Patents Issued in June 10, 2014
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Patent number: 8747488Abstract: A process for producing a solid electrolyte capacitor with an anode comprising a sintered fine NbOx powder, where 0.5<x<1.7, includes forming a green anode body. The forming is essentially performed without applying a pressure. The green anode body is sintered so as to provide a sintered anode body. The sintered anode body is electrolytically oxidized so as to provide an electrolytically oxidized anode body. The electrolytically oxidized anode body is provided with a cathode so as to provide the solid electrolyte capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: H. C. Starck GmbHInventors: Ralph Otterstedt, Marianne Gottschling
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Patent number: 8747489Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that contains an anode body formed from an electrically conductive powder and a dielectric coating located over and/or within the anode body is provided. The powder may have a high specific charge and in turn a relative dense packing configuration. Despite being formed from such a powder, a manganese precursor solution can be readily impregnated into the pores of the anode. This is accomplished, in part, through the use of a dispersant in the precursor solution that helps minimize the likelihood that the manganese oxide precursor will form droplets upon contacting the surface of the dielectric. Instead, the precursor solution can be better dispersed so that the resulting manganese oxide has a “film-like” configuration and coats at least a portion of the anode in a substantially uniform manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: AVX CorporationInventors: Ian Pinwill, David Masheder, Silvie Vilcova, Petr Stojan, Jiri Hurt, Ivan Horacek
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Patent number: 8747490Abstract: An assembling method for a battery outer case including the steps of: molding a metal container main body with notched holes formed beforehand in its body portion for exposing terminals connected to a flat battery pack; receiving a flat battery pack in the metal container main body while fitting the terminals into the notched holes; covering the metal container main body with a metal lid; and superposing an open end portion of a metal container main body and an end portion of the metal lid with each other thereby to join them to each other by double seaming.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Amagai, Etsuo Oogami, Seijirou Yajima, Teruo Segawa, Kazuhiko Tsukada
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Patent number: 8747491Abstract: A fuel composition having a boiling range of between 95 to 440 degrees Fahrenheit wherein the fuel composition has (a) a total sum of n-paraffins and naphthenes content of at least 7 volume percent.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: William J. Cannella, Vittorio Manente
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Patent number: 8747492Abstract: An ethanol/fuel blend composition. The ethanol/fuel blend composition includes an ethanol composition including at least 92 wt. % ethanol, and from 95 wppm to 1,000 wppm isopropanol and a fuel.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Celanese International CorporationInventors: Trinity Horton, Radmila Jevtic, Victor J. Johnston, Lincoln Sarager, R. Jay Warner, Heiko Weiner, Gerald Grusendorf
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Patent number: 8747493Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is to an ethanol composition comprising at least 92 wt. % ethanol and from 95 wppm to 1,000 wppm isopropanol.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Celanese International CorporationInventors: Trinity Horton Hale, Radmila Wollrab, Victor J. Johnston, Lincoln Sarager, R. Jay Warner, Heiko Weiner
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Patent number: 8747494Abstract: The present invention concerns an auto-combustible log comprising at least one air intake connected to a chimney wherein the log is made of wood, wood particle or wood residues wherein the wood, wood particles or wood residues have been treated to destroy any invasive pests, such as insects and fungi.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lavoie
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Patent number: 8747495Abstract: A solidified biomass consisting of semi-carbonized or pre-semi-carbonized solid matter is pressure-formed from raw biomass material while being heated under a substantially sealed-up condition to allow hemicellulose among the main components of the raw biomass material, i.e. lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose, to be thermally decomposed and to allow a low-temperature reaction to occur between the cellulose and lignin while maintaining their skeletons. The pre-semi-carbonized solid matter or semi-carbonized solid matter has a maximum compressive strength of 60-200 MPa and calorific value of 18-23 MJ/kg.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignees: Kinki University, Naniwa Roki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tamio Ida, Akio Nakanishi
