Patents Examined by T. Bennett McKenzie
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Patent number: 11982288Abstract: An air flow controller for an air cleaner and an air cleaner are provided. The air flow controller may include a fan, and a housing, the fan being provided in the housing and the housing being movable from an initial horizontal position in which the air flow controller directs air flow in a vertical direction to an inclined position in which the air flow controller directs air flow in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaekyun Park, Hyunpil Ha, Soonki Jung, Yeongcheol Mun, Soohyun Bae
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Patent number: 11951427Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a hollow cylindrical filter for removing efficiently foreign substances from fluids. This is performed by forming complicated passages including an axial direction and a radial direction in the filter. The hollow cylindrical filter is formed by winding a metal wire rod in a spiral and multilayered manner. The metal wire rod includes a recess formed throughout the entire length in a longitudinal direction, or recesses repeated along said longitudinal direction. Some wire rod layers extend in an axial direction of the hollow cylindrical filter while the adjacent wire rod layers extend in an intersecting direction, thereby forming a plurality of communication paths for communicating between the overlapping wire rod layers. Additionally, a space is formed between the recess of one wire rod layer and another adjacent wire rod layer, allowing the plurality of communication paths to communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yutaka Yoshida, Kiyohisa Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11931680Abstract: An air filter device of an industrial machine in which an air filter is arranged in a filtered portion of the industrial machine is provided, the air filter device includes: a first operation unit which transports the long air filter toward the filtered portion; a second operation unit which collects the air filter transported from the first operation unit and used in the filtered portion; and a control unit which controls the drive of the first operation unit and the second operation unit and the control unit includes a first determination unit which determines whether or not the air filter in the first operation unit is about to run out or runs out, and outputs, when the first determination unit determines that the air filter is about to run out or runs out, a signal indicating that the air filter needs to be replaced.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11931681Abstract: The air filter systems described herein include one or more pulse collectors and pulse generators aligned along pulse axes. The pulse generators and filter elements may be arranged along a pulse distance as measured from a pulse outlet to a filter element opening. The pulse collectors and the filter elements may have openings with a relationship between them within parameters described herein. The pulse collectors may have a relationship between their hydraulic diameter and their length within parameters described herein. The pulse collectors may include a filter section and a pulse section that meet at a junction along a length of the pulse collector. The pulse sections may have a hydraulic diameter that increases when moving from the junction to the tube sheet opening of the pulse section. The filter sections may have a hydraulic diameter that remains constant when moving from the junction to the filter end opening of the filter section.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DONALDSON COMPANY, INC.Inventor: Thomas D. Raether
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Patent number: 11918948Abstract: Rotating coalescer crankcase ventilation (CV) systems are described. The described CV systems utilize a pumping pressure created by the porous media of the rotating coalescer to maintain positive recirculation of filtered blowby gases through a potential leak gap between a static housing inlet and a spinning component of the rotating coalescer. In some arrangements, the porous media is fibrous media. The filter media may be pleated or non-pleated. The positive recirculation caused by the pressure balance prevents unfiltered blowby gases from bypassing the media of the rotating coalescer from the upstream side to the downstream side of the filter media through the gap. During operation, the pressure balance between the upstream side and downstream side of the filter media maintains the positive recirculation, which in turn maintains a high filtration efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.Inventors: Chirag D. Parikh, Christopher E. Holm, Peter K. Herman, Arun P. Janakiraman, Brian W. Schwandt
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Patent number: 11905967Abstract: An air flow controller for an air cleaner and an air cleaner are provided. The air flow controller may include a fan, and a housing, the fan being provided in the housing and the housing being movable from an initial horizontal position in which the air flow controller directs air flow in a vertical direction to an inclined position in which the air flow controller directs air flow in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaekyun Park, Hyunpil Ha, Soonki Jung, Yeongcheol Mun, Soohyun Bae
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Patent number: 11885525Abstract: An air purifier includes a display mounted between a front panel of a cabinet of the air purifier and an upper panel of the cabinet. The front panel includes a door which is configured and supported to be drawn in to the cabinet toward the display or drawn out from the cabinet away from the display. A display module including the display is disposed below the upper panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sukchun Kim, Myungjin Ku, Taeyoon Kim, Kunyoung Lee, Sangkyun Baek
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Patent number: 11872505Abstract: A separation device with two-stage gas-liquid mixture and conical spiral fields is provided. A first-stage uniform mixer performs first-stage gas-liquid crushing and uniform mixing process by an outer micropore ceramic pipe, a middle micropore ceramic pipe and an inner micropore ceramic pipe and crushes large bubbles in the gas-liquid two-phase flow into small bubbles. A second-stage uniform mixer performs second-stage gas-liquid crushing and uniform mixing process. A whirlpool-making gas collector adjusts the gas-liquid uniform mixing flow obtained after two-stage gas-liquid uniform mixing into hollow-core type high-speed two-phase spiral flow. A conical degasser performs gas-liquid efficient separation operation in a high-speed conical spiral field.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)Inventors: Chunhua Liu, Ji Chen, Zhongxian Hao, Xinfu Liu, Feng Liu, Yongjun Shi, Wenhao Sha, Hui Cheng, Junling Tao
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Patent number: 11845039Abstract: A device for extracting water vapour from a fluid stream includes a carrier structure, a substrate of fibrous material provided on the carrier structure, the fibrous material including a plurality of individual fibres, a quantity of an LCST polymer coating the individual fibres; and a heating provision arranged to selectively heat the LCST polymer to above its lower critical temperature whereby water absorbed by the fibres can be subsequently released on heating. By providing the LCST polymer as a coating onto the fibres, an increased surface area may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Oxycom Beheer B.V.Inventors: Berend Jan Reinders, Johannes Antonius Maria Reinders, Mark Hakbijl, Alexander John Banz
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Patent number: 11833461Abstract: The present disclosure provides small diameter tubular porous fiber filters. These tubular porous fiber filters have many uses including but not limited a filtration medium for removing particles of 5 microns or less from liquid or air.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Porex CorporationInventors: Nicole Elizabeth Morris-Anastasi, Michael Andrew Clendenning, Michael W. Spencer, Qiang Zhou, Guoqiang Mao
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Patent number: 11813560Abstract: An air purifying system includes an air purifier mechanism, a controller, and a sensing device. The sensing device is configured to measure an air quality parameter of the air entering the housing via the air inlet to generate inlet air quality data, and to measure an air quality parameter of the purified air exiting the housing via the air outlet to generate outlet air quality data. The controller is configured to: receive the inlet air quality data and the outlet air quality data, compare the inlet air quality data and the outlet air quality data with their corresponding predetermined threshold ranges, and determine an action to be taken.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: FELLOWES, INC.Inventors: Peter Maletich, Shawn Michael Applegate, Mitch Rydholm, Steven James Barnaby, Jr., Tai Hoon K. Matlin
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Patent number: 11761649Abstract: An air purifier includes a display mounted between a front panel of a cabinet of the air purifier and an upper panel of the cabinet. The front panel includes a door which is configured and supported to be drawn in to the cabinet toward the display or drawn out from the cabinet away from the display. A display module including the display is disposed below the upper panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sukchun Kim, Myungjin Ku, Taeyoon Kim, Kunyoung Lee, Sangkyun Baek
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Patent number: 11761455Abstract: An air flow controller for an air cleaner and an air cleaner are provided. The air flow controller may include a fan, and a housing, the fan being provided in the housing and the housing being movable from an initial horizontal position in which the air flow controller directs air flow in a vertical direction to an inclined position in which the air flow controller directs air flow in a diagonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaekyun Park, Hyunpil Ha, Soonki Jung, Yeongcheol Mun, Soohyun Bae
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Patent number: 11731069Abstract: A dust collector includes an enclosure and a tube sheet separating filter and clean air compartments. The tube sheet forms a filter opening and a filter is located within the filter compartment and includes a filter flange having an air outlet aligned with said filter opening. The flange includes first and second alignment structures located on a first lateral side of the flange. A clamping assembly includes first and second filter clamps that are movable between a sealing position for sealing the filter flange against the tube sheet, and a release position. The first filter clamp engages the first alignment structure when in the sealing position. The second filter clamp engages the second alignment structure when in the sealing position. The dust collector includes means for moving the filter clamps between the sealing position and the release position.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.Inventors: Nino V. Silvestro, Brian L. Shetler
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Patent number: 11732198Abstract: Systems and methods for crude oil separations including degassing, dewatering, desalting, and stabilization. One method includes separating crude oil into a crude oil off-gas and a partially degassed crude oil output; compressing the crude oil off-gas; applying the compressed crude oil off-gas for indirect heating through reboilers of the partially degassed crude oil output; and directly mixing with the crude oil a compressed atmospheric pressure gas. In some embodiments, multiple reboilers are used. In some embodiments, heat exchangers are used. Aftercoolers are used after the compressor to cool the gas; knockout drums are used after the coolers to separate liquids.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventors: Mohamed Soliman, Samusideen Adewale Salu, Talal Al-Zahrani, Nisar Ahmad Ansari
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Patent number: 11701608Abstract: A filter element (100) that is to be mounted in a housing (102) has at least one substantially hollow cylindrical filter bellows (10, 20) designed to separate liquid from aerosol, and two cover elements (30, 40) designed to cover axial end regions (12, 14, 22, 24) of the filter bellows (10, 20). The axial end portions (12, 14, 22, 24) of the at least one filter bellows (10, 20) are pressed against the cover element (30, 40) by an axial compressing force. The at least one filter bellows (10, 20) is secured in the axial direction, and one respective sealing zone (16, 18, 26, 28) is formed between each filter (10, 20) and each cover element (30, 40).Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Andreas Panni, Klemens Dworatzek, Janine Schmelzle, Frank Vogt, Goekhan Evcuemen
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Patent number: 11697084Abstract: A fluid filter has a filter housing with inlet opening for fluid to be cleaned and outlet opening for cleaned fluid. A filter element arranged in an element receptacle of the filter housing separates inlet opening from outlet opening. The filter housing has a housing body with an installation opening to the element receptacle, through which the filter element in an installation direction is introduced into the element receptacle. The filter housing has a housing cover for closing the installation opening. The installation opening is arranged in a transverse side of the housing body that is lateral relative to the housing axis. The filter housing has a sealing surface, surrounding the housing axis at least partially circumferentially, for contacting a seal of the filter element. The filter element has a seal support device for the seal and the filter housing has a pressing device for the seal support device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Michael Kaufmann, Klaus-Dieter Ruhland
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Patent number: 11691100Abstract: A device is provided that provides an unbiased filtration effect and an effect of removing captured substances through backwashing by causing a fluid to uniformly pass through a filter element over the entire length in an axial direction at the time of backwashing so as to efficiently rotate a captured-substance removal tool in a filtration unit 1 which includes the captured-substance removal tool 20 axially supported inside the tubular filter element 2 to be rotatable.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11684898Abstract: Embodiments provide a filter with a generally rectangular, non-cylindrical profile. The filter may have multiple pleat packs positioned between pleat covers that define regions and flow channels in a cavity of the filter body. The pleat covers have openings that allow a fluid to flow through the multiple pleat packs via parallel flows or series flows. End caps bonded to the body define flow passages for directing the fluid from an inlet to an outlet via the pleat packs for series or parallel filtration. The pleat packs may be made of the same or different materials and may be configured with the same or different heights based on flow requirements. A cage or a separator may be positioned between the pleat packs. The pleat packs may be made of a continuous pleated membrane with bridges defining a space between the pleat packs to accommodate the cage or separator.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.Inventors: Kalyan Madhavaram, Bryan Carl Cochran, John Paul Puglia, J. Karl Niermeyer, Krishna Kamath, Christopher Paul Barck, Yoshikimi Douglas Hisano
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Patent number: 11666849Abstract: A filter module and an air purifier according to an aspect of the present disclosure include a supply roller and a recovery roller, a filter wound and installed on the supply roller and the recovery roller, so that it can be used without replacing and cleaning the filter module for a long period of time by allowing a section used in the filter to be recovered in the recovery roller, and also a section not used in the filter to be supplied from the supply roller.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dah We Park, Gi Hoon Ko, Yeon-Young Nam, Ji Hyeong Lee