Bizarre Patents
A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7837448 | Supercharger An oil seal structure of a supercharger (10) has an oil shield member (21), a seal housing (25), and an annular seal member (23) arranged between the oil shield member (21) and the seal housing (25). The oil shield member ( | 11/23/2010 |
| 7682136 | Multiple pump housing A fluid delivery system includes a first pump having a first drive assembly, a second pump having a second drive assembly, and a pump housing. At least a portion of each of the first and second pumps are located in the housing. ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7559751 | Supercharger with electric motor A supercharger with an electric motor includes, a turbine impeller rotationally driven by an exhaust gas, a compressor impeller rotationally driven by rotation of the turbine impeller, a compressor housing accommodating the compressor impeller, a turbine housing acc... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7413417 | Motor vehicle drive arrangement In a motor vehicle drive arrangement oil is supplied to a drive gear mechanism and other drive elements by an oil pump which is driven only by an electric motor and is arranged in a space in which one or more torque transmission devices such as a hydrodynamic torque... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7399167 | Fluid machine operable in both pump mode and motor mode and waste heat recovering system having the same A check valve is provided to each discharge port, which communicates between a corresponding working chamber and a high pressure chamber in an integrated compressor/expander apparatus. A valve mechanism, which is opened in a motor mode, is provided to communicate be... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7371223 | Electroactive polymer actuated heart-lung bypass pumps A pump apparatus, which comprises: (a) a tubular portion comprising an electroactive polymer actuator that expands and contracts an inner volume of the tubular portion based upon received control signals; and (b) a control unit electrically coupled to the electroact... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367366 | Pumping device A pumping device includes a container having a cover structure. A piston is movably received in the container and is manually operable. The cover structure has an air inlet valve and a slide switch, which, when properly set, allow air to be sucked into or expelled o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7338261 | Hybrid compressor A hybrid compressor includes a first compression mechanism, which is driven by a first drive source, and a second compression mechanism, which is driven by a second drive source, and a second radial axis of a second housing of the second compression mechanism is off... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7322799 | Scalable, modular, high availability fan system In one embodiment, the invention recites a fan motor assembly with integrated redundant availability. The fan motor assembly comprises a fan motor subassembly with a plurality of replaceable fan motors, and a fan motor selector mechanism coupled to the fan motor sub... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7296427 | Hybrid compressor device for a vehicle In a hybrid compressor for a vehicle where a vehicle engine is stopped when the vehicle is temporally stopped, a pulley, a motor and a compressor can be driven in independent from each other, and are connected to a sun gear, planetary carriers and a ring gear of a p... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7281909 | Hybrid compressor system for refrigeration cycle system A compressor device compresses refrigerant of a refrigeration cycle system and is connected to an engine and a motor to selectively receive drive force from one or both of the engine and the motor. When the engine is operated in an idling mode, a control apparatus e... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281910 | Motor driven compressor A motor driven compressor having a motor for driving a compression mechanism includes a connecting portion for connecting between an external terminal for supplying electricity to the motor and a wire end portion of a stator of the motor. The connecting portion is l... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278938 | Power transmission device A power transmission device includes a first one-way clutch that transmits a rotational power of a pulley to a rotating shaft, and a second one-way clutch that transmits a rotational power of a rotor of a motor to the rotating shaft. The first one-way clutch is of i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278833 | Hybrid compressor A hybrid compressor includes a first compression mechanism, which is driven by a first drive source, a second compression mechanism, which is driven by a second drive source, and a communication path communicating between a suction chamber of the first compression m... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7144225 | Device for controlling the actuating shaft of means for recirculating a cooling fluid in vehicle engines Device for controlling the means (1) for recirculating a cooling fluid in engines (11a) in particular for vehicles and like, comprising a shaft (2) actuating the impeller, means (3,3b) for generating the movement of said sha... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7131555 | Method and device for discharging fluid A method for discharging fluid, includes while keeping two members relatively moving to each other along a gap direction of a gap formed by two opposing surfaces of the two members, feeding fluid from a fluid supply device to the gap, and intermittently discharging ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125727 | Sample handling tool with piezoelectric actuator A material handling tool includes a piezoelectric motor that causes actuation of a needle. Actuation of the needle may include aspiration and/or dispensing of a fluid sample and/or movement of the needle to pick or place a material sample. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122151 | Membrane apparatus with enhanced mass transfer, heat transfer and pumping capabilities via active mixing A combination mass transfer and pump apparatus, which in a single step actively mixes a first mass and a second mass and simultaneously pumps one of the first mass and the second mass through the apparatus. The combination mass transfer and pump apparatus substantia... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121190 | Fluid machine for gas compression refrigerating system A fluid machine for a gas compression refrigerating system comprises a first and a second working for performing a pump mode operation, in which working fluid of low pressure is sucked into and compressed by the working chambers. The fluid machine further comprises ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7104765 | Hybrid compressor system The present invention provides a hybrid compressor system in which its configuration is simplified, its cost and size are reduced, and its reliability is enhanced. In the hybrid compressor system which selectively transmits a driving force of an engine and a driving... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101519 | Zirconium basic carbonate and methods of making the same Methods of making zirconium basic carbonate are further described which involve titrating an aqueous slurry of sodium zirconium carbonate to a pH of from about 3.5 to about 4.0 with an acidic agent wherein the sodium zirconium carbonate has a moisture content of fro... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7076963 | Two-stage compressor for an automotive air conditioner, which can be driven by a vehicle running engine and an electric motor different therefrom A compressor is used in an automotive air conditioner to compress a refrigerant gas. The compressor includes a first compression mechanism driven by an automobile engine and a second compression mechanism driven by an electric motor. The first and the second compres... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7048515 | Hydraulic drive system and method using a fuel injection control unit A fuel injection control unit, including an electronic governor and a controller for an engine performs control in a governor region based on an isochronous characteristic. A working machine controller receives a delivery pressure signal P and controls a regulator s... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040871 | Compressor provided with torque limiter A compressor provided with a torque limiter constructed such that, in view of possible occurrence of accidental locking of the compressor, in the case where a one-way clutch is used in place of an electromagnetic clutch in order to permit a refrigerant compressor fo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037092 | Roller pump with housing having integrated reduction gear housing A roller pump comprises a pump housing having a cylindrical inner surface, a rotor fixed to a drive shaft placed at the central portion of the pump housing, rollers provided around the rotor and a driver for driving the drive shaft through a reduction gear. The roll... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033498 | Cartridges useful in cleaning dialysis solutions Cartridges useful in regenerating or purifying dialysis solutions are described as well as methods to regenerate or purify spent dialysis solutions. Dialysis systems using the sorbent cartridges of the present invention are further described. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7021075 | Electric-powered compressor An electric-powered compressor comprised of a compression mechanism 110 for sucking in and compressing a refrigerant and an electric motor 120 for driving the compression mechanism formed integrally and provided at a refrigerant suction side of the com... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021902 | Hybrid compressor A hybrid compressor includes a first compression mechanism, which is driven by a first drive source, and a second compression mechanism, which is driven by a second drive source. A first discharge port of the first compression mechanism and a second discharge port o... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6993910 | Fluid machine An object of the invention is to minimize energy loss to be generated at a driving shaft and a shaft seal device, when an electric rotating device is driven by an expansion-and-compressor device. According to a feature of the invention, a first driving shaft is rota... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6986645 | Hybrid compressor with a selective drive clutch means and speed increasing means for driving the compressor at higher speeds with an engine at high load regions A hybrid compressor system affords maximum cooling capability by making full use of an additional motor to improve the fuel consumption efficiency of a vehicle while ensuring passenger compartment cooling when the engine is stopped. The hybrid compressor system incl... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6956344 | High availability fan system A fan motor assembly with integrated redundant availability is recited. The fan motor assembly can include a fan motor subassembly with a first fan motor and a second fan motor, and a fan motor selector mechanism coupled to the fan motor subassembly, so that the fan... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6949041 | Vehicle driving system A vehicle driving system includes a pulley shaft synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an engine, an auxiliary unit drive shaft driving an auxiliary unit, a planetary gear mechanism portion having elements such as a sun gear, a pinion carrier and a ring gear. ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6939114 | Dynamotor driven compressor and method for controlling the same A dynamotor capable of operating as either a motor or a generator is used with both the armature portion and the field portion thereof capable of being rotated. In the case where a pulley operatively interlocked with the output shaft of the prime mover is mounted on... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6927500 | Automotive accessories control system Power generated by an alternator 2 and power generated by an electric motor 12 are controlled such that a power generation amount of either the alternator 2 or the electric motor 12, whichever has a higher power generation efficiency, bec... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6874996 | Compressor having independently driven members The hybrid compressor apparatus is composed of a compressor in which fluid is compressed by varying a volumetric capacity of a compression space provided between a first compression member and a second compression member, which are movable independently of each othe... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6874328 | Hybrid compressor device In a hybrid compressor for a vehicle where a vehicle engine is stopped when the vehicle is temporally stopped, a pulley, a motor and a compressor can be driven in independent from each other, and are connected to a sun gear, planetary carriers and a ring gear of a p... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6830438 | Hybrid compressor A controlled compressor apparatus enables a hybrid compressor in an idle-stopping vehicle to operate more efficiently when driven by a motor alone. The controlled compressor apparatus includes a compressor 110, included in a refrigeration circuit 200, ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6822343 | Generating electric power in response to activity of a biological system A device for generating electricity includes a first portion including a first wall defining a first fluid passage and a second portion including a second wall defining a second fluid passage. A generator is coupled between the first and second portions and is capab... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6821094 | Hybrid power transmission system having first and second clutch mechanisms A compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a pulley, an electric motor, a pulley one-way clutch, and a motor one-way clutch. The shaft is rotatably supported by the housing. The pulley is operably connected to the shaft and includes a power transmission portio... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6814547 | Medical fluid pump A method, system and apparatus for performing peritoneal dialysis are provided. To this end, in part, a pump for a dialysis system is provided. The pump includes a first chamber wall including a first aperture, a second chamber wall including a second aperture, a pi... | 11/09/2004 |
