Patents Examined by Sonji Turner
  • Patent number: 10245593
    Abstract: An air filter arrangement is provided for filtration of particles in an airflow having an airflow direction. The air filter arrangement includes an electrostatically charged filter, a first ionization device, and a second ionization device. The first ionization device is arranged upstream of the electrostatically charged filter and the second ionization device is arranged downstream of the electrostatically charged filter. An air filtering apparatus is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Elfi Elektrofilter Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Jan-Olof Wallin
  • Patent number: 10240269
    Abstract: Electret webs include a thermoplastic resin and a charge-enhancing additive. The charge-enhancing additive is a fused aromatic thiourea, a fused aromatic urea compound, or a combination thereof. The change-enhancing additive may also include a hindered amine light stabilizer compound. The electret webs may be a non-woven fibrous web or a film. The electret webs are suitable for use as filter media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Nathan E. Schultz, Fuming B. Li, John M. Sebastian
  • Patent number: 10234150
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filter device for air conditioning in which pressure loss is low and dust collection efficiency is high. In the filter device for air conditioning installed in an air-conditioning duct, the filter device for air conditioning includes: a case; an electrical dust collection unit provided inside the case; at least one filter unit provided so as to make contact with the electrical dust collection unit; and a guide unit provided such that the electrical dust collection unit and the filter unit can be detachably installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Soo Noh, Yasuhiko Kochiyama, Hye Won Gil, So Young Yun
  • Patent number: 10213716
    Abstract: [Problems] An object of the present invention is to provide an electret with an initial increased electrostatic charge quantity and suppressed attenuation of electrostatic charge to liquid particles. [Means for solving] The electret is obtained by depositing polytetrafluoroethylene having a melting point of 35° C. or higher and 320° C. or lower on a carrier and imparting an electrostatic charge to at least one of the carrier and the polytetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kitagawa, Toshikatsu Enjoji
  • Patent number: 10168059
    Abstract: A filtering medium includes a nonwoven fabric and a first electrode having an input terminal of power. The first electrode is provided on a surface of the nonwoven fabric. Alternatively, in a case where the nonwoven fabric has a plurality of fiber layers, the first electrode may be provided between the fiber layers. An air purifier includes the filtering medium disposed between a sucker and a discharger of a gas, and an output terminal via which power is output to the first electrode of the filtering medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yamaguchi, Tadashi Maeda, Yosuke Wada
  • Patent number: 10150120
    Abstract: A gas treatment includes: a gas scrubber chamber operable to receive an effluent gas stream originating from a manufacturing process tool to be scrubbed therewithin to provide a scrubbed gas stream; and an electrostatic precipitation chamber operable to receive the scrubbed gas stream to be treated therewithin to provide a treated gas stream, one of the gas scrubber chamber and the electrostatic precipitation chamber defining a first chamber and another of the gas scrubber chamber and the electrostatic precipitation chamber defining a second chamber, the first chamber being configured to surround the second chamber. In this way, the first chamber and the second chamber can share the same volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Andrew James Seeley, Alexander Michael Pope, Thomas Frank Cohn
  • Patent number: 10143963
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a mercury removal system for a coal-fired power plant comprising: a mercury content monitoring system configured to monitor a mercury concentration in flue gas; a fly ash collecting device configured to collect fly ash from an electrostatic precipitator in the coal-fired power plant; a modifying device configured to be supplied with the collected fly ash and prepare a mercury sorbent from the fly ash; a sorbent injector configured to inject the mercury sorbent into flues of the coal-fired power plant so as to mix and contact with the flue gas in the flue and adsorb the elemental mercury in the flue gas. Thus, the concentration of the mercury pollutant emission is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongsheng Zhang, Yongzheng Gu, Jiawei Wang, Zhao Liu, Weiping Pan
  • Patent number: 10099225
    Abstract: An air cleaning device for separating airborne particles from a flow of air is provided. The air cleaning device comprises a separating unit and an ionizing unit arranged to charge airborne particles present in the flow of air and transmit at least a major part of the charged particles towards the separating unit. The ionizing unit comprises at least one collector electrode and at least one emitter electrode. The separating unit is arranged to attract at least some of the charged particles so as to separate them from the flow of air. Further, the at least one collector electrode is shaped so as to conduct at least a portion of the flow of air and has a spherically curved inner surface and the emitter electrode is centered with respect to the spherically curved inner surface of the collector electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: BLUEAIR AB
    Inventor: Johan Wennerstrom
  • Patent number: 10099226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass parts release prevention, or specifically a glass splinter protection, for ionization devices, wherein a glass bulb is at least partially covered by a polymer film. The electrode is arranged within the glass bulb, and an outer electrode is slid over the outer contours of the polymer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Hilgenberg GmbH
    Inventor: Ingo Hilgenberg
  • Patent number: 10080986
    Abstract: A “bolt on” static separator is disclosed for use in conjunction with a rotating separator to handle higher liquid volumes that are not able to be effectively separated by the rotating separator alone. The static separator may be positioned upstream of the rotating separator, generally right in front of the rotating separator, i.e., immediately ahead of the inlet to the rotating separator and generally attached directly to the front end of the rotary separator. The static separator may include a significant change in flow path direction that is sufficient to cause coarse fluid separation. The output of the static separator is in communication with the input of the rotating separator. Additionally, the drain of the static separator is in communication with the drain of the rotating separator and is at the same pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: DRESSER-RAND COMPANY
    Inventors: Pascal Lardy, Harry Allan Kidd, William C. Maier
  • Patent number: 10071384
    Abstract: A dust collection system, a dust collection method, and a dust collector, can enhance dust-collecting efficiency while reducing the volume of the dust collector as a whole. A dust collector is provided with a casing having an inlet into which gas is introduced; a discharge electrode to which voltage is applied, the discharge electrode being disposed inside the casing and having a spike called discharge spike and mounting frames for supporting the discharge spike; and a collecting electrode having a planar member, disposed inside the casing facing the discharge electrode, the mounting frames being inclined with relation to the gas flow at the inlet. Two mounting frames are connected to each other on the downstream side of the gas flow, and are arranged so that, between the two mounting frames, the upstream side of the gas flow is wider than the downstream side of the gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Kojima, Kazutaka Tomimatsu, Masaya Kato, Takao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10022727
    Abstract: A discharge electrode with equal or better performance to conventional discharge electrodes, but at significantly lower cost uses carbon fiber composite tapes suspended around support rings attached to a support at the top and a bias at the bottom. The tape is in a loop and extends around the support rings, causing the rings to be pulled apart in tension by the bias to keep the tape taut. The tape, and preferably the top ring, and alternatively the lower ring, are conductively connected to a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ohio University
    Inventor: Khairul Alam
  • Patent number: 10016766
    Abstract: A Dust Mitigation System (“DMS”) is disclosed that includes a fabric-material having a front-surface and a back-surface; a plurality of conductive-fibers within the fabric-material; and a plurality of input-nodes approximately adjacent to the back-surface or the front-surface of the fabric-material. The plurality of conductive-fibers are approximately parallel in a first direction along the fabric-material and are approximately adjacent to the front-surface of the fabric-material and the plurality of input-nodes are in signal communication with the plurality of conductive-fibers and configured to receive an alternating-current (“AC”) voltage-signal from an input-signal-source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kavya K. Manyapu, Leora Peltz
  • Patent number: 10010892
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a low pressure loss filter having a high dust- and dirt-collecting capability and excellent workability and sustainability of collecting capability. The filter of the present invention is a filter having air channels formed using an electret sheet; a porosity of the electret sheet being from 1 to 70%; an air channel cross-sectional ratio of the filter being from 10 to 99%; and a volume charge density of the filter being from 10 to 5000 nC/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: YUPO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Koike, Yuichi Yahagi, Seiichiro Iida
  • Patent number: 10005087
    Abstract: A particle collector system includes a dust collection unit, a power source unit, and a capacitance measurement unit. The dust collection unit includes first and second electrodes, a second electrode, and a dielectric body covering the electrodes. The power source unit supplies power source voltage to the first and second electrodes. The capacitance measurement unit measures the capacitance between the first and second electrodes. With this particle collector system and dust collection method using it, particles can be almost completely removed without periodic performance of a particle removal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tatsumi, Yu Saito, Toshifumi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10005015
    Abstract: An air filtration system includes a frame directing an airflow through the air filtration system and a media filter disposed in the frame including one or more filtration elements. The system further includes one or more alignment features and one or more sealing elements interactive with the one or more alignment features to prevent incorrect installation of the media filter into the frame. A method of installing a media filter in an air filtration system includes aligning an alignment feature of the media filter with an opening in a frame of the air filtration system and inserting the media filter into the frame. The alignment feature ensures that the media filter is inserted in the frame in a correct orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ronald L. Bowman
  • Patent number: 10005086
    Abstract: A particulate filtration apparatus for exhaust, combustion or other gases includes an enclosure for the output of a flow of such gases, prior to their release into the outside environment. An internal duct crossed by the flow and affected by a perforated conducting plate is kept at a negative electrical potential, for emission and dispersion in the duct of electrons coupled to polluting particles carried by the flow and substantially constituting the particulate, consequently giving them a negative electrical charge. Along the duct downstream of the perforated plate is an accumulation plate, kept at a positive electrical potential, for the attraction and stable adhesion of the electrically charged particles on the accumulation plate. A conducting filament at a negative electrical potential adjacent at least one opening of the perforated plate is a primary source of emission and dispersion of electrons which are coupled to particles carried by the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: TECNOLOGICA S.A.S DI VANELLA SALVATORE & C.
    Inventor: Salvatore Vanella
  • Patent number: 10004163
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for integrated control of environmental conditions in an equipment enclosure. For example, a novel airflow inlet structure can be installed into a primary airflow path of the equipment enclosure. The airflow inlet structure can include an integrated electrostatic filter sub-structure and an integrated electromagnetic radiation (EMR) control sub-structure. During operation of equipment within the enclosure, air drawn through the equipment enclosure can flow through the primary airflow path in such a way as to flow through the electrostatic filter sub-structure; and the EMR control sub-structure can control EMR emitted by the equipment, such that EMR leaving the enclosure is attenuated to below a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Frank Smith
  • Patent number: 9962713
    Abstract: An electrostatic collector is provided, including a collection chamber, delimited by a tubular wall, and a support holding an electrode in position in the collection chamber and for removing it from the collection chamber, the support including a guide, passing transversally through the collection chamber, the first and second ends of which are fixed to the wall, the guide including a through opening configured to hold the electrode; a first attachment element, including at least one electrically conducting part, that will extend at least partly in the guide, from the first end towards the opening; and a second attachment element, including at least one electrically insulating part, that can move in translation in the guide from the second end towards the opening and from the opening towards the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventor: Jean-Maxime Roux
  • Patent number: 9962711
    Abstract: An electrostatic air cleaner comprises a main body, a corona discharged module, a collector module and a fan. The main body has an airflow passage for disposing the corona discharged module, the collector module and the fan. The fan is used for drawing an air stream into the airflow passage. The corona discharged module is used for discharging particles in the air stream. The charged particles are then captured by the collector module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Chen, Chih-Chen Chang, Chen-Der Tsai, Chih-Yung Huang