With Friction Detent Patents (Class 251/297)
  • Patent number: 11919632
    Abstract: An air mobility device improves propulsion due to the Coand? effect when flying so as to increase a flying range and reduces noise when flying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youn Sic Nam, Myeong Man Park, Kwan Ho Moh, Keon Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11796027
    Abstract: A damping adjuster is disclosed herein. The damping adjuster includes an adjuster housing and an adjuster shaft. The adjuster shaft rotatable within the adjuster housing, the adjuster shaft comprising a variable flow area feature, the variable flow area feature formed annularly about a portion of the adjuster shaft, the variable flow area feature comprising a plurality of different flow area values therealong. The damping adjuster also includes a fluid flow path through the adjuster housing, wherein the fluid flow path includes the variable flow area feature of the adjuster shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Laird
  • Patent number: 11796074
    Abstract: Multiport valve with outlets transverse to the inlet useful as a coker switch valve. A sealed lower sleeve assembly provides semi-trunnion ball support. An upper part of the outlet seat recesses is formed in the bonnet, and a lower part in the valve body, which together bias a resilient member to load the seats, independently of end connections. Before bonnet assembly, when the ball is rotated to face a body outlet, there is sufficient space in the seat recesses to insert the seat, slide the seat onto the ball, and then insert the resilient member. When all the seats and resilient members are in place, engagement of the bonnet biases the upper part of the resilient members to load the seat. In valve operation, an enlarged ball outlet bore can straddle two outlet ports and maintain process media flow during switching. Also, methods of assembling, operating, and servicing the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Mogas Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred Lewis Anderson, Asmaa Sadek Kassab, Phillip M. Inman
  • Patent number: 11724561
    Abstract: Device for controlling a flow-through and distributing a fluid in at least one fluid circuit, in particular a refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit including a housing with ports for connecting with fluid lines, each of which is connected via a passage opening with the at least one interior volume of the housing, as well as with at least one valve element disposed in the interior volume of the housing with a drive element for moving the valve element relative to the housing. The at least one valve element is supported rotatably about a rotational axis and comprises at least three through openings developed as through-bores forming in the interior of the valve element a common volume. An axis of symmetry of a first opening and the rotational axis of the valve element are located on a common axis. The device is used in a refrigerant circuit of a thermal system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Toni Spies, Tobias Haas, Dominik Wiechard, Markus Herzog
  • Patent number: 11702934
    Abstract: An annular detachable rubber probe sidewall contact device includes: a body which is columnar, wherein a high-pressure output oil path and a high-pressure retracting oil path are arranged in the body; a sidewall contact arm comprising multiple polar plates which are symmetrically distributed on an external circumference of the body, wherein each of the polar plates is movably installed on the body through a piston rod, and the piston rod is perpendicular to the body; the body has a piston cavity for accommodating the piston rod, and the piston cavity communicates with both the high-pressure output oil path and the high-pressure retracting oil path; and a sampling pipe, wherein one end of the sampling pipe is connected to the polar plates, and the other end of the sampling pipe communicates with a sampling channel in the body through a sampling cavity in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Shaobin Wang
  • Patent number: 11680659
    Abstract: An electrically driven actuator for opening and closing a valve comprises: an electric motor (1); a movable plate (8), to which a valve body is connected; a conversion mechanism (3) configured to convert a rotational motion of the electric motor (1) to a linear motion; a first biasing member (11) configured to bias the movable plate (8) toward a first direction; and a second biasing member (12) configured to bias the conversion mechanism (3) toward a second direction. The valve body is to be opened when a part of the conversion mechanism (3) linearly moves to move the movable plate (8) toward the second direction, and is to be closed when the first biasing member (11) biases the movable plate (8) toward the first direction. The conversion mechanism (3) is configured to be displaced relative to the movable plate (8) in a state in which the valve body is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MOOG JAPAN LTD.
