Patents Assigned to Donaldson Company, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12078265
    Abstract: A vent assembly has a housing defining a cavity, a first end, a second end, a vent opening, a valve opening, and a coupling structure towards the second end. The housing defines a valve opening and a vent opening. A vent is coupled to the housing across the vent opening, and a one-way relief valve is sealably disposed on the housing across a valve opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Sanders, Michael J. Hebert, Daniel Dotzler, Koen Gatz
  • Patent number: 12070711
    Abstract: Air filter cartridges are disclosed. Also described are air cleaners including the filter cartridges. Methods of assembly and use are also provided. Also, systems of use are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Reichter, Wayne Bishop, Benny K. Nelson, Darrel Wegner, Bruce Crenshaw, Thomas Miller, Donald Mork, Kevin Schrage, Vladimir Kladnitsky, Richard Osendorf, Bradley Kuempel, Thomas Lundgren, Jordan Flagstad
  • Patent number: 12070710
    Abstract: Air cleaner assemblies, components, and features are described. The features can be used to provide that the air cleaner assembly cannot be fully closed, even if a cartridge is nested therein, and appears to be sealed, unless that cartridge is a proper one for the system of concern. The effect is to prevent an inappropriate cartridge, that does not properly seal, from being inadvertently installed in the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel E. Adamek, Scott Brown, Robert D. Johnston, Matthew A. Kalis, Richard P. Manahan
  • Patent number: 12060858
    Abstract: An air filter element includes a filter arrangement, an elbow, and a filter element seal member. The filter arrangement includes a filter media pack having a dirty air inlet and a clean air outlet, wherein air flowing through the clean air outlet flows in a first axial direction and the clean air outlet defines a filter arrangement cross sectional area. The elbow has a first end constructed to extend from the filter arrangement clean air outlet, a second end wherein air flowing through the second end flows in a second axial direction, and an air flow enclosure extending from the elbow first end to the elbow second end. The air flow enclosure includes an air deflector constructed to direct air from the first axial direction to the second axial direction, wherein the second axial direction is different from the first axial direction, and an interior volume between the elbow first end and the elbow second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Johan Dewit, Johnny Craessaerts
  • Patent number: 12057144
    Abstract: A gas replenishment component for an electronic enclosure is described. A main body defines a containment volume. The main body is sealed about the containment volume. A charging gas is contained in the containment volume. The containment volume has less than 5% N2. The main body defines a diffusive area that is permeable to the gas. A reversible seal obstructs the diffusive area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Block, Daniel L. Tuma, Bradly G. Hauser
  • Patent number: 12053734
    Abstract: A filter element includes a media pack and a gasket member. The gasket member includes first and second gasket regions separated by a channel. The elements are usable in a dust collector having a dirty air inlet, a clean air outlet, and a tubesheet dividing between an unfiltered and a clean air volume. An element is removably mounted and sealed within the tube sheet. At least one projection angled relative to a plane of the tube sheet extends into the channel of the gasket member. A method of servicing a dust collector includes removing a first filter element from the tube sheet in the housing, and then sealing a second filter element against the tube sheet by orienting at least one projection extending from a plane of the tube sheet into a channel defined by a gasket member secured to the second filter element. An axial force is exerted to form a seal between the gasket member and the tube sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas D. Raether, Brian Zauner, Jim C. Rothman
  • Patent number: 12048888
    Abstract: Pleated filtration media, media packs, filter elements, and methods for filtering fluid are provided which contain three dimensional flutes in the media surface, the flutes configured to improve filter performance. In certain embodiments the flutes have defined peaks that reduce masking between adjacent pleats, the flutes have ridges along their length to modify flute cross sectional geometry, and/or the flutes provide for volume asymmetry across the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary J. Rocklitz
  • Patent number: 12039854
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to multi-zone filtration monitoring systems and methods. In an embodiment, a filtration monitoring system is included having a plurality of filtration housings, a plurality of filter elements associated with the filter housings, a plurality of wireless communication tags associated with the filter elements, a plurality of zone antennas, and a wireless communication reader in wired communication with the plurality of zone antennas. The reader can be configured to wirelessly send data to and receive data from the wireless communication tags via the zone antennas. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Danny W. Miller
