Patents Examined by T. Bennett McKenzie
  • Patent number: 10307703
    Abstract: An air filter housing includes an air inlet opening, an air outlet opening, and at least four filter bays each of which is configured to receive and hold a filter. The at least four filter bays form a V shape in the air filter housing and each side of the V shape includes at least two of the at least four filter bays. The air filter housing can be used in an air filtration system such as a residential HVAC system to achieve a MERV 16 filtration rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Daniel M. Dearden
  • Patent number: 10300421
    Abstract: A dust collector includes a pneumatic duct chamber and a bag house interconnected by a valve assembly to provide incremental and varying air pressure within the bag house to prevent damage to the filter bags disposed within the bag house due to sudden changes in air pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventor: Henry Copeland
  • Patent number: 10300405
    Abstract: An improved water-oil separation apparatus with a separation vessel and associated water leg having internal inlet piping that feeds fluids to an engineered degassing boot, having an engineered degassing boot that is more effective in removing entrained gases from the incoming fluid stream, having an umbrella shaped upper baffle instead of an inverted umbrella shaped upper baffle, having an improved oil collection bucket or weir, having a much improved inlet water spiral distribution apparatus, having an improved water leg design, and having a water leg with a functional height that is externally adjustable to make it easier to regulate the oil-water interface level within the separation vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventor: Will D. Ball, IV
  • Patent number: 10293295
    Abstract: A system for filtering a gas-solids mixture, comprises: a housing; a separating body dividing the housing in a raw gas chamber and a clean gas chamber, the raw gas chamber being accessible via an inlet for the gas-solids mixture and the clean gas chamber comprising an outlet for discharging a cleaned gas; a number of filter elements suspended from the separating body; lower ends of the filter elements being connected to a support grid, the support grid comprising a number of arms; one or more cleaning elements provided on the arms of the support grid for cleaning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqiang Wang, Chii-King Wong, Lucien Zalman
  • Patent number: 10286346
    Abstract: A three dimensional filter media for extended life filters includes: (a) a filter media base made of fabric selected from the group consisting of synthetic fabric, natural fabric and combinations thereof, the fabric being made of a plurality of threads, each of the plurality of threads being formed by a plurality of joined twisted thread filaments, the fabric being selected from the group consisting of woven fabric, knitted fabric, and combinations thereof, the fabric having a thickness of Z in the range of 0.020 to 0.075 inch, the fabric having a specified density; and, (b) a plurality of mechanical cilia connected to and protruding outwardly and away from the base, the cilia having a length that is at least 10 times Z, Z being the thickness of the base set forth above, and having a density that is no greater than 5% of the density of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Inventor: Martin Sobel
  • Patent number: 10279301
    Abstract: A strip according to the invention includes a plurality of first creases distributed along the first side of the strip, a plurality of second creases distributed along the second side of the strip, and the plurality of first creases being able to extend and the plurality of second creases being able to shrink, thereby the strip being bendable towards the second side. The strip according to the invention is able to be bendable as well as not easily deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Hong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10279294
    Abstract: An apparatus, process, and system are disclosed that effectively provide separation of a combined gas/liquid flow stream into its separated gas and liquid factions. The invention is primarily directed to the fields of preparative supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), but will have other utilization and applicability where phases of dramatically different density, viscosity and volumetric flow require separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimber D Fogelman, Terry A Berger, Edwin E Wikfors
  • Patent number: 10279297
    Abstract: A bag filter arrangement for being arranged in a bag filter holder, comprising a bag filter having an end portion encompassing an open end of the bag filter, a bag filter seal for sealing against the bag filter holder, the bag filter seal being arranged to hold the bag filter, the bag filter seal comprising a bag filter facing surface, and wherein the bag filter seal comprises a recess on the bag filter facing surface, the recess being arranged to receive the open end portion of the bag filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventor: Frédéric Odet
  • Patent number: 10279295
    Abstract: A device for filtering a gas stream, having a vessel partitioned into a first stage and a second stage, with an opening between stages. A filter element is positioned in the opening, with ends of the filter element extending into the first and second stages. The first member is removable from the second member while the filter element is positioned in the opening, to allow for replacement with a new clean member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FILTRATION GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan L Clarke, John W. Clarke, Timothy J Chisholm
  • Patent number: 10272378
    Abstract: A filter device has a housing and at least one filter element arranged in the housing. The filter element is provided with a filter material and the interior of the filter element is surrounded by the filter material. The filter element allows a raw gas to pass through the filter element from an exterior of the filter element to the interior. The interior of the filter element is divided into at least two interior chambers that are separated from each other. A cleaning device with compressed air lines that each are provided with an outlet opening and a valve is provided. The interior chambers each have associated therewith one of the compressed air lines. Through the outlet openings compressed air flows into the interior of the filter element for loading the interior of the filter element with compressed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Camfil Handte APC GmbH
    Inventor: Jakob Handte
  • Patent number: 10272377
    Abstract: A filter element for use in a gas compression system is disclosed and is structured to filter a lubricant mist from a flow of compressed gas. The filter element includes a lip and a separator flange that extends from the lip in a generally downward direction to a basket. The basket can contain a filter media useful to remove lubricant mist from the flow of compressed gas. The separator flange is oriented in a downward direction to encourage condensate to flow toward the basket and away from a lid of a container in which the filter element is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew Mitchell, Michael Borkowski, George Mankos
  • Patent number: 10265645
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode paste capable of readily and reliably removing bubbles from the produced electrode paste. A method includes a step for performing vacuum-defoaming of bubbles present in an electrode paste (8) by vacuuming the inside of a defoaming tank (6) while introducing the electrode paste (8) to the defoaming tank (6). In the step for performing vacuum-defoaming of bubbles present in an electrode paste (8), a rising velocity (fluid surface rising velocity VL) of the fluid surface of the electrode paste (8) in the defoaming tank (6) is made smaller than a rising velocity (reference bubble rising velocity VGa) of the bubbles in the electrode paste (8) by adjusting a flow rate (supply flow rate Q) of the electrode paste (8) introduced to the defoaming tank (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsushi Enokihara
  • Patent number: 10258916
    Abstract: The present invention provides a filtering system including an impermeable extension for a filtering element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Clark-Reliance Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas W. Lisy, John A. Hobing
  • Patent number: 10252204
    Abstract: An air conditioner including a suction inlet configured to suction air, a filter movably arranged at one side of the suction inlet, a first dust elimination member provided within a movement section of the filter to eliminate dust thereof by coming in contact with the filter when the filter is moved and a second dust elimination member provided adjacent to one side of the first dust elimination member to eliminate dust collected at the first dust elimination member, wherein the first dust elimination member is reversely rotated with respect to a movement direction of the filter to come in contact with the second dust elimination member, thereby eliminating the dust collected at the first dust elimination member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Uk Park, Wan-Ku Kang, Chan Young Park, Geon Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 10245543
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: DONALDSON COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas D. Raether
  • Patent number: 10245530
    Abstract: A modular installation for liquid/gas separation of a multiphase fluid such as crude oil. The installation has a plurality of unitary separation devices, each constituted by an enclosure co-operating at its base with a coaxial connection piece connected to a support structure resting on the sea bottom or suitable for being connected thereto. The support structure being suitable for receiving a plurality of the unitary separation devices in reversible manner so as to be able to perform disconnections at will, in particular for increasing the separation capacity of the installation and/or for performing maintenance on the unitary separation device at the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Saipem S.A.
    Inventor: Raymond Hallot
  • Patent number: 10239008
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of environmentally dust removing equipment apparatus, and specifically relates to a dust remover with a thickness-controllable, sorted and continuous accumulation shelf layer, and an operation method thereof. The dust remover comprises a gas purification chamber, a dust filtration chamber, an ash bucket and a high-pressure gas pulse-jet deashing device. A valve is provided on the exhaust gas inlet pipe and/or the purified gas outlet pipe. The distance L from the inlet pipe valve to the exhaust gas inlet of the filtration chamber is 0-1.0 m or 1.0-10 m. Two or more dust removers are communicated with the dust source separately or in parallel, so as to form a group of dust removers. When the dust remover performs off-line deashing, the valve on the exhaust gas inlet pipe and/or the purified gas outlet pipe is closed, and the pulse-jet deashing device is started up to perform jet deashing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Foshan Human Habitat Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qingbao Huang
  • Patent number: 10232297
    Abstract: A device for filtering air comprising a base, a fan functionally attached to the base, an air filter releasably attached to the base, and a substantially air impermeable outer sleeve is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dana Paul Gruenbacher, Steven James Schroeck, Jessica Elizabeth Leon, Paolo Dal Bo, Uwe Schober
  • Patent number: 10232295
    Abstract: A filter includes filter media and a mesh panel secured to a face of the filter media. The mesh panel has a perimeter edge margin and intersecting web members that extend from the perimeter edge margin across the panel. A web member can have an outer web portion with a larger minimum width than an inner web portion. The web members can define an outer flow opening with a smaller cross-sectional opening than an inner flow opening defined by the web members. The flow openings can be diamond shaped. The web members can include one set of web portions that define an outer flow opening and another set that define an inner flow opening. The sum of the widths of the second set can be less than the sum of the widths of the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Filtration Group LLC
    Inventors: Philip Winters, Kevin Hobbs, David Heritage
  • Patent number: 10214098
    Abstract: The cap assembly for a carbon canister fuel tank includes an outer cap and an inner cap. There is a cavity with an opening at the inner cap, and the outer cap is above the inner cap covering the opening. There is a lower vent cap in the cavity which divides the cavity into a filling cavity and a volume cavity. There is a through hole in the center of the lower vent cap with a breathing valve which would open automatically when there is air pressure imbalance in the filling cavity and volume cavity. The first vent hole is at the bottom of the volume cavity, while the second vent hole is at the bottom of the filling cavity. The first vent hole, breathing valve and the second vent hole are arranged in sequence to constitute the exhaust channel for the vaporizing oil gas in the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CHONGQING BAIKE DINGYU TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Zhang