    Inventors: Naritoyo Shibata, Akihisa Miyajima, Hidekazu Shitamichi
  • Patent number: 11598361
    Abstract: Connector housings and connector assemblies for mechanically connecting a pin to a housing with or without electrical conductivity. A connector housing can be formed by attaching two housing sections together with one or both housing sections formed at least in part by a stamping process. The connector housing can have an outer contour, such as an outer perimeter, with one or more sides and with a joining section connecting two adjacent sides together. The two or more sides can be used for handling, aligning, and/or assembling of the connector housing to a cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bal Seal Engineering, LLP
    Inventor: Majid Ghasiri
  • Patent number: 11543039
    Abstract: A selector control that is manually operable by a user for activating or deactivating a primary control or a secondary control. The selector control may include a first state for activating the primary control and deactivating the secondary control, a second state for activating the secondary control and deactivating the primary control, and a failsafe state for deactivating both the primary control and the secondary control. The selector control may be configured to maintain the second state independent of continuous user input being applied to the selector control, and configured to maintain the first state when continuous user input is applied to the selector control. The selector control is normally biased toward the failsafe state such that the selector control automatically selects the failsafe state when the user discontinues applying the user input for maintaining the first state. The selector control has particular application for use in controlling a boom of a work vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventor: Dennis Wenker
  • Patent number: 11525333
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of controlling flow communication with an apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a flow communicator, a flow control member, an uphole-disposed flow interference effector uphole of the flow communicator, and a downhole-disposed flow interference effector downhole of the flow communicator. While each of the uphole-disposed flow interference effector and the downhole-disposed flow interference-effector, independently, is contacting the flow control member, the flow communicator is closed. Displacement of the flow control member, relative to the flow communicator, in the downhole direction, opens the flow communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NCS Multistage Inc.
    Inventor: Juan Miguel Montero Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11092978
    Abstract: A valve assembly and fluid arrangement for continuous delivery of volumetrically proportioned gases or like fluids includes a valve assembly and a volumetric fluid storage bank, which has first and second sets of fluid storage chambers. The valve assembly alternately supplies a consumer with a blend of gases from the first set of fluid storage chambers while charging the second set of fluid storage chambers from pressurized gas sources, and, upon a threshold depletion of gases from the first set of chambers, supply the consumer with a blend of gases from the second set of fluid storage chambers while charging the first set of fluid storage chambers from the gas sources. Upon the threshold depletion of gases from the second set of chambers, the valve assembly again supplies mixed gases from the first set of chambers while charging the second set of chambers, and the process repeats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventor: Glen M. Arnott
  • Patent number: 11002367
    Abstract: A valve is provided which is based on a stationary sleeve. The stationary sleeve includes at least one coil in communication with an electrical power source and one or more openings in the body of the stationary sleeve open to the hollow interior of the stationary sleeve. The valve has a microcontroller configured to control flow of electrical current independently to the coil and an inner sleeve configured to fit within the stationary sleeve. The inner sleeve has an internal or external magnetized portion and one or more ports open to the hollow interior of the inner sleeve. The inner sleeve is moveable within the stationary sleeve under power provided by a magnetic field generated by the electrical current passing through the coil to either align the ports with the openings to open the valve or to remove alignment of the ports with the openings to close the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: EXTENSIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: F. Dale Pratt, Kenneth A. Lambe
  • Patent number: 10751737
    Abstract: A humanized switching device includes a tee pipe and a switching lever. The tee pipe has a switching chamber therein. The switching chamber is formed with a water inlet and a plurality of water outlets. The switching lever is provided with a water-stop part. The switching lever is movable to change the position of the water-stop part between the water inlet and the water outlets to realize the switching of the water passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN EASO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Lu, Zhen Li, Ximin Chen
  • Patent number: 10711700
    Abstract: A system is provided comprising: a starter air valve in fluid communication with an air turbine starter to drive motoring of a gas turbine engine responsive to a compressed air flow from a compressed air source; a manual override operably connected to the starter air valve, the manual override is operable to open the starter air valve a select percentage by moving the manual override to a detent engaged position, wherein the select percentage is operable to allow enough airflow to achieve the maximum allowed motoring speed of the gas turbine engine; and a pressure regulating bleed valve in fluid communication with the starter air valve, the pressure regulating bleed valve operable to bleed a portion of the compressed air flow to regulate a motoring speed of the gas turbine engine in response to detection of the manual override in a detent engaged position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael D. Greenberg, Robert Goodman, David Gelwan, Jesse W. Clauson
