MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202537098484 A) filed by Westinghouse Electric Company Llc, Cranberry, U.S.A., on Oct. 13, for 'bellows pump for liquid metals.'
Inventor(s) include Nestor, Christopher M; Lapresti, Michael A; and Lojek III, John.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "According to various aspects, the present disclosure provides pumps for pumping a liquid metal, systems for filling a container with a liquid metal, and methods for filling a container with a liquid metal. According to at least one aspect, a pump can include an actuator including a drive rod, a first plate, a second plate, guide rods extending between the first plate and the second plate, a traveling stage, and a bellows. The traveling stage can be operatively coupled to the drive rod and can be slidable along the guide rods intermediate the first plate and the second plate. The bellows can extend between the second plate and the traveling stage to define a bellows chamber. The actuator can be configured to slide the traveling stage to expand and contract the bellows to pump the liquid."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 14, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/019895.
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