Patents Examined by Waqaas Ali
  • Patent number: 11970410
    Abstract: The present application pertains to systems and methods for desalination. In one embodiment the system employs a first storage reservoir configured to be near the surface of a body of water and configured to store a low density fluid. A second storage reservoir is configured to be located below the surface of the body of water. A desalination system is operably connected to the second reservoir. Desalinated water is produced by allowing desalination permeate to displace low density fluid in the second reservoir and transfer the low density fluid from the second reservoir to the first reservoir. Desalinated water is exported by transferring low density fluid from the first reservoir into the second reservoir to displace desalinated water from the second reservoir into a water export pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Ethan Novek
  • Patent number: 11964222
    Abstract: A filter assembly for a plate heat exchanger comprising inlet and outlet ports for passage of a working medium and a cooling or heating fluid, respectively, wherein the filter assembly is dimensioned to fit into the inlet or outlet ports, wherein the filter assembly comprises a proximal flange and a distal flange and at least one filter tube attached at respective ends to the proximal flange and the distal flange, respectively, wherein the at least one filter tube is adapted to receive an elongated filter element and further comprises a plurality of inlet holes arranged on a circumferential surface thereof, and wherein the distal flange comprises at least one through-going outlet aperture in fluid communication with the interior of the at least one filter tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CLIMEON AB
    Inventors: Erik Blomqvist, Kim Hilding, Esko Ahlbom, Kari Munukka
  • Patent number: 11958002
    Abstract: A pre-coating filter device includes: a filtration tank comprising a raw water inlet through which raw water flows on one side, and a drain port at the bottom; a top cover coupled to the upper part of the filtration tank and comprising a coupling hole through the middle part; a purified water discharge pipe coupled to the coupling hole of the top cover; a purified water storage space unit coupled to the lower part of the top cover and located within the filtration tank, and comprising a communication pipe connected to the central part; a filter coupling plate body coupled to the lower part of the purified water storage space unit and comprising a plurality of coupling holes through; and a pre-coating filter coupled to the coupling hole of the filter coupling plate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: K-1ECOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Hak Kim, Chang Hyoung Choi, Sang Ho Sung
  • Patent number: 11958000
    Abstract: A filter element has a first follower element with a first traction surface and a second follower element with a second traction surface provided for interacting with first and second mating surfaces of the filter housing, respectively. The first and second traction surfaces interact with the first and second mating surfaces to pull out the filter element from the filter housing. The first and second traction surfaces are spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal axis of the filter element and project radially into the interior of the filter element. At least one of the first and second follower elements has a stop surface adjoining circumferentially the respective traction surface. In a position of use, the stop surface interacts with a counter stop surface of the filter housing to form an at least unidirectional rotational degree of freedom blocking about the longitudinal axis relative to the filter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Baumann, Oliver Glueck, Guenter Jokschas, Idriss Razgani, Dietmar Talmon-Gros, Martin Weindorf
  • Patent number: 11938429
    Abstract: The filter device includes a case, an element, and a water separator. The case accommodates the element and the water separator. The element removes solid particulates from the fuel. The element can be replaced by opening the case. The water separator removes water content from the fuel. The water separator is held in the case. The water separator is movable relative to the case. The water separator is movable within a movable range. The element and the water separator are provided with a passage connecting member for connecting a fuel passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kato, Toshiaki Agui, Toshiyuki Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 11938427
    Abstract: A ring filter element, e.g., for a liquid filter device, is disclosed. The ring filter element includes an upper end disc, a lower end disc, and a filter material arranged in between the upper end disc and the lower end disc. A pin eccentrically arranged on the lower end disc that projects in an axial direction is provided for closing off a drainage channel. At least one support contour is disposed on the lower end disc adjacently to the pin. The at least one support contour projects from the lower end disc in the axial direction for supporting on a filter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Hensinger, Markus Lang
  • Patent number: 11939245
    Abstract: Alternating magnetic field (AMF) systems and devices and methods for producing nanobubbles said methods and devices. The AMF systems and devices of the present invention may feature sets of magnets configured to expose a flowing liquid to an alternating magnetic field. The alternating magnetic field destabilizes dissolved gas molecules to produce nanobubbles. The methods, systems, and devices of the present invention may be used to treat solution, for reducing fouling or corrosion in a tube system or pipe system, methods for increasing water porosity of soil, methods for treating thromboembolic disease, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: James C. Earthman, Chuck Wagner, Ruqian Wu
  • Patent number: 11931676
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a filter head and a filter cartridge. The filter head includes a filter head coupling surface, a filter head outlet, a filter head inner wall, and a filter head outer wall. The filter head coupling surface defines a filter head opening. The filter head outlet is configured to provide a fluid. The filter head inner wall extends around the filter head outlet. The filter head outer wall extends around the filter head inner wall. The filter head inner wall and the filter head outer wall collectively define a filter head channel. The filter cartridge includes a filter cartridge shell and a filter element. The filter cartridge shell has a filter cartridge coupling surface that is configured to be coupled to the filter head coupling surface. The filter cartridge shell defines a filter cartridge opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration Inc.
    Inventors: Wassem Abdalla, Vaibhav Pimpalte, Jayant Singh, Sagar Padale
  • Patent number: 11918941
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a filter housing having a longitudinal axis, the filter housing divided into a first filter chamber and a second filter chamber, a first element bottom endplate, a second element top endplate, an intermediate endplate positioned along the longitudinal axis between the second element top endplate and the first element bottom endplate, a first filter element housed within the first filter chamber and comprising first filter media positioned between the first element bottom endplate and the intermediate endplate, and a second filter element housed within the second filter chamber and comprising second filter media positioned between the second element top endplate and the intermediate endplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Anil I. Sawant, Vijaykumar Mahadev Burande, Benjamin L. Scheckel, Barry Mark Verdegan, Miao Li, Billy M. Bates, Mark T. Wieczorek
  • Patent number: 11918940
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1, 1?) for filtering a fluid, in particular a Bernoulli filtering apparatus (1, 1?), comprising: a housing (3, 3?), a plurality of filter elements (55), arranged in the housing (3, 3?), for filtering the fluid, an inlet (5) for admitting fluid to be filtered into the housing (3, 3?), and an outlet (7) for discharging the filtered fluid from the housing (3, 3?). The invention solves the stated problem by providing the housing (3, 3?) with a plurality of housing segments (23) which can be connected to adjacent housing segments (23), and by a filter element (55) being arranged at least partially inside each housing segment (23), and by the housing segments (23) and filter elements (55) together forming a modularly assembled filter module (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Georg Schünemann GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linster
  • Patent number: 11920547
    Abstract: A water drainage device for a filter module is provided with a valve housing that has a valve bore, a valve body received at least in sections in the valve bore, an actuation rod for actuating the valve body, and a coupling device operatively connecting the actuation rod with the valve body and enabling a tilting of the actuation rod in relation to the valve body. The water drainage device can be transferred from a closed state, in which the valve body seals in relation to the valve seat of the valve bore, into an open state, in which the valve body is lifted off the valve seat, and in reverse. The filter module has a filter housing with a housing top part. The valve body, upon transfer of the water drainage device from closed state into open state, moves toward the housing top part of the filter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Weindorf, Rafael Salom
  • Patent number: 11911718
    Abstract: A filter apparatus includes a filter, such as a cartridge, positioned within a housing. The filter apparatus has multiple ports and valves, so as to allow a user to easily switch between a filtration mode of filtering fluids and a maintenance mode of cleaning the filter. The filter can have a filter substrate in a housing and after filtrate builds up on the substrate, the substrate can be cleaned by directing a spray of fluid, such as from a ring of nozzles at the top of the housing, onto the substrate. A maintenance port can be provided to drain the debris washed from the substrate. The filter can switch between a backwash mode and a filtration mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Asia Connection LLC
    Inventor: Reza Afshar
  • Patent number: 11913320
    Abstract: A mobile dewatering system includes a dewatering bin pivotally coupled to a trailer chassis and selectively operable to pivot between a transport configuration and an operation configuration. The dewatering bin has a cylindrical section and a dewatering cone. The dewatering cone includes an outer wall and a screen spatially adjacent the outer wall forming a void therebetween. A plurality of perforated pipes is positioned vertically around an inner circumference of the cylindrical section and intersect the screen such that water from the particle slurry passes into the perforated pipes and drops into the void. A particle slurry introduced into the dewatering cone contacts the screen, and water from the particle slurry passes through the screen and into the void. Water in the void is discharged away from the mobile dewatering system, and dewatered particles pass from the dewatering cone through a discharge port in the bottom of the dewatering cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Nomad Proppa nt Services, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley Byman Johnson
  • Patent number: 11911711
    Abstract: A parallel assembly of chromatography column modules, the assembly having one common assembly inlet and one common assembly outlet, each column module comprising a bed space filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules are adapted to connect the bed space of the column module with the assembly inlet and the assembly outlet, wherein the total length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the assembly inlet to one bed space together with the length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the same bed space to the assembly outlet is substantially the same for all bed spaces and modules installed in the parallel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB
    Inventor: Klaus Gebauer
  • Patent number: 11904261