  • Patent number: 12036499
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, air cleaner assemblies, components, features, and methods relating thereto, are described. These features, in part, relate to configuration of a preferred seal arrangement and seal surface of the cartridge. Particular arrangements are shown, in which: the filter cartridge includes a seal arrangement having a axial pinch seal surface with a projection/recess contour including at least one projection thereon; and, the cartridge includes a seal contour projection stabilizing portion at a location in perimeter alignment with the portion of the seal pinch arrangement including the first housing engagement projection. Additional features are included that relate to clean air separator section tubes of a precleaner arrangement secured to a cartridge. These features can be used in cartridges including features outlined above, or in alternative cartridges. Additional features of air cleaner arrangements and filter cartridges in accord with the above are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc
    Inventors: Hubert J. Rahn, David J. Burton, Steven K. Campbell
  • Patent number: 12036487
    Abstract: A filter element, for use filtering liquids such as fuel, includes a first section of filter media, an optional layer of coalescer media, and a section of barrier media. The first section and optional coalescer filter media are held between opposite first and second end caps. The second end cap is integrated with the barrier filter media. The barrier media extends at least part way into an interior of the first section and can be conical in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Betcher, Kenneth P. Skaja, Paul R. Hennen, Gwenolé Stouthuysen, Brian Tucker, David B. Harder
  • Patent number: 12036502
    Abstract: A gas turbine air intake system uses a filter element having a seal member with radial projections and radial recesses. The seal member forms a seal with components on the tube sheet of the system and at the end opposite of the tube sheet. At the end opposite of the tube sheet, there can be an assembly cover, or alternatively, an additional filter cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Tiffany, Brent L. Anderson, Richard P. DeJong, Andrew C. Dahlgren, Wim Van Gelder, Olivier Ronneau, Mathijs Verstraete, Gert Proost, Massimo Movia, Eli Payton Ross, Michael R. Carlson
  • Patent number: 12030009
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly with a restriction indicator includes a housing having an exterior surface around an interior volume. The housing includes a bore extending through a portion of the exterior surface of the housing surrounded by a bore wall protruding from the portion of the exterior surface. A receptacle wall of the housing is disposed around the bore wall and is radially spaced from the bore wall to form a channel between the bore wall and the receptacle wall. A restriction indicator measures a restriction in the interior volume and displays an indication of the restriction. The restriction indicator includes a stem that is at least partially insertable into the bore that engages an inner surface of the bore wall. One or more tabs of the restriction indicator are at least partially insertable in the channel and removably couple to the receptacle wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Lockert, Douglas J. Nagel, Richard P. Manahan, Mark J. Gailloux, Steven K. Campbell
  • Patent number: 12023613
    Abstract: Fibrous filter medium that includes a melt-blown filter layer comprising melt-blown fibers and a high-efficiency glass-containing filter layer comprising glass fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Qiong Gao, Gregory S. Tronnes, Rakesh Kumar Yadav, Michael A. Madden
  • Patent number: 12023612
    Abstract: A filtration media with improved filtration, strength, tear resistance and air permeability in the form of a relatively thin and lightweight wet-laid fibrous web that has a wet Mullen ratio of 60% to 80% to ensure that the media is flexible enough to be formed into a fluted structure, and strong enough to retain the fluted structure when wound into a roll and to permit further processing without the media becoming too brittle. The filtration media comprises a blend of cellulose and synthetic fibers having a weight percent of 81 wt % to 87 wt % of a weight of the media and a resin binder having a weight of 13 wt % to 19 wt % (preferably about 16 wt %) of the weight of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: AHLSTROM OYJ, DONALDSON COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin R. Schouweiler, Kent Williamson, Kristin Amsden, Steven D. Schmeichel
  • Patent number: 12017177
