Valves and valve actuation inventions 01/07

20070018126 - Filler spout with opening servo-controlled by a pilot valve: A filler spout comprising a tubular body having a transverse partition pierced by an opening forming a valve seat which is associated with a main valve member that is connected to a piston extending in a pilot cavity connected to an exhaust orifice and to a pilot duct having a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070018127 - Emergency shutdown system: An emergency shutdown system includes an emergency shutdown valve, a control line to carry a signal determinative of positioning of the emergency shutdown valve, a solenoid assembly coupled to the control line to effectuate the positioning of the emergency shutdown valve, and a junction device coupled to the control line... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070018128 - Motor-operated valve: A motor-operated valve includes a valve body having a valve chamber and a valve seat; a valve element; a valve rod for operating the valve element; a cylindrical can fixed to the valve body; a motor energizing device mounted in the outer peripheral portion of the can; a permanent magnet... Agent: Christopher J. Fildes Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070018129 - Flow regulator for medical liquids and method for its fabrication: A flow regulator for medical liquids comprising a first body and a second body coupled to one another in a rotatable way and a gasket set between them and overmoulded on the second body. Provided thereon is at least one graduated scale formed by impressions and/or, respectively, by reliefs integral... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070018130 - Ceramic valve for antifreezing faucets: A ceramic valve for antifreezing faucets including a straight water supply pipe, a shaft base installed in an upper section of a main body of the water supply pipe and connected to a down connecting rod at a lower section, and a double-plate ceramic intake valve. Wherein the connecting rod... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070018131 - Head for a fuel filler pipe of a vehicle: An obturating assembly includes a body having an aperture for passage to the pipe of a fuel supply spout of predetermined outer diameter and an obturator moveable with respect to the body, able to assume an obturating position in which it conceals the passage aperture and a freeing position in... Agent: Lowe, Hauptman, Gilman & Berner, LLP (itw)

20070018132 - Multi-pitch threaded coupling: A multi-pitch threaded coupling for joining threaded components is disclosed. An example coupling includes a body portion having an aperture therethrough. A first end of the aperture has first threads with a first thread pitch and a second end of the aperture opposite the first end has second threads with... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070012891 - Prototyping methods and devices for microfluidic components: A printing method to fabricate three-dimensional microfluidic components is disclosed. A three-dimensional mold made of a first wax is formed. A sacrificial material made of a second wax is provided as a temporary support and then dissolved. A component material is poured onto the mold and cured. The first wax... Agent: C/o Ladas & Parry

20070012892 - Gas control knob that is operated manually or automatically: A gas control knob includes a main body having a gas inlet hole and a gas outlet hole, a throttling cock rotatably mounted in the main body to regulate the gas flow rate between the gas inlet hole and the gas outlet hole of the main body, a rotation lever... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070012893 - Lubricious or/and wettable or/and anti-thrombin elastomeric gland materials in luer activated devices: An elastomeric gland is provided for a luer activating device (LAD). and comprises a unique lubricant and/or wetting agent and/or anti-clotting agent incorporated into the elastomer gland during raw material formulation, calendar blending/molding/curing to deliver the surface lubricity and/or wettability and/or avoid slit plane re-knitting and/or gland induced valve stick... Agent: Baxter Healthcare Corporation

20070012894 - Vacuum gate valve: A vacuum gate valve capable of airtightly isolating or interconnecting two vacuum chambers adopts a link lever mechanism to convert a vertical linear dynamic force into a vertical force and a transversal force required for opening or shutting the valve, so as to provide a transversal force large enough to... Agent: Hwa-fu Chen Apt. 3d

20070007474 - Pilot-type two-port valve: A pilot-type two-port valve is disclosed having a water hammer preventing mechanism, operative to prevent a water hammer during valve-closing operation, which includes a valve member operative to open or close a valve and a piston driven by pilot fluid for operating the valve member for opening and closing movements.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070007475 - Vacuum valve: A vacuum valve comprises a valve body (1) with an inner cavity (4) through which a main passageway leads between an inlet (2) and an outlet (3) of the vacuum valve and with a main valve seat (6) which surrounds the main passageway, a main closing member (5) which is... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070007476 - Coaxial valve: A coaxial valve includes a valve box having at least one inlet opening, at least one outlet opening, and a common flow channel. A cylindrical valve casing, which is prevented from turning at one segment of the flow channel, but is intended to be axially movable, features an opening for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070007477 - Electromagnetic fuel injector: In an electromagnetic fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, an electromagnetic coil for valve driving is to be wound on a bobbin, and the bobbin is constituted by a synthetic resin containing a filler having good heat conductivity. For example, the bobbin with the coil to be wound thereon... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070007478 - Needle free medical connector with expanded valve mechanism and method of fluid flow control: A needle free medical connector includes a housing with a first port and a second port. The connector also includes a piston element defining a fluid passageway between the first and second ports. The piston element is movable between flow and non-flow positions. The piston element has a compressible section... Agent: Fulwider Patton

20070007479 - Press-down valve for medical instruments for suction and irrigation: A press-down valve is provided for medical instruments for suction and irrigation and a medical instrument having installed such a press-down valve. A valve stem is pressed permanently into a closure position via a pretensioned spring. For actuation, the valve stem is moved counter to the force of the spring... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070007480 - Valve having contamination counter-measures: An anti-coking valve arrangement having a valve body that defines a passage for the flow of fluid medium. Valve seat and valve member positioned within the valve body and function to control the flow of fluid medium. A first anti-coking device is operably associated with the valve stem. A second... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Borgwarner Inc.

