Patents Issued in September 25, 2014
  • Publication number: 20140284472
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving ion mobility spectrometry by using a fast and spatially wide ion gate based on local RF field barrier opposed to a switching DC field. The improvement accelerates the ion mobility analysis and improves charge throughput and dynamic range of the IMS. The invention is particularly suited for rapid dual gas chromatography. In one important embodiment, the accelerated IMS is coupled to a multi-reflecting time-of-flight mass spectrometer with a fast encoded orthogonal acceleration. There are described methods of comprehensive and orthogonal separation in multiple analytical dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: LECO Corporation
    Inventor: Anatoly N. Verenchikov
  • Publication number: 20140284473
    Abstract: In an atmospheric pressure ionization source using an ESI or the like having a desolvation pipe with one end opening serving as an ion-drawing port, a drying-gas supplying port for supplying a drying gas against the ion-drawing direction is provided below the ion-drawing port, i.e. at a position opposite to the side where a nozzle for spraying a liquid sample into an atmospheric pressure atmosphere is located, as viewed from the ion-drawing port. When the drying gas is supplied from the drying-gas supplying port, the gas pressure becomes higher in a region above the ion-drawing port becomes higher than in a region below the same port and produces a downward air stream. This stream helps ions in the spray flow from the nozzle to easily come close to the ion-drawing port and be efficiently drawn into the desolvation pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Ueda, Daisuke Okumura
  • Publication number: 20140284474
    Abstract: A focused ion beam system includes a gas field ion source which generates gas ions, an ion gun unit which accelerates the gas ions and radiates the gas ions as an ion beam, a beam optical system which includes at least a focusing lens electrode and radiates the ion beam onto a sample, and an image acquiring mechanism which acquires an FIM image of a tip of an emitter based on the ion beam. The image acquiring mechanism includes an alignment electrode which is disposed between the ion gun unit and the focusing lens electrode and adjusts a radiation direction of the ion beam, an alignment control unit which applies an alignment voltage to the alignment electrode, and an image processing unit which combines a plurality of FIM images acquired when applying different alignment voltages to generate one composite FIM image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko SUGIYAMA, Tomokazu KOZAKAI, Osamu MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20140284475
    Abstract: A transmission electron microscope includes an electron beam source to generate an electron beam. Beam optics are provided to converge the electron beam. A specimen holder is provided to hold a specimen in the path of the electron beam. A detector is used to detect the electron beam transmitted through the specimen. The transmission electron microscope may be adapted to generate two or more images that are substantially incoherently related to one another, store the images, and combine amplitude signals at corresponding pixels of the respective images to improve a signal-to-noise ratio. Alternatively or in addition, the transmission electron microscope may be adapted to operate the specimen holder to move the specimen in relation to the beam optics during exposure or between exposures to operate the transmission electron microscope in an incoherent mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Mochii, Inc. (d/b/a Voxa)
    Inventors: Christopher Su-Yan Own, Andrew Bleloch, William Andregg
  • Publication number: 20140284476
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for improving performance of a reflective type energy filter for a charged particle beam, which employs a beam-adjusting lens on an entrance side of a potential barrier of the energy filter to make the charged particle beam become a substantially parallel beam to be incident onto the potential barrier. The method makes the energy filter have both a fine energy-discrimination power over a large emission angle spread and a high uniformity of energy-discrimination powers over a large FOV. A LVSEM using this method in the energy filter can obviously improve image contrast. The invention also provides multiple energy-discrimination detection devices formed by using the advantages of the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Hermes Microvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Weiming Ren, Shuai Li, Zhongwei Chen
  • Publication number: 20140284477
    Abstract: In order to provide a charged-particle radiation apparatus capable of evaluating and distinguishing the analysis position in a sample subjected to X-ray analysis in the stage before performing X-ray elemental analysis, and also making it possible for an analyst to perform, in a short period of time and without reworking, analysis for which high reliability is ensured, the present invention provides a charged-particle radiation apparatus provided with an X-ray detector, wherein a first back scattered electron detector (15) on the same axis as the X-ray detection surface of the X-ray detector (12 (25-30)) is disposed integrally with or independently from the X-ray detector (12), an X-ray signal being detected by the X-ray detector (12) simultaneously with or separately from detection of a back scattered electron signal by the first back scattered electron detector (15)
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Yuta Ebine, Shinichi Tomita, Sukehiro Ito, Toshihiro Aoshima
  • Publication number: 20140284478
