Atomizer Type Patents (Class 261/78.1)
  • Patent number: 11539042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of making carbon nanotube supported self-standing electrodes embedded in a polymer based battery packaging material. The present disclosure further relates to a method of continuously making carbon nanotube supported self-standing electrodes embedded in a polymer based battery packaging material. The resulting self-standing electrodes may be used in a wearable and flexible battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Avetik R. Harutyunyan
  • Patent number: 11338255
    Abstract: A micro-bubble generating system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an electrolytic bath configured to generate primary micro-bubbles; a water supply hose which is connected to an outlet end of the electrolytic bath; and a micro-bubble generating device which is connected to the outlet end of the water supply hose to generate secondary micro-bubbles having a smaller diameter than the primary micro-bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Chungang University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Hyungki Hong, Sangki Woo, Sangsoo Ahn, Jongmin Kim, Seunghoon Oh, Jeongil Lee, Minsub Hwang
  • Patent number: 10240865
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for drying a material to liberate a substance such as a liquid having a vapor pressure from solids and/or dissolved substances in the material. The system includes a plenum chamber and a blower providing a stream of air to the plenum chamber. An outlet communicates with the plenum chamber and a velocity accelerator is disposed downstream of the outlet. The velocity accelerator is arranged to receive air from the outlet of the plenum chamber into a progressively narrowing interior passageway terminating at a downstream choke point orifice. The choke point orifice discharges into a larger diameter discharge region. A throttle body is disposed in the discharge region and is selectively movable toward and away from the choke point orifice to decrease or increase the volume of the discharge region. A passageway is formed through the throttle body for receiving flashed material from the discharge region and conveying the material in a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Flash Rockwell Technologies LLC
    Inventor: John Hogan
  • Patent number: 9631815
    Abstract: A system includes a turbine combustor that includes a head end portion having a head end chamber, a combustion portion having a combustion chamber disposed downstream from the head end chamber, a cap disposed between the head end chamber and the combustion chamber, and a flow distributor configured to distribute at least one of an exhaust flow, an oxidant flow, an oxidant-exhaust mixture, or any combination thereof circumferentially around the head end chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: General Electric Company, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Carolyn Ashley Antoniono, William Lawrence Byrne, Elizabeth Angelyn Fadde
  • Patent number: 9394863
    Abstract: An integrated vacuum port module includes a base 12 and a mounting feature secured to the base and operable to form an airtight connection with a housing 14. A first tubular conduit 28 is secured to the base 12 forming a flow passage extending through the base 12 from an exterior to interior side. A second tubular similarly secured to the base 12 forming a flow passage extending through the base 12. A flow port, pressure sensing port or exhaust port 22 is fluidically connected to and secured to at least one of the tubular conduits 28,30 and arranged within the housing 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Gregg Updike, Dan Huff
  • Patent number: 8899495
    Abstract: A mist generating system includes an input pipeline, an iced water tank, a heat exchanger, a nebulizing pump, an output pipeline, a pressure regulating set and a pressure releasing set communicating with each other via a plurality of pipes. The iced water tank is connected between the input pipeline and the nebulizing pump. The iced water tank is connected to the heat exchanger. One end of the output pipeline is connected to the nebulizing pump. Another end of the output pipeline is connected to the pressure regulating set. The pressure regulating set is connected to the iced water tank. One end of the pressure releasing set connected between the nebulizing pump and the output pipeline. Another end of the pressure releasing set connected to the iced water tank. When the mist generating system is turned on, a volume of water is ejected toward the outside in a mist form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventor: Meng-Yao Chuang
  • Patent number: 8894043
    Abstract: In order to create an electrically activated carburettor for petrol engines with an air funnel for sucking in fuel from a fuel line leading into the air funnel which is connected to a fuel chamber and between fuel chamber and orifice in the air funnel a fuel jet for adjusting a fuel quantity that can be sucked in from the fuel chamber because of vacuum in the air funnel that can be flexibly adapted as carburettor more preferably for power implements, which overcomes the abovementioned disadvantages of the prior art and has a simple, sturdy construction which allows constant long-term behavior, it is proposed that in series connection with the fuel jet at least two Tesla diodes are provided, between which a pumping chamber with a pumping unit is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventor: Christian Kellermann
