Patents Examined by Dung H Bui
  • Patent number: 12018601
    Abstract: An axial flow element for use in a liquid separation system for an internal combustion engine includes a hub, a groove, a locking member, and a flat layer. The hub includes a cylindrical outer surface. The groove is disposed in the outer surface. The groove extends in a substantially longitudinal direction along the hub from a first end of the hub to a second end of the hub. The locking member is disposed in the groove. The flat layer is disposed between the hub and the locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Tofsland, Christopher E. Holm, Chirag D. Parikh, Rajath Martin
  • Patent number: 12017514
    Abstract: A work machine, such as a skid steer loader or a compact track loader, includes an air intake assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. A conduit integrated into a structure supporting a roof over an operator cab accepts air and water from the atmosphere through an air inlet proximate the roof. A debris outlet downstream in the conduit allows gravity to return the water to the environment. Between the air inlet and the debris outlet, an orifice in the conduit connects to an air duct through which the air may be diverted by suction from the HVAC unit. An air filter at the end of the air duct removes remaining particulates from the air prior to conditioning by the HVAC unit. Sizing the cross-sectional areas of the air path to exceed a cross-sectional area of an inlet to the air filter and providing a substantially straight air path avoids resistance to air flow, resulting in efficient intake of cleaner air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Minter, Benjamin Michael Cheek
  • Patent number: 12016515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to vacuum cleaner filter bags made of waste products of the textile industry. In addition, possibilities for use of waste products of the textile industry for vacuum cleaner filter bags are indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: EUROFILTERS N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Schultink, Ralf Sauer
  • Patent number: 12011688
    Abstract: A gas processing system for recovering methane gas from a landfill includes a high pressure main absorber plus a relatively low pressure one. The low pressure absorber receives a gas stream from an equally low pressure flash tank. This low pressure gas stream consists mostly of carbon dioxide and methane. The methane would normally be lost due to the high cost of recompressing the carbon dioxide, but by running this mixture of carbon dioxide and methane through the low pressure absorber with a slip stream of cold absorbent, a large portion of the carbon dioxide can be removed with negligible methane losses. The remaining methane can be recycled through the high pressure main absorber without having to recompress the removed portion of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventors: Luke N. Morrow, Paul L. Rogers
  • Patent number: 11992849
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner or a docking station has momentum separator having first and second sidewalls which are porous. A first air flow chamber is located exterior to the momentum separator between a first end wall, which is spaced from and faces the first side screen, and the first side screen. A second air flow chamber is located exterior to the momentum separator between a second end wall, which is spaced from and faces the second side screen, and the second side screen. In operation, air exits the momentum separator through the first and second side screens and travels through the first and second air flow chambers to the air outlet of the first and second air flow chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11992848
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a cyclone chamber having a cyclone axis of rotation and an openable portion wherein the openable portion is rotatably mounted about an opening axis that is parallel to the cyclone axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11969683
    Abstract: A separation assembly comprises a housing and a plate. The housing comprises an inlet and an outlet. The plate is positioned within the housing between the inlet and the outlet. The plate comprises a wall, at least one aperture, and at least one chimney comprising an inner surface surrounding the at least one aperture and an outer surface. The chimney extends from an upstream side of the wall and encompasses only a portion of a flow path between the inlet and the upstream side of the wall such that fluid can flow radially beyond the outer surface of the at least one chimney in the housing between the inlet and the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Ruchi Lutade, Avinash Ayarekar, Christopher E. Holm, Benjamin L. Scheckel, Sachin Ravasaheb Managave, Vijay Dinkar Kolhe
  • Patent number: 11964223
    Abstract: An apparatus for an inertial separation of air in an electric aircraft, wherein the apparatus includes an intake duct configured to intake an airflow, an inertial air separator configured to separate the airflow into a clean airflow and a dirty airflow, a propulsor configured to intake the clean airflow, wherein the propulsor includes a stator and a rotor, and a heat exchanger configured to intake the dirty airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Stuart Brecher, Manon Danielle Belzile
  • Patent number: 11950750
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a cyclone, a conical pre-motor filter that is positioned rearward of the cyclone and a suction motor. The pre-motor filter has a front end that faces towards the cyclone air outlet. The conical pre-motor filter has an open interior volume, an outer surface, which is an upstream surface of the pre-motor filter, and an inner surface, which is a downstream surface of the pre-motor filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11951488
    Abstract: An axial cyclone air filtration apparatus integrated with a bipolar-charged agglomeration includes a pre-charge region and an axial cyclone coagulation dust separation apparatus, and the pre-charge region is arranged on an air inlet side of the axial cyclone coagulation dust separation apparatus. Suspended particles in air are charged with charges of different polarities in the pre-charge region before entering the axial cyclone coagulation dust separation apparatus. The organic combination of electric coagulation technology and axial cyclone dust separation technology improves the filtering efficiency for ultra-fine particles in air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING COMFORT TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jacques Ao
  • Patent number: 11950751
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis of rotation wherein the dirt outlet is defined by a gap between the sidewall of the cyclone and a plate positioned at the dirt outlet end of the cyclone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11938491
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone assembly positioned in the air flow path, the cyclone assembly comprising a cyclone chamber, the cyclone chamber having a front end, a rear end, a cyclone axis of rotation extending between the front and rear ends, a cyclone air inlet and a cyclone air outlet provided at the rear end of the cyclone chamber, wherein the rear end is rotationally moveable by a rotational mount between a closed position in which the cyclone is closed and an open position wherein a rear portion of the cyclone is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11930993
    Abstract: A waste collection bag may be used by an autonomous cleaning robot (e.g., an autonomous vacuum) to store waste during a plurality of cleaning processes. The waste bag comprises a waste bag, a waste collection sachet, and an absorbent. The waste bag has a first side and a second side, where the first side has an opening for waste to enter, and is composed of filtering material. The waste collection enclosed sachet has a first side and a second side that connect to form a cavity. The waste collection enclosed sachet is tethered to the second side of the waste bag and is composed of dissolvable paper. The absorbent may absorb liquid waste and is located inside the cavity of the waste collection enclosed sachet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Matic Robots, Inc.
    Inventors: Anshuman Kumar, Jared O. Ruehr
  • Patent number: 11932816
    Abstract: In some examples, coke, tar, or a mixture thereof can be removed from a furnace effluent. The furnace effluent can include coke, tar, or the mixture thereof and can be contacted with a first quench liquid to produce a quenched mixture, wherein the first quench liquid can include a first steam cracker naphtha, a first steam cracker gas oil, a first steam cracker quench oil, or a mixture thereof. The quenched mixture can be introduced into a first inlet of a centrifugal separator drum. A vapor product and a centrifugal separator drum bottoms can be separated from the quenched mixture, wherein the centrifugal separator drum bottoms can include at least a portion of the coke, tar, or the mixture thereof. The centrifugal separator drum bottoms can be recovered from a first outlet of the centrifugal separator drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Rooney, Darian E. Orozco
  • Patent number: 11925888
    Abstract: A component for a centrifugal degasser for an air/oil mixture of a turbomachine is disclosed. The degasser rotates about an axis of symmetry, forming an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of the mixture. The chamber forms a fluid passage duct, one inlet of which is oriented axially for supplying the chamber with the mixture, and a first outlet of which is oriented radially inwards for discharging the deoiled air separated from the mixture. The chamber also includes at least one second oil outlet oriented radially outwards and intended to discharge the oil separated from the mixture to the outside of the degasser. The chamber has longitudinal walls passing radially therethrough, at least one of the surfaces of the longitudinal walls having surface structures and/or corrugations arranged to form obstacles to a flow of the mixture along the surface of the longitudinal walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges Nifenecker, Benjamin Nicolas Fulleringer, Nicolas Maurice Marcel Herran
  • Patent number: 11918944
    Abstract: A particle discharge device for a filter assembly has a housing with a valve seat, wherein the valve seat surrounds at least partially a symmetry axis of the housing. One or more particle discharge flaps embodied as one piece together with the housing are provided. The one or more particle discharge flaps are moveable from a closed state into an open state for discharging particles from the filter assembly. The one or more particle discharge flaps are resting against the valve seat in the closed state. A filter assembly is provided with a filter housing having a particle discharge socket in which the particle discharge device is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Ruhland, Michael Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 11904328
    Abstract: A method of separating a fluid includes adding a fluid to a canister of a fluid separator. The canister includes first and second barriers disposed concentrically within the canister that define a first and second annulus within the canister, and a canister rotor having a first magnet associated therewith. The method includes rotating an induction base rotor disposed within an induction base. The induction base rotor includes a second magnet. The canister rotor and the induction base rotor are magnetically coupled and rotating the induction base rotor causes the canister rotor to rotate. The method further includes forming a vortex in the fluid via the rotation of the canister rotor, and the vortex causes the fluid to separate into a first component and a second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SpineSmith Partners, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard J. Kana, Kevin Dunworth
  • Patent number: 11905677
    Abstract: Hydro excavation vacuum apparatus that process spoil material onboard the apparatus by separating water from the cut earthen material are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Andy Strobel, Corey Lanoue, Daniel Hofland, Adam Bates, David Gift, Tayte Askelsen, James W. Skinner, Nathan J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11872516
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for trapping of a reaction by-product with an extended available collection area. The configuration of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus for trapping of a reaction by-product, which is configured to accommodate gas, which is discharged after a deposition process during a semiconductor manufacturing process, in a housing (1), heat the gas with a heater (2), trap a reaction by-product contained in the gas by using an internal trapping tower (3), and discharge only the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MILAEBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Che Hoo Cho, Yeon Ju Lee, Jun Min Lee, Ji Eun Han
  • Patent number: 11872515
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for trapping of a reaction by-product capable of expanding the area for collection by inducing a gas flow, in which an internal trapping tower of the apparatus for trapping of a reaction by-product, which traps a reaction by-product contained in gas discharged from a process chamber during a semiconductor manufacturing process, is divided into multiple stages, the introduced gas is guided to a lower side of an inner region of an intermediate trapping unit provided as a space portion and discharged to an outer region while a trapping reaction occurs according to the reaction by-product trapping amount during a former part of a use duration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MILAEBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Che Hoo Cho, Yeon Ju Lee, In Hwan Kim, Jun Min Lee