Nozzle Materials Patents (Class 239/DIG19)
  • Patent number: 6113002
    Abstract: A shower device having a flexible, flat jet or spray disk is created, in which at least one surface zone is curved outwards and on exceeding a specific pressing in force (E) exerted thereon springs round suddenly with the curvature inwards into a space located behind it and automatically springs back to the starting position when the force is relieved. As a result of the springing or springing round, it is possible to detach lime deposits from the jet disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Hansgrohe AG
    Inventor: Werner Finkbeiner
  • Patent number: 6105881
    Abstract: An air brush having an easily installed nozzle member and a cost-effective extremity end member. The nozzle member is held between a nozzle cap and an outlet end of the main body of the air brush. The nozzle member is made such that it's front and rear parts are substantially conical in shape. An insertion hole extends through and is formed in the nozzle member. The rear part of the nozzle member is inserted into the tapered hole at the outlet end of the main body of the air brush. The front part of the member is internally fitted into the nozzle cap and secured. The nozzle member is made such that it's outlet end is composed of the extremity end member. The extremity end member is made of SPM material which is harder, stronger and more durable than the other portions of the device, and the extremity end member includes a very strong nozzle section in order to prevent the occurrence of corrosion or cracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: B. B. Rich Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuaki Kitajima
  • Patent number: 6076750
    Abstract: A device for filling containers, particularly packaging containers such as cardboard packaging containers, on the packaging container, comprises a feed part and a closing part. To prevent the dripping of the substance distributed into the packaging container on the area around the fill opening the feed part is equipped with outlets which form an angle with the center axis of the feed part so that the upper ends of the outlets separate from each other. In the lower end of the feed part, the angle position of the outlets causes the liquid flows from different outlets to unit into one flow of liquid which, if necessary, can be fed into a container even through a small fill opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: UPM-Kymmene Oyj
    Inventors: Ensio Mykkanen, Pertti Kleemola
  • Patent number: 6027040
    Abstract: A nozzle head includes a nozzle carrier so mounted to a stationary housing as to allow rotation thereof about a longitudinal axis by a recoil action caused by pressure water exiting spray nozzles accommodated in the nozzle carrier, and a hollow shaft rotatably supported in the housing and secured to the nozzle carrier. The hollow shaft has a central passage for conducting pressure water to the spray nozzles; and has a pressure water connection proximate end face which is supported by a first sealing disk of highly wear-resistant material, e.g. ceramics. The first sealing disk is connected to the hollow shaft via a mounting so as to conjointly rotate with the nozzle carrier and hollow shaft during operation of the nozzle head. The shaft-distal end face of the first sealing disk bears upon a second stationary sealing disk which is also made of a highly wear-resistant material, e.g. ceramics, and received in a mounting which is fixed via a seal ring in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Paul Hammelmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Frye-Hammelmann
  • Patent number: 6003785
    Abstract: A rotary atomizing cup has an internal concave opening and a distributor member disposed in said opening for passing particles through the distributor member to an atomizing ring as the cup is being rotated. The distributor member is formed of a polymer material, the cup body of aluminum and the atomizing ring of stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Sames Electrostatic, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Duey
  • Patent number: 5996910
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve has a single pipe member made of composite magnetic material which can be processed to form ferro-magnetic structures and non-magnetic structures. A magnetic fuel connector, a magnetic valve body, a nonmagnetic intermediate pipe are formed in the single pipe member. An electromagnetic solenoid is disposed around the intermediate pipe, and a needle valve is disposed in the valve body. A magnetic stationary core is disposed inside the fuel connector, and a magnetic movable core is disposed inside the valve body in a magnetic circuit composed of the solenoid, the fuel connector, the stationary core and the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Takeda, Satoshi Sugiyama, Haruo Suzuki, Masaki Funahashi, Yoshihiro Tanimura, Eiji Iwanari
  • Patent number: 5992769
