Orifice Shapes Patents (Class 239/601)
  • Patent number: 11846261
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for fuel injection are disclosed. The apparatus includes an inner sac with one or more primary passages extending therefrom. The one or more primary passages inject fuel therethrough and comprising a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, where the second portion is disposed between the first portion and the third portion and has a cross-sectional area smaller than that of both the first portion and the third portion. The apparatus also includes one or more secondary passages extending from an outer surface of the apparatus to fluidly couple with the second portion of the one or more primary passages. The one or more secondary passages inject air to form fuel-and-air mixture with the fuel injected from the one or more primary passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Ross A. Phillips, Matthew B. State, Frank Husmeier, Steven Valentin
  • Patent number: 11505489
    Abstract: An isothermal drop speed cooling method and an apparatus for same. A glass ribbon carried with glass passes through the forced convection area of the glass annealing lehr, and the glass ribbon is moving while the glass is being air-cooled in the forced convection area. The glass is air-cooled by different air volume according to the temperature of the glass, so that the glass is allowed to be cooled at isothermal drop speed during the moving process of the glass. According to the cooling method and apparatus, the specification size of the opening section of multi-row air nozzles longitudinally arranged is increased along the moving direction of the glass ribbon, so that the cooling air volume from the front to the rear can be gradually increased, thereby allowing the temperature drop speed of a glass plate to be uniform from the front to the rear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA TRIUMPH INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shou Peng, Xing Yi, Rui Liu, Ming Cheng, Yuan Liu
  • Patent number: 10844974
    Abstract: A motor-less pump includes: (a) a housing having an inlet provided to allow fluid flow into the housing and an outlet provided to allow fluid flow out of the housing; (b) an elastic diaphragm positioned in the housing such that motion in the elastic diaphragm drives the fluid flows at the inlet and the outlet of the housing; and (c) one or more electromechanical polymer (EMP) actuators each being provided on a surface of the elastic diaphragm, wherein the mechanical responses to electrical stimuli applied on the EMP actuators cause the motion in the diaphragm. The EMP actuators may include one or more bimorphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Novasentis, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ducharme, Mark Levatich
  • Patent number: 10597784
    Abstract: A spray nozzle has a body having a flow passage. At least along a portion of the flow passage the body has a depth-wise compositional variation having: a cemented carbide first region; and a cemented carbide second region closer to the flow passage than the first region and having a higher boron content than a boron content, if any, of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Randolph C. McGee, Aaron T. Nardi
  • Patent number: 10407885
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tap aerator (1) comprising a mounting housing and containing, in said mounting housing (2), an insert part that is designed as a jet divider and diffuser (7) which interacts with a diffuser ring (8). The annular retainer regions (7a) and (8a) of said diffuser (7) and diffuser ring (8), each arranged on the largest outer circumference, are located, when in a use position, in the interior of the mounting housing (2) at different height positions relative to one another in the axial direction, i.e. the retainer region (7a) of the diffuser (7) is not enclosed and the largest outer diameter of the diffuser ring (8) and its retainer region (8a) is only as large as, or if required even smaller than, the largest outer diameter of the diffuser (7) and its retainer region (7a). This allows the formation of an arrangement which saves space in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Gerhard Blum
  • Patent number: 10017880
    Abstract: Briefly described, embodiments of the present disclosure include trilobal bulked continuous filaments (BCFs) with a generally round central void, spinneret plates with a capillary design for producing the BCFs of the present disclosure, articles and carpets produced from the BCFs of the present disclosure, methods of producing the trilobal BCFs of the present disclosure, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: INVISTA NORTH AMERICA S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Wae-Hai Tung
  • Patent number: 9751097
    Abstract: A topical spray composition and a system for containing and applying the composition is described. The composition has liquid emulsifiers that unexpectedly result in a superior product suitable to be applied homogeneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Nikolaos Morikis, Kathleen Lynn Melo, Gee-Young Ng
  • Patent number: 9544982
    Abstract: An EUV light source target material handling system is disclosed which includes a target material dispenser and a target material repository including a nozzle with a radial trench design. The nozzle may be formed from a silicon-on-insulator wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Jian Zhao, Tetsuya Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9151259
