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Seal for a joint or juncture March listing by industry category 03/10

20100072706 - Mechanical sealing system and method for rotary machines: A rotary machine includes a machine rotor, a machine stator, and a fluid seal disposed between the machine rotor and the machine stator. The fluid seal includes a fluid seal stator, a fluid seal rotor, and an active gap control mechanism coupled to the fluid seal stator. The fluid seal... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20100072707 - Metal encapsulated composite seal: A system, in certain embodiments, has a composite seal with both a metal shell and an elastic core, such as an elastomer core. In one embodiment, the composite seal has an annular metal shell with a top, a bottom, and a seal interface disposed between the top and the bottom.... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (cameron International Corporation)

20100072708 - Seal assembly: A seal assembly for providing a seal between a first component and a second component. The seal assembly includes a seal ramp associated with one of the components and a seal element associated with the other of the components. The seal ramp has an inclined seal ramp surface having a... Agent: Rodman Rodman

20100072709 - Seal with pyramid shaped formation: A seal assembly having a seal bumper wall with a series of pyramid shaped formations lying on the bumper wall. The formations cause their apex portion to wear down rapidly in use, while the remainder of the pyramids remain and act as slingers and/or produce a convection effect to reduce... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20100072710 - Gas turbine seal: A seal is provided for sealing two adjacent components of a gas turbine engine. The seal has first and second sealing surfaces that operate to seal the adjacent components to create an effective seal therebetween. Additionally, the seal has a first end and a second end, with the second end... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100072711 - Expandable metal-to-metal seal: A seal including a seal body having a bridge, a leg extending from the bridge, a gauge ring in operable communication the seal body to cause axial compression thereof, thereby causing the bridge diameter to change, and a seal interface disposed at the seal body. The seal interface including a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100072712 - Pressure packing comprised of packing rings secured against rotation with injection-molded segments: Conventional anti-rotation devices comprised of packing rings in a packing container of a pressure packing consist of an anti-rotation pin inserted in a packing ring and engaging in a recess at an adjacent packing ring. Due to the different wear rates of the packing rings such anti-rotation pins are subject... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20100066024 - Seal member, assembly and method: A brush seal assembly and method for sealing a turbine machine rotary member relative to a stationary member circumscribing the rotary member. The seal assembly includes a first compliant seal component disposed at a radially inward region of the stationary member in rubbing contact with a surface of the rotary... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20100066025 - Vehicle seal with sensor feedback: The invention provides a seal for a slide-out room of a recreational vehicle. The slide-out room is movable in a range of positions including a retracted position and an extended position. The seal is compressible between the slide-out room and a side wall of the vehicle and includes at least... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100066026 - Main seal system and method for use in an electronic device: A main sealing system (500) for use in an electronic device comprises a first half housing (501) and a second half housing (516) such that a sympathetic seal (525) is attached integrally with the first half housing (501). The second half housing (516) comprises an integrally formed compression surface (511)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100066027 - Intershaft seal assembly: An intershaft seal assembly for counter-rotating and co-rotating turbine engines is described. The seal assembly includes a pair of end rings and a seal element. At least one end ring has a flange, with upper and lower surfaces, disposed along and extending from one side of the ring. The seal... Agent: Michael G. Crilly, Esquire Law Offices Of Michael Crilly

20100066028 - Cup seal and master cylinder using the same: In a cup seal, the hydraulic pressure in a first hydraulic chamber (6) causes a first seal portion (21e) of an outer lip portion (21c) to closely contact to a bottom wall (20a) of a recessed portion (20) and causes a second seal portion (21f) of a base portion (21a)... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20100066029 - Sealing device: To avoid interference of a side lip when plural sealing devices are piled up, a sealing device installed on one member of two members rotating relatively is constructed by combining a mounting ring fitted on the one member and a rubber-like elastic body attached on the mounting ring, and has... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100066030 - Hermetic sealing device: To provide a sealing device having a side lip in slidably contact with a mate member like a slinger, wherein a contact state of the side lip is stabilized and sliding resistance of the side lip is reduced when lip tightening margin becomes maximum, a contact surface (6c) of a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100066031 - Piston ring: A piston ring, with a main body, which exhibits a contact surface, an upper and a lower side surface, and an inner circumferential surface, in which at least one of the side surfaces is provided at least with one PVD coating layer, to the effect that the layer thickness of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20100066032 - Seal for flexible air duct: A seal includes a main body portion having fingers that extend outward to seal against the sides of one or more flexible conduit sections. The seal embodies several features that minimize the effect of compressing the seal over extended use. In one embodiment, the seal include a tab that isolates... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20100066033 - Oil pan baffle: An oil pan baffle is secured by a securing device on the oil pan. The securing device has an oil pan gasket with a gasket body matched to a sealing contour of an oil pan relative to a crankcase and securing elements that are connected to the gasket body and... Agent: Mann+hummel Gmbh Department Vr-p

20100066034 - V-ring seal: A high fracture toughness, wear resistant V-ring seal with superior flexibility, leak tightness and longer operational life comprises an upper V-shaped recess (5), an inner wall (6), an exterior wall (7) and a V-shaped lower surface (9). Said seal is characterized in that an annular groove (8) whose bottom is... Agent: Sally Chang

