William H Glime

7284433, Oct 23, 2007

Jun 17, 2003

10/518337

Richard A. Ales - Mentor OH, US
William H. Glime - Painesville OH, US
John Barry Hull - Leicestershire, GB
Jeffrey M. Rubinski - Wickliffe OH, US
Michael Douglas Seymour - Nottinghamshire, GB
Peter C. Williams - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Wenxian Yang - Nottinghamshire, GB

Swagelok Company - Solon OH

G01N 29/04

73597, 73599, 285 93

Hand-held apparatus and method for determining relative and/or absolute axial position of a conduit end within a fluid coupling includes application of input ultrasonic energy in the form of transient shear waves and analyzing the reflected energy. Application of the input energy collected at different radial positions about a first axial location is used with wavelet based correlation techniques to better analyze the reflected energy signals. Quality of the abutment between the conduit end and a surface associated with the coupling may also be determined as a separate or combined feature of the axial position determination.

7370664, May 13, 2008

Jan 30, 2006

11/343105

William H. Glime - Painesville OH, US

Swagelok Company - Solon OH

F16K 7/00

137375, 251331, 251364

A flow control device having a control member for forming a seal with another part of the flow control device. The control member having a base material and a portion or surface that is a softer or more deformable than the base material or the portion of the control device that the control member forms a seal with. The differences in hardness and/or the ability of the control member portion to deform, aids in forming the seal.

7581445, Sep 1, 2009

Oct 5, 2007

11/868127

Richard A. Ales - Mentor OH, US
William H. Glime - Painesville OH, US
John Barry Hull - Leicestershire, GB
Jeffrey M. Rubinski - Wickliffe OH, US
Michael Douglas Seymour - Cotgrave, GB
Peter C. Williams - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Wenxian Yang - Dunkirk, GB

Swagelok Company - Solon OH

G01N 29/04

73597, 285 93, 73622

Apparatus and method for determining relative and/or absolute axial position of a conduit end within a fluid coupling includes application of input ultrasonic energy in the form of transient shear waves and analyzing the reflected energy. Application of the input energy collected at different radial positions about a first axial location is used with wavelet based correlation techniques to better analyze the reflected energy signals. Quality of the abutment between the conduit end and a surface associated with the coupling may also be determined as a separate or combined feature of the axial position determination.

7591181, Sep 22, 2009

Oct 22, 2007

11/876150

Richard A. Ales - Mentor OH, US
William H. Glime - Painesville OH, US
John Barry Hull - Leicestershire, GB
Jeffrey M. Rubinski - Wickliffe OH, US
Michael Douglas Seymour - Cotgrave, GB
Peter C. Williams - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Wenxian Yang - Dunkirk, GB

Swagelok Company - Solon OH

G01N 29/04

73597, 73599, 285 93

Apparatus and method for determining relative and/or absolute axial position of a conduit end within a fluid coupling includes application of input ultrasonic energy in the form of transient shear waves and analyzing the reflected energy. Application of the input energy collected at different radial positions about a first axial location is used with wavelet based correlation techniques to better analyze the reflected energy signals. Quality of the abutment between the conduit end and a surface associated with the coupling may also be determined as a separate or combined feature of the axial position determination.

8434793, May 7, 2013

Jul 21, 2008

12/669106

William H. Glime - Painesville OH, US

Swagelok Company - Solon OH

F16L 21/04

285342, 2853827, 138109, 428333, 428450, 251368

The seal made between two surfaces is enhanced by forming a coating (), such as a self-assembled monolayer of a functionalized fluorinated macromolecule, on one or both of the surfaces.

8490945, Jul 23, 2013

Oct 13, 2009

12/578047

Branden W. Keeper - Mentor OH, US
William H. Glime - Chagrin Falls OH, US

Swagelok Company - Solon OH

F16K 25/00

251172, 251174, 2513151, 251314

A valve includes a valve body, a valve element to selectively control flow through the valve, and a seal member and seat member together providing a fluid-tight seal between a valve cavity and a fluid passage in the valve body. A live-loaded biasing member is adapted to apply a live-loaded sealing force to the seat member to bias the seat member toward sealing engagement with the valve element. When the pressure in the fluid passage exceeds the pressure in the valve cavity, an unbalanced passage pressure load biases the seat member toward sealing engagement with the valve element. When the pressure in the valve cavity exceeds the pressure in the fluid passage, an unbalanced cavity pressure load biases the seat member toward sealing engagement with the valve element. The live-loaded sealing force is in parallel with each of the unbalanced passage pressure load and the unbalanced cavity pressure load.

20050092079, May 5, 2005

Oct 4, 2004

10/957832

Richard Ales - Mentor OH, US
William Glime - Painesville OH, US

G01F003/20

073270000

Diaphragm position sensing and movement sensing for diaphragm valves is realized with one or more sensors that are directly disposed with the diaphragm or directly sense the diaphragm itself rather than an associated part of a valve. The invention contemplates many different types of sensors and also temperature compensation.

20050109400, May 26, 2005

Jul 22, 2004

10/897659

William Glime - Painesville OH, US
Daniel Zeiler - Mentor OH, US

F16K049/00

137334000

A thermal isolator for a valve and an actuator includes a coupler that is adapted to be disposed between the valve and the actuator and to connect the actuator to the valve. The thermal isolator is adapted to increase the temperature gradient between the valve and the actuator when one of the valve and the actuator is exposed to an elevated or reduced temperature.