Patents Examined by Angel Olivera
  • Patent number: 9750834
    Abstract: A water treatment dispensing apparatus has a container for holding water from a water supply and a water disinfectant cartridge located within the container. A housing attached to the container and connected to the cartridge directs water from the cartridge to a remote location, such as a dental instrument. An air pressure device supplies water under pressure to the container to force water to flow through the cartridge and to the remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Crosstex International, Inc.
    Inventor: Barry J Hammarback
  • Patent number: 9695584
    Abstract: This device serves to improve water quality under gravity flow conditions. The water quality treatment device traps floating debris with replaceable netting, it contains oil spills and settles sediment in self-cleaning settling cells above a collection bunker inside a chamber. The device directs the water below the inclined cells, through the inclined cells, or over the inclined cells, depending on the inflow intensity. All inflowing water enters the net cavity and the net is supported by the inclined cell assembly. The pollutant collection surfaces are overlapping each other and aligned with the water flow direction. A hinged baffle with orifices controls the flow rate through the inclined cells. The netting is replaceable when filled with debris through an access opening in the ceiling of the chamber. The sediment bunker is cleaned through access openings in the ceiling from the chamber inflow side and the exit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Fresh Creek Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis R. Moran, Walter C. Trnka, Hans de Bruijn
  • Patent number: 9656214
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for composite membranes which may include a porous graphene layer in contact with a porous support substrate. In various examples, a surface of the porous support substrate may include at least one of: a thermo-formed polymer characterized by a glass transition temperature, a woven fibrous membrane, and/or a nonwoven fibrous membrane. Examples of the composite membranes permit the use of highly porous woven or nonwoven fibrous support membranes instead of intermediate porous membrane supports. In several examples, the composite membranes may include porous graphene layers directly laminated onto the fibrous membranes via the thermo-formed polymers. The described composite membranes may be useful for separations, for example, of gases, liquids and solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Seth Adrian Miller, Gary L. Duerksen
  • Patent number: 9560839
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for removing nitrogen species from fresh water or high salinity water recirculated aquaculture systems. The processes are based on physico-chemical treatments which are performed at ambient temperatures and at low p H values thus keeping the total ammonia nitrogen concentrations below a value which is considered detrimental for the growth or survival rate of cultured fish/shrimp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.
    Inventors: Ori Lahav, Youri Gendel, Noam Mozes, Ayana Benet Perlberg, Yuri Hanin
  • Patent number: 9540268
    Abstract: A method for treating highly concentrated resin-desorption liquid generated from wastewater deep purification, including channeling the highly concentrated desorption liquid generated from anion exchange resin treatment through a nanofiltration membrane, the liquid being separated into nanofiltration permeate that can be reused as the desorption agent and highly concentrated nanofiltration retentate; adding a coagulating agent to the highly concentrated nanofiltration retentate to generate coagulation-precipitation; subjecting the supernatant formed after the coagulation-precipitation process to Fenton oxidation or ozone oxidation; after the reaction, adding to the liquid an alkali solution for further coagulation-precipitation; then channeling the liquid so treated back to the biochemical system of biochemical effluent treatment for further biodegradation is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aimin Li, Ling Xu, Jun Fan, Bicun Jiang, Danning Jiang
  • Patent number: 9089237
    Abstract: A collapsible colander includes a bowl portion and a base portion. The bowl portion is made from a plurality of triangular panels that are pivotally secured together around a central pivot, and slidably joined two adjacent panels by sliding fasteners. Mating fastener components secured to the end panels permit the bowl to be assembled into a bowl shape. The base is a continuous band that is positioned in a generally circular configuration underneath of the bowl to support the bowl when the colander is in use. When the colander is collapsed, the collapsed bowl fits within the substantially flattened base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Inventor: Todd Griffith