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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337988 | Regulating turbine for sprinkler The present invention provides a turbine with dual sets of fins and a stator assembly for directing water onto both sets of fins. The water flow directed to the first set of fins generates slightly more force than the water flow directed to the second set of fins. I... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7309030 | Injection nozzle The invention provides an injection nozzle for an internal combustion engine, the injection nozzle (2) including an outer valve member (8) received within a bore (6) provided in a nozzle body (4) and being engageable with a first seating ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7140560 | Nozzle assembly with fuel tube deflector A deflector at the downstream end of a fuel tube deflects incoming fuel into an annular fuel channel in a fuel swirler of an injector. The deflector prevents direct impact of the cooler fuel on the exposed walls of the swirler body. The deflector can be formed by a ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137574 | Apparatus and process for the lateral deflection and separation of flowing particles by a static array of optical tweezers A method and apparatus for laterally deflecting and/or separating a flow of particles using a static array of optical tweezers. In an array of optical tweezers with a lattice constant larger than the size of a particle of interest, particles driven past the array by... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7108204 | Spray nozzle A spray nozzle includes an orifice disposed on a substantially planar discharge surface. An impingement surface is disposed opposite the orifice, the impingement surface forming an angle with a centerline of the orifice. The angle between the orifice centerline and ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104465 | Water spray retort system suitable for paperboard packages A retort is described for use with paperboard containers (48) to reduce moisture absorption during processing of foodstuffs therein. The improvement includes using solid cone spray nozzles (50) with spray angles in the range of about 100 degrees to abo... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7051953 | Nozzle device A nozzle device for ejecting a liquid onto vehicle windows or headlight lenses. At least one rotation chamber is formed inside a nozzle body. The liquid enters the chamber, is rotationally displaced in such a way that it is then ejected as a homogeneous fan jet via ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6796516 | Fuel injection valve A fuel injector is described having a movable valve part, which for opening and closing of the valve cooperates with a stationary valve seat which is formed on a valve seat element. A swirl disk is arranged downstream from the valve seat and has a multilayer configu... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6360970 | Water diffuser A water diffuser for an automatic fire sprinkler system to be used when the sprinkler system is drained or tested. The water diffuser has a plurality of diffuser plates with decreasing diameter holes in their centers for dispersing water over a greater ar... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6345601 | Direct injection fuel injector and internal combustion engine mounting the same In a spray characteristic in a direct injection system gasoline engine use electromagnetic system fuel injector, to a piston cavity a mixture of fuel and air having a combustible concentration is converged and making rich the mixture having the combustibl... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6119965 | Hollow-core nozzle A hollow-core nozzle structure which can provide solid core beam typically generated by a solid-core nozzle. The hollow-core nozzle structure contains (1) a hollow passage which is in communication with a water inlet connected sideways to the hollow passa... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5533482 | Fuel injection nozzle A fuel injection nozzle for spraying a swirl of fuel, includes a nozzle body having a bore, an orifice communicated with the bore, and a wall defining the bore and the orifice. The bore for receiving an axially movable valve body has a first center axis a... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5314117 | Fuel nozzle generating acoustic vibrations A fuel nozzle comprises a body (1) with a cylindrical sleeve (2) accommodating a tubular element (3) having an axially extending channel (16). At the end of the element (3) there is arranged an acoustic head (5) having a conically shaped surface (6) adapt... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5192024 | Sprinkler A sprinkler having a body with a smooth annular interior surface which converges in a downstream direction to a throat and then diverges to a generally conical depression, the interior surface being fair at the location of the throat to reduce turbulence,... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5143293 | Mist-producing device A water mist-producing device includes a nozzle structure having a flow passage connected to a pressurized water source. A cylindrical pin is coaxially disposed in the passage so that pressurized water flows through an annular space between the pin and th... | 09/01/1992 |
| 4790480 | Liquid fuel atomiser NOx production from pressure-atomised burners is reducible by shaping, e.g. splitting, the fuel film leaving the burner. This is achieved, in accordance with the invention, by having an external wall 54 which surrounds the fuel outlet orifice 52 and from ... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4779797 | Tankwasher A tankwasher which may be mounted permanently in a tank that requires frequent cleaning comprises a tube 1 connected to a source of cleaning liquid supply, a shaft 5 non-rotatably mounted in the outlet end of the tube 1 and having an enlarged head at the ... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4765540 | Process and apparatus for generating multiple fluid jets A process and apparatus for generating multiple spirally convergent/divergent fluid jet streams and an improved process and apparatus for generating particulate containing fluid jets wherein at least one discontinuity generator is provided to create fluid... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4753393 | Electromagnetically actuatable fuel-injection valve In an electromagnetically actuatable fuel-injection valve for injection systems for internal-combustion engines, the valve includes a valve housing, an ejection opening, a magnet winding, a closure element which is connected to an armature associated with... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4717076 | Sprinkler device A vortex sprinkler having a vortex chamber delimited in the downward direction by a bottom surface and in the upward direction by a rimmed opening leading to the atmosphere, at least one liquid inlet leading substantially tangentially into the vortex cham... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4708289 | Injection valve In an injection valve for fuel-injection systems for internal combustion engines, the closure member opens in the direction towards the combustion chamber. It has an outer surface which widens towards the combustion chamber. Above the closure member, a sw... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4669667 | Nozzle for spraying a liquid into a vessel opening A nozzle and a method for spraying a liquid into a vessel opening through such a nozzle wherein the nozzle includes a casing assembly and a core. The casing assembly has a casing opening which extends through the upper end of the casing assembly and exten... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4624414 | Deflector type spray nozzle for fire protection and other systems A deflector type spray nozzle for fire protection systems in marine or land storage spaces with little headroom between the stored items and the ceiling. The nozzle is adapted to discharge a uniformly distributed, symmetrical spray pattern in a nearly hor... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4584000 | Liquid spraying A method of treating a polluted gas e.g. desulphurizing a sulphur dioxide-containing flue gas is carried out by spraying the flue gas with a slurry of e.g. calcium hydroxide, under spray drying conditions. The spray device comprises a rotating cup compris... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4568025 | Firefighting nozzle A spray nozzle for combating fires that includes a housing having a flat end face and a contoured chamber passing upwardly through the end face. A plate is supported adjacent to the end face to provide a circular spray opening therebetween. A fire extingu... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4394973 | Injection valve A fuel injection valve is proposed for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, which serves to supply fuel into the intake tube of the engine. The injection valve includes a movable valve element which cooperates with a fixed valve seat, do... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4343434 | Air efficient atomizing spray nozzle The invention comprises an atomizing spray nozzle containing multiple restrictions to the flow of an air and water mixture through the nozzle created by contours in the stem in relation to the orifice and having a whirl chamber in the nozzle body where in... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4331294 | Spray or atomizing nozzle A spray or atomizing nozzle is provided. The nozzle comprises a vortex chamber, an outward-flaring outlet orifice and a movable spray-control body. The spray-control body, in the non-operative state of the nozzle, rests on the flaring rim of said outlet o... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4192465 | Vortex generating device with external flow interrupting body A vortex is formed in fluid flowing through a flow passage from the inlet of the passage to its outlet. A bluff body is disposed at the outlet external to the passage to interrupt vortically flowing fluid. In one embodiment, the bluff body, which could co... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4190203 | Vortex generating device with resonator A vortex is formed in fluid flowing through a flow passage from the inlet of the passage to its outlet. A resonator is disposed at the outlet external to the passage to intercept fluid flowing vortically through the passage. A bluff body lies between the ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4040569 | Electro-magnetic fuel injection valve An electro-magnetic fuel injection valve for low pressure fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines utilizing induction tube injection which includes a housing, a stationary iron core located within the housing, with the core supporting a magn... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4011996 | Swirl type pressure fuel atomizer An improvement of a swirl type fuel atomizer is disclosed in which a plurality of notches are equiangularly formed around an opening of a single-nozzle hole so that the liquid fuel injected may be divided into a plurality of fuel spray patterns. The compl... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3968931 | Pressure jet atomizer A pressure jet atomiser of the centrifugal swirl type wherein a forced vortex is gradually accelerated, by being directed through a smoothly converging passage, and is thereafter refined and thinned. Refining of the vortex occurs in a constant diameter no... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3946947 | Foam generating apparatus A foam generating nozzle is made either as an attachment to an existing liquid spray nozzle unit or as a pre-manufactured assembly and includes a foam-generating section having a pressure-reducing passageway including a preferably sharply outwardly taperi... | 03/30/1976 |
