Patents Examined by Natasha E Young
  • Patent number: 12179165
    Abstract: At a center portion of a ceiling wall of a furnace body having a lateral wall between the ceiling wall and a bottom wall, there is a burner that combusts downwards. A reforming reaction tube is provided in a circumference of the burner to carry out a steam reforming treatment on a source gas. A discharging portion is an opening at an upper side portion of the lateral wall for discharging combustion gas of the burner. A cylindrical outer wall is disposed at an outer side portion of the lateral wall. In an outside space formed between the lateral wall and the outer wall, there is a steam generating heat exchanger generating steam or a mixture gas of a source gas and steam. At a lower side portion of the outer wall, there is outside discharging opening discharging the combustion gas which flows through the outside space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidaka Asonuma, Koichiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12179164
    Abstract: LNG reformer system may include a reformer configured for reforming raw material gas including LNG gas and water vapor into hydrogen through a catalytic reaction thereof; a hydrogen PSA extracting the hydrogen in reformed gas produced in the reformer; a CO2 PSA fluidically connected to the hydrogen PSA and configured for extracting carbon dioxide in off-gas discharged from the hydrogen PSA; a first heat exchanger fluidically connected to the CO2 PSA and configured for cooling a fluid including carbon dioxide extracted in the CO2 PSA by LNG supplied from an LNG tank toward the reformer; a CO2 separator fluidically connected to the first heat exchanger and configured for separating the carbon dioxide from a fluid that passed through the first heat exchanger, the fluid including carbon dioxide; and a CO2 tank fluidically connected to the CO2 separator and storing the carbon dioxide separated in the CO2 separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Seok Ko
  • Patent number: 12172896
    Abstract: A plant and process for producing a hydrogen rich gas are provided, said process comprising the steps of: reforming a hydrocarbon feed in a reforming step thereby obtaining a synthesis gas comprising CH4, CO, CO2, H2 and H2O; shifting said synthesis gas in a shift configuration including a high temperature shift step; removal of CO2 upstream hydrogen purification unit, such as a pressure swing adsorption unit (PSA), and recycling off-gas from hydrogen purification unit and mix it with natural gas upstream prereformer feed preheater, prereformer, reformer feed preheater or ATR or shift as feed for the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HALDOR TOPSØE A/S
    Inventors: Steffen Spangsberg Christensen, Arunabh Sahai
  • Patent number: 12173926
    Abstract: An upper-air disinfection system is achieved with a plurality of upper air emitters powered by a DC voltage power bus including data conductors. An upper air emitter with one or more concentrated light sources, quartz lenses, and one or more reflectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Framework Product Development LLC
    Inventors: Sam Rhea Sarcia, Scott Brian Mahar
  • Patent number: 12172904
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems to form calcium carbonate comprising vaterite, comprising dissolving lime in an aqueous base solution under one or more precipitation conditions to produce a precipitation material comprising calcium carbonate and a supernatant solution, wherein the calcium carbonate comprises vaterite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Arelac, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Weiss, Ryan J Gilliam
  • Patent number: 12173102
    Abstract: A reactor system for producing modacrylic polymer having a main tank with at least one feed inlet, a mixing element inside the main tank, a secondary tank connected to the main tank with an overflow channel, a reaction terminator feed and a level meter for the secondary tank, an outlet at the bottom of the secondary tank, a level control valve that controls the outlet, a collection area connected to the outlet, and a control unit configured to control the level control valve to determine output amount to be transferred to the collection area from the secondary tank according to data received from the level meter in order to keep the level in the secondary tank constant. The temperature in the main tank and the secondary tank is continuously measured and the main tank and the secondary tank temperature difference is arranged such that it does not exceed ±5° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmet Safa Isik, Ilhan Canpolat
  • Patent number: 12162003
    Abstract: A reformer for production of synthesis gas may include a reformer firing space having a reformer base, reformer walls, and a reformer roof. The reformer may include a first reformer tube and a second reformer tube, with at least sections of the first reformer tube and the second reformer tube being arranged within the reformer firing space. At least one reformer burner is disposed outside the reformer firing space. A cooling duct on or beneath the reformer base is disposed between the first reformer tube and the second reformer tube. The first reformer tube and the second reformer tube can be connected to a collecting system outside the reformer firing space, with the collecting system being disposed beneath the reformer base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Oliver Meißer, Marco Scholz
  • Patent number: 12157686
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sanitizing pool and spa water are provided. An electrolytic chlorinator is provided which includes a combined flow, temperature, and salt concentration sensor. The electrolytic chlorinator could include an acid tank for in-situ cleaning of the electrolytic chlorinator or acidification of pool/spa water where needed. A delayed polarity reversal technique is provided for de-scaling and managing passivation of the blades of an electrolytic chlorinator. The electrolytic chlorinator could include a sacrificial anode for protecting components of the chlorinator as well as other pool/spa components. The electrolytic chlorinator could include an integral, electrically-controlled acid generator, a brine tank for periodically superchlorinating and/or shocking pool/spa water, and/or a plurality of chemical tanks/feeds for periodically injecting chemicals into the chlorinator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond P. Denkewicz, Jr., Arthur W. Johnson, III, James Murdock, James Carter
  • Patent number: 12151184
    Abstract: A device for extracting polysaccharide from Acaudina molpadioides is provided, which includes a mixing box, a blocking cover, a feed pipe group, a discharge pipe, a bottom plate, a side plate, a first motor, a first transmission shaft, two drive shafts, a first circular gear, two second circular gears, two rotary discs, two connecting frame groups, two semiarc rotary discs, a slide bar, a stop collar, a fixed link, a baffle, a first bushing group and a first sleeve spring group. A top side wall and a rear lower side of the mixing box are communicated with the feed pipe group and the discharge pipe, respectively. Front side and rear sides of the slide bar are longitudinally connected with multiple first engaging teeth. Both the two semiarc rotary discs are connected with multiple second engaging teeth. The fixed link is connected between the stop collar and the slide bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wenzhou University
    Inventors: Laijin Su, Mingjiang Wu, Xiaojing Chen, Huicheng Yang, Shiwei Hu
  • Patent number: 12151225
    Abstract: A feedstock gas, such as natural gas, is introduced into a mixing chamber. A combustible gas is introduced into a combustion chamber, for example simultaneously to the introduction of the feedstock gas. Thereafter, the combustible gas is ignited so as to cause the combustible gas to flow into the mixing chamber via one or more fluid flow paths between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber, and to mix with the feedstock gas. The mixing of the combustible gas with the feedstock gas causes one or more products to be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: EKONA POWER INC.
    Inventors: John Benjamin Hinkey, Jr., Timothy John Elder, Kenneth William Kratschmar, Christopher Edwin John Reid
  • 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