishing Brands Holdings Inc.Inventors: Mitchell M. Drozd, Paul R. Micheli, Nekheel S. Gajjar
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Patent number: 8950695Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bill Damon Johnston, Daniel Anthony Nowak, Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam
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Patent number: 8944341Abstract: A diffuser structure and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The diffuser structure includes a substrate, a plurality of throughholes, and a glue layer. The throughholes are perpendicularly formed in the substrate. Each throughhole includes a gas-in part, a gas-out part, and a connecting part for connecting the gas-in part to the gas-out part. The glue layer is formed on a side wall of each gas-out part, and a thickness of the glue layer is between 1 ?m and 11 ?m. The present invention can solve a problem that particles are periodically generated after a periodic self-cleaning function is implemented in a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition system.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Global Material Science Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung-jun Park, Jin-jong Su, Fang-yu Liu
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Publication number: 20150001321Abstract: An example provides an apparatus including a plate having a nozzle orifice, a flat portion, and a first surface having a recess forming a corresponding protrusion extending from a second surface, opposite first surface, of the plate. A substrate may be in spaced relation to the flat portion of the plate such that the protrusion extends toward the substrate and such that the flat portion and the substrate define, at least in part, a chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Ning Ge, Adam L. Ghozeil, Kenneth Hickey, Chaw Sing Ho
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Patent number: 8919678Abstract: A filter for use with overhead sprinkler irrigation systems is disclosed. The filter includes a body, a removable screen, and a manually-actuated plunger adjacent the screen. A water hammer table is partitioned in the body and located above the plunger. The plunger is positioned for reciprocal movement through a debris outlet between an open, debris-discharging position, and a closed filtering position. The plunger defaults to the closed filtering position by pressurized water flowing through the body. The water is simultaneously filtered through the screen and passes out a clean water outlet while debris accumulates within the body. The plunger may be manually retracted to the open, debris-discharging position at any time, whereby accumulated debris is flushed out of the body through the debris outlet by residual water flowing therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: American Agriculture Products, LLCInventors: Gerald Beer, Michael Woodford Freitas
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Patent number: 8919680Abstract: A functional plumbing unit is provided, which is configured as an insertion cartridge insertable into a fluid conduit of a discharging plumbing fixture. The insertion cartridge includes a housing and a jet regulator. The housing includes an external thread on an outside thereof, configured to be screwed into an internal thread of the discharging plumbing fixture, a height of the housing, in a flow direction, generally corresponds to the external thread, a ring seal located in a downstream position therefrom and an upstream housing edge, the external thread is arranged between the downstream ring seal and the upstream housing edge, and at least a jet fractionating part, is arranged at an inlet end configured to be connected to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventor: Hermann Grether
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Publication number: 20140374513Abstract: An internally mountable water flow device includes a water restriction element having a first end, a second end and a middle section, through which a centrally located aperture is provided. One or more gaskets are disposed adjacent to the first end of the restriction element, and a tightening member having a plurality of threaded elements functions to engage the restriction element and impart a pressure onto the one or more gaskets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventor: KEREI ALEXANDER
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Patent number: 8881997Abstract: A nanoparticle aerosol generator, comprised of a vibrating fluidized bed with a baffle, a vibrating Venturi disperser and a cyclone separator. To generate nanoparticle aerosols, the nanoparticle aerosol generator uses the multiple impaction, vibrating air flow and vibrating high speed air flow to break up larger agglomerates, and multiple dilution to minimize the re-agglomeration of the particles.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: West Virginia UniversityInventors: Jinghai Yi, Timothy Robert Nurkiewicz, Jinghai Yi
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Patent number: 8882002Abstract: An adjustable nozzle comprising a nozzle body with an inlet, an outlet and a flow chamber having a smooth bore extending between the inlet and the outlet. An elastic water impervious material is in fluid communication with the inlet and is tapered and is able to expand due to its elasticity. An adjustable non-rusting member connected to the nozzle body expands or constricts to either increase or decrease the inner diameter of the nozzle body to adjust the flow rate through the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: WaterShield LLCInventor: Robert M. Marino
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Patent number: 8882001Abstract: A fire suppression apparatus and method of generating foam are provided in which a foam-forming liquid is introduced under high velocity and pressure into a mixing manifold through a plurality of jets, and a non-combustible gas is introduced under high velocity and pressure into the center of the mixing manifold, downstream of the jets and in the direction of flow of the foam-forming liquid. The foam generated in the mixing manifold is discharged through a hose and nozzle connected to the mixing manifold. The apparatus may be a self-contained unit, supported on a frame, with its own supply of foam-forming liquid and non-combustible gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Forced Gas Technologies, LLCInventor: Darren Sean Henry
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Publication number: 20140263701Abstract: Example fluidic devices and methods are described. An example device includes a throughput chamber, an inlet to guide liquid in the throughput chamber and an outlet to guide liquid out of the throughput chamber. The example device also includes a rib that protrudes from a wall of the throughput chamber. The rib has a narrowed section in the throughput chamber between the inlet and the outlet to form a meniscus in the narrowed section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.Inventors: Curt Gonzales, Ralph L. Stathem, David Olsen, Marc A. Baldwin
