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Valves and valve actuation September class, title,number 09/10

20100243926 - Blowout preventer with ram socketing: A blowout preventer and seal structure for a blowout preventer, the seal structure having a the body with two front faces including a first face and a second face, a projection projecting out from the body, the first face on the projection, the second face in a plane, and the... Agent: National Oilwell Varco

20100243927 - Valve arrangement: A valve system for activating a piston of a piston-cylinder arrangement for a hydraulic or fluid device includes a pilot control valve including 3/2-way valve and a main valve arrangement having a first and a second main valve. The first and second main valves include 2/2-way valves, wherein in a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (frankfurt Office)

20100243928 - Modular gas valve arrangement: A modular gas valve arrangement including a housing that has a valve chamber having a gas inlet and a gas outlet and a valve mechanism disposed in the chamber between the inlet and the outlet to control the flow of gas. An interchangeable valve control module is mounted to the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20100243929 - Booster valve: A booster valve comprising a housing having a signal port, an actuator port, a supply port, and an exhaust port disposed therein. Disposed within the housing are upper and lower plugs. The upper and lower plugs and the housing collectively define a signal chamber which fluidly communicates with the signal... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100243930 - Manual valve operators having a lockout device: Manual valve operators having a locking device are described. An example manual operator includes a lever rotatably coupled to a locking plate and has a handle that pivots between a first position to prevent rotation of the lever relative to the locking plate and a second position to enable rotation... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20100243931 - Linear motor valve: A valve having a valve body having spaced inlet and outlet ports separated by an intermediate valve seat in open communication with the inlet and outlet ports includes a piston and a valve member being adapted to sealingly mate with the valve seat. A biasing member is positioned to bias... Agent: Parker-hannifin Corporation Hunter Molnar Baker Morgan

20100243932 - Electromagnetically actuated valve: An electromagnetically actuated valve including a solenoid with a coil that generates a magnetic field upon being energized, a tubular member made of a non-magnetic material and disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil, a movable valve body disposed within the tubular member and movable in an axial... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100243933 - Solenoid valve device: A solenoid valve device includes a solenoid valve that has a solenoid portion, a valve element that drivingly slides using electromagnetic force generated by the solenoid portion and regulates and outputs fluid pressure supplied from a fluid pressure source, a spring that biases the valve element in the sliding direction,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100243934 - Structure of solenoid valve attached to resin cover by insert-molding: A structure of a solenoid valve attached to a resin cover by insert-molding, the solenoid valve includes a valve body having a cylindrical shape and at least two fluid passages, a spool housed in the valve body and slidable therein in an axial direction relative to the valve body, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100243935 - Non-sliding solenoid valve: A non-sliding solenoid valve has an armature supported by a spring for movement with no sliding contact with other valve surfaces. An inner perimeter of the spring is snapped into position adjacent to an inner perimeter reference surface on the armature. An outer perimeter of the spring engages a reference... Agent: Eugene S.stephens, P.C.

20100243936 - Valve: A valve for use in connection with oil production and gas production comprising a valve housing (1) which is connected to at least one inlet (2) and an outlet (3), which together define a flow channel (16) through the valve, a valve body (9), which is set up to selectively... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100243937 - Valve: A housing having at least one valve seat for at least one flap, which is supported so it can rotate on a drive shaft. The drive shaft is guided on at least one side through the housing, a sleeve, through which the drive shaft is rotatably guided, being disposed fixed... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100243939 - Flow control device: A flow control device includes a hood, a ball valve, a sealing ring, and a handle. The ball valve is movably received in an interior receiving space of the hood and the ball valve is set in sealing engagement with the sealing ring. The ball valve and the handle located... Agent: Leong C Lei

20100243938 - Fluid passage valve and method of assembling same: An EGR valve includes a valve housing, a ball valve, a shaft, a valve holder held against the ball valve, and a valve seat. The valve holder includes a smaller-diameter portion, a larger-diameter portion, and an annular groove defined between the smaller-diameter portion and the larger-diameter portion. The annular groove... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100243940 - Relief valve: A relief valve includes a valve body having a first port through which fluid flows in and a second port through which the fluid is discharged, a sleeve arranged so as to be slidable within the valve body and formed with an inlet being communicatable with the first port and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100243942 - Control valve for a reverse osmosis water purification system: An improved control valve for a reverse osmosis (RO) water purification system for supplying relatively pure water for on-demand dispensing, wherein the improved control valve positively terminates pure water production and brine outflow to a waste or drain when a pure water reservoir reaches a substantially filled condition. The control... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20100243941 - Sliding valve: A sliding valve having a valve slider that can be axially displaced relative to the valve sleeve in order to determine the size of variable passage cross-sections and for establishing a pressurization connection between a high-pressure connection and a working connection and a pressure-reducing connection between the working connection and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100237264 - Valve operating mechanism: In a valve operating mechanism of an internal combustion engine, with an actuation device including at least two shifting elements which are driven by actuators for engaging a shifting gate of a cam control element, a safety device is provided to prevent the shifting elements from being deployed simultaneously.... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20100237265 - Remote control fluid regulation system: A fluid regulation system comprising a fluid source and a tube operatively connected to the source configured to deliver the fluid from the source to a site. A valve is configured to control a rate of fluid delivered from the source to the site via the tube, and a remote... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100237266 - Method for controlling a solenoid valve of a quantity controller in an internal combustion engine: A method for controlling a fuel injection system (10) of an internal combustion engine. Including a high-pressure pump (16) associated with a quantity controlling valve (15) having a solenoid valve (22) electromagnetically actuatable by a coil (21) for supplying fuel, the quantity control valve (15) controlling the quantity of fuel... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100237267 - Rotor configuration for a rotary valve: A rotary valve for metering the flow of particulate material from a supply source into the air stream of a pneumatic conveying system includes a central rotor manufactured through a precision casting process. The rotor is formed with a plurality of radially extending vanes terminating in tips that are flared... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC

20100237268 - Shaft connection between two shafts: A shaft connection is provided between a first shaft and a second shaft, the first shaft having a longitudinal axis about which the first shaft can be rotated. The first shaft has a free end which engages into a coupling part which can be connected in a rotationally fixed manner... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20100237269 - Valve device: An object of the invention for a valve device having an inclined valve body is to suppress pressure loss at a valve opened condition to a smaller amount. The valve body is composed of a disc shaped valve member for closing a fluid passage, a first supporting portion provided at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100237270 - Expansion valve: An expansion valve for reducing the quantity of material required for the valve body by contriving the arrangement of bolt fitting grooves. In the expansion valve (20), displacement of a valve member driver (36) provided in the valve body (21) is transmitted to a valve member by a valve member... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20100230623 - Piezoelectric actuator: A piezoelectric actuator for a fuel injection valve has an actuator body with a plurality of ceramic layers and a plurality of electrode layers between the ceramic layers. There is a connection area between an electrode layer and a ceramic layer adjacent to the electrode layer, where the adhesive strength... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20100230622 - Piezoelectric actuator: A piezoelectric actuator for a fuel injection valve has an actuator body with a multiplicity of ceramic layers and a multiplicity of electrode layers which are arranged between the ceramic layers. In this case, an external electrode is provided which is connected to some of the electrode layers. The external... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20100230624 - Ball valve with a flat mounting face: A ball valve with fluid communicating ports, namely a first port and subsequent port or ports has a valve body having faces, one of the faces namely the mounting face is generally flat, a bore on the said mounting face defines the location of said first port. A number of... Agent: Cesar Tejamo

20100230625 - Flushing mechanism: A flushing mechanism (100) includes a housing (1), an upper cover (6) on the housing (1), a sleeve (3), a first piston (4), a first piston sealed module (4-3), a first piston loading spring (5), a second piston (8) and a second piston loading spring (9). Wherein a pressure-relief and/or... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt LLC

20100230626 - Suck-back valve: A suck-back valve includes a piston and a valve body linked via a shaft portion. An open/close valve, operated by fluid pressure, is provided with a suck-back function. A suck-back chamber formed in an internal channel of the open/close valve and an actuator that operates the piston are separated by... Agent: Thomas, Raring, & Teague, P.C.

20100230627 - Noise reducing poppet valve: A personal valve apparatus may include a nozzle, a valve seat, and a moveable poppet valve. The nozzle may comprise an inner air-flow surface having a nozzle cavity extending through the inner air-flow surface. The valve seat may comprise a seat member disposed at an end of the inner-air-flow surface... Agent: Klintworth & RozenblatIPLLC And The Boeing Company

20100230628 - Self-retaining plastic snap plugs: A plug for closing off a bore of a hydraulic spool type valve is provided. The plug includes a polymeric body having a plurality of integral projecting studs which have a snap fit engagement with an inward radial protrusion of the bore within the hydraulic valve.... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Ozga, P.C.

20100224802 - Valve for a surgical or medical instrument: A valve for surgical or medical instruments including: a passage that can be at least partially sealed by twisting a flexible section (1) of the passage wall; element for rotating a mobile end (3) of flexible section (1), characterized in that the actuating element include a cable for transmitting movement... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100224803 - Valve body fluid rerouting system: There is provided a fluid rerouting system for valve bodies that use hydraulic pressure, via a balance pressure line, to move spools. In an exemplary embodiment, the system comprises a valve sleeve having a plurality of ports that are substantially aligned with a plurality of fluid connections in the mating... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20100224804 - Fail safe pneumatically actuated valve with fast time response and adjustable conductance: Apparatus and method for fail-safe high-speed-pneumatic valve is disclosed. Fail-safe dependability is provided by a spring-loaded normally-closed pneumatic actuator. When the spring-loaded actuator is pressurized, the normally closed mechanism is actuated to the valve active position. Concurrently, the pressure is directly applied to deflect a diaphragm or a bellow-assembly back... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20100224805 - Hydraulic actuating device: p

20100224806 - Pressure-reducing valve: A pressure-reducing valve is provided in which a diaphragm rod connected to a valve body of a valve mechanism is connected to a central part of a diaphragm having its peripheral edge part clamped between a body and a diaphragm cover, wherein the diaphragm (28) is formed from a disk-shaped... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100224807 - Multiple flow-rate dispensing valve and method: The present invention overcomes deficiencies in the art. A valve device is provided that includes a valve body defining a chamber for receiving fluid to be dispensed from the valve device, a seal contact surface located on the valve body, near a location where fluid discharges from the chamber, one... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100224808 - Valve assembly comprising a torque limiter: A valve assembly (1) comprising a valve housing (2), a stem (4) that is disposed perpendicular to the direction of flow within the valve housing (2), and a blocking member (3) which can be movably connected to the stem (4). The stem (4) is provided with a device (5) for... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20100224809 - Method and apparatus for operating an injection valve: In order to operate an injection valve, a freewheeling operating state is controlled as the nozzle needle moves to its closing position, and a current through the coil is detected as a freewheeling current during freewheeling. As the nozzle needle moves to its closing position, a braking current pulse (I_BR)... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100224810 - Sprinkler valve test and control device and method thereof: A sprinkler valve test and control device that is used to test and control a sprinkler valve having a solenoid plunger without the need for electricity. The sprinkler valve test and control device includes a cup shaped yoke body having a cavity and an opening, a magnet positioned in the... Agent: Miskin & Tsui-yip LLP

20100224811 - Water supply faucet assembly: The present invention discloses an improved water supply faucet assembly of a washing machine, and the water supply faucet includes a valve chamber disposed at the bottom of the interior of a water faucet body and provided for connecting a precision ceramic valve module having a valve spindle, a water... Agent: Lu & Associates, P.C.

20100224812 - Sanitary fitting with limitation of water flow: A sanitary fitting includes a fitting housing; a cartridge disposed in a recess of the fitting housing, the cartridge having a control arm which, for an adjustment of a temperature of water, is rotatable about a rotation axis of the cartridge and, for an adjustment of water flow, is pivotable... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100224813 - Valve for water faucet: A valve for a water faucet includes a base, a seat unrotatably mounted on base, a valve set mounted on the seat, a disk unrotatably mounted on the first valve set, and a housing mounted on the disk. The valve set includes a pivotable valve pivotally mounted on the first... Agent: Chien-hui Su

20100224814 - Gate valve with lubricated secondary seal: A gate valve includes a pair of opposing housing members, a gate, primary sealing sleeves and a secondary sealing member. The primary sealing sleeves are disposed in each of the housing members. The gate is configured to slidably pass through a transverse gate chamber defined when the housing members are... Agent: Tyco International Management Corp.

20100224816 - Gate valve with lubricated secondary seal: A gate valve includes a pair of opposing housing members, a gate, primary sealing sleeves and a secondary sealing member. The primary sealing sleeves are disposed in each of the housing members. The gate is configured to slidably pass through a transverse gate chamber defined when the housing members are... Agent: Tyco International Management Corp.

20100224815 - Slide valve, in particular for blocking a line conveying media: A slide valve, in particular for blocking a line conveying media, comprises a multi-part housing (13, 14) having a passage opening (12) and in which a slider plate (15) operable by a drive component is moved longitudinally. To both sides of the slider plate (15), laterally to its direction of... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20100219360 - Directly actuated valve with a strain-type actuator and a method of operating same: A method is provided for operating a directly actuated valve that comprises a strain-type actuator to actuate a valve member to travel between a closed position and an open position, the method comprising transmitting displacements from the strain-type actuator to the valve member, maintaining a compressive stress on the actuator... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100219361 - Rotary gas tap with an integral electromagnetic valve: The rotary gas tap (1) with an electromagnetic safety valve (3), is of the conical regulation member (7) type, and the electromagnetic actuator (3a), being of a smaller power and size, is built entirely into a pipe housing (2a) in the body of the tap. The valve actuator (3a) is... Agent: Berenbaum Weinshienk PC

20100219362 - Vacuum valve: For a vacuum valve including a wall (1) with a valve opening (6) and a valve seat surrounding the valve opening (6) and a valve plate (7), during the closing of the vacuum valve starting from the open position of the valve plate (7), the valve plate (7) is moved... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100219363 - Low force anti sticking throttle valve: A valve assembly having a body, a valve, a contact surface of the valve, and a gap surface of the valve. The body has an interior surface that defines a flow passage. The valve is positioned in the body. The valve is positioned at an angle with respect to the... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Ozga, P.C.

20100219364 - Minimum pressure valve: Minimum pressure valve having a housing (13) with an inlet (14) and an outlet (15) and in which has been provided a valve body (21) which is pushed against a seating (30) round the inlet (14) in a closed position, and whereby the valve body (21) is situated at a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100219365 - Fastening system for drainage valves: It is characterized in that the recesses comprise a conical structure obtained by deformation of the lower skin, and with said deformation an inner elevated seat is further obtained, on which seat the axial fastening nuts press, maintaining the thickness of the skin in the area where the valves are... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.