    Abstract: Microchannels for conducting and expelling a fluid are embedded in a surface of a silicon substrate. A channel seal is made of plural cross structures formed integrally with the silicon substrate. The cross structures are arranged sequentially over each channel, each cross structure having a chevron shape. The microchannel is sealed by oxidizing at least partially the cross structures, whereby the spaces therebetween are filled. A dielectric seal which overlies the thermally oxidized cross structures forms a complete seal and a substantially planar top surface to the silicon substrate. The dielectric seal is formed of a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) dielectric layer. The channel is useful in the production of an ink jet print head, and has a polysilicon heater overlying the dielectric seal. A current passing through the heater causes a corresponding increase in the temperature of the ink in the microchannel, causing same to be expelled therefreom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Kensall D. Wise, Jingkuang Chen
  • Patent number: 5979801
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes: a valve seat provided at one end of a hollow valve main body and having an injection hole; a valve body separated/contacted from/with the valve seat to open/close the injection hole; and a swirler for surrounding the valve body to slidably support the valve body and for giving swirling to a fuel flowing into the injection hole, the swirler being produced by metal powder injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Munezane, Kensuke Imada, Keita Hosoyama, Norihisa Fukutomi, Masayuki Aota, Hirohisa Ohta, Mamoru Sumida
  • Patent number: 5971299
    Abstract: A spray device for use as an alternate water discharge to a faucet has a body with a handle and a spray head. The spray head has discharge openings therein. There is a trigger movable on the body between an off position and an on position. There is a chamber within the body which is in communication with a source of water under pressure and there is a water passage between the chamber and the discharge openings. A valve is movable within the chamber in response to movement of the trigger to connect the source of water under pressure through the chamber, to the water passage, and then to the discharge openings. The water passage is formed between closely spaced facing walls having a textured surface thereon to create adequate surface tension with water within the water passage, whereby water therein will not move to the discharge openings unless the water passage is connected to the source of water under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Moen Incorporated
    Inventors: Todd C. Loschelder, Eduardo E. Milrud, Thomas J. Overberg, Vance M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5950929
    Abstract: A burner construction having a body portion fabricated from a base material and coating material covering the base material. The base material is formed of copper or copper alloy having a conductivity of no less than about 100 watts/meter/.degree. C. Alternatively the base material can be silver. The coating material comprises nickel or nickel based alloy which can be an autocatalytic plating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Collier, Edward K. Chang, Weiji Huang, John Connors
  • Patent number: 5915352
    Abstract: A fuel injection device directly injecting fuel into a cylinder is exposed to combustion flame and is heated to nearly 300.degree. C. Under such a temperature condition, deposits of carbonization-growing materials of the injected gasoline and a mixture of engine lubricant and the gasoline and soot produced from the deposits become attached onto the end portion of the fuel injection device. By preventing a change in the fuel injection characteristic with time by preventing of deposits and soot from attaching to the fuel injection device, an engine can be maintained in a normal combustion state for a long time. In order to attain this object, a cylindrical cover member with a bottom made of a high thermal conductive material is mechanically fixed to the end portion of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve through an insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Minoru Ohsuga, Tohru Ishikawa, Masahiro Souma
  • Patent number: 5839890
    Abstract: A nozzle which includes a nozzle body, a central tube contained within the nozzle body for a flow of gas at a temperature less than the temperature of the nozzle body, and an annular passage, located between the nozzle body and central tube, for a flow of gas at a velocity less than the flow of gas in the central tube and less than about 100 ft/sec. enabling the nozzle to operate at elevated temperatures and avoid condensation thereon of vapors from the surrounding gas environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: William Joseph Snyder
  • Patent number: 5833148
    Abstract: A flat-jet nozzle 1 for high-pressure cleaning apparatus has a nozzle mouth passaage formed by the intersection of a depression 21 with half-round base 22 shaped into a nozzle body 2 and a channel 6 leading to the nozzle mouth. In the zone of intersection with the depression 21, the channel has a spherically vaulted wall 12. The width b of the resulting passage .alpha. and the angle between the wall 12 bounding the edge 26 and the longitudinal axis 17 of the channel are dimensioned in such manner that a point defined by this value pair lies inside of a zone bounded by a hyperbolas. This tolerance range is given by the equation:(b-B).multidot.(.alpha.-.alpha..sub.o)=C,in which: the width b is measured in millimeters (mm) and the angle .alpha. is measured in degrees (.degree.), the constant B lies in the range between 0.785 mm and 0.875 mm, the constant .alpha..sub.O lies between 8.25.degree. and 17.25.degree., and the constant C lies in a range from 12.degree. mm to 13.degree. mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ernst Steinhilber, Thomas Haegler, Erwin Steiner