  • Publication number: 20140251127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for influencing the smell coming from shaft openings of underground sewers, in which water droplets are sprayed into the air in shafts (1) of underground sewers which are open in the direction of the ambient air. Said spraying device comprises a pressure vessel (3) containing water and a nozzle (4) having one or more fine openings through which water can escape from the pressure vessel (3), the pressure vessel (3) being subject to a hydrostatic pressure which is by at least 2 bars greater than the ambient pressure, and the diameter of one or more nozzle openings being less than 130 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventor: Kurt Himmelfreundpointner
  • Publication number: 20140232022
    Abstract: The present device deploys a portable humidifier of utilizing mineral water bottles or thermos containing mineral water, including an ultrasonic vibrator, a circuit part to generate ultrasonic waves, USB connector to supply electric power in connection to the circuit part, and a water-supply bottle join, and a main body in which a water-supply part can be installed and spray holes are formed, but the water supply part consists of a circular filter, and a support pipe, while accommodating the circular filter, a through hole is drilled on the support pipe to connect an auxiliary water-supply filter or a large and short circular filter by forming a stopper, in order to make the appearance beautiful, lighting LED is installed at the said circuit part, and ornamental caps and ornamental auxiliary materials are installed at the top of the said main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZING GRACE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chan-Ju CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20140131901
    Abstract: A misting fan includes a body, a nebulizing member, a directing member and a fan member. The body has a motor, a sink and a plurality of channels defined thereon. The channels communicate with the sink. The nebulizing member is assembled on the body, corresponds to one side of the motor, and communicates with the channels. The fan member is assembled to the motor and is defined between the nebulizing member and the motor. The directing member is assembled on the body and is defined between the fan member and the nebulizing member. Under this arrangement, when a volume of water is delivered from the sink to the nebulizing member via the channels so as to eject mists, the gas flows are delivered to each directing portion to forwardly spread the mists outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Yu-Chi Yen
  • Patent number: 8685338
    Abstract: An odor compound release device includes a support that is deformed when an external stimulus is applied, and when the external stimulus is not applied, restored to its original state. A plurality of spaces are located in the support, have upper portions closed by the support, and are to be filled with odor compounds, wherein the upper portions are opened or closed by deformation or restoration of the support due to the application of the external stimulus. A member that is located in the support or on a surface of the support and applies the external stimulus to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., The Rgegents of The University of California
    Inventors: Jong-jin Park, Sung-ho Jin, Kyu-hyun Im, Jong-min Kim
  • Patent number: 8672300
    Abstract: A modified carburetor allows the fuel and air input ratio to be adjusted by varying the opening sizes in the carburetor. After the proper air opening size is determined and set, the fuel jet setting can be adjusted for cold starts and/or to fine tune the engine. The air opening setting may remain the same, regardless of engine speed. This allows the engine to create a vacuum of near zero to five inches of mercury or more, depending on the speed of the engine. A small air input opening setting may be used for the engine to create this vacuum. The higher the vacuum created, the better the fuel efficiency. The fuel from the modified carburetor then flows through a heated evaporator chamber that maintains this vacuum. This enhances and completes the evaporation process as the fuel passes through and over metal shavings toward the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: James Earl Faske
  • Patent number: 8641982
    Abstract: A vaporizer for the sterilization of containers, includes a housing, a first opening arranged in the housing for supplying a gaseous medium to the housing, an injection device for injecting into the housing a substance which contains hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). A heating device is arranged inside the housing for vaporizing the hydrogen peroxide, and a second opening is arranged in the housing for discharging a mixture of the gaseous medium and the vaporized hydrogen peroxide from the housing. The injection device extends in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to a plane of the heating device and the first opening is adjoined by a pipe section which extends at least partially in a longitudinal direction (L) of the injection device, wherein the injection device runs at least partially inside the pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Berthold Burgmeier, Patrick Engelhard, Josef Knott
  • Publication number: 20130098079
    Abstract: A mist cooling assembly (20) comprising a housing (21), a plurality of water misting outlets (55) generally aligned in a row along said housing (21), the misting outlets (55) being spaced along a misting width, and at least one air flow source (50) disposed within said housing (21) for supplying an air flow (59), wherein the housing (21) comprises at least one air flow outlet (36) adapted to direct the air flow (59) in use adjacent said misting outlets (55) and substantially spanning the misting width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Graham Robert Apolony, Phillip Michael Lourey, Fidel Dela Paz
