Patents Issued in April 13, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170100666
    Abstract: Systems and methods for haptic conversion are described. One disclosed method includes the steps of: determining a characteristic of a target user interface device having a target haptic output device, determining a source haptic effect associated with a source user interface device having a source haptic output device; converting the source haptic effect to a target haptic effect, the conversion based at least in part on the characteristic of the target haptic output device, and generating a haptic signal associated with the target haptic effect, the haptic signal configured to cause the target haptic output device to output the target haptic effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Robert W. Heubel, Danny Grant
  • Publication number: 20170100667
    Abstract: Provided is a game control method carried out by a game control device connected to communication terminals used by users who play a game. The device has a storage unit for storing group information indicative of a group consisting of users and game piece information indicative of game pieces constituting one item. The method includes giving a game piece to each user in accordance with a user operation to his/her communication terminal; storing obtained game piece information indicative of the game piece given to each user in the storage unit; determining whether all of the game pieces necessary to constitute the one item indicated by the game piece information are given to users constituting a group indicated by the group information based on the obtained game piece information; and giving a reward to users constituting the group if it is determined that all of the game pieces are given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuki Oono
  • Publication number: 20170100668
    Abstract: A method is provided for creating or evolving a virtual environment with a computer system. Steps of the method include: forming a plurality of layers of data, including a first layer and a second layer, each layer including a plurality of cells containing data corresponding to a variable; operating on the data from the cells in the first layer with a function to yield target data; distributing the target data to corresponding cells in the second layer; and altering the data in at least one of the plurality of cells in each layer according to a rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Robert L. Young, JR., Raph Koster, Stone Perales, Alexander Raine
  • Publication number: 20170100669
    Abstract: Techniques to interact with an application via messaging are described. An apparatus may comprise an application support component and a communication component. The application support component may be operative to generate an image representing a state of an application and to update the state of the application according to a text command. The communication component may be operative to transmit the image to a client device via a messaging system as an image attachment to a first message and to receive a second message from the client device via the messaging system, the second message comprising the text command. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Oded Blayer, Ittai Golde, Ran Makavy, Amir Rosenfeld
  • Publication number: 20170100670
    Abstract: A voice communication method and system in a game application are provided. The method includes receiving a voice communication instruction in a game process. The voice communication instruction may be a communication identification of a game client that receives voice data. The method also performs voice recording according to the instruction, performs coding and compression processing on the voice data, and sends the voice data that has gone through the coding and compression processing to a corresponding game client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Liang MA, Zhiqiang HE, Chunhua LUO, Wen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170100671
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a competition, game operating system and a competition game operating method which support to maintain a balance between teams by adding a virtual participant who is replaced with a participant who will participate later when the number of participants is smaller than a total number of participants set for each team in a competition game and assign a mission to a participant in each team to carry on competition the game freely from a team mission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: REDDUCK INC.
    Inventors: Kyeong Taek OH, Seok Hyeon CHO, Young Sub AN
  • Publication number: 20170100672
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing one of a plurality of different versions of a game based on a player selected skill level. The gaming system displays an indication of a plurality of different skill levels. Each of the skill levels is associated with a different version of a game. The gaming system receives a player selection of one of the skill levels, displays a play of the version of the game associated with the selected skill level, and determines an outcome for the play. If the selected skill level is a designated skill level, the gaming system randomly determines the outcome. If the selected skill level is greater than the designated skill level, the gaming system receives a quantifiable skill input from the player in association with the play, and determines the outcome based in part on the received quantifiable skill input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Leandro Basallo, Timothy L. Isaacson
  • Publication number: 20170100673
    Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. The ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Maya Sawamura, Takuya KAI, Kenji IGUCHI, Yushi TAKAGI, Toshiharu YABE
  • Publication number: 20170100674
    Abstract: A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are described herein for a Clustering Engine that determines that respective actions, performed in a first instance of a virtual environment by a first user during a first time range, correspond with a first latent state. The Clustering Engine determines that respective actions, performed in a second instance of the virtual environment by a second user during the first time range, correspond with a second latent state. The Clustering Engine triggers a first virtual environment feature based on a first latent state parameter space for the first user. The Clustering Engine triggers a second virtual environment feature based on a second latent state parameter space for the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Alexandros Ntoulas, Moises Goldszmidt, Xuyang Tan, Yuanli Pei
  • Publication number: 20170100675
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention concern a virtual hunting apparatus that employs an imaging device mounted on top of the barrel of a simulated firearm such as a rifle or other toy. A cable can be used to connect the imaging device to the trigger of the simulated firearm. An imaging device can run a variety of applications and play videos. Pulling the trigger of the simulated firearm takes a picture of a target animal, records a video or plays a video of interest within the imaging device, without displacing a bullet or pellet to injure or kill the target animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Ronnie Valdez
  • Publication number: 20170100676
    Abstract: A system and method for generating personalized messaging campaigns for video game players is provided. A video game player's profile data and/or behavioral data may be used to create a customized messaging campaign for the player. The messaging campaign may comprise one or more messages, each selected from a variety of message types, that may be delivered to a game player through one or more channels, at predetermined time intervals. Examples of message types may include gameplay tips, techniques, strategy information, news, awards, milestones, promotions relating to microtransactions (e.g., offers, discounts, etc.), overviews of new products, features, etc., or other message types. Any number of predefined messages may exist (e.g., tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.) for each message type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: ACTIVISION PUBLISHING, INC.
    Inventors: Eric James LYNCH, Darryl KANOUSE
  • Publication number: 20170100677
    Abstract: The evolutionary game system includes a combination of malleable and rigid pieces that are assembled on a series of structural ribs malleable to generate the body and limbs of a diverse number of animals. The system includes extendable components of a base body. The system also includes structural joint pieces of the base body and rigid components of the base body. The evolutionary game system allows for a combination of shapes and is adaptable to constant and demanding changes that are required by children for their games.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: ORGANIC CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventor: Jose Manuel Torner MORALES
  • Publication number: 20170100678
    Abstract: An illuminated water toy may be used to play games or to practice diving in the water. An illuminated water toy may include a body containing a light emitting device. The light emitting device having a first circuit board, a light emitting element coupled to the first circuit board and a battery housing coupled to the light emitting device. A second circuit board is coupled to the battery housing. Four conductors are coupled to the second circuit board with two of the four conductors being coupled to the light emitting device. Another two of the four conductors are coupled to two water contacts, wherein the two water contacts are located on an outside of the illuminated water toy, and wherein on exposure to water, the two water contacts are electrically connected causing the light emitting element to be illuminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Jeffrey Scott Larson
  • Publication number: 20170100679
    Abstract: The disclosed technology comprises a kite with spindles extending radially from a central juncture disc, which can be of rigid (non-flexible construction). The spindles are removably insertable therein, and can be equi-spaced from each other and/or around a central point of the disc, creating structural support for the kite. Fabric sheathing connects to or is frictionally held at an outer terminus of each spindle. The fabric can further form a flap extending transverse to a plane of the disc and spindles with a string extending from an end of the flap, opposite the side of the flap which connects at the plane comprising the spindles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Reginal Joseph
  • Publication number: 20170100680
    Abstract: An arbor trap apparatus for use with a counterweight rigging system having at least one counterweight arbor. The apparatus may include a trap housing for attachment to a support structure, and at least one catch blade for attachment to the counterweight arbor. The catch blade may enter the trap housing as the counterweight arbor moves generally towards the trap housing, and the trap housing may engage the catch blade to prevent the counterweight arbor from moving generally away from the trap housing. The trap housing may transfer load from the counterweight arbor to the support structure and prevent a runaway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Richard William Boychuk, Richard Joseph Nix
  • Publication number: 20170100681
    Abstract: A plasma gas water ionization purification system that purifies waste water into clean water by removing inert waste solids from the waste water. The plasma gas water ionization purification system includes an ionization chamber and a plasma emitting device. The ionization chamber receives the waste water. The plasma emitting device is operatively connected to the ionization chamber and generates a stream of plasma to heat the waste water in the ionization chamber to generate purified steam from the waste water, thereby resulting in separation of the purified steam from the inert waste solids in the waste water, with the purified steam then being condensed into liquid form forming the clean water, which is collected for later use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Clyde A. Livingston
  • Publication number: 20170100682
    Abstract: An apparatus introduces a sample into a separation unit of a chromatography system with a mobile phase, including first and second mobile phase components. The apparatus includes first and second pump systems, and an injection unit. The first pump system provides the first mobile phase component, first and second portions of the first mobile phase component flowing through first and second branches, respectively. The second pump system provides the second mobile phase component, a first portion of the second mobile phase component flowing through a third branch. The injection unit receives a combined stream of the first portions of the first and second mobile phase components provided via the first and third branches, respectively, and injects the sample into the combined stream to form a sample-containing stream, which is subsequently combined with the second portion of the first mobile phase component to form a diluted sample-containing stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Edwin E. Wikfors
  • Publication number: 20170100683
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is provided a method for isolating chromatin from a sample, comprising a step of passing a liquid sample comprising chromatin through a rigid porous matrix on which a ligand is immobilized, wherein the ligand binds to a protein associated with the chromatin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Igor Chernukhin, Elena Klenova, David Cowieson, Samantha Brown
  • Publication number: 20170100684
    Abstract: The invention is a gray water reclaiming container and system. It is comprised of two containers, an inner container which captures liquids destined for drainage and an outer liquid container for reclaiming water. There is a screen on the top of the inner container allowing ice to be filtered from liquid drinks as ice is fresh water which usually gets thrown away in cups into the trash can. The ice goes to the outer liquid container where it is melted into usable water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: E. David Jones
  • Publication number: 20170100685
    Abstract: An oil filter includes a housing body, a housing cover, a check valve and a filter core. The filter core and the check valve are mounted in a filtering oil cavity of the housing body. The housing cover is mounted on the housing body and includes a top cover plate and a bottom cover plate. The top cover plate is engaged with the top of the housing body by compressing the outer periphery of the top cover plate to cover the top outer periphery of the housing body. The top cover plate is firmly attached to the bottom cover plate by compressing. The structural strength of the housing cover is enhanced and solves the damage and leaking problems for extending the life of the oil filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Hong-Bin Ren
  • Publication number: 20170100686
    Abstract: A filter unit includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and a filter medium. The top plate is disposed at a first portion of the filter unit. The bottom plate is disposed at a second portion of the filter unit. The bottom plate includes a plug extending from the bottom plate along an axis of elongation of the filter unit. The filter medium is disposed between the top plate and the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Savage, Kevin L. Martin
  • Publication number: 20170100687
    Abstract: Provided is a nanofiber accumulated body having a high mechanical strength and excellent in durability, the polymer nanofiber accumulated body including polymer nanofibers each containing a polymer material, the polymer nanofibers being accumulated and three-dimensionally entangled with each other to form the accumulated body, in which: the polymer nanofibers each have a fiber diameter of 3 ?m or less; and the polymer nanofibers each contain 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a low-molecular weight organic compound having at least one ?,?-unsaturated ester structure, with respect to a total weight of the polymer nanofibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hino, Kaori Yasufuku, Kenji Takashima, Kazuhiro Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20170100688
    Abstract: An effluent removal system comprising, a vacuum plenum to receive, at an inlet of the vacuum plenum, an effluent mixture comprising a gas and a liquid, a droplet separator having an inlet coupled to an outlet of the vacuum plenum, the droplet separator to substantially remove the liquid from the effluent mixture and a blower having an inlet coupled to a gas outlet of the droplet separator, the inlet of the blower to receive the gas of the effluent mixture after the liquid has been substantially removed from the effluent mixture by the droplet separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Erick Arthur Davidson, Rudi Groppe
  • Publication number: 20170100689
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an air intake duct. The duct includes louvers forming an air inlet to a housing. Each louver includes an inlet section and an angled section, the angled section inclined with respect to the inlet section. The duct includes the housing positioned downstream of the louvers in an air flow direction. The housing includes a drain configured to permit separated water from an intake air passing through the louvers and into the housing to be drained from the housing. The duct includes an inner inlet duct that provides the intake air to a component. The inner inlet duct extends into the housing and positioned downstream of the louvers in the air flow direction. The inlet duct extends above the drain by a distance thereby forming a well in the housing between a top of the inner inlet duct and the drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory K. Loken, Robert A. Bannister, Peter K. Herman, Arun P. Janakiraman, Dhawal B. Save
  • Publication number: 20170100690
    Abstract: A system and process for regenerating sieve materials in a gas processing system. The process can include circulating a cooling gas through sieve material of a first bed, the cooling gas having a first concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) suitable for liquefaction into a liquid natural gas (LNG) product. The process can also include circulating a regenerating gas through sieve material of a second bed, the regenerating gas having a second concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) that is greater than the first concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) of the cooling gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: David Allen Kennedy, John Raymond Zigtema
  • Publication number: 20170100691
    Abstract: A process for treating a composition comprising one or more desired (hydro)fluoroolefins and one or more undesired halogenated ethanes, halogenated methanes or mixtures thereof so as to reduce the concentration of at least one undesired halogenated ethane or halogenated methane, the process comprising contacting the composition with an adsorbent comprising pores having openings which have a size across their largest dimension of about 6 A or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Sharratt, Robert Low
  • Publication number: 20170100692
    Abstract: Promoted ammonium salt-protected activated carbon sorbent particles for removal of mercury from gas streams. A method of separating mercury from a mercury-containing gas stream includes contacting a mercury-containing gas stream with an activated carbon sorbent including promoted ammonium salt-protected activated carbon sorbent particles, to form a mercury-sorbent composition. The method also includes separating at least some of the mercury-sorbent composition from the mercury-containing gas stream, to give a separated gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Edwin S. Olson, John Henry Pavlish, Michael J. Holmes
  • Publication number: 20170100693
    Abstract: A CO2 recovery device includes: a CO2 absorption tower in which CO2 included in an exhaust gas is absorbed by a CO2 absorption liquid; and a CO2 absorption liquid regeneration tower that heats and regenerates the CO2 absorption liquid that has absorbed CO2. The CO2 absorption liquid regeneration tower includes: a main body part in which the CO2 absorption liquid is temporarily stored; a boot part provided downward from a mirror surface part of the main body part, having a relatively smaller capacity than the main body part; a flowmeter provided to the boot part, and measuring the liquid surface level of the CO2 absorption liquid that changes between the main body part and the boot part; and a control device controlling the liquid surface level of the CO2 absorption liquid between the main body part and the boot part on the basis of the measurement result of the flowmeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Miyamoto, Takashi Kamijo, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Shimpei Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20170100694
    Abstract: The invention relates to an absorbent solution and to a method of removing acid compounds contained in a gaseous effluent, comprising water and at least one of the following two nitrogen compounds belonging to the family of tertiary diamines: 1-dimethylamino-3-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)-2-propanol 1,1?-oxybis[3-(dimethylamino)-2-propanol]
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Bruno DELFORT, Dominique LE PENNEC, Julien GRANDJEAN, Thierry HUARD, Aurelie WENDER, Armelle NIGON
  • Publication number: 20170100695
    Abstract: Both a system and a method for scrubbing a contaminated gas stream with a glycerol solution are disclosed. The system includes a contaminated gas stream in need of purification, along with a column which receives the contaminated gas stream. A glycerol solution is also received by the column and is used to scrub the contaminated gas stream in the column. The glycerol solution is used to reduce at least three contaminants from the gas stream, and includes greater than 50% glycerol and less than 98% glycerol. In one embodiment, the glycerol solution includes between 0.5% to 10% salts, wherein the salts are sodium based, potassium based or a combination thereof. The salts act catalytically to convert glycerol and carbon dioxide to glycerol carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Whole Energy Fuels Corporation
    Inventors: Orion Lekos, Atul Deshmane
  • Publication number: 20170100696
    Abstract: A nitrogen separation system includes a pressurizing apparatus, a temperature regulation apparatus, a nitrogen separation apparatus. The pressurizing apparatus is configured to pressurize a raw material gas to configure a pressurized raw material gas which is in a vapor-liquid equilibrium state with a liquefied gas and contains methane as a principal component and greater than or equal to 1 mol % nitrogen. The nitrogen separation apparatus is configured to separate nitrogen contained in the pressurized raw material gas by use of a nitrogen selective permeation membrane configured from an inorganic material. The pressurization apparatus pressurizes the raw material gas so that a partial pressure of nitrogen in the pressurized raw material gas is greater than or equal to 2 times and less than or equal to 5 times a pressure of the nitrogen-enriched gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi NODA
  • Publication number: 20170100697
    Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic activation layer for use in oxygen-permeable membranes, which can comprise at least one porous structure formed by interconnected ceramic oxide particles that conduct oxygen ions and electronic carriers, where the surface of said particles that is exposed to the pores is covered with nanoparticles made from a catalyst, the composition of which corresponds to the following formula: A1-x-yBxCyOR where: A can be selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, lanthanide metals and combinations thereof; B and C are metals selected from Al, Ga, Y, Se, B, Nb, Ta, V, Mo, W, Re, Mn, Sn, Pr, Sm, Tb, Yb, Lu and combinations of same; and A must always be different from B. 0.01 <x<0.5; 0<y<0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jose Manuel SERRA ALFARO, Julio GARCIA FAYOS, Laura NAVARRETE ALGABA, Vicente Bernardo VERT BELENGUER
  • Publication number: 20170100698
    Abstract: There is provided apparatus for absorbing humidity inside an electrical enclosure and indicating absorption of humidity. The apparatus comprises a housing for a desiccant which is attachable to a rail inside the electrical enclosure, such as a DIN specification rail. The housing also includes a transparent window which allows the desiccant to be visualized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Daniel Mohan
  • Publication number: 20170100699
    Abstract: Catalyst washcoats with improved porosity and methods for making the washcoats are provided. The process comprises incorporation of an oil-in-water macroemulsion into the catalyst slurry prior to washcoating the carrier substrate, and calcining the washcoated carrier substrate to remove the oil-in-water macroemulsion. Also provided are catalyst articles comprising the washcoat and methods for abatement of exhaust gas emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Xinsheng Liu, Esra Cinar, Chunjuan Zhang, Pascaline Harrison Tran
  • Publication number: 20170100700
    Abstract: A method for potting hollow fiber membranes comprises the steps of forming a bundle of membranes with a layer of adhesive; covering one end of the bundle with a permeate pan, the ends of the membranes protruding upwards into the permeate pan; and flowing a liquid potting material into the permeate pan. The bundle may be tilted to more quickly distribute the liquid potting material. An apparatus for filtering liquid with hollow fiber membranes comprises a bundle of membranes, a layer of adhesive spaced from the end of the bundle, a permeate pan covering the end of the bundle, and a header formed with the membranes, the adhesive and the pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Zsolt BATOR
  • Publication number: 20170100701
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hollow fiber membrane module. The hollow fiber membrane module includes a housing including a first fluid inlet, a first fluid outlet, a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet, and hollow fiber membrane bundles, each hollow fiber membrane bundle including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes, disposed within the housing so that a first fluid flows inside the hollow fiber membranes and a second fluid flows outside the hollow fiber membranes, and each hollow fiber membrane bundle further includes porous tubes having both ends closed and including a plurality of pores formed on the side surfaces thereof. The hollow fiber membrane module removes a region, into which a fluid flowing outside a hollow fiber membrane bundle has difficulty in permeating, thus allowing the fluid to uniformly flow. Therefore, even if hollow flow membranes are highly integrated, performance of the hollow fiber membrane module may be maximized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kyoung Ju KIM, Young Seok OH, Jin Hyung LEE
  • Publication number: 20170100702
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a rotary mixer with a housing defining a mixing chamber defining a rotation axis, the housing being rotatable about the rotation axis in a rotation direction and having a longitudinal midpoint, a set of blades within the housing, wherein at least one pair of blades of the set of blades forms an angle with respect to each other, and at least one blade of the set of blades is shorter than another blade of the set of blades in the rotation direction, and a splitter blade located within the housing with respect to the longitudinal midpoint and the angle to divide material in the mixing chamber between the at least one blade of the set of blades and the other blade of the set of blades, as the cylindrical housing is rotated about the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen James Foster, James Francis Miller, Clinton LaMar Lingren, Terry Lynn Burke, II
  • Publication number: 20170100703
    Abstract: A wetting agent according to Formula (I): wherein R1 is selected from a branched alkyl group or linear alkyl group or a cycloaliphatic group or an aromatic group, each having 6 to 15 carbon atoms; R2 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R3 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R4 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R5 is selected from methyl or ethyl; x ranges from 0 to 5; y ranges from 0 to 10; z ranges from 1 to 10; with the proviso that when x ranges from 1 to 5, R2 is different from R3; and with the proviso that when x=0, R3 is different from R4. The wetting agent also imparts anti-foam properties to aqueous solutions while reducing surface tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Elementis Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Bart van Vliet, James A. Heck, Eduardus Maria Mangnus, Chitra Jeurkar, Jelle de Vries, Mulder Alart
  • Publication number: 20170100704
    Abstract: Novel nail gel curing devices and methods of their use are disclosed. Novel shields for nail gel curing devices and methods of their use are also disclosed. The devices and shields are useful for curing nail gels and more particularly where light emitting diode “LED” equipped devices are used to cure UV-VIS curable nail gel resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Danny Lee Haile
  • Publication number: 20170100705
    Abstract: A method and system of depressurizing a molecular sieve used in ethanol production is shown and described. The method and system utilizes a vapor mixing condenser that receives a vapor sieve feed from the molecular sieve during the depressurization cycle. The vapor from the molecular sieve during the pressurization cycle is used to heat the 190-proof product flow. The heated product flow is diverted directly to the 190-proof product vaporizer, which increases the input product flow temperature to the vaporizer, thereby reducing the amount of heat needed to vaporize the 190-proof product flow. The reduction in heat needed reduces energy costs and increases equipment life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Hydro-Thermal Corporation
    Inventors: James Zaiser, Scott Lucas
  • Publication number: 20170100706
    Abstract: A process for the production of a carbon supported catalyst, which comprises the following steps: (a) precipitation of at least one metal oxide onto a surface of a carbon-comprising support by preparing an initial mixture, comprising the carbon-comprising support, at least one metal oxide precursor and an organic solvent, and spray-drying of the initial mixture to obtain an intermediate product, (b) loading of noble-metal-comprising particles onto the surface of the intermediate product in a liquid medium by deposition, precipitation and/or reduction of a noble-metal-comprising precursor with a reducing agent, (c) heat treatment of the catalyst precursor resulting from step (b) at a temperature higher than 400° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas HASS, Ekkehard SCHWAB, Franz WEBER, Nicole BECKER
  • Publication number: 20170100707
    Abstract: A lean NOx trap (LNT) catalyst includes a plurality of carriers connected to each other in series, wherein each of the carriers is embedded with at least one of a first wash coat containing magnesium (Mg)-substituted alumina, ceria (CeO2), barium (Ba), and a precious metal, a second wash coat containing magnesium (Mg)-substituted alumina, ceria (CeO2), barium (Ba), a third wash coat containing magnesium (Mg)-substituted alumina, ceria (CeO2), and a fourth wash coat containing magnesium (Mg)-substituted alumina, ceria (CeO2), and a higher content of a precious metal than the first wash coat, a ratio of the magnesium-substituted alumina to ceria (CeO2) being lower than that of the third wash coat, wherein the third and first wash coats are disposed in a foremost carrier through which exhaust gas passes sequentially from a front portion of the foremost carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Chang Ho JUNG
  • Publication number: 20170100708
    Abstract: A structurally promoted precipitated catalyst containing crystalline silica, at least one chemical promoter selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, and iron, the structurally promoted precipitated catalyst comprising maghemite and hematite catalytic phases, and exhibiting a main reduction peak temperature, as determined by TPR, in the range of from about 210° C. to about 350° C. A method of producing the structurally promoted precipitated catalyst is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Dawid J. Duvenhage, Belma Demirel
  • Publication number: 20170100709
    Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes a support and a catalytic metal supported thereby. The support includes a composite oxide represented by AO.xB2-?C?O3, wherein A represents at least one of an element having a valence of 1 and an element having a valence of 2, B represents an element having a valence of 3, C represents one or more elements selected from iridium, ruthenium, tantalum, niobium, molybdenum, and tungsten, x represents a numerical value of 1 to 6, and a represents a numerical value greater than 0 and less than 2. The catalytic metal includes one or more precious metals selected from rhodium, palladium, and platinum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsueda, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Sho Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20170100710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a beta zeolite catalyst for the preparation of a BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene) mixture from polyaromatic hydrocarbons and a preparation method of the same. The beta zeolite catalyst of the present invention demonstrates the high conversion of polyaromatic hydrocarbons and the high BTEX production yield by containing the optimum contents of the group VIB metals and cocatalysts, so that it can be effectively used as a beta zeolite catalyst for the production of BTEX.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jeong-Rang KIM, Soon Yong JEONG, Chul Ung KIM, Tae Wan KIM, Youjin LEE, Eun Sang KIM, Joo Wan KIM
  • Publication number: 20170100711
    Abstract: A new crystalline zinc (silico)aluminophosphate molecular sieve designated SSZ-90 is disclosed. SSZ-90 is isostructural with the DFO framework type and is synthesized using an ionic liquid as both the solvent and the structure directing agent. The ionic liquid [Q+A?] comprises a cation (Q+) selected from the group consisting of 1,3-diisopropylimidazolium, 1,3-diisobutylimidazolium, and 1-isopropyl-3-isobutylimidazolium and an anion (A?) which is not detrimental to the formation of the molecular sieve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Annabelle Benin, Stacey Ian Zones, Cong-Yan Chen, Dan Xie
  • Publication number: 20170100712
    Abstract: A pipette is described which includes a piston for aspirating liquid into and dispensing out of a container in the pipette. The pipette is provided with at least one tracking element which is able to count the magnitude of some variable or variables relating to the amount of use of the pipette, at least one operating device for creating a limit magnitude for each variable, and for giving information when the limit value is exceeded. Thus, the user may, for instance, be warned when he may be exposed to high workload stress possibly causing injuries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Mikael Lind, Juha Telimaa
  • Publication number: 20170100713
    Abstract: A well plate includes a including a top portion, a bottom portion and a membrane disposed between the top portion and the bottom portion. The top portion defines a sample well in fluid communication with an opening defined by the membrane and in fluid communication with a reservoir defined by the bottom portion. The well plate is configured to be used in a centrifugation process of a test sample including a sample material and a wash liquid. The test sample configured to be received within the sample well and the reservoir. The membrane configured to filter the wash liquid from the test sample during the centrifugation process such that the wash liquid can pass from the reservoir, through the membrane and can be captured within a collection chamber while the sample material remains within the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: CytoSaver LLC
    Inventor: Matthew B. HALE
  • Publication number: 20170100714
    Abstract: A microfluidic coagulation assessment device includes a plurality of microchannels, with a blood sample driven through the microchannels at a substantially constant flow rate. A controller is configured to, in combination with a timer and a pressure sensing device, determine a first pressure value (or flow value) at an initiation of flow, a first time (Tpg) at which a second pressure value is about twice the determined first pressure value, and a second time (Tpf) at which a third pressure value is about (1+e) times the determined first pressure value and establish a subject coagulation model predictive of channel occlusion therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Abhishek Jain, Anna Waterhouse, Mike Super, Donald E. Ingber, Daniel C. Leslie
  • Publication number: 20170100715
    Abstract: An instrument and a method for the automated thermal treatment of liquid samples are disclosed. An inter-distance between a temperature-controlled receptacle for loading with a plurality of vessels for containing the samples and end portions of optical fibers can be varied, wherein the receptacle is configured to form a thermal communication with the loaded vessels and wherein the optical fibers have first and second end portions. The first end portion and the second end portion of each optical fiber is fixed with respect to each other for transmitting light, wherein the variation of the in-ter-distance allows the vessels to be loaded to or unloaded from the receptacle and to enable detection of light from the samples contained in the one or more receptacle-loaded vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Claudio Cherubini, Roger Iten, Emad Sarofim, Kurt Schildknecht