Patents Examined by Magali P Slawski
  • Patent number: 11565956
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multifunctional continuous hydrothermal oxidation experiment system, comprising a reactor (12), wherein an inlet of the reactor (12) is connected in parallel with an oxidant pipeline and a material pipeline; the oxidant pipeline comprises a gas oxidant delivery pipe and a liquid oxidant delivery pipe connected in parallel, and the gas oxidant pipe comprises an air oxidant delivery pipe and an oxygen delivery pipe connected in parallel; and a heat exchanger and a preheater are sequentially connected in series on the oxidant pipeline and the material pipeline, the oxidant pipeline and the material pipeline are in communication with an inner pipe of the heat exchanger; and the outlet of the reactor (12) is sequentially in communication, by means of piping, with a corrosion experiment device (14), an outer pipe of the heat exchanger, a cooler (16) and a gas-liquid separator (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    Inventors: Weili Jiang, Yanmeng Gong, Jiaang Lu, Shuyang Liu
  • Patent number: 11565954
    Abstract: A device includes a tube body 110 being filled with water; an induction coil 120 installed at a center inside the tube body 110; and a plurality of heating plates 130, 140 arranged around the induction coil 120. The device further includes a high frequency generator 180 for applying high-frequency power to the induction coil 120 to heat the plurality of heating plates 130, 140, resulting in that the water in the tube body 110 is heated and converted into micro-cluster magnetized water; and a tube 150, positioned between a pair of magnets 160, 170 for causing the micro-cluster magnetized water to pass through an N-pole and an S-pole resulting from the pair of magnets 160, 170, thereby providing it as magnetized water exhibiting a high degree of electric conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Keun Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 11554332
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of a system for gas recovery from wastewater, a method for treating wastewater, and a method wherein ammonia and carbon dioxide are recovered. Typically a wastewater stream is fed into the system, treated and stripped from ammonia and carbon dioxide, and a cleaner stream is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
    Inventors: Niels Van Linden, Henricus Lambertus Franciscus Spanjers, Julius Bernardus Van Lier
  • Patent number: 11554351
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous membrane, process for the manufacture thereof and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS ITALY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Emanuele Di Nicolo', Silvia Rita Petricci, Pasquale Campanelli, Lionel De Beauffort
  • Patent number: 11541384
    Abstract: An ion exchange device main body 3 includes: a tubular body 31 into which an ion exchange resin bag 5 accommodating the ion exchange resin is inserted through an opening and which has a liquid outlet 312 in which a liquid outlet port 314 for discharging an ion exchange target liquid to outside is formed; a lid 32 that is supported by the tubular body 31 and has a gas injection portion 324 in which a gas injection port 325 for injecting a to an inside 311 of the tubular body 31 is formed; a lead-out pipe 42 that is connected to the liquid outlet 312 and guides the ion exchange target liquid to the outside; and a check valve 44 that is provided in the lead-out pipe 42 and prevents the ion exchange target liquid from flowing backward from the outside to the inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUN MAINTENANCE KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fukai
  • Patent number: 11535530
    Abstract: A purification device is provided that includes a porous container, purification media retained in the porous container, and a flow controller integral to the porous container. A purification device is also provided that includes a porous elastic container, purification media, and a flow controller. The porous elastic container has a pocket formed therein. The purification media is compressibly retained in the porous elastic container. The flow controller is elastically retained in the pocket of the porous elastic container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: UNGER MARKETING INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Camp, Paul Adams, Stephen Huda
  • Patent number: 11529574
    Abstract: A pipeline strainer is provided having a cavity, a screen assembly disposed in the cavity, the screen assembly having an open first end and an open second end and a screen axis extending from the open first end to the open second end, a fluid inlet arranged at the open first end of the screen assembly, such that the fluid inlet is open to an interior of the screen assembly, a fluid outlet adjacent the open first end of the screen assembly. The fluid outlet is open to a straining surface of the screen assembly. A fluid axis extends from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet where the fluid axis crosses the screen axis at or near the fluid inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Strahman Valves, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel Stednitz
  • Patent number: 11524911