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Patent number: 8747496Abstract: A fuel processor for producing a hydrogen-containing product stream from a fuel stream and an oxidant stream, comprises a mixing tube from which the combined fuel and oxidant stream is directed substantially axially into a reaction chamber. The reaction chamber comprises a turn-around chamber and a turn-around wall at one end for re-directing the combined reactant stream, so that in the turn-around chamber the re-directed stream surrounds and is in contact with the combined reactant stream flowing substantially axially in the opposite direction. This design and opposing flow configuration creates a low velocity zone which stabilizes the location of a flame in the fuel processor and offers other advantages.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Westport Power Inc.Inventors: Jacobus Neels, Xuantian Li, Richard Allan Sederquist, Andre Boulet, William Allison Logan
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Patent number: 8747497Abstract: A catalytic secondary reforming process, for the production of synthesis gas, comprises the successive steps of: feeding a first gas flow comprising hydrocarbons and a second gas flow comprising oxygen into a reforming reactor, at least one of such gas flows being fed into the reactor in a predetermined feed direction substantially parallel, preferably coaxial, to a longitudinal axis of the reactor, mixing the gas flows in the reactor, with substantially simultaneous oxidation of the hydrocarbons of the first gas flow by the oxygen of the second flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Casale Chemicals SAInventor: Luca Zanichelli
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Patent number: 8747498Abstract: A hydrogen generator of the present invention includes a reformer (16) for generating a hydrogen-containing gas through a reforming reaction using a raw material; a combustor (102a) for heating the reformer (16); a combustion air supplier (117) for supplying combustion air to the combustor (102a); and an abnormality detector (110a) for detecting an abnormality; and a controller (110) configured to control the combustion air supplier (117) such that the reformer (16) is cooled with a higher rate in an abnormal shut-down process executed after the abnormality detector (110a) detects the abnormality, than in a normal shut-down process.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Taguchi, Takanori Shimada, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yoshio Tamura, Shigeki Yasuda
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Patent number: 8747499Abstract: A modular gasification reactor for a plasma assisted gasification reaction system is disclosed for converting fuel, such as, but not limited to, biomass, to syngas to replace petroleum based fuels used in power generation. The system may be a modular system housed within a frame facilitating relatively easy transportation. The system may include a reactor vessel with distinct reaction zones that facilitate greater control and a more efficient system. The system may include a syngas heater channeling syngas collected downstream of the carbon layer support and to the pyrolysis reaction zone. The system may also include a syngas separation chamber configured to produce clean syngas, thereby requiring less filtering. The system may further include an agitator drive assembly that prevents formation of burn channels within the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: adaptiveARC, Inc.Inventor: Christian H. A. Juvan
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Patent number: 8747500Abstract: A controlled zone gasification reactor for a plasma assisted gasification reaction system is disclosed for converting fuel, such as, but not limited to, biomass, to syngas to replace petroleum based fuels used in power generation. The system may be a modular system housed within a frame facilitating relatively easy transportation. The system may include a reactor vessel with distinct reaction zones that facilitate greater control and a more efficient system. The system may include a syngas heater channeling syngas collected downstream of the carbon layer support and to the pyrolysis reaction zone. The system may also include a syngas separation chamber configured to produce clean syngas, thereby requiring less filtering. The system may further include an agitator drive assembly that prevents formation of burn channels with in the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: adaptiveARC, Inc.Inventor: Christian H. A. Juvan
