Abstract: A torque transmitting unit for inclusion in the drive train of a motor vehicle. The unit transmits torque between an engine having an output shaft and a transmission having at least one input shaft that is drivingly coupled with the engine by a clutch and a intermediate torsional vibration damper. The torque transmitting unit includes primary and secondary flywheel masses that are mounted on the transmission input shaft along with the clutch.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine connecting rod, having an embodiment defining a hollow beam member and a process of manufacture are disclosed. The improvement substantially reduces beam tensile and compressive stress levels through application of elliptical and convex segment profile beam sections, conserving reciprocating and rotating connecting rod weight required in high performance engine applications.

Abstract: A driving device includes a shaft member and a driven gear rotatably disposed to the shaft member that is formed to be fixed to a surface plate member inside the driving device. The shaft member is provided with a flow passage for air penetrating along a shaft line thereof. A cavity is formed in a bearing member of the driven gear to be spaced from the shaft member.

Abstract: A nut 4 is provided inside a casing 3 through which a drive shaft 2 having a thread groove 2a is inserted. The nut 4 is meshed with the drive shaft 2. The nut 4 is provided with an internal gear 25 which surrounds the drive shaft 2. A spur gear 36 is fixed to an eccentric part 37 of an output shaft 27 of a motor 5. The spur gear 36 and the internal gear 25 are meshed with each other to form a speed reduction mechanism 6. An electromagnetic clutch 7 is fixed to the output shaft 27. The electromagnetic clutch 7 switches the operation between two operation modes. In the first mode, the output shaft 27 is connected to the nut 4 such that the nut 4 rotates at a speed equal to the rotation speed of the output shaft 27. In the second mode, the output shaft 27 is disconnected from the nut 4 such that the nut 4 is rotated while the rotation speed of the output shaft 27 is reduced by the speed reduction mechanism 6.

Abstract: A method and a device for charging feedstock, in particular coke or ore, and optionally separated fines of feedstock, for processing in a metallurgical vessel, to produce metal or primary metal products. The device includes a charging mechanism, which has a conveying device and at least one feeding device for supplying to the charging mechanism. The conveying device has an outlet opening which can be guided along an inwardly directed spiral during the charging into the vessel, to set a predefined coverage in the vessel. Charged materials can thereby be positioned precisely in the vessel, and it is possible for fines to be uniformly distributed in the circumferential region.

Abstract: Process for recovering catalyst coating material from a supporting structure, such as, for example, a catalytic converter assembly having a metal mantle, including contacting the catalytic coating material with a sodium; potassium or ammonium hydroxide-containing compound at an elevated temperature; and rinsing with a liquid and filtering the solid catalyst coating material from the solution.

Abstract: Process for recovering catalytic coating material from catalytic converters, catalytic material or catalytic assemblies where the catalytic coating material is bonded to a metal supporting structure, the process being carried out by contacting the catalytic coating material with nitric acid and/or a nitrate-containing chemical or material, applying heat, agitating the catalytic converters, catalytic material or catalytic assemblies being processed to dislodge the catalytic coating material, and rinsing the catalytic converters, catalytic material or catalytic assemblies with water to facilitate the removal of remaining catalytic coating material, and recovering ionic metal species dissolved by the nitric acid and/or nitrate-containing chemical or material.

Abstract: A method of recovering the metal from automobile scrap and electronic waste. It includes separating the automobile scrap and the electronic waste to provide some metal pieces, washing and/or shredding and/or selecting said metal pieces to provide some groups of metal pieces having the same metal element, making a full-elemental analysis, comparing the weight of different metal pieces having the same metal element and attaining different combinations of value, weighted averaging the combination of value to calculate the full-elemental weighted average according to the different combinations of value, comparing said different full-elemental weighted averaging to different composite material, and finding a optimal set or some optimal sets, further disposing metal pieces according to the optimal set, and manufacturing alloy. Present invention has a lot of advantages, such as reducing pollution and cost, and processing more waste.

Abstract: An indexable tool includes a handle having a first prong formed with a first splined orifice and a second prong formed with a second splined orifice. An indexable body has a third splined orifice aligned with the first and second splined orifices. A splined coupling arrangement rotatably joins and selectively locks and unlocks the handle and the indexable body together. The coupling arrangement includes a push button, first and second adjacently disposed inserts, a retainer, a cap and a spring. In a locked position, the spring is biased to hold external splines of the first and second serrated inserts in common engagement with the first, second and third splined orifices to prevent relative rotation between the indexable body and the handle.

