Patents Examined by Duane Smith
-
Patent number: 10352211Abstract: An exhaust gas purification filter collects PM contained in and purifies exhaust gas emitted from a gasoline direct injection engine. The exhaust gas purification filter has a honeycomb structural body which has a plurality of cells, partition walls and plug members. Each of the cells is surrounded by the partition walls. An opening section of one end of each of the cells is plugged by a plug member. The plug members satisfies a relationship of L/D?50 and L?3, where L is an average length (mm) of the plug members and D is an average pore size mm of the plug members. The honeycomb structural body and the plug members are made of cordierite. The cordierite contains silica, talc, kaolin, alumina and/or aluminum hydroxide, etc.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Mikio Ishihara
-
Patent number: 10343097Abstract: A ventilation apparatus includes a main body, an air entry and an air exit respectively arranged on two sides of the main body, a filter arranged behind the air entry, and a pressure sensor module located between the filter and the air exit, which senses pressure caused by air flowing inside the main body through the air entry and the filter. The pressure sensor module firstly senses pressure related data when the apparatus begins to start for initial data, and senses pressure related data continuously after the apparatus starts for working data, and transmits these data externally. An analysis monitor device computes a reference pressure offset value and a working pressure offset value according to the initial data and the working data, and compares the two pressure offset values for determining whether the filter needs to be replaced.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Chen-Yu Hung, Yuan-Ping Hsieh, Chao-Hsien Chan, Tung-Hung Shih, Chih-Hsiang Chang
-
Patent number: 10328169Abstract: The invention relates to a system for introducing fragrances into the interior of a vehicle via the ventilation system comprising a combination of a fragrance cartridge (2) and an air filter (1), wherein the fragrance cartridge (2) has at least one air inlet opening (3) and at least one air outlet opening (4), as well as a space (17) accommodating a fragrance-emanating substrate, wherein the fragrance cartridge (2) is secured to the air filter (1) in such a manner that air passes through the fragrance cartridge (2) when the ventilation system has been activated.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ursula Marschall, Erhan Ergen, Andreas Menne
-
Patent number: 10328378Abstract: A nestable framed pleated air filter, including a non-self-supporting, compressible, pleated air filter media with a plurality of oppositely-facing pleats and with a plurality of upstream pleat tips and downstream pleat tips and downstream pleat valleys, the pleated air filter media further including a plurality of bridging filaments that are bonded to at least some of the upstream pleat tips. The filter includes a frame with sidewalls that are angled so that the framed pleated air filter is nestable.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Andrew R. Fox, Jonathan M. Lise, John J. Rogers, Stephen M. Sanocki, Kannan Seshadri
-
Patent number: 10307704Abstract: The disclosure concerns air cleaners. Preferred air cleaners are shown which include a housing and a removable and replacement primary filter cartridge. Optional and advantageous features are shown. The preferred primary filter cartridge is conical in shape. A preferred optional safety or secondary filter cartridge is shown. Preferred methods of assembly and use are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: James R. Scott, Steven Gieseke, Douglas Iddings
-
Patent number: 10300761Abstract: A selective filtration system for an operator cab attached to an agricultural vehicle. A HVAC unit supplies conditioned air to an operator space selectively from a CAT 4 filter and a CAT 2 filter. A pressurization blower and two way valve controls flow from the CAT 4 filter to the HVAC unit. Control of flow or isolation of the CAT 2 filter is provided by pressure variations within the system. The CAT 4 filter and CAT 2 filter are isolated from the ambient when they are not in use by valves. A calibrated orifice enables positive pressurization to the CAT 2 filter to hold the valves closed.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Angela Falagario, Gianluca Fava, Adriano Vaccari
-
Patent number: 10302050Abstract: A filter element of an air filter, including: a filter medium for filtering air, partially surrounding an element interior of the filter element with respect to an element axis; wherein the filter element replaceably arranged within an openable filter housing having at least one inlet for air to be purified and at least one outlet for purified air so that said filter element separates said inlet from said outlet; wherein the filter element has at least one element-side support element on an outer side facing away from the element interior on at least one end face which is axial with respect to the element axis; wherein the support element includes at least one element supporting portion, which, at least in the installed state of the filter element in the filter housing, has a surface contour deviating from a flat surface on its end face facing away from the element interior.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Nadine Sorger, Michael Heim
