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Valves and valve actuation February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/10

20100044601 - Water box toilet sensing flushing system: A water-box toilet sensing flushing system including an inlet loop, loop washer, linking pipe, solenoid valve outer bracket, switch diaphragm, solenoid valve, connector, water bowl assembly, outlet washer wire, and sensor. This is an added device to the original manual structure of the water box. It does not affect the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100044602 - Viscous fan drive systems having fill and scavenge control: An engagement system (10) for a fluid-coupling device (9) may include a first engagement member (31) and a second engagement member (15) that is in operation with the first engagement member (31). A working chamber (33) is disposed between and at least partially defined by the first engagement member (31)... Agent: John A Artz

20100044603 - Coupler including electrical and pneumatic interfaces: A coupler including electrical and pneumatic interfaces. The coupler includes a manifold having pneumatic apertures and a support having connector apertures to accommodate one or more valves.... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP

20100044604 - Capacitive touch sensor: A fluid delivery apparatus comprises a spout, a fluid supply conduit supported by the spout, a valve assembly to supply fluid through the fluid supply conduit, and a capacitive touch sensor. The capacitive touch sensor is coupled to a controller. The controller is also coupled to the valve assembly. The... Agent: Douglas A. Yerkeson Baker & Daniels LLP

20100044605 - Piezoelectric bending element actuator for servo valve: A valve assembly includes a valve housing. A valve body is movable within the housing. The valve body has a land to selectively block or communicate a supply port to an outlet. A piezoelectric bending element actuator moves the valve body to selectively communicate the supply port to the outlet... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20100044607 - Plate rotating device, exhaust path opening degree changing device, exhausted device, transfer device, beam device, and gate valve: To provide a mechanism in which a moving body can be stored in a housing. A gate valve has a slide plate and a moving mechanism for changing the positions in the radial and axial directions of the slide plate. A shaft is a rotating shaft the axial displacement of... Agent: Edwards Vacuum, Inc.

20100044606 - Valve for controlling volumetric flows: The invention relates to a valve for controlling volumetric flows in a heating and/or cooling system of a motor vehicle, comprising a valve housing (10), from which at least one inlet channel (18) and at least one outlet channel (20, 22) branch, in addition to at least one disc-type valve... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100044608 - Solenoid valve and manufacturing method of the same: Provided is a solenoid valve wherein control characteristics are prevented from deteriorating due to changes of magnetic characteristics of a magnetic circuit when a center post is contaminated, and the desired control characteristics are maintained for a long period of time. In the solenoid valve, a nonmagnetic layer (41) is... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100044609 - Pipe connector: A pipe connector is provided with a valve cartridge. The pipe connector can be modified so as to meet requirements for a variety of uses without changing the basic design of the connector body by simply replacing the valve cartridge with another valve cartridge having valve functions meeting a desired... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100044610 - Device for opening and closing outlets of a fluid distributor valve: A device for opening and closing outlets of a fluid distributor valve includes a body having outlets, and a bonnet housing a rotor submitted to the action of the inflowing fluid and connected to a reducing gear activating the closing device. The opening of the outlets is carried out with... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100044611 - System, method and apparatus for split gate valve with mechanically isolated seal surfaces: A split gate is movably mounted within a valve body along a valve axis between valve seats. The split gate has gates, each extending between one of the valve seats and the other gate. In an open position, gate holes register with a fluid aperture and the valve seats to... Agent: Patent Department Ge Oil & Gas

