Patents Examined by Tram A. Nguyen
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Patent number: 10933395Abstract: A reforming reactor and process of using same in which a flow distributor distributes the process gas circumferentially to the reactive zone. Feed is injected into the reactor into a non-reactive zone. The non-reactive zone has two portions, a first portion receiving the feed, and a second portion receiving a purge gas. The purge gas will flow from the second portion to the first portion to prevent flow of the feed from the first portion to the second portion. The combined gas may be passed to a reaction zone for catalytic reforming. The first portion and the second portion may be separated by a flow distributor having two horizontal portions connected to opposite ends of a vertical portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: John C. Maley, Ka Leung Lok, Jeffrey Grott, Amresh Kumar Tiwari
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Patent number: 10926235Abstract: A reactor includes: a main reactor core including main reaction flow channels through which the raw material fluid flows, and main temperature control flow channels through which the heat medium flows along a flow direction of the raw material fluid flowing in the main reaction flow channel; and a pre-reactor core including pre-reaction flow channels of which an outlet side connects with an inlet side of the main reaction flow channels and through which the raw material fluid flows, and pre-temperature control flow channels of which an inlet side connects with an outlet side of the main reaction flow channels and through which the product serving as the heat medium flows along a flow direction of the raw material fluid flowing in the pre-reaction flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Akihisa Yano, Tatsuya Oka, Hiroyuki Kamata, Shigeki Sakakura, Nobuyuki Honma, Yusuke Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10919764Abstract: The invention provides a skin disinfectant for treating skin with eczema, preventing bacterial proliferation, and removing biofilm. Compositions of the invention include hypochlorous acid, acetic acid, water, and one or more additives or excipients. The formulation process removes metal ions, reduces ionic strength, controls pH, and reduces exposure to air, thus improving stability and lengthening shelf-life.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: WIAB WATER INNOVATION ABInventor: Geir Hermod Almås
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Patent number: 10906021Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a stainless steel member and a production method thereof, said stainless steel member having a passivation layer formed on a surface of a base material formed from stainless steel, wherein the film thickness of the passivation layer is 2-20 nm, and the concentration of chromium atoms in the outermost surface of the passivation layer is 0.1-2.3 by atomic percentage. Also provided are a device or container, the liquid-contact part of which in contact with a semiconductor treatment liquid is formed from the stainless steel member, a semiconductor treatment liquid production method for producing the semiconductor treatment liquid by using the device, and a semiconductor treatment liquid storage method for storing the semiconductor treatment liquid in the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TOKUYAMA CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Sera, Michihito Nakatani, Yumiko Nakamura
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Patent number: 10907104Abstract: A syngas generator is disclosed as an exothermic gas generator that can accommodate high combustion temperatures of a natural gas/oxygen flame. The generator consists of four sections: a heavily insulated combustion chamber, a catalyst chamber, a spray chamber, and a heat exchanger. These four sections may be arranged in series and tightly bolted together to form a gas-tight system. Natural gas, oxygen and steam are supplied to a burner at the inlet end of the combustion chamber. This mixture is ignited and the resulting hot process gas is then fed into a catalyst bed where it reacts with the steam and is converted to carbon monoxide and hydrogen (syngas). The syngas is fed to a Fischer-Tropsch unit to create liquid fuel.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Greenway Innovative Energy, Inc.Inventor: Raymond Wright
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Patent number: 10875049Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing construction material mixtures. A container can include a flexible body having an interior for receiving and holding construction material mixture components to be mixed. The construction material mixture components can be mixed in the interior by rotating a mixing tool. The flexible body is collapsible for forcing the construction material mixture out of a mouth of the container. The flexible body can be everted to facilitate cleaning the interior of the flexible body. The system can also include a stand, a mixing tool, a funnel, and/or a measuring cup.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Tomorrow's Tools, LLCInventor: Holland M. Anderson
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Patent number: 10865165Abstract: Integrated systems are provided for the production of higher hydrocarbon compositions, for example liquid hydrocarbon compositions, from methane using an oxidative coupling of methane system to convert methane to ethylene, followed by conversion of ethylene to selectable higher hydrocarbon products. Integrated systems and processes are provided that process methane through to these higher hydrocarbon products.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Lummus Technology LLCInventors: Greg Nyce, Peter Czerpak, Carlos Faz, Jarod McCormick, William Michalak, Bipinkumar Patel, Guido Radaelli, Tim A. Rappold, Ron Runnebaum, Erik C. Scher, Aihua Zhang, Joel Cizeron