-
Patent number: 10302318Abstract: A recursive multi-tiered health isolation facility having multiple tiers of facility types. Each facility type has a probability of containing an airborne infectious contagion and a means for provide pressure differentials between the facilities types. Increasingly higher negative pressurization within facility types with a higher probability of airborne infection provides for nesting facility types and abatement of airborne contagions transmitted between facility types. Further, the air exchange rates for each facility type are increased as the probability that a facility type has an airborne infectious agent increases. The use of HEPA filters with the increased air exchange rates increases the contagion abatement in environments having a higher probability of airborne contagions. Further, exchanged air is treated with ultraviolet light to kill contagions making it through the air filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Inventor: Anita Margarette Chambers
-
Patent number: 10300417Abstract: A filter element (3), in particular an air filter element, for a filter arrangement (1), having a frame (6) that has at least one contact surface (11) for contacting a clamping surface (30) of at least one clamping element (27, 28) of the filter arrangement (1), wherein the at least one contact surface (11) includes straight segments (12, 13, 14) and oblique segments (15, 16) arranged between the straight segments (12, 13, 14), and wherein the straight segments (12, 13, 14) are arranged such that the clamping surface (30) when the latter is displaced relative to the at least on contact surface (11) essentially exclusively contacts the oblique segments (15, 16).Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventor: Martin Wuebbeling
-
Patent number: 10294838Abstract: An exhaust cleaning filter has an exhaust gas inflow passage and an exhaust gas outflow passage disposed in alternating fashion; and a porous partition wall for setting the exhaust gas inflow and outflow passages at a distance from each other. A small pore region is sectioned off on the upstream side and a large pore region is sectioned off on the downstream side of the partition wall. The average pore diameter of the partition wall in the large pore region is greater than in the small pore region, and is set so that ash contained in the exhaust gas is able to pass through the partition wall. The exhaust purification filter has a promoting member for promoting the passing of exhaust gas that has flowed into the exhaust gas inflow passage, through the partition wall in the small pore region, and promoting inflow into the exhaust gas outflow passage.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Itoh, Hiromasa Nishioka, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Daichi Imai, Hiroshi Otsuki, Ryota Koutake
-
Patent number: 10286350Abstract: A composite sheet material for making industrial air pollution control filters where the composite sheet material includes a porous, non-filtering, electrostatic dissipation substrate on which is bonded a thin, high efficiency filter layer. Before application of the filter layer, both sides of the porous substrate are imprinted with a pattern of spaced apart, parallel lines of conductive ink which penetrate over 50% of the substrate thickness so that the pattern on one side meets at intersections within the substrate with the pattern on the opposite side to provide a series of continuous, uninterrupted electrostatic discharge pathways running through the substrate to dissipate static electricity charges. The composite sheet material may be pleated and formed as a tube for making baghouse filter cartridges.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Inventor: Jack T Clements
-
Patent number: 10279920Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a compartment based inlet barrier for foreign object debris to an auxiliary power unit of an aircraft or watercraft. The apparatus is configured to fit within an inlet compartment of an auxiliary power unit and provides a particulate separator for fluid flow to the auxiliary power units using a porous pleated filter media having a corrosion resistant exterior frame and enables a minimal pressure differential throughout the apparatus while in use. The apparatus may further be releasably secured/unsecured using a plurality of fasteners which enable a user to readily assemble and disassemble.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Inventors: Brant Farrell, Lance Edwards
-
Patent number: 10279296Abstract: An air filtering system for an electrical enclosure including at least one filtering element arranged to filter an air flow injected into the inlet of the enclosure by a fan device, the system also including several independent filtering cells Ci, with i ranging from 1 to n and n greater than or equal to 3, each filtering cell Ci having a variable filtering capacity, each filtering cell Ci, with i greater than or equal to 2, is rendered active to filter a part of the air flow when the sum of the filtering capacities of the cells, ranging from C1 to Ci?1, drops below a specific threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Josep Lopez, Alain Perrin
-