    Abstract: An orifice plate used as part of a fuel injector. The orifice plate has a base portion, an offset portion integrally formed with the base portion, a flow entry side and a flow exit side, where the base portion and the offset portion are part of the flow entry side and the flow exit side. A plurality of exit apertures is integrally formed with the offset portion. Each of the plurality of exit apertures includes a plurality of stepped portions, and at least one inner diameter, and each exit aperture is disposed at an angle relative to a central axis extending through the orifice plate. Each exit aperture is of a depth that is about twice the size of the inner diameter, providing optimal atomization of the fluid as the fluid flows through the exit apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark William Mosser, Michael Gene Pacyga
  • Patent number: 9038866
    Abstract: An application tip and method for dispensing a fluid into a hole, the tip having a hollow housing or body with an open end and a closed end, the open end configured to be removably attached to and in fluid communication with a fluid source, the closed end including a nozzle having at least one passage or fluid outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Orbital ATK, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob L. Nelson, Mark A. Sikkink
  • Patent number: 8985478
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: Dieter Wurz
  • Patent number: 8960572
    Abstract: An air manifold system that includes an improved air nozzle is provided. In one embodiment, the nozzle has an inlet and an outlet. The inlet of the nozzle may be shaped to conform to the curved outer surface of a main body of the air manifold, and may be welded thereto. The nozzle includes a variable section extending from the nozzle inlet to an intermediate transition point along the length of the nozzle, which has a converging inside diameter, which compensates for flow losses due to cornering. A resistive section extends from the transition point to the outlet, and has a generally constant diameter which is less than the inside diameter of the variable section measured at the nozzle inlet. In one embodiment, the length of the resistive section is less than the length of the variable section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Allen S. Pucciani
  • Patent number: 8944341
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Global Material Science Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-jun Park, Jin-jong Su, Fang-yu Liu
  • Patent number: 8919277
    Abstract: A cylindrical coating nozzle having a flattened end is placed above a coating object being rotated. A coating solution is applied to a surface of the coating object by discharging the coating solution form a nozzle orifice at an end of the coating nozzle while moving the coating nozzle relative to the coating object in a direction intersecting a rotational direction of the coating object. The coating nozzle is formed with an angled notch at a part of the end thereof. A rotation control unit controls the rotation of the coating nozzle in a manner that the notch of the coating nozzle is positioned upstream from a position to feed the coating solution to the coating object being rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: Chugai Ro Co., Ltd, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takao Tokumoto, Sadao Natsu, Mitsuhiro Hida, Souichirou Iwasaki, Tsuyoshi Sato, Kenichi Ooshiro
  • Patent number: 8893647
    Abstract: A tip section of a discharge nozzle 31 is shaped like a wedge, and projections 310 which further protrude are formed at the tip of the wedge. Lower surfaces 310b of the projections 310 define a substrate-facing-surface which is brought into proximity to the substrate, and discharge outlet bearing surfaces 310c, which gradually retract back from the substrate W, are formed as if to rise from the edges of the lower surfaces 310b. At adjacent positions within the discharge outlet bearing surface 310c which are adjacent to the substrate-facing-surface 310b, discharge outlets 311 for discharging an application liquid are opened. Areas around the discharge outlets 311 and a wall around a fluid feeding path 312 are integrated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Iwashima, Masakazu Sanada, Hiroyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 8893644
    Abstract: A wide slit nozzle having a slit as a discharge opening. The thickness of a lateral end part is set smaller than the thickness at a lateral center part. The thickness of the lateral center part is fixed. The thickness of the lateral end part changes linearly from opposite lateral ends of the lateral center part to the opposite lateral ends of the slit. Coating material is discharged from the slit while applied with pressure, so that the coating material is coated while expanded wider than the width of the slit. The coating material is discharged at 7 liter per minute, and a coating width of a first example is 100 mm, for example. A thickness increase of the overlapped part is +25% even when a width or an overlapped margin z of the overlapped part is 10 mm or 20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Kako Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakamura, Akira Nonoyama, Shigeo Mori, Hisashi Kato
  • Patent number: 8888024
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine is provided. The fuel injection value includes an injection hole plate having a plurality of fuel chambers formed by recessing part of the upstream side of the injection hole plate at a plurality of positions along the valve seat opening portion. Each of the fuel chambers has a shape in which the halves are symmetric with each other with respect to a line that radially extends from the center of the injection hole plate. The fuel chambers are is disposed in a place that ranges from the inside of a virtual circle to the outside of the inner circumference of the valve seat opening portion. Two injection holes are arranged outside the inner circumference of the valve seat opening portion in such a way as to flank the radial center line of the fuel chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Hashii, Tsuyoshi Munezane
  • Publication number: 20140299683
    Abstract: A water spraying apparatus of a diswasher and the diswasher comprising the water spraying apparatus are provided. The water spraying apparatus comprises a water source connecting pipe having a water outlet tube, a spraying arm having a water inlet tube, and a connecting device connecting the water source connecting pipe with the spraying arm, in which the connecting device comprises first and second semicircular fitting rings which are adapted to snap-fit with each other to form a connecting ring, the connecting ring is rotatably fitted over the water outlet tube of the water source connecting pipe and positioned in an axial direction of the connecting ring between the water inlet tube of the spraying arm and the water outlet tube of the water source connecting pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicants: FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA WASHING APPLIANCES MFG. CO.MFG.CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weidong Zhao, Fang Tian
  • Patent number: 8833673
    Abstract: A straw for dispensing fluids includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end, an outer surface, and at least one aperture extending from the first end to the second end defining an inner surface. The aperture has a non-circular cross-sectional shape, such as an oval, an ellipse, a tear drop, and the like. The straw is made of a durable, non-toxic material, such as thermoplastic material that is suitable to withstand a temperature of the fluid of up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, while preventing toxin release related to common cold beverage straws when immersed in hot beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Inventor: Dawn Martha Miracle
  • Patent number: 8827187
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes: a nozzle body provided with an injection hole at a tip portion; a needle that is located slidably in the nozzle body and includes a seat portion seated on a seat position in the nozzle body; and an air bubble generation means generating air bubbles in a fuel flowing through the nozzle body, and when a curvature radius is R, a length of a curve is L and a constant is a, an inner peripheral shape of the injection hole includes a curving part passing through a region surrounded by a clothoid curve which is expressed by RƗL=a2 and of which the constant a is 0.95 and an clothoid curve of which the constant a is 1.05 or a region surrounded by approximate curves of the clothoid curves at a cross-section surface along a direction of axis of the injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8820665
    Abstract: A nozzle is provided for dispensing a liquid from a container in a desirable, nearly rectangular spray pattern. The nozzle includes an actuator having an inlet end adapted to receive liquid from the container and an outlet end, the actuator outlet end defining an outlet chamber. An insert is coupled to the actuator outlet end and defines an insert passage in fluid communication with the outlet chamber. The insert includes at least a first convex shoulder disposed downstream of the outlet chamber, and a nozzle outlet disposed downstream of the first convex shoulder. The convex shoulder may have a radius of curvature and side walls may be provided at an angle of convergence. The radius of curvature and the angle of convergence may be provided within certain ranges to obtain the desired spray pattern at the desired flow rate using typical aerosol can pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory J. Nelson, Nitin Sharma, Padma Prabodh Varanasi
  • Patent number: 8807074
    Abstract: Exemplary illustrations of a supply tube, e.g., for a painting system, such as for supplying compressed air to a turbine in a rotary atomizer or for supplying an atomizer with a fluid medium, such as paint or a rinsing agent, are disclosed. An exemplary supply tube may include an upstream tube section and a downstream tube section. The upstream tube section may have a larger inner cross-section than the downstream tube section. A painting robot is also disclosed, which includes an exemplary supply tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Bernhard Seiz, Georg M. Sommer, Timo Beyl
  • Patent number: 8794550
    Abstract: An fuel injection valve has: a needle housed in a valve body in a reciprocable manner; an injection hole plate attached to a front end portion of the valve body, the plate having an injection hole connecting an inside and an outside of the valve body; and a valve sheet which the needle is attached to or detached from so as to close or open a fuel flow path that reaches the injection hole of the injection hole plate through an outer circumference of the needle. The injection hole plate has a recessed portion dented in an axial direction of the needle so as to cause fuel flowing toward the injection hole through the valve sheet to descend lower than a height of an inlet port of the injection hole and then, to turn to ascension so as to reach the inlet port of the injection hole on the injection hole plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Kaneko, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Sakai, Toshikuni Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 8794549