  • Publication number: 20130099025
    Abstract: A portable humidifier that comprises a base unit that produces mist and a connecting member (bottle adaptor) that detachably connects one or more types of reservoirs (disposable water bottles) to the base unit. The connecting member (bottle adaptor) includes a first connecting portion that detachably connects the one or more types of reservoirs (disposable water bottles) to the connecting member, a second connecting portion that detachably connects the connecting member to the base unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: FOR LIFE PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: FOR LIFE PRODUCTS, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130056888
    Abstract: A nebulizer which has an insertable container and a counter device for counting operations of the nebulizer, and is opened for replacing the container. A securing device having locking portions which are forced apart is provided to prevent reconnection of an already used container. The nebulizer has an indicator for showing the current container number and/or symbols indicating the need container replacement. The indicator is driven by the force of an internal spring. The indicator member also controls a lock of the container for locking the container against further actuation. The lock is reset after container replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Holger HOLAKOVSKY, Florian WITTE, Frank HERRMANN, Charles William SEARS, Christopher Michael CATINELLA, Mario Alberto GONZALEZ, Sean Landis PHILIPS, Paul BERTRAM, Marc ROHRSCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 8282772
    Abstract: A method for processing wastewater includes the steps of introducing air and a liquid into a pump, and subjecting the air and liquid to high heat and pressure; delivering the heated and pressurized air and liquid from the pump to a gas and liquid separator to separate the air from the liquid; expanding the air from the gas and liquid separator through a nozzle to accelerate the air as it expands; injecting at least some portion of the wastewater to be processed into the air from the nozzle in an entrainment section downstream from the nozzle to entrain the wastewater into the air; passing the liquid portion from the gas and liquid separator through a valve to lower the pressure of the liquid to achieve flash evaporation of the liquid to produce water and steam; introducing the water and steam produced from the valve into the air and entrained wastewater in the entrainment section, to enhance entrainment of water into the air; and delivering the air and entrained wastewater from the entrainment section to an i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventor: W Paul Jepson
  • Patent number: 8277641
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a stack for a separation vessel adapted to receive a fluid having one or more phases. The stack may include one or more walls surrounding a void, a packed bed positioned within the void, and a distributor positioned above the packed bed. Generally, the stack has a height greater than its width. Usually, the separation vessel further includes a base having a length greater than its height, and the height of the stack is orientated substantially perpendicular to the length of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Tertel, July S. Maglente, David A. Bahr
  • Publication number: 20120219462
    Abstract: To trap gaseous contaminants (odor/chemical substances) and particulate contaminants (dust, microbial particles, allergenic particles, and the like), and regenerate or recover trapping performance for predetermined contaminants, provided is a cleaning filter (4) to be used in an air cleaning apparatus (1), the cleaning filter including a gas trapping member (6) and a particle trapping member (5). At least one of the gas trapping member (6) and the particle trapping member (5) includes: a trapping material (7) for trapping a predetermined contaminant in the air; and a trapping material holding member (8) for holding the trapping material (7) so as to be opposed to the air flow passage (3) with an air permeability ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventor: Atsuo Nozaki
  • Patent number: 8201351
    Abstract: Procedure and device for the micro-mixing of miscible or immiscible fluids through reflux cell, produced by the invasion of one of the fluids going upstream into the feeding tube of the other fluid. This tube is closed and has a tube exit which is placed opposite an area of confluence where the exiting flow of the intercepted fluid meets an approximately perpendicular current of invading fluid, which is radially and centripetally directed to the axis of this exiting flow. The product is released outside through an exit orifice. The edges of the tube exit and the exit orifice are opposite each other and separated by an axial gap; and the penetration of this reflux cell into the feeding tube is regulated by controlling the velocity of the fluid. An application of the invention is the ironing with a steam-aided water spray of drops smaller than 200 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Alfonso Miguel Ganan Calvo
  • Publication number: 20120146249
