Patents Examined by Dung H Bui
  • Patent number: 11135602
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises an air treatment member having an air treatment chamber. A moveable member is positioned in the air treatment chamber. A driving assembly is drivingly connected to the moveable member wherein an end wall of the air treatment chamber is openable in response to the moveable member being longitudinally translated through at least the portion of the air treatment chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11135601
    Abstract: A centrifugal gas-liquid separator wherein a tubular casing houses a central tubular duct, which is provided with a first free end and with a second end that communicates with a gas-outlet duct and carries a transversal annulus-shaped plate having a perimetral edge that faces the inner wall of the tubular body to define an annular gap. The plate divides the space inside the tubular casing into a first chamber and into a second chamber that communicate with each other through the annular gap. A liquid-outlet duct communicates with the second chamber and a liquid-phase/gas-phase inlet duct extends tangentially from the tubular casing and discharges into the first chamber through an inlet nozzle. A regulation device is provided, which is designed to modify the section of the inlet nozzle in order to modify the rate of entry of the liquid phase and gas phase into the first chamber and to adapt the operation of the centrifugal gas-liquid separator following variations of flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: LEONARDO S.p.A.
    Inventor: Dino Bartoli
  • Patent number: 11135539
    Abstract: A grease filter, which includes a first channel having an inlet portion through which oil particles flow in, and a first guide unit configured to guide the oil particles flowing in through the inlet portion, and a second channel having an outlet portion through which the oil particles and air current flowing in through the inlet portion is discharged into the outside, and at least one second guide unit configured to guide the oil particles and air current to be discharged through the outlet portion. Here, the first channel and the second channel are detachably provided. The grease filter can be easily repaired and maintained, and collection efficiency can be improved due to such a configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Cheol Yoon, Sang Young So, Kyu Ho Shin, Hee Soo Jeong, Seok Man Hong, Hyun Jung Kim, Ji Yeon Han
  • Patent number: 11135603
    Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a hydrocyclone body including assembling sintered alumina blocks (27) against a form (37), holding the blocks (27) in place with tape (40), locating a hydrocyclone housing over the blocks (27), filling a space between them with settable epoxy/ceramic composite to secure the blocks (27) to the casing, and removing the form (37), resulting in a substantially continuous, wear resistant surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Trench
  • Patent number: 11136948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-modal multi-media air filtration system which can include: a base having one or more connection features and a filter media assembly, the filter media assembly being configured to attach to the base at a first end and the cap at a second end. The filter media assembly also including a first filter media extending across a primary air flow path and a second filter media extending across a secondary air flow path. The air filtration assembly then includes a blocking mechanism and an actuation assembly being configured to work together so as to selectively open or close the secondary air flow path so as to alternate the degree of filtration passing through the filter media based on the degree of desired filtration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Anja Koronai, Thomas Loehl
  • Patent number: 11135537
    Abstract: An air filter comprising a housing, a plurality of cyclonic-element arrays and a plurality of individual airflow paths is disclosed herein. The housing includes a first side configured to be arranged or otherwise exposed to an upstream side of a first airflow, and a second side configured to be arranged or otherwise exposed to a downstream side of the first airflow. In some embodiments, the plurality of cyclonic-element arrays may be organized in a parallel or approximately parallel arrangement within and/or supported by the housing. Further, the plurality of individual airflow paths may correspond to the plurality individual of cyclone elements in each array life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: enVerid Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Perl-Olshvang, Udi Meirav, Shawn Brown
  • Patent number: 11131256
    Abstract: A fuel oxygen conversion unit includes a contactor defining a liquid fuel inlet, a stripping gas inlet and a fuel/gas mixture outlet. The fuel oxygen conversion unit also includes a fuel/gas separator defining a fuel/gas mixture inlet in flow communication with the fuel/gas mixture outlet of the contactor, an axial direction, and a radial direction. The fuel/gas separator includes a separator assembly including a core including a gas-permeable section extending along the axial direction and defining a maximum diameter, the maximum diameter of the gas-permeable section being substantially constant along the axial direction; and a stationary casing, the fuel/gas separator defining a fuel/gas chamber in fluid communication with the fuel/gas mixture inlet at a location inward of the stationary casing and outward of the gas-permeable section of the separator assembly along the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ethan Patrick O'Connor, Daniel Alan Niergarth, Brandon Wayne Miller, Richard Alan Wesling
  • Patent number: 11130085
    Abstract: Liquid separator provided with a housing which includes an at least partially cylindrical wall defining a separation chamber, closed at one end by a base and at the other end by a lid in which there is a gas outlet for the discharge of the treated gas. A shield is provided in the separation chamber surrounding the gas outlet in the separation chamber from the aforementioned lid. The liquid separator has an inlet for a liquid-gas mixture to be treated. The inlet is located in the lid so that the liquid-gas mixture tangentially enters the separation chamber in the space between the wall and the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Pablo Manuel Fraguela Yanez, Elisabeth Anika Simon Rabaey, Tom Andre Jenny Potters, Viktor Maurits Ingrid Vriens, Karen Anna Leon Marien
  • Patent number: 11129510
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises an air treatment member having an air treatment chamber. A moveable member is positioned in the air treatment chamber. A handle is drivingly connected to the moveable member by a driving linkage wherein part of the driving linkage extends through an opening in an end wall of the air treatment member, whereby the moveable member is longitudinally translatable through at least a portion of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11130090