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Patent number: 8747501Abstract: A fuel gasification system including a gasification furnace including a fluidized bed formed by fluidizing reactant gas for gasifying fuel charged into gasification gas and flammable solid content, a combustion furnace for combustion of the flammable solid content into which the flammable solid content produced in the furnace is introduced together with bed material and that includes a fluidized bed formed by fluidizing reactant gas, a material separator such as hot cyclone that separates bed material from exhaust gas introduced from the combustion furnace, the separated bed material being fed through a downcomer to the gasification furnace, and a tar decomposing mechanism that heats the gasification gas produced in the furnace to decompose tar contained in the gasification gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Takahiro Murakami, Koubun Kyo, Toshiyuki Suda
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Patent number: 8747502Abstract: A particulate matter reduction apparatus for a diesel engine, which can reduce particulate matter in a convenient manner with a relatively simple structure, while preventing the shortening of the lifespan of a filter and improving particulate matter burning efficiency, is provided. The particulate matter reduction apparatus includes a housing configured to be placed on a flow path into which exhaust gas is discharged from the diesel engine, a filter configured to collect particulate matter contained in the exhaust gas that flows in the housing, electrodes configured to transmit electronic signals to the filter, and a control unit configured to control the electric signals provided to the electrodes. The particulate matter reduction apparatus is advantageous in that particulate matter is burnt and removed by directly heating the filter. In addition, the apparatus is more convenient, compared to a system which requires a filter to be separated and cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Jeju National UniversityInventors: Heon-Ju Lee, Vadim Yurevich Plaksin
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Patent number: 8747503Abstract: The present invention relates to a separator and more specifically, but not exclusively, to a centrifugal separator for the cleaning of a gaseous fluid. A centrifugal separator is provided as comprising a housing defining an inner space, and a rotor assembly for imparting a rotary motion onto a mixture of substances to be separated. The rotor assembly is located in said inner space and is rotatable about an axis relative to the housing. The rotor assembly comprises an inlet for receiving said mixture of substances, an outlet from which said substances are ejected from the rotor assembly during use, and a flow path for providing fluid communication between the inlet and outlet, wherein the outlet is positioned more radially outward from said axis than the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Alfa Laval Corporate ABInventors: Olle Törnblom, Thomas Eliasson, Janke Burmeister, Mats-Orjan Pogén, Per Stjernswärd
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Patent number: 8747504Abstract: Embodiments of a gas-solids separation unit and embodiments of a method for manufacturing a separation unit are provided. In one embodiment, the separation unit includes a cyclonic separator and a vessel having a flue gas chamber, a clean gas chamber, and an entrained solids chamber between the flue gas chamber and the clean gas chamber. The cyclonic separator includes, in turn, a cyclone barrel extending from the flue gas chamber toward the clean gas chamber, a swirl vane positioned across the cyclone barrel, a gas outlet tube fluidly coupling the cyclone barrel to the clean gas chamber, and a first check valve opening formed through the barrel sidewall upstream of the gas outlet tube. The check valve opening fluidly couples the cyclone barrel to the entrained solids chamber to permit the centrifugal separation of the particulate matter from the gas stream during operation of the gas-solids separation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Kevin J. Brandner, Brian W. Hedrick
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Patent number: 8747505Abstract: A filter system includes a housing having an inlet opening surrounded by a sealing surface, an outlet opening, and a door having a seating surface surrounding a through-port opening. The door is movable between an open and closed position and a closed position. In an embodiment, a hinge connects the door to the housing, such that the door pivots between open and closed positions about the hinge. A panel pre-filter is seated along the seating surface of the door. A V-bank filter is positioned in the inlet opening, and has a flange in general alignment with the sealing surface, and has a plurality of filter media sections projecting away from the flange and into the housing interior. A latch is adapted to keep the panel pre-filter positioned inline and upstream of the V-bank filter. A seal is disposed between the flange of the V-bank filter and the sealing surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Clarcor Air Filtration Products, Inc.Inventors: LaMonte A. Crabtree, Richard K. Chesson, Jr., Ronald J. Geil, Jr.
