Patents Examined by Dung H Bui
  • Patent number: 12168239
    Abstract: An air/oil separator is provided. The air/oil separator includes an oil manifold having a first air/oil inlet and a second air/oil inlet; a first separation chamber in communication with the first air/oil inlet; and a second separation chamber separate from the first separation chamber, the second separation chamber in communication with the second air/oil inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: GE AVIO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Saypen Baraggia Au Yeung, Pietro Molesini, Miriam Manzoni, Fabio De Bellis
  • Patent number: 12168198
    Abstract: A resource recovery system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is revealed. Salt is delivered to a first plasma decomposition unit and decomposed into sodium and chlorine. The sodium is sent to a hydrolysis unit and mixed with water to get pure hydrogen and sodium hydroxide which are respectively sent to a power generation unit for power generation and a carbon dioxide absorption unit to react with carbon dioxide from air and produce a mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Then the mixture is delivered to an electric heating unit and broken into carbon dioxide and sodium hydroxide. The carbon dioxide is sent to a second plasma decomposition unit and decomposed into carbon and oxygen gas which is delivered to the power generation unit for generating power. Thereby catalysts, power required, and coproducts are obtained during operation of the system. Therefore, the system offers energy, environmental, and economic benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventor: Chi-Sheng Wang
  • Patent number: 12168194
    Abstract: Air cleaner assemblies, components, features and methods of assembly and use are described. Example air cleaner assemblies are depicted and described in which a main filter cartridge sealing surface is recessed from an open end of a housing body. An access cover of the housing is configured with a portion extending inwardly to engage a main filter cartridge portion and bias it against the main filter cartridge sealing surface. In selected assemblies, the portion of the access cover extending inwardly toward the main filter cartridge, is a precleaner having flow separator tubes therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Burton, Hubert Julius Rahn
  • Patent number: 12165883
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a semiconductor device and an oxygen removal method thereof. The semiconductor device comprises: a process cavity, an oxygen removal pipe and an oxygen detection device, wherein the oxygen detection device comprises an oxygen detection pipe, a switching ball valve and an oxygen sensor; the oxygen detection pipe comprises a first pipe, a second pipe and a third pipe which are arranged in parallel and all connected to the oxygen removal pipe and the switching ball valve; the oxygen sensor is arranged on the third pipe; and, the switching ball valve is constructed in such a way that the switching ball valve communicates the first pipe with the second pipe in an oxygen removal stage and communicates the first pipe with the third pipe in an oxygen detection stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Min Zuo
  • Patent number: 12156630
    Abstract: Dust separation devices are disclosed to enable separating and collecting dust particles. The devices include a vacuum port and a cyclone chamber that are connected by a tube between the vacuum port and an upper end of the cyclone chamber. On the cyclone chamber there is an input port for connecting to a hose for ingesting the dust particles. The devices also include a dust receptacle having a top upper surface and a port cover on a port formed in the upper surface for emptying the receptacle of collected dust particles and a lower portion of the dust receptacle that is integrally formed into the upper surface of the dust receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Mullet Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Jacob Lee Hillard
  • Patent number: 12145896
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for separating components of a mixture of compressed gases each having different boiling points are described. One example system includes multiple recovery stages that each recover one of the gases by condensing it into liquid form. The recovery stages are chained together, such that each stage recovers a gas having a boiling point that is higher than those of the gases to be recovered in downstream stages. Each stage typically includes a warming element that is fluidly coupled to a condenser element that provides a surface cooled to a temperature low enough to condense one of the gases, but high enough such that the remaining gases remain in gaseous form. The system may include an initial evaporator stage that heats a liquid solution of phytochemical extracts and multiple solvents, thereby recovering the extracts and producing the mixture of gaseous solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Bizzybee LLC
    Inventor: Boris David Kogon
  • Patent number: 12138583
    Abstract: A process for removal of acid gases from fluid stream, wherein the fluid stream is brought into contact with an absorbent to obtain a treated fluid stream and a laden absorbent, the absorbent comprising a diluent and a compound of the general formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from C1-C8-alkyl and C2-C8-hydroxyalkyl; R2 is selected from hydrogen and C1-C8-alkyl; R3 is selected from hydrogen and C1-C8-alkyl; R4 is selected from hydrogen and C1-C8-alkyl; R5 is C1-C8-alkyl; with the proviso that at least one of the following conditions (i) and (ii) is met: (i) R5 is C3-C8-alkyl bound to the nitrogen atom via a secondary or tertiary carbon atom; (ii) when R4 is hydrogen, R3 is C1-C8-alkyl; or when R4 is C1-C8-alkyl, at least one of R2 and R3 is C1-C8-alkyl; and n is an integer from 0 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Ernst, Thomas Ingram, Gerald Vorberg, Georg Sieder
  • Patent number: 12134055