Abstract: A screwdriver is disclosed including a handle, a shaft, and a gearbox disposed between the handle and the shaft. The gearbox is structured and arranged to cause rotational motion of the shaft at a first rate due to rotational motion imparted on the handle at a second rate. In an embodiment, the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Abstract: A method and device for positioning a power tong (2) at the pipe joint (14) of a pipe string (12), where, after the pipe joint (14) has been brought within the working area of the power tong (2), the power tong (2) must be displaced to a position that corresponds with that of the pipe joint (14), and where a camera (16) which may be displaced in parallel with the pipe (12), and which is linked to a display (18), is displaced until the image of the pipe joint (14) coincides with a marker (40) in the display, whereupon a signal is transmitted to a control (26), indicating that the power tong (2) is to be displaced to a position that corresponds with that of the camera (16) and thereby that of the pipe joint (14).

Abstract: A method for making a wrench includes a step of making a mediate member, a movable jaw and an adjusting member, a step of applying heat treatment to the mediate member, the movable jaw and the adjusting member, a step of cleaning respective surfaces of the mediate member, the movable jaw and the adjusting member, and coating a anti-rusting layer on the mediate member, the movable jaw and the adjusting member, and a step of combination to put the mediate member in a mold and making a body by way of injection to integrally connect the mediate member to a head of the main body, the movable jaw and the adjusting member are installed to the body.

Abstract: A wrench comprises a main body including a handle and a head including a fixed jaw and a groove and a passage which is located parallel to and communicates with the groove, a through hole defined through the head and communicating with the groove and the passage. A mediate member made of metal and integrally connected with the head by using injection, and including a protrusion, a tubular portion and a frame with an opening, the protrusion connected to the fixed jaw, the tubular portion engaged with the groove and the frame engaged with the through hole. A movable jaw made of metal and including a sliding rod slidably received in the tubular portion, a plurality of teeth defined in an underside of the sliding rod. An adjusting member made of metal and engaged with the opening of the frame, the adjusting member engaged with the teeth of the sliding rod.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing (4), and a tag-shaped identification element (14.1; 14.2) mountable on the housing (4) so that it becomes visible on an outer side of the housing (4), provided with an identification mark (16.1; 16.2), insertable in a receptacle (20.1; 20.2) provided on the housing.

Abstract: The locking pliers comprises a first handle connected to a first jaw. A second handle and second jaw are pivotably connected to the first handle and first jaw such that movement of the first handle relative to the second handle causes the jaws to open and close. A mechanism is provided to lock the jaws relative to one another and apply a clamping or gripping force on a workpiece positioned between the jaws. A release mechanism is provided to unlock the pliers that is independent of the locking operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a screw driver gun, in particular a driver bit sleeve of the screw driver gun includes an adjoining hole connecting to a polygonal concavity, which is formed on the free end of the driver bit sleeve; a driver device is disposed in the sleeve and comprises a driver bit penetrating through the hole and a spring on the back thereof; the driver bit can rotate with the driver bit sleeve at the same time. While in use, the polygonal concavity can exactly fit with the polygonal screw head by the driver tip of the driver bit driving into the screw recess to synchronize the screw rotating with the driver bit sleeve, thereby reducing the problem of inaccurate driving, transmitting a force equally toward the screw head, and increasing the screwing efficiency.

Abstract: An implement for swinging in one's hands has an implement body. A handle extends from the implement body. The handle consists of two elongate handle members that generally abut against the other along substantially the length of the handle members. The handle members have inwardly sloped, converging sidewalls along at least one side of the handle where the handle members abut to form a longitudinal groove along substantially the length of the at least one side of the handle. The converging sidewalls are at least one of convex arcuate or planar surfaces. A method of swinging the implement may be performed by gripping the handle with both hands so that the hands are in a closely adjacent or touching adjacent position with at least the tip of one or more fingers lie generally in or along the longitudinal groove. The implement is then swung while holding the implement in both hands.

Abstract: A carriage is moved in a direction including a Y axis component in order to move a turning process tool that is attached to a tool spindle along a horizontal line that is perpendicular to a Z axis, and thus, a turning process is carried out on a workpiece which is attached to a workpiece spindle.

