US Applications Published on 19-Nov-2009

A riding lawn mower having covers for covering the side part of a cutter deck and the side part of a transmission section. The covers have a plurality of small holes formed in a portion facing the side part of the cutter deck. The accumulation of...

A bed knife for a mower includes a cutting implement for cutting a material. The bed knife includes a mounting portion that mounts to the mower, and a cutting area at which the cutting implement cooperates with the bed knife to cut the material. The...

The present invention relates to an agricultural machine for harvesting forage comprising a frame (1) supporting at least one device (2) for picking up plants lying on the ground and at least one device (4) for moving the plants that have been picked...

There is disclosed a material comprising an assembly of at least one spun yarn substantially comprising carbon nanotubes, a majority of which are longer than one millimeter, such as longer than one centimeter, chemically interlinked one to another,...

An integrated heat exchanger assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first flow path, a second flow path, and a third flow path. The first flow path is configured to be coupled to a compressor and a combustor, to receive compressed air from the...

An engine assembly includes a gas-turbine engine having a tailcone portion and a bypass duct, a rocket engine combustion assembly located at the tailcone portion of the gas-turbine engine, and a movable nozzle segment subassembly that is selectively...

A method and system for improving sensor accuracy of diesel emissions is disclosed. The method and system change the sensor reading as a function of sensor age to provide a more accurate measure of the diesel emissions. By estimating the degree of...

In one example, a method of operating an engine in a vehicle is described. The method comprises delivering a first substance to a cylinder of the engine from a first injector; delivering a second substance to the cylinder of the engine from a second...

The invention provides a distinctive method of operating an internal combustion engine in a low-temperature combustion mode. An engine combustion chamber is provided with fuel and air charges before combustion conditions are reached. The fuel charge...

The invention relates to a method and a device for the catalytic combustion of fuel which is metered into the exhaust manifold of an internal combustion engine by an injection valve. Preferably, an oxidation catalyst is positioned in the exhaust...

An engine system includes a diesel engine having an exhaust manifold connected to the diesel engine. An exhaust passage is connected to the exhaust manifold and a diesel particulate filter is disposed in the exhaust passage. An air intake passage is...

An exhaust cooling device (10) is provided for an exhaust pipe (12) of a combustion process. The cooling device (10) includes a tubular housing (20) having an upstream portion (16) and a downstream portion (18), with the upstream portion (16) having...

An exhaust manifold and related method have a hybrid clamshell construction including an outer manifold half stamped from a first metal and having a first wall thickness, as well as an inner manifold half stamped from a second metal that is different...

The invention relates to methods and systems for the storage and recovery of energy using open-air hydraulic-pneumatic accumulator and intensifier arrangements that combine at least one accumulator and at least one intensifier in communication with a...

A concrete agitating drum (1) is driven by a hydraulic motor (81). A connection switch-over valve (20) is arranged to have a function to regulate a flow cross-sectional area of pressurized working oil supplied to the hydraulic motor (81) from a...

A thermodynamic machine including a closed circuit for the circulation of a refrigerant fluid, a heat exchanger, a cold inlet, and at the exchanger output, a hot outlet, at least one first variable-volume enclosure acting on a mobile member...

An engine/heat pump is shown. Most of its parts rotate around the same central axis. It comprises two doubly connected chambers. Blades in each chamber substantially rotate with the chamber and may be firmly attached to the walls of the chamber, thus...

A combustor arrangement for a gas turbine engine (31) has a split line (42) and a plurality of burners (20,37) arranged in an annular ring (40). The burners (46) of the combustor on either side of the split line (42) have a separation distance of at...

A process for forming an article, such as a combustion chamber liner, comprises the steps of providing a mandrel formed from a material, such as an aluminum containing material, having a net shape of the article to be made, depositing a powdered...

A vortex reducer for the guidance of bleed airflows (21), is arranged in an inter-disk chamber (3) between two rotor disks (1, 2) of the compressor of a gas turbine with at least one shaft, and includes at least one ring (11) with circumferentially...

Contemplated configurations and methods use first and second precoolers, preferably in alternating operation, to provide a combustion turbine with air at a temperature of 50° F., and more typically less than 32° F. and most typically less than 0° F....

A method for cooling an object includes coupling a cooling device to the object, wherein the cooling device includes at least one thermoacoustic engine and a plurality of gas diodes, generating acoustic power with the thermoacoustic engine,...

The present invention concerns systems for storing energy and using the stored energy to generate electrical energy or drive a propeller (505). In particular, the present invention provides a method of storing energy comprising: providing a gaseous...

A cryopump is provided with: a refrigerator that generates a cold state by a heat cycle in which an operating gas inhaled inside is expanded and discharged; a heat shield thermally connected to the refrigerator so as to be cooled to a target...

A method of producing ice in a refrigerator includes flowing a refrigerant through a cooling system to cool an interior compartment of the refrigerator, flowing a cooling medium different than the refrigerant through a first heat exchanger to...

The invention relates to an arrangement that has an adsorption heat pump with at least one adsorber and at least one heat accumulator with the following features: heat at different temperature levels can be stored in the heat accumulator (2)...

In a refrigerant circuit (20), an air conditioning unit (12), a cold-storage showcase (13), and a freeze-storage showcase (14) are connected in parallel to an outdoor unit (11). When placing an indoor heat exchanger (71) of the air conditioning unit...

An evaporator includes plural refrigerant flow members and corrugate fins disposed in corresponding air-passing clearances between the adjacent refrigerant flow members. Each refrigerant flow member includes plural flat tubes arranged in the...

A structure, system and method for controlling a temperature of a heat generating device in a solid medium, wherein heat is extracted from the medium into at least one heat extraction device, the heat extraction device dissipates heat into an...

An air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit (20) in which a compressor (21), an indoor radiant panel (23), a first expansion valve (24), a room air heat exchanger (25), a second expansion valve (26) and an outdoor air heat exchanger...

A dispensing device (4) for a free-flowing or pourable refrigerated product is situated on the front face (2) of the housing (1, 2) of a refrigeration device. A sleeve (8), through which the dispensing device (4) is accessed, protrudes beyond the...

A refrigeration system that includes at least one semi-closed air-refrigerated chamber and an air-cycle refrigeration loop for drawing air from the refrigerated chamber(s), cools the air, and returns the now-cooled air to the refrigerated chamber(s)....

This invention relates generally to a food tray designed to keep food cold while being served. More specifically, but without limitation, the invention is directed toward a raised buffet food tray with a refrigeration compartment capable of receiving...

A method and apparatus for cooling two or more liquefied hydrocarbon streams. First (30) and second (30a) liquefied hydrocarbon streams are provided and combined thereby providing a combined liquefied hydrocarbon stream (40). The combined liquefied...

The present invention relates to an improved process for recovery of natural gas liquids from a natural gas feed stream. The process runs at a constant pressure with no intentional reduction in pressure. An open loop mixed refrigerant is used to...

A purification method for feed air in cryogenic air separation of the present invention includes purifying the feed air for the cryogenic air separation by using a temperature swing adsorption method, wherein the whole region of a carbon dioxide...

It is objected to provide a jewelry article for eyeglasses to prevent losing a jewel by fall, which is held by a magnet on a lens of the pair of eyeglasses. A base and a rear surface magnet are attracting each other by a magnetic force through a lens...

There is provided a method for manufacturing a porous glass base material by using a porous glass base material manufacturing burner having an oxidizing gas discharge port. The method includes supplying a gas mixture obtained by blending together an...

A molten glass supply apparatus including a plurality of stirring vessels (K1, K2) disposed adjacent to each other in the upstream and downstream direction along supply passage (4) for supply of molten glass having flowed out from melting furnace (2)...

Disclosed herein are a washing machine and a sound control method thereof that are capable of canceling noise generated during an operation of the washing machine and, at the same time, informing a user of information related to the operation of the...

A lock assembly including a body and at least one locking member. An actuator mechanism within the body is moveable between locked and unlocked positions. The actuator mechanism may be actuated by either a key lock cylinder or an electronic actuator....

A steering wheel lock having a triple hook, a bar receiving, mechanism, a lock box, a bar fixable to the lock box, and a lock is disclosed. The triple hook. via its lock box attaches to the steering wheel of a vehicle and is secured with the lock,...

A door handle assembly that can be locked and unlocked using a key. The door handle assembly includes a bolt that is movable from an extended position to a retracted position. The first handle is coupled to the bolt and adapted to cause the bolt to...

A process for the treatment of liquid waste biomass, especially liquid manure compositions, wherein the biomass is converted to a fertilizer product. The process at least includes a nitrification step including a first biological conversion stage...

The invention relates to a method for lubricating and cooling rollers (3,4,5,6) and metal strips (2) on rolling in particular, on cold rolling of metal strips (2), wherein, on the inlet side (7a) a minimal amount of pure lubricant (9) without a high...

A multifunction hydraulic head for use with forming and bending machines for sheet metal and/or metal profiles is equipped with carriages (15) that slide horizontally on guide and shift shafts. Each carriage (15) of the said machine is equipped with...

A system and method forming a ground bonding strap. A length of cable is measured to determine a segment of cable to stamp to form a pair of connectors. The segment is heated. The segment is stamped to form the pair of connectors. The pair of...

A method and apparatus for manufacturing a catalytic converter is described where the catalytic converter is comprised of an outer tube member having a monolith substrate internally compressed therein with a wrapped mat material surrounding the...

A system and method are provided that receive a signal representing a reflection of an electromagnetic wave from a liquid and from one or more reference pins in a storage tank. A sensed distance to the liquid and one or more sensed distances to the...

An apparatus for providing information pertaining to the orientation of a vehicle to which the apparatus is coupled includes a chassis having a first interior surface and an inertial-sensor assembly disposed within the chassis and having a first...