Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David Kagan
  • Patent number: 6767860
    Abstract: An approach for beneficially incorporating both a solid organic impregnant and a fluid impregnant into filter media particles without the presence or addition of one unduly affecting the performance of the other. The present invention achieves impregnation by combining sublimation and non-bulk absorption techniques. These techniques may be carried out in sequential, simultaneous, overlapping, and/or alternating fashion, or the like. The invention is especially suitable when the filter media particles already contain or are to contain one or more other impregnants, whose function or presence might be adversely affected when conventional methods are used to add the solid organic and fluid materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jamie A. Hern, Simon J. Smith