Abstract: A package base is held on a holding table, and an XYZ moving mechanism is next moved to adjust a jet position to a cutting start point of a primary subject line to be first cut. Thereafter, a cutting water supplying unit is operated to direct a water jet onto the package base at this cutting start point. Thereafter, the XYZ moving mechanism is operated to move the package base, thereby cutting the package base along the primary subject line until a cutting stop point. Similarly, this cutting operation is repeated for the other primary subject line to thereby obtain a plurality of primary cut areas having the same shape and size in the condition that each primary cut area is integrally supported at its opposite ends to the package base, thus finishing a primary cutting step. Thereafter, a dicing tape is attached to one side surface of the package base. Thereafter, the package base is cut along a plurality of secondary subject lines as in the primary cutting step, thus finishing a secondary cutting step.

Abstract: A cutting method for cutting to size a wooden Venetian blind, already at least partly assembled, in a cutting machine, comprises a first step in which the wooden Venetian blind and a first cutting unit of the cutting machine, provided with first cutting means able to cut the metal container of the wooden Venetian blind, are brought into proximity by means of a first movement unit of the cutting machine, a second step in which the metal container is cut by means of the first cutting unit, and a third step in which the first cutting unit and the wooden Venetian blind are distanced from each other by means of the first movement unit, a fourth step in which the wooden Venetian blind and a second cutting unit of the cutting machine, provided with second cutting means able to cut the wooden slats of the wooden Venetian blind, are brought into proximity by means of a second movement unit of the cutting machine and a fifth step in which the wooden slats are cut by means of the second cutting unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting off metal piles, casing, conductor pipe and other metal tubulars, uses a metal frame and a metal blade linearly moveable within the frame, the blade being hydraulically and/or pneumatically driven to puncture and then slice and split through the metal being cut off, the cutting surface of the blade having a removable, centralized puncture point located essentially at the projected intersection between two concave cutting surfaces.

Abstract: A miter saw is disclosed having a base, a blade supported by the base, a detection system adapted to detect contact between a person and the blade, and a reaction system associated with the detection system to cause a predetermined action to take place upon detection of the dangerous condition. The blade is rotatable, and moves into a cutting zone to cut a workpiece. The predetermined action may be to stop the blade from rotating.

Abstract: An automatic paper cutting apparatus includes an X-Y cutter, a cutter controller, and a pattern booklet. The pattern booklet includes a plurality of pattern identifiers and a memory device with cutting instructions for each of the identified patterns. The booklet removably mounts to the cutter controller so that an operator can select a pattern from the pattern booklet and have the memory device provide the corresponding set of cutting instructions to the cutter controller. The cutter controller uses the instructions to control the X-Y cutter and cut the desired pattern. A cutting platform of the X-Y cutter has a tacky adhesive that releaseably secures a work piece to the cutting platform during cutting operations. The cutting platform includes surface features that engage a spur gear. The cutter controller selectively rotates the spur gear to drive the cutting platform in the Y direction.

Abstract: A rotary cutting tool for cutting a moving web of material into blanks and scrap material, comprises an upper cutting assembly having an upper cutting element which defines a cutout area on the upper cutting assembly, a lower cutting assembly having a lower cutting element, wherein the upper cutting element and the lower cutting element are adapted to cooperate to cut the moving web of material into blanks and scrap material, and a scrap ejection element on the upper cutting assembly at the cutout area which can urge the scrap material away from the blanks and towards the lower cutting elements, wherein the scrap ejection element is formed unitary with the upper cutting element.

Abstract: A tool holder positioning device includes: a plurality of protruded portions or a plurality of recessed portions formed to a seating surface of a tool rest; and a plurality of recessed portions or a plurality of protruded portions formed to a coupling surface of a tool holder so as to correspond, respectively, to a plurality of protruded portions or a plurality of recessed portions formed to the seating surface of the tool rest, when the seating surface and the coupling surface are contacted. At least one of the protruded portions and at least one of the recessed portions are disposed on an intersecting axis included in the seating surface, and the recessed portions and the protruded portions to be fitted to the plurality of protruded portions and the plurality of recessed portions are disposed on an intersecting axis included in the coupling surface.