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Patent number: 8747506Abstract: An air filtration system including a pre-filtration unit having a filter section and a spacer section attached to the filter section and extending downstream from the filter section, a pre-filter attachment device having a pre-filter securing section and a first plurality of coupling members, and a filtration unit. The filter section includes a pre-filter. The spacer section includes an at least partially open end located on a downstream side of the spacer section to expose a downstream face of the pre-filter. The filtration unit includes a filter frame, an upper section thereof including an upstream-facing surface having a plurality of openings, a filter secured inside the lower section of filter frame, and a second plurality of coupling members located on the filter frame and coupleable with the first plurality of coupling members of the pre-filter attachment device to removeably secure the pre-filtration unit to the filtration unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Fais Inc.Inventors: Pieter K. Borkent, Cory A. Roehm
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Patent number: 8747507Abstract: A Filter element for insertion into a housing of a ventilation unit or air conditioner, comprising a bellows with folds and a front side, which can face a wall of the housing, wherein the folds on the front side define fold cross-sectional surfaces, wherein to the front side at least one guiding slot is assigned and wherein a fold cross-sectional surface has a geometry in the area of a guiding slot that is different from the fold cross-sectional surface of a multiplicity of folds, is, in view of the task of providing an efficient filter element which, after problem-free manufacture is equipped with guiding slots into which guide pins can be inserted, characterized in that a multiplicity of regular fold walls is provided, wherein each two flanking walls flank the guiding slot.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Carl Freudenberg KGInventors: Uwe Haefner, Markus Koegel, Roland Dobner, Andreas Breuer
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Patent number: 8747508Abstract: There is provided a honeycomb filter including: a honeycomb base material; plugged portions; and a porous collecting layer disposed on the surface of the partition wall parent material in at least the remaining cells. The collecting layer has a constitution in which a plurality of particles combine or intertwine with one another, and the collecting layer includes flat plate-like particles as the plurality of particles. The plurality of particles are particles in which an average long diameter is 0.2 ?m or larger and smaller than 10 ?m, an average value of ratios (long diameters/short diameters) of the long diameters to the short diameters of the respective particles is smaller than 3, and an average value of ratios (the long diameters/thicknesses) of the long diameters to thicknesses of the respective particles is 3 or larger. An open area ratio of the surface of the collecting layer is 10% or larger.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Isoda, Yoshio Kikuchi
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Patent number: 8747509Abstract: There is provided a honeycomb filter including a honeycomb base material including a porous partition wall parent material; plugged portions arranged in open frontal areas of predetermined cells in an end surface on an inflow side of the fluid, and open frontal areas of the remaining cells in an end surface on an outflow side of the fluid; and a porous collecting layer disposed on the surface of the partition wall parent material in the remaining cells. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, a shape of the cells is a rectangular shape, and a thickness of a portion of the collecting layer which is positioned in each of corner portions of each of the cells is from one to three times that of a portion of the collecting layer which is positioned in the center of each of sides of the cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio Kikuchi
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Patent number: 8747510Abstract: An exhaust treatment unit including a longitudinal core around an axis, a support mat, and powdered insulation impregnated between first and second layers of the support mat. In assembly, the mat is first wrapped around the core once, and powdered insulation is applied to the surface of the unwrapped portion of the mat prior to further winding whereby powdered insulation is disposed between mat layers after further winding.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company, Inc.Inventors: Ruth Latham, William Alcini
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Patent number: 8747511Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a tubular honeycomb structure having porous partition walls with which there are formed a plurality of cells extending from one end surface to the other end surface to become through channels of a fluid; and plugged portions arranged in one open end portion of each of predetermined cells and the other open end portion of each of the remaining cells, porosities of the partition walls are 46% or less, a pore volume ratio of pores having pore diameters of 40 ?m or more is 7.5% or less, and a pore volume ratio of pores having pore diameters of 10 ?m or less is 25% or less, a permeability of the honeycomb structure is 0.8 ?m2 or more, and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the honeycomb structure in a range of 40 to 800° C. is 1.0×10?6/° C. or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Motoki, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Eriko Kodama
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Patent number: 8747512Abstract: A filter element that has at least two, planar, non-curved filtration panels. In a preferred embodiment, the filter element has three panels, providing a generally triangular filter element. The outlet aperture, from the filter element, generally follows the configuration of the filter. That is, a filter element having three filtration panels will have a generally three-sided outlet aperture. The outlet aperture preferably is not a true polygon, but rather, includes rounded or curved sides and/or corners. The filter element includes an outlet sealing configuration that may provide both axial and radial sealing to outlet ductwork.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Jarren B. Mills, Daniel E. Adamek, Richard Dejong
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Patent number: 8747513Abstract: Improved agriculturally useful products are provided, including solid materials such as nitrogenous fertilizers (e.g., urea), together with a polycarboxylated polymer selected from the group consisting of a salts of copolymers containing individual quantities of maleic and itaconic moieties. The polymer composition also includes from about 10-60% by weight of an organic drying agent such as a lower alcohol which enhances the quick drying properties thereof. The compositions may also include an amount of boron, and bimodal vinylic polymer made up of quantities of high and low molecular weight (MW) vinylic polymers such as PVA.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Specialty Fertilizer Products, LLCInventors: John Larry Sanders, Grigory Mazo, Jacob Mazo
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Patent number: 8747514Abstract: Improved agriculturally useful products are provided, including solid materials such as nitrogenous fertilizers (e.g., urea), together with a polycarboxylated polymer selected from the group consisting of a salts of copolymers containing individual quantities of maleic and itaconic moieties. The polymer composition also includes from about 10-60% by weight of an organic drying agent such as a lower alcohol which enhances the quick drying properties thereof. The compositions may also include an amount of boron, and bimodal vinylic polymer made up of quantities of high and low molecular weight (MW) vinylic polymers such as PVA.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Specialty Fertilizer Products, LLCInventors: John Larry Sanders, Grigory Mazo, Jacob Mazo
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Patent number: 8747515Abstract: The invention is suitable for the manufacture of flat or shaped titanium matrix composite articles having improved mechanical properties such as lightweight plates and sheets for aircraft and automotive applications, heat-sinking lightweight electronic substrates, bulletproof structures for vests, partition walls and doors, as well as for sporting goods such as helmets, golf clubs, sole plates, crown plates, etc. A fully-dense discontinuously-reinforced titanium matrix composite (TMMC) material comprises (a) a matrix of titanium or titanium alloy as a major component, (b) ceramic and/or intermetallic hard particles dispersed in the matrix in the amount of ?50 vol. %, and (c) complex carbide- and/or silicide particles at least partially soluble in the matrix at the sintering or forging temperatures such as Ti4Cr3C6, Ti3SiC2, Cr3C2, Ti3AlC2, Ti2AlC, Al4C3, Al4SiC4, Al4Si2C5, Al8SiC7, V2C, (Ti,V)C, VCr2C2, and V2Cr4C3 dispersed in the matrix in the amount of ?20 vol. %.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2003Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Advance Material Products, IncInventors: Volodymyr Duz, Vladimir S. Moxson, Alexander E. Shapiro
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Patent number: 8747516Abstract: Flowability-improving particles are adhered to surfaces of iron powder through a binder to provide an iron-based powder for powder metallurgy which has excellent flowability and which is capable of uniformly filling a thin-walled cavity and compaction with high performance of ejection force.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Tomoshige Ono, Shigeru Unami, Takashi Kawano, Yukiko Ozaki
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Patent number: 8747517Abstract: A method for isolating a nanoparticle is disclosed. A medium containing a nanoparticle is provided. The medium is acidified with a weak acid. An alcoholic solvent is added to induce the nanoparticle to precipitate from the medium. The precipitated nanoparticles are separated from the medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Life Technologies CorporationInventors: Joseph Bartel, Kari Haley, Berhane Measho
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Patent number: 8747518Abstract: In order to carry out foaming of a slag having a high ratio of chromium oxide having values of often above 20% of a non-corrosive melt in an AOD (Argon Oxygen Decarburization) or MRP (Metallurgical Refining Process) converter or CONARC SSt for stainless steel by adding a foam material, according to the invention a previously defined mixture (5) of a metal oxide, iron carrier, carbon and binding material in the form of pellets or briquettes (4) is introduced into the converter, which reacts in a chemically reducing manner under the slag layer (2) due to the high ambient temperature, wherein gaseous carbon monoxide formed in particular by means of the reduction process of the metal oxide with the carbon within the pellets or briquettes (4) induces the slag foaming with the gas bubbles (7) thereof and wherein the specific density of the pellets or briquettes (4) and the resolve time of the reduction process are selected so that optimal bubble formation in respect of size and duration is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: SMS Siemag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Johann Reichel, Lutz Rose
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Patent number: 8747519Abstract: A method selectively recovers a useful substance from waste including a chlorine-containing synthetic resin and metal copper in a mixed state. Metal copper is recovered from coated copper-wire waste. The method includes the steps of heat-treating the waste in form of coated copper wires, each having a coating material made of a chlorine-containing synthetic resin, in oil or under a non-oxygen condition. Here, the coating material is carbonized and a chlorine content of the coating material is reduced. Then the coating material and the copper wire are separated from each other the copper wire is recovered. The chlorine-containing synthetic resin can be treated without generating dioxin.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignees: Institute of National Colleges of Technology, Japan, Polytech Kagawa, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Okano, Gou Sajiki, Mitsunori Deguchi, Sadao Tanimoto
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Patent number: 8747520Abstract: The present invention are methods for removing preselected substances from a mixed flue gas stream characterized by cooling said mixed flue gas by direct contact with a quench liquid to condense at least one preselected substance and form a cooled flue gas without substantial ice formation on a heat exchanger. After cooling additional process methods utilizing a cryogenic approach and physical concentration and separation or pressurization and sorbent capture may be utilized to selectively remove these materials from the mixed flue gas resulting in a clean flue gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Mark D. Bearden, Paul H. Humble
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Patent number: 8747521Abstract: Provided is a gas separation membrane having superior gas permeability, separation selectivity and mechanical properties. A gas separation membrane to separate at least one acid gas from a mix gas, comprising in this order: a first layer that is porous; a second layer that is a separation-active layer containing a compound having a molecular weight of 150,000 or less and capable of interacting with the acid gas; and a third layer having high gas permeability.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Satoshi Sano
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Patent number: 8747522Abstract: In a method for adsorptively drying purified biogas and regenerating laden absorbents, foreign matter is not allowed to enter the purified biogas, the content of methane in the gas remains virtually unchanged and the effort involved in regenerating the laden adsorbent is reduced. Drying and regeneration are effected in a closed biogas cycle, wherein separate layers based on silica gel and molecular sieves are used as the adsorbent. The biogas to be dried first flows through the silica gel layer. The adsorbent is regenerated with exclusively heated, dried biomethane having a temperature of up to 150° C. which, after contact with adsorbent, is recirculated to the outflow of purified biogas. After regeneration, the bed is cooled by biomethane, which is subsequently recirculated to the outflow of purified biogas. Methane-containing water accumulating during drying and regeneration is recirculated to the biogas generation and/or purification.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: DGE Dr.-Ing. Guenther Engineering GmbHInventor: Lothar Guenther
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Patent number: 8747523Abstract: A water separator reduces a water content of an air stream, which is used in an HVAC unit for a vehicle. The water separator includes a diverter wall and an adjacent wall spaced from the diverter wall to define an air passage. The diverter wall has a terminal end extending into the air passage for changing a direction of the air stream to reduce the water content of the air stream. A filter assembly is disposed through a receiving slot in the diverter wall and is within the air passage downstream of the terminal end.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Valeo Climate ControlInventor: Joseph Spryshak
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Patent number: 8747524Abstract: A method for separating out molten dust in high temperature gas includes the steps of: passing the high temperature gas carrying molten dust through an adhesive separator, the molten dust adhering to the adhesive separator and separating from the high temperature gas, the molten dust adhering to the inner sidewall flowing downwardly due to the gravity force and discharging; conveying the cleaned high temperature gas into a heat exchanger directly or after heating materials for cooling and discharging; using the heat recycled by the heat exchanger to heat the gas supplied to the adhesive separator; and supplying the gas heated by the heat exchanger into the adhesive separator directly or after further reaction, the heat absorbed from the heat exchanger and the heat generated in the reaction keeping the temperature of the gas flowing out of the adhesive separator higher than the melting point of the dust.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Inventor: Zhi-wei Chen
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Patent number: 8747525Abstract: A composite hollow ceramic fiber includes a porous hollow core supporting a thin, dense sheath. The non-gas-tight core comprises a first ceramic compound and an interconnecting network of pores. The gas-tight sheath comprises a second ceramic compound. The fiber is made by extruding first and second suspensions of the first and second ceramic compounds in polymeric binders and solvent from a spinnerette and coagulating the nascent hollow fiber to effect phase inversion of the polymeric binders. The resultant green fiber is sintered in a two step process. First, the binder is burned off. Second, the sheath is densified and the second ceramic compound is sinter without fully sintering the first ceramic compound. The first ceramic compound has a melting point higher than that of the second ceramic compound.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Dean W. Kratzer, Tao Li, Madhava R. Kosuri
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Patent number: 8747526Abstract: A vertical type air humidifying and purifying machine, comprising a front casing, a rear casing, a humidifying unit, an ultraviolet light purifying unit, a motor-fan unit and a negative ion generator; in which the front casing and the rear casing are assembled correspondingly with each other, and the humidifying unit, the UV light purifying unit, and the motor-fan unit are disposed orderly between the front and the rear casings, and the negative ion generator is installed at an air outlet of the motor-fan unit; ON-OFF switches being respectively provided on the humidifying unit, the UV purifying unit and the negative ion generator for ON-OFF switching.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Hung Hsing Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ping Huang, Ying-Pin Huang, Chia-Chang Lee
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Patent number: 8747527Abstract: A method for converting soot particles of an exhaust gas includes providing at least nitrogen dioxide or oxygen in the exhaust gas, ionizing soot particles with an electric field, depositing electrically charged soot particles on inner channel walls of at least one surface precipitator, and bringing at least nitrogen dioxide or oxygen into contact with the deposited soot particles on the inner channel walls of the at least one surface precipitator. A device for carrying out the method includes at least one surface precipitator having a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas can flow and extending between an inlet region and an outlet region, and at least one deposit inhibitor for electrically charged soot particles provided in at least part of the inlet region, especially allowing the soot particles to be evenly deposited and the surface precipitator to be continuously regenerated.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Emitec Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Wolfgang Maus, Peter Hirth, Rolf Brueck
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Patent number: 8747528Abstract: An adsorption unit is provided, including an electrical heating substrate defined with a fluid channel therein, and an adsorptive material layer formed on the electrical heating substrate to contact the fluid channel for adsorbing moisture or volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a gas flow through the fluid channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Ming-Lang Hung, Pen-Chang Tseng, Kang Yu Hao, Hsing-Ting Chen, Jyi-Ching Perng
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Patent number: 8747529Abstract: A device for drying medium flow (8), in particular an air flow, includes a device housing (2), in which at least first and second drying agents (4, 6) are received. The first and second drying agents have a high moisture absorption capacity in the case of low and high moisture values of the medium flow (8), respectively. The amount of the respective drying agent (4, 6) can be selectively set depending on the actual moisture present in the medium flow (8).Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Hydac Filtertechnik GmbHInventors: Volker Backes, Achim Pfeiffer, Jan Weber