20100044612 - Tapping valve with a plastic valve housing for shipping and storage tanks for liquids: A tapping valve with a plastic valve housing for shipping and storage tanks for liquids, which are equipped with an inner tank with a filling socket and a drain socket for connecting the tapping valve, an outer jacket of a metal cage or sheet metal, and a pallet-like metal support... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20100044613 - Control valve having \"c\" seal: A control valve having a shiftable valve plug includes a valve body having an inlet, an outlet, a flow passage extending between the inlet and the outlet, and defining a longitudinal axis, a generally cylindrical valve cage disposed within the valve body and sized to receive the valve plug, with... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20100044614 - Exhaust gas recirculation valve: A surface of a valve rod of an EGR valve is plated with chromium plating, and then the surface of the chrome plating is polished to the maximum height surface roughness of 1.0 μm to 3.2 μm.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100038564 - Micro-actuator device for the use in a biochip or biosystem: The Invention concerns to a micro-actuator device for the use in biochip or bio-system. In order to achieve a micro-actuator device for the use as a micro pump in biosensors or bio-systems, or at least bio-chips, by which the actuation can be steered very precisely and effective, the solution is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100038565 - Propellant gas control valve: A gas control valve is configured to controllably supply propellant gas to a thruster so that the thruster may produce thrust over a relatively wide range, and so that the thruster exhibits relatively fine minimum impulse bit (MIB) performance. The gas control valve includes a pilot stage having a pilot... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100038566 - Valve and actuator assemblies: The present application relates to valve and actuator assemblies. The valve actuator assemblies may include a capless valve actuating arrangement, include a replaceable passage defining member that includes seal members, include a valve member that is assembled in a valve chamber from an end of the valve body that is... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20100038567 - Suck-back valve: A suck-back valve having an open/close valve with a suck-back function is provided. The suck-back valve includes a suck-back chamber formed in a valve internal channel of the open/close valve, a piston shaft portion and an open/close pressuring member to apply pressure to a valve piece, bellows that accommodate the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100038568 - Electromotive refrigerant control valve: An electromotive refrigerant control valve is disclosed, in which the refrigerant supplied from the condenser is supplied to the evaporator for the cooling chamber or the evaporator for the freezing chamber based on the four operation modes. The four operation modes are a cooling/freezing mode in which the refrigerant is... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20100038569 - Electric control valve: An electric control valve provided in the present invention has a valve gate and a control actuator including a middle seat (10), a setting part (9), a thermal sensitive element (7), a pushing rod (11) and a memory alloy spring (6), wherein, the thermal sensitive element (7) is disposed within... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20100038570 - Regulating valve particularly for regulating the flow of refrigeration fluids: A regulating valve has a valve body, with an inlet and an outlet for fluid, which are connected by a connecting opening, and a flow control device for the connecting opening, inserted in a seat formed in the valve body. The flow control device has a piston for controlling flow... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20100038572 - Poppet valve: A poppet valve (100) is provided according to the invention. The poppet valve (100) includes an actuator (120) including a pivoting armature (127) comprising a first end (105) and a second end (106). The pivoting armature (127) pivots at the first end (105). The poppet valve (100) further includes a... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20100038571 - Valve control unit, particularly pilot control unit for a pressure modulator of a commercial vehicle: The invention relates to a valve control unit, particularly for a pressure modulator of a commercial vehicle. Said valve control unit (1) comprises a valve control housing (2), solenoid valves (4, 5, 6) which are provided with solenoids (16) and internal valve pieces (4a, 5a, 6a) inserted into the solenoids... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100038573 - Gas injection valve with two positions of closure: Charge valve for gas, in particular for carbon dioxide, comprising a seat, drilled with a passage, a shaft movable inside the passage against the compression of a return spring bearing against the seat and an elastomeric seal compressed between the seat and the shaft to close the passage when the... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20100038574 - Valve assembly: A valve assembly includes: a valve body defining an annular shoulder that is formed with an annular shoulder groove; a hollow ball member disposed in the valve body; a sealing unit including an O-ring received in the shoulder groove and protruding outwardly of the shoulder groove; a stem extending into... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20100038576 - Microvalve device with improved fluid routing: A microvalve device for controlling the supply of pressurized fluid to a load in a fluid circuit, and having multiple internal fluid conduits for providing pressure feedback.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20100038575 - Seal assembly for a source of pressurized fluid: A valve system includes a source of pressurized fluid comprising an orifice through which the pressurized fluid flows away from the source, and a poppet comprising a groove and a seal positioned in the groove, wherein the seal plugs the orifice when the poppet is in a closed position, and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100038577 - Zero-leak variable rate high pressure metering valve: A high pressure metering valve has a valve element with a closing portion, a metering portion and a rapid return portion. The closing portion seats against a corner seat at the end of a valve bore in which the metering portion has a close sliding fit. When the element is... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100032594 - Freeze protection valve: A thermally actuated valve employs a plunger and bore valve configuration. A thermally expansible wax actuator has an axial length that changes in response to the temperature in a cavity of the valve. The plunger integrally extends from the actuator body and carries a seal. At temperatures above a predetermined... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20100032595 - Exhaust venting for a fluid control device: A fluid control device is disclosed that is configured to vent pilot volume through an exhaust port or exhaust passageway (140) integrated into the fluid control device. The fluid control device has a fluidic switch (112) configured to switch a pilot volume into the exhaust port or exhaust passageway (140)... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20100032596 - Fluid control: A valve having a trim comprising a plurality of a vortex flowpaths, each flowpath comprising a central vortex chamber and having three tangential inlet passages is provided. As the fluid flows through the inlet passages and enters the vortex chamber the flows start to turn and impinge upon one another,... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100032597 - Electrohydraulic control system for the actuation of an actuator in a motor vehicle: v

