Patents Examined by Qianping He
  • Patent number: 11541342
    Abstract: Disclosed is an indoor unit for an air conditioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunggyu Choi, Kangyoung Kim, Eunsun Lee, Jungwon Lee, Junseok Bae, Myeonggu Kang, Giyeong Gyeong
  • Patent number: 11524255
    Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to a filtration system. The filtration system includes a filter housing having a first housing end and a second housing end. The filter housing includes a housing cover defining an outlet. The housing cover includes a first guidance element extending from an internal portion of the housing cover axially away from the outlet. A second guidance element extends from the internal portion of the housing cover axially away from the outlet. A filter element has a first filter end and a second filter end. The filter element includes an end cap adjacent the first filter end and defining an end cap opening therethrough. The end cap includes a channel around the end cap opening. Filter media has a first media end and a second media end. The filter media extends axially from the first media end toward the second media end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration Inc.
    Inventors: Narendra Kumar Tripathi, Ruchi Lutade, Devendra Kalaskar, Santosh Bhagwat
  • Patent number: 11517844
    Abstract: The invention pertains to an air filter element comprising: a filter medium pack comprising a filter medium, said filter medium pack having an optionally substantially planar first side and an optionally substantially planar second side, said first side and second side optionally being parallel; and a guiding rim comprising a sealing surface having at least a radially oriented component, arranged on at least one of said first side and said second side, wherein a circumference of the or each guiding rim comprises at least one convex portion and at least one concave portion; and wherein a contour of said filter medium pack corresponds to said convex portion of said guiding rim and at least part of said concave portion. The invention also pertains to a method for producing an air filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristof Decoster, Johnny Craessaerts
  • Patent number: 11511223
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a new quick-connect, bayonet-type coupling arrangement for use with connecting a filter cartridge or element to a fluid-consuming machine. Advantageously, the features of the coupling arrangement can be provided while simultaneously maintaining backward compatibility with screw-thread based systems by modifying the screw thread on the end cap so as to include judicially arranged non-interfering segments. Accordingly, the disclosed fluid filter elements can not only be installed on systems according to the present disclosure but also on prior-art systems presenting a thread-based connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Antoine Decugniere
  • Patent number: 11504664
    Abstract: An adapter (1) for use in a dedicated coupling system (2) for releasably coupling an air filter cartridge (20) and a housing (36) of a dedicated air filter assembly (34), the adapter (1) comprising: a first surface area (4) being rotatably coupleable with a housing-side coupling element (6) of the coupling system (2), and a second surface area (8) preferably being non-rotatably coupleable. Cartridges, components, features and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastien Olivier Bessone, Paul Gerard Gallais, Frederic Jean Jordi Miralles
  • Patent number: 11491433
    Abstract: A backpack dust collector includes a housing, a slit portion, and a noise-absorbing member. The housing includes a suction port, a dust collecting chamber, a motor chamber, and an exhaust port. The dust collecting chamber is connected to the suction port and configured to accommodate a dust collecting bag. The motor chamber is connected to the dust collecting chamber and accommodates a fan and a motor. Through the exhaust port, air from the motor chamber is discharged. The slit portion is disposed in a flow path between the motor chamber and the exhaust port and includes at least one slit-shaped vent through which air from the motor chamber passes. The noise-absorbing member is disposed in at least part of a flow path between the vent and the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Takano, Makoto Hotta, Takayuki Tahara
  • Patent number: 11491432
    Abstract: A filter assembly including a housing (15) and a filter cartridge (10). The housing has a housing inlet (16) and a housing outlet (17). The filter cartridge (10) has a filter inlet (11) fluidly connected to the housing inlet (16) and a filter element (12) between a top cap (18) and a bottom cap (19). The top cap (18) and the bottom cap (19) create a circular guiding system. The bottom cap (19) has a first part (19a) that receives the filter element (12) and a second part (19b) that is connected with a mating surface (20) of the housing. The second part has a first circular section (21a) and a second section (21b) and the first section has another shape than the second section (21b), such that the bottom cap (19) cannot rotate in relation to the mating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Kristof Adrien Laura Martens, Steven Maurits Ray Laurent, Joris Anna L. Vleeschouwer
  • Patent number: 11484823
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a support fame, a filter media, and a conditioning device. The filter media is coupled to the support frame. The filter media has a dirty side that receives an air stream and a clean side that outputs the air stream after having been filtered by the filter media. The conditioning device is coupled to the support frame. The conditioning device is positioned downstream of the clean side of the filter media with respect to the air stream and directly contacts the clean side of the filter media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP. Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Louison, John C. Lukasavitz, Dane P. Miller
  • Patent number: 11478725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an olefinic monomer recovery device capable of suppressing fouling and pressure drop in the recovery device in a process of separating and recovering unreacted monomers after production of a polyolefin resin. The olefinic monomer recovery device is used for separating and recovering unreacted olefinic monomers after production of a polyolefin resin, the apparatus comprising a vertical-type heat exchange unit, and a knock-out drum unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventors: Dae Young Shin, Eun Jung Joo, Joon Ho Shin, Chang Hoe Heo, Sung Keun Jang
  • Patent number: 11471805
    Abstract: An external brace for a filter element is described. The brace is configured to wrap around an exterior of a filter element having a filter media pack. The brace helps to support the filter media pack during filtering operations by preventing outward flexing of the filter media pack caused by fluid flowing through the filter media. In some arrangements, the brace interfaces with a filtration system housing to provide additional support to the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Aditya S. Murthy, Peter K. Herman, Scott W. Schwartz, Robert A. Bannister, Jason A. Scherck, Yashpal Subedi
  • Patent number: 11452891
    Abstract: A pleated filter element comprising a pleated filter media comprising a plurality of oppositely-facing pleats with a pleat direction and with a plurality of upstream and downstream pleat tips and pleat valleys, wherein the pleated filter media comprises two corrugated edges and two noncorrugated edges. The first (second) corrugated edge of the pleated filter media comprises an edge dam of hardened adhesive that occupies the upstream and downstream pleat valleys at a location laterally inwardly proximate the first (second) corrugated edge and that extends along an entire longitudinal extent of the pleated filter media. The pleated filter media is a multilayer media comprising an organic polymeric nonwoven web, that exhibits a Percent Penetration of less than 5, laminated with a fiberglass prefilter layer that is disposed upstream of the primary filtration layer and that exhibits a Percent Penetration of greater than about 70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: John M. Sebastian, Christopher A. Hurley, Kenneth J. Krepel, Pierre Legare, Fuming B. Li, Paul A. Martinson, Bong Y. Yeom
  • Patent number: 11439939
    Abstract: A connection arrangement for fixing a lid to a filter housing and to a filter element, by which an insertion opening in the filter housing can be closed, includes a holding element on the filter element and a locking element on the lid. The holding element can be fixed by a contact surface for contacting the locking element in a recess of the filter housing. The holding element has a latching geometry with which it can be latched in the recess of the filter housing. The locking element is a shaft with a bolt rod and a handle part. The shaft is guided through the lid such that the lid and the filter element in the latching position can, by the bolt rod and a contact surface formed as a ramp on the holding element, which engage with one another by turning the locking element, be spanned against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Eric Schumacher
  • Patent number: 11434853
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air cleaner for a vehicle. In the air cleaner for a vehicle, air introduced into a body through an inlet port passes through a filter assembly while moving in a horizontal direction, impurities contained in the air are filtered when passing through the filter assembly, and impurities-filtered clear air is discharged through an outlet port while moving in the horizontal direction again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jae Hyeon Jung
  • Patent number: 11433344
    Abstract: The present application relates to a filter cartridge for removing impurities from a dirty gas flow to be filtered, including a cylindrical filter element made from filter material, a filter insert inserted in the filter element, an inner space formed between the filter element and the filter insert, with the filter material being designed for being cleaned when a compressed air flow is applied against a flow direction of the dirty gas flow, and a base body of a flow guiding device having a surface designed for guiding the compressed air flow, wherein the base body has a distal end zone which is prepared for being completed by an end piece separate from the filter cartridge and mountable to an external housing for flow guiding the compressed air flow. Further, the present application relates to a kit, a filter unit, and a method for cleaning the filter cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CAMFIL APC GMBH
    Inventors: Jakob Handte, Dominick Bisogni, Randilyne Huckaby, Ryan Listenbee, Adam Simino, Alex Wells, Daniel Vangilder
  • Patent number: 11426691