    Abstract: In a carburetor (1) including a choke valve (7) on the upstream side inside an aspiration passage (3) and a throttle valve (8) on the downstream side, the valves (7) and (8) are disposed at positions such that the valves adjacently oppose each other when having been turned to be in the fully open state, a bulging part (11) that bulges toward the region (A1) between the adjacently opposing valves (7) and (8) is integrally provided inside a venturi (9), and the aspiration passage (3) is divided into an air-fuel mixture passage (4) located on the side where a main jet (10) is provided and an air passage (5) through which leading air circulates by the bulging part and the valves (7) and (8), both of which are in the fully open condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: HUSQVARNA ZENOAH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuu Sugishita, Takashi Ohniwa
  • Patent number: 8197600
    Abstract: A vaporizer for generating a process gas from a liquid material includes a heat-exchange lower block having a hollow internal space and disposed below the spray port of an injector inside the container. A run-up space for the atomized liquid material is defined between the spray port and the heat-exchange lower block, and an annular space continuous to the run-up space is defined between an inner surface of the container and the heat-exchange lower block. An internal heater is disposed in the internal space of the heat-exchange lower block and includes a carbon wire formed of woven bundles of carbon fibers and sealed in a ceramic envelope. The internal heater is configured to heat the atomized liquid material flowing through the annular space to generate the process gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Ken Nakao, Hitoshi Kato, Tsuneyuki Okabe, Shigeyuki Okura
  • Publication number: 20120139134
    Abstract: A spray atomizing ozone water generating apparatus with gas storage ability includes a gas-water mixing chamber with atomizing water nebulizer, a delay circuit, as well as a tap water inlet valve and an ozone water outlet valve controlled by the delay circuit. Because the mixer has ozone storage ability, atomizing water nebulizer will atomize tap water sufficiently, ozone water generating apparatus according to the invention can thus produce super high concentration ozone water having a concentration more than 30 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Gavin HSU, Maxwell HSU
  • Publication number: 20120118161
    Abstract: This invention is a dust removal system for dust gas which comprises at least an atomizer. The atomizer comprises an atomizing chamber and an atomizing mechanism; the atomizing chamber includes an inlet for the dust gas and an outlet for the gas after mixture; the atomizing mechanism comprises a water chamber, the first atomizing ball, the second atomizing ball, an umbrella-shaped atomizer, and a regulating mechanism; the water chamber includes the first and second water inlet and the first and second water outlet; the regulating mechanism adjusts the fit clearance between the first atomizing ball and the first water outlet, the fit clearance between the second atomizing ball and the second water outlet, and the flare angle of the umbrella surface of the umbrella-shaped atomizer. The beneficial effect is: the two-stage atomization—coordinating the atomizing balls and the water outlets, and using an umbrella-shaped atomizer—guarantees the atomizing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Xuemin Chen, Qingdong Ye, Sihai Zhou
  • Patent number: 8167277
    Abstract: A carburetor booster that produces a shear factor to maintain emulsification of fluid passing through, out of, and around the booster body. The booster includes ports between a groove at a bottom portion of the booster and a plenum in the booster, the plenum being a source of a fuel mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Inventor: John R. Satterfield
  • Publication number: 20120091601
    Abstract: A fuel booster is adapted for use with a carburetor. The carburetor receives a liquid, such as fuel for an internal combustion engine. The carburetor has a Venturi with a centerline. The booster includes a liquid supply port hole positioned at an end of the booster; and a plurality of liquid port exits positioned along a side of the booster. The booster is adapted to be located at the centerline so that that a liquid received by the carburetor is provided to the booster supply port hole at and below the centerline and generally no liquid is provided to the booster supply port hole above the centerline. A ledge around the liquid port exits may help expose the liquid port exits. An encapsulated O-ring may seal the booster within the carburetor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventor: Patrick James
  • Patent number: 8158075
    Abstract: This invention intends to enable silicon compound to be removed from waste etching solution at a high removal rate and waste etching solution to be recycled without disposing it. The etching solution reproducing apparatus includes: temperature adjusting means for adjusting the temperature of taken out waste etching solution; atomizing means for atomizing waste etching solution adjusted in temperature by the temperature adjusting means; precipitating means for collecting waste etching solution atomized by the atomizing means and precipitating silicon compound in the waste etching solution; and separating means for separating silicon compound precipitated from the waste etching solution by the precipitating means so as to obtain reproduced etching solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Chemical Art Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8136798
