Patents Examined by Robert A Clemente
  • Patent number: 11975284
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly is described and shown which includes a housing having an air flow inlet, an air flow outlet and a housing body and access cover. A serviceable filter cartridge is positioned within the housing. A projection/receiver arrangement providing for engagement between the cartridge and the housing is provided. The projection/receiver arrangement can be configured in a manner that inhibits undesired motion of the cartridge, once installed. An example projection/receiver arrangement is provided, which includes a serpentine receiving groove on the access cover and a serpentine projection on the filter cartridge. Example filter cartridge features are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Baseotto, Roberto Merckx, Paul Coulonvaux, Julien Dils
  • Patent number: 11975283
    Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to a filtration system. The filtration system comprises a housing having a first housing end and a second housing end. The housing defines a central compartment therein. The housing comprises a first alignment portion disposed on the first housing end. The filtration system further comprises a filter element positioned within the central compartment of the housing. The filter element has a first filter end and a second filter end. The filter element comprises filter media and a second alignment portion disposed on the first filter end. The second alignment portion is complementary to the first alignment portion. The installation of the filter element within the housing causes the first alignment surface and the second alignment surface to align to provide for engagement of a radial seal between the filter element and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Louison, Scott W. Schwartz, Mark V. Holzmann, Jessie A. Knight
  • Patent number: 11969679
    Abstract: A surface-enhanced copper filter for air purification and a filter assembly with a surface-enhanced copper filter composed, at least in part, of substantially pure copper. The surface-enhanced copper filter uses the anti-microbial and electrostatic properties of elemental copper to inactivate biological contaminants and remove biological contaminants and other pollutants from the air. Also disclosed is a system and method using a filter assembly having a surface-enhanced copper filter to purify air. The disclosed surface-enhanced copper filter can be used in a stationary or mobile HVAC system or in a mobile air purification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Mashburn, Johnny Brewer
  • Patent number: 11969681
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly includes a filter housing extending axially along a longitudinal axis and a cover. The filter housing includes at least one sidewall (e.g., an annular sidewall) extending between a first housing end and a second housing end and a retainer formed proximate at least one of the first housing end and the second housing end. The cover is removably coupled to at least one of the first housing end and the second housing. The cover includes a handle assembly having a latch configured to releasably engage the retainer at the fiber housing. The filter element includes filter media and is axially insertable into the filter housing when the cover is removed from the filter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Louison, Travis E. Goodlund
  • Patent number: 11969686
    Abstract: A filter element including a first endplate, a second endplate, filter media fitted between the first endplate and the second endplate, the first endplate including an opening that allows a working fluid to flow into or out of the filter media, the filter media allowing the working fluid to be filtered through the filter media and a seal member having an oval profile disposed on the first endplate and configured to seal with a filter housing, the seal member including an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter including a plurality of outwardly curved surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC
    Inventors: Scott W. Schwartz, Jessie A. Knight, Michael T. Zuroski
  • Patent number: 11965274
    Abstract: A non-woven fabric body (11) that forms a non-woven fabric (1) is formed by integrating composite polyester fibers (2) and flame-retardant acrylic fibers (3) which serve as the other fibers of the rest. The composite polyester fibers (2) have a core-sheath structure in which a sheath portion (4) is formed of a low melting point polyester and a core portion (5) is formed of a high melting point polyester having a higher melting point than that of the low melting point polyester. The composite polyester fibers (2) are contained in an amount of 15% to 80% by weight in a total of 100% by weight of the non-woven fabric body (11). Further, an apparent density of the non-woven fabric body (11) ((a basis weight of the non-woven fabric body)/(a thickness of the non-woven fabric body)) is 0.005 g/cm3 to 0.040 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO ALUMINIUM EKCO PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Adachi, Takuto Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11964227
    Abstract: A filter is disclosed. The filter includes a sheet of filter media defining a body having an upper portion, a lower portion, a first end surface proximate the upper portion, a second end surface proximate the lower portion, and a first side surface extending between the first and second end surfaces. One or more of the upper and lower portions define a ledge, wherein the ledge defines a third end surface arranged between the first and second end surfaces, and a second side surface extending between the first and third end surfaces; and a seal disposed upon the ledge. A method for manufacturing the seal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL Filtration Technology US LLC
    Inventors: Robert H. Ferguson, Jason LaMarr Tate, Mark A. Roll, Roland Vann Lanier, Jr., Mitchell Jerome Baker
  • Patent number: 11951431
    Abstract: Rotating coalescer elements that maximize the radial-projected separation surface area in a given (rotating) cylindrical volume, where flow to be cleaned is passing axially upward or downward through a separating media of the rotating coalescer element. Various example package assemblies are provided with various types of rotating configurations including cylindrical coiled media packs, frustum coiled media packs, concentric cylinders, coiled metal or polymer films with and without perforations, and/or alternating layers of different materials. The described rotating coalescers may be driven by hydraulic turbine, electric motor, belt, gear or by mounting on rotating machine components, such as rotating engine shafts or connected components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Holm, Peter K. Herman, Arun P. Janakiraman, Gerard Malgorn, Chirag D. Parikh, Anthony Barreteau, Ronan Corvec, Ken Tofsland
  • Patent number: 11951429
    Abstract: Air filter cartridges are disclosed. Also described are air cleaners including the filter cartridges. Methods of assembly and use are also provided. Also, systems of use are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Reichter, Wayne Bishop, Benny K. Nelson, Darrel Wegner, Bruce Crenshaw, Thomas Miller, Donald Mork, Kevin Schrage, Vladimir Kladnitsky, Richard Osendorf, Bradley Kuempel, Thomas Lundgren, Jordan Flagstad
  • Patent number: 11944929
    Abstract: A filter housing for containing a cartridge assembly having a filter cartridge secured to a filter cover, the filter housing has a peripheral wall extending around a longitudinal axis, and end wall secured to the peripheral wall, the filter housing defining a cavity partially enclosed by the peripheral wall and the end wall, the peripheral wall defining a cartridge-receiving section extending from the end wall along the longitudinal axis and sized for receiving the filter cartridge and a cover-receiving section extending along the longitudinal axis from the cartridge-receiving section to an open end of the filter housing opposed to the end wall and sized for receiving the filter cover, a portion of the cover-receiving section recessed radially outwardly from the cartridge-receiving section relative to the longitudinal axis, a lubricant outlet of the filter housing extending through the portion of the cover-receiving section of the peripheral wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Rose Beaulieu, Pierre Gauvin, Louis Brillon, Joanna Radon, Sean Powers, Kevin White
  • Patent number: 11944930
    Abstract: Filter media for a drum filter that includes a plurality of annular frame members, each annular frame member having a circumference is disclosed. The filter media includes a filter sheet with first and second engagement strips having a cord portion and an attachment tab portion connected to the filter sheet. The first and second engagement strips engage with first and second connecting strips located on the annular frame members. Each connecting strip has a receiving portion that receives the cord portion of the associated engagement strip. Each connecting strip also has a body portion configured to engage a drum filter frame. An engagement mechanism configured to attach a filter sheet to a drum filter frame is also disclosed. A system for attaching a filter media to a cylindrical drum filter is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Engineered Recycling Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Carver, Sr., Andreas Fischer
  • Patent number: 11938432
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly is disclosed, along with related methods. In one aspect, the air cleaner assembly has a housing including a housing body and a removable cover that together define an interior volume for holding a filter cartridge. The housing can include a first part of a first connection arrangement. The air filter cartridge can include a second part of the first connection arrangement. In one aspect, the first and second parts can be secured together place the air filter cartridge in a latched position by moving the air filter cartridge in a first direction. In one aspect, the first and second parts can be disconnected from each other to place the air filter cartridge in an unlatched position by moving the air filter cartridge in the first direction. The air cleaner assembly can include a second connection arrangement securing the air filter cartridge to the housing cover such that the housing body and housing cover are secured together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven K. Campbell, Richard Patrick Manahan
  • Patent number: 11918946
    Abstract: A portable air filtration system for efficiently installing an air filtration system to a barrier which may be easily removed or replaced. The portable air filtration system generally includes a filtration unit which is adapted to be secured to a barrier over an opening in the barrier. The filtration unit includes a first connector which may include a fastener or a magnetic element. A second connector is provided to secure the filtration unit to the barrier, with the second connector including a fastener or a magnetic element on its first side to engage with the first connector and an adhesive on its second side to engage with the barrier. The filtration unit may also include a removable one-way valve such as a flap and an optional secondary filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Re-U-Zip, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Edgar Burkhart-Day, Navaratan Kanna Sunkara, Sivaketan Ramu Sunkara
  • Patent number: 11918715
