Patents Examined by Waqaas Ali
  • Patent number: 10940414
    Abstract: A filter assembly for use in an electronics enclosure is disclosed herein. The filter assembly has an inner assembly having a filter material comprising fibrous media and a containment assembly having a first containment layer and a second containment layer. The containment assembly defines an outer perimeter and the first containment layer and a second containment layer are bonded along the outer perimeter in an outer weld area to encapsulate the inner assembly. The outer weld area extends between the outer perimeter and an interior perimeter. The inner assembly defines an inner assembly perimeter that is within the outer perimeter of the containment assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen N. Nicklay, Scott A. Keller, Stanley B. Miller, III, Katsushi Isogawa, John Frein
  • Patent number: 10940409
    Abstract: Cartridge components are configured to trap the upper end of a concave housing portion to define an enclosure surrounding a filter element. A disclosed embodiment includes a concave metal housing portion and plastic cartridge components, but other materials may be employed. An upper end cap spans the open end of the housing portion and defines at least one fluid flow aperture. A retainer surrounds the housing portion and is secured to the first component, with engagement features on the housing portion trapped between the upper end cap and retainer. The upper end cap and retainer may be secured to each other by spin welding, threads, adhesive or other suitable means. The outside circumference of one or both of the upper end cap and retainer may be provided with lugs, threads, bosses or other features to interface with complimentary features on the head for securing the cartridge to a head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy M. Sasur, Justin R. Pribanic, Jonathan D. Moore, Chandrakant Siddharam Kotale
  • Patent number: 10940403
    Abstract: A parallel assembly (2; 11; 51) of chromatography column modules (3a,b,c; 13a,b,c; 53a,b,c, 90a, b) connected in a rigid housing (21; 61), the assembly having one common assembly inlet (15; 55) and one common assembly outlet (17; 57), each column module comprising a bed space (29) filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules in the rigid housing are adapted to connect the bed space (29) of the column module with the assembly inlet (15; 55) and the assembly outlet (17; 57), wherein the total length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the assembly inlet to one bed space together with the length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the same bed space to the assembly outlet is substantially the same for all bed spaces and modules installed in the parallel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB
    Inventors: Klaus Gebauer, Manoj Kumar Ramakrishna, Daniel Salomonsson, Per Lofving
  • Patent number: 10941061
    Abstract: A therapeutic frequency imprinting device is used to determine a therapeutic frequency from a biological specimen known to cause an ailment in a patient, and subsequently imprint the therapeutic frequency into a carrier agent for treatment of the ailment. The specimen is placed into an in-well, which is electrically connected to a potentiometer. The resistance of the potentiometer is adjusted in order to modulate the magnetic vector potential component of the magnetic field radiated by a conductive coil connected between the potentiometer and an out-well in which a carrier substance is placed to be imprinted with the therapeutic frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Savely Yurkovsky, Cyril William Smith
  • Patent number: 10941062
    Abstract: A system for the plasma treatment of a liquid is described. The system includes a storage chamber containing a liquid and a head-space, a gas source connected to a sparger positioned within the liquid, a pair of electrodes positioned within the liquid and substantially above the sparger, a microbubble generator positioned within the liquid, and a conduit between the head-space and the microbubble generator, such that gas from the head space can travel through the conduit to the microbubble generator. Also described is a method of plasma treating a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Onvector LLC
    Inventor: Jun Kang
  • Patent number: 10941051
    Abstract: A liquid filter apparatus and system is provided. The liquid filter apparatus and system is especially suitable for purifying water. The apparatus and system may have a solid portion and/or a porous filter portion called a monolithic unit. The present apparatus and system is suitable for providing clean water for drinking, cooking, washing and other household, public, medical, agricultural and industrial uses. The present apparatus and system utilizes anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-mold and/or other cleansing elements to purify the liquid. The liquid passing through the system must pass through the monolithic unit which is solid and porous therein contacting the antimicrobial material and/or antimicrobial components located within the monolithic unit. The apparatus and system provide a high hydraulic conductivity as a result of the solid and porous nature of the monolithic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Marc Kenneth Chason, Rick Latella, Dan Gamota, J Richard Schorr, Suvankar Sengupta, Ramachandra Revur, Timothy A. Marth
  • Patent number: 10933358
    Abstract: Sweeper and filter assembly for beverage preparation machines comprising a sweeper associated with a filter, the sweeper comprising a carrier band mounted on at least two shafts. The carrier band can perform the filtering function itself as it is made from a filtering material or is provided with suitable orifices. The carrier band is flexible and preferably elastic. The shafts on which the band is mounted are supported by a casing, where at least one of said shafts engages a drive element comprising a motor and an electronic device for managing the motor. At least one scraper is provided joined to the casing in order to clean the carrier band. The motor of the drive element is independent from the motor of the juicing machine, the device having sweeping and filtering cycles independent of the juicing cycles of the main machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ZUMEX GROUP, S.A.
    Inventors: Fernando Casaní Montaner, Maximilia Marti Soler, Ramón Asensio Camacho, Ignacio Ballester Pérez, Juan Carlos Coronado Sanz
  • Patent number: 10933354
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotating type foreign substance collection equipment, and according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is an effect in separating and collecting foreign substances such as oil from foreign substance-fluid mixtures at high speeds by the separation membrane that traps foreign substances such as oil that float in water while allowing sea water or river water to pass through and be discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Myoung-Woon Moon, Kwang Ryeol Lee, Seohyun Cho, Young A Lee, O Chang Kwon
  • Patent number: 10933380
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and a device for manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane module. The present invention, by penetrating the hollow fiber membrane wires into the steel wires and performing rigidization treatment, greatly improves the rigidity of the hollow fiber membrane wire module, thereby avoiding the bending and deformation of or the damage of hollow fiber membrane wire module due to a small force during the production process, which greatly improves the production efficiency of the hollow fiber membrane module. The device of the present invention is used to achieve the above-mentioned method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dongguan University of Technology
    Inventors: Simin Huang, Kui He
  • Patent number: 10934186
    Abstract: A system for treating a polar liquid includes a signal generator for providing an alternating electrical current, and a transducer electrically coupled to the signal generator. The transducer includes a solenoidal coil and two ferromagnetic end pieces at the ends of the coil and transverse thereto. In operation, the transducer is at least partially immersed in a polar liquid and, when energized with the current provides a magnetic field into the liquid, the field may change a property of the liquid, e.g. an interfacial mass transfer rate. This can be used in many different industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Rudy Parisien, David Tat Fai Fung, Ron Vered, James Stuart Wight
  • Patent number: 10933347
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating trichome heads containing resin from cannabis plants using a double vortex liquid flow to remove the trichome heads without macerating the plant material and a multi-tiered filtration process to isolate the resin product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Separations, LLC
    Inventors: Didier Camilleri, Benjamin K. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10933350
    Abstract: A parallel assembly of chromatography column modules, the assembly having one common assembly inlet and one common assembly outlet, each column module comprising a bed space filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules are adapted to connect the bed space of the column module with the assembly inlet and the assembly outlet, wherein the total length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the assembly inlet to one bed space together with the length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the same bed space to the assembly outlet is substantially the same for all bed spaces and modules installed in the parallel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB
    Inventor: Klaus Gebauer
  • Patent number: 10933355
    Abstract: A filter bag comprising with a wall structure defining an inner volume with an opening. The wall structure extends from a bottom to the opening. A filter extends from the bottom toward the opening to separate the inner volume into a sample receiving compartment and a filtrate collection compartment. An orifice in the wall structure is in communication with the filtrate collection compartment, and a closure system has a closed state wherein access through the orifice is prevented and an open state wherein access through the orifice is permitted. The closure system can have a moveable part operative to selectively seal the orifice and a stationary part fixed to the wall structure with a separative limit therebetween. A fastening system can selectively retain a foldable portion of the wall structure against the wall structure to adjust the opening from an open state to a closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERSCIENCE
    Inventor: Emmanuel Jalenques
  • Patent number: 10933361