  • Patent number: 5791563
    Abstract: In a fixed head burner (13), which may be used in the manufacture of optical fibers and preforms for optical fibers, a machined quartz nozzle (10) is provided for insertion into a threaded aperture (14) of the fixed burner head (13), the quartz nozzle (10) being sized to provide sufficient space between the quartz nozzle (10) and the burner head (12) to allow for relative differences in thermal expansion and contraction to prevent stress fracture of the quartz nozzle (10). A seating surfaces (85) is machined on the quartz nozzle (10) for contact with a machined surface (90) of the burner head (12), and the quartz nozzle is held in place by a spring (18) placed behind the quartz nozzle (10), the spring (18) being held in place by a threaded end cap (24). The secure retention of the quartz nozzle (10) within an aperture (14) in the burner head (12) is further aided by the pneumatic pressure of gases applied to a rear surface (20) of the quartz nozzle (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Alcatel NA Cable Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John Paul Marchionda, Teddy Breece Paisley, II
  • Patent number: 5775599
    Abstract: A gaseous fuel injector has a ball valve which is spring urged to a closed position. Positioned below this valve is the armature of an electromagnetic solenoid having an extension which abuts against the ball valve. The ball valve is normally closed against a valve seat to prevent passage of gas through the injector. With each actuation of the solenoid, the armature extension drives the ball valve upwardly from its valve seat to provide an injection of gas from the injector. The ball valve member, limit stops on the armature, and the surface along which the armature slides are all fabricated of durable, heat resistant plastic material which resists wear, provides low friction and are dimensionally stable over varying environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Impco Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David H. Smith, Craig D. Mawle
  • Patent number: 5730358
    Abstract: An improved and tunable ultrahigh-pressure nozzle for use in generating ultrahigh-pressure fluid jets is shown and described. In a preferred embodiment, a nozzle body is provided with a first conical bore that extends from an entrance orifice to an exit orifice, the bore transitioning into a second conical bore that is formed in a seal. The seal is formed to capture a nozzle orifice and position it in the nozzle body adjacent the exit orifice. By selecting the geometry of the nozzle, namely the diameter of the entrance orifice, and an included angle of the first and second conical bores, it is possible to optimize performance of a fluid jet generated by the nozzle for a selected task and operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Flow International Corporation
    Inventors: Chidambaram Raghavan, Curtis L. Anderson, Richard F. Schmid
  • Patent number: 5713522
    Abstract: A plurality of elongate segments, joined along their abutting side edges, form a variable geometry exhaust nozzle for a turbojet engine afterburner. The segments may be planar or slightly curved. Each segment is devoid of metal on its "hot" side and has at least one elongate edge portion bent in not more than about 90.degree. towards the "cold" side of the segment at least along the longitudinal side facing the adjacent panel. The panels are mutually joined to form said segment under the intermediation of metal elements, preferably of U-shape, for gripping adjacent pairs of bent portions of the respective panel pairs, at least some of said metal elements and the respective edge portions thereof having holes for accommodating hinge shafts and/or actuation means such that on each segment a continuous ceramic surface, entirely free of metal, faces the hot exhaust gas flow of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Volvo Aero Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Lundberg
  • Patent number: 5649571
    Abstract: A sub-nozzle in an air injection type weaving machine in which fluffing or the like caused by contact thereof with warp etc. does not occur, and for which its manufacture and control is facilitated. A sub-nozzle jetting a high-speed air flow for acceleration toward weft thrown from a main nozzle to between warps when they are raised and lowered to form shed opening comprises a holder connected to the side of a supply source of compressed air and a nozzle head connected to the holder, where at least the nozzle head is integrally formed by a high-strength glass material and occurrence of warp damage or wear of the nozzle head per se is restrained by the smoothness of its surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignees: Nippon Tungsten Co., Ltd., Hokuriku Seikei Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michito Miyahara, Shinya Baba, Masahiro Okesaku, Ikuo Takashima
  • Patent number: 5642860