Abstract: A repetitive fence utilizes a plurality of telescoping arms driven by a metal tape of the tape measure type to position a stop member at a desired location from a saw blade. A user can position a work piece, such as board lumber against the stop member to repeatedly position the work piece at a desired cut dimension with respect to a saw blade. The repetitive fence preferably employs a plurality of telescoping arms to position the stop member at the desired location, and an electronic read-out provided to indicate to the user the position of the stop member with respect to the saw blade. The telescoping arms can be motivated by electronic devices, such as an electric motor, or by a manual crank.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting plural aligned ply strips includes plural knife blades disposed in a spaced manner such that each knife blade is aligned with and in closely spaced relation to an associated ply strip. The knife blades are pivotally mounted in a common housing and are coupled to a single rotational drive for allowing each knife blade to assume the same predetermined cutting angle relative to its associated ply strip, where the cutting angle may be varied between ±45°. The plural knife blades are coupled to a rotational drive by means of plural circular drive gears and are connected to a linear drive for displacing the knife blades into contact with the ply strips for cutting the strips at the predetermined angle. The severed edges of the aligned ply strips are formed in mutual linear alignment and do not include projecting triangular patterns, or crenelations.

Abstract: A selection plate (39) is provided on a punch device (1) for activating or deactivating individual punch holding bars (13, 14). The plate has a coupling device (40) associated with a positive-locking coupling between a punch holding bar (13, 14) and the selection plate (39). Associated with the positive-locking coupling is an edge of the selection plate (39), that is provided with a recess (42), an extension (43) of the punch holding bar (13, 14) that extends around said edge, and/or a rib (41), which is located on the underside of the selection plate (39) and is associated with the punch holding bar (13, 14). As a result, it is possible to selectively establish or eliminate a positive-locking connection between the punch holding bar (13, 14) and the selection plate (39). Via the rib (41), the punch stroke of the selection plate (39) is merely transmitted to the punch holding bar (13 or 14), which is in positive-locking engagement with the lateral edge or the projections of the selection plate (39).

Abstract: A perforation apparatus includes a punch housing 4 having an aperture through which 8 piping is longitudinally and rotationally moveable and one or more punches 7 arranged radially around the aperture to perforate the piping, a driven annular housing 3 including an aperture corresponding to the punch housing aperture, a punch retracting mechanism 5, and one or more rollers 6 axially secured to the annular housing, with the annular housing 3 rotatable adjacent the punch housing 4 such that the or each roller 6 rolls around the punch housing 4 and operates the or each punch 7 upon contact, and wherein the retracting 5 mechanism retracts the or each punch after said contact. A control system may be provided to coordinate the longitudinal and rotational movement of the piping with the operation of the punches. A mandrel assembly may also be provided to support the piping during punching and to remove punch waste.

Abstract: A sheet punch device comprises a lower base providing a reference plane on which a sheet material is placed, the lower base having a jig formed with a pattern hole for punching a sheet material; a punching unit aligned onto the lower base, the punching unit including a punching block having a cutting blade sliding up and down to pass through the pattern hole of the jig to thereby punch the sheet material; and an intermediate plate separated from the punching unit and detachably attached onto the lower base with the sheet material interposed between the intermediate plate and the lower base.

Abstract: A pad structure for an electronic percussion instrument is disclosed. The pad structure comprises a first pad portion, a frame and at least one second pad portion. The first pad portion is internally held and surrounded, and the second pad portion is fastened to the first pad portion through fastening elements. The first pad portion and the second pad portion are formed by integrated molding, and the second pad portion has a sensor with a detection wire.

Abstract: A pedal device with a shiftable stepping position for a percussion instrument is disclosed. In view of the problems in the prior art that the player feels discomfort when the angle of the footboard is not correct and that the instrument may have a worse pose, the invention provides a back bottom board under the pedal device that can rotate and adjust its side-shifting angles. By shifting the position of the back bottom board, the footboard is moved and fixed at a position preferred by the player. Therefore, the position of the footboard is adjusted according to the stepping position of the player. Therefore, the invention can avoid the player's discomfort and be disposed as desired.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for automatically tuning a stringed instrument (1), particularly a guitar, comprising: a detecting device (12) for detecting a note produced by strumming a string (6a 6f) and for outputting a digital signal corresponding to the detected note; a memory device for storing default digital signals corresponding to a desired note; a comparator for comparing the digital signal output by the detecting device (12) with a digital signal, which is stored in the memory device and which corresponds to the desired note; an adjusting device for altering the tension of the strings (6a 6f); at least one drive (11) for driving the adjusting device (7), and; a controller (10), which is connected to the comparator and which controls the at least one drive (11) via a bus line based on a difference between the signals representing the produced note and the desired note, this difference being determined in the comparator.

