Patents Assigned to McQuay Inc.
  • Patent number: 7959705
    Abstract: A filter media product and method of making the same wherein the filter media is pleatable and has at least one support scrim comprised of a melt bonded non-woven material or a fuse bonded non-woven material bonded to a layer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The filter media may have a single support scrim with one or more layers and optionally may have a support scrim on both an upstream and downstream surface where both or neither support scrim is multilayered. The filter media may have an efficiency greater than, equal to, or less than HEPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7905974
    Abstract: A method for making a pocket filter assembly is provided. Two side and two end header elements each having a pair of longitudinally extending side walls and a longitudinally extending bottom wall forming a longitudinally extending channel are joined at ends forming a rectangular header with two opposing sides and two opposing ends. The bottom wall and side walls of each of the opposing sides and the bottom walls and said side walls of each of said opposing ends become adjacent forming a rectangular header with a continuous bottom wall and continuous inner and outer side wall having a continuous channel therein. An upstream perimeter portion of a pocket filter element is inserted in the continuous channel and a liquid polymeric material is placed therein. The polymeric material is solidified forming a header frame having the upstream perimeter portion of the filter element unitary therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Langlands, Wim Fekkes
  • Patent number: 7906456
    Abstract: An odor filtration media having a chemical reagent which removes odor causing fluid contaminants from a fluid stream through the use of granular or shaped media have a chemical composition including permanganate is provided. A method of producing the odor absorbing media having a chemical reagent is also provided and comprises the steps of mixing H2O, KMnO4, and at least one salt adding ions or ionic compounds selected from the group consisting of Na+, Li+, K+, NH4+, Cl?, SO42?, BO32?, CO32?, PO43?, NO3? and combinations thereof, or from the group consisting of Na+, Li+, K+, NH4+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Cl?, BO32?, NO3? and combinations thereof, forming an impregnating solution. The impregnating solution is heated and combined with a support material to form a coherent mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Osborne, Zhong C. He, Ng Cheah Wei
  • Patent number: 7901479
    Abstract: A filter cassette rack and tracks wherein the rack is a three dimensional rectangular rack having at least two opposing open sides, sealing and non-sealing support tracks span the rack providing filter cassette guides and sealing means for a plurality of filter cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Osborne, Keiron O'Connell, Husheder P. Daruwalla, Joachim Horst Wenzek, Ng Cheah Wei
  • Patent number: 7896941
    Abstract: A filter media product and method of making the same wherein at least two filter media thicknesses of differing average coarse and fine fiber sizes are held in intertangled relationship forming a gradient density fibrous filter media with the fiber sizes having an overall average in successive thicknesses being either greater or less than the average fiber size of the intertangled fiber thickness(es).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7837756
    Abstract: A filter media product and method of making the same wherein the filter media is pleatable and has at least one support scrim comprised of a melt bonded non-woven material or a fuse bonded non-woven material bonded to a layer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The filter media may have a single support scrim with one or more layers and optionally may have a support scrim on both an upstream and downstream surface where both or neither support scrim is multilayered. The filter media may have an efficiency greater than, equal to, or less than HEPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7757510
    Abstract: A cabinet for an air handling unit includes a cabinet assembly being formed framelessly of a plurality of panel assemblies, each panel assembly being formed of two spaced apart metallic panels embracing an intermediate core and wherein the plurality of panel assemblies provides the structural strength of the cabinet assembly. A method of forming a cabinet for an air handling unit is further included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose A. Rosete, George Calienes, Oscar Enrique Barrios González
  • Patent number: 7687416
    Abstract: An arrangement for producing a fibrous mat from a heated die source wherein the produced mat includes a first layered, preselected fiber portion of substantially straight fibers produced by directing such fibers directly to a collector source and a second layered preselected fiber portion of substantially curled fibers produced by diverting and exerting an external vortically creative curling force thereon before reaching the collector source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung Choi
  • Patent number: 7661540
