Patents Examined by Robert A. Hopkins
  • Patent number: 11944928
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a filter housing having a bowl and a head. The bowl is configured to house a portion of a filter cartridge. The bowl has an annular groove disposed about a rim of the bowl. The head is configured to mate with the bowl. The head includes an inlet, outlet, and a pair of levers. The inlet is to receive a flow of fluid into the filter housing. The outlet is to release the flow of fluid from the filter housing. The pair of levers are to draw the bowl partially into the head. Each lever has a first arm configured to mate with the annular groove, a second arm having a bearing surface, and a pivot disposed between the first arm and the second arm. A force upon the bearing surface urges the bowl into the head to form a seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Industrial Technologies & Services Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Thomas, Lindell Gay, Weijiang Chen, Michael Wilson
  • Patent number: 11938438
    Abstract: In accordance with certain techniques for filtering contaminated air, the air is sucked through at least one filter element, which is exchangeably held in a filter-holding device of an air duct system. In order to enable continuous filtering without process interruption, a plurality of filter elements is stored in the filter-holding device in such a way that, when one of the filter elements is removed, the soiled filter element is automatically replaced in the air duct system. For this purpose, the filter-holding device has a plurality of filter chambers, which are arranged relative to one another in such a way that, in the event of an exchange, the filter element can be slidingly guided from one of the filter chambers into another filter chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Rickerts, Ernst Claussen, Hauke Petersen, Frank Knödler, Sonja Dittscher
  • Patent number: 11931490
    Abstract: An air purification module for purifying air includes a photocatalyst filter and a light source unit sequentially arranged in a selected direction. The light source unit is spaced apart from the photocatalyst filter to provide light to the photocatalyst filter and includes a substrate and a light source disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes at least one aperture to control a flow channel and a flow velocity of air so as to improve air purification effects through the photocatalyst filter when the air flows from the substrate towards the photocatalyst filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hak Jeong, Ji Won Kim, Sang Cheol Shin
  • Patent number: 11933705
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a fluid handling device capable of reliably generating a dispersion liquid in which a liquid droplet containing a sample is dispersed in a dispersion medium. The fluid handling device achieving the objective includes: a sample channel; a dispersion medium channel; a dispersion liquid generation part connected to the sample channel and the dispersion medium channel, and configured to divide the sample by the dispersion medium to generate a dispersion liquid in which a liquid droplet of the sample is dispersed in the dispersion medium; and a dispersion liquid channel connected to the dispersion liquid generation part, in which Y?0.0436X?1.2563 is satisfied, where X denotes a contact angle [°] between a portion of an inner wall of the dispersion liquid channel and water, and Y denotes a viscosity [mPa·s] of the sample measured at 25° C. by a falling-ball viscometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Seiichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11913675
    Abstract: Devices, methods and techniques are disclosed to perform high confidence sterilization of indoor air with low power requirements. In one example aspect, a sterilization device includes a power source, an energy storage coupled to the power source and configured to store electric charges, a set of electrodes arranged in a specified geometry to have a fixed characteristic impedance, and a switch positioned between the energy storage and the set of electrodes. The switch is configured to operate to establish a pulsed electric field on the set of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Opcondys, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Sampayan, Kristin Cortella Sampayan
  • Patent number: 11904266
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus is disclosed. The air conditioning apparatus includes a filter, a fan configured to generate an air flow, a case configured to accommodate the filter and the fan within, and including a support member supporting the filter, and a sealing member covering a gap between the case and the filter, and the filter includes a side-surface member formed along a side-surface, and at least one from among the support member and the side-surface member is formed with a groove which transfers pressure of an upstream side of the filter to the sealing member based on the fan operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghyun Kim, Hyunah Kim, Kwangnam Shin, Jeongkyo Oh
  • Patent number: 11898554
    Abstract: A filtration and purification processing method includes following steps: (1) providing a filtration and purification device; (2) performing a gas introduction, filtration, and detection procedure; (3) performing a detection and determination procedure to the purified gas; (4) performing a circulating filtration and detection procedure to the purified gas; and (5) repeating filtration and purification procedures to the purified gas several times and guiding out the purified gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Chi-Feng Huang, Yung-Lung Han, Chang-Yen Tsai, Wei-Ming Lee, Tsung-I Lin, Yang Ku
