19763results about "Engine seals" patented technology

A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first glass substrate; a second glass substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a seal provided between at least the first and second substrates, the seal including a first ceramic seal layer and a second ceramic seal layer, wherein the second ceramic seal layer is located between at least the first ceramic seal layer and the first glass substrate; and wherein one or more of: (i) a thermal (TC) conductivity of the first ceramic seal layer is be less than a thermal conductivity of the first glass substrate, and wherein the thermal conductivity of the first glass substrate is less than a thermal conductivity of the second ceramic seal layer, so that the thermal conductivity of the second ceramic seal layer is greater than the thermal conductivity of the first substrate and greater than the thermal conductivity of the first ceramic seal layer; (ii) a thermal conductivity of the second ceramic seal layer is greater than a thermal conductivity of the first ceramic seal layer; and / or (iii) a ratio TDp1 / TDg, where TDp1 represents a thermal diffusivity (TD) of the second ceramic seal layer and TDg represents a thermal diffusivity of the first glass substrate, is at least 1.020 and wherein the thermal diffusivity of the second ceramic seal layer is greater than a thermal diffusivity of the first ceramic seal layer.

A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a pump-out / evacuation tube extending at least partly into an aperture in one of the substrates; and a pump-out / evacuation tube seal. The pump-out / evacuation tube seal may include at least one of: (a) from about 20-80 wt. % tellurium oxide, the tellurium oxide comprising TeO4 and TeO3, wherein the pump-out tube seal comprises more TeO3 than TeO4 by wt. %; and / or (b) tellurium oxide and from about 10-50 wt. % vanadium oxide, wherein the pump-out tube seal by wt. % comprises more tellurium oxide than vanadium oxide, and wherein the vanadium oxide comprises VO2 and V2O5, and wherein more V in the pump-out tube seal is in a form of VO2 than V2O5. A substantially donut-shaped laser beam may be used to heat pump-out tube material in order to form a pump-out tube seal.

A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a seal provided between at least the first and second substrates, the seal including a first seal layer and a second seal layer, wherein, for at least one location of the seal, the first seal layer has a first width and the second seal layer has a second width, wherein the first width of the first seal layer may be from about 2-20 mm, more preferably from about 3-10 mm, and possibly from about 4-8 mm.

A packing assembly includes a packing sleeve having a first sleeve portion and a second sleeve portion, wherein a first sleeve portion outer diameter is larger than a second sleeve portion outer diameter and a first sleeve portion inner diameter is larger than a second sleeve portion inner diameter. The packing assembly also includes a groove formed in the second sleeve portion outer diameter. The packing assembly further includes a shoulder formed at a transition between the first sleeve portion and the second sleeve portion. The packing assembly includes a shelf formed at the transition between the first sleeve portion and the second sleeve portion. The packing assembly also includes a plurality of packing components arranged within the first sleeve portion inner diameter, at least a portion of the plurality of packing components engaging the shelf. The packing assembly further includes a seal positioned within the groove.

A method of making a vacuum insulating panel, the vacuum insulating panel comprising a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second glass substrates, and a seal provided between at least the first and second glass substrates, the seal comprising a first seal layer and / or a second seal layer. The method may include laser heating, using a laser beam from a continuous wave near-IR laser, seal material in order to form the first seal layer; wherein the laser heating may include causing the laser beam to move at a lateral speed of from about 5-70 mm / second relative to the substrates and the first seal material so that the laser beam at least partially passes through at least one of the glass substrates and impinges upon at least the second seal layer in order to heat the second seal layer and fire and / or sinter the first seal material thereby forming the first seal layer.

A system includes a fluid end having a fluid end face and a recess extending toward a base. The system also includes a pressure ring extending from the fluid end face, the pressure ring having a pressure ring bore diameter larger than a fluid end bore diameter. The system further includes an adjacent ring coupled to the fluid end, the pressure ring positioned between the adjacent ring and the base, wherein at least one fastener extends through an aperture of the adjacent ring to couple the adjacent ring to the fluid end. The system includes packing material positioned within at least a portion of the pressure ring bore, the packing material positioned such that axial movement toward the fluid end is blocked by the base.