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a fluid conditioning apparatus for conditioning a fluid disposed within, wherein the fluid conditioning apparatus is in fluid communication with a self contained system. The fluid conditioning apparatus includes a housing having a surrounding sidewall positioned about a longitudinal axis, the surrounding sidewall having an inlet portion and an outlet portion, the sidewall, inlet portion, and outlet portion all defining a housing interior. Further included in the fluid conditioning apparatus is structure for disbursing a selected component within the housing interior and structure for controlling the selected component disbursing to a achieve a selected fluid condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventor: Peter Robert Stewart
  • Patent number: 8100384
    Abstract: A carburetor for increasing the efficiency and horse power of an internal combustion engine. The carburetor generally includes a body including a throat extending therethrough, a deflector plate extending inwardly towards a cross-sectional center within the throat, a venturi member extending within the throat downstream of the deflector plate and including a channel fluidly connected thereof, and a throttle plate disposed within the throat downstream of the venturi member. The deflector plate is directed towards the channel to redirect at least a portion of an air stream entering the throat through the channel to mix with a fuel stream injected within the channel. A water supply line injects a hot water stream within the throat downstream of the venturi member, wherein the hot water stream mixes with the fuel stream to atomize the fuel stream for vaporization within the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Inventor: Kendall L. Hall
  • Patent number: 8038952
    Abstract: A flash atomizer comprising a channel substrate configured to generate a vapor and form a two-phase flow of a fluid; and an enhanced surface disposed on the channel substrate and configured to change a temperature and a pressure required to form the vapor, wherein the enhanced surface texture comprises a plurality of active nucleation sites configured to promote heterogeneous bubble nucleation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Larry William Swanson
  • Patent number: 8028975
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a stack for a separation vessel adapted to receive a fluid having one or more phases. The stack may include one or more walls surrounding a void, a packed bed positioned within the void, and a distributor positioned above the packed bed. Generally, the stack has a height greater than its width. Usually, the separation vessel further includes a base having a length greater than its height, and the height of the stack is orientated substantially perpendicular to the length of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Tertel, July S. Maglente, David Alden Bahr
  • Publication number: 20110168122
    Abstract: A carburetor provided on an intake pipe is disclosed. The carburetor includes a rotary cock attached to a fuel chamber. The cock is used for opening and closing fuel channels and drain channels. The cock has a rotational axis inclined relative to the central axis of the intake pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Taniguchi, Seiki Osanai, Koji Matsuno, Naoya Kumagai
  • Patent number: 7921805
    Abstract: A liquid injector is used to vaporize and inject a silicon precursor into a process chamber to form silicon-containing layers during a semiconductor fabrication process. The injector is connected to a source of silicon precursor, which preferably comprises liquid trisilane in a mixture with one or more dopant precursors. The mixture is metered as a liquid and delivered to the injector, where it is then vaporized and injected into the process chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: ASM America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Todd, Ivo Raaijmakers
  • Publication number: 20110049256
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for the treatment of charged hot gas, in particular hot pressure gasification gases from fly stream gasifiers during the partial oxidation of dust-type and/or liquid ash-containing feed in the fly stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Olaf Schulze, Anton Althapp, Burkhard Möller, Michael Gätke, Reinhold Grunwald, Günter Scholz, Wolfgang Rabe
  • Patent number: 7892336
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for extracting elements from a gaseous medium and concentrating them in a liquid medium, by nebulizing this liquid medium by means of the gaseous medium and condensing the mist produced by this nebulization. This apparatus comprises a first enclosure for nebulization and condensation, intended to contain the liquid medium, which is provided with a conduit for delivering the gaseous medium, means for nebulizing the liquid medium, and a conduit for discharging the gaseous medium, means for depressurizing or pressurizing the interior of the first enclosure, and is characterized in that it comprises a second enclosure for condensation and means for cooling this second enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Pierre Charrue, Gilles Thevenot, Goulven Cavalin, Roger Delmas
  • Patent number: 7858028
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a product having a low content of microorganisms by using steam. A method according to the invention can be used to pasteurize or sterilize a product, while retaining the activity of one or more active substances that may be present in the product, and relates to a method wherein a product is dried with air. Furthermore, the invention relates to a product obtainable according to a method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Nutricia N.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Ferdinand A. Pijls
