Honeywell International Inc.

Daniel J Laboda

Gary Valencourt

Richard Rateick

Christopher Gedeon

An in-line continuous flow liquid-gas separator-pump includes a housing, a rotor, a plurality of tubular flow passages, and a plurality of gas flow passages. The rotor includes a rotor first end, a rotor second end, an outer surface, and an inner surface that defines an inner chamber in fluid communication with the purge gas outlet. The tubular flow passages are formed in the rotor and extend between the rotor first end and the rotor second end. Each tubular flow passage includes a fluid inlet that is disposed adjacent the rotor first end and in fluid communication with the liquid/gas inlet, and a fluid outlet that is disposed adjacent the rotor second end and is in fluid communication with the liquid outlet. The gas flow passages are formed in the rotor, and each provides fluid communication between one of the tubular flow passages and the inner chamber.

In-line continuous flow liquid-gas separator-pump

A method of forming a fastener that includes an axial centerline, a seating surface angled with respect to the axial centerline at an angle &#x3b1; and adapted to contact an angled seat of a bore, the smallest diameter of the seating surface being designated a seating diameter, and a threaded connecting portion for engaging a threaded portion of a bore, the threaded connecting portion including a point designated a proximal contact point, the distance from the seating diameter to the proximal contact point in the direction of the axial centerline being the clamped length of the fastener, the method including steps of determining a value for at least a first one of angle &#x3b1;, seating diameter D and clamped length L, solving the equation &#x3b1;=arctan (D/(2L)) to calculate at least a second one of angle &#x3b1;, seating diameter D and clamped length L, and forming a fastener based on the determined and calculated values. Also a fastener and fastener system based on the method.

Fastener having controllably variable preload and method of forming same

A method of forming a fastener that includes an axial centerline, a seating surface angled with respect to the axial centerline at an angle &#x3b1; and adapted to contact an angled seat of a bore, the smallest diameter of the seating surface being designated a seating diameter, and a threaded connecting portion for engaging a threaded portion of a bore, the threaded connecting portion including a point designated a proximal contact point, the distance from the seating diameter to the proximal contact point in the direction of the axial centerline being the clamped length of the fastener, the method including steps of determining a value for at least a first one of angle &#x3b1;, seating diameter D and clamped length L, solving the equation &#x3b1;=arctan(D/(2L)) to calculate at least a second one of angle &#x3b1;, seating diameter D and clamped length L, and forming a fastener based on the determined and calculated values. Also a fastener and fastener system based on the method.

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Niles, MI, United States of America

Daniel J Laboda