Patents Examined by Charles S. Bushey
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Patent number: 10352564Abstract: A liquid gas system for mobile applications includes at least one remote gas switch that is mountable to a bottle of liquid gas and a gas pressure regulator. The high-pressure input of the gas pressure regulator is connected to the remote gas switch. A distribution block is provided, the input of which is connected to the low-pressure output of the gas pressure regulator. A filter unit is arranged between the low-pressure output of the gas pressure regulator and the distribution block. Further, an electronic controller is provided which is connected to the remote gas switch.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: TRUMA GERAETETECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Markus Jaeger
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Patent number: 10330332Abstract: A floating-type humidifier according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a floating body which floats in a reservoir that accommodates water; an ultrasonic wave generation unit which is installed by being inserted into the floating body, and atomizes the water, which is introduced into a lower side of the floating body, into a water particles state by means of ultrasonic vibration; a guide tube which is detachably coupled to the floating body, is installed above the ultrasonic wave generation unit, guides the water particles, and has a fan installation hole horizontally and penetratively formed in a lateral portion of the guide tube; a blower fan which is coupled in the fan installation hole, and injects air into the guide tube so as to discharge the water particles to an upper side of the guide tube; and a discharge groove which is formed in an upper surface of the floating body so as to communicate with the fan installation hole in which the blower fan is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: MIRO CO. LTD.Inventor: Dong Jin Seo
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Patent number: 10322386Abstract: The invention discloses an agitation device comprising an impeller, an agitating shaft and a power device. The impeller includes a disc, a hub and concave blades. Each blade consists of a concave surface which extends radially and has an annular sector-like shape, the projections of the upper and lower portions of the blade in the horizontal plane are two annular sectors, and the radian of the annular sector obtained by the projection of the upper portion is larger than that of the lower portion, and the annular sector-like shape and the rotation direction of blades are the same, so that each portion of the blades directly faces an incoming flow, the utilization efficiency of blades is increased and the impeller has low energy consumption and high gas-liquid dispersion efficiency. The device is efficient and energy-saving, has low power consumption, high mixing performance and high gas holdup and mass transfer performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Jiangnan UniversityInventors: Zhiyong Zheng, Dongdong Sun, Xiaobei Zhan, Minjie Gao
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Patent number: 10322356Abstract: The invented system used in wet cooling tower, restore outlet fog of cooling tower into collection basin and consequently cooling water cycle. This invention comprises three main components; pump and its pertaining piping, waterfall and micron fog eliminator. In the first stage, the air containing fog is passed through a waterfall before exhausting. This action causes some portions of fog to condensate and fall down, remaining droplets of the fog grow and together with air cross the fog eliminator blades. Fog's droplets are entrapped between blades, leave the air, and restore to the tower. Therefore, humidity of exhausted air from tower will be effectively reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Inventors: Hossein Akhavi, Amir Ali Akhavi, Khosro Akhavi, Mohammad Sabouri Mizab
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Patent number: 10315170Abstract: A fine bubble-containing liquid generating apparatus includes a generator including a mixing nozzle for leading in gas and pressurized liquid and a fine-bubble generating nozzle for discharging liquid that contains fine bubbles of the led-in gas, a circulation passage for returning liquid discharged from the fine-bubble generating nozzle to the mixing nozzle in a state in which the liquid is isolated from outside air, an extraction part for extracting, as a fine-bubble containing liquid, part of liquid circulating through the generator and the circulation passage, and a replenisher for replenishing the circulation passage with liquid to maintain the amount of liquid circulating through the generator and the circulation passage. With this configuration, it is possible to continuously generate a fine-bubble containing liquid that contains a high density of fine bubbles.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: IDEC CorporationInventors: Shigeo Maeda, Masakazu Kashiwa, Katsuhisa Ida
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Patent number: 10320266Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cooling tower that has a cooling tower structure having fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor has a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid. A fluid distribution system distributes the cooled fluid in the basin.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Prime Datum Development Company, LLCInventors: Patrick M. Rollins, George Lucas