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine includes a measuring plate that has at least one injection hole. Fuel that has flowed along an inner wall surface of the measuring plate flows into the injection hole through an injection hole entrance that is formed in the inner wall surface of the measuring plate, passes through the injection hole, and is injected through an injection hole exit that is formed in an outer wall surface of the measuring plate. A recess is formed from an injection hole entrance rim to an injection hole exit rim in an upstream section of the inner wall surface of the injection hole in a fuel flow direction along the inner wall surface of the measuring plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 8763936
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a nozzle assembly for electrostatic deposition comprising a single point nozzle, the single point nozzle being conically shaped and including an apex and a circular base, the circular base including a smaller diameter cylindrical protrusion including a counter bore which connects to a passage leading to the apex; and a nozzle body, in contact with the single point nozzle and including a first through bore, a larger second through bore and a cross drilled port into the first through bore; and a cylindrical electrode, at least partially inserted within the first through bore of the nozzle body and in contact with the counter bore of the single point nozzle, the electrode including a bore mating aligned with the cross drilled port of the nozzle body, and inlets positioned at either end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Terronics Development Company
    Inventors: Jennifer Swenson, Edward McKenna
  • Patent number: 8757087
    Abstract: A device for coating an exterior of an elongate object includes a housing structure with an elongate chamber having first and second opposite ends. A port communicates with the first end for receiving the elongate object and an outlet is located at the second end. An air supply passage and a coating material supply passage communicate with the elongate chamber. Pressurized air and coating material are adapted to enter the elongate chamber through the air supply passage and the coating material supply passage, respectively, to form a mist in the elongate chamber moving toward the outlet while coating the exterior of the object. A method of coating an exterior surface of the elongate object with the coating material includes holding the elongate object lengthwise in the elongate chamber, mixing the pressurized air and the coating material to form a mist, and coating the exterior surface while directing the mist around the exterior surface and toward the outlet of the elongate chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Doker, Thomas Wanka, Michael Wilczek
  • Patent number: 8752501
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing system may include a first die portion having a first face defining a first edge and a second die portion spaced from the first die portion and having a second face facing the first face and defining a second edge, wherein the first edge and the second edge define a fluid outlet opening. The fluid dispensing system may also include a fluid inlet for introducing fluid to a region between the first face and the second face, and a cavity in flow communication with the fluid inlet, wherein the cavity opens to the region between the first face and the second face. The fluid dispensing system may further include a shim disposed between the first die portion and the second die portion to maintain the spaced positioning of the first and second die portions, wherein the shim defines a plurality of channels bounded by the first and second faces and extending from the cavity in a direction toward the fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Felipe Miguel Joos
  • Patent number: 8740109
    Abstract: Apparatus producing superheated water and/or steam for weed (36) killing, etc. has diesel fired boiler (30), which, via pump (32), generates hot water at a pressure of 40-52 bar and temperature of 90-115Ā° C. This passes down tube (12) and encounters the constriction provided by nozzle (14). Passing through nozzle (14) into depressurization chamber (16), which is at atmospheric pressure, the water boils. When the super heated water exits ports (20) of distribution pipe (18) it encounters ambient temperature and is transformed into high temperature water vapor and/or water droplets. The apparatus controls or kill weeds (36) using a smaller volume of water and less energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Steamwand International Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Philip Muston, David Parkin, Jeremy Winer
  • Patent number: 8727148
    Abstract: A cap is received on an associated bottle opening. The cap preferably includes an annular body and a sidewall that includes a thread member extending around at least a portion of an inner surface thereof. A closing surface extends substantially perpendicular to the sidewall and is dimensioned to cover the associated bottle opening. As disclosed, an opening in the cap closing surface has first, second, and third portions that each form distinct interconnected narrow, intermediate, and large pour opening portions. A lid is selectively received on the closing surface and includes a seal extending outwardly from a surface thereof. The seal includes similarly dimensioned first, second, and third portions that conform to and selectively seal with the first, second, and third portions of the cap opening. Another exemplary embodiment includes a tear-away panel portion that includes a tab to aid in removal of the panel portion and forming the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Creative Edge Design Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel P. Soehnlen, Gregory M. Soehnlen
  • Publication number: 20140103147
    Abstract: Various embodiments of modular dual vector fluid spray nozzles are disclosed. Embodiments of the nozzles are characterized by specially shaped fluid channels, impingement surfaces and exit orifices used to generate atomized mists of fluid under pressure. Embodiments of the nozzles are generally characterized by composite fluid spray density patterns having horizontal and vertical components, i.e., dual vector in nature. The nozzles disclosed are modular and may be easily installed or removed from a given fluid spray system, nozzle head, or fixture as dictated by any given application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Mitchell Joe Dodson
  • Patent number: 8684281
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, a spray system is provided with a spray tip including a core tip structure having a first material, wherein the core tip structure includes a liquid passage extending to a liquid exit orifice. The spray tip also includes a wear resistant coating disposed about the core tip structure, wherein the wear resistant coating has a second material relatively harder than the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Finishing Brands Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Micheli, Christine Laub, Al Suopys, Michael Starozhitsky
  • Publication number: 20140078502
    Abstract: A nozzle tip formed from a cylindrical body defining a longitudinal axis and a frustoconical body adjoining the cylindrical body on the longitudinal axis. The cylindrical body may be in fluid communication with the frustoconical body. The frustoconical body may end in a flat surface with a nozzle exit orifice which is transverse to the longitudinal axis. There may be a cutout at the edge of the frustoconical body and the flat surface. The flow cytometer system may also include a source of electromagnetic radiation for producing a beam incident upon the fluid stream and the particles and a detector for detecting light emitted or reflected from the particles within the fluid stream in response to the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Inguran, LLC
    Inventors: Kris Buchanan, Kenneth Michael Evans
  • Patent number: 8672239
    Abstract: A fuel injector is disclosed that has plural nozzle holes with the same cross-sectional shape and can individually set the flow rate of each nozzle hole. The fuel injector includes the plural nozzle holes, a seat section positioned upstream of the nozzle holes, a valve element that closes a valve when brought into contact with the seat section and opens the valve when separated from the seat section, and a circular cone tapered from an upstream end to a downstream end and provided with the seat section and an inlet opening of the nozzle holes. The plural nozzle holes have an identical shape and a shape of a cross-section of each of the nozzle holes is substantially out-of-round, the cross-section being perpendicular to a central axis of each of the nozzle holes. The cross-section of each of the nozzle holes is rotated around the central axis of each of the nozzle holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ogura, Yasuo Namaizawa
  • Patent number: 8661845
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging section for performing heat exchange between a refrigerant and a cooling medium and a passage section. The passage section includes a first passage and a second passage for supplying the refrigerant to the heat exchanging section and a supply passage for supplying the refrigerant to the first passage and the second passage. The first passage and the second passage define a first opening portion and a second opening portion opening at an end of the supply passage. A minimum distance between an opening edge of the first opening portion and an inner surface of the supply passage is equal to a minimum distance between an opening edge of the second opening portion and the inner surface of the supply passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Thuya Aung, Nobuharu Kakehashi, Tomohiko Nakamura, Hideaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20140054395
    Abstract: A nozzle device for a spray arm of a dishwasher for spraying cleaning fluid out into a dishwashing space is provided with a fluid outflow surface for the outflow of the cleaning fluid from the nozzle device into the dishwashing space. The fluid outflow surface is configured with two subsurfaces which form an angle smaller than 180Ā°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicants: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH, Etimex Technical Components GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Heisele, Klaus-Peter Holstein