    Abstract: A magnetization purifying device is provided. At least one or more accommodation spaces formed inside a housing unit along a preset depth or a width status are formed for accommodating a preset amount of magnetization purifying devices having corresponding status, a covering unit having an outwardly-extended engaging segment is provided and capable of being rotated for being matched with an opening formed at one end of the housing unit, another end of the housing unit capable of accommodating the magnetization purifying devices is formed with a recessed engaging segment, so that the magnetization purifying device can perform a predetermined rapid circulating magnetic force line cutting operation to introduced water or air, thereby enabling the water or air fully magnetized and discharged to be provided with anticipated pure oxygen and negative ions, thus the dissolved oxygen in water in a predetermined route, for example an aquaculture pond, can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Chen-Cheng Su, Chi-Pin Shih
  • Patent number: 11511230
    Abstract: A pervaporation membrane formed on a porous support containing a composition encompassing a polysiloxane, a crosslinker and a catalyst are disclosed and claimed. Also disclosed are the fabrication of membranes which exhibit unique separation properties, and their use in the separation of organic volatiles from biomass and/or organic waste, including butanol, ethanol, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: PROMERUS, LLC
    Inventors: Oleksandr Burtovyy, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11485661
    Abstract: A three-dimensional electrode-ozone oxidation-electrocatalytic membrane coupled wastewater treatment device, including a circulating fluidized bed reactor. The circulating fluidized bed reactor includes a funnel-shaped internal, a truncated cone, a fiber ball filter, a gas-liquid distribution plate, an inner cylinder, an intermediate cylinder and an outer cylinder. The inner cylinder, the intermediate cylinder and the outer cylinder are coaxial. The inner cylinder is an electrocatalytic membrane assembly; the intermediate cylinder is a gas diffusion electrode; and the outer cylinder is a stainless-steel mesh. A particle electrode is filled between the intermediate cylinder and the outer cylinder, and between the intermediate cylinder and the inner cylinder. The intermediate cylinder is connected to a negative electrode. The inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are connected to a positive electrode. A wastewater treatment method using the device is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yijing Xia, Huajun Feng, Ling Ye, Xiangjuan Ma, Jihua Dai, Yan Yan
  • Patent number: 11479493
    Abstract: An automatic constant-temperature dehumidification device, comprising at least two dehumidification heat pump assemblies having two refrigerant modules and an air module. The refrigerant module comprises a primary refrigerating module and a secondary refrigerating module, the primary refrigerating module and the secondary refrigerating module each comprising a condenser, an evaporator and a compressor. An air inlet pipe of the air module is connected to a hot side of a heat regenerator, the hot side of the heat regenerator is connected to the evaporators through ventilation pipes, the evaporators are connected to a cold side of the heat regenerator through ventilation pipes, and the cold side of the heat regenerator is connected to one of the condensers through a ventilation pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Zengkuang Shi
  • Patent number: 11478735
    Abstract: A filter medium (10) for filtering a fluid, in particular for use in an interior air filter (32), comprises a spun-bonded nonwoven formed at least in part of multi-component segmented pie fibers (1) having at least a first plastic component (2) and a second plastic component (3). The multi-component fibers (1) are largely non-split and in order to manufacture same, segmented pie filaments are spun in a spun-bonding process (S4) to form a spun-bonded nonwoven (10). The segmented pie filaments then form the multi-component fibers (4), the first plastic component (2) and/or the second plastic component (3) being made in particular of a polypropylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Orendt, Thomas Pemsel
  • Patent number: 11478757
    Abstract: A system for liver dialysis makes use of a high cut-off hemodialysis membrane for removing water-soluble and protein-bound toxins from the blood of a person in need. A high cut-off hollow fiber hemodialysis membrane has improved potential to remove albumin-bound toxins and inflammatory mediators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: GAMBRO LUNDIA AB
    Inventors: Markus Storr, Bernd Krause, Hermann Goehl, Thomas Ertl, Alexander Gekeler
  • Patent number: 11479481
    Abstract: A method for processing a metallurgical waste acid, includes the following steps. First, a certain amount of a metallurgical waste acid is added into a reaction kettle. Then, the metallurgical waste acid and magnesium slag are added into the reaction kettle in a weight ratio ranging from 5:1 to 15:1 and are stirred into a mixed waste water. The reaction temperature is the room temperature. Then, a certain amount of sulfuric acid is added into the reaction kettle to control the mixed waste water within a pH range. At last, the mixed waste water is filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: MACH TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., MACH TECHNOLOGY (LINYI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chun-Gen Chang