    Abstract: Conjointly provided are a first correcting unit (13A, 13B) to estimate, on the basis of the whole sum of counting rates determined by a counting unit (10A, 10B), a peak position in an energy spectrum obtained in the counting unit (10A, 10B) and to output an initial value which is a gain value required to render the estimated peak position to coincide with a reference position, and a second correcting unit (14A, 14B) to detect, in the energy spectrum obtained in the counting unit (10A, 10B), the peak position within a predetermined energy range containing the reference position and to output a dynamic gain correction value which is a gain value required to render the detected peak position to coincide with the reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: RIGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio SAKO, Kosuke KAWAKYU
  • Publication number: 20140284479
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring apparatus that monitors abnormalities in a system including a plurality of components or products. The plurality of components or products respectively include a plurality of types of microcapsules that release, due to specific causes, a plurality of marker chemical substances respectively, the marker chemical substances having respectively different ion mobilities. The monitoring apparatus includes an ion mobility sensor that detects the plurality of marker chemical substances. By detecting the marker chemical substances, the monitoring apparatus is capable of identifying the occurrence of an abnormal state, the type of abnormal state, the occurrence location, the extent of the abnormal state, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: ATONARP INC.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20140284480
    Abstract: An infrared sensor includes a heat sensing element, the heat sensing element includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a dielectric film formed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The heat sensing element senses heat based on a change of a resistance value. The dielectric film includes at least Bi and Fe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki YONEMURA, Takafumi NODA, Yasushi TSUCHIYA, Yasuaki HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140284481
    Abstract: An optical position detection system includes a light output unit that outputs lights toward a first detection target and a second detection target, and a first light receiving unit that receives a first reflected light from the first detection target and a second light receiving unit that receives a second reflected light from the second detection target having different wavelengths, wherein the first detection target has a first reflection filter that reflects the first reflected light and the second detection target has a second reflection filter that reflects the second reflected light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kanechika KIYOSE, Kogo ENDO
  • Publication number: 20140284482
    Abstract: In an infrared detection element 15, a first substrate 36 is bonded to a front side of a pyroelectric substrate 20. Since the thermal expansion coefficient of the first substrate 36 is lower than that of the pyroelectric substrate 20, deformation of the pyroelectric substrate 20 due to thermal expansion can be suppressed by the first substrate 36. Further, since a thermal expansion coefficient difference D is 8.9 ppm/K or less, the thermal expansion coefficient between the first substrate 36 and the pyroelectric substrate 20 is not excessively large, and this can suppress deformation of the infrared detection element 15 due to the thermal expansion coefficient difference between the first substrate 36 and the pyroelectric substrate 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jungo Kondo, Kenji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140284483
    Abstract: There is provided a high responsivity device for thermal sensing in a Terahertz (THz) radiation detector. A load impedance connected to an antenna heats up due to the incident THz radiation received by the antenna. The heat generated by the load impedance is sensed by a thermal sensor such as a transistor. To increase the responsivity of the sense device without increasing the thermal mass, the device is located underneath a straight portion of an antenna arm. The transistor runs substantially the entire length of the antenna arm alleviating the problem caused by placing large devices on the side of the antenna and the resulting large additional thermal mass that must be heated. This boosts the responsivity of the pixel while retaining an acceptable level of noise and demanding a dramatically smaller increase in the thermal time constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Corcos, Danny Elad, Noam Kaminski, Bernhard Klein, Lukas Kull, Thomas Morf
  • Publication number: 20140284484
    Abstract: A terahertz ellipsometer, the basic preferred embodiment being a sequential system having a backward wave oscillator (BWO); a first rotatable polarizer that includes a wire grid (WGP1); a rotating polarizer that includes a wire grid (RWGP); a stage (STG) for supporting a sample (S); a rotating retarder (RRET) comprising first (RP), second (RM1), third (RM2) and fourth (RM3) elements; a second rotatable polarizer that includes a wire grid (WGP2); and a Golay cell detector (DET).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Craig M. Herzinger
  • Publication number: 20140284485
    Abstract: A radiation detecting device of a cassette type having flexibility includes a deformation maintaining mechanism configured to maintain a state of the radiation detecting device that is deformed to match an arbitrary surface profile of a subject. The deformation maintaining mechanism is arranged on at least one of a surface of a sensor panel on a sensor substrate side and a surface of the sensor panel on a scintillator side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazumi Nagano, Satoshi Okada, Keiichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20140284486
    Abstract: A radiation detecting apparatus includes a scintillator and a photoelectric conversion panel. The photoelectric conversion panel includes a frame member disposed on an outer side of a photoelectric conversion section along at least a portion of one side of the photoelectric conversion panel. The frame member includes an inclined surface having a downward slope toward the photoelectric conversion section. The scintillator includes a first scintillator formed continuously on the inclined surface of the frame member and a surface of the photoelectric conversion section, and a second scintillator formed on the first scintillator. The first scintillator has a non-columnar crystal structure, and the second scintillator has a columnar crystal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Inoue, Shinichi Takeda, Satoru Sawada, Takamasa Ishii, Taiki Takei, Kota Nishibe
  • Publication number: 20140284487
    Abstract: A radiation detection apparatus includes a sensor panel which includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a scintillator layer disposed above the photoelectric conversion unit and configured to convert radiation into light, a reflection layer disposed above the scintillator layer and configured to reflect part of light generated by the scintillator layer toward the sensor panel; and a protective layer which covers the scintillator layer from above the reflection layer. The scintillator layer is fixed on the sensor panel. The reflection layer is fixed on the protective layer. Part of the protective layer is bonded to the sensor panel with an adhesive material so as to seal the scintillator layer and the reflection layer with the protective layer and the sensor panel. An upper surface of the scintillator layer includes a portion which is not fixed to the reflection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Sawada, Masato Inoue, Shinichi Takeda, Takamasa Ishii, Taiki Takei, Kota Nishibe
  • Publication number: 20140284488
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radiation detector includes a first detection unit including a first radiation entrance region which incoming radiation enters and in which first photoelectric conversion elements is arranged, and a second detection unit including a second radiation entrance region. The first detection unit detects an occurrence position of a first interaction and a track of recoil electron by using the first photoelectric conversion elements. The second detection unit detects an occurrence position of a second interaction resulting from the scattered radiation. A position of a radiation source is measured by the occurrence positions of the first and second interactions and the track of the recoil electron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoya Sanuki, Atsushi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20140284489
    Abstract: In radiation-sensitive detector devices, such as direct conversion detectors, charges are drifting within an externally applied electric field towards collecting electrodes (4), which are segmented (e.g. representing a pixel array). At the gaps between segments, electrical field lines can leave the detector, and charges drifting along those field lines can be trapped within the gap. This can be avoided by external electrodes (8) which push electric field lines back into the direct conversion material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Klaus Juergen Engel, Christoph Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20140284490
    Abstract: A chemical detection system includes a frame, an emitter coupled to the frame, and a detector coupled to the frame proximate the emitter. The system also includes a shielding system coupled to the frame and positioned at least partially between the emitter and the detector, wherein the frame positions a sensing surface of the detector in a direction substantially parallel to a plane extending along a front portion of the frame. A method of analyzing composition of a suspect object includes directing neutrons at the object, detecting gamma rays emitted from the object, and communicating spectrometer information regarding the gamma rays. The method also includes presenting a GUI to a user with a dynamic status of an ongoing neutron spectroscopy process. The dynamic status includes a present confidence for a plurality of compounds being present in the suspect object responsive to changes in the spectrometer information during the ongoing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventor: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
  • Publication number: 20140284491
    Abstract: A radiation image pickup system includes a correction coefficient calculation unit that calculates a correction coefficient using pixel output values of a plurality of pixels, and a correction unit that corrects pixel output values of a plurality of pixels using the correction coefficient. A drive control unit repeatedly resets an electric charge caused by a dark current of a plurality of pixels until a detection unit detects a start of radiation exposure. The reset operation is performed simultaneously for n rows that are not adjacent to each other, where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2. The correction coefficient calculation unit calculates the correction coefficient using pixel output values of pixels in a row subjected to the reset operation in a period from a start of radiation exposure to a start detection time and pixel output values of pixels in an adjacent row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Sho Sato, Toshio Kameshima, Tomoyuki Yagi, Katsuro Takenaka, Hideyuki Okada, Atsushi Iwashita, Eriko Sato, Takuya Ryu
  • Publication number: 20140284492
    Abstract: A photon counting detector and a photon counting and detecting method using the same is provided. The photon counting detector includes readout circuits configured to count photons in multi-energy radiation incident to a sensor, the photons being counted with respect to each of a plurality of energy bands of the multi-energy radiation, the readout circuits respectively corresponding to pixels of a region onto which the multi-energy radiation is irradiated, each of the readout circuits being configured to count photons in a predetermined one of the energy bands, at least one of the readout circuits being configured to count photons in at least one of energy bands other than the predetermined one of the energy bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-wook Han, Dong-goo Kang, Young-hun Sung
  • Publication number: 20140284493
    Abstract: A preamplifier is provided for correction of overshoot or undershoot effects present in a signal received from a charged particle detection electrode. The preamplifier is ground-isolated from the charged particle detection electrode and comprises: a main amplification stage, configured to receive and amplify the isolated signal; a feed-forward stage, configured to generate a compensation signal from the amplified ground-isolated signal, the compensation signal being generated to mirror the overshoot or undershoot effects; and an output, arranged to provide an output signal that is a combination of the amplified ground-isolated signal and the compensation signal. A charged particle detection arrangement comprising the preamplifier is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH
    Inventor: Richard HEMING
  • Publication number: 20140284494
    Abstract: Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) or other materials are processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, in a vault in which the walls and optionally the ceiling include discrete units. Such vaults are re-configurable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN, Robert PARADIS
  • Publication number: 20140284495
    Abstract: Materials (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems equipment, and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, using an array of vaults.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN, Robert PARADIS
  • Publication number: 20140284496
    Abstract: The present teachings provide for systems, and components thereof, for detecting and/or analyzing light. These systems can include, among others, optical reference standards utilizing luminophores, such as nanocrystals, for calibrating, validating, and/or monitoring light-detection systems, before, during, and/or after sample analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: J. Michael Phillips, Kevin S. BODNER, Aldrich N. K. LAU, Mark F. OLDHAM, Donald R. SANDELL, David H. TRACY, Steven J. BOEGE
  • Publication number: 20140284497
    Abstract: A spectral luminescence standard has bismuth in a light-transmissive inorganic matrix material and emits light in the near infrared region upon irradiation with excitation light. The bismuth acts as a luminescence emitter in the near infrared region. A method includes manufacturing such a spectral luminescence standard and a calibration medium which has the spectral luminescence standard in or on a carrier material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Johann Kecht, Kai Uwe Stock
  • Publication number: 20140284498
    Abstract: Scintillators of various constructions and methods of making and using the same are provided. In some embodiments, a scintillator comprises at least one radiation absorption region and at least one spatially discrete radiative exciton recombination region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Richard T. WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20140284499
    Abstract: An apparatus for sanitizing a point-of-contact surface may include a housing configured to be affixed about at least a portion of said point of contact. The housing may have an interior in or through which the point of contact may be accessed and an anterior opening for access to the interior. The apparatus may further include one or more sources of a sanitizing agent configured to direct the sanitizing agent toward a location where at least a portion of the point-of-contact surface may be disposed. One or more of an anterior dome, an inner surface, and a posterior surface may also be configured to reflect the sanitizing agent toward the location where at least a portion of the point-of-contact surface may be disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Dean Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20140284500
    Abstract: A settling time acquisition method includes writing at least one reference pattern formed by at least one shot of a charged particle beam, writing an evaluation pattern, which has been formed by combination of the first and second shots of a charged particle beam shaped to first and second patterns of different sizes and whose width size is the same as that of the reference pattern, while changing, concerning beam shaping of the second shot, a settling time of a DAC amplifier, wherein writing is performed for each settling time, measuring the width size of the reference pattern, measuring the width size of the evaluation pattern for each settling time, calculating, for each settling time, a difference between the width sizes of the reference and evaluation patterns, and acquiring a settling time from each settling time of the DAC amplifier when the difference is not exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: NuFlure Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rieko NISHIMURA, Michihiro SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20140284501
    Abstract: Biomass feedstocks (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, novel systems, methods and equipment for conveying and/or cooling treated biomass are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN, Robert PARADIS
  • Publication number: 20140284502
    Abstract: A target supply device may include a reservoir configured to hold a target material in its interior in liquid form, a vibrating element configured to apply vibrations to the reservoir, a target sensor configured to detect droplets of the target material outputted from the reservoir, a control unit configured to set parameters based on a result of the detection performed by the target sensor, a function generator configured to generate an electrical signal having a waveform based on the parameters, and a power source configured to apply a driving voltage to the vibrating element in accordance with the electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: GIGAPHOTON INC.
    Inventors: Masaki NAKANO, Osamu WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140284503
    Abstract: Radiation shielding structures comprising bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys and methods of making radiation shielding structures and components in near-to-net shaped forms are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Stevick, Theodore Andrew Waniuk, Tran Quoc Pham
  • Publication number: 20140284504
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for monitoring platelet quality are disclosed. A bag of platelet concentrate is oriented in a desired manner on a transparent surface that is illuminated from one side with a light source. A clamp applies pressure to a desired portion of the bag to temporarily manipulate a predetermined portion of the bag and therefore the fluid in the bag in a known and repeatable manner. A flow inducing member applies pressure to the bag to thereby cause a turbulent flow of the fluid from the bag through a flow path. A detector records optical characteristics of light diffracted by the flowing particles, which is analyzed by software to derive a score correlating to the quality of the platelets. Platelet swirl is scored as a measure of platelet quality where more resting, discoid platelets result in a higher score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Elisabeth Maurer, Gyasi Bourne
  • Publication number: 20140284505
    Abstract: A device and a corresponding system for reading X-ray information stored in a storage phosphor plate includes a reading device for irradiating the storage phosphor plate with stimulation light and for detecting emission light stimulated in the storage phosphor plate, and a conveyance device for conveying the storage phosphor plate including at least one roller that can be put into rotation about its rotational axis. In order to guarantee, with a simple structure, the most reliable possible transport of the storage phosphor plate, one or more magnets, more particularly permanent magnets, are arranged in the interior of the cylinder which is formed as a hollow body, more particularly a hollow cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Florian Von Stein, Heinz Backhaus
  • Publication number: 20140284506
    Abstract: A ram shaft assembly is provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a ram actuation assembly of a blowout preventer. The ram actuation assembly can include a ram shaft, one or more mounting members positioned about the ram shaft, and a piston mounted on the one or more mounting members. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas J. Arteaga, Miguel Urrutia
  • Publication number: 20140284507
    Abstract: Auxiliary valve controlled self-cleaning main valve with mechanical operating means. The valve body (1) of the main valve has an inlet (2) and an outlet (3) interconnected through a flow-through opening, and a movable piston (6) having a main closing element (8) at one of its sides and a brake O-ring (9) at its other side. In the control chamber (5) an auxiliary valve (4) with a control valve stem (7) is provided. Between the piston (6) and the auxiliary valve (4) a compressible spring (12) is positioned. The mechanical operating means is provided with a wedge travel path and adapted to press the control valve stem (7) when force is applied externally and to keep it pressed in without applying external force, further it is adapted to release it when force is applied externally and to keep it released without applying external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: BERY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES Szeliemi Tulajdonjogo kat Hasznosito es Kezelo Korlatolt Felelossoo
    Inventor: József Bereznai
  • Publication number: 20140284508
    Abstract: A Venturi valve has a Venturi housing with a plunger slidably mounted on a control shaft within the Venturi housing. Sliding movement of the plunger along the control shaft is controlled by a compression spring. A hard stop is fixed to the control shaft to limit the movement of the plunger along the control shaft in order to keep the compression spring from over compression and from a resulting loss of accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: E.H. Price Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew James Roy Nesbitt, Jarvis Matthew Penner
  • Publication number: 20140284509
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a valve apparatus includes a movable member operating in conjunction with opening and closing of a valve, and a stationary member in sliding or abutting contact with the movable member. The valve apparatus includes a cladding portion that is integrally formed on a sliding-contact surface or an abutting contact surface of at least one of the movable member or the stationary member. The cladding portion is formed by inducing a pulsed discharge between an electrode, which is formed of a molded body consisting mainly of a metal, and a treatment target portion of the movable member or the stationary member, so as to weld and deposit a material of the electrode on a surface of the treatment target portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Osamu SHINDO