A method of making a vacuum insulating panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, and a seal provided between at least the first and second substrates, the seal comprising a first seal layer, and optionally second and / or third primer layer(s). The method may include at least one of: (i) laser heating, using a laser beam from a laser, the first seal material for firing and / or sintering the first seal material to form the first seal layer, in a manner that causes TeO4>TeO3 in the first seal material to transform into TeO3>TeO4 due to said laser heating, whereby an amount of TeO4 decreases and an amount of TeO3 increases due to said laser heating, and / or (ii) laser heating in a manner that causes V2O5>VO2 in the first seal material to transform into VO2>V2O5 due to said laser heating whereby an amount of VO2 increases and an amount of V2O5 decreases due to said laser heating, so that after said laser heating the first seal layer comprises more VO2 than V2O5 by wt. %.

A method of making a vacuum insulating panel, the vacuum insulating panel including a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second glass substrates, and a seal provided between at least the first and second glass substrates, the seal comprising a first seal layer. The method may include: providing first seal material for the first seal layer in a location at least partially between at least the first and second glass substrates; laser heating, using a laser beam from a continuous wave near-IR laser, the first seal material in order to form the first seal layer; wherein said laser heating may comprise using the laser beam, having a size of from about 2-15 mm, so that the laser beam at least partially passes through at least one of the glass substrates to fire and / or sinter the first seal material thereby forming the first seal layer, in a manner so that the first seal layer a density of from about 2.8-4.0 g / cm3; and after forming the first seal layer, evacuating the gap to a pressure less than atmospheric pressure.

The invention belongs to the technical field of magnetofluid sealing in mechanical engineering, and particularly relates to a magnetofluid sealing device based on a labyrinth tower shape, the magnetofluid sealing device is applied to a main shaft, the magnetofluid sealing device comprises a shell assembly and a magnetofluid sealing assembly, and the shell assembly comprises a first sealing shell and an end cover; the magnetic fluid sealing assembly comprises a main shaft sleeve, a pole shoe set and a permanent magnet, a labyrinth tower-shaped sealing structure is formed between the pole shoe set and the main shaft, and the good sealing effect can still be achieved under the working conditions of large shaft diameter, high pressure and high speed; in addition, the invention further provides a sealing performance test bench for the magnetofluid sealing device based on the labyrinth tower shape, on the basis that the main shaft driving assembly is used for providing rotating speed and torque for the main shaft and the pressurizing assembly is used for providing constant pressure for the sealing device, the sealing performance of the magnetofluid sealing device is tested in cooperation with the detection assembly under the working conditions of adjusting different rotating speeds, different pressures and the like. The sealing performance of the magnetofluid sealing device is tested in real time, and the method has important guiding significance on design and optimization of a sealing gap structure.

The invention relates to a skylight assembly and a vehicle. The problems that in the prior art, a skylight atmosphere lamp is difficult to maintain and high in cost can be solved. The skylight assembly comprises a glass assembly. The light guide strip extends in the preset direction and is connected to the glass assembly; the cover body is used for being detachably connected with the glass assembly in the preset direction so as to cover the light guide strip; the lamp set comprises at least two light-emitting modules, the cover body is provided with at least two installation parts in the extending direction of the cover body, all the light-emitting modules are electrically connected and detachably installed on all the installation parts, and the light-emitting modules and the light guide strip are oppositely arranged.

A vacuum insulating panel includes first and second substrates (e.g., glass substrates), a hermetic edge seal, a pump-out port, and spacers sandwiched between at least the two substrates. The gap between the substrates may be at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure to provide insulating properties. The vacuum insulating panel may include a multi-layer edge seal structure, including at least one layer including boron oxide (e.g., B2O3 or any other stoichiometry).

A packing assembly includes a packing sleeve having a first sleeve portion and a second sleeve portion, wherein a first sleeve portion outer diameter is larger than a second sleeve portion outer diameter and a first sleeve portion inner diameter is larger than a second sleeve portion inner diameter. The packing assembly also includes a groove formed in the second sleeve portion outer diameter. The packing assembly further includes a shoulder formed at a transition between the first sleeve portion and the second sleeve portion. The packing assembly includes a shelf formed at the transition between the first sleeve portion and the second sleeve portion. The packing assembly also includes a plurality of packing components arranged within the first sleeve portion inner diameter, at least a portion of the plurality of packing components engaging the shelf. The packing assembly further includes a seal positioned within the groove.

The invention relates to an air bag type mechanical sealing structure and a sealing method thereof in the technical field of LNG ships, the air bag type mechanical sealing structure comprises an annular air bag sealing ring, an air supply system room floor enclosure bulkhead and a liquid tank top drooping wall, and annular flexible sealing lips are fixedly arranged at the top and the bottom of the annular air bag sealing ring; hard sealing rings are fixedly arranged at the bottom of the air supply system room floor enclosure bulkhead and the top of the liquid tank top drooping wall correspondingly, and the hard sealing rings and the flexible sealing lips are connected in a matched mode. The movable gap formed by the top of the liquid tank and the air supply system can be fully sealed, the technical requirements of deformation of the top of the liquid tank and relative deformation and movement between peripheral ship deck components under the conditions of ship navigation, severe sea conditions, temperature difference and the like are met, and the technical requirement for sealing of the top of the liquid tank and an air supply system chamber is also met; the risk of ultralow-temperature gas leakage is avoided, closed-loop management of monitoring, analysis, compensation and alarm is achieved, and system safety and maintenance efficiency are improved.

A battery includes an electrode assembly having a first uncoated portion and a second uncoated portion; a housing having an open portion formed at one side and configured to accommodate the electrode assembly through the open portion; a first current collector coupled with the first uncoated portion and located inside the housing; a cap configured to cover the open portion; and a spacer. The spacer includes a spacer portion interposed between the first current collector and the cap and configured to prevent movement of the electrode assembly, a gasket portion interposed between the housing and the cap and configured to seal the gap between the cap and the housing, and a connection portion configured to connect the spacer portion and the gasket portion and having a bending portion configured to switch an extension direction thereof between the spacer portion and the gasket portion.

A fluid connector system includes a first connector adjoining a second connector at a junction, and a sealing member coupled to the first connector and the second connector around the junction. The sealing member can include an annular wall having a first annular portion configured to engage the first connector and a second annular portion configured to engage the second connector. The sealing member can include an annular chamber extending between the first annular portion and the second annular portion. The annular chamber can be formed by the first annular portion sealing against an outer surface of the first connector and the second annular portion sealing against an outer surface of the second connector when a pressure between the sealing member and the first connector and the second connector is negative.

The invention provides an anti-gravity investment casting device suitable for titanium alloy and a casting method of the anti-gravity investment casting device, belongs to the field of titanium alloy casting, and solves the problems that an existing anti-gravity forming device has a sealing problem and a riser tube cannot be centered with a pouring gate inlet of a mold shell. Wherein the lifting structure can drive the mold assembly to move in the vertical direction, a mold shell in the mold assembly is located in the sand box, the sand box abuts against the top face of the flange sleeve, the flange sleeve is arranged on the mold support in a sliding and penetrating mode, and the upper pressing plate abuts against the upper portion of the sand box and is connected with the mold support. The water-cooled copper crucible is located below the riser tube, a flange structure is arranged at the upper end of the riser tube, the positioning and centering structure is used for enabling a pouring gate inlet of the mold shell and the riser tube to be coaxially arranged, the sealing structure comprises a first sealing ring and a second sealing ring, the first sealing ring is located between the flange sleeve and the flange structure, and the second sealing ring is located between the flange sleeve and the flange structure. The second sealing ring is located between the flange sleeve and the middle partition plate. According to the device, the pouring gate inlet of the mold shell can be centered with the riser tube, and the lower working tank is completely sealed.

A stent spring for a pipe repair device includes a tubular mesh structure comprising a plurality of strands arranged to define a plurality of spring openings therebetween, the tubular mesh structure defining a circumferential spring top end and a circumferential spring bottom end opposite the circumferential spring top end, a void extending axially through the tubular mesh structure from the circumferential spring bottom end to the circumferential spring top end; a continuous top band extending partially around the circumferential spring top end of the tubular mesh structure; and a continuous bottom band extending partially around the circumferential spring bottom end of the tubular mesh structure.

A plunger pump packing assembly includes a header ring, and one or more seals. The plunger pump packing assembly operates as a scal between a static component and a dynamic component (e.g., reciprocating plunger). The header ring has a vented inside portion to prevent trapping pressure on the outer diameter of the header ring or between the header ring and adjacent seals or packing rings. The vents allow trapped pressure to return when the pumped fluid pressure is lower. A radially protruding edge on the outer diameter of the header ring significantly reduces or prevents migration of abrasive media, such as proppant, between the header ring and the static component. In some examples, the header ring does not contact the dynamic component, thus preventing the trapping of abrasive media particles between the header ring and the surface of the dynamic component.

The invention relates to the technical field of electric tools, and provides a sealing structure element which comprises an annular sealing structure, the two end faces of the annular sealing structure are communicated through a through hole, and a groove communicated with the through hole is formed in one end face. The invention further discloses an electric suction cup which comprises a handle, a suction cup component and a vacuum pump assembly, the suction cup component comprises the sealing structural element and a suction cup shell, and the sealing structural element is connected with one end face of the suction cup shell. A second closed negative pressure space is formed by the surface of the sucked object, the through hole and the groove of the sealing structure element and the end face, connected with the suction cup shell, of the sealing structure element. According to the electric suction cup, the through hole and the groove can be ingeniously formed in the sealing structure element, a second closed negative pressure space is formed, the suction force of the suction cup is improved, a product is more compact, the working efficiency is higher, and the reliability of the product is further improved.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the field of radioactive waste treatment, in particular to a sealing device and curing equipment. According to the sealing device and the curing equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention, the blocking assembly and the sealing assembly jointly block the first opening formed by the material treatment device, so that the material treatment device is subjected to double sealing, and the internal material treatment environment is more stable; the locking assembly is driven to move in the circumferential direction so as to fix the plugging assembly to the sealing assembly, meanwhile, the locking assembly is arranged to be axially static so as to further reinforce fixation between the plugging assembly and the sealing assembly, and the material containing device can be more stable in the material treatment device; and good sealing performance and stability in the material treatment process are ensured.

A vehicle frunk assembly is provided. The vehicle frunk includes a frunk housing having a bottom wall and a side wall having an interior surface and an opposite exterior surface. The interior surface of the side wall and the bottom wall define a storage space. The vehicle frunk includes a hood moveable between an open position and a closed position. The hood has a hood inner panel. The vehicle frunk includes a sealing flange extending outwardly from the hood inner panel, and the sealing flange has an inner surface and an outer surface. The sealing flange is configured to bound at least a portion of the side wall such that the inner surface of the sealing flange faces the exterior surface of the side wall to form a seal between the hood and the frunk housing when the hood is in the closed position.

The present invention discloses a hot-end sealing device for an air preheater that compensates for the expansion difference between a sealing sheet and a backing plate, which at least includes a sealing sheet and a backing plate. The sealing sheet is provided with sealing sheet mounting holes distributed along the length direction, and the backing plate is provided with backing plate mounting holes distributed along the length direction. The linear expansion coefficient of the sealing sheet is different from that of the backing plate. The sealing sheet and the backing plate are relatively fixed by clamping bolts that simultaneously pass through the sealing sheet mounting holes and the backing plate mounting holes. One end close to the rotor central cylinder is the expansion starting end, and the clamping bolts at the expansion starting end are fully tightened and fixed, while the remaining clamping bolts are not fully tightened and fixed, so that the sealing sheet and the backing plate freely expand towards the other end close to the rotor outer edge angle steel after being heated. At least one set of two-dimensional guiding mechanisms is arranged between the sealing sheet and the backing plate downstream of the expansion starting end. The above device maximally compensates for the triangular air leakage area at the hot end of the air preheater, significantly reduces the air leakage rate of the air preheater, has good stability and a long service life.

