Patents Represented by Attorney Cherskov Flaynik & Gurda, LLC
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Patent number: 8349035Abstract: The invention provides a fuel processor comprising a linear flow structure having an upstream portion and a downstream portion; a first catalyst supported at the upstream portion; and a second catalyst supported at the downstream portion, wherein the first catalyst is in fluid communication with the second catalyst. Also provided is a method for reforming fuel, the method comprising contacting the fuel to an oxidation catalyst so as to partially oxidize the fuel and generate heat; warming incoming fuel with the heat while simultaneously warming a reforming catalyst with the heat; and reacting the partially oxidized fuel with steam using the reforming catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Shabbir Ahmed, Dionissios D. Papadias, Sheldon H. D. Lee, Rajesh K. Ahluwalia
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Patent number: 8325571Abstract: A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Inventors: Paul Cappello, Mariusz Stanisz, Ernest Thompson
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Patent number: 8313853Abstract: A thin, flexible, porous ceramic composite (PCC) film useful as a separator for a molten-salt thermal battery comprises 50% to 95% by weight of electrically non-conductive ceramic fibers comprising a coating of magnesium oxide on the surface of the fibers in an amount in the range of 5% to 50% by weight. The ceramic fibers comprise Al2O3, AlSiO2, BN, AlN, or a mixture of two or more of the foregoing; and the magnesium oxide coating interconnects the ceramic fibers providing a porous network of magnesium oxide-coated fibers having a porosity of not less than 50% by volume. The pores of the film optionally can include a solid electrolyte salt. A laminated electrode/PCC film combination is also provided, as well as a thermal battery cell comprising the PCC film as a separator.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Inventor: Thomas D. Kaun
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Patent number: 8263248Abstract: An electrochemical device comprising alternating layers of positive and negative electrodes separated from each other by separator layers. The electrode layers extend beyond the periphery of the separator layers providing superior contact between the electrodes and battery terminals, eliminating the need for welding the electrode to the terminal. Electrical resistance within the battery is decreased and thermal conductivity of the cell is increased allowing for superior heat removal from the battery and increased efficiency. Increased internal pressure within the battery can be alleviated without damaging or removing the battery from service while keeping the contents of the battery sealed off from the atmosphere by a pressure release system. Nonoperative cells within a battery assembly can also be removed from service by shorting the nonoperative cell thus decreasing battery life.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Inventek CorporationInventor: Thomas D. Kaun
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Patent number: 8196783Abstract: Embodiments relate to a device and method for dispensing pressurized fluid from a container wherein the internal pressure of the container is not exposed to an external or ambient atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Inventor: Josef Krzecki
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Patent number: 8168746Abstract: The invention provides a method for the insertion of protein in storage vehicles and the recovery of the proteins from the vehicles, the method comprising supplying isolated protein; mixing the isolated protein with a fluid so as to form a mixture, the fluid comprising saturated phospholipids, lipopolymers, and a surfactant; cycling the mixture between a first temperature and a second temperature; maintaining the mixture as a solid for an indefinite period of time; diluting the mixture in detergent buffer so as to disrupt the composition of the mixture, and diluting to disrupt the fluid in its low viscosity state for removal of the guest molecules by, for example, dialysis, filtering or chromatography dialyzing/filtering the emulsified solid.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Millicent A. Firestone, Philip D. Laible
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Patent number: 8153094Abstract: A single step process for degrading plastic waste by converting the plastic waste into carbonaceous products via thermal decomposition of the plastic waste by placing the plastic waste into a reactor, heating the plastic waste under an inert or air atmosphere until the temperature of 700° C. is achieved, allowing the reactor to cool down, and recovering the resulting decomposition products therefrom. The decomposition products that this process yields are carbonaceous materials, and more specifically egg-shaped and spherical-shaped solid carbons. Additionally, in the presence of a transition metal compound, this thermal decomposition process produces multi-walled carbon nanotubes.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Vilas G. Pol, Pappannan Thiyagarajan
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Patent number: 8148293Abstract: Highly uniform cluster based nanocatalysts supported on technologically relevant supports were synthesized for reactions of top industrial relevance. The Pt-cluster based catalysts outperformed the very best reported ODHP catalyst in both activity (by up to two orders of magnitude higher turn-over frequencies) and in selectivity. The results clearly demonstrate that highly dispersed ultra-small Pt clusters precisely localized on high-surface area supports can lead to affordable new catalysts for highly efficient and economic propene production, including considerably simplified separation of the final product. The combined GISAXS-mass spectrometry provides an excellent tool to monitor the evolution of size and shape of nanocatalyst at action under realistic conditions. Also provided are sub-nanometer gold and sub-nanometer to few nm size-selected silver catalysts which possess size dependent tunable catalytic properties in the epoxidation of alkenes.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Stefan Vajda, Michael J. Pellin, Jeffrey W. Elam, Christopher L. Marshall, Randall A. Winans, Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
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Patent number: 8143189Abstract: Highly uniform cluster based nanocatalysts supported on technologically relevant supports were synthesized for reactions of top industrial relevance. The Pt-cluster based catalysts outperformed the very best reported ODHP catalyst in both activity (by up to two orders of magnitude higher turn-over frequencies) and in selectivity. The results clearly demonstrate that highly dispersed ultra-small Pt clusters precisely localized on high-surface area supports can lead to affordable new catalysts for highly efficient and economic propene production, including considerably simplified separation of the final product. The combined GISAXS-mass spectrometry provides an excellent tool to monitor the evolution of size and shape of nanocatalyst at action under realistic conditions. Also provided are sub-nanometer gold and sub-nanometer to few nm size-selected silver catalysts which possess size dependent tunable catalytic properties in the epoxidation of alkenes.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Stefan Vajda, Michael J. Pellin, Jeffrey W. Elam, Christopher L. Marshall, Randall A. Winans, Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
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Patent number: 8130066Abstract: Wire-holders are provided that confine a single wire over a limited arc section and that are interspersed with ferrite ingots that provide wire-ways for several wires are utilized in the winding of the coils of a transformer. A method for consistently producing windings having accurate wire placement on rotors, stators, and other electrical componentry is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Schleifring Medical Systems USAInventors: Gregory M. Dunlap, Kai Chi Chan
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Patent number: 8118279Abstract: An illuminative jack is provided, having a plurality of lights recessed within a top plate to provide illumination directed to a lifting location. The jack includes transparent material positioned disposed below the contact surface of the top plate and disposed above the plurality of lights to protect the lights, while allowing light to emanate on the lifting location.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Kai Hsiang Traffic Appliances Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lai-Shun Lin
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Patent number: D662581Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Alternative Wastewater Systems, Inc.Inventor: Donald J. Savegnago
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Patent number: D664664Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Inventor: Theresa Mai