20100066035 - Reusable weld joint for syngas fuel nozzles: A system, one embodiment, includes an annular seal configured to seal a turbine fuel nozzle to a turbine combustor, wherein the annular seal includes a first annular seal portion having an inner annular surface, a first base portion, and a first peripheral portion opposite from the first base portion. The... Agent: Ge Energy-global Patent Operation Fletcher Yoder PC

20100066036 - Compressive composite seals for sofc applications: Compressive composite seals for solid oxide fuel cell applications are provided. A compressive composite seal structure includes a glass phase to provide a gas tight seal, a reinforcing secondary phase to provide mechanical stability, and a compressive core. The compressive core is filled with an inert gas or air, providing... Agent: Joan Pennington

20100059938 - High speed flywheel seal: A seal for a high speed flywheel mounted on a shaft and comprising an evacuated core, the seal having two housing sections, and a cavity formed between the housing sections, lip seals being provided on either side of the cavity, the lip seals being in contact with and encircling the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100059937 - Seal assembly: A seal assembly, includes a seal element including at least one seal lip, a wiper element including a wiper lip, and a structural element attached to the seal element and the wiper element, the seal assembly being configured for functioning under pressure in an amount greater than 500 pounds per... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20100059940 - Composite sealing gasket and process for belling plastic pipe: An sealing gasket is shown for use in forming joints of plastic pipe. The gasket is formed as a composite elastomeric body with a leading region formed of a thermoplastic elastomer material and with a trailing region formed of a synthetic plastic material. The gasket body has an outer circumferential... Agent: Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20100059939 - Vapor seal assembly and method for installing: According to an embodiment, a method for installing a vapor seal assembly to pass at least one continuous wire through an aperture defined by a bulkhead includes providing a split shell having a threaded, hollow cylindrical extension, providing a split annular gasket, assembling the split shell and the split gasket... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20100059941 - System for dynamically sealing at least one conduit through which a pipe or cable extends: A system for providing a sealed transit for a situation wherein one or a plurality of cables, pipes, or ducts extend through the transit, wherein the system comprises a frame which is sealingly fixed or fixable into or onto an opening, wherein the frame comprises one or a plurality of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100059942 - Sealing disc with an oxygen absorbing substance: The invention relates to a sealing disk for openings of containers, comprising a metal layer used to inject heat by induction, a layer which can be sealed on the container opening and which can be melted by thermal conduction via the metal layer. The sealable layer is adjacent to the... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20100052258 - Spindle seal with tangential flow-inducing distribution ring: An improved cartridge-type bearing seal includes removably connected stator and rotor sections. The stator section supports a distribution ring that divides an internal annular volume into radially outside and inside portions. The ring has a sufficient number of tangentially oriented ducts to permit fluid communication between the outside and inside... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20100052259 - Scarf cut backup rings: A seal assembly is provided for sealing a gap with a high pressure side and a low pressure side between a first component and a second component. The seal assembly can include a primary seal configured to be arranged on the first component and spanning the gap on the high... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100052260 - Device and method for producing a seal: A device is disclosed for producing a seal between a first part and a second part, especially a first housing part and a second housing part. The seal can be produced according to a physical property of an electroactive plastic material which can be modified. A device for receiving an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100052261 - Metallic seal for use in highly-corrosive oil and gas environments: A metal seal assembly to seal components in highly corrosive environments, such as a sour well environment. The seal assembly is comprised of a base metal structural component with a softer metal layer applied onto its surface. The purpose of the soft metal layer is to locally deform and, thereby,... Agent: Patent Department Ge Oil & Gas

20100052262 - Sealing device: A sealing device for sealing space between two members concentrically and relatively rotating comprising a core member fixedly fitted into one of the two members, a metal slinger fixedly fitted into the other of the two members, and an elastic seal member fixedly attached to the core member and having... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100052263 - Electroplated resilient seal: A seal includes a resilient material and a metallic material electroplated to the resilient material and a method for making an extrusion resistant seal including electroplating a resilient seal material.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100052264 - Compact restrictive seal for bearing housings: This invention relates to a restrictive seal of the labyrinth type of reduced external size. The invention has an inner deflector which is capable of retaining the lubricating oil within the bearing housing with great efficiency, and a highly accurate system for adjusting and aligning the elements of the labyrinths,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100052265 - Seal with non-contact adjacent deflector rings: The invention relates to a seal with non-contact adjacent deflector rings, arranged concentrically to each other, about a common rotation axis, whereby, on a first deflector ring of the deflector rings, at least two axially-adjacent radial lips are embodied an said radial lips are embodied such as not to come... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20100052266 - Sealing device: To enhance lubricating oil supply function, a sealing device (1) between a shaft hole (42) and a shaft (43) includes a sealing device body (11) having a tubular fixed section (12) fixed in the shaft hole (42) and a seal lip (14) slidably contacted with the periphery of the shaft... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100052267 - Seal assembly: A sealing assembly for a shaft includes a sealing component, a first ring, a second ring, and at least one energizer. The first ring is annularly disposed about the shaft, the first ring having at least one first protuberance interfittable with the sealing component. The second ring is annularly disposed... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20100052268 - Block fitting and seal structure: An air conditioner system fitting is disclosed including a first seal portion with a metal material adapted to provide a primary scat, and a second seal portion attached to a free edge of said first seal portion and adapted to provide a secondary seal, wherein the fitting militates against leakage... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC