Patents Examined by Sonji Turner
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Patent number: 11484890Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator is provided capable of preventing a reduction in dust collection effect of ionic wind, and increasing dust collection efficiency. The electrostatic precipitator includes: a plurality of collecting electrodes (4) in the form of circular pipes arranged at predetermined intervals in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the electrodes; and a plurality of protrusions (5a) protruding toward the collecting electrodes (4) and arranged offset in parallel with the orthogonal direction. An equivalent diameter of a cross section of the collecting electrode (4) is 30 mm to 80 mm. An opening ratio of the collecting electrodes (4) arranged at predetermined intervals is 10% to 70%.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Kazutaka Tomimatsu, Masaya Kato, Yasutoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 11484889Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrification device and an electrical dust collecting apparatus including the same capable of adsorbing and filtering fine dust included in air in an air conditioning apparatus such as an air conditioner or an air cleaner, and more particularly, to an electrification device and an electrical dust collecting apparatus including the same capable of improving dust collecting efficiency by performing stable electrification at an accurate position using an electrification electrode in which an electrification pin and an electrode rod are formed integrally with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Ji-Yong Park, Ki Hong Kim, Jae Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11452960Abstract: A filter media includes flat sheets that are corrugated into a honeycomb matrix wherein air flows through the material and airborne contaminants are captured on the sidewalls of the material, wherein an active electrostatic field is applied to the flat sheets.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Environmental Management Confederation, INC.Inventor: Forwood C Wiser
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Patent number: 11453013Abstract: A variable bidirectional electrostatic filter system with an adjustable distance between a charging part and a dust collecting part is provided herein and includes a high voltage applying means configured to supply a high voltage; a filter housing; a dust collecting part; a forward charging part; a reverse charging part; a forward movement rail installed in the filter housing and configured to adjust a distance from an amplification section while forming the amplification section between the forward charging part and the dust collecting part; a reverse movement rail installed in the filter housing; and a control unit providing an amplification section, in which the charged capturing targets are agglomerated, between the charging part and the dust collecting part and by adjusting the distance from the amplification section prevents unnecessary waste of energy and maintain dust collecting efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: ROYAL INDUSTRIAL TECH CORPInventor: Seung Whan Lee
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Patent number: 11440024Abstract: A conductive fabric filter includes a non-woven fabric coated with copper by electroless plating, and the non-woven fabric has pores and is conductive.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: CS E&L Co., Ltd.Inventor: Won Jae Han
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Patent number: 11413626Abstract: A carbon fiber charging device and an electrical appliance therefor are provided. The carbon fiber charging device includes a carbon fiber electrode configured to generate electrons and charge surrounding dust, a protective case configured to cover the carbon fiber electrode such that a foreign object having a size of a human finger is not able to contact the carbon fiber electrode, the protective case including a top wall facing a tip of the carbon fiber electrode and provided with a through hole and a side wall surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the carbon fiber electrode, and an electron generation stabilization device provided in the protective case and configured to allow the carbon fiber electrode to generate electrons stably.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kochiyama, Kyuho Shin, Soyoung Yun
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Patent number: 11413627Abstract: Apparatus for reducing the translucence or opacity caused by smoke within a closed environment includes a fibrous substrate comprising non-conductive fibers. The apparatus further includes elongated, substantially parallel electrodes disposed on the substrate arranged as one or more pairs of adjacent electrodes, wherein a discharge gap is defined between each pair. The apparatus additionally includes a component configured for applying a voltage between each pair to generate a non-thermal microplasma in a corresponding discharge gap to collect or bind one or more airborne particulate combustion byproducts.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Stitch PartnersInventors: Justin McCarthy, Warren J. Jasper
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Patent number: 11413628Abstract: An electrostatic air cleaning device comprises a particle charging section, a particle precipitation section, a current sensor for measuring an electric current flowing through electrode plates of the precipitation section and a relative humidity sensor. The voltage applied to the electrode plates and the air flow through the device are controlled in dependence on the measured current flowing through the electrode plates. In this way, control is provided to prevent excessive electric leakage currents inside the precipitation section, that may lead to a hazard, and to optimize the energy efficiency of the cleaning device in relation to its cleaning performance. The relative humidity information also enables diagnosis of the cause of the high leakage current and the status of the precipitation section concerning the amount of precipitated particles therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Johannes Marra, Achim Gerhard Rolf Koerber, Cornelis Reinder Ronda
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Patent number: 11406990Abstract: An electrostatic-precipitator air cleaner includes a base, a shell, a fan, a barrel, a high-voltage discharge module, a distribution module and a precipitation module. The shell is connected to the base. The fan is connected to an upper portion of the shell. The barrel is connected to the shell above the base. The high-voltage discharge module is connected to the base and inserted in the barrel. The distribution module is connected to the high-voltage discharge module. The precipitation module is inserted in the barrel.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Inventor: Ching-Wen Liu
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Patent number: 11376609Abstract: A filter assembly for an active field polarized media air cleaner includes a conductive screen that conducts a high voltage therethrough, a probe that delivers voltage to the conductive screen, and a conductive patch adhered to the conductive screen. The probe delivers the high voltage to the conductive screen through the conductive patch.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Environmental Management Confederation, Inc.Inventor: Forwood C. Wiser
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Patent number: 11369975Abstract: A filter unit for an extractor hood includes a housing and an electric contact element arranged on a wall of the housing such as to be accessible from outside. Accommodated in the housing are an ionization unit and a separation unit which is mounted in the housing downstream of the ionization unit in a direction of flow.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Georg Hepperle, Daniel Vollmar, Jens Herbst, Holger Eich
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Patent number: 11369976Abstract: A filter assembly having two frames. The two frames are connected by a hinge about which they rotate. The two frames hold a filter media there between. The two frames are locked using one or more latches that are located along a side rail of the at least one of the two frames. The one or more latches are flushed with an edge of the side rails of the two frames, to couple the two frames in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Environmental Management Confederation, Inc.Inventors: Forwood C. Wiser, III, John Augustus Lang, Jr.
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Patent number: 11358153Abstract: An electric dust collecting device is provided. The electric dust collecting device according to an embodiment includes a mixing part into which outside air flows, an electrostatic sprayer configured to spray droplets charged to the mixing part to be combined with contaminants contained in outside air, a dust collecting part configured to form an electric field and adsorb droplets combined with contaminants, and a draining part combined with the dust collection part to discharge the droplets adsorbed in the dust collecting part.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-young So, Kyu-ho Shin, Young-min Cheong, Jae-youl Jeong
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Patent number: 11344895Abstract: The pulse firing pattern for a transformer of an electrostatic precipitator comprises first elements indicative of a pulse to be fired and second elements indicative of a pulse to not be fired. The pulse firing pattern further comprises couples of adjacent second elements and at least two first elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ANDRITZ AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Carl Marcus Williamsson, Nanda Kishore Dash, Anders Nils Gustav Karlsson, Inger Elisabeth Önnerby Pettersson
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Patent number: 11338302Abstract: An apparatus and test method for simulating spark discharge of a high-voltage electrostatic precipitator are provided. The simulation apparatus includes a pulse power supply configured to provide a test voltage, an anode cylinder configured to simulate an anode of a precipitator, a cathode rod configured to simulate a cathode of the precipitator, a pulse capacitor unit configured to simulate an electrode capacitor of the precipitator, an insulating support configured to hang the cathode rod, a voltage divider configured to measure an electrode voltage, and a grounded current sampling unit configured to measure grounded current. The simulation apparatus simulates a discharge process of the high-voltage electrostatic precipitator to measure discharge characteristic parameters such as discharge current and discharge energy of the high-voltage electrostatic precipitator. In this way, characteristics of spark discharge of the precipitator under different load conditions are simulated.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: Hubei University of Technology, XIANGYANG JIUDING HAOTIAN EP EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoxing Zhang, Rui Zhang, Qianjun Deng, Yinghao Guo, Shuo Jin, Wenhao Han, Tiezhou Wu, Lan Xiong
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Patent number: 11331678Abstract: Disclosed herein is a charging apparatus and precipitator. The charging apparatus includes a plurality of counter electrodes formed in a plate shape and arranged in a direction intersecting with a ventilation direction to allow respective surfaces thereof to follow the ventilation direction, and a plurality of high voltage electrodes formed in a wire shape and installed between the plurality of counter electrodes. The plurality of counter electrodes includes a first counter electrode having a first electrode area, and a second counter electrode having a second electrode area less than the first electrode area. The first counter electrode and the second counter electrode are alternately arranged.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Takezawa, Seiro Yuge, Daisuke Fukuoka, Kazutoshi Takenoshita
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Patent number: 11311888Abstract: The invention concerns an electrostatic precipitator comprising an ionisation stage, a collector stage and a power supply. The power supply comprises a first high-voltage power supply unit for applying a first DC high voltage to the ionization stage and a second high-voltage power supply unit for applying a second DC high voltage to the collector stage. The first high-voltage power supply unit is configured to operate the ionization stage current-controlled. A current sensor required for this is advantageously arranged in the return line carrying low voltage, for which purpose the first high-voltage power supply unit and the second high-voltage power supply unit are galvanically isolated from the mains connection and from each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Clean Air Enterprise AGInventor: Kaspar Schindler
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Patent number: 11298706Abstract: An example of a system for use in collecting fluid from a gas stream includes one or more collection panels and a frame for arranging the panel(s). Each of the collection panel(s) may comprise an emitter electrode assembly member, comprising one or more emitter electrodes, physically attached to an electrically insulated from a fluid collection member comprising one or more collection electrodes. The frame may be sized and shaped to be disposed near a gas outlet or a duct. An example of a method for collecting fluid from a gas stream includes providing the collection panel(s) disposed in a path of the gas stream; providing the gas stream; generating and maintaining a voltage at the one or more emitter electrodes of each of the collection panel(s); and collecting an amount of the fluid from the gas stream with the one or more collection panels.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Infinite Cooling Inc.Inventors: Maher Damak, Karim Khalil, Kripa Varanasi
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Patent number: 11292011Abstract: An apparatus and method for purification of air, is disclosed. The apparatus includes: (a) a mist generator, is configured to generate water micro droplets, (b) a charging chamber, is configured to transfer electric charges to the micro droplets, (c) an interacting space is configured to act as a physical barrier and provide sufficient space for adsorption of air pollutants, (d) a collecting chamber is configured to collect the contaminated micro droplets and convert them to a liquid form, (e) and a water recycling section, is configured to remove the contaminations and provide a usable clean water for the mist generator. The collecting chamber of the apparatus is incorporated with a plastic grid enhanced with surface modified nanofibers to promote the micro droplet collecting efficiency. Further, a method of fabricating a plastic grid enhanced with surface modified nanofibers for an air purifier apparatus is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventors: Abdurahman Hosseinifar, Maryam Fakhraei-farouji, Ramin Zibaseresht
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Patent number: 11285491Abstract: An air filtration system has a housing. The housing has an inlet, a filter unit, an outlet, and a fan that pulls air into the inlet, pushes the air through the outlet, and has the air pass through the filter unit. The filter unit has a first metallic plate, a second metallic plate and a frame unit. The first and second metallic plate (a) is coated with a dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer layer, and (b) respectively has a first and second plurality of apertures. The second apertures do not align with the first apertures when the first and second plates are properly positioned in the housing. The frame unit ensures plates are properly positioned in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Americair CorporationInventors: Jim Woods, Gregory Inns