Patent number: 10279298Abstract: A plate-type filter element for gas filtration has a filter medium body with a circumferentially extending seal that contacts seal-tightly a first sealing surface of a filter housing extending in a filter element plane of the filter element. A sealing bracket is connected to the seal and contacts seal-tightly a second sealing surface of the filter housing extending at least partially outside of the filter element plane. A filter device has a filter housing with first and second sealing surfaces. A plate-type filter element is mountable exchangeably in the filter housing. The filter element has a filter medium body, a circumferentially extending seal, and a sealing bracket connected to the seal. The first sealing surface extends in the filter element plane; the second sealing surface extends partially outside of the filter element plane. The seal contacts seal-tightly the first sealing surface; the sealing bracket seal-tightly contacts the second sealing surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: MANN + HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Arthur Sudermann, Marcel Hofmeister, Daniel Schmid, Stefan Walz, Matthias Krohlow, Thomas Sieber, Michael Kolmeder, Frank Pflueger, Christian Thalmann, André Roesgen, Robert Hasenfratz, Fabian Wagner
-
Patent number: 10279302Abstract: Filter elements are described. In an example embodiment, the filter element has a support framework and media defining a closed end and an open end. A non-circular radial seal is depicted, in an example. Variations for particular applications are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Jarren B. Mills, Daniel Adamek, Richard Dejong
-
Patent number: 10272454Abstract: A compressed air treatment chamber for improving the flow properties of compressed air or compressed gas mixtures in a coating process, comprising a housing for forming a hollow space, at least one air inlet opening and at least one air outlet opening are arranged in such a way that the compressed air or the compressed gas mixture can flow through the hollow space, preferably in a longitudinal direction, at least one electrode arranged within the hollow space, at least one high-voltage source for supplying high voltage to the electrode, wherein at least one insulation layer is arranged within the hollow space on an inner surface of an outer casing of the housing, and an electromagnetic field, with an active zone through which compressed air which is to be treated can flow, can be produced in the interior of the hollow space between the electrode and a counterelectrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Inventor: Thomas Mayer
-
Patent number: 10272374Abstract: Disclosed are improved polymer materials. Also disclosed are fine fiber materials that can be made from the improved polymeric materials in the form of microfiber and nanofiber structures. The microfiber and nanofiber structures can be used in a variety of useful applications including the formation of filter materials.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Hoo Young Chung, John R. B. Hall, Mark A. Gogins, Douglas G. Crofoot, Thomas M. Weik
-
Patent number: 10273881Abstract: A system includes a foreign object damage (FOD) screen configured to be disposed upstream of an air intake of a gas turbine engine and to keep debris from entering the air intake. The FOD screen is configured to extend across a fluid flow path extending through the air intake into the gas turbine engine. The FOD screen includes a flexible, woven fabric made of a non-metal material and configured to absorb and dissipate energy from the debris, and the flexible, woven fabric includes a tensile strength ranging between 2700 megapascals (mPa) and 3700 mPa.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Richard Garland Dornier, Jason Alan Nassar
-
Patent number: 10267234Abstract: A motive air conditioning system for a gas turbine assembly is provided. The motive air conditioning system may include an inlet flow channel configured to be fluidly coupled with the gas turbine assembly. The motive air conditioning system may also include a filtration assembly fluidly coupled with the inlet flow channel and configured to filter motive air. The filtration assembly may include a plurality of filter modules disposed adjacent one another and further disposed circumferentially about a longitudinal axis of the inlet flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: DRESSER-RAND COMPANYInventor: William C. Maier
-
Patent number: 10259293Abstract: An air filter for a ventilation device of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The air filter has a planar extension along which the air filter is able to be inserted into a flow area of the ventilation device transversely relative to a flow direction and has a filter medium arranged along its planar extension. The filter medium is bordered at least in certain regions by at least one frame wall. The frame wall has at least one section which is able to be brought into engagement with guide elements of the ventilation device in order to guide the air filter during insertion into the flow area. The section is a notch on an edge of the frame wall and is formed with an undercut relative to the edge such that the air filter is able to be braced transversely relative to the insertion direction during insertion in two directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Daimler AGInventor: Eric Schumacher