US 12,292,243 B2
Devices and method for regulating cooler flow through automotive transmissions
Dean Mason, Tallahassee, FL (US)
Assigned to SUPERIOR TRANSMISSION PARTS, INC., Tallahassee, FL (US)
Filed by SUPERIOR TRANSMISSION PARTS, INC., Tallahassee, FL (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/212,428.
Application 18/212,428 is a division of application No. 17/288,720, granted, now 11,725,891, previously published as PCT/US2019/058831, filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/752,539, filed on Oct. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0332849 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. F28F 27/02 (2006.01); F16K 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC F28F 27/02 (2013.01) [F16K 15/026 (2013.01); F28F 2250/06 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A thermal bypass valve, comprising:
a cylindrical blocker valve having a groove extending around a circumference of the blocker valve and along a length of the blocker valve, the groove defining an upper valve portion and a lower valve portion;
a relief valve having a uniformly cylindrical body, a cylindrical cavity extending within and along a partial length of the relief valve, wherein the cylindrical cavity is open at a free end of the relief valve, and a cylindrical member extending from the relief valve along an end of the relief valve opposite the free end, wherein the cylindrical member has a smaller diameter than the relief valve; and
a spring movable between an expanded position and a compressed configuration;
wherein the cylindrical member contacts an outer planar surface of the free end of the upper valve portion of the cylindrical blocker valve with the spring in the expanded position, and
wherein the thermal bypass valve is configured to insert into an oil pump of an automotive transmission.