Patents Examined by Terry K Cecil
  • Patent number: 11351485
    Abstract: A round filter element of a filter for a urea-water solution has a filter bellows with a filter medium that continuously extends circumferentially, relative to a filter element axis, around an element interior. An end body is fastened to an end face of the filter bellows and provided with a connecting section for fastening the round filter element to a housing cover of a filter housing of the filter. The end body has a central opening communicating with the element interior. The central opening has a central insertion section for receiving a flexible separation section of a volume compensation device of the filter and has an outer flow-through section enabling flow of the urea-water solution out of the filtration volume or into the filtration volume. The filter has a volume compensation device with a flexible separation section that separates a compensation volume from the filtration volume of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Kocksch, Christopher Banks, Bastian Mueller
  • Patent number: 11351494
    Abstract: A container assembly is disclosed. The container assembly includes a container that contains a volume. Selected portions of the container assembly may provide indication to a user of features or status of the container assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BRITA LP
    Inventors: Rick T. Nishijima, Madeline A. Donovan, Russell E. Bell, Piercy Yau, Paul Anderson, Simeon Jupp
  • Patent number: 11345618
    Abstract: A full-effective reverse osmosis membrane element and a water purification machine are provided. The reverse osmosis membrane element includes a reverse osmosis membrane (20) and a central tube (10) provided with several water-inlet holes (11). The reverse osmosis membrane (20) is wound around the central tube (10) and covers each water-inlet hole (11) and forms a raw water flow channel. Two sides of the reverse osmosis membrane (20) are sealed by first and second water division bands (21) (22). The first water division band (21) and the central tube (10) form a first concentrated water-outlet (211). The first water division band (21) and the reverse osmosis membrane (20) form a second concentrated water-outlet (212). The second water division band (22) and the reverse osmosis membrane (20) form a first raw water-inlet (221). The second water division band (22) and the central tube (10) form a second raw water-inlet (222).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ANGEL DRINKING WATER INDUSTRIAL GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Guoping Li, Juan Wang
  • Patent number: 11345623
    Abstract: An ozone injector device comprising a housing, a corona tube disposed within the housing and configured to generate ozone, a check-valve removably coupled to the water passageway, a second end of the check-valve having a cavity with a movable float contained therein, an ozone inlet fitting removably coupled to the check-valve, the ozone inlet being in fluid communication with the corona tube via a corona discharge tube such that ozone entering the water passageway through the ozone inlet fitting must pass through the check valve, and a spring-loaded clearing piston positioned to move into and out of the water passageway, the clearing piston being biased upwards, and configured to prevent flow of ozone into the water passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AQUASTAR POOL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Olaf Mjelde
  • Patent number: 11339060
    Abstract: An apparatus provides a water bottle mouthpiece attachment which can filter microplastics and other contaminant substances from bottles, particularly disposable plastic water bottles. The filter of the apparatus includes a filter housing that is attached to a cap that fits inside a common plastic bottle. Soft rubber rings, tapering from to radially larger on the top to radially smaller on the bottom in a generally conical fashion, ensure a watertight fit to the inside opening of any drinking bottle. A friction closing/opening spout at the top of the filter enables selective opening of the bottle and prevents accidental spillage of bottle contents. The filter housing is also offset from the center, giving space to an air valve that allows air to enter the bottle without disturbing the flow of water from the bottle, thus providing optimal lamellar flow without allowing fluid to escape through the air valve during consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: Nils Nedrelid
  • Patent number: 11333116
    Abstract: A water drain assembly for draining water from a filter assembly comprises a conduit, a water canister, and a venturi. The conduit fluidly connects a bottom portion of the filter assembly to a bottom portion of the water canister. The venturi comprises a first venturi inlet that allows fluid to flow from the fuel tank and into the venturi, a second venturi inlet that allows fluid to flow from the water canister and into the venturi, and a venturi outlet that allows fluid to flow from the venturi and into the filter assembly. The second venturi may comprise a capillary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Mahesh Suhas Bhat, Peter K. Herman, Vivek Mani Tripathi
  • Patent number: 11311828
    Abstract: A pipeline filter assembly comprising a base assembly, an outer wall, and a lid assembly. The outer wall has a lower end portion and an upper end portion, wherein the upper end portion comprises a lower collar, and the lower collar comprises at least one lock notch spaced around an exterior surface thereof. The lid assembly is configured to couple to the lower collar of the outer wall. The lid assembly has an upper collar configured to threadedly mate with the lower collar. The upper collar has at least one housing that projects from the upper collar, the housing having an interior surface, and at least one biasing clip pivotally mounted within the housing for releasable engagement with the lock notch. A pair of pipeline filter assemblies, wherein at least one connection plate is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: AQUASTAR POOL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Olaf Mjelde
  • Patent number: 11312639
    Abstract: A water purifier and a filter for the water purifier are provided. The water purifier includes a raw water flow path formed to bring in raw water from the outside, a purified water flow path connected to the raw water flow path for the raw water to flow in a first direction, a filter located in the purified water flow path to filter the raw water, a bypass flow path branched from the purified water flow path for the raw water to bypass the filter and connected to the purified water flow path on a downstream side of the filter in the first direction, a washing flow path branched from the bypass flow path and connected to the purified water flow path on a downstream side of the filter in the first direction, and a drain flow path connected to the filter to guide the raw water flowing into the filter to a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungha Park, Jongho Lee, Yeonwoo Cho, Sungpil Choi
  • Patent number: 11311827
    Abstract: A water filtration system and water filtration system head provide interchangeable water inlet and outlet ports, so that a direction of a flow of water through the water filtration system can be reversed by configuring a valve provided in the water filtration system head that attaches to a cartridge housing containing a water filter cartridge. The head has a first fluid channel communicating with a fluid volume between the cartridge housing and the outer surface of a water filter cartridge, a second fluid channel in communication with an inside of the cartridge, and a multi-position valve that either conducts inlet water from a first port to the first fluid channel and conducts outlet water from the second fluid channel to the second port, or conducts inlet water from the second port to the first fluid channel and conducts outlet water from the second fluid channel to the first port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ERD Paris, LLC
    Inventors: Danny F. Lincoln, Ehud Levy
  • Patent number: 11298659
    Abstract: The water dispensing device of the present invention with the given flow path of water and the control circuit configured store at least two threshold TDS values XA and XB, wherein XA is a higher TDS value than XB; and to drain water from the treatment unit through the drain line, when TDS value sensed is higher than XA, and alternately when the sensed value of TDS is less than XB then direct water from the reject line into the first recycle line; it was seen that the TDS of the output water of the device was in a constant range and the device of the present invention also contributed to minimizing the wastage of water by allowing recycling of water through the reject line of the treatment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Kirtan Shravan Kamkar, Skand Saksena, Vishal Kumar Trivedi
  • Patent number: 11298636
    Abstract: A filter system has a chamber body, an inlet that extends through the chamber body, and an outlet that extends through the chamber body at a location downstream of the inlet. The filter system has a plurality of fluid flow paths that extend between the inlet and the outlet. The plurality of fluid flow paths including first and second subsets, each including at least a respective one of the fluid flow paths. A plurality of hydrocarbon filters is disposed in the chamber body such that each hydrocarbon filter is disposed in a fluid flow path. The filter system directs the fluid to the first subset, and once each hydrocarbon filter of the first subset becomes saturated with hydrocarbons, the filter systems diverts the fluid to flow to the second subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Mark S. Rauch, Ronald Kleineke
  • Patent number: 11299410
    Abstract: The present invention describes a water filter apparatus (100, 100a) with integrated nutrient enrichment and/or enhancement. Desired nutrients, ions, hydrogen ions, ceramic, stones, metal etc. packed in granules or balls are selectively disposed inside a stick capsule (160), shell capsule (180) or hydrogen capsule (190). One or two stick capsules (160) are located inside a filter element (150). The stick capsule has a tapered end (162) and in association with T-shaped posts (157) formed on an inside of a cap (151) of the filter element, dynamic flow of water along the tapered end (162) induces nutrient-rich water to flow through perforations (165) at the end of the stick capsule (160), mixes/blends the two streams of water before water is discharged through a faucet (144). The filtered water is also enhanced by treating the water through flavor treatment, anti-bacterial, anti-chlorine, activated carbon and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: STAN-IN PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Kin Yung Leung
  • Patent number: 11292736
    Abstract: A device and a method for installing an aerobic three-phase separator without interruption of production. The device comprises an aeration tank, the top of the aeration tank is provided with a number of aerobic three-phase separators that are capable of aeration at the bottom and are provided with a gas barrier at a sludge outlet. Each of the aerobic three-phase separators comprises an overflow trough, and the bottom of the overflow trough is provided with a drain pipe leading to the outside of the bottom end of the aerobic three-phase separator. Each of the drain pipes is connected to one end of a water outlet hose, and the other end of each water outlet hose is connected to a water outlet manifold. One end of the water outlet manifold is a sealed end, and the other end is bent downward and leads to a water level tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: QINGY AN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shujie Liu, Xu Liu, Fuming Chen
  • Patent number: 11286191
    Abstract: An apparatus for filtering water has a valve head and a filtration/purification canister removably mountable thereon. Connecting the canister to the valve head automatically opens a check valve in the valve head to permit water to flow from the valve head into and through the canister, and then back to and through the valve head to an outlet port. Disconnecting the canister from the valve head automatically closes the check valve, stopping the flow of water. A bypass valve is provided in the valve head to permit a sanitizing solution to flow through the valve head and along the lines of the water distribution system to sanitize the system, while bypassing the canister. The outlet port may be directly connected to an appliance that uses water, to eliminate possible contamination that may occur when water is brought indirectly from the outlet port to the appliance instead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: General Ecology, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Williams, Carl Beiswenger
  • Patent number: 11279643
    Abstract: Provided is a novel Nanofiltration-DiaNanofiltration (NF-DiaNF) system and method for extracting divalent ions from saline water (e.g., seawater) to produce solutions rich in divalent ions (in particular Mg2+, Ca2+ and SO42?), while minimizing the concentrations of undesirable species (e.g., Cl?, Br?, B and Na+). The solutions may be added to water (e.g., desalinated, soft, drinking or irrigation water) to enrich the water with divalent ions, thereby improving its quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Ori Lahav, Liat Birnhack, Paz Nativ, Oded Nir
  • Patent number: 11261116
    Abstract: A fluid treatment system for treating a fluid, the system including structure for moving a fluid therethrough the system, the structure for moving the fluid including a first inlet and a first outlet, further a primary fluid filter having a primary fluid filter inlet and a primary fluid filter outlet, wherein the primary fluid filter inlet is in fluid communication with the first outlet. Included with the system is a primary ultraviolet light module having a primary ultraviolet light module inlet and a primary ultraviolet light module outlet, wherein the primary ultraviolet light module inlet is in fluid communication with the primary fluid filter outlet and a secondary fluid filter having a secondary fluid filter inlet and a secondary fluid filter outlet, wherein the secondary fluid filter inlet is in fluid communication with the primary ultraviolet light module outlet, wherein the secondary fluid filter outlet discharges a first treated fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: John James McEncroe
  • Patent number: 11260156
    Abstract: A sorbent canister utilized when performing a dialysis treatment during hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) is provided. The sorbent canister includes inlet and outlet ports that include a threaded interface for connection to inlet and outlet tubes for circulation of dialysate through the sorbent canister. Upon disconnection from a dialysis machine, a pressure relief cap can be threaded onto the threaded interface to seal the fluid in the sorbent canister while allowing for off-gases to be expelled when a pressure within the sorbent canister exceeds a threshold pressure, thereby preventing a rupture in the canister body. In one embodiment, the pressure relief cap includes a deformable insert with a hole formed therein that is closed in an uncompressed state and opened in a compressed state. In another embodiment, the pressure relief cap includes a diaphragm that mates with a feature of the inlet or outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Weaver, Daniel Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11241686
    Abstract: A separator for separating a first from a second phase of a liquid in a tubular container has an elastic float with a circular sealing edge for sealing engagement with the inside of the tubular container in a sealing position. At the underside of the float, a ballast is attached. The density of the ballast is greater than the density of the float and the density of the entire separator is in a range between the density of the first phase and the density of the second phase of the liquid. The float has a local constriction and, in the area of the constriction, a membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SARSTEDT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT & CO.KG
    Inventors: Mark Weinstock, Christian Wegener, Ulrich Karrenberg
  • Patent number: 11242274
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a beverage dispenser, including: an inlet connected to a water source; an outlet for dispensing the water to a user vessel; at least one filter element having an input and an output for filtered water; a pump for pumping water to the input of the filter element; a flow sensor connected between the inlet and the outlet, wherein the flow sensor determines the actual flow rate of the water; at least one water preparation element connected between the output for outputting filtered water and the outlet and adapted to prepare the water for drinking by a human, wherein the water preparation element comprises a water preparation rate input by which the water preparation rate of the water preparation element can be controlled; and a controller connected to the water preparation rate input of the water preparation element and the flow sensor, wherein the controller controls the water preparation rate of the water preparation element by a signal to the water preparation rate input such t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: RIPRUP Company S.A.
    Inventors: Monique Bissen, Josef Schucker
  • Patent number: 11235990
    Abstract: A water purification system is disclosed which, includes a reverse osmosis (RO) system or component that is connectable to a city or other outside water feed that is capable of responding to and compensating for low or no feed water pressure coming into the RO system to ensure the outgoing supply of purified water is provided consistently and at a minimum water pressure. This can be accomplished without the need for communication with another device or system-wide facility, such as a hospital, or a pharmaceutical or semiconductor manufacturing system, requiring a constant water supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mar Cor Purification, Inc.
    Inventor: Clinton W. Hulme