Patents Examined by Charles S. Bushey
  • Patent number: 10260421
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Conrad Frese, Naveen Ghattadhahalli Parmeshwar, Hua Zhang, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel
  • Patent number: 10254057
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a modular heat exchange tower including a first module having a first basin disposed therein and a second module having a second basin disposed therein. The aforementioned modular heat exchange tower may also include heat exchange sections, which are disposed in the first module and the second module. The first module and the second module may be assembled prior to being transported to a job site and installed in the modular heat exchange tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Speckin
  • Patent number: 10252212
    Abstract: An air separation unit for an OBOGS includes a housing having an inlet for receiving a wet inlet air and an outlet for outputting a dry product gas. The housing includes an outer side wall and annular walls defining a series of concentric annular chambers. A first annular chamber is coupled to the inlet and includes a desiccant material to receive the wet inlet air and output a dried air. An unfilled second annular chamber is coupled to the first annular chamber. A third annular chamber is coupled to the second annular chamber at a first end and the outlet at a second end. The third annular chamber receives air separation material to selectively remove unwanted constituents from the dried air and output the dry product gas. A tap may be coupled to the second annular chamber so that dried air may be removed from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Carleton Life Support System, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Byrd
  • Patent number: 10247432
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of this disclosure, a gas humidifier system includes a reservoir of liquid with at least one selectively permeable tube at least partially submerged within the liquid. A gas stream may be fed into the selectively permeable tube that passes through the liquid reservoir. The selectively permeable tube may be substantially impermeable to the gas flowing therethrough but permeable to vapor (e.g., water vapor) entering the selectively permeable tube from the liquid. Thus, vapor from the liquid reservoir can enter the selectively permeable tube and humidify the gas flowing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Elemental Scientific, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel R. Wiederin
  • Patent number: 10247472
    Abstract: A support for a packing column having a support profile with a web section running in the vertical direction and having lower end and an upper end, and having a larger vertical extension than a horizontal extension. The support also has a foot section connected to the upper end of the web section and a head section connected to the lower end of the web section. The head section has an upper face and a sub-section, the width of the upper face being smaller than width of the sub-section and also smaller than the width of the foot section. The support enables a reduced support height and less coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Karlmann Kanzler
  • Patent number: 10232325
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid premixer for mixing a first fluid and a second fluid by aspirating the second fluid into the first fluid by Venturi effect. The premixer comprises a pipe which has a first inlet for the first fluid at a first pressure and a second inlet for the second fluid to be mixed into the first fluid to form a mixture. The pipe also has an outlet for the mixture at a second pressure and a shutter movable between several positions where each position defines a distinct degree of shutting of the pipe. The premixer also includes a control element to control the position of the shutter as a function of the difference between the first pressure and the second pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GROUPE LEADER
    Inventors: Thierry Patrick Gérard Delerue, Michael Jacques Gérard Steen, Michel Lebey
  • Patent number: 10233101
    Abstract: A floating equipment, for injection of a gas into liquid effluents or waste water, and more particularly of a gas rich in oxygen into a basin from the surface, including the following elements: a driving device, intended to be disposed over the liquid, provided with a vertical output shaft (8), equipped at its end with a propeller (6) immersed in the liquid a pre-mixing device (5) comprising an injection device (7) positioned above or below a mobile aerator (9) with inclined blades, the propeller being situated at the end of the shaft, under the pre-mixing reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploration des Procédés Georges Claude, Milton Roy Mixing
    Inventors: Guillaume Beaudouin, Robert Briend, Ulrich Butz, Philippe Campo, Frédéric Savreux, David Maret, Patrice Cognart
  • Patent number: 10226746