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Patent number: 10307718Abstract: A carbonation machine includes a pneumatic chamber with a movable wall. The wall moves outward to depress a pin of a gas release valve of a gas canister that is held in a canister holder of the machine when air pressure in the chamber is increased. An air release valve is closable to retain air in the chamber. An air pump is operable to pump air from the ambient atmosphere into the chamber so as to increase air pressure in the chamber. A controller is configured to close the air release valve and to operate the air pump to increase the air pressure in the chamber to move the movable wall outward to open the gas release valve of the canister to cause release of gas from the canister to carbonate a liquid, and to open the air release valve to enable the gas release valve to close.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Sodastream Industries Ltd.Inventor: Alon Waisman
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Patent number: 10301202Abstract: An air infusion aeration system includes a submersible downdraft tube that carries fluid from its inlet opening to the outlet opening vertically above the inlet opening. The system includes an impeller coupled to the outlet opening and configured to: draw fluid into the inlet opening and provide the drawn fluid into a discharge pressure manifold (DPM) as a fluid stream. The system includes a turbo blower that injects air into the DPM, and the DPM, which includes a center portion and a smaller diameter end portion at opposite ends of the center portion. The DPM is configured to: reduce pressure of the fluid stream at a center of the DPM; within the end portions, receive the air injection into the pressure-reduced fluid stream thereby infusing the injected air into the fluid steam; and forcibly discharge the air-infused fluid stream down toward the body of fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Airmaster Aerator L.L.C.Inventor: Dean A. Caldwell
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Patent number: 10300400Abstract: The present invention relates to a wet evaporation-based cold concentration system, which is mainly applied to the technical field of air conditioners, and particularly applied to the technical field of heat-source tower heat-pump air conditioners. By utilizing a wet evaporation theory, a low-temperature low-concentration anti-freezing solution is enabled to contact low-temperature air in a wet evaporator to perform the heat and mass transfer, and water in the anti-freezing solution is vaporized at a low temperature into the air, thereby obtaining the high-concentration anti-freezing solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Hunan Dongyou Water Vapor Energy Energy-Saving CO., LtdInventors: Guohe Huang, Jianlin Cheng, Ruohuang Li, Tianfei Huang, Zhongwei Li
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Patent number: 10293357Abstract: A foam-forming assembly includes a housing having an air passage and a liquid passage, each ending in a mouth and being in communication with a dispensing passage having a dispensing opening, and a valve body which, in a rest position, covers the mouth of the liquid passage and the mouth of the air passage in a sealing manner in order to prevent a flow from the liquid passage and the air passage to the dispensing passage. During dispensing, the valve body opens the mouth of the liquid passage and the mouth of the air passage in order to allow mixing of air and liquid to take place in the dispensing passage. The mouth of the air passage is substantially annular, and the air passage includes a pressure balance chamber to divide the air pressure substantially equally over the substantially annular mouth.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Rexam Airspray N.V.Inventors: Marcus Cornelis Jacobus Tepas, Shivan Ramdhiansing, Arjen Haisma, Kim Deiman, Peter Jozef Jan Albertz
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Patent number: 10293069Abstract: An assembly for evaporating a volatile fluid is described, the assembly including a device and a refill which are detachable from one another: wherein the device includes a magnetic induction coil configured to operate with an alternating current passed therethrough at a frequency of between substantially 20 KHz to substantially 500 KHz and a volatile fluid transport part receiving area containing at least one piece of heat-conducting, non-magnetic metal foil and/or deposited heat-conducting, non-magnetic metal; and wherein the refill includes a reservoir for the volatile fluid, a volatile fluid transport part to draw the fluid from the reservoir, and at least one magnetic susceptor having a coercivity of substantially 50 ampere/meter (Hc) to substantially 1500 ampere/meter (Hc).Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: RECKITT BENCKISER (BRANDS) LIMITEDInventor: Paul John Duffield
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Patent number: 10294935Abstract: A removable cartridge for use with a liquid diffusion device is provided. The removable cartridge includes a cartridge housing defining an internal housing cavity, partially filled with a liquid to be diffused, and a diffusion head positioned within the internal housing cavity with a venturi device for generating diffused liquid from the liquid contained in the internal housing cavity. The diffusion head defines at least a portion of a gas supply conduit that extends from a bottom end of the removable cartridge to the venturi device through the liquid to be diffused to enable the venturi device to be supplied with pressurized gas from an external source via the bottom end of the removable cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Prolitec Inc.Inventors: Matthew Ansley, Nathan Sward, Howard Tanner
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Patent number: 10294123Abstract: Embodiments described generally relate to systems comprising a humidifier (e.g., a bubble column humidifier) and a heating device (e.g. a heat exchanger), and associated methods. In certain embodiments, the heating device heats a first liquid stream comprising a condensable fluid in liquid phase (e.g., water) and a dissolved salt (e.g., NaCl) to a relatively low temperature (e.g., about 90° C. or less) prior to the first liquid stream entering the humidifier through a main humidifier liquid inlet. In some cases, the system comprising the humidifier and the heating device requires only low-grade heat to operate, which may be advantageous due to the low cost and high availability of such heat.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Gradiant CorporationInventors: Steven Lam, Conor Thomas Wilson, Maximus G. St. John, Prakash Narayan Govindan