A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum, a base, a motor, a supply duct, a heat exchange unit, a duct cover, duct sealing unit, and sealing mount part. The base includes the supply duct in fluid communication with the drum, the heat exchange unit provided in the supply duct and including first and second heat exchangers, the duct cover coupled to an upper portion of the supply duct and covering the first and second heat exchangers, the duct sealing unit disposed between the supply duct and the duct cover and configured to block air in the supply duct from leaking, and the sealing mount part provided on a surface of the duct cover and configured to receive the duct sealing unit. The sealing mount part includes first and second sealing mount parts that are in fluid communication with each other and integrally provided as one body.

A metal bellows for downhole use includes: a bellows capsule with a first end and a second end; an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side arranged between the first end and the second end; where the bellows capsule comprises a first bellows convolution and second bellows convolution and optionally additional bellows convolutions; and each bellows convolution comprises: a root on the inner diameter side of the bellows capsule; a first sidewall extending from the root toward the outer diameter side of the bellows capsule with a first connection point at the distal end; a second sidewall extending from the root toward the outer diameter side of the bellows capsule with a second connection point at the distal end and wherein the second sidewall is on the opposite side of the root as the first sidewall; wherein: the bellows convolutions are formed as a single piece; and the second sidewall connection point of the first bellows convolution is permanently affixed to the first sidewall connection point of the second bellows convolution.

The present invention belongs to the field of ultrasonic treatment devices, and particularly relates to an ultrasonic treatment device with an overflow structure. It includes an ultrasonic treatment device, the inner side of the ultrasonic treatment device has a medium cavity for containing water, an overflow sleeve is installed on the ultrasonic treatment device and is in sealing cooperation with it, the upper end of the overflow sleeve is higher than the top end of the ultrasonic treatment device, and an overflow pipe for discharging the overflow water is provided on the overflow sleeve. The beneficial effect of the present invention is that by installing an overflow sleeve in sealing cooperation with the ultrasonic treatment device and arranging an overflow pipe on the overflow sleeve to directly discharge the overflow water, splashing of the overflow water around is avoided, and the service life of the device is prolonged.

The invention relates to a valve air tightness detection device and a control method, the valve air tightness detection device comprises a base and a plugging assembly provided with a differential sealing unit, the differential sealing unit is matched with an inner floating sealing disc through an outer force bearing seat to form a pressure compensation cavity, and a high-pressure medium is introduced through a through air channel; and the compression area in the cavity of the inner floating sealing disc is larger than that of the abutting end of the valve port. According to the valve airtightness detection device, net thrust generated by a medium on the area difference is used for driving the sealing disc to automatically press the valve port, self-locking sealing is achieved, external huge axial clamping force does not need to be applied, the problems of false sealing and detection distortion caused by valve body deformation due to external loads are effectively solved, and the detection efficiency is improved. Near-live detection for eliminating forced stress interference is achieved, and physical damage to the valve body and a precise assembly is avoided.

An annular sliding component is one of two sliding rings that rotate relative to each other and partition a sealed fluid space and a leakage space, the sliding component includes a dynamic pressure generating groove that generates a dynamic pressure, and includes an inclined groove which extends from the leakage space toward the sealed fluid space with an inclination in a forward rotation direction and has a first dynamic pressure generating end portion and a reverse groove which extends from a backward rotation direction side of the inclined groove in a backward rotation direction and has a second dynamic pressure generating end portion.

A gas turbine engine is provided and includes a first rotor element defining a groove, a second rotor element disposed to rotate about the first rotor element and a piston seal ring (PSR) disposed in the groove to form a seal between the first rotor element and the second rotor element. The second rotor element is formed to define bypass flow channels about the PSR that extend between opposite axial sides of the PSR.