  • Patent number: 11465920
    Abstract: A method and system for water purification includes a particle accelerator configured to generate a particle beam and a conduit configured to be substantially in line with the particle beam wherein said electron beam is incident on a fluid flowing through the conduit. The electron beam can be oriented to be substantially head on to the direction of flow of the fluid in the conduit. A shielding assembly can be configured around the conduit. A cartridge filtering system and contaminant filtering system can be provided to remove additional contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Fermi Research Alliance, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Geelhoed
  • Patent number: 11452972
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a precision filter which is suitable for filtering a circuit board production process liquid, which is extremely excellent in the resistance to both a strongly acidic cleaning liquid and a strongly alkaline cleaning liquid and which is extremely excellent in the capability of removing an extremely fine foreign substance. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide a precision filter cartridge which is used for a circuit board production process liquid and which includes the precision filter. Further, the objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a circuit board using the process liquid filtered by the precision filter for a circuit board production process liquid or the precision filter cartridge for a circuit board production process liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates G.K.
    Inventors: Tomoka Ogura, Hidesato Mano
  • Patent number: 11434160
    Abstract: A system and method for processing sewage sludge using pyrolysis to eliminate and/or significantly reduce organic chemical compounds, including plastics, and to produce a biochar product that is safe for beneficial uses is provided. The system and method can utilize pyrolysis to treat sewage sludge which dramatically reduces or eliminates regulated and unregulated synthetic organic chemical compounds in the resultant biochar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: WM Intellectual Property Holdings, L.L.C.
    Inventors: James W. Ecker, Lindsay D'Anna, Eric Myers
  • Patent number: 11426687
    Abstract: A fuel filter assembly includes a filter housing defining a cavity, a center stack having a base component and a top portion. The center stack is positioned within the cavity of the filter housing and attached to the housing, the center stack having an axial aperture in the top portion, the axial aperture having a circumferential surface, and a fuel filter. The fuel filter includes a filter base, an end cap having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface, an axial extension that extends from the bottom surface, and at least one prong attached to the axial extension, the at least one prong having an axial surface facing away from the top surface that axially locates the fuel filter in the housing against the circumferential surface, a filter element attached to the bottom surface of the end cap, and a pin attached to a filter base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Kollmann, Patrick Wieler
  • Patent number: 11413562
    Abstract: A separator element comprising a porous rigid single-piece substrate (2) presenting firstly, at its periphery, a perimeter wall (21) that is continuous between an inlet (4) for the fluid medium for treatment at one end of the porous substrate and an outlet (5) for the retentate at the other end of the porous substrate, and secondly, internally, a surface covered by a separator layer (6) and defining an open structure made up of empty spaces (3) for passing a flow of the fluid medium for treatment. The empty spaces (3) are arranged in the porous substrate so as to create within the porous substrate a first flow network (R1) for the fluid medium for treatment, having at least two interconnected flow circuits (R11, R12) for the fluid medium between the inlet (4) and the outlet (5) of the porous substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGIES AVANCEES ET MEMBRANES INDUSTRIELLES
    Inventors: Philippe Lescoche, Jérôme Anquetil
  • Patent number: 11407897
    Abstract: Multicomponent copolymers including two or more types of repeat units is presented. In one example, the multicomponent copolymer includes at least one repeat unit AC having a structure (I), at least one repeat unit DC having a structure (II), and at least one repeat unit BC having a structure (III) or (V). The multicomponent copolymer may be cross-linked via a cross-linking agent. A polymer blend including the multicomponent copolymer or a cross-linked copolymer and a second polymer is also provided. The multicomponent copolymer may be a random or a block copolymer. The structural units of the multicomponent copolymers provide improved, tunable properties, such as improved biocompatibility and hydrophilicity, protein fouling, and mechanical properties, to the copolymers and/or the membranes fabricated from the copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: CYTIVA SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: David Moore, Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Hongyi Zhou, Patrick McCloskey, Matthew Rainka