    Abstract: A hand holdable spray delivery system for dispensing a relatively viscous and/or solids laden liquid is provided. This spray delivery system includes a container adapted to house the liquid. A manually actuated pump device is mounted on the container. The pump device including an inlet passage, a pump chamber, and a discharge passage having a distal end connected in liquid communication so that the liquid is pumped from within the container, through the inlet passage, into the pump chamber and through the discharge passage upon manual actuation of the pump device. A slotted spray nozzle including a housing having an inlet side and an exit side is also included. The housing having an internal recess through the inlet side that terminates in an elongated orifice at the exit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephan G. Bush, Dimitris I. Collias, Stephen F. Evans
  • Patent number: 5637815
    Abstract: A nozzle is formed of reaction sintered silicon carbide consisting essentially of silicon carbide and unreacted metallic silicon and having a density of 3.03-3.16 g/cm.sup.3. The nozzle satisfies the requirements of heat, wear, corrosion and chemical resistance and has experienced no volume shrinkage during sintering. The nozzle is suitable for use in a mixing/dispersing arrangement mounted in a fluidized bed reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Takahata, Atsushi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 5620142
    Abstract: The present invention shows an improved pin jet nozzle for use in providing an evaporative fog consisting essentially of fluid particles having a diameter of less than fifty micrometers (50 .mu.m.). In the preferred embodiment, the nozzle of the present invention comprises a base portion, a pin portion, and a nozzle insert component. In particular, the nozzle insert comprises:an insert member comprising a hollow, generally cylindrical insert adapted to be held firmly within the outlet orifice of the base portion of a pin let nozzle; and,an orifice member held firmly within the generally cylindrical insert member, which orifice member comprises:A. a wear-resistant material;B. a central orifice with a diameter of six one-thousandths of an inch (0.006 in.); and,c. a high degree of concentricity, with a variance in the concentricity of the central orifice of less than two ten-thousandths of an inch (0.0002 in.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Inventor: Michael V. Elkas
  • Patent number: 5609301
    Abstract: The design and practical method of providing an all ceramic externally mixing dual gas torch with a multiplicity of intimately adjacent emissions supplied from separate and isolated internal gas chambers. Four-bore ceramic tubing is used and two of the through bores access the isolated fuel gas chamber and side-slotting or notching accesses the remaining two holes to the isolated oxygen chamber. The bundling of a multiplicity of slotted tubings provides a multiplicity of intimately adjacent dual gas emissions. The slots are oriented to provide a desired flame pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventors: Thomas M. Burke, deceased, by Bernadette M. Burke, administrator, Dale L. Dickeson
  • Patent number: 5607106
    Abstract: A low inertia, wear-resistant needle valve assembly is provided for an internal combustion engine closed nozzle unit fuel injector. The needle valve assembly includes a needle and spring retainer subassembly made from an advanced structural ceramic, such as silicon nitride. A valve seat subassembly in the injector cup is made from a combination of metal and ceramic. The assembly materials and configuration provide maximum control over the efficiency of the injection event so that the fuel injection event can be terminated quickly, thereby allowing more effective control over exhaust emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignees: Cummins Engine Company, Toshiba Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph C. Bentz, John T. Carroll, III, Lester L. Peters, Thomas M. Yonushonis, Jeffrey L. Campbell
  • Patent number: 5584173
    Abstract: A thermal shield and support structure assembly for a gas turbine engine is disclosed wherein the thermal shield can be removed while the support structure is still mounted in the engine. The thermal shield in the form of a divergent seal baseplate and the support structure is particularly useful for divergent seals and provides a removable baseplate having at least two hooks disposed on the back side of the baseplate. The hooks have axially facing openings, preferably open in the forward facing direction and are operable to engage transversely extending pins on the frame of the support structure. An axial retaining means to prevent the hooks from disengaging from the pins may also be used which, in one embodiment, provides a lug having a first aperture and extending away from the back side of the baseplate to engage a clevis having two arms having second apertures alignable with the lug's aperture and a bolt or other fastening means disposed through the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Michael A. Lybarger
  • Patent number: 5487507