Abstract: An automated disc jockey. It accesses a database that models multiple music tracks as linked data objects. Each music track model includes a music track data object identifying the music track and linked to a plurality of other data objects that parameterize metadata of the music track. Some of the other data objects are sharable data objects that may be linked from other music track data objects. Data objects and links defining a model of a first music track are extracted from the accessed database. Data objects and links that define a model of a second music track that is adjacent to and follows the first music track in a play-list are extracted from the accessed database.

Abstract: A type of portable karaoke device includes a microphone, a twist knob control, several control buttons and a composite A/V output. There is an audio processor and a MPEG decoder inside the microphone. That audio processor is used to receive audio signals from the microphone and voice signals created by the MPEG decoder, and then conduct audio processing for these signals. On the other hand, that MPEG decoder is used to receive karaoke signals and control signals, and then conduct decoding and audio and video processing for these signals. The twist knob control is on the surface of the microphone, and can be used to adjust the volume or move the cursor by turning left or right. Several control buttons are on the surface of the microphone. Control signals can be generated by pressing. Audio and video output ports are set outside the microphone, it can transmit the video and audio signals from the karaoke device to another visual display device (e.g. TV).

Abstract: Herein described are at least a method and a system for assisting a musician in playing an instrument by way of using an intelligent multifunctional digital music display device (MDMDD). The multifunctional digital music display device (MDMDD) may be used to assist musicians or performers during practice sessions or performances. The various aspects of the invention provide a method of constructing an ADSR envelope for a note generated by an instrument, displaying one or more pages of music, generating a more accurate metronome beat consistent with the music being played, and alerting the musician when his instrument is out-of-tune. Further, the various aspects of the invention provide a method of statistically monitoring and reporting the performance of the musician. The system comprises a storage device capable of storing an instructional code, a processor for executing the instructional code, a microphone, and a display.

Abstract: A method and system for producing synthesizer and MIDI control data and for reconstructing and reproducing a signal from data collected by sensors coupled to a string instrument comprising a plurality of sensors coupled to the string instrument and a control unit that is associated with the plurality of sensors. The sensors are adapted to collect temporal and spatial data referring to performer's actions and to the sound generation process of the string instrument, specifically as to string deflection along time, while the control unit is adapted to process the data and generate a signal corresponding to the sound characteristics of the performer's playing and actions on the string instrument.

Abstract: An apparatus by which to attenuate, direct or extinguish the resultant effects of a blast or explosion. This includes the use of a spherical interior skinned apparatus (1) with an inner container (2) that will deform and/or rupture easily in the event of a blast or explosion therein. Membrane (16) rupture will occur on compression of fluid (7) and air initially directing fluid/material and debris in a less harmful direction. The apparatus (1) can be a fixture, re-usable and portable for on site location. The apparatus (1) will be constructed based on the anticipated force of blast or explosion. The apparatus (1) will be re-usable in certain environments such as in the event of disposal of several blast or explosive items at different locations. The inner walls, which will form the inner container (2), can be replaced in the event of a blast or explosion. The containment fluid (7) and air to be added at location or each application.

Abstract: This missile launcher is characterized in that the cells (12) do not extend in rows parallel to an elongated chimney, but by surrounding a central chimney, providing a more compact and especially lighter arrangement with identical resistance conditions.

Abstract: A pressure impulse mitigating barrier which includes a water gel sheet having an array of protrusions formed from the water gel; and/or a layer having a plurality of disruptor particles is provided. Such a structure may protect an entity from the effects of pressure impulse, e.g. from damage caused by projectiles or from explosive blast.

Abstract: An indirect fire weapon aiming device (10) is provided for providing aiming information to an indirect fire weapon comprising a launcher mounted to a base. The device (10) includes an angular displacement sensor (12) mountable to the base to provide an angular displacement output, and an azimuth communicator (14) mountable to the launcher to communicate the launcher azimuth to the angular displacement sensor (12) so that the angular displacement sensor (12) can measure the angular displacement of the launcher relative to a reference bearing and provide the angular displacement output.

Abstract: A pneumatic rotary actuator includes a housing formed of a front shell and a rear shell, a shaft tube inserted through the housing, a piston fixedly mounted on the shaft tube and dividing the inside space of the housing into a front air chamber and a rear air chamber, a rotary member provided around the shaft tube and defining an air gap around the shaft tube in communication with the rear air chamber, an inner race mounted around the rotary member, a locknut fastened to the rotary member to lock the inner race to the rotary member, and a locating frame supported on a bearing around the inner race and having a first air inlet for guiding compressed air to the front air chamber through a first air passageway to move the piston and the shaft tube backwards and to further force a chucking head to grip the workpiece and a second air inlet for guiding compressed air into the rear air chamber to move the piston and the shaft tube forwards and to further release the chucking head from the workpiece.

Abstract: A housing for use in high-pressure fluid applications, comprising a first passage defining a first axis (P1) and a second passage defining a second axis (P2), wherein the first and second passages intersect at an opening defined by an intersection at one end of the second passage. When sectioned on a plane normal to the second axis (P2) and not intersecting the first passage, the intersection defines an ellipse (E) in the plane and centred on the second axis (P2), the ellipse having a major axis equal in length to the width (D2) of the intersection and a minor axis equal in length to the height (D1) of the intersection. A wall of the intersection describes a curve in the plane, the curve passing through the points where the major and minor axes of the ellipse (E) meet the perimeter of the ellipse (E), and through points which lie outside the ellipse (E) and which are offset from the ellipse (E) by an offset distance (K).

Abstract: A portable oxygen concentrator includes a pair of sieve beds, a compressor for delivering air to the sieve beds, a reservoir receiving oxygen-enriched gas from the sieve beds, and an air manifold attached to the first ends of the sieve beds. A set of valves operate under the control of a controller for selectively opening and closing the valves to alternately charge and purge the sieve beds to deliver oxygen-enriched gas into the reservoir. In addition, an exhaust passage communicates with the plurality of sieve beds to deliver a flow of nitrogen evacuated from the sieve beds such that the flow of the nitrogen is directed at or across the controller to cool the controller.

Abstract: A method for cleaning hydrocarbons from a gas-vapor medium ejected to the atmosphere, formed while storing oil or gasoline or filling a container therewith is provided. The medium is pumped out and compressed in a gas-liquid jet apparatus due to energy of oil or gasoline supplied by a pump. The formed mixture is separated in a separator, where a pressure of 0.7 to 2.5 MPa is maintained, and gas from the separator is compressed in a jet apparatus by oil or gasoline supplied by a pump. The gas medium cleaned from the hydrocarbons is outputted and the saturated absorbent is directed to a desorber where a pressure is generated to be lower than the pressure in the separator. The liquid medium is removed from the separators and to a container or to a storage tank from which oil or gasoline is simultaneously supplied to pump inlets or to the separators.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane and a method of manufacturing such gas separation membrane that comprises a porous substrate treated with a layer of metal-coated inorganic oxide particles and with the layer of such metal-coated inorganic oxide particles being coated with an overlayer of a gas-selective material.

Abstract: Containerized gas separation system comprising (a) a container having an interior, an exterior, and an exterior volume defined by the exterior dimensions of the container and (b) a pressure swing adsorption system installed in the interior of the container and adapted to recover a product gas from a feed gas mixture, the pressure swing adsorption system being adapted to deliver the product gas at a product gas flow rate, wherein the ratio of the exterior volume of the container to the product gas flow rate is less than about 2000 ft3/(ton per day).

Abstract: A process for the separation of one or more heavy hydrocarbon gases from a gas mixture containing heavy hydrocarbon gas components and methane. The process is conducted in swing adsorption apparatus containing adsorbent contactor having a plurality of flow channels and wherein 20 volume percent or less of the open pore volume of the contactors, is in the mesopore and macropore range.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the separation of one or more of CO2, N2, and H2S gas components from a gas mixture containing at least a second gas using a swing adsorption process unit. The adsorbent contactors of the swing adsorption process unit are engineered structured adsorbent contactors having a plurality of flow channels wherein 20 volume percent or less of the open pore volume of the contactors is in the mesopore and macropore range.

Abstract: The present invention relates the separation of a target gas from a mixture of gases through the use of engineered structured adsorbent contactors in pressure swing adsorption and thermal swing adsorption processes. Preferably, the contactors contain engineered and substantially parallel flow channels wherein 20 volume percent or less of the open pore volume of the contactor, excluding the flow channels, is in the mesopore and macropore range.