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a gas transfer system having removable nozzle assemblies, ejectors or other gas transfer device(s). The nozzle assemblies are removably connected to a monolithic liquid/gas manifold. The present technology also provides nozzle assemblies having an inner nozzle, an outer nozzle adapted for connection to the inner nozzle, and a pipe adapter for connecting the inner nozzle to a liquid manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: KLa Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Neville, Frederick Siino, Jeffrey Williamson
  • Patent number: 10201799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a packing element for a structured packing including at least two adjacent corrugated sheets, wherein each of the corrugated sheets has a plurality of alternately oriented peaks and troughs, wherein adjacent corrugated sheets are oriented such that the corrugations of the adjacent corrugated sheets intersect in crisscross fashion with the corrugations of the corrugated sheets extending obliquely relative to the vertical direction, wherein each corrugated sheet contacts each of the adjacent corrugated sheets at points of intersection between the corrugations of the corrugated sheet and those of the adjacent corrugated sheets, wherein all corrugated sheets are tied together by means of at least one rod, wherein the at least one rod penetrates the corrugated sheets perpendicularly to the longitudinal section of the corrugated sheets, wherein on the at least one rod before the first corrugated sheet of the packing element and/or after the last corrugated sheet of the packing eleme
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech AG
    Inventor: Florian Kehrer
  • Patent number: 10202511
    Abstract: To provide a hydrophilic coating film that excels not only in initial humidification performance, but also in long-term humidification performance as well as to provide a production method for the hydrophilic coating film, and a humidification element. A hydrophilic coating film (7) contains porous silica gel particles (3), fine inorganic particles (2) having an average particle diameter smaller than an average pore diameter of the silica gel particles (3), and a thickener (8). A production method for the hydrophilic coating film (7) coats a base material (1) with a coating composition and dries the coated base material (1), the coating composition containing water (6), a thickener (6), porous silica gel particles (3), and fine inorganic particles (2) having an average particle diameter smaller than an average pore diameter of the silica gel particles (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tasuku Izutani, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Osamu Hiroi, Masaru Takada, Hiroshi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 10201766
    Abstract: The invention is a distributor tray for at least one a gas/liquid heat and a material exchange column comprising passages for passing gas through the tray. The tray has an upper plate (P1) and a lower plate (P2) with each plate having at least two distinct liquid passages. The openings (10 and 11) of the upper plate (P1) are positioned at distinct elevations with at least one of the liquid passages (10) of upper plate (P1) having a lower elevation communicating with one of the liquid passages of the lower plate through a supply line (9). The invention also relates to a gas/liquid heat and/or material exchange column equipped with a distributor tray (2) in accordance with the invention and to a floating barge having a column and to the use of the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Yacine Haroun, Pascal Alix, Manel Fourati
  • Patent number: 10179299
    Abstract: A combined fluid collector and redistributor for a process engineering column, including a fluid collector for collecting a first fluid; a fluid redistributor arranged below the fluid collector to define a space between the fluid collector and the fluid redistributor; at least one pipe passing through the space to connect the fluid collector to the fluid redistributor; and at least one conduit extending through the fluid collector to permit a second fluid to flow through the fluid collector. There is at least one deflector in the space, wherein the at least one deflector is set at an angle relative to a central axis of the device whereby flow of the second fluid within the space is displaced angularly around the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: STATOIL PETROLEUM AS
    Inventors: Eivind Johannesen, Carl Birger Jenssen, Pablo Matias Dupuy
  • Patent number: 10179311
    Abstract: The present invention provides intermittent-bubbling equipment used while being immersed in a liquid. The intermittent-bubbling equipment includes a tubular casing vertically disposed; and a plurality of partition walls disposed substantially parallel to an axial direction in the casing, and configured to define a gas introducing chamber, a gas inducing chamber, and a gas discharging chamber. The gas introducing chamber and the gas inducing chamber communicate with each other at a top of the casing, and the gas inducing chamber and the gas discharging chamber communicate with each other at a bottom of the casing. An upper side of the gas introducing chamber and an upper side of the gas inducing chamber are closed by a lid plate, and a lower side of the gas inducing chamber and a lower side of the gas discharging chamber are closed by a bottom plate. A cross-sectional area of the gag introducing chamber may be greater than a cross-sectional area of the gas discharging chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromu Tanaka, Toru Morita
