Daniel C Korpanty

6612334, Sep 2, 2003

Dec 13, 2001

10/020378

Daniel C. Korpanty - Clarence NY
Christopher Lanza - Cheektowaga NY
Oliver Berry - Holland NY

Carleton Technologies, Inc. - Orchard Park NY

F16K 3700

137554

An improved manually-operable outlet valve for a tank of pressurized gas, especially a tank in a pressurized breathing oxygen system in an aircraft. The valve has a valve body conventionally attachable to a standard oxygen tank. A rotatable valve stem is disposed within a threaded port in the valve body to open and close a poppet valve that mates with a seat machined in the valve body. A torque limiter comprising a stack of Belville washers is disposed between the valve stem and the poppet to prevent over-torque of the valve upon closing of the poppet against the seat. A collar surrounds the stem and rides axially with the valve stem during actuation of the valve. A lever and an electrical microswitch are mounted on the valve body. The collar intercepts and actuates the lever during axial travel of the collar, and the lever actuates the microswitch from an open to closed position or the reverse, the switch being in a first state at one extreme of collar travel and in the opposite state at the opposite extreme of collar travel. The microswitch is attached to an electrical connector for connection to a circuit including an annunciator in the cockpit of the aircraft, the microswitch and annunciator being wired such that the annunciator preferably is energized when the valve is open.

7255286, Aug 14, 2007

Mar 19, 2004

10/805074

George Ord - East Aurora NY, US
Lawrence Gill - Grand Island NY, US
Daniel Korpanty - Clarence NY, US

Carleton Technologies, Inc. - Orchard Park NY

G05D 23/02

236 93A, 236 99 J, 236100

A temperature compensation valve is hereby provided wherein the inner cavity of the valve comprises a puck, a metal piston (gas control device), and a spring. The spring serves to bias the piston towards the puck, and the puck expands and contracts proportionately in response to increases and decreases in temperature of the upstream gas. Furthermore, the piston will move accordingly, wherein an increase in temperature causes the expansion of the puck directing the piston in such a way to obstruct the orifice that allows the gas to pass through the valve, thereby controlling the gas flow to compensate for the pressure variations.

6467751, Oct 22, 2002

Nov 24, 1999

09/448997

Daniel Korpanty - Clarence NY
Gary Thomasulo - Eden NY
Christopher Lanza - Cheektowaga NY
Oliver Berry - Holland NY

Carleton Technologies, Inc. - Orchard Park NY

F16K 3500

251 90, 251294, 251297, 251324

An inflation valve has a valve housing having an inner wall, a cylindrical inner chamber terminating in a gas outlet, and a gas inlet bore providing fluid communication between the inner chamber and a pressurized gas source. A piston enclosed in the inner chamber has at one end a head directed toward the gas outlet and at the opposite end a valve actuator connector. The piston further has a gas inlet seal, positioned between the head and the actuator connector, that releasably seals the gas inlet bore from the inner chamber when the piston is in a normal, non-actuated position. A valve actuator connected to the actuator connector operates to pull the piston, thereby moving the gas inlet seal away from the gas inlet bore and putting the inner chamber in fluid communication with the gas inlet bore and pressurized gas source. A regulating spring contacting the piston close to the actuator connector is compressible by the force of pressure exerted by gas contained within the inner chamber and the gas inlet bore and operates to position the piston to control or regulate the outlet pressure.