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Patent number: 10857514Abstract: Reaction device which makes possible the oligomerization of olefins to give linear olefins and preferably linear ?-olefins, comprising a gas/liquid reactor and a reactor of plug-flow type. The reaction device is also employed in an oligomerization process.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Frederic Augier, Alexandre Vonner, Tiago Sozinho, Natacha Touchais
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Patent number: 10843156Abstract: A reactor tank is provided having an enzyme inlet, a heating jacket positioned around the exterior center of the tank, a gas outlet for communicating with a vacuum apparatus to create a vacuum within the reactor tank and for communicating with a condensing unit, a first gas inlet for receiving gas from a feed tank and a first liquid outlet for recirculating the liquid from the first liquid outlet back to the feed tank. The reactor tank further includes a sparged unit and a screen positioned within the tank between the sparged unit and the first liquid outlet, where the sparged unit is connected to the first gas inlet for receiving gas from the feed tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Inventor: Rachel Burton
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Patent number: 10829430Abstract: Provided are an ester composition preparation system, including an integrated reactor, a gas-liquid separation column, a purification unit, an alcohol storage tank, and a mixed alcohol separation column, which is an efficient, economical, and simplified ester composition preparation system, and an ester composition preparation method using the same. The ester composition preparation system is a simplified system which can reduce facility space, drastically remove reaction equipment, and reduce transfer time through the introduction of the integrated reactor in which the reaction preparing an ester compound and the reaction preparing an ester composition are carried out in one space, the mixed alcohol separation column and the gas-liquid separation column.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Ha Na Lee, Sung Kyu Lee, Joon Ho Shin, Hyoung Jun, Hyun Kyu Kim
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Patent number: 10827751Abstract: Methods and systems for temperature-controlled, on-site generation of peracids, namely peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions are disclosed. In particular, methods for using an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system overcome the limitations of temperature on the kinetics of the peracid generation and/or peracid decomposition inside an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system. The methods include the controlling of the temperature of at least one raw starting material, namely water, to improve upon methods of on-site generation of peracids. The methods allow for the generation of user-selected chemistry without regard to the ambient temperatures of the raw starting materials and/or the biocide formulator or generator system.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Brandon Herdt, Richard Staub, Thomas C. Rustad, Junzhong Li, David D. McSherry, Paul R. Kraus, Richard Walsh
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Patent number: 10821416Abstract: A box style steam methane reformer (15) has plural sections (37), with each section having walls (27-29-31, 33) forming an interior cavity (35) and open ends (43) that communicate with the interior cavity. Each section has a feedstock supply pipe (71) and a fuel supply pipe (63) located along the top wall, as well as a syngas collection pipe (79) and a flue gas collection duct (75) located outside of the bottom wall. The pipes and ducts have ends that are aligned with each other to allow the sections to be assembled together. Burners (67) are in the interior cavity and are connected to the fuel supply pipe. Reactor tubes (59) extend through the interior cavity. Refractory members (81) are located in the interior cavity and across a slot. The spacing between the refractory members varies to control the flow of flue gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Inventors: Tom Brown, Greg Carr, Cuong Nguyen, Michael O'Brien
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Patent number: 10799844Abstract: A gas injection element (10) for a system for distributing a gas inside a chamber of a fluid catalytic cracking unit. This injection member comprises a passage (14) extending entirely therethrough, and—an inner ceramic member (20) having an inner surface (22) that entirely delimits the through-passage (14); and—a hollow metal sleeve (30), inside which at least a portion of the inner member (20) is received, the sleeve (30) and the inner member (20) respectively having an inner surface (32) and an outer surface (24) with matching shapes allowing the inner member (20) to move relative to the sleeve (30) in a direction parallel to an axis (X) of the passage (14), the outer (32) and inner surfaces (24) being provided with fastening elements (26, 36) that engage to reversibly fasten the sleeve and the inner member.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: TOTAL RAFFINAGE CHIMIEInventor: Romain Lesage