20070007481 - Valve: A valve includes a housing having a valve seat for a flap that is rotationally mounted on a drive shaft. A double wound lamellar ring is arranged outside and around the flap in a peripheral groove of the flap.... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070007482 - Mini gas valve stem: A mini gas valve assembly having a valve stem with a flattened region extending a length thereof. The valve stem is operable to withstand an applied torque pressure of at least 50 in-lbs or greater without exhibiting plastic deformation. In various embodiments, the valve stem comprises hollow, cold rolled steel... Agent: Harness Dickey And Pierce, PLC

20070007483 - Double-stop floating ball valve: Valve assemblies and methods of designing valve assemblies having a valve ball, an upper seat, and a lower seat. When fluid pressure is applied to the valve ball, the valve ball will float in the axial direction between an upper position, a neutral position, and a lower position in response... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070007484 - Sliding valve, in particular quick-acting sliding valve for an explosion protection shut-off device: A slide plate (4) with a slide opening (5), which releases an aperture opening is mounted in a slide housing (2) with the aperture opening (3). The slide plate is sealed in each operating position by elastically deformable sealing rings (7a, 7a′, 7b, 7b′) which are arranged in circumferential grooves... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070007485 - Valve spring plate with two supporting tongues: A spring plate for a valve spring of an internal combustion engine, which spring plate can be connected directly to the valve stem of a charge changing valve while engaging an annular groove in the valve stem. An annular disc is arranged on the valve spring and two supporting tongues... Agent: Wyatt, Gerber & O'rourke, LLP

20070001134 - Slurry tolerant pilot operated relief valve: Cartridge-style fluid control devices are provided that are static pressure independent and capable of repeatable, reliable, particulate insensitive performance in service conditions typical of downhole intervention environments.... Agent: Brent R. Knight Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20070001135 - Compact solenoid: The compact solenoid of the present invention conduces to further miniaturization of a compact solenoid. The compact solenoid includes a coil and a frame located outside the coil for constituting a magnetic circuit. The frame includes four bars extending in parallel to the axial direction of the coil and located... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070001136 - Exhaust gas recirculation valve having a rotary motor: An exhaust gas recirculation valve is provided. The exhaust gas recirculation valve has a base, a spring biasing the valve closed, and an actuator including a rotary motor and a linearly displaceable shaft that is coupled to the motor's rotor. The valve includes a valve member and valve seat disposed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070001137 - Precision metering valve: Precision metering valves include a body having a fluid inlet port, a fluid outlet port, a fluid chamber interposed therebetween, and an orifice disposed within the fluid chamber. The orifice has an opening that extends a length along the fluid chamber. A movable element is disposed within the fluid chamber,... Agent: Mike W. Crosby Saint-gobain Corporation

20070001138 - Dual lift system: Valve and valve lift system suitable for use in a regenerative thermal oxidizer, and oxidizer including the switching valve. The valve of the present invention exhibits excellent sealing characteristics and minimizes wear. In a preferred embodiment, the valve is sealed with pressurized air during its stationary modes, and unsealed during... Agent: Mitchell D. Bittman

20070001139 - Electrically actuatable valve: For an electrically actuatable valve, in particular a pressure control valve for a transmission of a motor vehicle, with a hydraulic part and a magnet part that includes at least one solenoid coil and a movably supported solenoid armature which acts on an operating element of the valve, the solenoid... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070001140 - Solenoid valve: A pair of terminal insertion holes are formed to the end wall portion of an magnetic cover in an electromagnetic manipulator, a pair of coil terminals electrically conductive to an exiting coil are extended from a first flange portion of a bobbin in parallel with the axial line of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070001141 - Magnet unit: A magnet unit is provided with a solenoid with a coil whose core is attached in a recess on the front side of a base, with a movable anchor activated by a recoil spring with a valve closing element and with a protective cap attached on a shoulder of the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070001142 - Electromagnetic valve, particularly for a braking system of a motor vehicle: An electromagnetic valve is provided with an elongated tappet guided axially displaceably in a tappet guide, and with a sealing body, embodied on the tappet, that can seal against a sealing seat. So that the valve can be produced more economically yet can be regulated more precisely, the sealing seat... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070001143 - Pressurized fluid coupler with anti-recoil feature and methods: The invention is directed to apparatus and methods for reducing recoil during uncoupling of pressurized couplers. The apparatus includes a male: a female component; and a check valve fluidly disposed between a proximal end and a distal end within one of the male component or female component. When the component... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070001144 - Faucet sealing: A faucet improvement including a seat defining a bore, and a valve stem movable toward and away from the seat, comprising a shoulder screw threadably attachable to the stem, and having a head located in the bore, a shank, and a non-metallic O-ring extending about the screw shank to be... Agent: William W. Haefliger