    Abstract: A quick release and connect nozzle assembly for use with a material dispensing head including a nozzle engagement member on a portion of the dispensing head, a nozzle member having an aperture therethrough for operable communication with the dispensing head to provide dispensing of the material in a predetermined pattern, and a connecting member integral with the nozzle member for engagement with the engagement member of the dispensing head, wherein the connecting member is operable by hand and provides quick release and connection of the nozzle member from the dispensing head so as to enable cleaning or replacement of the nozzle member as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel P. McDonald, John P. Smitherman
  • Patent number: 5476237
    Abstract: Thrust reverser blocker doors which include a syntactic film to protect the blocker doors from heat is disclosed. The blocker doors include first and second spaced layers of composite material. A first adhesive layer is disposed on the second layer and is used to bond the syntactic film to the second layer of composite material. To prevent surface erosion a protective layer can be bonded to the syntactic film by a second adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Clarke
  • Patent number: 5465908
    Abstract: A gas-feeding nozzle 10 for use in a mold 42 attached to an injection molding machine and for introducing a pressurized gas into a molten resin 60 injected into the cavity 48 of the mold, for producing a molded article having a hollow structure, the gas-feeding nozzle 10 comprising a non-return valve 12 provided at an outlet end of the gas-feeding nozzle 10 and a mechanism 14 for preventing the inflow of molten resin, the mechanism is provided upstream to the non-return valve 12 in the flow direction of the pressurized gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Akimasa Kaneishi, Akinori Toyota
  • Patent number: 5464157
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nebulizer for use in an atomic absorption system which includes a capillary assembly having a capillary holder having an internal axial passage therethrough, a sapphire capillary tip mounted on one end of the capillary holder and the other end of the holder being connected to a sample liquid source through a capillary gland nut assembly. A venturi member is provided which has an inlet portion, a throat portion and an exiting bell shaped portion. A body assembly has one end connected to the venturi member. The capillary assembly is mounted on the body assembly for axial movement so that the capillary holder partially enters the venturi inlet portion and the capillary tip enters the venturi throat. Compressed oxidant is supplied to the venturi member in the vicinity of the capillary tip so as to suck sample liquid from the capillary tip to form a mixture of fine liquid mist and gas which is discharged through the exiting bell shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: The Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Bourdoulous, John Vollmer
  • Patent number: 5449114
    Abstract: A method for improving the atomization quality from a fluid injector includes the steps of inducing a first vortex turbulence in the fluid flowing past a first protrusion in a supply orifice having a flow axis therein, guiding the fluid through a turbulence cavity and then out through a first metering orifice having another protrusion positioned downstream from the first protrusion by a distance y measured generally parallel to the flow axis and by a distance x measured generally perpendicular to the flow axis. The droplet size of the fluid exiting from the metering orifice is reduced by sizing the x and y dimensions to position the first vortex turbulence within the turbulence cavity operatively adjacent to and upstream from the first metering orifice. In a preferred embodiment, the ratio of x/y is greater than 0.5 and less than 5. A fuel injector nozzle practicing this process is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Marvin D. Wells, Debojit Barua, William P. Richardson, Lawrence W. Evers
  • Patent number: 5449120
    Abstract: A fuel feed apparatus having assist air passages that improve the fuel flow to an internal combustion engine. The fuel feed apparatus includes a fuel injection valve having a fuel injection nozzle body, and a resin cover member having both a fuel passage and an air assist passage. The cover member is press fit to the fuel injection body. The fuel feed apparatus further includes a ring member formed of metallic material and attached to an inner surface of the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhide Tani, Kiyoshi Nagata, Yoshihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 5439306
    Abstract: Device for assembling two elements made of materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion, which are subject in use to substantial temperature variations, is provided with a combination of a layer of a compressible, heat insulating material, positioned between a support element and an attached element, and an mechanism for maintaining the attached element against the layer, and the layer against the support element. The mechanism is arranged so as to enable relative movement between the two elements in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the layer. Also, surface portions of the attached element in contact with the mechanism are substantially parallel to the plane of the layer, and a material similar to the material of the layer is positioned between the surface portions and the mechanism. The device is especially applicable to the attachment of insulating elements on a metallic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Industrielle et Aerospatiale