  • Patent number: 10480678
    Abstract: A handle for a beverage dispensing faucet, having an ergonometric size and shaped body that is easy to grasp and lightweight, the handle being configured to allow quickly and easily changing or selecting from different shape ergonometric bodies using specially shaped adapters having mounting elements shaped to the different shape bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Newco Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jody G. Jacobsen, John David Santy, Jr., Deborah L. Absalon
  • Patent number: 10072565
    Abstract: A vehicle powertrain includes an engine having an air intake system and an exhaust system. A turbocharger includes a turbine section connected to the exhaust system and a compressor section connected to the air intake system. A wastegate is disposed in the exhaust system and movable between an open and a closed position by an actuator system. The actuator system includes an engagement device and detent mechanism for assisting with holding the wastegate in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Maqsood Rizwan Ali Khan, Pulasti Bandara, Mark R. Claywell
  • Patent number: 9784219
    Abstract: A carburetor for a gas powered internal combustion engine having a plurality of pressure reducing stages for reducing the pressure of the gas phase in a liquified petroleum gas storage bottle prior to the mixing of the gas phase of the liquified petroleum gas with ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventor: Bernardo J. Herzer
  • Patent number: 9752701
    Abstract: The valve operator assembly is provided includes a housing, an input member rotatably mounted, and a transmission mechanism including a translating element and a rotating element connected to the input member, said transmission mechanism being adapted to convert applied rotation of the input member into axial translation of said translating element. The assembly further includes a locking mechanism provided with a casing mounted on the transmission mechanism and/or the housing, with a freewheel including a plurality of locking members mounted in radial contact with the transmission mechanism and with the casing, and with friction means axially disposed between the casing and the housing and mounted in axial contact with said housing. The friction means, the freewheel and the casing cooperate together to lock the transmission mechanism with the housing in a static position of said assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET 3KF
    Inventors: Jérôme Dubus, Christian Boch
  • Patent number: 9631729
    Abstract: A closure element for a valve device for fluids and a valve device for fluids is described. The closure element includes a membrane and a valve device protruding from the membrane. The valve device has an outer diameter recess which is configured so that the closure element can be locked by means of a locking slide which can be moved toward the outer diameter recess substantially orthogonally to a feed axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: GEMÜ GEBR. MÜLLER APPARATEBAU GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rene Föhn
  • Patent number: 9371635
    Abstract: In combination a tubular strainer having a wall defining interior and exterior surfaces, and a first flange on the upper end of the wall, a tubular insert having a cylindrical wall sized for reception by the tubular strainer, and a second flange carried by the insert wall, an elastomeric seal having a tubular body fittingly sealingly carried by the insert cylindrical wall, the seal body configured for progressive compressive radial sealing engagement with the strainer wall interior surface when endwise inserted by the insert within said tubular strainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: IPS Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Oropallo, Anthony Oropallo
  • Patent number: 9085879
    Abstract: An electronic control switch with at least two operating states for water faucets. The control switch has at least one control section, a base section, and a guide for a motion of the two sections relative to one another. At least one sensor is located in one section and at least two magnets are located in the other section, or alternatively at least two sensors are located in one section and at least one magnet is located in the other section, and each magnet associated with an operating state enters a detection region of a sensor at least at times in the course of the relative motion. The magnets at least have different magnetic field strengths or different spacings from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Grohe AG
    Inventors: Achim Mielke, Wulf Woesthoff, Guenter Faust
  • Patent number: 8985552
    Abstract: A lock open device for use with a valve in a hydraulic fracturing system, which maintains the valve in an open position. The lock open device includes a plate with beveled edges and spring loaded ball bearings strategically disposed to contact the edges and interfere with axial movement of the plate. The plate couples to a gate member in the valve, so that the interference between the plate and the ball bearings maintains the valve in a designated open or closed position. The angle of the bevel regulates how much force is required to urge the plate past the ball bearings to thereby open/close the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesha Udipi, Raymond Krolczyk, Mark Viator
  • Patent number: 8973892
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for a valve device, which includes a valve body for opening and closing a fluid path, for retaining the valve body at a predetermined opening position, the valve device further including a gear wheel to which rotational driving force of a rotational driving source is transmitted and a rack section having rack teeth provided thereon for meshing engagement with the gear wheel and configured to convert rotational movement of the gear wheel into linear movement and move together with the valve body. The locking mechanism for a valve device includes: a ball abuttable with a wall face of the rack section; and a spring member configured to press the ball toward the wall face; the valve body being retained by frictional force generated when the ball is pressed against the wall face of the rack section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignees: Keihin Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kawauchi, Yukinobu Sakata, Takahiro Sasaki, Takuya Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 8919380
    Abstract: A sliding switch outlet mechanism has a sliding unit and a fixed unit. The sliding unit is provided with an inlet cavity and two outlet ends, the inlet cavity is provided with a first and a second end face, the fixed unit comprises an inlet and a sleeve body, the inlet is communicated with the inlet cavity, the inlet cavity of the sliding unit slides axially between two locating positions with respect to the sleeve body, when the inlet cavity is at the first locating position, the second end face is connected to the sleeve body in a sealing manner, and water comes out of the first outlet end, and when the inlet cavity is at the second locating position, the first end face is connected to the sleeve body in a sealing manner, and water comes out of the second outlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: Xiamen Solex High-Tech Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huasong Zhou, Yonghua Chen, Haisong Peng, Jianmin Chen
  • Patent number: 8919365
    Abstract: Fluid transfer apparatus including a body having a bore formed through at least a portion of its interior. Contained within the bore is a movable plunger that moves without changing the axial dimensions of the body. A first end of the body contains a face designed to be attached to an upstream component. A second end of the body is connected to a downstream component such as a filter, pipeline, etc. A first end of the plunger, when it is in the closed position, is in alignment with the face of the body, which combined form a steamable surface and a sterile barrier against the environment to the remainder of the interior of the body, the plunger and downstream components. An outer annular collar is rotatable relative to the body and causes the plunger to move axially within the bore from an open to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Hillier, Martin Szyk, Aaron Burke, Joseph Almasian
  • Patent number: 8915264
    Abstract: Fluid transfer apparatus including a body having a bore formed through at least a portion of its interior. Contained within the bore is a movable plunger that moves without changing the axial dimensions of the body. A first end of the body contains a face designed to be attached to an upstream component. A second end of the body is connected to a downstream component such as a filter, pipeline, etc. A first end of the plunger, when it is in the closed position, is in alignment with the face of the body, which combined form a steamable surface and a sterile barrier against the environment to the remainder of the interior of the body, the plunger and downstream components. An outer annular collar is rotatable relative to the body and causes the plunger to move axially within the bore from an open to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Hillier, Martin Szyk, Aaron Burke, Joseph Almasian
  • Patent number: 8905055
    Abstract: A full flow pressure relief valve includes a housing having an inlet opening on its bottom and an outlet opening on one of its side. A piston is positioned inside the housing adapted to move from a set position where the piston seals the inlet opening to a sprung position where the piston is removed from the inlet opening. A lock is biased by a spring in a perpendicular direction toward the side of the piston. The lock is adapted to hold the piston in the set position until a relief pressure is supplied in the inlet opening, where the lock is adapted to release the piston to the sprung position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Water Missions International
    Inventors: George C. Greene, III, Bruce M. Okkema
  • Patent number: 8869819
    Abstract: A bi-directional inflating device, comprising: a handle rod comprising an inner tube and an outer tube, an adapter tube communicating with the inner tube, two inflating fittings each having a passage communicating with the adapter tube, a bushing fixed with the outer tube and slidable in parallel to the passages, and two detent assemblies located between two step portions in the bushing and the adapter tube respectively. The inflating fittings each have two grooves formed with a through hole respectively. The detent assemblies each comprise two detents and an elastic piece. The detents each have a body disposed in a corresponding one of the grooves and two end portions extending outwards from the outer surface of the corresponding inflating fitting respectively. The body has an abutting portion that extends through the through hole of the corresponding inflating fitting and is located inside the corresponding passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Jin Dai Auto Supplies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jui-Meng Huang, Yen-Chang Huang
  • Patent number: 8863778
    Abstract: A ceramic water control valve with cold, hot and warm water positioning function includes a valve casing with an annular frame of reduced diameter, a rotary driving seat with a projecting tube part, a valve stem, a ceramic valve plate set, and a base. A rotatable ring is installed outside the annular frame of reduced diameter. At the top edge of the rotatable ring, a trepan boring is installed to allow the projecting tube part to protrude upward. A simultaneous movement cooperating unit includes the driving part installed inside projecting tube part and the driven part installed in the rotatable ring top edge. The driving part and driven part can cooperate the drive the rotatable ring simultaneously in the rotation of the rotary driving seat. A scale division positioning unit is installed at the position corresponding to the rotatable ring and the annular frame of reduced diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Kuching International Ltd.
    Inventor: Mei-Li Chen
  • Patent number: 8857469
    Abstract: A water valve suitable for use with a bathtub has a housing, a control bolt, an angular positioning device, an upper ceramic plate, a lower ceramic plate and a valve base. The water valve is mounted onto a water supply unit of the bathtub and used for switching between different water outlet options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Geann Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsiang-Shih Wang
  • Patent number: 8695624
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-way valve for use in medicine or medical technology, having at least one basic housing through which a medium can flow in sections, and having an actuator which is held in said basic housing so as to be rotatable about a central axis, wherein the basic housing has at least two connection points for the inflow and outflow of the medium and forms an actuator receptacle which has a peg arranged concentrically with respect to the central axis and which has, on the inner side of the basic housing, a radially encircling cutout, and wherein the actuator has a control element, a substantially hollow cylindrical section which receives the peg of the actuator receptacle at least in sections, at least one throughflow opening for the fluidic connection between two connection points, and at least one radially encircling molding on the outer side of the cylindrical section, and wherein the peg of the actuator receptacle has at least one counterbearing for the actuator to form a seal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hans Jürgen Hopf Besitzgesell-Schaft
    Inventors: Hans Juergen Hopf, Norbert Kassai, Alexander Hopf, Michael Hopf
  • Patent number: 8666582
    Abstract: A vehicle steering feel improving apparatus is provided for a vehicle, wherein the vehicle is capable of running with a road wheel driven by a driving force from a power source. The vehicle steering feel improving apparatus includes a steering operation detecting means that detects a condition that steering operation is being performed to steer a steerable wheel of the vehicle. A driving force fluctuating means repeatedly fluctuates the driving force to the road wheel, while the steering operation detecting means is detecting the condition that steering operation is being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kageyama, Kazuhito Kato
  • Patent number: 8628057
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a locking mechanism for a valve device having a valve body for retaining the valve body at a predetermined opened position, including: a disk having a rotational shaft rotatable together with a valve body driving shaft and having a cutout groove formed on an outer circumferential face thereof; a ball disposed in the cutout groove; a body member having an axial direction restriction face and an inner circumferential face; a holder member having an engaging face which has a diameter gradually decreasing toward the ball and is engageable with the ball; and a spring member biasing the holder member toward the ball, wherein said ball is clamped by and among the engaging face which is acted upon by the biasing force of said spring member, the axial direction restriction face and the inner circumferential face so that a rotational direction position of the rotational shaft is retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignees: Keihin Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Sakata, Takuya Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 8602059
    Abstract: A diverter valve assembly which eliminates rotational motion for actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Alsons Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Miller, Daniel S. Genord, Dominic J. Daunter, Julian Giggs
  • Patent number: 8567444
    Abstract: An accumulator assembly for a motor vehicle powertrain includes an armature and a follower. Together the armature and the follower can selectively lock together. The accumulator assembly may include a biasing member and a solenoid. When the solenoid is de-energized, the biasing member pushes the armature towards the follower to lock the armature and the follower together. When the solenoid is energized, the armature is magnetically drawn towards the solenoid and away from the follower to unlock the two components and to compress the biasing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Carlos E. Marin, Leonid Basin
  • Patent number: 8567758
    Abstract: A valve may include a valve body, a valve spool, and a valve actuator arrangement. The valve body may comprise a bore and a first and a second passage to the bore. The valve spool may comprise a first end and a second end and be at least partially positioned and slidable within the bore. The valve spool may comprise a first and a second sealing region in sealing contact with the bore. A first chamber may be comprised, at least in part, between the bore and the valve spool at the first end. A second chamber may be comprised, at least in part, between the bore and the valve spool and between the first and the second sealing regions. A third chamber may be comprised, at least in part, between the bore and the valve spool at the second end. A third passage connects the first and the third chambers. The first and the second passages are both open to the second chamber when the valve is at an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Petrus Henricus Johannes Bouten
  • Patent number: 8544497
    Abstract: Fluid transfer apparatus including a body having a bore formed through at least a portion of its interior. Contained within the bore is a movable plunger that moves without changing the axial dimensions of the body. A first end of the body contains a face designed to be attached to an upstream component. A second end of the body is connected to a downstream component such as a filter, pipeline, etc. A first end of the plunger, when it is in the closed position, is in alignment with the face of the body, which combined form a steamable surface and a sterile barrier against the environment to the remainder of the interior of the body, the plunger and downstream components. An outer annular collar is rotatable relative to the body and causes the plunger to move axially within the bore from an open to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Hillier, Martin Szyk, Aaron Burke, Joseph Almasian
  • Patent number: 8459022
    Abstract: A mono-block arm and plug for closing a wastegate opening includes a shaft portion and a plug portion extending from the shaft portion where the plug portion includes a feature configured to change shape responsive to application of force to close a wastegate opening to enhance sealing of the wastegate opening. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Petr Cizek
  • Patent number: 8413683
    Abstract: A pneumatic control valve device for systems for arbitrarily lifting and lowering the vehicle body of air-suspended vehicles, with a control device having at least one mechanical control element for the positions lift, lower, drive and stop, and with a spring device for returning the control element after it has been released, in which the spring device returns the control element after it has been released into the drive position, a position securing device is provided, the position securing device mechanically locking the control element, the position securing device, in the locked state, preventing the control element from returning under the spring force of the spring device into the drive position, but permitting this in the unlocked state, however always permitting the control element to be manually adjusted, the position securing device can be changed from the locked state into the unlocked state by an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Herges, Friedbert Roether, Martin Mederer, Janos Toth
  • Patent number: 8381759
    Abstract: A faucet apparatus has a bolt assembly with a brake shaft lever extending therefrom, a handle lever, and a handle holder lock having one end affixed to the handle lever, a handle holder having an axial hole extending therethrough, and a handle lever assembly positioned in the axial hole. The handle lever is connected to the brake shaft lever. The handle lever assembly is sleeved over the handle holder lock. An elastic locker is positioned in a radial slot of the handle holder lock so as to engage with a notch in the handle lever assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Crescent Plumbing, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Kee-Suo Chen
  • Patent number: 8307841
    Abstract: A self-sealing valve comprises a valve housing having a fluid conduit, a valve seat, a diaphragm and a support member. The valve housing is configured to pass fluid through the fluid conduit. The diaphragm provides a self-seal of the fluid conduit. The support member is configured to retain a portion of a diaphragm. The support member and diaphragm are configured to position the flexible diaphragm against the valve seat to seal the fluid conduit in a closed position of the self-sealing valve, and to facilitate movement of the diaphragm under a bias in a first direction away from the valve seat to an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Robert B. Chaffee
  • Patent number: 8302930
    Abstract: An actuator having a linearly movable push rod for use in automotive engineering, which may be for operating a switching element of a valve, in particular a container control valve of a commercial vehicle, having a housing having an expandable material working element and an electrical heater for heating the expandable material working element. Furthermore, a device is provided for the controlled operation of a switching element of a valve, in particular a container control valve of a commercial vehicle, which includes an actuator of the aforementioned kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Herges, Friedbert Roether, Martin Mederer, Janos Toth
  • Patent number: 8297301
    Abstract: A nozzle device includes a body, a controller and a core set. The controller is pivotally mounted on the body and is pivotable with respect to the body between a first position and a second position. The core set is slideably received in the body. While the controller is in the first position, the core set is slideable in the chamber and is adapted for coupling with a French type valve. While the controller is in the second position, the core set is fixed and is adapted for coupling with an American type valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • Patent number: 8267372
    Abstract: A cover-equipped manual valve having a ratchet mechanism for preventing rotation of a knob, comprising: a rod formed with an external thread portion on an outer periphery thereof, the rod being unconnected to the knob and held against rotation; a sliding nut of a cylindrical shape, the sliding nut being rotatably held by a body and internally formed with an internal thread portion threadedly engaged with the external thread portion of the rod; an engagement member fixed to the knob, the engagement member being elastically deformable to be engaged with the sliding nut and to be disengaged from the sliding nut when larger torque than a predetermined value is applied to the engagement member; and a knob cover of a hollow shape for covering the knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: CKD Corporation
    Inventor: Akinori Masamura
  • Patent number: 8167267