20100032598 - Pressure control batterfly valve: A pressure control butterfly valve includes a valve disc rotatable in a vertical direction relative to a flow passage in a body, a seat ring reciprocating in a direction of the flow passage to allow a valve seat seal part to abut on and separate from the valve disc and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100032601 - Blow-off valve for turbo blower: A blow-off valve for a turbo blower 1000 has a body part 100 which includes a cylinder part 110, a valve-guide plate 130 on the cylinder part 110 and a head part 150 covering the valve-guide plate 130. In the cylinder part 110, a blow-connection opening 1038 connected with a... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20100032599 - Pneumatic control valve device for air-suspended vehicles, with mechanical return of the control element: 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... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100032600 - Pneumatic valve control assembly: A pneumatic control valve assembly for a sample conditioning system used to condition one or more fluid streams to be analyzed. A pneumatic valve control assembly comprises a housing being attachable to an enclosure of the sample conditioning system at a first interface. The assembly includes at least one electrically... Agent: Don W. Bulson (park) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100032602 - Gas valve with an improved valve core: A gas valve with an improved valve comprises a valve body, a valve seat, a hollow shaft and a valve core comprising an outer core and an inner core. The outer core is built with a higher fire orifice and a lower fire orifice. The inner core is built with... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100032603 - Selection valve: A rotary selection valve where different components can be selected in different rotation positions of the valve and furthermore the flow through the components can be reversed by rotating the rotary valve.... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20100032604 - Rotation valve for sample injection: A rotary valve adapted for injection of a fluid sample into a flow path. According to the invention one and the same valve can be used to input flow from a system pump, a sample pump and a syringe. A loop could be filled from both the sample pump and... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20100032605 - Closure apparatus for a pressure container, which can be filled with compressed gas, of a cold gas generator: The invention relates to a closure apparatus for a pressure container (14), which can be filled with compressed gas, of a cold gas generator (11), wherein the pressure container (14) comprises a closed base at one end and a container opening (16) at the other end, on which container opening... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20100032606 - Ball seat valve, use of the same, and method for controlling a valve assembly comprising a ball seat valve: A ball seat valve, use thereof, and method for controlling a valve assembly comprising a ball seat valve, wherein the valve body has a chamber and a plurality of inlet openings in the chamber. The inlet openings together have an inflow area leading into the chamber through which a medium... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20100032607 - Valve gear: Provided is a valve gear in which corrosion due to a potential difference does not occur and which can reduce the corrosion occurrence even when loads due to microvibrations are given. The valve gear according to the present invention comprises a valve stem 6 and a valve bush 7 that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100025601 - Poppet valve with sloped purge holes and method for reducing a pressure force therein: A poppet valve is disclosed that includes a valve body, a poppet guide disposed inside the valve body so as to form a flow passage from an inlet to an outlet of the valve, a poppet shutter disposed inside the poppet guide, and a biasing member to bias the poppet... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100025602 - Injection apparatus and a valve device provided in a passage: An ink jet type recording apparatus comprises a connection member which has a passage for leading ink to a recording head from an ink cartridge. In the passage, a valve member having a magnetic body is provided. A rotation member has a permanent magnet and is rotatable between a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100025603 - Apparatus to control a fluid flow characteristic of fluid regulator bypass valves: Apparatuses to control a fluid flow characteristic of fluid regulator bypass valves are described. An example apparatus includes an insert having a body sized to be inserted in a passage of a bypass valve. The body includes an opening to fluidly couple a bore of the body to an outer... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20100025604 - Slide valve control device and a drive device for use with it: A valve control device, in particular for control pods or similar equipment used in the mining and/or production of mineral oil/natural gas, comprises a valve housing in which hole or boring sections are arranged, and a valve slide movable relative to the hole sections, with at least a first and... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20100025606 - Electromagnetic actuation unit: The invention relates to an electromagnetic actuation unit (2) of a hydraulic valve (1), with a housing (14), a closing body (4b) and a sealing element (6), the closing body (4b) being plugged into an insertion opening (14a) of the housing (14), the sealing element (6) bearing against the closing... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20100025605 - Fuel valve for supplying auxiliary heating unit in a motor vehicle with fuel: A fuel valve (10) for supplying fuel to an auxiliary heating device in a motor vehicle comprises a magnet coil (12), a magnet armature (14) and a spring (16) which can be compressed by the magnetic force generated when a pick-up voltage is applied to the magnet coil and causes... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100025607 - Quick joint for connecting gas cylinder and pressure reducing valve for gas stove: The present invention discloses a quick joint for connecting gas cylinder and pressure reducing valve for gas stove, and the quick joint includes a connecting ring having a through hole, and arc brackets extended from the periphery of the connecting ring and encircled into a ring shape, and each arc... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100025608 - Throttle valve: For under water application, in particular in oil and gas drilling with large pipe cross sections the throttle valve according to the invention is improved, so that primary magnets are mounted to the actuation element (11, 32), secondary magnets are mounted to the shaft (13), and a roller body screw... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20100025609 - Device mount for sink or basin: A mount for a device, such as a faucet controller or valve actuator assembly for mounting the device to a sink or basin having carrier arm mounting holes. A valve actuator assembly for operating a valve for a sink or basin and operable with a push pad, the valve actuator... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100025610 - Low profile valve actuator having high torque output: A valve actuator is provided for use in conjunction with a drive motor and a valve. In one embodiment, the valve actuator includes a housing assembly, a first power screw rotatably mounted in the housing assembly and configured to be rotated by the drive motor, a first rack translatably mounted... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100025611 - Fluid conveyance and/or distribution device with ring nut coupling: A device for conveying and/or distributing fluids comprises a housing with connection portions, one or more threaded ring nuts that can be screwed to the connection portions in order to join them, a control handle and a tightening seat formed in the housing and adapted to support the control handle... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20100025612 - Control valve for a water tap: A control valve for a water tap comprises a connecting member, a drain member, and a stop assembly, wherein the drain member is screwed with the connecting member, and between the drain member and the connecting member is defined a passage, the drain member includes a plurality of outlets formed... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia Int''l Patent Office Of Bang Shia

20100025613 - Microfluidic valve having free-floating member and method of fabrication: Micro check valves having a free-floating member for controlling flow of fluid in microfluidic and biomedical applications and methods of fabrication. A micro check valve includes a valve seat, a valve cap that contacts the valve seat and an untethered floating member that can move between the valve seat and... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20100025614 - Piston valve for diaphragm pump: The present invention relates to an “improved piston valve for diaphragm pump” features that each of water discharge base and water discharge base has a top camber concave surface with orientating hole center and orientating hole center as lowest point respectively; After anchoring anti-backflow plastic gasket into water discharge base,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC