Abstract: An implantable device includes a first sealed flexible shell configured for implantation within a breast of a human subject, an elastic filler material contained within the first sealed flexible shell, and a second sealed flexible, inelastic shell, which is disposed within the elastic filler material inside the first sealed flexible shell and is inflated with a volume of gas. The second shell includes a material selected such that a root-mean-square (RMS) sound pressure caused by a deformation of the second shell not exceeding 50 mm does not exceed 20 micro-Pascals.

Abstract: An expandable mammary implant including a shell having an anterior face and a posterior face. The anterior has an upper pole portion and a lower pole portion meeting at an apex, and an injection zone for receiving fluid therethrough to inflate the implant. A reinforcement material is coupled to the shell in a reinforcement zone. The reinforcement material is coupled to the shell so as to at least coincide with the upper pole portion and a peripheral rim portion that extends from the posterior face upwardly into said anterior face by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: Provided is a haulage vehicle having an air cleaner that is realistic from the viewpoints of fabrication steps and cost aspect. An air cleaner (24) arranged in a haulage vehicle is provided with a swirling flow generator (26), a separator (27) and an outer cylindrical casing (25). The swirling flow generator has a fixed shaft (28) and a plurality of guide blades (29) arranged and shifted from one another over a predetermined angle in a direction in which the guide blades rotate about the fixed shaft, and by the plurality of guide blades, a swirling flow of cooling air is generated. The separator has a flange (32) attached on and along an inner peripheral wall of the outer cylindrical casing (25), an inner cylindrical member (30) arranged on an outer edge of a center bore of the flange, and a collection pocket (31).

Abstract: Z-filter media pack arrangements and methods for providing them are described. The preferred arrangements have a cured-in-place jacket around an outside of a coiled z-filter media combination. The preferred cured-in-place jacket is a mold-in-place overmold which includes, integral therein, a housing seal arrangement. Preferably a cured-in-place center core is used, most preferably one that has opposite concave ends with seal arrangements configured to seal a lead end portion of the coiled z-filter media combination.

Abstract: A system and associated method for removing metal, including metal in vapor form, from high temperature fluid emissions such as may occur at the exhaust of furnaces or thermal treatment equipment. One embodiment is the Integrated Metal Emissions Control System (IMECS™) incorporating both a Steel Screen Particulate (SSP) Filter System and a Perlite Based Sorbent (PBS) System. IMECS™ uses the SSP Filter System, with pore sizes down to one micron, to capture toxic metal particulate materials and the PBS System to capture vapor phase metals using surface-modified perlite. Using the IMECS™, EPA-listed heavy metals have been removed from representative high-temperature emissions in field tests to easily meet the NESHAP standards.

Abstract: In operating the carbon monoxide removal reactor or the fuel reforming system, there is provided a technique for removing carbon monoxide in a stable manner for an extended period of time. In a method of removing carbon monoxide including an introducing step of introducing a reactant gas including mixture gas and an oxidizer added thereto to a carbon monoxide removal reactor forming in its casing a catalyst layer comprising a carbon monoxide removal catalyst for removing carbon monoxide contained in the mixture gas and a removing step of removing the carbon monoxide by causing the oxidizer to react with the mixture gas on the carbon monoxide removal catalyst, in said introducing step, the reactant gas of 100° C. or lower is introduced to the carbon monoxide removal reactor.

Abstract: A compressed air filtering cartridge includes a housing and a filter in the housing, the filter having a thermal vent. In one embodiment the filter includes a wall portion having a first condition when below a predetermined temperature range in which the wall portion blocks flow of air between opposite sides of the wall portion. The wall portion has a second condition when above the predetermined temperature range in which the wall portion does not block flow of air between opposite sides of the wall portion. The cartridge may be part of a compressed air system, between a compressor and an air dryer.

Abstract: A dedusting device 1 with a demister 15 advantageously arranged standing obliquely has a very compact construction because sufficient moistening or wetting of dust-containing crude air 24 is possible through the use of intensively acting multiple stream nozzles 33. The ventilator 11 is allocated to its own ventilator housing 18 that is connected to the dedusting device housing 10 and has a muffler 20 inserted downstream.

Abstract: At a milling machine to work ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a milling drum supported at the machine frame, at least one transport device arranged at the machine frame which accepts the milled material from the milling drum, as well as with a suction device for the air polluted with dusts and vapors, whereby the milled material on the at least one transport device is enclosed by a channel, the suction device is connected to a rear channel section of the channel in the direction of the material transport and sucks off the air polluted during milling at the milling drum and in the rear channel section essentially in the direction of the material transport, it is provided that the suction device consists of a suction ventilator, a separator device for solids and a suction channel which is connected to the rear channel section, that the suction ventilator is arranged downstream of the separator device, and that the suction device disposes of the separated solids onto the transport device in a forward chann

Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment filter system for an internal combustion engine includes an aftertreatment filter disposed in-line with an exhaust gas conduit coupled to an internal combustion engine, a mounting bracket defining a mounting surface and at least one leg extending from the mounting bracket, the at least one leg defining a mounting foot at a distal end thereof with the mounting foot of the at least one leg and the mounting surface of the mounting bracket defining a first air gap therebetween, the mounting foot of the at least one leg secured to the aftertreatment filter, and at least one electrical component secured to the mounting surface of the mounting bracket.

Abstract: A dusting device 1 with a demister 15 advantageously arranged standing obliquely has a very compact construction because sufficient moistening or wetting of dust-containing crude air 24 is possible through the use of intensively acting multiple stream nozzles 33. The ventilator 11 is allocated to its own ventilator housing 18 that is connected to the dusting device housing 10 and has a muffler 20 inserted downstream.

Abstract: A mining apparatus dust collection component including a vessel to receive and circulate an airflow and an entrained particulate material; said vessel separating said particulate material from airflow by a centrifugal effect said vessel including an inlet and an outlet for said airflow said component including attachment means to attach a detachable bag to said vessel said detachable bag preventing air passing through it. A mining apparatus dust collection system including: at least one inlet associated with a respective drilling unit to draw air and dust into said system from a drill bit when said drilling unit is in use; at least a first stage of dust removal being a mining dust collection component as described connected to at least one of said inlet; a vacuum pump to draw air and dust from said drilling unit.

Abstract: The air filtration device for use with a roof drill has an air intake block attached to a vertical support abutting the mine roof lateral to the drill hole. A flexible hose attached to a dust filter and a vacuum source for filtering and collecting dust from the air before exhausting the air to the atmosphere is connected to the air intake block. The air intake block has a plurality of holes defined in at least one face of the block for the intake of dust laden air and an air passage within the block in communication with the vacuum source provided by the flexible hose. The holes defined in the air intake block may be covered by screens to prevent the entrance of large particles into the air intake block. The air intake block is disposed to provide sufficient suction lateral to the longitudinal axis of the drill steel in order to remove fine particles of quartz and dust from the air adjacent the entrance of the drill hole.

Abstract: For purifying dust-containing air, particularly in underground mining and tunnel construction, a dust separator 1 in the form of a rotary washer 1 is proposed. The drive 5 of said rotary washer 1 is equipped with a gear unit 10 in order to enable long-term operation with a straight characteristic. Furthermore, disposed downstream of the fan impeller 6 is a special separating element 11 in the form of a demister 20, which is disposed so as to be suspended approximately horizontally in the air stream. Clogging of the demister 20 is therefore effectively prevented and so uniform and reliable operation is guaranteed. The demister 20 together with its associated jetwashing device 22 may be swivelled by a positioning motor 23 into an, in each case, optimum position.