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a collecting device for collecting fluid media (e.g. rinsing agent, paint residues), which are produced when rinsing an atomizer (e.g. rotary atomizer) in a painting plant. The collecting device according to the disclosure comprises a collecting container with an insertion opening at the top of the collecting container for inserting the atomizer into the collecting container. Furthermore, the collecting device according to the disclosure comprises a lateral container wall which externally delimits the collecting container and is substantially impermeable to paint in order to prevent paint from escaping from the collecting container. The disclosure provides that the lateral container wall of the collecting container is at least partially air-permeable so that moist air can escape from the interior of the collecting container to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dürr Systems AG
    Inventors: Sandra Schlichenmaier, Thomas Buck
  • Patent number: 12134056
    Abstract: Improvements to filtration and vessels such as for filtration and coalescing of gas streams are shown. A filter element with a partial treated region and untreated region such as providing different surface energies or other filtration characteristics are provided. Various keying arrangements for compatibility and/or rotational locking are shown between the filtration vessel, a tubular coalescing baffle, and/or filter element. The tubular coalescing baffle also may include non-louvered pore structure, which provides for more even flow in a two stage type filtration vessel to prevent premature exiting and reduction of flow velocities along the second stage, and/or may additionally or alternatively include drainage apertures such as drain slot formed along a gravitational bottom or otherwise to facilitate additional drainage of coalesced liquid as opposed to letting such liquid be forced through fluid velocity toward the open end of the tubular baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel M. Cloud, Stephen Gregory Jeane, Jack David Burns
  • Patent number: 12134064
    Abstract: An air filtration apparatus includes an airflow powerhead assembly including a fan assembly and a vane assembly, a filter assembly, and a separator chamber housing inside of which the filter assembly is disposed. The separator chamber housing has a chamber inlet at a first axial side and a clean air outlet at a second axial side of the separator chamber housing opposite the first axial side. The filter assembly has a first axial end adjacent the chamber inlet and a second axial end adjacent the clean air outlet. The separator chamber housing includes at least one debris ejection slot extension configured to eject debris from an inner space of the separator chamber housing. The filter assembly includes a debris catch tray disposed at the second axial end, the debris catch tray having a debris ejection slot aligned with the at least one debris ejection slot extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: THE SY-KLONE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Eric L. Ehrenberg, James G. Moredock
  • Patent number: 12134065
    Abstract: An air filtration apparatus includes an airflow powerhead assembly including a fan assembly and a vane assembly, a filter assembly, and a separator chamber housing inside of which the filter assembly is disposed. The separator chamber housing has a chamber inlet at a first axial side and a clean air outlet at a second axial side of the separator chamber housing opposite the first axial side. The filter assembly has a first axial end adjacent the chamber inlet and a second axial end adjacent the clean air outlet. The separator chamber housing includes at least one debris ejection slot extension configured to eject debris from an inner space of the separator chamber housing. The filter assembly includes a debris catch tray disposed at the second axial end, the debris catch tray having a debris ejection slot aligned with the at least one debris ejection slot extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: THE SY-KLONE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Eric L. Ehrenberg, James G. Moredock
  • Patent number: 12128161
    Abstract: Provided are a sterilization device, an air filter, and a filtration system, which relate to the technical filed of sterilization equipment. The sterilization device includes an ultraviolet (UV) lamp module, two cover plates arranged opposite each other, and two reflecting layers, where a flow chamber which allows the air to flow therein is formed between the two cover plates, and each of the two cover plates is provided with at least one air vent communicated with the flow chamber; wherein two opposite surfaces of the two cover plates respectively have the two reflecting layers disposed thereon, and at least one of the two reflecting layers is a diffuse reflection layer; and the UV lamp module is disposed on the cover plate and is used to emit UV light into the flow chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YITOA INTELLIGENT INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Junhuang Zhuang, Shujie Wang, Zhihong Zheng
  • Patent number: 12128162
    Abstract: An ultra violet air disinfectant machine 100 that includes a cyclone separator 120 configured and arranged for effecting a spiral vortex flow of air through a disinfection chamber 129 about a longitudinal axis x operable for inertial concentration of microbes in the spiral vortex flow of air proximate a sidewall 122s of the cyclone separator 120, and a source of germicidal ultraviolet radiation 140 positioned external to the disinfection chamber 129 for emitting germicidal ultraviolet radiation towards and into the disinfection chamber 129.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Shackle
  • Patent number: 12121838
    Abstract: An apparatus to separate water droplets from an air stream. The apparatus includes an elongated tube, a reservoir, and a helix structure. The elongated tube has a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis, an inner surface, an inlet opening at the first end of the elongated tube, the inlet opening arranged to accept the air stream tangentially relative to the longitudinal axis, and an outlet opening at the second end of the elongated tube. The reservoir is positioned at a second end of the elongated tube. The helix structure is positioned within the elongated tube and includes an upper surface, a lower surface arranged opposite the upper surface, an outer edge, and a variable pitch along a length of the elongated tube, the variable pitch providing a variable interior angle between an inner wall of the elongated tube and the upper surface of the helix structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Sierra Space Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Peterson, Mark Milton Weislogel, John P. Wetzel, Daniel Aaron Wyman
  • Patent number: 12115479
    Abstract: An annular water removal system (AWRS) for an air cycle environmental control system (ECS) includes a line replaceable unit (LRU) configured to output air flow, and a water collector coupled to the LRU. The water collector includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion includes a coalescing unit having a collector inlet to receive the air flow and configured to coalesce moisture from the air flow output from the LRU. The lower portion includes a collection unit in fluid communication with the coalescing unit. The collection unit is configured to collect the moisture coalesced by the coalescing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donald E. Army, Abbas A. Alahyari, Anthony DeLugan, Ephraim Joseph, Michael Maynard, Seth E. Rosen, John H. Whiton, Sebastian Zuraw, David Saltzman, Christopher Testa
  • Patent number: 12103362
    Abstract: A ram air vent for a vehicle has a base defining a base aperture therein; a hood connected to the base over the base aperture, the hood and base defining a forwardly facing air inlet therebetween, the hood and the base defining an air passage extending from the air inlet to the base aperture; a baffle disposed in the air passage for deflecting air flowing in the air passage from the air inlet for separating water from air flowing in the air passage, the baffle facing the air inlet; and at least one water passage defined in at least one of the base or the hood. The at least one water passage exits a rear side of the ram air vent. The at least one water passage drains water separated from air flowing in the air passage from the ram air vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Laurent Savard, Mathieu Hamel-Gagnon, Patrick Mathieu, Jerome Lefrancois, Louis-Charles Gingras
  • Patent number: 12103047
    Abstract: A cyclone separator wherein the tapered tip of the conical hollow body faces downwards. The air separator has at least one immersion tube which abuts the conical wall of the conical hollow body and which protrudes upwards within the conical hollow body, the conical hollow body tapered tip which faces downwards being connected to an outlet for fine material. The first cylindrical hollow body is equipped with a rotating rod basket which is enclosed by a static circular conveyor trough for coarse material, the conveyor trough resting against the lower outer circumference without contacting same. The conveyor trough for coarse material is connected to an outlet out of the cylindrical hollow body, and the volume enclosed by the rod basket is fluidically connected to the conical hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventor: Niko Hachenberg
  • Patent number: 12097458
    Abstract: A method of treating a building for mold contamination including the steps of assessing and locating mold growth areas, constructing a containment barrier around the mold growth areas, vacuuming, abrading and surface treating the mold growth areas, ceilings, walls and window treatments with mold cleaner, replacing air filters from air handlers, removing all registers and vent grills in the treated areas and washing the vent grills with mold cleaner, vacuuming all registers and accessible ductwork, treating the heating and ventilation system, associated ductwork and wall cavities with an atomized mold cleaner, vacuuming all flooring, horizontal surfaces, walls, furniture and mattresses, re-vacuuming all flooring, re-treating the heating and ventilation system and associated ductwork with an atomized mold cleaner and re-treating the work area including any exposed wall cavities with an atomized mold cleaner, deconstructing and discarding containment barrier and reinstalling all registers and vent grills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: John Bohde
  • Patent number: 12090492
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air filtration bank (100) and an air filtration system (50) for removing grit or impurities from an airstream using a plurality of cyclonic air classifiers (10) arranged in 2×2 arrays in each air filtration bank (100). The system (50) comprises a plurality of interconnected, modular air filtration banks (100) arranged side-by-side and a grit collecting chute (5). In order to improve airflow efficiency and particle separation, each cyclonic air classifier (10) includes a vortex-inducing inlet duct (13), an extraction pipe (16) and a conical diffuser (15). The conical diffusers (15) of upper and lower cyclonic air classifiers are of different lengths such that their respective waste outlets are not coplanar which serves to limit waste outlet flow interference and results in less pressure drop across the air filtration bank, which in turn leads to more efficient particle removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Darren Richard Bibby
  • Patent number: 12090494
    Abstract: A cyclone separator for a powder recovery device of a powder coating system includes an inlet region with an inlet for a mixed flow of powder/air, a separation region adjoining the lower end region of the inlet region for the centrifugal separation of at least a portion of the powder contained in the mixed flow, and a powder collecting region connected or connectable to the lower end region of the separation region for collecting the powder separated in the separation region. The powder collecting region is shiftable relative to the separation region between a first position in which the powder collecting region is aligned in flush connection with the lower end region of the separation region and a second position in which the powder collecting region is not aligned in flush connection with the lower end region of the separation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Steiger, Thomas Studerus