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Valves and valve actuation September class, title,number 09/09

20090236550 - Pressure-thermostat: A pressure-thermostat (1) includes a body (2) having a cavity (5), a conduit (6) for a fluid and at least a couple of electric switches (8a, 8b) arranged from the opposite part with respect to said conduit (6). An elastic membrane (9) separates, in a fluid-tight manner, the conduit (6)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090236551 - Valve device: A valve device includes a temperature sensor disposed to project from a housing to a tank inner space to detect the temperature in the tank inner space, and can detect the temperature without being influenced by the heat capacity of the housing. A coil generates a magnetic force to drive... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090236552 - Flow control valve: The present invention provides a flow control valve that requires only a relatively small opening/closing drive force, is compact and does not induce a pulsating flow in the valve open state. A valve seat (3) is disposed in a pipeline (5) through which a fluid flows. A spherical valve element... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20090236553 - Valve with actuation sub-assembly: A valve assembly includes a valve body with an inlet, an outlet, and a chamber extending between the inlet and the outlet and an actuation sub-assembly. Positioned in the chamber is a flow restrictor, which is positionable between a valve open position wherein the fluid communication between the inlet and... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090236554 - Knife gate valve with skewed gate seat interface: A valve assembly comprising a valve body defining a fluid passage with a seat member positioned adjacent the fluid passage. A gate, having a leading edge, is supported in the valve body and is moveable relative to the fluid passage along a given axis between an open position and a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090236555 - Gate valve: A gate valve which comprises a body (101), a gate element (102) which is movable in the body in the cross direction in relation to a flow path (103) between at least two positions, a first position in which the flow path (103) is open, and a second position in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090230336 - Liquid flow controller and precision dispense apparatus and system: Apparatus and a control system for monitoring (preferably digitally) and/or controlling pressure to a pneumatic load such as a proportional fluid control valve and using a measurement input from a fluid measurement device that responds to a flow rate, the liquid measurement input being used to control the pressure to... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090230335 - Temperature triggered actuator: An actuator is disclosed which operates on the principle of the variable magnetic properties of materials with respect to temperature. As temperature is raised past Curie temperature, magnetic permeability of certain materials drops significantly to a value close to free space permeability. However, depending on the material selection, magnetic permeability... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20090230337 - Hydraulic control valve: A hydraulic control valve (1) for controlling the flow of a pressure medium, having at least one drain port (T1, T2) communicating with a tank, at least one inflow port (P) communicating with a pressure medium source, and at least two supply ports (V1, V2, V3) communicating with at least... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090230338 - Valve actuators: A valve actuator having an electric drive motor with a motor shaft and having an output shaft linked to the motor shaft to drive movement of a valve, the actuator further having a control system arranged to provide a first closed loop control of the actuator output shaft and including... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090230339 - Valve control apparatus and flow rate controller: A valve control apparatus including a stepping motor coupled to a valve and a motor control unit for controlling the stepping motor is provided. The motor control unit includes a motor control section for applying drive pulses to the pulse motor, a counting section for counting the number of drive... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090230340 - Bi-directional flapper valve: The invention provides a valve assembly comprising a conduit with a bore 1b for passage of fluid therethrough. The valve assembly also comprises a sealing member that is movable within the conduit to open and close the bore. The seal assembly has a valve seat on which the sealing member... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090230341 - Pivotable control valve assembly for water treatment device: A pivotable control valve assembly may be used with a water treatment device in a water treatment system. A pivotable control valve assembly may be pivotable relative to the water treatment device to allow user controls on the pivotable control valve assembly to be oriented in a desired user access... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090230342 - Gate valve and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus: A gate valve of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, which is formed between a processing chamber in which processing is performed and a transfer chamber which carries a substrate on which the processing is performed, includes a gate valve at a side of the processing chamber; a sealing member which is... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090230343 - Valve device and testing method: Our valve device, which is used to purge air from a plumbing system, includes a unitary, elastomeric body comprising top wall, a circumferential wall connected to the top wall, and a housing with a cavity that is accessed through a pair of ports. A closure element is moveably disposed within... Agent: John J. Connors Connors & Associates, Inc.

20090230344 - Two-way valve: The invention concerns a valve for distributing two fluids contained in a rigid flask by propulsion means, the first fluid having to be contained in a first flexible pouch, and the second fluid in the flask so as to be isolated from the first fluid before the fluid leaves through... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090224189 - Metal sealing, stem locking mechanism: A device includes a stem hub attached to a fitting body. A rotatable stem is located at least partially within the stem hub. Rotation of the rotatable stem operates a blocking element located in the fitting body. In an embodiment, an upper stem is coupled to a first end portion... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090224190 - Apparatus, system, and method for shaping a valve orifice: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for optimizing a valve orifice shape. According to one representative embodiment, a method includes determining a specified relationship between a valve position and an output characteristic, and determining an orifice profile. The method also includes determining a relationship of an orifice area to... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090224191 - Electromagnet water supply valve: Disclosed is an electromagnet water supply valve including a body having at one side an inlet port for receiving water supplied from a water supply pipe and at the other side an outlet port for discharging the water to a user side, in which the body is provided with a... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC Franklin Square

20090224192 - Electromagnetic spool valve: The electromagnetic spool valve of the present invention includes a movable linear solenoid section, first and second spools that are coaxially provided in inner space of a valve body so as to switch a state of communication and discommunication among plural ports of the electromagnetic spool valve, a first spring... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090224193 - Fluid erosion protection washer for rotating shaft in mwd tool: A shaft protection washer to protect a rotating shaft in a “measurement while drilling” (MWD) tool. Use of the shaft protection washer renders the rotating shaft less susceptible to erosion from the drilling fluid flowing between the rotating component and the stationary component.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090224194 - Fuel shutoff valve: A fuel shutoff valve system including a body, a first fluid flow path extending through the body, a second fluid flow path extending through the body, the second fluid flow path separate from the first fluid flow path, and a single shaft that extends through at least a portion said... Agent: Ingrid Mctaggart

20090224195 - Tapered high pressure rotary feed valves: A tapered rotary feed valve is manufactured or refurbished for use in feeding materials into a high temperature environment, so as to reduce the time and expense of break-in operation, by shaping the tapered bore of the valve body at ambient temperature to have greater clearance around the rotor in... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel, LLP

20090224196 - Compact servo poppet valve and pressure relief system employing the same: In one embodiment, a servo poppet valve is provided that includes a valve housing having a flow passage therethrough, a poppet valve element disposed in the flow passage, and a first spring washer disposed between the valve housing and the poppet valve element. The poppet valve element is movable between... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090224197 - Gate valve device: A movable member is fitted in the middle in the vertical direction of a valve body core fitting that forms a gate valve body, and the movable member presses an elastic seal member from the inside of the seal member toward a tube inner wall surface located in a direction... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090218530 - Heater insert: The invention relates to a heating element with an electrical resistance heating element, at least one electrical connector line for supplying power to the heating element, a metal body with a connector, through which the at least one connector line and a duct seal, by means of which the connector... Agent: Walter A. Hackler, Ph.d. Patent Law Office

20090218531 - Device and method for controlling a valve with consumable energy monitoring: The invention relates to a device for controlling a valve (1) between an opened position and a closed position, that includes a valve actuation organ (8), an elastic system (17, 20) for oscillating the actuation organ between two end positions, at least one electromagnet (14, 15) associated with a control... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090218532 - Line stop adapter: A line stop adapter includes a body having a tapping flange mounting surface, adapted for mounting to a tapping sleeve flange, and an opposing valve mounting surface, adapted for mounting to a temporary valve. An interior wall forms a body aperture fluidly connecting the mounting surfaces. A portion of the... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20090218533 - Trigger activated vented valve system: A valve having a valve trigger which operates to provide coincident fluidic coupling of a fluid delivery passage and fluid compensation passage to a fluid source.... Agent: Cr Miles, P.C. Craig R. Miles

20090218534 - Carburettors: A carburettor for a two-stroke engine includes a substantially circular section flow duct comprising rich (42) and lean (44) flow passages in parallel, through which, in use, air flows in a flow direction and which are separated by a substantially planar partition (66). At least one fuel jet (60, 61,... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20090218535 - Flow controllers for fluid circuits: Flow controllers for controlling flow through a fluid circuit are disclosed. The flow controllers disclosed can close an open flow through a fluid circuit or divert flow from one destination to another.... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd.

20090218536 - High temperature valve: A trim assembly for a control valve includes a seal for sealing a leak path, where the seal is provided to advantageously in high-temperature applications, e.g., applications including temperatures of at least 450° F. (232.22° C.). The control valve comprises a valve body and control element. The control element is... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)