    Abstract: A filter system (1), in particular as part of a fuel vapor buffering apparatus to reduce hydrocarbon emissions, wherein the filter system (1) includes at least: a primary filter apparatus (2) including a primary filter housing (4) and adsorption, or respectively absorption material; and a secondary filter apparatus (3) including adsorption, or respectively absorption material; wherein the secondary filter apparatus (3) is provided on the atmosphere side to the primary filter apparatus (2); and wherein the primary filter apparatus (2) and the secondary filter apparatus (3) are arranged in the filter system (1) such that a gas conducted into the filter system (1) flows through the primary filter apparatus (2) and the secondary filter apparatus (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: A. Kayser Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Heiko Freter
  • Patent number: 11125192
    Abstract: A centrifugal air filter for an automotive system includes a plurality of single separators for setting an air flow passing therethrough in a turbulent motion and a separation area surrounding the plurality of single separators. The separation area receives particles from the air flow due to the centrifugal forces. A filter housing portion is located below a predefined or operation position for receiving particles from the air flow due to gravity, and an intake pipe is connected by an extraction line to a connecting pipe emerging on a filter housing and opening into the filter housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Ming Parker Yuen, Phouphadeth Sananikone, Dierk Esau, Alexander Berg
  • Patent number: 11123677
    Abstract: An integrated vortex separator (IVS) is disclosed. The IVS includes a housing in communication with a waste inlet via which a waste stream is drawn under suction into a waste tank. In a first stage, the waste stream is drawn into a centrifugal vortex flow to facilitate the removal of solid and liquid waste from the waste stream, leaving a primary airstream. Within the housing, a filter assembly includes outer and inner inverted cones with a conical cavity therebetween, the cavity serving as a second stage into which the vortex flow is redirected to remove additional liquid from the airstream. Radial vanes extending inward from the outer cone define portals between adjacent vanes, through which the redirected vortex flow is isolated from the original vortex flow. Exhaust ports in communication with the conical cavity allow the substantially moisture-free airstream to be drawn from the IVS via a vent line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Yen Chuh, Thao Hoang, Kristin R. Noriega
  • Patent number: 11117085
    Abstract: A filter cartridge arrangement is provided which includes a media pack comprising Z-filter media, a preform and a housing seal member. Improvements in the preform and seal member are described which include: a single beveled surface of the seal member to facilitate installation; and, an inside region of the seal member having a tip adjacent in inwardly directed lip of the preform, to control flash during molding. A variety of media pack configurations and features are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Benny Kevin Nelson, Sheldon Anderson, Thomas Miller, Ross Norman Anderson, John Orlin Kirkwold, Kevin Schrage, Troy Murphy, Donald Raymond Mork, Richard J. Osendorf
  • Patent number: 11117143
    Abstract: A centrifugal filtration device is provided, including: a casing, including an inlet passage and an outlet passage which are arranged on an extension direction; a plurality of blades, extending spirally on an inner circumferential wall of the inlet passage relative to the extension direction; a guiding mechanism, including a first tapering portion tapered in a direction toward the inlet passage, disposed in the casing and located between the plurality of blades and the outlet passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: Chang Tjer Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeong Hwa Son
  • Patent number: 11118545
    Abstract: A precleaner system for an air intake system. The precleaner system includes precleaners each having flow paths that induce a rotation to air flow and separate out particulate matter. The particulate matter is ejected from an outlet port in each of the flow paths and out of a dust ejector. The precleaned air is collected into a plenum from each of the precleaners. The precleaned air can flow from the plenum to a precleaner system outlet and the precleaned air can be received by an air intake system. A cover can be used to block air flow through one of the precleaners to tune the precleaner system to the desired airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Finn
  • Patent number: 11117086
    Abstract: The apparatus for collecting by-products of the present disclosure includes: a cylindrical housing that has a top plate having a gas inlet and a bottom plate having a gas outlet extending and protruding inside the housing, and receives and then discharges an exhaust gas flowing inside; and a flow path change-type vertical internal collection tower that is installed in a hanging state inside the housing and includes a disc type collector, a diffusion plate, a cylindrical collector, and a cylindrical filter collector for collecting by-products in an exhaust gas flowing inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MILAEBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Che Hoo Cho, Jae Jun Lee, Myung Pil Han
  • Patent number: 11110382
    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: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Burton, Hubert Julius Rahn
  • Patent number: 11103819
    Abstract: This invention relates to the separation of particulate contaminants from a fluid. In one embodiment of the invention, two sand separators placed in series may be used to separate sand from liquid or gaseous natural gas. This invention has some of its applications in the oil gas industry, particularly for use in separating sand from gas produced by natural gas wells that have been opened by hydraulic fracturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SegreTECH Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew K. Magnus, Robert Goodwin, J. Jay Halpenny, Don Bowes, Duncan McIntosh, Michael J. Busby
  • Patent number: 11103820
    Abstract: A dry filter 1 to be used in particular in underground mining and tunnel construction having a frame construction 17 into which the required part housings 25-28 can be inserted from the side. The required partition wall 8 is arranged so that an optimal large filtering surface is available both for the incoming raw gas and for the outflowing clean gas. Raw gas duct 5 and clean gas duct 6 run horizontally one above the other and are separated from each other by the sloping 8. This means that a very large filtering surface is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CFT GmbH Compact Filter Technic
    Inventors: Christian Haubold, Reinhold Both
  • Patent number: 11098623
    Abstract: An oil separator for separating oil mist and/or oil droplets out of gases to be cleaned is described. A ventilation system that has the oil separator that may be used with an internal combustion engine is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: 3NINE AB
    Inventors: Christoph Erdmann, Yagiz Yaman, Sebastian Brinker, Francesco Zitarosa