    Abstract: A filtration media pack is provided having a plurality of layers of single facer media. The layer of single facer media includes a fluted sheet, a facing sheet, and a plurality of flutes extending between the fluted sheet and the facing sheet and having a flute length extending from a first face to a second face of the filtration media pack. A first portion of the plurality of flutes are closed to unfiltered fluid flowing into the first portion of the plurality of flutes, and a second portion of the plurality of flutes are closed to unfiltered fluid flowing out of the second portion of the plurality of flutes so that fluid passing into one of the first face and the second face of the media pack and out the other face of the media pack passes through media to provide filtration of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Rocklitz, Robert M. Rogers, Daniel E. Adamek, Ming Ouyang, Anitha M. Mathew
  • Patent number: 12017176
    Abstract: A filtration media pack including a plurality of layers of filter media is disclosed. The media pack includes fluted sheets and a facing sheet, with a plurality of flutes extending between the fluted sheets and the facing sheets. In an embodiment, the fluted sheet includes a plurality of protrusions that contact the facing sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott M. Brown
  • Patent number: 12017161
    Abstract: The current technology relates to filter media configurations where the filter media has a surface with a treatment that increases the roll off angle of the surface for a 50 ?L water droplet when the surface is immersed in toluene. Some example filter media have a fluted configuration, and some example filter media have multiple layers. Filter media having multiple layers can be single facer media, for example, where one layer is planar and another layer is fluted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Aflal Rahmathullah, Andrew J. Dallas, Brian R. Tucker, Daniel E. Adamek, Paul A. Way, Scott A. Betcher, Vijay K. Kapoor, Colter A. Marcks, William S. Rossiter, Timothy O. Winters, Wijadi Jodi, Bradly G. Hauser, Davis B. Moravec, Matthew P. Goertz, Stephen K. Sontag, Stuti S. Rajgarhia, Charles S. Christ, Joseph M. Block
  • Patent number: 12017173
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly includes a precleaner assembly. In one aspect, the precleaner assembly incudes a bypass arrangement that is operated to bypass a portion of air around the precleaner assembly. The bypass arrangement can be operated by a controller based on at least one input signal corresponding to one or more of a vehicle speed, a vehicle engine speed, a vehicle engine load, an operator input, a vehicle location, an air pressure drop across a filter element, an air pressure drop across the precleaner assembly, an acoustic level, a vibration level, a change or cleaning frequency of the filter element, a total number of filter element changes, an identity of the filter element, an identity of the engine, an identity of the vehicle, an air flow rate through the precleaner assembly or through the filter element, and a weather condition parameter identified through data received locally or from a weather service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Little, Scott M. Brown
  • Patent number: 12005380
    Abstract: A removable filter assembly for filtering a fluid having a particulate or a contaminant and configured to engage a filter housing having a center post. The removable filter assembly includes a filter element adapted to remove at least one of the particulate or contaminate from the fluid, wherein the filter element includes an interior wall defining a passage having a first end and a second end. A container arrangement includes a channel and an outer wall in contact with the filter element at the first end of the passage, wherein the outer wall defines an outer profile extending from the first end of the passage toward the second end of the passage. The channel defines an inner wall configured to provide a relatively fluid tight seal with the center post. The container arrangement is adapted to capture at least one of the particulate or contaminate from the fluid. The outer wall of the container arrangement can include a plurality of radially aligned ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian L. Newton, Jason A. Wells
  • Patent number: 12005387
    Abstract: A filter system includes a tube sheet defining a plurality of holes in fluid communication with a plurality of filter bags. The system also includes a rotating assembly having an arm defining one or more outlets to provide pressurized air from an air source toward the tube sheet in response to pulsing one or more actuators. A motor is operably coupled to the stationary assembly and the rotating assembly to rotate the arm about an axis at a preset rotational speed. A controller is operably coupled to the motor and the one or more actuators to provide pulse commands based on a pulse interval and a jog interval. The pulse interval and the jog interval may be determined based on a measured rotational speed of the arm, which may be redetermined during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan A. Graham, Steven A. Johnson