  • Patent number: 7845213
    Abstract: Dispensers and refills for volatile liquids, such as fragrances, are disclosed. Dispensers and refills in combination with dispensers according to the present invention may comprise a volatile liquid and a housing. In certain embodiments, the volatile liquid of the present invention has a predetermined evaporation rate, measured and calculated by the method described herein. In other embodiments, the volatile liquid exhibits a predefined relative evaporation rate. In addition to the housing, the present invention includes optional components, such as a motorized fan and/or a wick, to facilitate release of the volatile liquid into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Padma Prabodh Varanasi, Joel E. Adair, Michael C. Liptrot, Qing Song
  • Patent number: 7797937
    Abstract: A condensation dispersion device for use with a power source having an exhaust recirculation system is disclosed. The condensation dispersion device may have a housing with an inlet configured to receive exhaust, and an outlet configured to discharge exhaust. The condensation dispersion device may also have a first static mixing device disposed within the housing and being configured to redirect condensate from an internal wall of the housing into the exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Dennis Lee Endicott, David Richard Wisley, James Richard Weber, Ben Evans, Stephan D. Roozenboom, Michael Patrick Harmon, Isaac Ethan Fox, James Dean Dunbar
  • Publication number: 20100230830
    Abstract: Systems and methods for lowering levels of carbon dioxide and other atmospheric pollutants are provided. Economically viable systems and processes capable of removing vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other atmospheric pollutants from gaseous waste streams and sequestering them in storage-stable forms are also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Kasra Farsad, Robert W. Elliott, Richard P. O'Connor, William Randall Seeker, Kyle Self, Justin Wall
  • Patent number: 7766994
    Abstract: An ultrasonic solution separating method wherein a solution is ultrasonically vibrated and atomized into mist in a carrier gas in an ultrasonic atomizing chamber (4) and the carrier gas including atomized mist is transferred to a collecting part (5) and in the collecting part (5) the mist component comprising solution atomized into mist is separated from the carrier gas. In the ultrasonic solution separating method, in the collecting part (5), mist component is separated from the carrier gas in an adsorbing step of causing mist component to be adsorbed onto an adsorbing agent (15) by bringing the carrier gas including mist component into contact with the adsorbing agent (15) and a separating step of separating mist component adsorbed onto the adsorbing agent (15) in the adsorbing step from the adsorbing agent (15), and mist component is separated from the carrier gas with the pressure of the separating step being made lower than the pressure of adsorbing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Ultrasound Brewery
    Inventor: Kazuo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 7744833
    Abstract: Dispensers and refills for volatile liquids, such as fragrances, are disclosed. Dispensers and refills in combination with dispensers according to the present invention may comprise a volatile liquid and a housing. In certain embodiments, the volatile liquid of the present invention has a predetermined evaporation rate, measured and calculated by the method described herein. In other embodiments, the volatile liquid exhibits a predefined relative evaporation rate. In addition to the housing, the present invention includes optional components, such as a motorized fan and/or a wick, to facilitate release of the volatile liquid into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Padma Prabodh Varanasi, Joel E. Adair, Michael C. Liptrot, Qing Song
  • Patent number: 7744066
    Abstract: A carburetor includes an air inlet with a mechanically adjustable air valve, a mechanically adjustable atomizer discharging in the air inlet, and a mechanical metering device connected with the air valve and the atomizer, maintaining a stoichiometric ratio between amounts of air and fuel. Additionally, the carburetor includes a fuel pressure regulating unit to regulate the fuel pressure of fuel injected in the air inlet, based on one or more dynamic engine load parameters under which a vacuum signal in the air inlet is obtained via a vacuum intake conduit discharging into the air inlet. By regulating the fuel pressure also in dependence of the measured vacuum signal, the emission of unburned fuel is reduced under certain dynamic conditions of the combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Inventor: Anthony John Williams
  • Publication number: 20100140560
    Abstract: Multicomponent nanoparticles materials and apparatuses and processes therefor are disclosed. In one aspect of the disclosure, separate particles generated from solution or suspension or by flame synthesis or flame spray pyrolysis, and the resultant particles are mixed in chamber prior to collection or deposition. In another aspect of the disclosure, nanoparticles are synthesized in stagnation or Bunsen flames and allowed to deposit by thermophoresis on a moving substrate. These techniques are scalable allowing mass production of multicomponent nanoparticles materials and films. The foregoing techniques can be used to prepare composites and component devices comprising one or more lithium based particles intimately mixed with carbon particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Hai WANG, Denis Phares