    Inventor: Jacques C. N. Lhernould
  • Patent number: 5439492
    Abstract: Diamond workpieces comprised of polycrystalline CVD diamond having a grain size of less than 1 .mu.m are provided. These diamond workpieces are more resistant to wear and are more conducive to polishing than conventional diamond workpieces having large-grain diamonds. Three-dimensional workpieces such as water jet nozzles and water jet mixing tubes comprised of the small-grain diamonds provide particular advantage in that they can be easily finished to a final size and shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas R. Anthony, James F. Fleischer
  • Patent number: 5433387
    Abstract: A rotary atomizer includes an inside surface onto which a coating material is deposited, an opposite outside surface and a discharge zone adjacent the rotary atomizer's inside and outside surfaces, coating material being discharged from the discharge zone. A housing substantially surrounds and houses the rotary atomizer except for a region of the rotary atomizer adjacent and including the discharge zone. The housing includes an inside surface, an outside surface and an opening adjacent the inside and outside surfaces of the housing. The inside surface of the housing and the outside surface of the rotary atomizer are treated so as to render them electrically non-insulative. An electrostatic potential difference maintained across the electrically non-insulative inside surface of the housing and an article to be coated by material atomized by the rotary atomizer causes charge to be transferred from the electrically non-insulative inside surface of the housing to the outside surface of the atomizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Ransburg Corporation
    Inventors: Varce E. Howe, David R. Huff, James A. Scharfenberger, Jeffrey M. Stupar
  • Patent number: 5434112
    Abstract: A high pressure injection nozzle member is formed of a super hard alloy or a hard material of carbide series mainly composing of a tungsten carbide as, wherein the tungsten carbon is composed of grains each having a diameter of less than 1 .mu.m. At least one kind of carbide or solid solution of carbide selected from Ti, Ta, V, Cr, Mo, Hf, or Zr by a weight % of less than 10.0% is added. A binding material essentially consisting of at least one of iron group elements by weight % of 0.2 to 2.0% may be further added. The super hard alloy or a hard sintered material has a high abrasion proof property and has a hardness more than about HRA 94.0. Nitride or nitride solid solution may be utilized in place of carbide or carbide solid solution. The nozzle member is particularly suitable for an abrasive water jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigetomo Matsui, Hiroyuki Matsumura, Yoshikazu Ikemoto, Yasuhiro Kumon, Shigeru Nakayama, Keiji Tsujita, Keisuke Fukunaga, Nobuhiro Kuribayashi, Kenichi Wakana
  • Patent number: 5405089
    Abstract: A shower head has a rigid body forming a pressurizable compartment having a downstream wall of composite synthetic-resin material having an inner face and formed with an array of throughgoing holes so that pressurized water in the compartment will exit therefrom through the holes. A unitary liner sheet of a soft elastomer has an outer face bonded to the inner face of the downstream wall and is formed with respective tubular nipples fitting in and projecting through the holes. Each nipple forms a throughgoing passage having an inner end opening in the compartment and an outer end opening outside the body. The liner sheet and integral nipples are molded in situ against the inner face of the plate forming the downstream wall of the shower body. The composite synthetic-resin material is a polybutyleneterephthalate and the elastomer is silicone or the composite synthetic-resin material can be polypropylene and the elastomer a thermoplastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Friedrich Grohe Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Heimann, Veit Bechte, Harald Korfgen, Hans-Jurgen Jensen
  • Patent number: 5383597
    Abstract: A fuel injector for improving the atomization quality of fuel flowing into an internal combustion engine, includes a body having first and second turbulence cavities defined therein. First and second supply orifices in the body are coupled into their corresponding turbulence cavities for guiding the flow of fuel thereinto. First and second metering orifices in the body are coupled from corresponding first and second turbulence cavities for exhausting the atomized fuel therefrom in first and second fuel flows. One rim of each supply orifice is paired with a second rim of an adjacent metering orifice in order to produce a turbulence within the turbulence cavity. The metering orifice rim is spaced downstream by a distance y and laterally offset by a distance x from the supply orifice rim such that x/y is greater than 0.1. The fuel flowing from the first and second metering orifices includes lateral momentum components that cooperate to control the resultant cone angle of the fuel flowing from the injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Kathirgamasundaram Sooriakumar, Debojit Barua, Marcus W. Fried
  • Patent number: 5373993