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Patent number: 10799847Abstract: A polyolefin production system including: a first reactor configured to produce a first discharge slurry having a first polyolefin; a second reactor configured to produce a second discharge slurry having a second polyolefin; and a post-reactor treatment zone having at least a separation vessel configured to receive the second discharge slurry or both the first discharge slurry and the second discharge slurry.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Maruti Bhandarkar, Elizabeth Ann Benham, Rebecca A. Gonzales, Scott E. Kufeld, Joel A. Mutchler, Catherine M. Gill, Thanh T. Nguyen, Timothy O. Odi
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Patent number: 10792627Abstract: A jet-mixer for a fluid mixing system includes a housing including a mixer port formed in an inner surface of the housing, and a rotor rotatably disposed in the housing, the rotor including a rotor blade, wherein the rotor includes a first angular position in the housing restricting fluid flow through the mixer port, and a second angular position allowing fluid flow through the mixer port, wherein, in response to rotation of the rotor in the housing, the jet-mixer is configured to inject a first fluid jet through the mixer port into the passage of the fluid conduit that has a pulsed velocity profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Sensia LLCInventor: Stuart Fraser Wright
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Patent number: 10773224Abstract: A continuous mixing apparatus for a powder/granular material and a viscous liquid, with a mixing cylinder, a shaft member which is on a central axis of the mixing cylinder and rotates inside the mixing cylinder, and a plurality of mixing paddles disposed on a surface of the shaft member, wherein the mixing cylinder is with a powder/granular material feed port on one end portion, a mixed material discharge port on the other end portion, and a viscous liquid injection unit between the powder/granular material feed port and the mixed material discharge port, and the plurality of mixing paddles are disposed on the shaft member so as to form a spiral around the central axis, the plurality of mixing paddles being, in at least a portion between the viscous liquid injection unit and the mixed material discharge port, attached to provide first rows having an attachment angle of 5° to 60°.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Takahumi Oba, Tatsuyuki Aoki, Mikio Yoshino, Taisuke Horie, Yukinori Aoki
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Patent number: 10765771Abstract: A lamp includes a lamp body, an acoustics mounted in the lamp body, a light source device mounted in the lamp body, and a humidifying device mounted in the lamp body. The lamp body includes a base, a mounting seat mounted on the base, and a lampshade mounted on the mounting seat. The base has an interior provided with a water storage chamber. The acoustics is mounted in the base. The light source device is mounted on the mounting seat. The humidifying device is mounted on the mounting seat. The humidifying device includes a humidifier mounted on the mounting seat, and a water drawing stick extending through the mounting seat. The water drawing stick has a lower end extending into the water storage chamber, and an upper end connected to the humidifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Dong Duan Jia Sheng Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. ChinaInventor: Kevin Hsu
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Patent number: 10766013Abstract: This present disclosure relates to apparatuses for methylation of aromatics in an aromatics complex for producing a xylene isomer product. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to apparatuses for producing para-xylene by the selective methylation of toluene and/or benzene in an aromatics complex using processed toluene instead of crude toluene.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Richard A. Johnson, II, Joseph A. Montalbano, John J. Senetar
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Patent number: 10751437Abstract: Closure mechanisms and seal integrity indicators for sterilization containers are provided. For example, a closure mechanism comprising at least one handle and at least two arms is provided with a sterilization container lid to apply a more uniform or evenly distributed force to a container gasket. A container body defines an inner lip on which the gasket and lid are received such that the sealing interface is recessed within the container. Further, a seal indicator may indicate whether the container is sufficiently sealed to prevent an ingress of contaminants into the container. If the container is sufficiently sealed, the seal indicator is visible, but if not, the seal indicator is not visible. Thus, the seal indicator undergoes a change in state when the sterilization container transitions from unsealed to sealed, or vice versa, such that a user may ascertain whether the container is properly sealed to maintain the container's sterility.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Stephen Spencer, Namita A. Mithani, Tracy J. White, Edward B. Madsen, Marshall R. Dean
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Patent number: 10744480Abstract: An apparatus 100 for conducting chemical reactions in a process fluid is provided, comprising a central shaft 1 with a number of axial-radial rotors 3 mounted thereon, a plurality of stationary vanes 2 disposed upstream the rotor and a mixing space 4 disposed downstream of the rotor, wherein the mixing space is configured to convert mechanical energy imparted to the process fluid by the rotor into internal energy of said process fluid and to establish conditions for an at least one chemical reaction in the process fluid to occur. Related arrangement, method and uses of the apparatus are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Coolbrook OyInventors: Liping Xu, Budimir Rosic