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Valves and valve actuation January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/12

20120018654 - Pinch valves having a multi-piece valve body to receive flexible tubing: Pinch valves having a multi-piece valve body to receive flexible tubing are described herein. An example pinch valve includes a first body portion having a first recess and a second body portion having a second recess. The first body portion is movable relative to the second body portion. The first... Agent:

20120018656 - Die cast sleeve with stability enhancement features occupying a small package space: In a preferred embodiment, the present solenoid control valve is provided which has a valve sleeve having upper and lower feedback chambers which are connected to control pressure by an exterior surface longitudinal slot or slots.... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20120018655 - Electromagnetic valve: A conical portion is provided at the tip of a main valve body. When brake fluid hits the conical portion of the main valve body, the brake fluid is bounced back at substantially the same angle at which it hits the conical surface of the conical portion. However, the movement... Agent: Advics Co., Ltd.

20120018657 - Sealing arrangement in rotating control valve of pressure fluid-operated percussion device: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement in a rotating control valve of a pressure fluid-operated percussion device, to which percussion device a tool is mountable movable in its longitudinal direction, the percussion device containing a work chamber and a transmission piston mounted movable to compress the tool suddenly to... Agent: Sandvik Mining And Construction Oy

20120018658 - Pressure reducing valve: A flow control device is disclosed. The flow control device comprises a pressure reducing valve. The pressure reducing valve comprises a valve body having at least an inlet port on a high side and an outlet port on a low side and having walls defining a regulating chamber, the outlet... Agent: Taprite-fassco Manufacturing, Inc. D/b/a Taprite

20120018659 - Piston valve with built in filtration: A control valve includes particle and moisture accumulation inhibiting features. The control valve includes a piston that provides for pressure communication to a back cavity through a tortuous path that settles out particle matter carried within the airflow. Moreover, the piston includes drainage openings that direct moisture out of piston... Agent:

20120018660 - Proximity sensor valve and lock system using same: A proximity sensor valve includes a housing which defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet in communication with a cavity. A plunger pin within the cavity for movement along an axis, the plunger pin movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The plunger pin extends at least... Agent:

20120018661 - Water-saving valve assembly: A water-saving valve assembly has a base, a control valve device and a buffer device. The control valve device is mounted in the base. The water-saving valve assembly is mounted on an exit of a water pipe. Users can control the flowing out or stopping of water in the water... Agent: Highplus International Co., Ltd.

20120012765 - Solenoid valve and driver assistance device: A solenoid valve is disclosed that has a magnet armature, which is operatively connected to a sealing element of the solenoid valve in order to move the latter, and an armature opposing piece which is arranged at the end of the magnet armature. There is provision here that an intermediate... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120012766 - Coaxial valve with an electric drive: A coaxial valve for regulating and blocking a liquid or gaseous medium having a valve housing having at least one inlet opening, at least one outlet opening and a flow duct connecting the at least one inlet opening to the at least one outlet opening; a tubular valve sleeve disposed... Agent: Astrium Gmbh

20120012767 - Magnetic valve: A valve comprises a magnetic drive and a core which is arranged therein to be movable in an axial direction, and which serve to open and close a valve seat. At least two flat springs stacked upon each other are arranged on an axial end of the core.... Agent:

20120012768 - Stepper motor operated balanced flow control valve: A flow control valve includes a body having a body bore oriented coaxially with a longitudinal axis of the body and a seat member extending into the bore. A valve member is slidably disposed in the bore and oriented coaxially with the longitudinal axis of the body. The valve member... Agent: Mac Valves, Inc.

20120012769 - Solenoid valve with shaped spring: A solenoid valve for controlling fluids includes a pole core, an armature which is connected to a closing element, and a spring element which is arranged in a working gap between the pole core and the armature. The spring element includes a shaped spring of substantially disk-shaped design. The shaped... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120012771 - Ball seat having collapsible helical seat: Apparatuses for restricting fluid flow through a well conduit comprise a tubular member having a helically-shaped seat member disposed within the tubular member. The helically-shaped seat member comprises first and second ends, a first position in which the first and second ends relative to each other to provide a first... Agent:

20120012770 - Ball valve: The present invention relates to a ball plug for taps or valves for controlling the flow of a fluid, comprising at least one main passage (15) adapted for placing inlet and outlet ducts in communication, and at least two secondary holes or passages (19, 20) adapted for placing the main... Agent: Valvosanitaria Bugatti S.p.a.

20120012772 - Encapsulated outer stator isolated rotor stepper motor valve assembly: An electric motor assembly includes a rotor rotatable about an axis and a stator spaced radially away from the rotor. An isolation housing, configured to permit magnetic flux to flow therethrough between the rotor and the stator, is disposed between the rotor and the stator and defines an internal rotor... Agent: Nidec Motor Corporation

20120012773 - Pressure control valve: A valve assembly includes a housing with a supply port receiving working fluid from a working fluid source, a control port connected to a working device, and a vent port for returning working fluid to the working fluid source. A spool with a spool bore in fluid communication with the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20120012774 - Reed valve: A reed valve is adapted to be fixed to a fixing member. The reed valve includes a valve plate and a resiliently deformable reed. The valve plate is fixed to the fixing member and includes a frame part and a supporting column. The frame part has an opening inward of... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120007006 - Water valve: A water valve includes a tubular connector having a through hole extending through two distal ends thereof, a chamber in the through hole on the middle and a top opening, a casing accommodated in the chamber inside the tubular connector and having an accommodation chamber, two communication holes in communication... Agent:

20120007007 - Locking mechanism for unisex ball valve coupling: A hydraulic valve coupling has an interlock mechanism that includes at least one blocking member located within an interlock passage of a body portion of the valve coupling. The interlock passage has a first end opening to the valve shaft and a second end opening to an interface groove of... Agent: Raycon Industries Inc.