  • Patent number: 11896929
    Abstract: A laser device includes a laser oscillator, a dehumidifier, and a controller controlling an operation of the dehumidifier. The controller controls the dehumidifier such that the dew point inside the laser oscillator is lower than the first dew point when a monolayer or less of water molecules is adsorbed, or such that the dew point is equal to or higher than the second dew point when more than a monolayer of water molecules is adsorbed inside the laser oscillator, and is lower than the third dew point at which the dew condensation starts to occur inside the laser oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ryudo, Masatoshi Nishio, Jingbo Wang
  • Patent number: 11898777
    Abstract: An air cleaner may include a housing including a first housing having a discharge outlet through which air is discharged outside of the air cleaner, and a second housing including a suction inlet through which air is suctioned from outside of the air cleaner, and a filter assembly accommodated inside of the housing and that filters air. The first housing and the second housing may be spaced apart from each other, and the filter assembly may be replaceable through a space between the first housing and the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangjin Park, Dooyeong Kwak, Naehyun Park
  • Patent number: 11896919
    Abstract: A filter device is for the filtration of gases contaminated with particles, such as welding gases, in particular produced in manufacturing processes using 3D printers in a production room (52). The filter device has a filter circuit having at least one filter element (55, 56), which filters the particles from the gas. At least a part of those particles get from this filter element (55, 56) into an assignable receptacle (59). The particles within a back-flushing process get into the respective receptacle (59). At least one further filter circuit has at least one further filter element (NF1, NF2 that filters a fluid having the particles obtained at the back-flushing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Kleemann, Martin Freidinger, Jörg Michael Wendels, Christophe Hainka, André Michael Schneider
  • Patent number: 11890583
    Abstract: There is disclosed a stand-alone, independent and re-usable valve that can be mounted to a conventional food container, such as a food bag, and can be coupled to a suction pump. The valve has a first part for insertion into the food container and a second part for mounting onto the first part with a wall of the food container in between, to obtain an air-tight closure of the valve. Further, an adapter is provided that can cooperate with a single type of coupling element for a suction pump at one end and can cooperate with various types of valves at another end. Additionally, an aerator is provided that can be coupled to a suction pump operating in a blowing mode for aerating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airtender Works B.V.
    Inventors: Dalibor Borjanin, Robert Franciscus Van Der Hulst, Rui Medeiros Santos
  • Patent number: 11891310
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pump-assisted degassing system, a vacuum degassing tower, and a water system having the same. The degassing system comprises a vacuum pump, connected with a degassing tower through a main pipeline, and configured to pump out a gas-liquid mixture from the degassing tower; a gas-liquid separator, connected with the vacuum pump in a closed loop through a circulation pipeline, and configured to perform gas-liquid separation on the gas-liquid mixture; and a booster pump, arranged on the main pipeline between the vacuum pump and the degassing tower, and configured to assist the vacuum pump to pump out the gas-liquid mixture. The vacuum pump and the booster pump constitute a two-stage pumping device. Only one vacuum pump is needed in the system, and the vacuum pump requires less circulating water and less motor power resulting in lower the equipment load loss in the operation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yi Chuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 11892194
    Abstract: An air cleaner includes a blower, a circulator disposed over the blower, and a mover coupled to the circulator and configured to change an arrangement of the circulator. The circulator includes a lower cover, an upper cover disposed over the lower cover, a blower fan rotatably disposed between the lower cover and the upper cover, a motor disposed on an upper side of the lower cover and rotating the blower fan, an inner cover disposed over the lower cover and receiving a lower portion of the blower fan, and a bell mouth protruding upwardly from an inner circumferential end of an inner plate of the inner cover and spaced apart outwardly from a circumferential surface of a suction guider of the blower fan, so as to guide air, drawn in through an inlet of the lower cover, toward an inlet of the blower fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Taeman Yang, Joonmin Park, Choonmyun Chung
  • Patent number: 11890554
