Patents Examined by Dung H Bui
  • Patent number: 11253803
    Abstract: A dust collector includes a housing, a passage structure and a dust collecting region. The passage structure is disposed in the housing, and configured to accelerate an airflow containing dust particles and separate the dust particles from the airflow. The dust collecting region is connected to the passage structure, and is configured to collect at least part of the dust particles of the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Wiwynn Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Yang Cheng, Cheng-Sen Kao
  • Patent number: 11247157
    Abstract: An air filtration system comprising a plurality of sections configured to receive an incoming airstream is disclosed. In some embodiments, each section of the plurality of sections includes a first airstream receiving side (ASRS) and a second air stream exhaust side (ASES), and a plurality of cells each comprising a cyclonic cavity having a tangential inlet arranged to receive a portion of the airstream via the ASRS, and an axial outlet arranged to exhaust the portion of the airstream to the ASES. Each section is further configured with a cover that can be opened and closed, such that the closing of one or more respective covers of respective sections forces the airstream to flow through remaining sections having open covers as well as their respective cells, at a velocity greater than when such one or more respective covers are open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ENVERID SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Sharon Perl-Olshvang, Udi Meirav
  • Patent number: 11242780
    Abstract: An actuator for a separator for separating contaminants from a fluid stream which includes entrained contaminants. The actuator is arranged to move along an actuator axis to adjust an open cross-sectional area of at least one aperture of the separator, and comprises a flexible diaphragm, and a support assembly for the flexible diaphragm. The support assembly is movable along the actuator axis carrying the flexible diaphragm and has an upper support member mounted on a lower support member. A portion of the flexible diaphragm is located between the upper and lower support members. The lower support member comprises an axially extending support portion coupled to a radially extending support portion. The upper support member comprises a diaphragm anti-inversion feature coupled to a radially extending support portion. The diaphragm anti-inversion feature extends such that it axially overlaps at least part of the axially extending support portion of the lower support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: PARKER HANNIFIN MANUFACTURING (UK) LTD
    Inventors: Adrian Richard Mincher, Carl Joseph Shaw
  • Patent number: 11235339
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has an upstream air treatment stage having an upstream air treatment member and a longitudinal axis extending between the front and rear ends of the downstream air treatment stage, and a downstream air treatment stage a downstream air treatment member and a downstream dirt collection chamber that is exterior to the downstream air treatment member. The downstream air treatment member is positioned rearward of the upstream air treatment member. The downstream dirt collection chamber extends forward of the downstream air treatment member to a location that is forward of the rear end of the upstream air treatment stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11235269
    Abstract: A device for separating liquid from a gas stream within a liquid injected compressor, said device including a first vessel including a first bottom plate, a first lateral wall comprising an inlet fluidly connected with a compressed gas outlet and a lid including an outlet, the device further including: a first separation means; a second separation means; and a third separation means; whereby the device further includes an inlet channel being in fluid communication with said inlet, said inlet channel including a top panel and a bottom panel, whereby at least said top panel is creating a slope, having the highest point onto the first lateral wall and the lowest point at the opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Glenn Vinck
  • Patent number: 11229340
    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: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11219855
    Abstract: A filter module is provided with a filter housing provided with an inflow opening. A filter element with an annular filter medium body with an elongate cross-sectional shape is arranged inside the filter housing. A flow path is defined between the inflow opening of the filter housing and an inflow side of the filter medium body. A swirl device is arranged in the flow path and impresses a swirl onto an incoming fluid. The swirl device is a part separate from an outer wall of the filter housing. The swirl device is arranged axially upstream of the inflow side of the filter medium body. The swirl device is provided with a displacement body arranged inside the filter housing adjacent to the inflow opening. The displacement body forms a flow guiding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Rieger, Pedro Miguel Pereira Madeira, Stefan Kunze, Ulrich Dehnen, Johannes Stuerner, Markus Beylich
  • Patent number: 11219906
    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 a slot in the sidewall 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: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11219851
    Abstract: A vertical furnace includes a chamber intended for receiving a loading column, an inlet channel for fresh gas, arranged at an upper end of the chamber, the loading column comprising an upper portion, and a central portion for supporting a plurality of substrates. The vertical furnace further comprises a trapping device made of at least one material suitable for trapping all or part of the contaminants present in the fresh gas. The trapping device includes a circular part arranged on the upper part of the loading column, the circular part comprising fins regularly distributed over an upper surface of the circular part in order to increase the contact surface of the trapping device with the fresh gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Didier Landru, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Patent number: 11213832
    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 the driving assembly is operable between a stored position is which the surface cleaning apparatus is operable to clean a surface and a cleaned position in which the moveable member has been translated through at least a portion of the chamber, wherein, in the stored position, a portion of the driving assembly is longitudinally spaced from the first and second axially spaced apart ends of the air treatment chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11207656
    Abstract: A particle control method configured prevent an extremely small quantity of particles descending on a stream of a laminar flow in a clean zone through which the laminar flow flows (as in a RABS or isolator device) from descending to a specific position or to guide the particles so as to have them descend to a specific position by controlling movement of the particles. [Solution] A particle descent position is separated away from a board surface of the oscillation board by using an acoustic radiation pressure generated by prompting ultrasonic vibration of the oscillation board disposed with a board surface substantially in parallel with a flow direction of the laminar flow. Moreover, by using a node of a standing wave field generated by prompting the ultrasonic vibration of two oscillation boards disposed with the board surfaces faced with each other, the particle is guided to a direction of a node of a standing wave field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: Koji Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11207628
