Patents Examined by Marc C Howell
  • Patent number: 12138602
    Abstract: The contacting device for countercurrent contacting of fluid streams and having a first pair of intersecting grids of spaced-apart and parallel deflector blades and a second pair of intersecting grids of spaced-apart and parallel deflector blades. The deflector blades in each one of the grids are interleaved with the deflector blades in the paired intersecting grid and may have uncut side portions that join them together along a transverse strip where the deflector blades cross each other or adjacent opposed ends of the deflector blades and cut side portions that extend from the uncut side portions to the ends of the deflector blades. At least some of the deflector blades have directional tabs and associated openings to allow portions of the fluid streams to pass through the deflector blades to facilitate mixing of the fluid streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Koch-Glitsch, LP
    Inventors: Izak Nieuwoudt, Sergio Escobar
  • Patent number: 12128373
    Abstract: A mixer for combining food constituents into a homogeneous mass includes an eccentric drive mounted on a mixing head of the mixer, where the eccentric drive is configured to rotate around a central axis of a mixing area and rotate an offset rotational axis of a drive shaft in an orbit about the central axis of the mixing area. An angled beater attachment for the mixer further includes a top mounting portion operably coupled to the drive shaft of the stand mixer, a bottom beater portion disposed above the mixing area, and a beater support member operably coupled with a support shaft of the bottom beater portion. The bottom beater portion is driven by the drive shaft about an angled rotational axis that extends at an acute angle relative to the central axis of the mixing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon T. Mock, Sayer James Murphy
  • Patent number: 12121870
    Abstract: A multifunctional C4F7N/CO2 mixed gas preparation system is disclosed. The C4F7N heat exchanger is used to heat and vaporize C4F7N input through the C4F7N input port; the CO2 heat exchanger is used to heat and vaporize CO2 input through the CO2 input port; the C4F7N/CO2 mixing pipeline structure is used to mix the heated C4F7N and heated CO2, and the C4F7N/CO2 mixed gas output pipeline structure is used to output the C4F7N/CO2 mixed gas. The C4F7N/CO2 mixing pipeline structure comprises a C4F7N/CO2 dynamic gas preparation pipeline structure and a C4F7N/CO2 partial pressure mixing pipeline structure; the C4F7N/CO2 partial pressure mixing pipeline structure includes partial pressure mixing tanks for mixing the CO2 and the heated C4F7N of certain pressures; and a plurality of partial pressure mixing tanks are arranged in parallel. A multifunctional C4F7N/CO2 mixed gas preparation method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: STATE GRID ANHUI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, State Grid Corporation of China
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Liufang Wang, Jiong Qi, Yue Zhao, Fengxiang Ma, Zien Liu
  • Patent number: 12115507
    Abstract: An apparatus for mixing is disclosed. In embodiments, the apparatus includes a head, a shaft, and a base. In embodiments, the shaft couples to the head and includes a first opening at a bottom portion of the shaft. In embodiments, the base couples to the bottom portion of the shaft and includes a second opening that extends through the base and is aligned to the first opening. In embodiments, the first and second openings are configured to receive a reciprocating motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Paula J. Crashley
  • Patent number: 12102970
    Abstract: A mixing unit comprising a frame, a rheology control portion, and a high-volume solids blending portion. The rheology control portion comprises means for receiving a first material from a first transfer mechanism, a dispersing/mixing system connected with the frame, and a first metering system to meter the first material from the first material receiving means to the dispersing/mixing system. The dispersing/mixing system disperses/mixes the metered first material with a fluid to form a first fluid mixture. The high-volume solids blending portion comprises means for receiving a second material from a second transfer mechanism, a solids blending system connected with the frame, and a second metering system to meter the second material from the second material receiving means to the solids blending system. The solids blending system blends the metered second material with the first fluid mixture to form a second fluid mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajesh Luharuka, Hau Nguyen-Phuc Pham, William Troy Huey, Nikki Morrison, Christopher Todd Shen, Avinash Ramesh, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Laurent Yves Claude Coquilleau
  • Patent number: 12090455
    Abstract: An aerosol can mixer system includes an aerosol mixer device with a stem perpendicularly connected to a base, a housing integrally connected to the base on a side opposite the connection of the stem and at least one magnet connected to either the base or the housing. The at least one magnet is configured to releasably secure an aerosol can within the device. The stem is mounted to the base and is configured to be received by a handheld electrical device to permit rotating and mixing contents of the aerosol can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Ronald L. Dunnegan
  • Patent number: 12090456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic mixer capable of minimizing mixing of foreign substances, which are generated in components of the magnetic mixer, of a liquid to be mixed, having a simple structure for cleansing a structure supporting an impeller shaft, and capable of securing a sufficient output when a large-scale mixing system with an impeller shaft is configured; and a mixing system including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SEDNA ENG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuck Bae Kim, Jong In Kim
  • Patent number: 12092242
    Abstract: A pipe welding structure includes: a channel plate that includes a fluid channel; through-hole plates stacked on the channel plate, each of the through-hole plates having through holes that communicate with each other and forming a combined through hole; and a pipe inserted into the combined through hole and welded to one of the through-hole plates disposed farthest from the channel plate, the pipe internally including a pipe channel that connects to the fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Nitta, Junya Hashizume, Mitsuyoshi Ohsaki
  • Patent number: 12083489
    Abstract: A light emitting device mixer includes at least two bowl feeders, each including a bowl capable of holding workpieces, and a driving unit capable of causing vibration to the bowl. The bowl feeders include a moving passage through which the workpieces may move from one bowl feeder to an adjacent bowl feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Namgoo Cha, Sang Min Kim, Seongchan Park, Woogun Lee
  • Patent number: 12083729
    Abstract: A treatment element for a treatment element shaft of a screw machine comprises a main body with an outer wall, wherein the outer wall has a first wall section and a second wall section and wherein the first wall section is harder than the second wall section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Coperion GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Conrad Polzer
  • Patent number: 12070729
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for customizing a cosmetic product. The system includes: an interface device, in electronic communication with a single batch cosmetic device. A container configured, to be imported into the single batch cosmetic device containing a base. The single batch cosmetic device configured to formulate a customized cosmetic product by mixing a cosmetic additive with the base inside the imported container using at least one mixing element. The container exported from the single batch cosmetic device containing the customized cosmetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Blee. LLC
    Inventors: Charles C. Brandon, Travis Floyd, Walter J Wallace, Peter J Richards, Jenny L. Lam, Amanda D. Braught
  • Patent number: 12064734
    Abstract: Provided is an ultra-dispersion mixer, for stirring a mixed material for producing a high-quality slurry for an electrode of a secondary battery within a short time by disposing a low-speed blade and a high-speed blade for stirring a mixed material in a chamber so as to easily and effectively disperse elements of the slurry of a secondary battery, supplied to a mixer during a procedure of preparing the slurry of a secondary battery produced by performing mixing procedures multiple times, and disposing blade parts having a plurality of stirring characteristics so as to realize various stirring characteristics in the mixed material on the high-speed blade to increase the dispersion of the mixed material while the mixed material circulates in a high-shear disperser of the chamber and to simultaneously increase the temperature of a supplied solution at the beginning of stirring of the mixed material in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SK ON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je Yeol Lee, Ji Yun Yang, Tae Soon Park
  • Patent number: 12064733
    Abstract: Phosgene is mixed with an organic polyamine to produce polyisocyanate compounds. A phosgene flow is established in a conduit (15), and the organic polyamine is injected into the phosgene flow. A constricted region (4) of the conduit (15) resides downstream of the point of the polyamine injection. The presence of the constricted region (4) reduces by-product formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Gillis, Quan Yuan
  • Patent number: 12064736
    Abstract: Described herein are devices and methods for rotating a container (e.g., a capped tube containing a sample). The disclosure provides devices and methods of rotating a container using one motor, resulting in a less complex device. The device moves and rotates a container rotating member which in turn is used to rotate a container. The devices can be used in automated analytical instruments (e.g., automated blood analyzers) that automatically transport and detect the identity of sample containers. The devices can also be used in instruments that automatically spin sample containers to mix or homogenize the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Natasha Panattoni, Glenn Price
  • Patent number: 12048395
    Abstract: A twist off container and coupling assembly of a micro puree machine includes a container and a coupling on the micro puree machine. An interior surface of the coupling has at least one ramped slot that is angled relative to a lower annular surface of the coupling. The container has at least one protrusion correspondingly angled relative to an upper annular surface of the container. The protrusion is configured to engage the slot when the container is rotated in a clockwise direction and to disengage from the slot when the container is rotated in a counter-clockwise direction. When the container is rotated, the container moves both axially and rotationally relative to the coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventor: Nathan Lyell
  • Patent number: 12042773
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of cleaning a food processor including providing a food processor base that includes a rotary power driver having a rotatable shaft. A bowl is mounted on the base. A food processing blade attached to the shaft within the bowl. A cleaning accessory is placed in the bowl above the food processing blade. A cleaning fluid is introduced into the bowl, and the food processing blade with the rotatable shaft agitate the cleaning fluid in conjunction with the cleaning accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Koen Aidan Ambrose
  • Patent number: 12043707
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for producing a polymer latex resin powder, and according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for producing a polymer latex resin powder comprising a first flocculation tank to which a polymer latex and a flocculant are each supplied, wherein the first flocculation tank is provided with a stirring part including a rotation axis and one or more impellers mounted on the rotation axis, and a discharge line, and the first flocculation tank is configured to operate as a closed system upon operation of the stirring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Kee Jang, Hyun Jin Shin, Ye Hoon Im
  • Patent number: 12017381
    Abstract: A mixer vehicle includes a mixer drum, a sensor, and a controller. The mixer drum is configured to rotate to mix a material within the mixer drum. The sensor is configured to obtain values of one or more properties of the material within the mixer drum. The controller is configured to receive the one or more properties of the material, and receive a user request to discharge the material within the mixer drum. The controller is configured to determine if the material requires additional mixing to obtain accurate values of the one or more properties of the material or to sufficiently mix the material, and limit discharge of the material from the mixer drum in response to a determination that the material requires additional mixing to obtain accurate values of the one or more properties of the material or to sufficiently mix the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventor: Bryan S. Datema
  • Patent number: 12017194
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides improved systems and methods for the blending of active agents into process fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: CMS TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Francis Dautreuil, John Meccia, James Dietrich, Douglas Kroitsch, William Randy Darr, Ron Shapira
  • Patent number: 12005143
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for producing a miniaturized liposome on a large production scale, and an apparatus for producing a liposome which is to be used in the above-mentioned method. Provided is a method for producing a liposome, including a step of stirring a mixture containing an oil phase in which at least one lipid is dissolved in an organic solvent and a water phase in a first tank of an apparatus having the first tank and a circulation path, in which the ratio of the capacity of the circulation path to the total capacity of the tank and the circulation path is 0.4 or less and/or the time required for the mixture to return to the first tank after being discharged therefrom is within 2.0 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Sugiyama, Naoki Yamada, Shigehisa Sugiyama, Yohei Okubo