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Patent number: 8747530Abstract: A system for water extraction from air is provided. The system includes a housing having a plurality of openings allowing an air flow to enter into an inner space defined by the housing. The system also includes a sponge disposed within the inner space defined by the housing. The sponge includes a water absorbing/adsorbing material for absorbing/adsorbing water vapor from the air flow. The system further includes a presser disposed above the sponge and configured to compress the sponge to discharge water from the sponge.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: LTA CorporationInventor: John Goelet
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Patent number: 8747531Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing water vapor from the flue gas stream of an industrial process, including flue gas from a power station. The apparatus including a moisture transfer device, a cooling device, and an optional enthalpy exchange device. The method including running high volumes the flue gas through the moisture transfer device, the cooling device, and the enthalpy exchange device to remove substantially all of the water vapor from the flue gas stream. Also, a method and apparatus for capturing CO2 from flue gas with very low water vapor content. The apparatus including one or more towers packed with a solid sorbent, or including a liquid sorbent. The CO2 from the water vapor free CO2 stream is sorbed by the sorbent and captured for later use.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Munters CorporationInventor: Paul Dinnage
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Patent number: 8747532Abstract: A filter device for filtering dust from air includes a housing, a dust collecting module, a spraying module, and an exhaust. The housing defines an air inlet near a bottom of the housing and an air outlet near a top of the housing. The dust collecting module is installed in the housing between the air inlet and the air outlet. The spraying module is placed in the housing between the dust collecting module and the air outlet. The exhaust is connected to the housing for generating air pressure difference between near the air outlet and near the air inlet, thereby drawing and introducing air containing dust from the bottom of the housing toward the top of the housing via the air inlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Jung Chang, Wen-Hsiung Chang, Ping-Neng Chang, Run-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 8747533Abstract: A smart filter assembly is provided, the smart filter assembly having a fouling detection instrument and a communications module. The fouling detection instrument measures the weight of the filter assembly to indicate the degree of fouling. The communications module conveys the signal from the fouling detection instrument to a control system.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: BHA Altair, LLCInventors: Sanji Ekanayake, Alston I. Scipio
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Patent number: 8747534Abstract: Disclosed is an emulsion of an internal paper size and a biocidal emulsifying agent, such as a cationic non-starchy quaternary ammonium compounds, that is introduced into a paper-making furnish to produce an antimicrobial paper. The antimicrobial paper is useful as facing for gypsum panels. A method of making the paper includes emulsifying the internal size with a biocide before introducing the size to the paper furnish. A method of making a microbial growth resistant gypsum panel that incorporates the antimicrobial paper is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: United States Gypsum CompanyInventors: Evan V. Rohlf, Mark B. Scalf
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Patent number: 8747535Abstract: Ink compositions include an amorphous component, a crystalline material, and optionally a colorant. The amorphous component exhibits improved thermal stability and improved distribution in ink preparations; an ink composition includes an amorphous component including a modified polyol and a crystalline component, the modified polyol includes a bio-renewable content of at least 35% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Naveen Chopra, Guerino Sacripante, Adela Goredema, Kentaro Morimitsu, Stephan Drappel, Jeffrey Banning
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Patent number: 8747536Abstract: A phase change ink composition suitable for ink jet printing, including printing on coated paper substrates. The present embodiments provide an ink composition including a component that is substantially amorphous, the component comprising at least one non-ester material and at least one ester of malic acid having a formula of wherein R1 and R2 each, independently of the other, is an alkyl group, and further wherein the alkyl portion can be straight, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted, having from 1 to about 40 carbon atoms, an substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heteroaromatic group, and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Kentaro Morimitsu, Adela Goredema, Naveen Chopra, Jennifer Belelie, Daryl W. Vanbesien
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Patent number: 8747537Abstract: The invention relates to an ink which comprises: a low-polarity solvent having a relative permittivity of 3 or less at a measuring frequency of 1 kHz; and a specific heterocyclic azo dye.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Yasushi Shiga, Utako Takeda, Shoko Ichinosawa, Mio Ishida