  • Patent number: 8651394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Laval nozzle for thermal spraying and kinetic spraying, especially for cold gas spraying, with a convergent section and a divergent section. To achieve a better degree of application effect, at least a portion of the divergent section, according to the invention, has a bell-shaped contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Metco AG
    Inventors: Peter HeĆÆnrich, Heinrich Kreye, Thorsten Stoltenhoff
  • Publication number: 20140044881
    Abstract: The reversible coating material nozzle for a spray gun for coating a workpiece with coating material can be installed in a first and a second installation position in a nozzle mount of the spray gun and comprises a nozzle core having a nozzle core opening and a nozzle nipple that is connected to the nozzle core and has a nozzle nipple opening. In addition, a nozzle channel for the coating material is provided and reaches through the nozzle nipple and the nozzle core and connects the nozzle nipple opening to the nozzle core opening. The nozzle nipple has a cylindrical portion, which in the first installation position forms a form fit with the nozzle mount of the spray gun. In addition, a stop is provided. The ratio between the length (L) from the stop to the cylindrical portion and the nozzle diameter (D) lies in the range between 0.75 and 2.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: J. WAGNER AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Ghesla, Rolf Mazenauer
  • Patent number: 8640978
    Abstract: An improved irrigation sprinkler nozzle is provided for enhanced short range or close-in distribution of water for irrigating vegetation and the like positioned relatively close to the sprinkler. The improved sprinkler nozzle includes a nozzle passage for outward projection of a water stream, at least a portion of which is defined by a generally vertically oriented, fan-shaped spray pattern. A lower margin of the nozzle passage defining this fan-shaped pattern is lined with a plurality of forwardly extending ramps each formed with a selected width and a different declination angle. A portion of the water discharged through the nozzle passage is forced and guided downwardly along these ramps for enhanced close-in distribution of water near the sprinkler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Rain Bird Corporation
    Inventors: Christian T. Gregory, John J. Alarcon
  • Patent number: 8608089
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nozzle tip that atomizes a liquid entering a vessel or reaction zone that contains circulating fluidized particulates where the nozzle tip comprises a first elongated slot that intersects with a second elongated slot to define a single orifice. The first elongated slot may have members protruding into it and the slots may intersect substantially orthogonally and bisect each other. The length of the minor axis of the first slot ranges form about 5% to about 50% of the length of the major axis of the first slot and the length of the minor axis of the second slot ranges form about 1% to about 10 % or the major axis of the second slot. This nozzle tip affords erosion reduction caused by the circulating fluidized particulates and therefore provides longer operational lifetimes for the nozzle tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Wilson, Jeffrey S. Smith, Derek Colman
  • Publication number: 20130327856
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cold-spray nozzle that can be continuously used for a long time without causing clogging up of the nozzle compared to a conventional case to effectively obtain a high-quality film by a cold-spray method. To achieve the object, the cold-spray nozzle that is a convergent-divergent type cold-spray nozzle comprising a convergent part, a throat part, and a divergent part sequentially arranged in this order for constituting a working gas flow path along a working gas flow direction from an inlet side to an outlet side is employed. The inner peripheral surface of the divergent part has a conical shape and at least a part of the inner peripheral surface is constituted by a glass material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: PLASMA GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Fukanuma
  • Publication number: 20130327855
    Abstract: An orifice plate used as part of a fuel injector. The orifice plate has a base portion, an offset portion integrally formed with the base portion, a flow entry side and a flow exit side, where the base portion and the offset portion are part of the flow entry side and the flow exit side. A plurality of exit apertures is integrally formed with the offset portion. Each of the plurality of exit apertures includes a plurality of stepped portions, and at least one inner diameter, and each exit aperture is disposed at an angle relative to a central axis extending through the orifice plate. Each exit aperture is of a depth that is about twice the size of the inner diameter, providing optimal atomization of the fluid as the fluid flows through the exit apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark William Mosser, Michael Gene Pacyga
  • Publication number: 20130313336
    Abstract: A nozzle for producing a liquid jet or a single-file stream of droplets of a fluid, methods using the nozzle, and an injector comprising the nozzle of the invention for providing the liquid jet or single-file stream of a fluid to a vacuum system are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Ariz
    Inventor: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the
  • Patent number: 8590816