    Abstract: A degassing chamber for an ozone solution system includes a cylindrical housing defining a cavity. A mixture of water and ozone gas is delivered to the cavity, the mixture containing excess ozone gas. A cylindrical float is positioned centrally within the cavity to rise in accordance with the mixture column within the cavity. A piston is connected to move in accordance with the float. When the mixture level rises above a threshold, the piston the piston moves upward and seals an ozone outlet. As a pressure of ozone gas in the degassing chamber increases, the float is forced downward causing the piston to open a channel to an upper ozone outlet through which excess ozone gas is released. After removal of excess ozone gas, a mixture of water and ozone gas is output from the degassing chamber which is suitable for use as a general purpose cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LIQUID 03, LLC
    Inventor: Evan D. Marlow
  • Patent number: 11890574
    Abstract: A system and method recover process gas from a source volume at a source pressure to a destination volume at an equal or greater pressure. A regulation process receive the process gas from the source volume and steps down the pressure. Each regulation uses one or more stage each using a pressure control valve for pressure step down and a heat exchanger for reheating the process gas thereafter. A gas scrubber receives the process gas from the regulation stages and collecting liquid from the process gas. A compression process receives the process gas from the gas scrubber and steps up the intermediate pressure to a final pressure. The compression can use one or more compression stages, each having a compression cycle for pressure step up and a heat exchanger for cooling the process gas thereafter. A discharge vessel receives the process gas from the compression process and discharges the process gas at the final pressure to the destination volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WELDFIT LLC
    Inventors: Adam Scott Murray, Eric Heinle, Jack A. Smith, William Stratton
  • Patent number: 11885523
    Abstract: An airflow appliance for mitigating spread of infectious disease. The appliance may include an elongated body configured for being disposed across the top surface of a table, first and second side surfaces of the body respectively facing first and second sides of the table; at least one air intake disposed along at least one of top or side surfaces of the body; at least one air exhaust disposed along at least one of bottom or end surfaces of the body; at least one fan disposed in the body, the at least one fan drawing air from the at least one air intake and expelling air from the at least one air exhaust; wherein the at least one air intake is configured to draw air from at least one of the first and second sides of the table; and wherein the at least one air exhaust is configured to blow air away from at least one of the first and second sides of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Andrea Pacelli
  • Patent number: 11885528
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air purifier in which vertical rotation and horizontal rotation are performed simultaneously and independently and which has a stable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Sung Jae Lee, Ki Chul Kim, Young Jae Lee, Kyu Han Kim, Jin Kyu Joung
  • Patent number: 11883770
    Abstract: In a porous composite, a base material has a honeycomb structure whose inside is partitioned into a plurality of cells. In the plurality of cells, a plurality of first cells whose one ends in the longitudinal direction are sealed, and a plurality of second cells whose other ends in the longitudinal direction are sealed are arranged alternately. A collection layer covers inner surfaces of the plurality of first cells. An overall Sa that is an arithmetical mean height Sa indicating a surface roughness of a surface of the collection layer in the plurality of first cells is greater than or equal to 0.1 ?m and less than or equal to 12 ?m. An overall mean thickness that is a mean thickness of the collection layer in the plurality of first cells is greater than or equal to 10 ?m and less than or equal to 40 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Nakashima, Shogo Takeno, Yunie Izumi
  • Patent number: 11883763
    Abstract: Air filter systems, filter bag assemblies, filter bags and corresponding methods are described herein. The filter bag assemblies include a flange assembly, a cage attached to the flange assembly, and a filter bag installed over the cage with an opening at the flange assembly. When installed in the dirty air chamber of the air filter system, a seal between the flange assembly and the tubesheet defining the dirty air chamber is provided by applying a seal force on the end of the filter bag assembly located proximate the access panel on the side of the dirty air chamber opposite the tubesheet. That seal force is transmitted to the flange assembly through the cage. The tubular filter bags may be in the form of triangular bags and/or may include bag support connectors at the closed end of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Johnson, Gabriel J. Safarian, David V. Gutman, David L. Van Eylen, Benny J. B. Mombaerts, Eric W. E. Collin, Iman Vezvaei
  • Patent number: 11878258
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification filter includes a plurality of cells extending in a filter axial direction, a porous partition separating and defining the plurality of cells, and a sealing section sealing the plurality of cells alternately at both filter ends. In the exhaust gas purification filter, the partition has a void volume of a reduced dale, Vvv, and a material volume of a reduced peak, Vmp, as volume parameters determined in noncontact surface roughness measurement on a surface of the partition, with their total value being 1.8 ?m3/?m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kayama