  • Publication number: 20100055003
    Abstract: A flash atomizer comprising a channel substrate configured to generate a vapor and form a two-phase flow of a fluid; and an enhanced surface disposed on the channel substrate and configured to change a temperature and a pressure required to form the vapor, wherein the enhanced surface texture comprises a plurality of active nucleation sites configured to promote heterogeneous bubble nucleation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Larry William Swanson
  • Publication number: 20100038805
    Abstract: A two-stroke engine with external fuel mixture generation in a carburettor. The engine including a suction funnel having an interior disposed upstream of the carburettor. The engine further includes a tapered insert having a narrow end and a wide end disposed in an area of an inlet port of the suction funnel. The insert at least partially defines the interior of the suction funnel, and the insert tapers in a flow direction of air flow from the wide end to the narrow end. Accordingly, a diameter of the interior of the suction funnel adjacent to the narrow end of the insert is substantially larger when compared to the narrow end of the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: 3W-MODELLMOTOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Weinhold, Peter Wintrich
  • Publication number: 20100025865
    Abstract: A beverage dispenser for dispensing beverages includes a touch panel assembly, removable fittings in a carbonator, a carbonator probe, and a carbonator pump assembly removable from a front of the beverage dispenser. The touch panel assembly includes a light source for backlighting a user interface and providing the dispenser with a visual presence. Electrode traces in the touch panel assembly detect interruptions in electrode fields and are accepted as user inputs for dispensing a beverage. A controller conducts the lighting, dispensing, and reconfiguring operations for the flavor selection areas on the user interface. The touch panel assembly further includes provisions for increasing a user interface area to increase visibility of a particular flavor, as well as bonus flavors on a beverage dispenser. The removable fittings each include an orifice for entry of water to be carbonated into the carbonator. The carbonator probe is a single wire probe with timed refill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Adrian M. Romanyszyn, Paul S. Sudolcan, Alfred A. Schroeder, Roberto Rosales
  • Publication number: 20090211555
    Abstract: In order to allow fuel to be delivered in a controlled manner into a mixing chamber of a carburetor, a needle is displaced towards a needle seat between an open and a closed position in a clocked manner relative to an intake stroke of the engine such that the amount of fuel that flows into the mixing chamber via a fuel duct is controlled in accordance with the rotational speed and the engine load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicants: BING POWER SYSTEMS GMBH, R.E. PHELON COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Lars Ottosson
  • Publication number: 20090166289
    Abstract: A trumpet-shaped slinger atomizes or aerosolizes liquid by lifting liquid from adjacent the surface of the liquid using helically oriented fins rotated by spinning the slinger on a shaft. The lifted liquid is centrifugally forced over an increasing surface area and ejected from an upper edge as droplets. When used in wastewater aeration, radial fan blades on top of the slinger break up foam and increase air circulation while the increased surface area of the droplets increases diffusion of dissolved gasses from the wastewater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: B. James Elliott, Trent Lydic, Terry Fischer, Gary Waite
  • Patent number: 7547002
    Abstract: Systems and methods for injecting and mixing a liquid hydrocarbon fuel to provide a uniform, homogenous fuel vapor mixture for introduction into a fuel reformer for use with a fuel cell are disclosed. Preferably, the system includes a fuel injector that generates and aspirate a liquid fuel in the presence of an atomizing gas stream; a diverging-converging mixing chamber, into which the atomized fuel and a secondary fluid stream are introduced, to enhance the mixing of the fuel and the added heated gas or steam; and a mixer/swirler, which can be centrally located in the mixing chamber between the upper and lower chambers, to stabilize the fuel vapor mixture further for greater uniformity and homogeneity. More preferably, grooves and/or brazed wires can be provided on the surfaces of the mixing chamber and/or mixer/swirler to channel any accumulated fuel so as to provide sufficient time to evaporate the accumulated fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Chien-Pei Mao, John Short
  • Patent number: 7531131
    Abstract: A method using vibration for conditioning, air-conditioning, cooling and decontaminating, disinfecting and sterilizing physical media. The method includes a first vibratory action (13) performed on a regulated incoming current of the physical medium (2) so that the flow of the physical medium (2) is formed and the necessary and adequate conditions for cooling are created; a refrigerating medium (3) and a cold-absorbing medium (6) interact in a heat exchanging system (1); and another vibratory action (10) is performed on a cold-absorbing medium in order that the physical medium is continuously and/or periodically decontaminated and the necessary and adequate conditions for the functioning of the decontamination system in its steady state are created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Inventors: Danil Doubochinski, Roman Prytkov