20120007008 - Flap assembly, in particular exhaust gas flap assembly: For a flap assembly, in particular an exhaust gas flap assembly, with the flap mounted on both sides via bearing devices in the housing, the disclosure describes a design in which a bearing body is supported radially against an annular collar of the bearing device and, by way of the... Agent: Mtu Friedrichshafen Gmbh

20120007009 - Method and apparatus for generating high-speed pulsed fluid jets: An apparatus for generating high-speed pulsed fluid jets. A valve assembly has a valve body with an inlet and an outlet. A valve shuttle is slidably or movably mounted with respect to the valve body. The valve shuttle is positioned within a cavity of the valve body and divides the... Agent:

20120007010 - Aircraft including a fuel valve and a control actuator fastened to the valve: It is arranged in such a manner that the bearing point(s) between the panel and a first one of the members selected from the valve and the actuator, and preferably the actuator, is/are provided by means of the second one of these members.... Agent: Airbus Operations Sas

20120001100 - Blowout preventer-backup safety system: This design/system addresses the problem of failed Blowout Preventers that lock an independent backup safety system when encountering a oil/gas well “kick” or blowout and is not reliant on any of the complex, multiple components of the previously claimed safeguards that the B O P's were supposed to prevent such... Agent:

20120001101 - External position indicator of ram blowout preventer: Method and blowout preventer for sealing a well. The blowout preventer includes a body having first and second chambers, the first chamber extending substantially perpendicular to and intersecting the second chamber; a ram block configured to move within the first chamber to seal a first region of the second chamber... Agent: Hydril Usa Manufacturing LLC

20120001102 - Highly clean and hot valve: A highly clean and high temperature valve apparatus includes a valve driving unit and a valve casing connected to a bonnet supporting a valve stem slidably. A stem portion has one end positioned in a circumferential wall closed at its two ends by upper and lower covers, and supports one... Agent: Ham-let Motoyama Japan Ltd.

20120001103 - Control device: In a control device for a technical processing plant, a pneumatically driven actuator having an actuator stem is provided together with a valve operated by the actuator, the valve having a valve stem. A valve element is attached to the valve stem. A stem connector connects the two stems to... Agent:

20120001104 - Valve control apparatus: A magnetic sensing surface of a stroke sensor is placed in an angular range between a first imaginary line and a second imaginary line. The first imaginary line is an imaginary line that coincides with a center line between first and second magnets of a magnetic movable body when a... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120001105 - Valve control apparatus and electric driving apparatus: A valve control apparatus is provided with a valve, a shaft supporting the valve, an end-gear of an actuator driving the valve. The shaft is press-inserted into the end-gear. A stopper disposed on the shaft regulates a valve operation range. The end-gear can engage with the middle gear of the... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120001106 - Variable orifice gas flow modulating valve: A temperature control system for a gas appliance utilizes an improved variable orifice gas flow modulating valve capable of direct modulation of gas flow through an orifice directly into a gas burner to provide a constantly maintained temperature in an appliance working compartment, as selected by human interface via a... Agent:

20120001108 - Electromagnetic linear valve: An electromagnetic linear valve comprises a valve body, a movable element and an electromagnetic unit driving the movable element in the valve body and a spring leaf, wherein said valve body is divided into two valve chambers by a baffle where a through hole is formed to make the two... Agent: Xiamen Koge Micro Tech Co., Ltd.

20120001109 - Electromagnetic linear valve: An electromagnetic linear valve includes: (a) a plunger including a large outside-diameter portion and a small outside-diameter portion, and (b) a housing having a through-hole and including a large inside-diameter portion in which the large outside-diameter portion is inserted with a clearance being defined between the large inside-diameter portion and... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20120001107 - Solenoid valve: A solenoid valve has a tapered valve seat disposed between a first flow passage and a second flow passage, a reduced diameter side of the valve seat that is connected with the first flow passage, and a valve body having a closing portion that reduces its diameter toward a tip... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120001110 - Plug valve for gas stove: A plug valve for a gas stove, consisting at least of a natural-gas nozzle, a propane-gas nozzle, a valve body, a cock, an adjusting rod, an O-shaped ring, a stop ring, a spring, a stop plate, a cover, a pair of screws, and a valve rod. The adjusting rod, the... Agent:

20120001111 - Valve control apparatus: A rotational moving point of a connection between a rod and a valve swings between a full open point, at which the valve is fully opened, and a full close point, at which the valve is fully closed. An apex of this swing is set at a point, which is... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120001112 - Apparatus and method for extraction or addition of substances from or to a body of liquid: Apparatus, methods, and systems are provided for separating substances from a container or body of fluid. The apparatus comprises a body containing a flow-through passageway adapted to attach to the flow-through passageway; an assembly adapted to selectively seal the flow through passageway; and a reservoir in communication with flow-through passageway;... Agent:

20120001113 - Carburetor and methods therefor: A carburetor having an inlet opening that includes a pair of concavities operative to direct air toward the metering rod of the carburetor. A carburetor having an inlet opening that includes an arcuate manifold adjacent to the inlet opening and in fluid communication with a fuel reservoir. A carburetor having... Agent:

20120001114 - Shut-off valve: This invention relates to a shut-off valve, and primarily to a valve for shutting-off the flow of a fluid such as a mains water supply to commercial premises or a domestic dwelling. The shut-off valve (10) comprises a diaphragm valve and a pilot valve (30). The diaphragm valve has an... Agent: