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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167221 | Sprinkler housing having a side inlet to reduce stress concentrations thereat A sprinkler housing having a side inlet with improved strength and durability is disclosed. The housing includes an inlet opening having a shape configured to position regions of peak stress concentration on the housing side walls, upon the sprinkler housing being f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8079534 | Spray nozzle The invention relates to a spray nozzle, particularly a high pressure nozzle, for descaling steel products, having a mouthpiece, which is provided with a discharge opening and a discharge chamber, which tapers towards the discharge opening. According to the i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7387264 | Asymmetrical spray nozzle with alignment notch A spraying system is provided including a spray gun and a spray nozzle. The spray gun has a discharge end. A locating pin is arranged on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray nozzle is selectively mountable on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray no... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7367518 | Descaling nozzle A nozzle orifice of a nozzle (1) includes a tapered segment (16) extending from an elliptical discharge orifice (15) and having a taper angle θ of 30 to 80°, and a large-diameter segment (18) continuing with the tapered segment. The rat... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7281671 | Washer fluid squirt device for motor vehicle windscreen washer jets The device is comprised of a jet body (2) and a body for a fan shaped squirt (3) which can be mutually coupled. The squirt body (3) has a squirting orifice (9) which comprises four consecutively connected portions, of which, in the washer... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7252851 | Method and apparatus for electrostatic spray deposition for a solid oxide fuel cell A method and apparatus for electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) for fabricating a thin-layer yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte on a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) anode substrate constructed of nickel-YSZ cermet. By reducing the thickness of the electrolyte... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243865 | Nozzle for generating a high-pressure jet A nozzle for generating a high-pressure jet of a flowable medium, having a nozzle body and a nozzle disk which is embedded in the nozzle body in a recess. The nozzle body includes an axial nozzle bore which leads into at least one of an inlet bore and an outlet bore... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243861 | Spray nozzle A spray nozzle (11) includes a body (12) defining an axial cavity and having, housed in the cavity, from upstream to downstream in the liquid direction of flow X-X′, a calibrating nozzle tip (33), a piece called divergent (19) and a pie... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7185833 | Method for fluid jet formation and apparatus for the same A nozzle having a housing and an assembly including at least two conjugated parts separated by a spacer seal. The assembly is arranged in the housing so as to form a nozzle outlet. At least one of he housing, the parts, and the spacer seal are deformable so as to de... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7163163 | Wide angle nozzle for agricultural sprayers A spray nozzle system includes a spray tip having an elongated slot-shaped discharge opening for defining a flat fan spray pattern that subtends a wide angle, a cap body carrying the spray tip in fixed relation thereto and adapted to attach the spray tip to a supply... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159802 | Fluid injection nozzle, fuel injector having the same and manufacturing method of the same A fluid injection nozzle has an injection port plate, an injection port and a protruding portion. The injection port plate is to be mounted on a downstream end of a fluid injection valve so that a center axis thereof is coaxial to the fluid injection valve. The inje... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7143815 | Liquid cooling device A liquid cooling device includes a casing (10) having a container (14) for accommodating liquid therein, and a liquid inlet port (18) in communication with the container (14). A funnel-shaped channel is defined in the liquid inlet port ( | 12/05/2006 |
| 7137569 | Chemical injector A chemical injector for injecting fluid chemical into a pipeline having an axis wherein the pipeline has fluid flow moving from an upstream to a downstream direction. The chemical injector includes an injector tube having an axis substantially perpendicular to the a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7131598 | Snow-gun A snow-gun for producing man-made snow from a combination of compressed air and water features a new nozzle configuration for discharging a mixture of water-particles and air into the surrounding atmosphere. Such nozzle is provided with an elliptically-shaped discha... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7128283 | Paint spraying nozzle assembly A paint spraying nozzle assembly includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall a peripheral wall that has a peripheral outer shoulder such that the bottom wall has a greater diameter than the top wall. An opening extends through the bottom and top walls. The o... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124967 | Fan jet nozzle for use with ultra high pressure liquid phase cleaning media for use in deflashing apparatus A fan jet nozzle for use with an ultra high pressure liquid-phase cleaning media for use in a deflashing apparatus includes a nozzle tip, which is made of a super hard material such as diamond, and is secured inside a nozzle holder through sintering. Upper and lower... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7111799 | Narrow diameter needle having reduced inner diameter tip Tubular needles have a reduced inner diameter tip portion that increases back pressure behind the tip portion. This constricted tip portion promotes improved atomization, particularly when the liquid passes through the needle at near-supercritical conditions. A pref... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7108195 | Protective shroud for FCC feed nozzles and method for designing such shroud A protective shield for protecting a feed nozzle encloses, not only the circumference of the feed nozzle, but also encloses and protects the end of the feed nozzle. The protective shield includes an open portion in its end which corresponds to, and surrounds the sli... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7077343 | Submerged nozzle for a metallurgic container placed upstream from a casting device The invention is directed to an immersion nozzle for a metallurgic vessel arranged upstream of a casting device, in particular a continuous casting mold or a twin roller, in which a slit-shaped pour-out opening (2) having a length that is several times greate... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7032832 | Asymmetrical spray nozzle with alignment notch A spraying system is provided including a spray gun and a spray nozzle. The spray gun has a discharge end. A locating pin is arranged on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray nozzle is selectively mountable on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray no... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6978948 | Fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, has a valve body with a pressure chamber that can be filled with fuel under pressure. Embodied in the valve body is at least one injection conduit, which originates at the wall of the pressure chamber, where it... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6911170 | Spray diffusers and method and mold for manufacture of same A method and a mold used with this method for manufacturing cast spray diffusers is described in which, in order to prevent an expensive reworking of important corners and edges, the molded parts are formed is such a way that mold parting planes are moved out of the... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6904626 | Fluidic spa nozzle There is disclosed a fluidic spa tub nozzle having a fluidic oscillator with diverging sidewalls and a cooperating mode-change member for changing the mode from an oscillatory swept jet mode to a straight jet mode and positions thereinbetween. The fluidic oscillator... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6886640 | Fluid spray nozzle and fire extinguisher The invention is aimed at generating a finely dispersed gas-and-drop flow with its cross-section in the shape of an ellipse and uniform intensity distribution. A fluid spray nozzle is built in the form of a body (1) with two coaxial channels (2) of the same cross-se... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6742730 | Spray nozzle with improved asymmetrical fluid discharge distribution A spray nozzle for producing an asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern such as for use in a container coating application is provided. The spray nozzles includes a body portion having an internal fluid passageway which terminates in a substantially hemis... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6676048 | Fuel injector The invention relates to a fuel injector having an orifice region in which an orifice passage extends along an injector axis and ends at an orifice edge. The fuel injector is characterized in that the orifice edge is rotationally asymmetrical about the in... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6625971 | Fuel nozzle producing skewed spray pattern A fuel nozzle, comprising an inlet for receiving fuel and an outlet for discharging fuel. The outlet intersects a longitudinal centerline of the nozzle and produces a skewed spray pattern. A fuel injector having a fuel nozzle outlet such that a fluid disc... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6612509 | Sealing nozzle The present invention relates to a nozzle intended for the application of fluid materials, which at a front end thereof has an aperture opening into a slot. A central portion of the slot is functioning to release most of the material straight ahead. Furth... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6592058 | Spray nozzle with improved asymmetrical fluid discharge distribution A spray nozzle for producing an asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern such as for use in a container coating application is provided. The spray nozzles includes a body portion having an internal fluid passageway which terminates in a substant... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6578778 | Fuel injection valve The fuel injection valve according to the present invention is a fuel injection valve adapted to inject a swirl flow of a high-pressure fuel from an injection port thereof. The injection port includes a fuel inlet portion and a fuel outlet portion. The fu... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6572033 | Module for dispensing controlled patterns of liquid material and a nozzle having an asymmetric liquid discharge orifice A module or dispenser for dispensing at least one liquid filament onto a moving substrate includes a nozzle body having a liquid supply port, a liquid discharge portion or end, and a liquid discharge passage having an orifice in fluid communication with t... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6443374 | Nozzle body for a fuel injection nozzle with optimized injection hole duct geometry In a nozzle body, a degree of rounding of edges of an entry region of an injection hole duct in the nozzle body is dependent on a distribution of a fuel stream around the entry region. The edges being more rounded, the greater the fuel stream at the respe... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6444081 | Method of applying glue simultaneously to two facing, adjacent disc surfaces A nozzle for simultaneous application of a string of glue on two facing adjacent disc surfaces, especially for gluing together two optical disc elements to form a DVD. In order to make possible higher glue application rates and smaller dimensions of the g... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6435425 | Module and nozzle for dispensing controlled patterns of liquid material A liquid dispensing module and nozzle or die tip for discharging at least one liquid filament. The nozzle includes a wedge-shaped member having a pair of side surfaces converging to an apex. A liquid discharge passage extends along an axis through the wed... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6402062 | High-pressure spray nozzle Known high-pressure spray nozzles tend to develop wear at outlet edges for a flat stream because of fluid emerging at very high pressure. It has already been proposed to provide, on the nozzle bodies, instead of transverse continuous outwardly open groove... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6267328 | Hot air injection for swirling rotational anti-icing system An anti-icing system for a nose cowl of an aircraft jet engine. An improved injection nozzle is provided to enhance the injection of hot, pressure gas from the engine into the ambient air within the nose cowl to entrain such air and cause the entrained ma... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6065683 | Method and apparatus for conditioning fluid flow A method of conditioning a flow of fluid comprises the steps of introducing a fluid into a nozzle body having an opening defining an inlet, an opening defining an outlet, and an inner surface connecting the inlet and the outlet, directing the fluid introd... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6019298 | Ultrahigh-pressure fan jet nozzle A nozzle for producing an ultrahigh-pressure fluid fan jet is shown and described. In a preferred embodiment, the nozzle has an inner surface defined by a conical bore extending from a first end to a second end, thereby creating an entrance orifice and an... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5961053 | Ultrahigh-pressure fan jet nozzle A nozzle for producing an ultrahigh-pressure fluid fan jet is shown and described. In a preferred embodiment, the nozzle has an inner surface defined by a conical bore extending from a first end to a second end, thereby creating an entrance orifice and an... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5921476 | Method and apparatus for conditioning fluid flow A method of conditioning a flow of fluid comprises the steps of introducing a fluid into a nozzle body having an opening defining an inlet, an opening defining an outlet, and an inner surface connecting the inlet and the outlet, directing the fluid introd... | 07/13/1999 |
