Patents by Inventor OTALÍCIO PACHECO DA CUNHA

OTALÍCIO PACHECO DA CUNHA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230272974
    Abstract: The disclosure provided herein is directed to a grain dryer, that dries grains such as soy, corn, rice, etc., that may comprise of three or more grain drying towers capable of being arranged in diverse geometric formats, for example, triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, etc. The grain drying towers may comprise airducts arranged transversally in relation to each other and with each airduct containing multiple openings that may be arranged in each of its six faces. Faces of the airducts have interspaced openings where some regions of the airduct may or may not have an opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Otalicio PACHECO DA CUNHA
  • Publication number: 20230232746
    Abstract: The disclosure provided herein is directed to an agricultural products cleaning machine for cleaning agricultural products, such as grains in general, whereby the agricultural products are thrown against a sieve system with curved sieves in the shape of a volute by a grain transport and elevation system or bucket elevator. When thrown, the agricultural products move along as a spiral curtain which collides with the curved surface of the sieve, promoting the separation of agricultural products from impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Otalicio PACHECO DA CUNHA, Laides PORTO ALEGRE
  • Publication number: 20200138051
    Abstract: A tower used to extend the life of the grains in the period of their storage, through procedures of grain humidification, sterilization, cooling, freezing and drying, which can be applied together or separately according to with the need of each particular cultivation, offering a multifunctional tower of high performance and low fuel & energy consumption, low noise and eco-friendly, not contaminating the grains that make the heat exchange with steam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: OTALÍCIO PACHECO DA CUNHA
  • Patent number: 10156399
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a drying tower with grain flow in parallel and sinuous in combination with reverse and radial crossed air flows in form of “Z” oblique for the implementation in the drying of grains, seeds, fodder, and fruit. Therefore, the grains are firstly submitted to a first stage of parallel grains flow and reverse crossed air flow in order to standardize the different degrees of humidity of the grains and of their impurities. In a second moment, these grains are submitted to a sinuous grains flow and radial air flow in the form of oblique “Z”. Such implementation in drying processes of grains upgrades substantially the drying time and the energy spent for such process, generating in this way profit for the food industries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20160047600
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a drying tower with grain flow in parallel and sinuous in combination with reverse and radial crossed air flows in form of “Z” oblique for the implementation in the drying of grains, seeds, fodder, and fruit. Therefore, the grains are firstly submitted to a first stage of parallel grains flow and reverse crossed air flow in order to standardize the different degrees of humidity of the grains and of their impurities. In a second moment, these grains are submitted to a sinuous grains flow and radial air flow in the form of oblique “Z”. Such implementation in drying processes of grains upgrades substantially the drying time and the energy spent for such process, generating in this way profit for the food industries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco da Cunha
  • Patent number: 9109834
    Abstract: High performance grains dryer fed by a heat generating source through hot air stabilizers linked to the drying column and the dryer tower, which is constituted by a series of parallel ducts, between which passes the downstream vertical now of grains, unevenly set in oblique alignment and fed so that each duct that operates as hot air entry presents laterally adjacent ducts that operate as used air exit, causing the appearance of air lows crossed to the right, crossed to the left, concurrent and countercurrent, the adopted air flows varying along the drying tower, decreasing along the same, while the perimeter walls of the dryer are equipped with particles separators that generate air flow to the dryer and separate the particles expelled by the drying process, re-conducting them to the burning in the furnace through return ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Patent number: 9032868
    Abstract: System for application of ozone on grains made up essentially by one or more ozone mixers with particulates separator (1) for injecting air in the grains mass, one or more ozone mixers (2) for injecting air in the grains mass, a base of the device for grains treatment with ozone (3), a transport and discharge device (4), and an air cooling filter (5) that can be used individually or jointly to apply ozone on the grains mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20150107129
    Abstract: A high-precision, multidirectional air cross-stream grain drier without gradients comprises a continuous drier (1) with internal paths (2) for the grain stream defined between air ducts that fractionate the drying air stream, forming drying air inlets (3) and air outlets (4) arranged in parallel on either side of the grain flow paths (2) and alternating on different levels in such a manner that air streams from the right and from the left are alternatively and successively applied to the same grain stream column, along its entire path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Patent number: 8961277