    Abstract: A spray nozzle includes a tubular channel extending along a longitudinal axis, a slot formed by two approximately plane surfaces converging in a direction of the channel and located on either side of a plane including the longitudinal axis of the channel, and a dome connecting the channel and the slot wherein a length of the dome represents less than 50% of a largest transverse dimension of the channel and a plane cross section of the dome is symmetric and it is defined by at least two different circular arcs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Exel Industries
    Inventor: Patrick Ballu
  • Publication number: 20130306761
    Abstract: A washing apparatus with an adjustable water spraying head includes a water inlet tube, a water guiding tube and a water spraying head. A second connecting base of the water guiding tube engages with a first connecting base of the water inlet tube. A plurality of first positioning holes that are against a first positioning unit of the water inlet tube are circularly formed at the engaging side. The water spraying head is plugged into a water outlet end of the water guiding tube, and a second positioning unit is located at outer periphery of a connecting tube. The second positioning unit is against a second spring and wedged in a second positioning hole of the water guiding tube. According to the structure stated above, the adjustment of the water spraying head is more convenient without frequently moving the water inlet tube, which causes water randomly spraying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: SHIN TAI SPURT WATER OF THE GARDEN TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chin-Yuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20130284830
    Abstract: A conduit with a terminal end, wherein proximate to the terminal end is an orifice plate, wherein the orifice plate has at least one orifice with at least one perimeter, and the at least one perimeter is in a fractal pattern, wherein the conduit can be a nozzle assembly for a flow, wherein examples of a nozzle assembly include a fuel injector, a shower head, a faucet head, and a nozzle head, wherein proximate to the terminal end of each nozzle is the orifice plate with a fractal pattern that provides a downstream spray pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: WELLS GELVEN FRACTAL TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: William Theo Wells, Grant A. Gelven
  • Patent number: 8567701
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine is provided. The fuel injection value includes an injection hole plate having a plurality of fuel chambers formed by recessing part of the upstream side of the injection hole plate at a plurality of positions along the valve seat opening portion Each of the fuel chambers has a shape in which the halves are symmetric with each other with respect to a line that radially extends from the center of the injection hole plate. The fuel chambers are is disposed in a place that ranges from the inside of a virtual circle to the outside of the inner circumference of the valve seat opening portion. Two injection holes are arranged outside the inner circumference of the valve seat opening portion in such a way as to flank the radial center line of the fuel chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Hashii, Tsuyoshi Munezane
  • Patent number: 8567218
    Abstract: A burner for a vapour deposition process has a central nozzle for ejecting a glass precursor material, at least a crown of nozzles surrounding said central nozzle for ejecting a flame reactant, and a circular nozzle between said central nozzle and said crown of nozzles for ejecting an innershield gas, wherein the central nozzle has a concave shape in a cross section in the axial plane and, preferably, a symmetry about an axial plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Cognolato, Francesco Moleā€², Andrea Demergazzi, Franco Veronelli
  • Patent number: 8556195
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: InvisaFlow, LLC
    Inventor: Haynes Sloan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8535756
    Abstract: A nozzle for dispensing a random pattern of liquid adhesive filaments. The nozzle may include first and second air shim plates, an adhesive shim plate and first and second separating shim plates. The first and second air shim plates each have respective pairs of air slots. Each air slot has a process air inlet and a process air outlet and the air slots of each pair converge toward one another such that the process air inlets are farther apart than the process air outlets in each pair. The adhesive shim plate includes a plurality of liquid slots each with a liquid outlet. Four process air outlets are associated with each of the liquid outlets. The process air slots are adapted to receive pressurized process air and the liquid slots are adapted to receive pressurized liquid adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Bondeson, Thomas Burmester, Hubert Kufner, Joel E. Saine
  • Publication number: 20130181073
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid metal target forming apparatus, including a nozzle that forms a liquid metal target in space, which is irradiated with a proton beam, by ejecting liquid metal thereto. A portion where a region that receives a proton beam of the liquid metal target is formed in a discharge port of the nozzle has a concavo-convex shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MECHANICS SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics System, Ltd., OSAKA UNIVERSITY