    Abstract: A unified pleated filter arrangement including a unified method and product wherein successive pleat flanks are spaced by communicably facing increments of spacing material with the pleat flanks being a selectively spaced and uniformly level geometric configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: AAF McQuay, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7625418
    Abstract: A pleated fluid filter having a pair of spaced longitudinally extending flanks is formed by at least one layer of a fluid filter media. A spacing member is integral with one of the flanks and extends outwardly in contacting relation with an adjacent flank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7588618
    Abstract: A filter cassette rack and tracks wherein the rack is a three dimensional rectangular rack having at least two opposing open sides, sealing and non-sealing support tracks span the rack providing filter cassette guides and sealing means for a plurality of filter cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Osborne, Keiron O'Connell, Husheder P. Daruwalla, Joachim Horst Wenzek, Ng Cheah Wei
  • Patent number: 7588629
    Abstract: A filter cassette having opposing rectangular side panels with at least one pair of filter media containers there between wherein each filter media container has a pair of opposing rectangular end plates and a pair of opposing rectangular media screens, each pair of containers are in a “V” configuration with adjacent end plates having a unitary configuration and at least one media fill aperture for each media container on a non-sealing side of the filter cassette, outermost end plates on a sealing side of the filter cassettes extend between corners of opposing side panels forming a substantially smooth sealing surface, and a fill cap is attached to each unitary pair of end plates having media fill apertures enclosing the media fill apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Osborne, Keiron O'Connell, Husheder P. Daruwalla, Joachim Horst Wenzek, Ng Cheah Wei
  • Patent number: 7398887
    Abstract: A filter media product and method of making the same wherein at least two independent filter media thicknesses of differing coarse and fine pore sizes are held in face-to-face relationship with the pore sizes being so calculated that the overall average pore size of successive thicknesses is smaller than the pore size of the finest fiber thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7390443
    Abstract: A filter media product and method of making the same wherein at least two independent filter media thicknesses of differing coarse and fine pore sizes are held in face-to-face relationship with the pore sizes being so calculated that the overall average pore size of successive thicknesses is smaller than the pore size of the finest fiber thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7332012
    Abstract: A filtering apparatus having a filter retrieval apparatus, an integrated jib, and a clamping assembly for providing a seal between a filter and a cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. O'Connor, James R. Kearney, Sr., Keiron P. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 7255723
    Abstract: A fluid pleated filter assembly arrangement including a method and structure wherein crests of the pleated medium are sharp and narrow being enhanced by alignment of the fibers with the direction of fluid stream flow with the crests being supported by a preselectively controlled breadth and thickness support strip and adhesive fastening band disposed intermediate opposed side edges of the support strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: AAF McQuay, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung-Ju Choi, Dennis R. Porter, Ronald D. Unthank
  • Patent number: 7210914
    Abstract: An arrangement for forming a web of fibrous media wherein at least one formed layered portion is attenuated from a first die source selectively unto a first collector and successively combining such portion with at least another formed layered portion which is attenuated from a second die source selectively unto a second collector, at least one of the outer surfaces of the web of fibrous media being of comparatively smooth skin-like nature to minimize projecting fiber ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 7112255
    Abstract: Self-supporting pleated fluid filter medium and method of making the same wherein the filter medium and accompanying flow-through border frame are of coated thermobondable materials, which are heat bonded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung-Ju Choi, Dennis R. Porter, Paul B. Ryan
  • Patent number: 7105124
    Abstract: A unified arrangement for providing a unique nanofibrous porous media formed as a chemical compound from a water-soluble polymer combined with a cross-linking agent with a balance of water, which chemical compound prevents the polymer from dissolving in water, including a humid environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyung-Ju Choi
  • Patent number: D597189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: AAF-McQuay Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Osborne, Keiron O'Connell, Husheder P. Daruwalla, Joachim Horst Wenzek, Ng Cheah Wei