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Patent number: 10288351Abstract: A heat exchange apparatus is provided with an indirect evaporative heat exchange section. An evaporative liquid is passed downwardly onto the indirect heat exchange section. The evaporative liquid is collected in a sump and then pumped upwardly to be distributed again across the indirect heat exchange section. An improved heat exchange apparatus is provided with two indirect evaporative heat exchange sections separated by a vertical distance. A direct evaporative heat exchange section may be provided in the vertical spacing between the two indirect evaporative heat exchange sections.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: BALTIMORE AIRCOIL COMPANY, INC.Inventors: David Andrew Aaron, Zan Liu, Branislav Korenic, John Edward Rule, Preston P. Blay, Philip S. Hollander, Glenn David Comisac, Gregory Michael Lowman
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Patent number: 10288280Abstract: A spray nozzle assembly for a steam desuperheating or attemperator device. In one embodiment, the spray nozzle sub-assembly of the spray nozzle assembly comprises a fixed nozzle element which is integrated into a spring-loaded nozzle element, and is specifically adapted to improve water droplet fractionation at higher flow rates while further providing an effectively higher spray area through the formation of two water cones (rather than a single water cone), such water cones being sprayed into a flow of superheated steam in order to reduce the temperature of the steam. In another embodiment, the spray nozzle sub-assembly of the spray nozzle assembly comprises a nested pair of spring-loaded primary and secondary nozzle elements which are also adapted to provide an effectively higher spray area through the formation of two water cones.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: CCI Italy SRLInventor: Fabio Giove
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Patent number: 10265676Abstract: A method of manufacturing packing includes: determining types of a gas and a liquid which are brought into gas-liquid contact and a main plate to be used; calculating a relationship between a contact angle and a liquid film length ratio; determining the arrangement (intervals) of a rib; determining rib conditions; calculating the minimum value of the flow direction length of the rib satisfying the contact angle and a strength requirement; confirming whether or not a liquid film length is greater than the minimum value; and determining the flow direction length of the rib within a range from the minimum value to the liquid film length.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Iso, Jian Huang, Mariko Saga, Shinsuke Matsuno, Hiroyuki Uchida, Naoki Fujiwara, Kenji Takano, Kenji Tokuda
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Patent number: 10266423Abstract: An ammonia stripper has an aerator and heat exchanger tubing in a tank. The aerator and coil are preferably attached to a frame to form a removable cassette. The cassette may also include a lid for the tank. The tank is preferably rectangular and optionally can be made with the dimensions of a standard shipping container. In a process, water flows through the tank while air bubbles are produced through the aerator. A heating medium such as water flows through the heat exchanger tubing. A gas containing ammonia is withdrawn from a headspace of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: ANAERGIA INC.Inventors: Michael David Theodoulou, Sasha Rollings-Scattergood, Arman Ghandizadehdezfuli
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Patent number: 10258900Abstract: A divided wall column includes: a column shell; a divided wall provided vertically inside the column shell, defining a divided wall section between an upper edge and a lower edge of the divided wall; and a liquid distributor provided within the divided wall section. The liquid distributor is fixed only to the column shell but not to the divided wall. By using the divided wall column, a defect involved in conventional divided wall columns, i.e. a maldistribution of fluid over mass transfer elements caused by a manufacturing defect of the divided wall resulted from its manufacturing process and/or a deformation thereof under operation conditions, can be minimized or even avoided.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AGInventor: Jürgen Spriewald
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Patent number: 10258936Abstract: A valve contact tray for use in a mass transfer or heat exchange column and having a plurality of fixed or moveable valves distributed across a tray deck of the contact tray. Each of the valves includes an opening in the tray deck, a valve cover connected to attachment legs, and a weir surrounding the opening. The valve cover is wider than and extends outwardly beyond the underlying opening in the tray deck and has a perimeter region that extends downwardly. A louvered vent opening may be provided in a downstream one of the attachment legs.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Koch-Glitsch, LPInventors: Izak Nieuwoudt, Charles A. Griesel, Clarence A. Armbrister
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Patent number: 10260421Abstract: The present application provides an inlet air system for cooling an inlet air flow to a compressor of a gas turbine engine. The inlet air system may include a wetted media pad and a drift eliminator positioned downstream of the wetted media pad with an air gap therebetween. The drift eliminator may include a fibrous media pad.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Conrad Frese, Naveen Ghattadhahalli Parmeshwar, Hua Zhang, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel