Catalytic Device Making Patents (Class 29/890)
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Patent number: 8251298Abstract: With an installation construction method for boiler facilities, the boiler facilities comprise a boiler building configured of a steel structure, and a boiler main unit suspended within the boiler building from the upper portion of the boiler building. A portion of the boiler building is constructed, a portion of the boiler main unit is suspended from the upper portion of the partially-constructed boiler building, and while the remaining steel structure portions are being added to the partially-constructed boiler building so as to construct the boiler building, the remaining portions of the boiler main unit are added to complete the boiler main unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuki Tatehira, Yukitaka Machida, Tadayoshi Mariyama
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Publication number: 20120210702Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic converter device for an internal combustion engine that produces exhaust gas, comprising a catalytic converter body (3) through which the exhaust gas can flow, a housing shell (2) that surrounds the catalytic converter body (3), and an apparatus for retaining the catalytic converter body (3) inside the housing shell (2). According to the invention, the apparatus for retaining has a joining foam (6), which connects the catalytic converter body (3) to the housing shell (2). The invention further relates to a method for producing such a catalytic converter device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Uwe Thesling, Holger Gräf
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Assembling method for metal honeycomb-shaped catalyzer carrier and assembling apparatus for the same
Patent number: 8240047Abstract: A method for assembling a metal honeycomb catalyzer carrier includes the steps of winding corrugated belt plate materials into a substantially cylindrical shape, forming a wound structure into a predetermined cylindrical shape with a die 101 and pushing out a wound honeycomb body 12 obtained through the forming from the die and inserting the wound honeycomb body 12 into the interior of a tubular member 13. An assembling apparatus 31 includes a winding unit 42 which includes, in turn, a rotational holding shaft 167 and a press roller unit 38, a die unit 39 for forming a wound structure wound round the rotational holding shaft 167 into a wound honeycomb body 12 of a predetermined cylindrical shape (of an outside diameter Dp), a tube support unit 132 for setting a tubular member 13 at an edge of a die surface 126, and a honeycomb push-out and insertion unit 34 for pushing out a formed structure from a die 101 and inserting the formed structure so pushed out into the tubular member 13.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Tsuchiya, Tadashi Goto, Nobuyuki Kakiya, Chiyoko Nemoto, Toshiyuki Horimukai -
Publication number: 20120193222Abstract: Electrochemical reactors are provided that operate on the carbonate cycle at extremely low temperatures (e.g., less than 50° C.), thereby allowing operation in as many as three (3) modes, namely as: (i) a room temperature carbonate fuel cell; (ii) an electrochemically assisted CO2 membrane separator; and (iii) a CO2 conversion device. Electrocatalysts are also provided that have the ability to selectively form carbonate anions over hydroxide anions under fully humidified conditions. Exemplary electrocatalysts according to the present disclosure include pyrochlores.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTInventors: William Earl Mustain, JR., Jose Angel Vega, Neil Scott Spinner
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Patent number: 8227372Abstract: The invention is directed to core/shell type catalyst particles comprising a Mcore/Mshell structure with Mcore=inner particle core and Mshell=outer particle shell, wherein the medium diameter of the catalyst particle (dcore+shell) is in the range of 20 to 100 nm, 5 preferably in the range of 20 to 50 nm. The thickness of the outer shell (tshell) is about 5 to 20% of the diameter of the inner particle core of said catalyst particle, preferably comprising at least 3 atomic layers. The inner particle core (Mcore) of the particles comprises metal or ceramic materials, whereas the material of the outer shell (Mshell) comprises precious metals and/or alloys thereof. The core/shell type catalyst particles are preferably supported on suitable support materials such as carbon black and can be used as electrocatalysts for fuel cells and for other catalytic applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Marco Lopez, Michael Lennartz, Dan V. Goia, Carsten Becker, Stéphanie Chevalliot
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Publication number: 20120184633Abstract: The present invention includes a removable microchannel unit including an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice in fluid communication with a plurality of microchannels distributed throughout the removable microchannel unit, and a pressurized vessel adapted have the removable microchannel unit mounted thereto, the pressurized vessel adapted to contain a pressurized fluid exerting a positive gauge pressure upon at least a portion of the exterior of the removable microchannel unit. The invention also includes a microchannel unit assembly comprising a microchannel unit operation carried out within a pressurized vessel, where pressurized vessel includes a pressurized fluid exerting a positive gauge pressure upon an exterior of the microchannel unit operation, and where the microchannel unit operation includes an outlet orifice in fluid communication with an interior of the pressurized vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: William Allen Rogers, Paul William NEAGLE, Michael Alan MARCHlANDO, Christopher Paul Weil, Robert Dwayne Litt, Ronald Chester Pasadyn, G. Bradley Smith, Charles Robert Miele, Thomas Peter Forte, Jimmy Glen Pelham
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Patent number: 8201331Abstract: A method of making a catalytic converter includes providing a catalyst substrate having a substrate periphery and a mat support disposed thereon. The method also includes providing a metal shell having a shell wall having a shell periphery and a bore that is configured to receive the catalyst substrate and mat support. It further includes inserting the catalyst substrate and mat support into the bore of the metal shell in slidable engagement therewith. Still further it includes reducing the shell periphery while applying an axial force sufficient to cause translation of the catalyst substrate and mat support relative to the bore until the force reaches a predetermined retention force threshold, whereupon the reducing of the shell periphery and translation of the catalyst substrate is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Katcon Global S.A. DE C.V.Inventor: John C. Boehnke
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Publication number: 20120148464Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust-gas aftertreatment system which comprises a preferably catalytically active particle filter (wall-flow filter) which is followed in turn by a throughflow monolith (flow-through monolith) which is preferably provided with a catalytically active function. Both components have the same storage functions for gaseous substances present in the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines. The system is suitable in particular for the simultaneous removal of particles and pollutants from the exhaust gas of both predominantly lean-operated internal combustion engines and also of internal combustion engines operated predominantly with a stoichiometric air/fuel mixture. Likewise described is a process for the production and the use of such a system for exhaust-gas aftertreatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: UMICORE AG &CO. KGInventors: Stephan Eckhoff, Wilfried Mueller, Joerg-Michael Richter, Stefan Franoschek, Martin Votsmeier
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Patent number: 8186058Abstract: An exhaust system component (18, 10) for use in an exhaust system of a motor vehicle. The exhaust system component comprises a double wall surrounding a space (9, 11; 21) through which exhaust gas may flow when the exhaust system component is in use in an exhaust system. The double wall is comprised of a first and second metal wall (12, 14; 26, 28) that define between them a gap. The gap comprises an insulation material (16) made of chopped aluminium or magnesium aluminium silicate glass fibers. The insulation material can be in the form of, for example, an end cone perform. The exhaust system component can be an exhaust pipe (18).Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventor: Richard P. Merry
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Publication number: 20120121486Abstract: A wall-flow filter for filtering particulate matter from a flowing exhaust gas comprises a catalyst for catalysing both the conversion of solid carbon in the particulate matter by oxygen and the selective reduction of oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust gas with a nitrogenous reductant, which catalyst comprising optionally stabilised ceria and at least one metal selected from (i) tungsten and (ii) both tungsten and iron.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Jillian Elaine Collier, Ralf Dotzel, Sylvie Cécile Laroze, Rainer Leppelt, Paul James Millington, Jörg Werner Münch, Raj Rao Rajaram, Hubert Schedel
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Publication number: 20120117956Abstract: The invention relates to a latent heat storage catalyst (3) for an exhaust system (1) in an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising a member (5) that includes several parallel ducts (6). First ducts (6?) contain a phase change material (7), and second ducts (6?) have a catalytic coating (14). In order to be able to produce said latent heat storage catalyst at a low cost, the member (5) is formed by at least one layered structure (9) comprising two metal sheets (10, 11), at least one of which is corrugated and which rest against each other and are attached to one another such that the ridges of the at least one corrugated metal sheet (10) form the ducts (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Gerd Gaiser
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Publication number: 20120110850Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying member comprises a housing an exhaust gas purification block placed in the housing, and an exhaust gas purification block-retaining element inserted in an annular space between the housing and the block. The retaining element is, during manufacture of the member, made from a material including at least one nonfunctional component intended to disappear after a characteristic period of using the member. A method of manufacturing the member comprises assembling the housing, the retaining element, and the exhaust gas purification block to obtain a housing whereof a diameter is equal to a predetermined diameter, and with the installation density of the retaining element being equal to a target installation density after the characteristic usage period of the member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventor: Cyrille Cantele
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Patent number: 8161642Abstract: A holding apparatus includes a first holding unit including at least two supporting rollers rotatable around rotation shafts which extend substantially parallel with each other; a second holding unit including at least one supporting roller rotatable around a rotation shaft; and at least one holding mechanism having the first holding unit and the second holding unit. The rotation shafts of the supporting rollers of the first holding unit and the rotation shaft of the supporting roller of the second holding unit are substantially in parallel with each other. By moving at least one of the first holding unit and the second holding unit, an object to be held is held between the first holding unit and the second holding unit by using the supporting rollers.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8161646Abstract: In a method of manufacturing heat radiating fin, the technique of plastic working, such as stamping, is employed to apply an external force against a sheet metal material serving as a raw material for forming the heat radiating fin, so that the sheet metal material generates plastic deformation to form a plurality of recessed portions on a front side thereof. Meanwhile, a plurality of protruded portions is correspondingly formed on a rear side of the sheet metal material behind the recessed portions. Any two heat radiating fins so manufactured may be easily stacked and connected together with the protruded portions on a rear or higher heat radiating fin partially extended into the recessed portions on a front or lower heat radiating fin.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuo-Sheng Lin
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Publication number: 20120090298Abstract: Features relating to engine efficiency and emissions controls are described. Systems, methods, articles or manufacture and the like can include features relating to integrated muffler and emissions controls for engine exhaust, water-injected internal combustion engine with an asymmetric compression and expansion ratio, controlled combustion durations for HCCI engines, piston shrouding of sleeve valves, low element count bearings, improved ports, and premixing of fuel and exhaust.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventor: James M. Cleeves
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Patent number: 8146252Abstract: A process is provided for manufacturing an exhaust gas treatment device (1), which contains at least one exhaust gas treatment insert (2) in a tubular housing (4), especially for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. A circumferential geometry of the at least one insert (2) is measured in at least one axial section of the particular insert (2). The at least one insert (2) is inserted axially into the housing (4). The measured circumferential geometry of the at least one insert (2) is taken into account during the deformation of the housing (4).Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Georg Wirth
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Patent number: 8146251Abstract: A method of manufacturing a catalytic converter includes the steps of: a detecting step for detecting a pressing force at a time when a catalyst (11) is press-fitted into an outer cylindrical housing (13); a calculating step for calculating a diameter reduction, by which a clearance value between the outer cylindrical housing (13) and the catalyst (11) is set to a desired target value, based on the pressing force detected by the detecting step; and a swaging step for reducing a diameter of the outer cylindrical housing (13) based on the diameter reduction calculated by the calculating step.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Hirotec CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Kobayashi, Etsuo Kosaka, Kazuo Tanigawa
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Patent number: 8122603Abstract: Provided is an emission treatment system and method for simultaneously remediating the nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and gaseous hydrocarbons present in diesel engine exhaust streams. The emission treatment system has an oxidation catalyst upstream of a soot filter coated with a material effective in the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx by a reductant, e.g., ammonia. Also provided is a method for disposing an SCR catalyst composition on a wall flow monolith that provides adequate catalyst loading, but does not result in unsuitable back pressures in the exhaust.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Joseph A. Patchett, Joseph C. Dettling, Elizabeth A. Przybylski
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Patent number: 8122602Abstract: The present invention relates to a spinning apparatus for forming a workpiece. The spinning apparatus includes at least one spinner capable of deforming the workpiece. The apparatus allows for the forming of the workpiece in four different axes. The spinning apparatus includes an arrangement allowing for the vertical arrangement of the workpiece while the spinner is working on the workpiece. The spinning apparatus includes a clamp for holding the workpiece vertically. The spinner is positioned vertically below the clamp and the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Hess Engineering, Inc.Inventor: David Mayfield
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Publication number: 20120017439Abstract: A method for manufacturing a reaction chamber comprising a fuel insert and an elastic enclosure with a body and an opening, the method including the steps of stretching the body of the elastic enclosure to define a working lumen, orienting the metal hydride insert within the working lumen, and restituting the elastic enclosure over the insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: KEI EDGARDO YAMAMOTO, COURTNEY ALINE HELLAND, MATTHIEU JONEMANN, ANDREW PETERSON, DANIEL BRAITHWAITE
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Patent number: 8100315Abstract: A method is provided for providing external insulation for an exhaust gas aftertreatment or acoustic device, including the steps of (a) securing an insulating blanket around the exterior of the device, (b) securing a sheet of foil around the insulating blanket, (c) interconnecting a plurality of wires into a sleeve oriented in an axial direction by knitting or interweaving, whereby extending the sleeve in the axial direction biases the sleeve radially inwardly, (d) positioning the wire sleeve around the foil sheet, (e) welding one end of the wire sleeve to the device adjacent one end of the insulating blanket, (f) pulling the other end of the sleeve in the axial direction to bias the sleeve radially inwardly sufficiently to apply a compressive force to the insulating blanket, and (g) welding the other end of the sleeve to the device adjacent the other end of the insulating blanket.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Tennco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventor: Ruth Latham
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Patent number: 8096296Abstract: A vacuum solar thermal panel including a vacuum envelope defining a sealed volume and able to withstand atmospheric pressure when evacuated, at least one heat absorber being disposed inside the vacuum envelope, a pipe entering and exiting the envelope and being in contact with the heat absorber, the vacuum envelope including a first plate made of glass, a peripheral frame, a metallic peripheral belt being joined to the first plate by way of a vacuum tight bulk glass-metal seal, including glass material and obtained by fusion and subsequent solidification. The metallic peripheral belt includes at least one elastically deformable portion that prevents the bulk glass-metal seal from getting damaged and is no more vacuum tight when subject to the evacuation process of the envelope and the thermal treatments of the panel and the potential reciprocal displacements of the glass plate and the joined metallic peripheral belt.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: TVP Solar SAInventor: Vittorio Palmieri
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Patent number: 8091231Abstract: The present invention provides a spinning method of a work piece in a non-circular cylindrical shape capable of eliminating a swollen part, without causing any creases or depressions on the formed face, by performing spinning to the swollen part produced in a region near the minor axis of the work piece in a non-circular cylindrical shape.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Nihon Spindle Mfg Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Arito
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Patent number: 8092748Abstract: A housing for a component of an exhaust system, in particular for an exhaust gas purification device, has an envelope that comprises a shrunk clamping portion for the component, a transition portion that adjoins the clamping portion in an axial direction, and a connecting portion that adjoins the transition portion in the axial direction. The diameter of the connecting portion is larger than that of the clamping portion. A method of producing the housing for the component includes providing a tubular envelope, and inserting the component into the envelope. A shrinking step is then carried out in the clamping portion which terminates spaced apart from ends of the envelope as viewed in the axial direction, whereas the axial ends of the envelope are not acted upon.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: EMCON Technologies Germany (Augsburg) GmbHInventors: Erich Forster, Stefan Keller, Otto Steinhauser
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Patent number: 8087167Abstract: In a method of fabricating an exhaust gas handling device, particularly an automotive emission control device, an insert, for example comprising a substrate and a support matting, is sensed as to its specific elasticity before it is clamped in place in an outer housing. For sensing, the insert is pressurized from without in a sensing station. Via the applied pressure and the displacement of the sensing tool the displacement of the insert at which it is to be clamped in place in the outer housing is determined. Then, the insert is fitted in an outer housing the inner dimensions of which correspond to the previously sensed wanted outer dimensions of the insert in the wanted compression.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: EMCON Technologies Germany (Augsburg) GmbHInventor: Peter Kroner
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Patent number: 8075978Abstract: A method for producing a honeycomb body includes providing an annular radial partial region with channels through which a fluid can flow. The honeycomb body is formed from at least one metallic layer fastened at least at one fastening point to an outer casing tube. Each metallic layer has alternating substantially smooth and structured sections folded onto one another. A honeycomb body is also provided. The method and the honeycomb body advantageously permit an annular honeycomb body with low material expenditure and good durability to be produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Inventors: Naroa Zaldua-Moreno, Ferdi Kurth, Rolf Brück
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Patent number: 8071037Abstract: Described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for treating exhaust. The described apparatus and systems typically include a catalytic device for converting aqueous urea to ammonia. The catalytic device may include a pyrolysis catalyst and a hydrolysis catalyst for converting aqueous urea to ammonia. The catalytic device typically includes an upstream face that is positioned at an angle relative to exhaust flow when the device is positioned in a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Inventors: Arvind V. Harinath, Bryan E. Blackwell, Pradeep Prasad, Z. Gerald Liu
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Patent number: 8056228Abstract: The invention relates to a method for roughening the surface of a metal sheet used as electrode support in industrial electrochemical applications, and an electrode made by such method. Mechanical roughening is imparted by skin-passing the sheet between two rollers of a rolling mill, at least one of which is patterned according to a predetermined profile to be transferred by compression to the surface of the metal sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Industrie De Nora S.p.A.Inventor: Dino Floriano Di Franco
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Patent number: 8048823Abstract: A foil for producing a metal honeycomb or catalyst carrier body, has an average surface roughness of more than 0.3 ?m (micrometers) on both surfaces in at least one measurement direction. Preferably, the foil is rolled and has an average surface roughness of more than 0.3 or 0.5 ?m, especially approximately 0.6 ?m, in the rolling direction and/or transverse thereto. The foil can have an oxide coating with a thickness between 60 and 80 or between 70 and 75 nm (nanometers) on both surfaces. Despite the roughness, an even thickness of the oxide coating with a tolerance of less than 10% or 5% is advantageous on both surfaces. The foil allows production of durable honeycomb bodies, especially for exhaust systems of internal combustion engines, requiring an exactly defined distribution and quality of compounds in the interior thereof. A honeycomb body and method of production using a foil, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Rolf Brück, Sven Schepers, Jan Hodgson, Kait Althöfer
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Patent number: 8025846Abstract: A process for introducing annular coated catalysts K into a reaction tube of a tube bundle reactor, in which adhering pairs of annular coated catalysts K formed in the preparation of the annular coated catalysts K, before the introduction thereof into the reaction tube, are removed at least partly from the annular coated catalysts K.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ulrich Cremer, Hagen Wilmer, Andreas Raichle, Hermann Petersen, Holger Borchert, Horst Strahberger, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
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Patent number: 8020297Abstract: A method for disassembling a boiler supported and suspended by a supporting structure which includes the steps of cutting off a lower part of a furnace unit to provide an enlarged opening; fixing a first support to the furnace unit at approximately same height as a lower end of a heat recovery area; fixing a second support to the lower end of the heat recovery area; providing a first jacking apparatus and a second jacking apparatus under the first support and the second support, respectively; detaching the boiler from the suspending structure; lowering the first support and the second support by the first jacking apparatus and the second jacking apparatus, cutting a lower part of the boiler, repeating the lowering and the disassembling steps until the first support and the second support are lowered to a maximum extent; and disassembling a remaining upper part of the boiler.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Besterra Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihide Yoshino
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Publication number: 20110162205Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst used in the production of PBS or its copolyesters and the preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: (1) adding titanium alkoxide, silicon alkoxide, dihydric alcohol and metal co-catalyst into the solvent and conducting the reaction at a temperature of about 80° C. to 180° C., then removing the unreacted materials and small molecular products in the reaction system; (2) adding complexing agent into the reaction system, then collecting catalyst from the products obtained in this step. Moreover, the method may comprises steps of: (1) adding titanium alkoxide, dihydric alcohol and metal co-catalyst into the solvent and conducting the reaction at a temperature of about 80° C. to 180° C., then removing the unreacted materials and small molecular products in the reaction system; (2) adding silicon alkoxide and complexing agent into the reaction system, then collecting catalyst from the products obtained in this step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Shanghai Huaming Hi-Tech (Group) Co., LtdInventors: Fantao Kong, Jinghui Yang, Qiufang Wu, Xinsheng Ma, Fuqing Li
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Patent number: 7971357Abstract: A device for treatment of exhaust gases includes a housing, a fragile structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and a non-intumescent mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile structure. The mounting mat includes a plurality of inorganic fibers that have undergone a surface treatment to increase the holding force performance of the mounting mat. Also disclosed are methods of making a mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Unifrax I LLCInventors: John D. Ten Eyck, Amit Kumar
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Patent number: 7950148Abstract: A holding sealer for an exhaust gas purifying device includes a sheet member including inorganic fibers and having a first surface and a second surface substantially facing each other and perpendicular to a direction of thickness of the sheet member. At least one of the first and second surfaces has a profile including projecting portions and depressed portions. The projecting and depressed portions of the profile have a maximum difference, h. The h satisfies about 0.4 mm?h?9 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiko Okabe
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Publication number: 20110113628Abstract: The method described herein provides a method for preparing a chlorinated silane at least one end product comprising SiH3Cl, SiH2Cl2, and combinations thereof in molar yields of 50% or greater with respect to silane in the feed stream. The method described herein therefore provides an end product comprising the one or more chlorinated silanes by contacting reaction mixture comprising silane and hydrogen chloride with a catalyst at a temperature and time sufficient to provide the end product.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Rajiv K. Agarwal, John Francis Lehmann, Charles Gardner Coe, Daniel Joseph Tempel
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Patent number: 7921557Abstract: A device for treatment of exhaust gases includes a housing, a fragile structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and a non-intumescent mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile structure. The mounting mat includes a plurality of inorganic fibers that have undergone a surface treatment to increase the holding force performance of the mounting mat. Also disclosed are methods of making a mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Unifrax I LLCInventors: John D. Ten Eyck, Amit Kumar
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Patent number: 7922924Abstract: An internal filter includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate. Fluid passages are formed by etching grooves into the surface(s) of the upper and/or lower substrates, and/or in one or more intermediate layers. The filter pores extending between the fluid passages are formed by etching second grooves that fluidly connect the fluid passages. Two or more sets of the one or two intermediate layers can be implemented to provide additional filter passages and/or pores. Each set can be connected to a separate fluid source and/or a separate microfluidic device. In another internal filter, the inlet and outlet passages and the filter pores are formed on the same upper or lower substrate. The inlet and outlet passages are partially formed in a first step. In a second step, the inlet and outlet passages are completed at the same time that the filter pores are formed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Gary A. Kneezel
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Patent number: 7913377Abstract: A method of producing a ceramic filter element suitable for use in an exhaust filter for an internal combustion engine, during which a combustible, non-ceramic support web is impregnated with a ceramic slip and formed into a desired geometric shape in either order, and then the impregnated and formed web is fired until the support web is burned out and a rigid ceramic filter body is formed.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventors: Karin Gerlach, Stefan Tudyka
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Patent number: 7909987Abstract: For manufacturing micro-structured reactors with passageways loaded with catalyst using the pre-coat method, a method is provided which comprises the following method steps: a) producing reactor layers having bonding areas as well as passageway areas in which the passageways are formed, b) applying at least one bonding layer onto the reactor layers in the bonding areas, c) loading the reactor layers in the passageway areas with the catalyst and d) bonding the reactor layers, the bonding layer being applied and masked before the reactor layers are loaded with the catalyst. As a result, it is ensured that the efficiency of the catalyst will not be affected during manufacturing. The reactor may be used as a methane and methanol reformer in particular.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Atotech Deutschland GmbHInventors: Olaf Kurtz, Ralph Herber, Christian Madry, Gerd Schäfer
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Patent number: 7900353Abstract: A method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base includes the steps of preparing a heat-conducting base and a plurality of heat pipes, providing a plurality of penetrating holes on a surface of the heat-conducting base, inserting one end of each heat pipe into the individual penetrating hole of the heat-conducting base, performing a lateral pressing to the heat-conducting base so as to bring each heat pipe into a tight and planar contact with the wall of each corresponding penetrating hole in the direction of pressing, and grinding the bottom surface of the heat-conducting base to become a flat surface to make the end of each heat pipe flush with the bottom surface of the heat-conducting base.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Jaffe LimitedInventor: Hul-Chun Hsu
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Patent number: 7900352Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a catalytic converter is described where the catalytic converter is comprised of an outer tube member having a monolith substrate internally compressed therein with a wrapped mat material surrounding the monolith substrate and intermediate the outer tube. One or more monolith members can be applied within the outer tube and heat shields may also be applied internal to the outer tube and adjacent to the monolith substrate. The assembly of the catalytic converter includes measuring the sequence of compression of the mat material to the monolith substrate in order to understand the possible force characteristics that can be applied during the assembly thereof. The mat material is therefore compressed within the outer tube by way of compression jaws, by compression rollers, by spinning and/or by a shrinker including compression members. The compression of the mat material can be in single or multiple steps.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2004Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Hess Engineering, Inc.Inventor: David Mayfield
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Publication number: 20110047975Abstract: A catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, which is a relatively cheap three-way-catalyst containing noble metal components, and is capable of suppressing sintering of the noble metals even at high temperature, and purifying a carbon monoxide (CO), a hydrocarbon (HC) and a nitrogen oxide (NOx), and is superior, in particular, in purifying the nitrogen oxide, along with a method for purifying exhaust gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Endo, Takahiro Kurokawa
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Publication number: 20110035941Abstract: A method of manufacturing an emissions treatment device for an internal combustion engine includes disposing washcoated fibers between layers of a porous substrate to form multiple substantially parallel layers with a first group of layers at least partially open along the entire length of the layer. The porous substrate may be a stainless steel mesh with the method further including washcoating the substrate prior to disposing the washcoated fibers between the layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Ray Willey, Bret A. Zimmerman, David J. Kubinski, Diana D. Brehob