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for coating the interior surfaces of an orifice in a substrate that forms a slurry fuel injection nozzle. In a specific embodiment, the nozzle is part of a fuel injection system for metering a coal-water slurry into a large, medium-speed, multi-cylinder diesel engine. In order to retard erosion of the orifice, the substrate is placed in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reaction chamber. A reaction gas is passed into the chamber at a gas temperature below its reaction temperature and is directed through the orifice in the substrate. The gas reaction temperature is a temperature at and above which the reaction gas deposits as a coating, and the reaction gas is of a composition whereby improved resistance to erosion by flow of the particulates in the slurry fuel is imparted by the deposited coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul L. Flynn, Anthony W. Giammarise
  • Patent number: 5363556
    Abstract: An improved two membered substantially crack-free water jet mixing tube of an abrasive water jet cutting device and a method of its preparation. The method comprises chemically vapor depositing diamond layer on a funnel shaped support member to form an inner member of the mixing tube, separating the inner member from the support member, depositing and then cooling an outer member on the outer side of the inner member to produce a compressive stress on the inner member that substantially prevents formation cracks on the inner member. The inner side of the inner member has a smooth bore having a microcrystalline structure and the outer member has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than diamond. The invention is also directed to a water jet cutting device that incorporates the aforementioned improved substantially crack-free water jet mixing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric company
    Inventors: William F. Banholzer, Thomas R. Anthony, Robert S. Gilmore, Paul A. Siemers, John C. McCloskey
  • Patent number: 5358181
    Abstract: A fuel feed apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided having a fuel passage serving to guide fuel in a predetermined direction, and an assist air passage serving to collide assist air against the fuel. The apparatus includes an inner member formed therein with the fuel passage extending from one end surface to another end surface thereof. An outer member is provided in surrounding relation to the inner member and forms the assist air passage between the inner member and the outer member. The outer member has at least one penetrating hole penetrating therethrough defining an inlet opening of the assist air passage. The air passage extends from the penetrating hole in a direction along fuel injection and has an outlet opening opened to an outlet side of the fuel passage. The outer member is joined to the inner member at an outer periphery of the one end surface of the inner member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhide Tani, Kiyoshi Nagata, Haruo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5356050
    Abstract: A new apparatus for supplying discreet amounts of glue to sheets of paper positioned beneath glue heads is presented. The new glue nozzle consists of an essentially vertical chamber into which air pressure is introduced perpendicularly to the vertical alignment of the chamber. A glue needle is inserted down the center of the vertical chamber. Glue is supplied through the glue needle in droplets by applying pressure to the glue bottle. As a glue droplet accumulates at the bottom of the glue supply needle, a pulse of air is sent into the glue chamber and pushes the droplet off of the glue needle and onto the target. As the next sheet is moved into place underneath the glue needle, another droplet accumulates. When the droplet and sheet are aligned, a pulse of air blasts the droplet off the end of the needle onto the next sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Inventors: Daniel A. Hahn, Donald H. Stover
  • Patent number: 5356075
    Abstract: An atomizer wheel comprising a central hub for securing the wheel on a rotatable shaft in a centrifugal atomizer associated with an atomizer drying system, a ring-shaped acceleration chamber arranged around the hub and having an upper ring opening through which the liquid to be atomized may be added to the acceleration chamber, at least one throw-out face for passing the liquid outwardly in the atomizer wheel in a direction toward its periphery, and a plurality of throw-out channels which, distributed with a mutual angular distance along the periphery of the acceleration chamber, extend transversely out through the outer wall of the chamber and serve to throw the liquid out of the acceleration chamber during the rotation of the atomizer wheel. At least one throw-out face is provided on a separate wear ring which is provided on the atomizer wheel and comprises a hard and wear resistant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: APV Pasilac Anhydro AS
    Inventors: Morten Heide, Henrik Sonderby
  • Patent number: 5348229
    Abstract: A composite valve body of a fuel injector comprises a dead air space for improving hot fuel handling performance. This space is cooperatively defined by a circumferential groove in the O.D. of a metal valve body and a nylon sleeve that is pressed onto the metal valve body to enclose the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Automotive L.P.
    Inventors: Ross W. Wood, Gregory R. Stanfield
  • Patent number: 5344120
    Abstract: A needle assembly for an airless spray gun is provided with a needle which is centerless ground and electropolished to greatly increase life. Further life enhancements are gained by use of a plastic needle bushing in the needle clamp and provision of a specific length to diameter geometry for the needle yields enhanced life as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Graco Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmy W. S. Tam, Lawrence L. Lanerd, Albert W. Lubenow, Tera D. McCutcheon
  • Patent number: 5339753
    Abstract: The secondary air nozzle for furnaces has a curved base body which is provided with pins for holding a ceramic protective casing. A protective strip which projects radially from the base body is arranged along the longest line of curvature proceeding from the nozzle opening until beyond the curved part, its radial dimension corresponding at least to the thickness of the ceramic protective casing. The protective strip is constructed as a rib which projects radially from the base body and is outfitted with pins for supporting the ceramic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Martin GmbH fuer Umweltund Energietechnik
    Inventors: Walter J. Martin, Johannes J. E. Martin
  • Patent number: 5337961
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle tip construction for a dual fuel gas turbine includes a centrally arranged metal liquid fuel tip having a liquid fuel flow passage therein; a radially outer ceramic atomizing air tip surrounding the liquid fuel tip in radially spaced and substantially concentric relationship such that an atomizing air passage is formed therebetween; a radially outermost metal gas fuel tip surrounding the atomizing air tip in radially spaced and substantially concentric relationship such that a gas fuel passage is formed therebetween; a metal retaining cup radially between the atomizing air tip and the gas fuel tip; and a pair of compliant interface elements, one interposed between the gas tip and the atomizing air tip at a forward end of the atomizing air tip, and the other interposed between the retaining cup and the atomizing air tip at a rearward end of the atomizing air tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric J. Brambani, Jonathan Munshi
  • Patent number: 5335608
    Abstract: A burner lance for atomizing a suspension of coal in water by means of an atomizing gas. The lance consists of an inner pipe (1) that the suspension flows through, of an outer pipe (2) radially surrounding the inner pipe and leaving a gap (5) that the atomizing gas flows through, and of a nozzle (10) that narrows in the direction the suspension flows in and communicates with both the inner and the outer pipe. The outer pipe extends along the burner beyond the inner pipe and accommodates a nozzle (10) in that section. The outside diameter of the nozzle equals the inside diameter of the outer pipe. The nozzle tapers at a central angle of 35.degree. to 45.degree. and terminates in a concentric exit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Deutsche Babcock Energie- und Umwelttechnik AG
    Inventors: Gunther Dehn, Horst Mollenhoff, Rudiger Wegelin
  • Patent number: 5334561
    Abstract: A high pressure injection nozzle member is formed of a super hard alloy or a hard material of carbide series mainly composing of a tungsten carbide as, wherein the tungsten carbon is composed of grains each having a diameter of less than 1 .mu.m. At least one kind of carbide or solid solution of carbide selected from Ti, Ta, V, Cr, Mo, Hf, or Zr by a weight % of less than 10.0% is added. A binding material essentially consisting of at least one of iron group elements by weight % of 0.2 to 2.0% may be further added. The super hard alloy or a hard sintered material has a high abrasion proof property and has a hardness more than about HRA 94.0. Nitride or nitride solid solution may be utilized in place of carbide or carbide solid solution. The nozzle member is particularly suitable for an abrasive water jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Inventors: Shigetomo Matsui, Hiroyuki Matsumura, Yoshikazu Ikemoto, Yasuhiro Kumon, Shigeru Nakayama, Keiji Tsujita, Keisuke Fukunaga, Nobuhiro Kuribayashi, Kenichi Wakana
  • Patent number: 5326035
    Abstract: A method of cleaning under high temperature and high pressure and cleaning equipment to be used in a cleaning process now being employed in such industrial fields as the electronics industry centering around the semiconductor industry and the optical machine industry. The high temperature/high pressure cleaning equipment has at least a compressing pump, a heating device, a nozzle, and piping, and, in the cleaning equipment to inject high temperature/high pressure water from a nozzle to the matter to be cleaned, functions to inject high temperature/high pressure ultrapure water from the nozzle to the matter to be cleaned. Cleaning is carried out by injecting ultrapure water having a relative resistance of 17.0 M/l-cm or more when converted at 25.degree. C. to a matter to be cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Tadahiro Ohmi
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Michiya Kawakami, Yasuyuki Yagi, Makoto Ohwada, Kiyoshi Takahara
  • Patent number: 5298313
    Abstract: Microcellular carbon filaments having a specific gravity no greater than about 1.4 are formed from PAN foamed filaments by carbonizing. These low density carbon filaments, which may also be hollow, have improved insulation properties compared with conventional PAN precursor carbon fibers and can be used as a replacement to rayon precursor carbon fibers where greater insulation is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Ketema Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Noland
  • Patent number: 5288026
    Abstract: A gas burner nozzle made from tabular alumina mounted in a steel cup shaped support that operates at a high temperature and a high oxidation for use in fabricating glass products. The gas and fuel inlet ports terminating in a radiused exit that greatly reduces the noise common to devices of this sort. The burner has a cone shaped supplementary mixing chamber which, together with the improved gas and fuel exits and the reflecting ledge provides a smooth transition of the flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Inventor: Paul V. Wilton