    Abstract: The invention relates to a V-shaped trough comprising two vertical side walls joined by two converging top walls, said walls being provided with a plurality of openings, thereby making the grain columns between the rows of troughs smaller inside the tower and increasing the sped of drying, since the thickness of the grain columns is reduced, thus shortening the drying time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Patent number: 8677845
    Abstract: A measurement pendulum for stored grains mass in which a pendulum type measurer (1) formed by a protection structure (2), holds sensors (3) in its inside that have the direct interface with the outside through one or more transversal passages (4), provided of a porous protection (5) in order to measure the desired variables from the interstitial air that crosses the porous protection (5), and represents the grains characteristics in the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Patent number: 8556688
    Abstract: Integrated aerator for storage and drying silos installed directly over the silo's grains unloading tunnel (1), which is used for the air captation and using the same for drying and conservation of agricultural products stored in the mentioned silo, this aerator being made-up by a modular structure (2) provided of an inferior opening for air captation (3), over which is positioned a rotor (4) associated to a rotation shaft (5) with rotation bearings (6), a set that is driven by a motor (7), in a form to capture air through the opening (3), and blowing the same through a perimeter structure of shutters (8) and exits (9), which direct the blown air directly inside the silo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20120090722
    Abstract: The invention relates to a V-shaped trough comprising two vertical side walls joined by two converging top walls, said walls being provided with a plurality of openings, thereby making the grain columns between the rows of troughs smaller inside the tower and increasing the sped of drying, since the thickness of the grain columns is reduced, thus shortening the drying time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20110252983
    Abstract: System for application of ozone on grains made up essentially by one or more ozone mixers with particulates separator (1) for injecting air in the grains mass, one or more ozone mixers (2) for injecting air in the grains mass, a base of the device for grains treatment with ozone (3), a transport and discharge device (4), and an air cooling filter (5) that can be used individually or jointly to apply ozone on the grains mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20110174072
    Abstract: Perfectioning on a measurement pendulum for stored grains mass in which a pendulum type measurer (1) formed by a protection structure (2), holds sensors (3) in its inside that have the direct interface with the outside through one or more transversal passages (4), provided of a porous protection (5) in order to measure the desired variables from the interstitial air that crosses the porous protection (5), and represents the grains characteristics in the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20110119947
    Abstract: High performance grains dryer fed by a heat generating source (1) through hot air stabilizers (2) linked to the drying column (3) and the drying tower (4), which is constituted by a series of parallel ducts (5), between which passes the downstream vertical flow of grains (6), unevenly set in oblique alignment and fed so that each duct (5) that operates as hot air entry (E) presents laterally adjacent ducts that operate as used air exit (S), causing the appearance of air flows crossed to the right (7), crossed to the left (8), concurrent (9) and countercurrent (10), the adopted air flows varying along the drying tower (4), decreasing along the same, while the perimeter walls (11) of the dryer (1) are equipped with particles separators (12) that generate air flow to the dryer (1) and separate the particles expelled by the drying process, re-conducting them to the burning in the furnace through return ducts (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20100304656
    Abstract: Integrated aerator for storage and drying silos installed directly over the silo's grains unloading tunnel (1), which is used for the air captation and using the same for drying and conservation of agricultural products stored in the mentioned silo, this aerator being made-up by a modular structure (2) provided of an inferior opening for air captation (3), over which is positioned a rotor (4) associated to a rotation shaft (5) with rotation bearings (6), a set that is driven by a motor (7), in a form to capture air through the opening (3), and blowing the same through a perimeter structure of shutters (8) and exits (9), which direct the blown air directly inside the silo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha
  • Patent number: 6158143
    Abstract: A grain dryer has three levels of modulated air chambers; a multi-perforated chamber holding grains which surround all three levels of the modulated air chambers; an intermediate air passage; partition walls and a set of central fans to direct airflow cross-upwardly in an S-shape inside the grain dryer; and an external chamber to exhaust air out to the ambient, minimizing heat loss, and thereby increasing the effiency of moisture exhange between grains and air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Dryexcel Mautencao de Equipamentos e Comercial Ltda.
    Inventor: Otalicio Pacheco Da Cunha