    Abstract: Sulphuric acid plants, separators for separating entrainment for process gas, and gas treatment processes for generating sulphuric acid are provided. The sulphuric acid plant comprises a source of process gas, an entrainment eliminator, a gas rotator located downstream of the gas-liquid contactor, and a separator located downstream of the entrainment eliminator and upstream of the gas rotator. The separator comprises a plurality of passages. Each passage comprises a vane extending longitudinally along the passage, wherein each vane rotates a process gas flowing through the separator. The process comprises transferring process gas from an entrainment eliminator to a separator located downstream of the entrainment eliminator, rotating the process gas through the separator to separate entrainment, and transferring the separated process gas from the separator to rotating equipment located downstream of the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Lane, Hongtao Lu, Brian Robert Ferris, Andrés Mahecha-Botero, Bradley Wayne Morrison, Jatinderpal Singh Sandhu, Inez Karina Tanu, Charles Guy Cooper
  • Patent number: 11207627
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a first screen, defining a first flow passageway, a second screen, defining a second flow passageway, and a third screen defining a third flow passageway. The second screen is positioned between the first screen and the third screen. The first flow passageway is aligned with the third flow passageway and the second flow passageway is offset from the first flow passageway and the third flow passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ashish Ranjan Kumar, Steven Schafrik, William Chad Wedding, Oscar Velasquez
  • Patent number: 11207629
    Abstract: Filter systems, filters, and methods of managing filter systems are provided. The filter systems utilize large filters that are too large to be manually handled by service personnel. As such, the filter systems and methods utilize filter positioning units for handling the filters during maintenance intervals. Some systems include sensor for remotely monitoring the status of the filters and the information can be used to reverse pulse the filters as well as to indicate the end of the service life of the filters. The filters can be refurbished with new filter media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas B. Green, Jason LaMarr Tate, Leonard R. Castellano, Stephen David Hiner, Ryan Margate Pastrana
  • Patent number: 11202981
    Abstract: A device separates particles, such as oil particles, from a gas flow, from a blow-by gas of a crankcase ventilation, in an internal combustion engine. The device includes a valve seat, which defines at least one flow passage opening and through which the gas flow at least partially flows in a main flow direction, and a movable valve element, which can be adjusted relative to the valve seat such that flow guide surfaces of the valve seat and the valve element deflect the gas flow in such a way that particles separate from the gas flow due to the impact of the particles on the flow guide surfaces. At least one flow guide surface of the valve seat or the valve element has at least one turbine blade-like guide projection or at least one turbine blade-like guide depression in order to transform the gas flow into a swirling flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Woco Industrietechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Fenske, Marcus Rüttger, Martin Klingelhöfer
  • Patent number: 11199111
    Abstract: An assembly for removing particles from a fluid stream includes a first particle remover having a main flow outlet emitting a first reduced-particle stream and a scavenge flow outlet emitting a particle-laden stream, as well as a second particle remover fluidly coupled to the scavenge flow outlet and emitting a second reduced-particle stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jared Peter Buhler, Christopher Charles Glynn, Corey Bourassa, Monty Lee Shelton, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia
  • Patent number: 11198080
    Abstract: An oil separator is provided with: a heating device for heating liquid accumulated in a drainage storage section; a connection pipe for connecting the drainage storage section to an external device utilizing oil; an opening and closing device for opening and closing the flow passage of the connection pipe; and a determination device for determining whether or not to deliver the liquid, which is accumulated in the drainage storage section, to the external device. The opening and closing device is configured so as to open the flow passage of the connection pipe when the determination device determines that the liquid accumulated in the drainage storage section is to be delivered to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NABTESCO AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Sugio, Hiroaki Kawanami
  • Patent number: 11192067
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process and apparatus for growing agricultural products with a reduced abundance of radioactive carbon-14 (14C) by employing centrifugal separation of atmospheric gases to selectively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) with 14C. Agricultural products with reduced 14C content can be grown in controlled environments with filtered atmospheric gases for the benefit of reducing harmful damage to human DNA that is unavoidable with our current food chain, due to the natural abundance of 14C in atmospheric gases. Bilateral and unilateral compression helikon vortex apparatus provide efficient and economical removal of CO2 with 14C from atmospheric gases with a single filtration pass, which is ideally suited for large scale agricultural production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Brett Evan Patrick
  • Patent number: 11191404
    Abstract: A cleaner comprising: a housing having the shape of a hollow cylinder, a barrier for dividing the inner space of the housing into an upper space and a lower space; a barrier through-hole provided so as to penetrate the barrier; an intake portion provided on the circumferential surface of the housing; an exhaust portion provided to penetrate the housing; a housing discharge port penetrating the bottom surface of the housing; a cover for closing the housing discharge port; an alien-substance separating portion provided in the lower space so as to provide a channel that guides air introduced to the intake portion to the barrier through-hole; a fan provided to comprise an impeller positioned in the upper space; a rotating shaft to which the impeller is fixed, and a motor for rotating the rotating shaft; and a storage portion provided to be attachable to/detachable from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kietak Hyun, Sangchul Lee, Jonguk Her
  • Patent number: 11192054
    Abstract: A filter element is provided with an annular filter medium body and an end disk arranged at an end face of the annular filter medium body. Guide vanes are arranged adjacent to the end disk, wherein the guide vanes extend radially past an outer contour of the end disk and project into a flow path upstream of an inflow side of the annular filter medium body. The guide vanes are held at the end disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Rieger, Pedro Miguel Pereira Madeira, Stefan Kunze, Ulrich Dehnen, Johannes Stuerner, Markus Beylich