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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7219695 | Hydrogen valve with pressure equalization A shut-off valve that has particular application for opening and closing a compressed hydrogen storage tank. In one embodiment, the valve includes two valve sealing members where one side of one valve sealing member is on the high pressure side of the valve and an o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7017608 | Balanced globe valve An essentially fully balanced plug valve is presented in which the flow control contour is interior to the moving member. The sealing edge of the moving member is at the exterior surface relative to the interior contour. This sealing edge is formed by use of matchin... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6968816 | Oil flow control valve In an oil flow control valve (OCV) according to the present invention, a first volume varying chamber is adapted to communicate with a second volume varying chamber through a second plunger breathing path, and the second volume varying chamber is adapted to communic... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6935290 | Avoid drawing air into VCT chamber by exhausting oil into an oil ring A VCT phaser for an internal combustion engine with at least one camshaft comprising a housing, a rotor, a spool valve and a ring-shaped reservoir. The housing having at least one chamber and the rotor having at least one vane dividing the chambers into advance and ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6155654 | Method for controlling electromagnetic proportional pressure control valve In vibrating a spool of a spool-valve type electromagnetic proportional pressure control valve by applying a dither current so that no static friction acts on the spool, the dither effect tends to weaken in a region where the current is small and in a reg... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5381998 | Cylinder gas valve The invention is to a safety valve for gas cylinders which includes a valve housing 11, a movable valve stem 11a within the valve housing for opening and closing the valve, a restrictor 15 in the valve stem through which gas is dispensed from the gas cyli... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5379936 | Flow control valve assembly A fluid condition controlled mixing valve assembly includes a valve body having a warm fluid inlet, a relatively chilled fluid inlet, a fluid mixing chamber, and a fluid outlet in communication with the mixing chamber. A thermally responsive control membe... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5156181 | Removable seats for a dual poppet valve A balanced dual poppet valve for a fluid control device having a housing removable seats. Each valve seat has a cylindrical body with a flange thereon which engages a flexible member made of laminated graphite and retained in the housing to form a seal be... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5022436 | Balanced dual poppet valve In a fluid flow control device having a housing with an entrance port connecting a source of fluid under pressure to a bore and an outlet port connecting the bore to a fluid system, a balanced dual poppet valve for controlling the flow of fluid between th... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4966193 | Timing control for a dual poppet valve In a valve having first and second poppet members which control the flow of fluid from an entrance port to an outlet port. The valve has a cylindrical body with a center bore through which fluid from the second poppet member flows and is thereafter combin... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4756330 | Flow divider valve In a flow divider valve for pressure feed to a hydraulic circuit for auxiliary power steering and to a hydraulic circuit for a power take-off the interior of a hollow regulator piston receives pressure feed for distribution to the hydraulic circuits. For ... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4726453 | Self-adjusting single- or twin-tube shock absorber A self-adjusting single- or twin-tube shock absorber having a cylinder closed at both ends and filled with at least one damping medium, a piston rod sealingly inserted into the cylinder, and a piston carried on the cylinder side end of the piston rod for ... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4475568 | Pressure reducing and regulating valve A pressure reducing and regulating valve having a body with a body cavity and a seal container movable in the cavity. The container includes primary and vent seals. At least one flow plate is positioned in the body adjacent the container and includes prim... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4458718 | Spool valve and seal having zero leakage A spool valve and seal having zero leakage includes a spool valve member having a hollow interior translatable within a bore in a valve body with inlet pressure connected through ports to the hollow interior of the spool valve member. A series of radial o... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4444216 | Pressure reducing and regulating valve A pressure reducing and regulating valve having a container with a plurality of openings for moving between first and second flow plates having a plurality of inlet ports and a plurality of outlet ports for providing multiple flow paths through the valve ... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4429716 | Control valve A balanced valve in which a hollow cylindrical valve element is slideably supported solely by a pair of O-rings adjacent opposite ends of the valve element. The O-rings loosely engage longitudinally grooved sections which are directly adjacent annular val... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4391103 | Fluidic cryogenic refrigerator The cryogenic refrigerator includes a movable displacer within an enclosure having first and second chambers of variable volume. A refrigerant fluid is circulated in a fluid path between said chambers by movement of the displacer. A spool valve controls i... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4389850 | Hybrid cryogenic refrigerator The cryogenic refrigerator includes a movable displacer within an enclosure having first and second chambers of variable volume. A refrigerant fluid is circulated in a fluid path between said chambers by movement of the displacer. A spool valve controls i... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4388809 | Cryogenic refrigerator The cryogenic refrigerator includes a movable displacer within an enclosure having first and second chambers of variable volume. A refrigerant fluid is circulated in a fluid path between said chambers by movement of the displacer. A spool valve controls i... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4098294 | Flow control valve A flow control valve having means within the valve body for forming simultaneously variable inlet and outlet orifices which are separated by an expansion chamber.... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4079886 | Double ported expansion valve A double ported valve has structural features including an integral valve body construction which provides more consistent valve performance, longer valve life, and improved operating characteristics. The integral valve body eliminates the need for extern... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4040675 | Anti-theft vehicle brake-supervising device A vehicle anti-theft device which maintains the braking function of the braking fluid by preventing reverse flow thereof from the wheel cylinder back to the master cylinder until, following an authorized procedure, an interconnecting fluid passage is move... | 08/09/1977 |
| 3970109 | Shutoff and control slide A shutoff and control slide includes a cylinder having at least one row of circumferentially spaced elongated openings, and a sliding sleeve mounted for axial displacement in the cylinder. Rings are sealed to the inner surface of the cylinder on opposite ... | 07/20/1976 |