    Abstract: A faucet including: a body having an axis channel; a spherical rotating closure mounted pivotable in the body, between a closed position and an open position, the closure including a through orifice allowing the passage of a fluid from an upstream pipe to a downstream pipe, in open position; an upstream seat having a central passage, mounted in the channel of the body upstream of the closure so as to be mobile in translation along the axis and urged towards the closure by elastic means; a protuberance provided in the upstream seat projecting towards the closure, and a recess provided on the closure, to co-operate with the protuberance in closed position of the closure; and means for equalizing the pressure between upstream and downstream of the upstream seat, prior to the faucet being opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Vanatome
    Inventor: Patrick Artru
  • Patent number: 8162003
    Abstract: A fuel valve includes a housing defining a ported standpipe portion for extending upwardly into a fuel tank at a bottom opening thereof. The standpipe sealingly receives a ported and relatively rotational valving member, which also carries a respective resilient sealing collar aligned with and sealingly cooperating at each of the ports of the valving member. The valving member is selectively rotational and may be positioned relative to the standpipe portion in order to stop fuel flow through the valve, or to selectively allow fuel flow through the valve from one or more separate levels of fuel in the fuel tank. A handle on the exterior of the fuel valve provides for selective rotation and positioning of the valving member, and the fuel valve itself may be selectively and conveniently rotated relative to a fuel nipple attached to the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventor: Damian Gregory
  • Patent number: 8104742
    Abstract: A flow control valve is provided in a manner to be capable of locking a position of a differential screw easily without displacing a position adjusted valve element body. The valve element body is brought into or out of contact with a valve seat provided between a first port and a second port, and is connected to an operation member. The operation member is movably inserted into a cover and urged to a direction toward the valve seat by an urging member. A position of the operation member is adjusted by a differential screw, and accordingly a position of the valve seat is adjusted. A rotation member for exerting a rotation force on the differential screw is slidably mounted in the cover along a moving direction of the operation member without rotating. A locking portion is provided in the rotation member to engage with the cover without rotating when the operation member is slid along its moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: CKD Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ishihara, Shigeru Osugi, Yukie Nakamura, Hiroto Yasue
  • Patent number: 8025268
    Abstract: A manual valve comprises a valve element, a rod connected to the valve element, and a knob for moving the rod by screw feeding in an opening/closing direction with respect to the valve element. The valve element is moved by rotation of the knob through the rod. The rod includes an external thread portion on an outer periphery thereof and is not connected to the knob and is held against rotation. Further, the manual valve includes a cylindrical sliding nut rotatably held by a body and formed with an internal thread portion to be engaged with the external thread portion of the rod on its inner periphery and a clip fixed to the knob to be elastically deformably engaged with the sliding nut but disengaged when a larger torque than the predetermined value is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: CKD Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Masamura, Tetsuya Ishihara
  • Patent number: 7975767
    Abstract: Apparatus for controlling a downhole device such as a choke, the apparatus comprising a housing, a mandrel connected to the downhole device and moveable within the housing to move the device between different positions, and a detent mechanism to selectively lock the mandrel in one of the positions within the housing. The first and second positions are typically defined by physical stops on the apparatus such as shoulders, or dogs and grooves etc, and are typically placed at set positions that define the different configurations of the device. Thus, the movement of the downhole device is governed by the detent mechanism, rather than by variable factors such as pressure changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Petrowell Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Purkis
  • Patent number: 7938138
    Abstract: A self-sealing valve comprises a valve housing having a fluid conduit, a valve seat, a diaphragm and a support member. The valve housing is configured to pass fluid through the fluid conduit. The diaphragm provides a self-seal of the fluid conduit. The support member is configured to retain a portion of a diaphragm. The support member and diaphragm are configured to position the flexible diaphragm against the valve seat to seal the fluid conduit in a closed position of the self-sealing valve, and to facilitate movement of the diaphragm under a bias in a first direction away from the valve seat to an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Inventor: Robert B. Chaffee
  • Patent number: 7938383
    Abstract: A solenoid valve has a valve body with an inlet, an outlet and a valve chamber therebetween. A valve member is selectively engagable with the valve chamber for controlling the flow of fluid from the inlet to the outlet. A solenoid assembly is mounted upon the valve member for moving the valve member to control the flow of fluid from the inlet to the outlet. The solenoid assembly includes a solenoid and a frame for holding the solenoid. The solenoid assembly is connected to the valve body such that the frame is rotatable and slidable away from the valve body to permit access to and slidable removal of the solenoid from the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Deltrol Controls
    Inventors: Jeffrey O. Zur, Brian T. Cahill