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes an inner filter basket comprising an elongated tubular portion having a first open end and a first closed end. The tubular portion defines a plurality of perforations therethrough. An outer surface of the tubular portion is seamless. A first annular brim extends outwardly from the open end of the tubular portion. The filter assembly also includes an outer filter basket having a second open end in which the inner filter basket is received. A second annular brim extends outwardly from the second open end of the outer filter basket. The first and second brims are configured to retain a fabric filter bag between the inner filter basket and the outer filter basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rosedale Products
    Inventors: Jose Ignacio Paz, Dennis Miles Findley, Mark Andrew Lunde
  • Patent number: 11905661
    Abstract: A paper pulp pressure apparatus includes a body casing having a pipe member and a leg member. The leg member extends diagonally from the pipe member. The pipe member includes an input end for receiving unfiltered fluid and an output end for outputting filtered fluid. The leg member includes a basket for receiving the unfiltered fluid from the input end. The basket includes a cavity which receives a rotor. The leg member includes a drain outlet which is in fluid communication with the cavity of the basket so as to receive contaminants from the unfiltered fluid unable to pass through a filtering media included in the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Jeffrey Leigh Jennings
  • Patent number: 11890556
    Abstract: A filter cartridge (1) comprising a filter medium (2) of cylindrical shape defining a central axis (3), a first flange (4), said first flange (4) being a flange plate which comprises a central opening (5) defining a fluid outlet, a first face (4a) and a second face (4b) opposite the first face (4a), said face (2) being fixed to the second face (4b) of the first flange (4), and a filtering medium (6) extending from said first face (4a) along the central axis and projecting outwardly from said central opening (5), said cylindrical extension (6) having an outer face (6a) and an inner face (6b); characterized in that said cylindrical extension (6) is traversed by at least one vent (7), and in that a first joint element (8) is provided at a first position of the cylindrical extension (6) and a second sealing element (9) is provided on a second position of the cylindrical extension (6), the first joint element (8) being axially offset from the second joint member (9) with respect to the central axis so that said at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION SARL
    Inventors: Gérard Malgorn, Stéphane Le Guyader, Charles W. Hawkins, Terry Shults
  • Patent number: 11883765
    Abstract: A filter element has an upstream and downstream side. A filter media assembly of the filter element has an upstream side and a downstream side and has a first filter media layer and a second filter media layer that is adjacent to the first media layer. A substantial portion of the first layer and second layer are uncoupled, and at least one of the first media layer and second media layer comprises binder fiber. The second media layer has a mean flow pore size equal to or smaller than the first media layer. A support layer system is adjacent to the downstream side of the filter media assembly, and a first wire mesh layer is adjacent to the support layer system. At least the first media layer, second media layer, support layer system, and first wire mesh cooperatively define pleats at a pleat packing density of greater than 125%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Barsness, Derek O. Jones
  • Patent number: 11883767
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a drain port comprising a top portion and at least one surface modification along the top portion. The drain port defines an aperture therein and is alignable with an outlet port. The outlet port includes a seal member that is attachable to an end portion of the outlet port. A portion of the aperture of the drain port is sealable to the seal member when the drain port and the outlet port are aligned such that the at least one surface modification of the drain port does not abut the seal member of the outlet port, thereby creating a sealed connection between the drain port and the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Pravin S. Kadam, Wassem Abdalla, Manolito D. Mendoza, Peter K. Herman, Kevin C. South, Ismail C. Bagci, Deeksha Shukla
  • Patent number: 11872510
    Abstract: A water filter is provided. The water filter includes a filtration material and a filter housing spaced for accommodating at least a portion of the filtration material therein. The water filter also includes a housing cap coupled to an upper end of the filter housing for enclosing the filtration material within the water filter. The housing cap includes an upper portion, a lower portion, and a channel formed through the upper portion and the lower portion. The water filter also includes an interface adapter accommodated in the channel, wherein the interface adapter includes a side wall vertically extending from an upper surface of the interface adapter and partially around a perimeter of the upper surface, and a projection vertically extending from the upper surface, wherein the projection is integrally formed with the upper surface and a portion of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Qingdao Ecopure Filter Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhibin Zou