Fluid energy reducing device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9358878
APP PUB NO 20130291985A1
SERIAL NO

13526992

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A fluid energy reducing device includes a body having multiple, oppositely directed flow restrictors extending away from opposite sides of the body. Each flow restrictor can have a geometric shape such as a pyramid, triangle, or a conical shape. Fluid such as a fuel traveling in a wave entering the flow restrictors accelerates as the flow area in a flow passage of the flow restrictors decreases. The work performed by accelerating the fluid flow through one or more apertures created in each flow restrictor reduces the energy of the wave, thereby reducing noise in the fluid tank having the fluid energy reducing device when the reduced size and velocity wave subsequently strikes tank structure or walls.

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TRANSNAV INC30860 SIERRA DRIVE NEW BALTIMORE MI 48047

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nixon, Timothy James Washington, US 2 18
Vreeken, Steven Gerrit Grosse Pointe Farms, US 1 3

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