    Abstract: Air cleaner assemblies, components, and features are described. The features can be used to provide that the air cleaner assembly includes a housing and cover within which primary and secondary filter cartridges, having a media pack and a seal arrangement surrounding the media pack, can be installed. The filter cartridges can include an open end cap with an axially deviating seal arrangement and a plurality of axially extending channels for engaging with ribs on the housing. The filter cartridges can also include extension members extending from the open end cap that include the axially extending channels, entirely or partially. The filter cartridges can also include a guide member extending from the extension members for providing a low friction surface against the housing during installation that allows axial force exerted by the installer to be translated into a rotational force that rotates the filter cartridge during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristof Decoster, Johnny Craessaerts, Mathijs Verstraete
  • Patent number: 11427690
    Abstract: An air filter medium includes a first porous PTFE membrane and a second porous PTFE membrane. The air filter medium has a first main surface and a second main surface, and the first porous PTFE membrane and the second porous PTFE membrane are arranged so that an air flow moving from the first main surface to the second main surface passes through the first porous PTFE membrane and subsequently through the second porous PTFE membrane. A proportion of areas occupied by the plurality of nodes on a surface of the first porous PTFE membrane is in the range of 1.5 to 3.0% and an average of the areas of the plurality of nodes is 200 ?m2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Niki, Masaaki Mori, Shiho Wada, Atsushi Daimon, Toshiki Yanagi
  • Patent number: 11426689
    Abstract: An improved device for collecting particulate matter suspended in the ambient air is disclosed comprising a container extending between an open first end and a closed second end defining a container interior. A container output communicates with a container interior located proximate the closed second end of the container. A filter cassette comprising a collection filter is permanently affixed to a filter holder. A retainer having a retainer input retains the filter cassette between the retainer input and the container output. An output connector connects the container output to a low pressure source for drawing ambient air into the retainer input for enabling the collection filter to collect particulate matter suspended in the ambient air entering the retainer input. Preferably, the filter holder and the filter are disposable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Scott Ryan, Travis Pettengill, Bill Barker, Jr., Wayne Sipes
  • Patent number: 11406926
    Abstract: An air filtration system includes a main body having a flow path; a first filter portion provided on the flow path and having a first body portion; a plurality of protrusions distributed and disposed on the first body portion; and a plurality of first through holes passing through the first body portion and interposed between the adjacent protrusions; wherein when an external fluid flows in the flow path, the external fluid passes through the protrusions first and then passes through each of the first through holes, so that the flowing external fluid is hindered by the protrusions, and thus a flow velocity at a position adjacent to the protrusions is lower than a flow velocity flowing through the first through holes, thereby vortices are respectively generated between orifices of the first through holes and the adjacent protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei Chiu, Chien-Hung Lin, Angela Wang
  • Patent number: 11406923
    Abstract: A housing of a liquid separation device that includes an inlet for the gas-liquid mixture and a set of integrated components, the set of integrated components includes a liquid separator vessel to separate liquid from the gas-liquid mixture, where the liquid separator vessel includes an entry port for the gas-liquid mixture, a liquid outlet port, and a gas outlet port. The set of integrated components further includes a set of channels, where a wall of each channel is part of the housing and the set of channels includes an inlet channel to guide the gas-liquid mixture from the inlet of the housing to the entry port of the liquid separator vessel and an outlet channel to guide gas from the gas outlet port away from the liquid separator vessel. The set of integrated components includes a liquid buffer tank that allows liquid to flow through an opening in the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Johan Dom, Benjamin Moens, Pieter-Jan Belles, Diego Truyen
  • Patent number: 11402109
    Abstract: An air purifier may include a main body and a floating body configured to levitate above the main body via magnetic force. The main body may include a fan to suction air, a filter to filter suctioned air, and a discharge port provided on an upper surface through which air is discharged. The floating body may be provided above the discharge port and further disperse discharged air. The main body may have a magnetic force generator to provide a magnetic force that levitates the floating body, and may also have a magnetic force adjustor configured to maintain a stable position of the floating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., CHUNGANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jiyoung Kang, Haeyoong Chung, Jongkeon Jeon, David Kangseong Lee, Daeyoung Kwak, Sohee Park