Having Flow Restrictor Patents (Class 277/599)
  • Patent number: 11982234
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, has: a heat exchanger core having an inlet, an outlet, at least one first conduit connecting the inlet to the outlet, and at least one second conduit in heat exchange relationship with the at least one first conduit; a bypass conduit connecting the inlet to the outlet while bypassing the at least one first conduit; and a valve in communication with the bypass conduit and having: a valve member movable between a closed position in which fluid communication through the valve and via the bypass conduit is blocked and an open position in which fluid communication through the bypass conduit and through the valve is permitted, the valve member defining an auxiliary passage, and a thermal fuse overlapping the auxiliary passage and blocking fluid communication through the valve member via the auxiliary passage, the thermal fuse having a melting temperature above a predetermined temperature of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Kashif Mohammed, Benjamin Renaud
  • Patent number: 11898521
    Abstract: An exhaust manifold gasket device for precisely aligning a gasket for installation includes a gasket that has an exhaust hole and a coolant hole thereby facilitating the gasket to be positioned between an exhaust manifold and a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The gasket has a pair of locating slots each extending into the gasket to facilitate each of the locating slots to receive a respective head bolt in the exhaust manifold. In this way the gasket can be precisely aligned for final installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Martin Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11725732
    Abstract: Seal between mutually fixed surfaces comprises a metal ring, placed between graphite layers, where sections of the metal ring to be coated with graphite have a jagged profile. Both sides of the metal ring are coated with graphite in such a way that graphite layers and the metal ring form a seamless whole. Recesses are made in the seal on both sides between graphite rings, a hole is placed in their centre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: NFC LOGISTICS, JOINT-STOCK COMPANY (NFCL JSC), SCIENCE AND INNOVATIONS -NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
    Inventors: Aleksey Yur'evich Lepeshkin, Andrei Valer'evich Sokolov, Andrei Viktorovich Vildeev
  • Patent number: 11352936
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is equipped with a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinders and an in-block water jacket, a cylinder head having an in-head water jacket, and a head gasket. The in-block water jacket includes a plurality of cylinder outer peripheral portions. The head gasket includes a plurality of coolant opening portions. The internal combustion engine is configured such that coolant sequentially flows through the cylinder outer peripheral portions along a cylinder bank direction in the in-block water jacket. The head gasket includes one or a plurality of dam portions provided, in such a manner as to block the flow of coolant, at a position downstream of the coolant opening portion corresponding to the cylinder outer peripheral portion located at least most downstream in an in-block coolant flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tada
  • Patent number: 11125140
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a head gasket sitting between a bottom surface of a cylinder head and a top surface of a cylinder block, a connection water passage for coolant that connects an in-head water jacket and an in-block water jacket to each other, and a reed valve that opens and closes in correspondence with a differential pressure of coolant in the in-head water jacket and coolant in the in-block water jacket. The reed valve includes a reed portion arranged integrally with a part of the head gasket corresponding to the connection water passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiki Endo
  • Patent number: 9932880
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising an engine having a cylinder block, a cylinder head and a gasket disposed between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. The cylinder block and the cylinder head each comprising at least one bore opening leading to a casting bore within the cylinder block and cylinder head respectively. The gasket comprising a gasket opening having a control gap, said gasket opening being sized and arranged to provide a fluid pathway between the bore opening in the cylinder block and the bore opening in the cylinder head. The control gap being configured and arranged to selectively restrict that fluid pathway such that gas may freely pass through the cylinder block bore opening and into the bore opening in the cylinder head whereas coolant can only restrictively pass through the cylinder block bore opening and into the bore opening in the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventor: William Hutchins
  • Patent number: 7549413
    Abstract: A flame protection gasket has a gasket member with an embedded screen member within its structure. The screen member and gasket member are disposed in a common plane. The screen member is attachable to an air conduit structure in a manner that inhibits its removal after the attachment is completed. In addition, since the gasket member and screen member are part of an integral structure, the screen member must be replaced if the gasket member is replaced following repair or reassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventor: A. Dewayne Sharpton
  • Publication number: 20080223349
    Abstract: A stratified scavenging two-stroke cycle engine with the check valve for introducing scavenging air simplified in construction is provided. The gasket between the flange part forming an air supply chamber and a mixture passage at a side of the cylinder and the passage connecting member having an air flow passage and a mixture flow passage is composed to have an integral leaf valve for allowing air in the air flow passage in the passage connecting member to flow only toward the air supply chamber which is connected to the scavenging passages of the engine so that the gasket has a function as a seal member and that as a check valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Uenomaya, Takahiro Kimura, Daisuke Nakadegawa, Kazunori Kudo
  • Patent number: 6976683
    Abstract: A cylinder head gasket comprising a gasket plate for an engine in which at least one first coolant cavity is formed in the engine block adjacent to the cylinder head gasket, with the gasket plate comprising coolant passage openings via which the first coolant cavity is connectable to at least one second coolant cavity formed in the cylinder head of the engine; for improved cooling of the engine the cylinder head gasket comprises at least one flow conducting element for the coolant protruding from the gasket plate, the at least one flow conducting element being of such configuration and being joined to a coolant passage opening of the gasket plate in such a way that the flow conducting element forms a flow path with the coolant passage opening and is designed so as to engage in at least one of the first and second coolant cavities and to generate a directed flow of coolant at the outlet end of the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Elring Klinger AG
    Inventors: Dieter Eckert, Thomas Friedow
  • Patent number: 6504888
    Abstract: A reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for a nuclear reactor that permits measurement of the flow through each reactor internal pump (RIP) is described. The reactor pressure vessel also includes at least one reactor internal pump that includes an impeller and a pump diffuser. At least two seal rings extend circumferentially around an outer surface of the diffuser housing outer wall and are located in circumferential grooves in the housing outer wall. At least one lateral bore extends through the housing outer wall into a diffuser housing longitudinal flow passage. Each lateral bore is located in an area between two adjacent seal rings, with each inter-seal ring area containing one lateral bore. At least one pressure tap bore extends from the outer surface of the RPV bottom head petal, through the pump deck to an inner surface of a pump deck opening. Each pressure tap bore is aligned with an area in the RIP containing a corresponding lateral bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alex B. Fife, Hwang Choe, Jack T. Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5890719
    Abstract: A gasket for interposition between a cylinder head and block of an internal combustion engine. The gasket includes a metal retainer member having generally planar first and second surfaces with at least one cylinder bore opening formed therethrough for registration with a corresponding combustion chamber of the head and block, and at least one fluid port opening formed therethrough for registration with a corresponding passageway of the head and block. One or more elastomeric members are attached to the retainer about a corresponding one of the fluid port openings. Each of the elastomeric members has a seal portion extending along the periphery of the fluid port opening for sealing the corresponding passageway, and a diaphragm portion extending from the seal portion at least partially over the fluid port opening for covering at least a portion of the corresponding passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventor: Alan C. Bettencourt