  • Publication number: 20140284510
    Abstract: Compositions and methods based on the use of fluoroalkene containing from 3 to 4 carbon atoms and at least one carbon-carbon double bond, such as HFO-1214, HFO-HFO-1233, or HFO-1354 having properties highly beneficial in foaming and blowing agent applications, articles and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Robert C. Johnson, Hsueh S. Tung, Rajiv R. Singh, Ian Shankland
  • Publication number: 20140284511
    Abstract: A novel flame retardant and fire extinguishing product for preventing and fighting fires in solid materials is disclosed herein. The product is thixotropic and comprises water, one or more flame retardants, one or more stabilizers, and one or more preservatives. In some embodiments, the product further comprises one or more thickeners, one or more binders, one or more fining agents, one or more firming agents, one or more water retention agents, one or more polymers, one or more detergents, and/or one or more surfactants. The product may be used as a flame retardant to prevent fires and in active firefighting. The product may be biodegradable in a natural environment, may be readily cleaned off equipment and materials using water, and may also provide other features which render it safe for the environment as compared to other commonly used products in fire prevention and firefighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Miraculum Applications AB
    Inventors: Freddy Kai Klaffmo, Bert Jonny Nilsson, Britt Ann-Christine Langselius
  • Publication number: 20140284512
    Abstract: A novel flame retardant and fire extinguishing product for preventing and fighting fires in liquids is disclosed herein. The product comprises water, one or more flame retardants, one or more polymers, one or more surfactants, one or more emulsifiers, one or more preservatives, and one or more firming agents. In some embodiments, the product may further comprise one or more stabilizers, one or more binders, and/or one or more fining agents. The product may be used as a fire extinguishing agent in active firefighting and as a flame retardant to prevent fires. The product may be biodegradable in a natural environment, may be readily cleaned off equipment and materials to which it has been applied using water, and may also provide other features which render it safe for the environment as compared to other commonly used products in fire prevention and firefighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Miraculum Applications AB
    Inventors: Freddy Kai Klaffmo, Bert Jonny Nilsson, Britt Ann-Christine Langselius
  • Publication number: 20140284513
    Abstract: An oil reclamation mixture consisting of an activating compound, mechanical coagulant and co-factors. Oil spills and their resultant contamination of life is an ongoing threat that affects the entire bio-ecosystem (marine and terrestrial, alike) and to financial markets. By using a mixture of natural ingredients and chemical principles, the threats to ecosystems are mitigated. Traditionally Oil Dispersants have been used to spread out the contamination, however, in our mixture utilizes non-toxic off the shelf ingredients to provide a product that induces free oil floating on the surface of water to coagulate and form aggregate clumps for easy of skimming off the surface in a clean up operation. Because less toxic materials are used, inhabitants and marine life of the affected area are less impacted financially and physically. The oil can also be reclaimed and recycled out of the recovered materials that are skimmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Beadles
  • Publication number: 20140284514
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrolytic solution for an aluminum electrolyte capacitor with which there is little deterioration of the electrolytic solution properties, the sparking voltage is high, and shorting does not occur, even when the voltage used is high. The invention also provides an electrolyte (C) formed from anions of at least one phosphoric acid alkyl ester (A) and amidinium cations (B), at least one boric acid compound (F) selected from the group consisting of boric acid and boric acid esters, a C2-15 carboxylic acid (D) formed from carbon atoms, oxygen atoms, and hydrogen atoms only, and an organic solvent (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Akazawa
  • Publication number: 20140284515
    Abstract: This ferrite thin film-forming composition is a composition for forming a thin film of NiZn ferrite, CuZn ferrite, or NiCuZn ferrite using a sol-gel method, and the composition includes: metal raw materials; and a solvent containing N-methyl pyrrolidone, wherein a ratio of an amount of N-methyl pyrrolidone to 100 mass % of the total amount of the composition is in a range of 30 to 60 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Doi, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Soyama, Kenzo Nakamura, Kazunori Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20140284516
    Abstract: A composition of matter for the self-pressurized (aerosol) spraying of dusters and similar products. The composition includes a fluorinated propene-based propellant and fluorinated butene-based volatile solvent. The composition is totally non-flammable under all reasonably foreseeable conditions of use. The fluorinated propene-based propellant may include trans.1,1,1,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene, as typified by Honeywell Fluorine Products Division's Solstice® HFO-1234ze(E) product. The fluorinated butene-based volatile solvent may include cis. (or cis./trans.) 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-1-butene, as typified by the DuPont Fluorochemicals Division's Formacel® 1100 (HFO-1336mzz) product. The fluorinated propene-based propellant component may be present at about 60 to 95%. The fluorinated butene-based volatile solvent component may be present at about 5% to 40%, but preferably between about 20% to 25% and ideally at about the azeotropic concentration of about 22%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Montfort A. Johnsen
  • Publication number: 20140284517
    Abstract: Provided are azeotropic and azeotrope-like compositions of trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234ze(E)) and water. Such azeotropic and azeotrope-like compositions are useful in isolating trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene from impurities during production. Azeotropes of the instant invention are similarly useful in final compositions or for the manufacture of final compositions, such as blowing agent, propellants, refrigerants, diluents for gaseous sterilization and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: RYAN HULSE, HALUK KOPKALLI, HANG T. PHAM
  • Publication number: 20140284518
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a deicing composition comprising (i) a deicing agent selected from the group consisting of sodium chloride, calcium magnesium acetate, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, potassium acetate, sodium acetate, sodium formate, potassium formate, (ii) a lignin derivative, and (iii) molasses. It furthermore relates to a process for preparing said deicing composition and to a process for deicing a surface using said deicing composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Wasil Maslow, Edwin Ronald De Jong, René Lodewijk Maria Demmer
  • Publication number: 20140284519
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the purification of water and/or dewatering of sludges and/or sediments, to the use of a surface-treated calcium carbonate for water purification and/or dewatering of sludges and/or sediments, as well as to the use of a surface-treated calcium carbonate for reducing the amount of polymeric flocculation aids in water and/or sludges and/or sediments and to a composite material comprising a surface-treated calcium carbonate and impurities originated from different sources obtainable by said process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel E. Gerard, Hans-Georg Hartan, Joachim Schoelkopf, Michael Skovby, Patrick A.C. Gane
  • Publication number: 20140284520
    Abstract: The oligomerization of certain carboxylic acids and alkyl esters derived from natural oils is disclosed. This includes the oligomerization of C10-17 unsaturated carboxylic acids such as 9-decenoic acid, where the oligomerization yields a mixture of mono-, di- and tri-carboxylic acids. This also includes the oligomerization of certain alkyl esters, including the oligomerization of C10-17 unsaturated alkyl esters such as methyl 9-decenoate (9-DAME), where the oligomerization yields a mixture of mono-, di- and tri-carboxylic acid esters. Various end use applications for the oligomerized carboxylic acids and oligomerized alkyl esters are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Georgeta Hategan, Steven A. Cohen, Ryan Littich, Stephen A. DiBiase, Bruce Firth, Robin Weitkamp
  • Publication number: 20140284521
    Abstract: This invention provides a CO2 desorption catalyst that has an excellent CO2 desorption activity and that can be used to replace metal filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Deguchi, Tsunenori Watanabe, Yasuyuki Yagi