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Patent number: 8746592Abstract: An improved sprinkler has a flow altering device to change water direction and control the direction of a blade wheel. A gear set causes a sprinkler head's repetitive rotation. The sprinkler head includes a set of corresponding upper plate and lower plate to divide an interior chamber of the sprinkler head to two chambers: a control chamber and a gear chamber. A water inlet pipe connects only with the control chamber to provide water to enter the control chamber. The upper plate and the lower plate form a filtering channel interconnecting between the control chamber and the gear chamber. The water from the control chamber can flow into the gear chamber through the filtering channel. The filtering channel filters the large/coarser particle debris in the water and the water flowing into the gear chamber can lubricate and cool the gear set in the gear chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Yuan Mei CorporationInventor: Shun Nan Lo
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Patent number: 8746596Abstract: A manual spray head can be connected with a flexible hose line by means of a coupling that has a ball-and-socket joint inserted between the manual spray head and the hose line. This arrangement not only increases the mobility and flexibility between the manual spray head and the flexible hose line, but also permits twisting of the manual spray head relative to the hose line without fear of unscrewing the screw-type connection or similar coupling provided between the manual spray head and the hose line.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventors: Hermann Grether, Christoph Weis
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Patent number: 8740112Abstract: A sanitary functional unit with a housing releasably fastened to the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting, the housing having an outflow-side housing end face with outflow openings. The outflow-side housing end face has at least one slot, opposing longitudinal sides of which form turning engagement surfaces or tool engagement surfaces for a turning tool that is releasably inserted into the slot, and the housing of the functional unit is rotatably held on the water outlet of the outlet fitting and/or the housing end face is mounted rotatably in the housing. Using the turning tool in the slot, a pivotably mounted housing end face in the housing can be easily aligned and/or the turning force required for fitting and removing a screw connection provided between the outer housing periphery and the inner fitting periphery can be conveniently transferred to the housing without requiring special turning tools.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventors: Gerhard Blum, Hermann Grether, Georg Städtler, Alexander Stein, Christoph Weis, Oliver Denzler
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Patent number: 8720592Abstract: A nozzle assembly for encapsulating a gaseous solution in bubbles comprises a discharge tube having a diffuser and a foam solution spray nozzle mounted therein. The discharge tube has upstream and downstream ends. The discharge tube has a front face at the upstream end with a first opening configured to be joined to a gas supply line that provides a gaseous solution and a second opening configured to receive a non-expanded foam solution. The downstream end of the discharge tube is open. A chamber is formed within the discharge tube to receive the gaseous solution at the upstream end and release the gaseous solution through the diffuser into the discharge tube towards the downstream end.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LPInventors: Mitchell J. Hubert, Stephen A. Barker, Donald Bjorkman, Gregory R. Walker
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Patent number: 8707971Abstract: A chamber with a fluid distribution network for uniform fluid flow within the chamber is provided. The chamber includes a first chamber wall that has a first surface and an opposing interior surface. The first surface is formed with a first set of channels, and the interior surface is exposed to the interior of the chamber and includes a plurality of interior ports that are connected to a plurality of the first set of channels. The chamber also includes a second chamber wall that has a second surface and an opposing exterior surface. The second surface has a second set of channels that partially intersect the first set of channels when the first surface is mated with the second surface. The exterior surface also includes at least one exterior port that provides access to the second set of channels.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Xyratex CorporationInventors: Kenneth C. Miller, Mike Wallis
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Patent number: 8702019Abstract: A transportation device, physically transporting material to a target, includes an input module, a transporting module and an output module. The input module provides a carrier fluid. The transporting module is coupled to the input module for receiving the carrier fluid in order to disperse/atomize the material. The material enters the input module through a first opening and reaches the target Through a second opening. The input module further includes a guiding unit having a length longer than or equal to the distance between the throat portion and the second opening. One end of the guiding unit connects the transporting module. The other end of the guiding unit has a guiding comer for connecting to the first opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Inventors: Chien-Lung Chen, Cheng-Hsien Chen, Chang-Jer Wu, Han-Ning Huang
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Publication number: 20140061324Abstract: Apparatuses and techniques for providing for variable radial flow conductance within a semiconductor processing showerhead are provided. In some cases, the radial flow conductance may be varied dynamically during use. In some cases, the radial flow conductance may be fixed but may vary as a function of radial distance from the showerhead centerline. Both single plenum and dual plenum showerheads are discussed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Jonathan D. Mohn, Shawn M. Hamilton, Harald te Nijenhuis, Jeffrey E. Lorelli, Kevin Madrigal
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Publication number: 20140054400Abstract: A liquid dispenser device that includes: a dispenser endpiece including a cavity having an end wall from which there extends a longitudinal liquid outlet channel; and a flow reducer member that is fitted in the cavity of the endpiece, the flow reducer member including a transverse surface that co-operates with the end wall of the endpiece to define a liquid deflector channel that extends in a transverse plane, the deflector channel being non-rectilinear.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventors: Jose Camba, Philippe Pagny, Pascal Dugand
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Patent number: 8651401Abstract: A jet regulator or jet aerator is provided with a jet regulator housing insertable into a water outlet and detachably held therein by threaded or bayonet connection. The jet regulator housing has an outflow-side housing partial region with a reduced housing outer circumference compared to the inflow-side housing partial region, and the outflow-side housing partial region is insertable into an insert opening of a turning tool such that the turning tool can be applied to a tool working surface in a rotationally fixed manner. The tool working surface is provided on the outflow-side frontal edge, the housing circumference of the outflow-side housing partial region and/or an annular shoulder surrounding the housing partial region on the outside. A sanitary water outlet is also provided, which for a plurality of visibly separately emerging water jets has a corresponding plurality of water outflows spaced apart from one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventors: Alexander Stein, Hermann Grether
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Patent number: 8622323Abstract: A backpack sprayer having a tank with a filling opening at the top thereof and a pressure chamber therein is provided with filtering apparatus for preventing particles in the fluid in the tank from entering an inlet port of the pressure chamber when suction generated by a pump causes fluid in the tank to flow through the inlet port into the pressure chamber. Pressurized fluid can flow through an outlet port from the pressure chamber to a nozzle, via a hose in communication with the outlet port. The filtering apparatus is provided by a filter in a frame removably captured in a fixture projecting outwardly from the outside of the pressure chamber on opposite sides of the inlet port. A handle extends from the frame upwardly along the outside of the pressure chamber a sufficient distance to be accessed manually by an operator through the filling opening of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Chapin Manufacturing, Inc.Inventor: Gregory Allen Klein
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Patent number: 8622317Abstract: An irrigation sprinkler has a generally tubular riser assembly including a nozzle turret rotatably mounted at an upper end of the riser assembly and a drive assembly coupled for rotating the nozzle turret. The riser assembly has at least one locking recess formed in a lower end of the riser assembly. A debris screen is removably mounted to a lower end of the riser assembly. The debris screen is formed with a plurality of apertures for filtering debris from water flowing through the apertures. The debris screen is dimensioned and configured to mate with the lower end of the riser assembly. The debris screen has at least one lock that is dimensioned and configured to be received in the locking recess for holding the debris screen to the riser assembly. In an alternate embodiment, the lock can be located on the lower end of the riser assembly and the recess can be located on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Hunter Industries, Inc.Inventor: Ronald H. Anuskiewicz
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Publication number: 20130327852Abstract: [Object] To provide a flow channel member, a liquid ejecting head, and a liquid ejecting apparatus which can suppress bubble mixing into a liquid and can be decreased in size.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventor: Keiji HARA
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Patent number: 8561922Abstract: A faucet aerator is provided with a plurality of pins oriented in a flow direction, spaced apart from one another, and extending essentially over the distance between a flow-dispersing device and an adjacent grid and/or lattice structure. The pins each have an evaporation surface, which is situated outside the region that is struck directly by the individual streams but can be wetted by the water flowing through the aerator housing and for this purpose, the pins are situated laterally outside the projection of the through-flow holes oriented in the flow direction. These comparatively long pins around which the flowing water circulates are covered by an enveloping water film even after the water valve is closed, which results in an increased humidity and therefore a reduced evaporation in the housing interior of the aerator housing. This prevents a complete drying-out of the interior of the aerator housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventor: Georg Staedtler
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Patent number: 8561923Abstract: A jet regulator is provided with a jet fractioning device designed as perforated plate with a number of flow-through holes that are located at a distance to each other. The perforated plate has at least one reinforcement rib on its flat side on the inflow side and/or outflow side to reinforce the perforated plate. On its side facing the outflow side the jet regulator has an additional perforated plate with a number of flow-through holes defined by flow guide walls. At least one distance piece is provided on at least one of the sides of the perforated plate that are facing each other and/or on an adjacent jet regulator component part. The distance piece deforms the perforated plate and the jet regulator component part as the result of a relative motion during the jet regulator installation from a non-deformed initial position into a round bodied or convexly bent application position.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Neoperl GmbHInventor: Georg Staedtler
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Publication number: 20130264395Abstract: The wedge insert for a powder tube extension of a powder spray gun operable at high voltage comprises a sleeve, wherein the sleeve has a radial web, which is wedge-shaped on the upstream side. In addition, an axially running channel, into which a guide tube, which guides an electrode with a high voltage, can be inserted, is provided in the web.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: J. WAGNER AGInventors: Pierre PLASCAR, Thomas SCHWARZ, Raphael GRAF, Thomas NAUER
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Publication number: 20130251545Abstract: An air discharge apparatus such as an air nozzle manifold comprises an elongated air distribution enclosure having an air supply inlet and an elongated air discharge slot. There is at least one removable insert, and generally multiple removeable inserts in the discharge slot. At least one of the inserts has a discharge opening for discharge of air from the enclosure where air can pass through the slots substantially only through the discharge openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventor: Daniel J. VanderPyl