  • Patent number: 10175002
    Abstract: A cooling tower system and/or fluid cooler that provides desired cooling performance, without the use of pressurized or gravity based nozzle spray systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Dalton, Jason Stratman
  • Patent number: 10173181
    Abstract: A decanter includes a first body and a second body mounted on the first body. The first body is provided with a bottle insert, a curved wine channel and a wine outlet. The curved wine channel has an opening and is provided with a plurality of stepped portions. The second body covers and closes the first body, and a mixing cavity is defined between the second body and the curved wine channel. The second body is provided with a plurality of stop plates. The stop plates and the stepped portions form a tortuous passage in the mixing cavity. In practice, when the wine in the wine bottle enters the mixing cavity, the wine hits and is stirred by the stepped portions and the stop plates to enhance the mixing effect of the wine and the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: World Link Article Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsing-Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 10158129
    Abstract: A fluid exchange membrane module includes a case including at least two pairs of fluid inlets and fluid outlets, and a fluid exchange membrane installed within the case and disposed so that a dry fluid flowing between one pair of a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet does not directly contact a high-humidity fluid flowing between another pair of a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet in the operating state of the module. The fluid inlet for the high-humidity fluid includes a diffuser. The fluid exchange membrane module may adiabatically expand a fluid flowing toward one side of a fluid exchange membrane and thus increase the relative humidity of the high-temperature and high-humidity fluid so as to maximize fluid transmission through the fluid exchange membrane, and may decrease the pressure of the fluid so as to uniform pressure distribution of a fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kyoung Ju Kim, Young Seok Oh, Jin Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 10150089
    Abstract: A method for the efficient solubilization of carbon dioxide in water through the use of high energy impacts is disclosed. The method can optionally includes mixing the carbon dioxide and water to form an annular dispersed flow, accelerating the carbon dioxide and water prior to the collision; providing a retention network to collect the carbonated water flow. Also disclosed are systems and apparatuses for practicing the disclosed methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apiqe Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Giancarlo Fantappie
  • Patent number: 10143768
    Abstract: An atomiser system includes a fragrance cartridge and a docking housing in which the fragrance cartridge is installed. The fragrance cartridge includes a bottle for holding a liquid fragrance therein; a wick extending down into the bottle; a piezo disc for atomising the liquid fragrance received from the wick; and an adjustable cap by which a user activates the cartridge, bringing the liquid fragrance into contact with a certain portion of the wick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AIR AROMA RESEARCH PTY LTD
    Inventors: Johan Van Roemburg, Derk Reilink, Petrus Henricus Aloysius Nicolaus Kuhn
  • Patent number: 10132513
    Abstract: Provided is a rotator structure of a nanomist-generating device which generates a nanomist by rotating a rotator having a conical shape, wherein a lower portion of the rotator is immersed in water and mist-scattering ports are disposed in an upper portion; the device generates a nanomist by scattering the water through the ports, the water being drawn up along an inner wall surface of the rotator by rotating the rotator; and a radius at an upper end of the ports is an upper portion radius R1, a height to the upper end of the ports from a waterline L is a drawing height H, and a mean angle between a horizontal line and the inner wall surface is a side surface mean angle ?1; and the angle ?1 is set within ?±5% of ? for ? satisfying a basic structure equation ?R1 sin3 ?+2 H cos ? sin2 ?+H cos3 ?=0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CORONA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Moroga, Yuki Sugahara
  • Patent number: 10126007
    Abstract: A moisture delivery apparatus comprises a liquid reservoir with liquid, a plurality of wicks, an enclosure with panels, and a supporting and adjusting structure for supporting and adjusting the body of the plurality of wicks to emit more or less of vapor of the liquid into the enclosure to provide moisture, wherein the supporting and adjusting structure may be injectors, stanchion, baffles, and fasteners on panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Damon Keith DeBusk