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Valves and valve actuation March listing by industry category 03/10

20100072408 - Multiplexing control valve: A multiplexing valve assembly includes a valve slidably disposed within a valve body, hydraulic module, or packaged in a stand alone solenoid cartridge. A plurality of fluid passages communicate with the multiplexing valve assembly. The valve includes a plurality of lands. Radial fluid passages disposed in the lands and a... Agent: Vivacqua Law, PLLC

20100072409 - Reclosable vacuum-tight pressure-relief device having a deformable seal member: A pressure-relief valve assembly is improved in that sealing surfaces on both the valve seat and valve head are confrontationally disposed annular planar surfaces oriented substantially perpendicular to the valve axis. A resilient valve seal is formed of a material which deforms to a predetermined extent into sealing engagement against... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20100072410 - Actuator for operating valves such as diaphragm valves: An actuator for operating a valve comprises a housing, a cap, a ring and a piston. The housing has a connecting interface for being mounted on the valve. The cap substantially covers a first portion of the housing. Both the cap and the housing define a substantially enclosed space inside... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20100072411 - Double seat valve apparatus and method: A valve assembly has a valve body having an upper portion defining an upper chamber having an upper valve seat, and a lower portion defining a lower chamber having a lower valve seat, with an intermediate seat region between the upper valve seat and the lower valve seat. An upper... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100072413 - Fluid controller: There is provided a fluid controller having an enhanced vibration preventing characteristic without affecting pressure controlling operations. A valve element 4 is moved with respect to a valve seat 3 due to a change of balance between a fluid pressure acting on a diaphragm 10 and an elastic force of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100072412 - Valve block: A valve block includes at least a first connection and a second connection. Both connections are connected to each other inside the valve block to temporarily change flow paths in a coolant device and/or to fill the coolant device and/or empty the coolant device. The valve block may be made... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20100072414 - Microfluidic valve systems and methods: The present disclosure provides a microfluidic valve with a liquid-film-core to open and close one or more dispensing orifices of an ejection nozzle of a microfluidic system, such as an inkjet printhead, to prevent nozzle-clogging. The microfluidic valve employs a non-volatile liquid to control ambient air exposure at a liquid-air... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20100065763 - Method of manufacturing valve, and valve produced by the method: A valve has a valve body provided on its inner peripheral surface with a seat ring, a stem arranged to extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of a flow passage defined in the valve body, and a valve element rotatably supported through a bush attached to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100065764 - Remote control system to set hot cold water ratio of an electronic faucet: The present invention relates controlling ratio of mixing hot and cold water of an electronic faucet by setting a mixing valve with an electronics actuator using two infrared sensors without touching to the faucet or its accessories. The system consists of two infrared sensors (IR), red and blue light emitting... Agent: Murat Canpolat

20100065765 - Proportional control valve: The invention relates to a proportional control valve for the variable hydraulic adjustment of the damping force of a shock absorber, for which purpose the proportional control valve has a throttle function which can be set by varying the strength I of the electric current. The invention provides that on... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100065766 - Electrically operated hydraulic valve: An electrically operated hydraulic valve comprises a valve assembly that provides a common valve passageway, an inlet port, an outlet port and a return port connected to the passageway and an axially movable valve device which allows in a first position fluid flow between the outlet port and the return... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100065767 - Whisker actuated faucet controller: A faucet controller for operating a valve mounted in association with a faucet, having a joystick actuator mountable on the valve for movement between a normal at rest position and a valve operating position, and a whisker connected with the joystick for forcing the joystick actuator into the valve operating... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20100065768 - Externally adjustable pressure compensated flow control valve: An in-line fluid flow control valve includes a housing defining an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber aligned along a outlet axis. The housing further defines a bore with a flow control device and an adjustment mechanism disposed therein for regulating a fluid flow rate. The flow control device defines... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Basf Se

20100065769 - Slide valve: The invention relates to a slider 1 for installation in a pipe, with a housing 2, a counter flange 3 and a sliding plate 4, wherein the housing 2 and the counter flange 3 respectively have an opening 5, the housing 2 and the counter flange 3 are connected to... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100065770 - Expansion valve, in particular for a cooling-medium system: The invention relates to an expansion valve, in particular for a vehicle air-conditioning system operated with cooling medium, with a valve seat (37) and a valve-closing element (39), which closes a passage opening (44) between a cooling medium inlet opening (14) and a cooling medium outlet opening (16), and with... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20100059698 - Solenoid valve: The invention relates to a solenoid valve having a magnetic assembly and a valve cartridge. The valve cartridge includes a capsule, a valve insert connected to the capsule and an armature that is mobile in the capsule. The armature includes a tappet having a first closing element. A magnetic force... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20100059697 - Two-stage solenoid valve for an electropneumatic valve control unit: The invention relates to a two-stage solenoid valve for an electropneumatic valve control unit, particularly a pilot control unit of a pressure modulator. Said solenoid valve at least comprises a solenoid system (6) to which a first and second current intensity can be applied as well as a solenoid valve... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100059699 - Temperature compensated valve for gas chromatography: Plungers and plunger assemblies for a diaphragm-sealed valve are provided. Each plunger is adpted to be received in a passage of the valve body and includes a base member and an upper member having a longitudinal play in this passage with respect to the base member. A resilient middle element... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100059700 - Dual output flow control actuator: Disclosed herein is an actuator for regulating the flow of fluids in first and second flow paths of an internal combustion engine. The actuator includes a motor having a rotatable drive shaft, a gear assembly driven by the drive shaft of the motor, and first and second output shafts rotated... Agent: Dayco Products, LLC

20100059701 - Compact pressure balanced rotary valve: A pressure balanced rotary valve can be made more compact if the ports on the stator within can be located on a port pitch circle of smaller diameter. In certain circumstances for rotary valves used in pressure swing adsorption devices, it is acceptable for the spacing between the ports to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100059702 - Luer activated medical connector having a low priming volume: A connector is described which includes a valve housing comprising a valve housing base and a valve cap, the valve housing defining an inlet port, and an outlet port, the valve housing further including a fluid path from the inlet port to the outlet port, the fluid path including a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100051838 - Capacity control valve: A capacity control valve includes a solenoid portion; a tube placed in the solenoid portion; and a movable core which forms a slide surface that is fitted to the tube. An actuation rod has a joint portion and a valve body, the joint portion being engaged with an abutting surface... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100051839 - Magnet valve: The invention relates to a solenoid valve comprising a magnetic assembly and a valve cartridge. The valve cartridge comprises a capsule, a valve insert connected to the capsule and an armature that is mobile in the capsule. The armature includes a tappet having a first closing element. A magnetic force... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20100051840 - Flow control valve: Provided is a flow control valve including: a valve body including a flow passage; a first poppet being fixed within the valve body, and including an inlet port through which a fluid flows in and an outflow hole through which the fluid flows out to the flow passage; a second... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20100051841 - Electromagnetic apparatus and method for controlling fluid flow: An actuator including actuator base, bobbin, and pole piece forming a pocket for a ferromagnetic armature located therein. The actuator including a radial magnet and a solenoid coil constructed and arranged to cause a linear displacement of the armature upon application of a coil drive current from a control circuit.... Agent: Ivan David Zitkovsky Ph.d PC

20100051842 - Electropneumatic pressure transducer: An electropneumatic pressure transducer. The electropneumatic pressure transducer includes a double-seated valve with a first valve seat disposed between a control pressure chamber and an underpressure connector, and a second valve seat disposed between an atmospheric-pressure connector and the control pressure chamber, and a movable plunger-type armature; a valve closure... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100051843 - Carbon nanotube-based gas valve: Precise control over gas delivery is achieved at the micro and nanobar mass levels by incorporating blocks of aligned carbon nanotubes into valves and finely adjusting the flow through the block by controlling a compressing force applied to the block. A valve for controlling gas flow includes: a valve housing;... Agent: Applied Materials C/o Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20100051844 - Electromagnetic valve: In an electromagnetic valve, a stator assembly includes an electrically energizable coil and a thin-walled core which receives and reciprocally supports an armature. The thin-walled core has a closed end and an open end, the open end being in fluid communication with a fluid flow passage within a valve member.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20100051845 - Water valve apparatus: A water valve apparatus includes a housing and a control valve stem. The housing has a spacer to divide the interior space and a base with a plurality of water outlets formed thereon. The spacer has a first opening. The base has a second opening corresponding to the first opening.... Agent: Frenkel & Associates

20100051846 - Shaft sealing device and valve structure using the same: A shaft sealing device with a simple internal structure switches a sealing state and an unsealing state of a fluid, with high sealing performance maintained, because of no abrasion accompanying the movement of a sealing material or a sealing member, thereby enabling feeding a fluid at a predetermined flow rate,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100051847 - Method and apparatus for severing conduits: Apparatus is provided for cutting a conduit passing through a valve as the valve is closed. The apparatus may be used in subsea well operations or as a safety valve in any well. A spherical outside surface on a cutter element seats in the apparatus. The cutter element cuts a... Agent: Burleson Cooke L.L.P.

20100051848 - Coupling element for connecting actuator to valve: A coupling element has a first interface, which is adapted to mechanically connect the coupling element to an actuator, a second interface, which is adapted to mechanically connect the coupling element to a valve, and a deformable portion, which is shaped in such a manner, that, as a result of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100051849 - Cage valve with erosion control: A cage valve for reduced erosion at the outlet bore. The valve is of the type having flow trim arranged transverse to the inlet bore and aligned with the outlet bore, the flow trim including a stationary tubular cage and an external cylindrical flow collar slidable along the side wall... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C