    Abstract: A filtration filter that filters a filtration target contained in a fluid. The filtration filter includes a porous metal film having a plurality of through holes. Moreover, wave-shaped irregularities are provided in a peripheral direction along inner peripheral surfaces of the through holes of the porous metal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Banju, Junko Watanabe, Takashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10933356
    Abstract: This disclosure relates a fluid filter whose pores are created by raised structures on a base. The raised structures may be macro, micro and/or nanometer scale structures. The structures can be configured in myriad ways to control flow rate and extracted particle size of a filtering system. Typically a plurality of filter panels will be stacked to form a filtering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Imagine TF, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Edward Richardson
  • Patent number: 10933348
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating trichome heads containing resin from cannabis plants using a double vortex liquid flow to remove the trichome heads without macerating the plant material and a multi-tiered filtration process to isolate the resin product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Separations, LLC
    Inventors: Didier Camilleri, Benjamin K. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10843109
    Abstract: The present relates to an oil filtration system (1) comprising an oil filtration unit (2), an oil filter (13) having a central opening (15) extending along a central axis (B) of the oil filter (13), the oil filtration unit (2) being provided with at least one first physical structure (18,18?,18?) having a first cross-sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length (x) in relation to the central axis (A) of the oil filtration unit (2), the oil filter (13) being provided with at least one second physical structure (23,23?,23?) having a second cross sectional shape and a predefined longitudinal length (y) in relation to the central axis (B) of the oil filter (13) and an inner or outer periphery of the second physical structure (23,23?,23?) being arranged to mate with the outer or inner periphery of the first physical structure (18,18?,18?) allowing the oil filter (13) to reach its correct insertion position in the oil filtration unit (2), where at least one of the end surfaces (28,29,31) of the oil filter (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: C.C. Jensen A/S
    Inventor: Jens Fich
  • Patent number: 10830740
    Abstract: A method in a separation system including parallel fluid paths each having a separation module, includes providing a sensor of the same type in at least each of the parallel fluid paths except one: measuring a characteristic fluid property with at least one of the sensors in the parallel fluid paths; possibly measuring the same characteristic fluid property with a system sensor positioned in the outlet of the separation system; and comparing measured characteristic fluid properties to evaluate and/or qualify the performance of the separation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CYTIVA BIOPROCESS R&D AB
    Inventor: Klaus Gebauer
  • Patent number: 10821380
    Abstract: Corrugated screen filters and related method of fabrication whereby an available filter surface is increased so as to allow an increase a flow capacity of the corrugated screen filter. The corrugated screen filter can comprise a plurality of rods forming a series of alternate and angular ridges and grooves on a surface of the filter screen. The filter screen can be configured to have longitudinal corrugations only on an exterior surface of the filter screen or alternatively, the filter screen can be configured to have longitudinal corrugations only on an interior surface of the filter screen. The alternate angular ridges and grooves can form corrugations in a variety of configurations including, but not limited to, a sinusoidal wave structure, a triangular wave structure, a rectangular wave structure, a trapezoidal wave structure, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventor: Philip Schofield
  • Patent number: 10780204
    Abstract: Provided is a biological fluid-treating filter for treating a biological fluid containing erythrocytes, which has a matrix and a polymer retained by the matrix, the polymer having a zwitterion-containing functional group and a basic nitrogen-containing functional group. By using the filter in which the polymer has the zwitterion-containing functional group and the basic nitrogen-containing functional group, it is possible to treat the biological fluid containing erythrocytes without adversely affecting the erythrocytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Miyamoto, Satoru Inoue