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Publication number: 20110030355Abstract: A catalytic converter cartridge comprises multiple square, rectangular or other flat sided catalyst coated substrates, each substrate of which has each of its flat sides covered by a compressible mat material. These multiple mat covered substrates or modules are arranged into a multiple module array enclosed within a metal shell with each module preferably separated from adjacent modules by sheet metal spacers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: VCONVERTER COMPANYInventors: Daniel C. Gilmer, Jeffery M. Destrampe
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Patent number: 7883670Abstract: New designs, methods and processes are described that in which laminated devices and configured in a style named the “ortho” style. To form a device in the ortho style, plates or sheets are machined to have apertures and then stacked together such that the apertures connect and fluid can flow through the device in a direction that is substantially parallel to the direction of sheet thickness. Various laminated devices and processes using them are also described. For example, devices in which non-rectangular microchannels conform around reaction chambers or other bodies that need to be heated or cooled, are described. Features that separate or trip boundary layer and enhance heat transfer are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Anna Lee Tonkovich, Gary Roberts, Sean P. Fitzgerald, Paul W Neagle, Dongming Qiu, Matthew Schmidt
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Publication number: 20110010938Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to olefin polymerization catalysts, and more specifically to chromium-based catalysts and methods of use of chromium-based catalysts for the production of polyolefins, and even more specifically to methods for controlling or tailoring the flow index response of chromium-based catalysts through the controlled addition of a reducing agent to the catalysts under controlled mixing conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: UNIVATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: John H. Moorhouse, Kevin J. Cann, Mark G. Goode, Ronald S. Eisinger
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Publication number: 20100326059Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an exhaust aftertreatment system is disclosed. The system includes an oxidation catalyst (OC) that is configured to receive an exhaust gas flow from an engine. The system also includes an uncoated particulate filter (PF) that is configured to receive the exhaust gas flow from the OC. The system further also includes an exhaust fluid (EF) dosing device configured for dosing of an EF into the exhaust gas flow upstream of the uncoated PF. Still further, the system includes a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) catalyst that is configured to receive the exhaust gas flow from the uncoated PF, wherein the OC, uncoated PF and SCR catalyst comprise an exhaust aftertreatment system. A urea injector may be provided as the EF dosing device and arranged to inject urea, for example, into the exhaust gases upstream of the uncoated PF.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Rahul Mital, Jianwen Li
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Publication number: 20100307001Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device for internal combustion engines and the like includes inlet and outlet end caps, two catalyst substrates, and a two-piece housing. A first, cylindrically-shaped housing member has a hollow interior in which one of the substrates is retained, a first end sealingly connected with the inlet end cap, and an opposite second end with a radially reduced section. A second cylindrically-shaped housing member has a hollow interior in which the other one of the substrates is retained, a first end sealingly connected with the outlet end cap, and an opposite second end with a radially enlarged section sized to receive therein the second end of the first housing member, whereby the reduced section of the first housing member and the enlarge section of the second housing member are spaced radially apart a predetermined distance to define an annularly-shaped space or gap which thermally insulates the associated portion of the exhaust gas treatment device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Frederick B. Hill, JR., Joseph G. Salmonowicz, JR., Brad M. Schneemann, John C. Studabaker
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Patent number: 7829036Abstract: A fluid jet cutting process for fibrous materials, such as inorganic fibrous material articles is provided. A fluid composition for use in the fluid jet cutting process is also provided. The cutting fluid composition contains a carrier fluid and coating composition for the cut surfaces of the fibrous material. An apparatus for carrying out the fluid jet cutting process of fibrous materials is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Unifrax I LLCInventors: Amit Kumar, Scott Lee Misenar
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Publication number: 20100275443Abstract: A method of producing exhaust-gas carrying devices, in particular exhaust-gas cleaning devices, makes provision that the outer geometry of each substrate is ascertained. An outer housing with an adapted geometry is manufactured dependent on this outer geometry. The substrate, together with a compensation element, are accommodated and clamped in this outer housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2006Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Peter Kroner, Stefan Schmidt, Stefan Merschkoetter