Patents Examined by Natasha E Young
  • Patent number: 12145126
    Abstract: A unit and method for producing granulate as well as an adapter connection piece for connecting a granulator which produces a granulate, and a fluidizing apparatus, wherein the granulates which are produced in the granulator are fluidised by a distributor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Glatt Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Jochen Thies, Dirk Zimmermann, Xaver Knöpfle
  • Patent number: 12138611
    Abstract: A method can be utilized to startup into a normal operating state a steam reformer arrangement for the production of hydrogen, methanol, or ammonia. A plurality of burners that are coupled to at least one reactor having reformer tubes may be controlled and regulated. In particular, startup may be performed out and regulated in an automated manner by the burners ensuring normal operation, in particular non-startup burners, being ignited indirectly as a function of temperature by means of burners provided specifically for startup, in particular pilot burners and startup burners, as a function of automatically evaluated flame monitoring at least at the pilot burners. This method provides time savings and savings of outlay in terms of personnel and also high operational reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Marco Scholz, Ernst Sichtermann, Thorsten Brakhane, Klaus Nölker
  • Patent number: 12134740
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing aromatic hydrocarbons including: a C6 separation column; a C7 separation column; a first gasoline hydrogenation unit; a C8 separation column; an extractive distillation column; a hydrodealkylation reaction unit; and a second gasoline hydrogenation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung June Hwang, Tae Woo Kim, Sung Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12132190
    Abstract: A processing system for producing a product material from a liquid mixture includes an array of one or more power jet modules adapted to jet the liquid mixture into one or more streams of droplets and force the one or more streams of droplets into the processing system adapted to process the one or more streams of droplets into the product material. A method for producing a product material, from a liquid mixture on a processing system includes moving each of the one or more power jet modules and be connected to an opening of a dispersion chamber, opening one or more doors of the one or more power jet modules, processing the one or more streams of droplets inside a reaction chamber, closing the one or more doors of the power jets modules and moving each of the one or more power jet modules in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Lu Yang, Liang-Yuh Chen
  • Patent number: 12116322
    Abstract: A manufacturing process of a concrete product includes: (1) extracting calcium from solids as portlandite; (2) forming a cementitious slurry including the portlandite; (3) shaping the cementitious slurry into a structural component; and (4) exposing the structural component to carbon dioxide sourced from a flue gas stream, thereby forming the concrete product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Gaurav Sant, Laurent G. Pilon, Bu Wang, Narayanan Neithalath, Zhenhua Wei, Benjamin Young, Gabriel D. Falzone, Dante Simonetti
  • Patent number: 12115265
    Abstract: A sterilizing device includes a heater plate connected to a controller separately spaceable away from the heater plate. The controller regulates heating of the heater plate to a desired operating temperature. The heater plate is placed in a separate container and objects to be sterilized are placed in the container proximate to the heater plate. The heater plate is heated to a sufficient temperature for a sufficient length of time to sterilize the objects in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Oven Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Carlini
  • Patent number: 12115511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a production apparatus for hydrothermal synthesis of lithium iron phosphate, which comprises first stirring devices, a preheating device, a second stirring device, and a drying device, wherein there are two first stirring devices, and the preheating device comprises a housing, a heating box, two feeding pumps, two first transfer assemblies, and several first heating tubes; the two first transfer assemblies each comprise an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, and several transfer branch tubes. In the present application, the arrangement of multiple transfer branch tubes increases the heated area of the slurry, enhances the thermal conduction efficiency, and improves the heating effect. The equidistant arrangement of the transfer branch tubes ensures uniform heating of the slurry within the multiple transfer branch tubes, guaranteeing the heating effect. The arrangement of the preheating device can reduce the heating time of the slurry, thereby enhancing the heating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN WARRANT NEW ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yihong Tian
  • Patent number: 12102738
    Abstract: A fragrancing device is disclosed. The fragrancing device includes a housing having an installation space and a longitudinal housing axis at which a carrier is arranged with contact. The carrier is provided separately with respect to the housing and includes a cover part that covers an installation space opening of the installation space. A carrier part having at least one fragrance cartridge receptacle for receiving a fragrance cartridge is provided. A guide stop is disposed axially in a direction of the housing axis between the carrier and the housing for guiding the carrier as part of a plug-in movement relative to the housing along the housing axis. The guide stop includes a guide pin and a guide pin receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Eberle, Sham Kasar, Sven Petzner, Oliver Schultze
  • Patent number: 12098785
    Abstract: A cap is described for connection to a medical connector, the cap includes a housing having a top wall and sidewall forming a first cavity, and a removable or integrally formed protrusion. The protrusion includes an inner thread on an inner surface, the inner thread being sufficient to interlock with a mating feature of a female needleless connector. The inner surface of the protrusion defines a second cavity. The protrusion includes an outer thread on an outer surface, the outer thread being sufficient to interlock with a mating feature of a male needleless connector. The second cavity configured to define a chamber to contain an absorbent material and disinfectant or antimicrobial agent. The cap may also include a peel seal and/or septum to prevent the disinfectant or the antimicrobial agent from exiting the second cavity. An exterior sidewall surface of the housing may include a plurality of grip members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Paul P. Marici, Kevin M. Ryan, Chang Jiang, Michael Kwong Chan
  • Patent number: 12092368
    Abstract: A venting apparatus for a heat source is disclosed. The venting apparatus includes a venting housing structure comprising a plurality of exhaust apertures proximate to a heat collector, wherein the exhaust apertures vent into a chamber defined, in part, by a circumferential surface having a radial extent from the apertures, and a thermoelectric device in thermal communication to the heat collector on a second surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Justin Schnabelrauch
  • Patent number: 12084406
    Abstract: The application provides in an aspect a process for producing urea in a urea plant comprising a high pressure synthesis section comprising a reactor, wherein the process comprises reacting NH3 feed and CO2 feed under urea formation conditions in said reactor to form a urea synthesis solution comprising urea, water, carbamate and ammonia, wherein the process further comprises contacting a carbamate-containing liquid stream with an equipment part of said high pressure synthesis section that is made of a ferritic steel alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: STAMICARBON B.V.
    Inventors: Kirk Anguah Ofei, Alexander Aleida Antonius Scheerder
  • Patent number: 12077446
    Abstract: A catalytic synthesis method, a device and a system for ammonia synthesis through orderly regulation of the electronic domain of nitrogen are provided. Nitrogen and hydrogen are used as raw materials, and a multi-composition material with magnetic material as active site is used as a catalyst, thermal field, magnetic field and electric field or thermal field and electromagnetic field are applied to nitrogen, hydrogen and catalyst at the same time. The invention adopts the catalytic synthesis method, device and system for the mild ammonia synthesis at low temperature and low pressure conditions through orderly regulation of the electronic domain of nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Baoshun Zhang, Yifu Yu, Bin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12070741
    Abstract: A load-following reactor system and associated facilities for improved control of a reactor under varying loads. The load-following reactor may be a tube-cooled reactor for methanol synthesis. A reactant may be controlled by at least one valve element such that a portion of the reactant is fed to the reactor through the reactor tubes, and a portion of the reactant is fed to the reactor after being heated in a heat exchanger. The heated portion of the reactant may be fed to the reactor after the tubes. The valve element may be controlled based on a temperature of the reactor and/or a flowrate of reactant feed to adapt the temperature of the reactor to the changing reactant flowrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CRI HF
    Inventor: Emeric Sarron
  • Patent number: 12070719
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gas processing equipment includes an oxygen remover 2 that removes oxygen contained in exhaust gas G, and a gas processing device 3 that processes pretreated exhaust gas G (P), from which the oxygen has been removed by the oxygen remover 2, with a carbon dioxide absorbent solvent S as a treatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daigo Muraoka, Koshito Fujita, Shinji Murai, Hayato Morigaki, Osamu Shibasaki, Yasuhiro Kato, Satoshi Saito, Takehiko Muramatsu, Ryosuke Shibata, Yusuke Handa
  • Patent number: 12059661
    Abstract: A nitric oxide delivery system, which includes a gas bottle having nitrogen dioxide in air, converts nitrogen dioxide to nitric oxide and employs a surface-active material, such as silica gel, coated with an aqueous solution of antioxidant, such as ascorbic acid. A nitric oxide delivery system may be used to generate therapeutic gas including nitric oxide for use in delivering the therapeutic gas to a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: VERO Biotech Inc.
    Inventors: David Fine, David Rounbehler, Gregory Vasquez, Bryan Johnson
  • Patent number: 12053737
    Abstract: A dynamically adjustable rate sulfur recovery process continuously calculates and adjusts sour gas stream operating pressure and/or flow rate to maximize sweet gas output, thereby improving efficiency. A corresponding desulfurization system may include a fixed-sized pressure vessel, a flow control valve that controls the rate of flow of a sour gas stream into the pressure vessel, a sensor that measures sulfur concentration in the sour gas stream, a reagent tank, an oxidizer tank, and a phase separator that separates sweet gas as a gaseous phase after hydrogen sulfide in the sour gas stream in the pressure vessel is converted to elemental sulfur, sulfur species, or both by contact with reagent from the reagent tank and oxidizer from the oxidizer tank. A PLC (programmable logic controller) continuously calculates updated flow rates based on sulfur concentration measurements from the sensor to achieve maximum sweet gas production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Streamline Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Billy G Clark, John C Bourdon, Peter J Photos, Franklin Hailey Brown, II, David Sisk
  • Patent number: 12048785
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for dry fogging system. The system includes a first liquid tank including compressed air and a first liquid configured to disinfect and sterilize. The system further includes a second liquid tank including a second liquid. The system further includes a control panel configured to regulate dispensing of the first liquid and the second liquid. The first liquid tank, the second liquid tank, and the control panel are modular and configured to detach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Adams, Mike Adams
  • Patent number: 12042776
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersion plate and a coating device comprising the same, which provides a dispersion plate comprising a plurality of gas injection holes, wherein the dispersion plate includes a plurality of spout nozzles formed by a dense arrangement of the gas injection holes, wherein one spout nozzle is disposed at the center of the dispersion plate and the plurality of spout nozzles are arranged along a plurality of virtual concentric circles from the center of the dispersion plate to the edge of the dispersion plate, where with respect to two adjacent virtual concentric circles, the number of spout nozzles arranged along an outer concentric circle based on the center of the dispersion plate is twice the number of spout nozzles arranged along an inner concentric circle and the arrangement interval of the spout nozzles arranged along the outer concentric circle is half the arrangement interval of the spout nozzles arranged along the inner concentric circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jin Shin, Jung Kee Jang, Ye Hoon Im
  • Patent number: 12036526
    Abstract: Improvement in the efficiency of carbon dioxide reduction reaction is achieved. A gas supply unit having a plurality of pores is established in a lower portion of a reduction chamber, and carbon dioxide is supplied as bubbles into an aqueous solution. This can elevate a concentration of carbon dioxide dissolved in the aqueous solution without stirring the aqueous solution using a stirring bar, and render the concentration uniform in the aqueous solution. Therefore, the efficiency of reduction reaction of carbon dioxide in a reduction electrode can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayumi Sato, Yuya Uzumaki, Yoko Ono, Takeshi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 12036525
    Abstract: Apparatuses for generation of a gas, for example chlorine dioxide, methods of forming an apparatus, and methods of use thereof are provided. The apparatus may include at least one pouch composed of a hydrophobic material and a reactant disposed within the interior of the pouch. The reactant generates a desired gas in the presence of an initiating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Selective Micro Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thomas, Tanja Miller