    Abstract: A polarized LED filter. The polarized LED filter comprises one or more components which are designed to attract and conglomerate particulates, allowing sub-micron sized contaminants to be easily captured. The polarizing effect delivers high-efficiency filtration with low static pressure. The combination of LED disinfecting arrays and anti-microbial coatings offer surface disinfection which reduces microbial growth, biological blow-off, airborne odors and VOCs while allowing for safer handling and servicing of the HVAC system and filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Triatomic Environmental, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Willette, Aaron Engel
  • Patent number: 11911722
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to purify air and sanitizing including a main base including one or more buttons configured to operate the apparatus, a lid attachable to the main base and that includes one or more ventilation perforations to intake air and an orifice to output purified air, a filter adjacent to the one or more ventilation perforations and enclosed in the lid, wherein the filter is configured to remove at least bacteria from atmospheric air and extract purified air, a fan configured to intake atmospheric air into the filter and blow purified air extracted from the filter outside of an orifice of the lid, a tank configured to store liquid, wherein the liquid includes at least liquid sanitizer, a pump configured to output liquid stored in a tank, and a cavity section that includes an outlet configured to output the liquid sanitizer in response to actuation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Next Gen Design and Development LLC
    Inventor: Hadir Haji
  • Patent number: 11904267
    Abstract: An apparatus for irradiating air flow in a vehicle includes a filter unit configured to couple to a recirculating-air conduit connected to a manifold of an air circulation system, the filter unit having an inlet end, and a filter disposed in the inlet end of the filter unit, including an outer wall of filter media having a shape that defines an interior volume of the filter. The apparatus further includes an ultraviolet light disposed on an end plate, configured to be mounted with the ultraviolet light positioned in the interior volume of the filter and the end plate against an open end of the filter. The ultraviolet light is configured to emit ultraviolet radiation substantially at between 222 nm and 265 nm for irradiating air flow through the filter into the air circulation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Bryce A. Vandyke, Kevin S. Callahan, Stephen M. Trent
  • Patent number: 11896954
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of microporous carbon materials to perform selective separations of nitrogen in gas mixtures such as hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, methane and C2, C3 and C4+ hydrocarbons, with high efficiency, shaped of microspheres or cylinders from copolymers of poly (vinylidene chloride-co-methyl acrylate) with density of 1.3 to 1.85 g/cm3 or poly (vinylidene chloride-co-vinyl chloride) with density of 1.3 to 1.85 g/cm3, using two stages. The first stage consists of a surface passivation of the material by chemical attack in a highly alkaline alcohol solution, with the aim of effecting a precarbonization on the surface of the copolymer that during the pyrolysis process is not deformed and gradually develops microporosity. The material of the first stage presents, in the layer, percentages between 55% to 85% carbon, between 5% to 20% oxygen, and between 10% to 40% chlorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO
    Inventors: Federico Jesus Jimenez Cruz, Jose Luis Garcia Gutierrez, Jose Francisco Gaspar Silva Sanchez, Liliana Alejandra Astudillo Lopez Lena, Fidencio Hernandez Perez, Alberto Cabrales Torres, Maria Del Carmen Martinez Guerrero, Marco Antonio Dominguez Aguilar, Arturo Trejo Rodriguez, Florentino Rafael Murrieta Guevara
  • Patent number: 11890565
    Abstract: Air cleaner assemblies, components therefor, and features thereof are described. Also described are methods of assembly and use. In depicted examples, the air cleaner assemblies and components optionally use advantageous housing seal features. Methods of assembly and use are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Osendorf, Joseph Einberger
  • Patent number: 11878263
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification filter is configured to he disposed in an exhaust passage in a gasoline engine. The exhaust gas purification filter includes partition walls including a plurality of pores, a plurality of cells partitioned by the partition walls, and sealing portions alternately sealing ends of a plurality of the cells in the exhaust gas purification filter. The partition walls each have an average pore diameter of more than 16 ?m and less than 21 ?m, and have a ratio of an average surface opening diameter of the pores in a partition wall surface to the average pore diameter of the partition wall of 0.66 or more and 0.94 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Mizutani, Kazuhiko Koike, Mikio Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11865488
    Abstract: Filter media having a design embossed into the media are described. In some arrangements, the filter media is pleated filter media. In other arrangements, the filter media includes a plurality of channels, such as tetrahedron channels. The filter media includes a pattern of interrupted straight or angled embossments that help maintain separation between adjacent layers of the filter media. The embossments allow for two adjacent media layers (e.g., mating surfaces of the filter media) to remain separated, thereby increasing dust holding capacity and lowering pressure drop ever similarly configured filter media not having the embossments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Page, Anthony Barreteau, Kurt M. A. Badeau, Christopher E. Holm