Patents Issued in May 4, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170120252
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for milling hot and wet raw materials, in particular cement clinker, in a vertical airflow mill (1), to a vertical airflow mill (1), to a device (10) for supplying cooling gas, and to corresponding channel-like segments (20). The device (10) for supplying cooling gas is configured in an annular manner about the entire circumference of the vertical airflow mill (1). Inlet (21) and outlet openings (24) for the cooling gas have an adapted surface which allows an equalization of the inflow cooling air into an increasing airflow/milling particle mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: LOESCHE GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander KLOKOW
  • Publication number: 20170120253
    Abstract: The improved liquid transportation and desalination system transports seawater or other saline liquids through a piped distribution system with essentially no moving parts by relying on MHD principles. A fluid pump device comprised of high-strength permanent magnets forming chambers through which the liquid passes and inter-chamber opposing electrode plates with an applied DC potential provide the magnetic flux density and electric current for generating the Lorentz forces acting on the liquid. The fluid pump device may be combined with a desalination filtration device for provision of fresh water near the end of the distribution line without the need for a largescale treatment plant. Desalination/filtration occurs through use of nano-porous graphene and/or carbon nanotube media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Allan Sanford, Fazle Hussain, Christopher Bryson
  • Publication number: 20170120254
    Abstract: An air filter arrangement is provided for filtration of particles in an airflow having an airflow direction. The air filter arrangement includes an electrostatically charged filter, a first ionisation device, and a second ionisation device. The first ionisation device is arranged upstream of the electrostatically charged filter and the second ionisation device is arranged downstream of the electrostatically charged filter. An air filtering apparatus is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Elfi Elektrofilter Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Jan-Olof Wallin
  • Publication number: 20170120255
    Abstract: An electrical dust-collecting filter is provided. The electrical dust-collecting filter includes a dust-collecting unit having a dust-collecting body and dust-collecting electrodes configured to generate an electrical field in the dust-collecting body. The dust-collecting body has a plurality of air channels laterally formed therethrough and discharge apertures formed in upper and lower surfaces thereof at inlets of the plurality of air channels. A discharge unit is integrally formed with the dust-collecting unit at the inlets of the plurality of air channels to facilitate corona discharge in air introduced into the inlets of the plurality of air channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Kwang Woon Cho, Dae Ik Jung, Keon Soo Jin, Ji Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20170120256
    Abstract: An electric dust collector is disclosed. The electric dust collector includes a film for collecting electrified dust particles and a case for receiving the film. A conductor-receiving part defining an insertion space, into which a portion of the film is inserted, is provided in the case. The electric dust collector further includes an electrode connection part filling the insertion space in the state of being in contact with the film. The electrode connection part is electrically connected to a voltage source to apply voltage in order to the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Hooncheol JEON, Taeyoon KIM, Yanghwa LEE, Woongi KIL, Hyungho PARK, Inho CHOI, Jieun CHOI, Kunyoung LEE, Sanghyuk SON, Jongsu LEE, Kyoungho LEE
  • Publication number: 20170120257
    Abstract: The electric dust collector includes a dust collection unit for collecting electrified dust particles and a dust collection unit case for receiving the dust collection unit. The dust collection unit includes a plurality of films for generating an electric field and a fixing part for fixing the films in the dust collection unit case. Each of the films is formed in the shape of a band that is longer in the longitudinal direction than in the lateral direction, and the films are arranged so as to face each other such that gaps are formed between the respective films. The fixing part includes a gap maintenance part disposed on at least one side of a group of films in the lateral direction for maintaining the gaps. The gap maintenance part includes a plurality of vertical bars to be inserted into the gaps from the one side of the group of films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Yanghwa LEE, Taeyoon Kim, Hooncheol Jeon, Inho Choi, Jieun Choi, Sanghyuk Son, Kyoungho Lee
  • Publication number: 20170120258
    Abstract: Cationic reverse flotation methods, systems, and processes for producing a marketable iron oxide concentrate from an iron oxide mineral slurry (“treatment slurry”), wherein the iron oxide content of the concentrate is greater than the iron oxide content of the treatment slurry, include introducing the treatment slurry into a flotation cell, together with a collector, a frother and optionally an iron oxide depressant, and recovering two flow streams from the flotation cell, namely a froth fraction (also referred to as a flotation tail fraction) and a sink material fraction (also referred to as the flotation concentrate), wherein the treatment slurry in the flotation cell is maintained at a Natural pH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Ronney Rogerio Rodriguez Silva, Jonathan Sgarlata, Justin Carlson
  • Publication number: 20170120259
    Abstract: A centrifugal separation device including a supporter attached to a centrifuge and a divisional part removable from the supporter is provided. The divisional part has two flow channels and an extracting part. The flow channels extend substantially in parallel to the direction in which centrifugal force acts, and are connected to each other on the leading end side in the direction in which centrifugal force acts. One of the flow channels is a sample flow channel having a sample inlet on the base end side in the direction in which centrifugal force acts, and the other flow channel is an air-discharging flow channel having an outlet on the base end side. The extracting part includes part of the sample flow channel, and has a connecting part for the part to be cut off from the remainder of the sample flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ippei Takeuchi, Masakazu Akechi, Masaki Kanai, Shinobu Kudoh
  • Publication number: 20170120260
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing non-contact application of fluids onto web materials and articles is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a gravure roll having a hollow rotating shell having a plurality of cavities disposed within the outer surface thereof and a stationary cylindrical core having a central bore and a channel disposed therein. A fluid disposed within a respective cavity of the plurality of cavities disposed within the outer surface of the hollow rotating shell is removed from the respective cavity by the positive pressure when the positive pressure is fluidly communicated from the central bore through the channel and into the cavity from the surface of the stationary cylindrical core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: David Christopher OETJEN
  • Publication number: 20170120261
    Abstract: An outlet switch device includes a fixing portion, a switch mechanism, a driving mechanism and an elastic body. The fixing portion is disposed with an inlet waterway and at least two diversion waterways. The switch mechanism includes a water diversion plate, a first driving mechanism and a valve shaft. The first driving mechanism connects the water diversion plate and the valve shaft, so that when the valve shaft slides one round, the water diversion plate rotates in a constant angle, the water diversion plate rotates to switch the diversion waterways to connect to the inlet waterway; the driving mechanism comprises an operation button and a second driving mechanism, the operation button is movably connected to the fixing portion for user to operate, the second driving mechanism is connected to the valve shaft in driving way, and the operation button moves to drive the valve shaft to slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicants: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huasong ZHOU, Fengde LIN, Mingfu ZHANG, Daliang YANG
  • Publication number: 20170120262
    Abstract: A valve that includes a control spline positioned to move from a first position to a second position and the control spline being axially rotatable in both the first position and second position. The valve also includes a portion of a first fluid mixing cartridge rotatably coupled to at least one portion of the control spline when the control spline is in the second position. The valve includes a portion of a second fluid mixing cartridge rotatably coupled to the at least one portion of the control spline when the control spline is in the second position and the first fluid mixing cartridge is configured to rotate in a different direction than the second fluid mixing cartridge when the control spline is in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Henning, Inc.
    Inventors: Claus Dieter Zieger, Niclas Henning Zieger, Guenther Buzzi
  • Publication number: 20170120263
    Abstract: Spray systems and control systems for use with spray systems are provided. A method of detecting fluid flow through a nozzle coupled in fluid communication with a solenoid valve including a solenoid coil and a poppet is provided. The method generally includes (1) dispensing fluid through the solenoid valve and the nozzle, (2) de-energizing the solenoid coil to close the solenoid valve and control a fluid flow through the nozzle, (3) determining a closing time of the solenoid valve based on a signal from a poppet measuring device, and (4) determining a fluid flow value based on a time delay between the de-energizing the solenoid coil and the closing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Duane Needham
  • Publication number: 20170120264
    Abstract: A multifunctional shower head includes a shower head main body, a dial button component, a cyclic witch component and a water stop switch component. The dial button component includes a dial button exposed out of the shower head main body and a switch fitting element and a water stop fitting element linked to the dial button; when the dial button moves to one side, the water stop fitting element moves away from the water stop switch component and the switch fitting element to abuts against the cyclic switch component. Driving a water diversion plate of the cyclic switch component to rotate, changes the relative position of the water diversion plate and the water diversion body. When the dial button moves to another side, the switch fitting element moves away from the cyclic switch component and the water stop fitting element abuts against the water stop switch component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicants: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengde LIN, Mingfu ZHANG, Wenxing CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170120265
    Abstract: A rudder-directed tube delivery sprinkler head. A rudder configured to direct water into a tube, triggering distribution of water around an axis. Adjustable stoppers contact a rudder assembly, causing the rudder to pivot, directing water into a different tube and changing the direction of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: DON D. DUFFIN, ROGER M. DUFFIN
  • Publication number: 20170120266
    Abstract: A gyrating nozzle head spray gun includes grip including air inlet, valve seat, gas-delivery tube connected to valve seat and terminating in mating connection screw rod and trigger operable for letting external compressed air go into air inlet and gas-delivery tube, attachment tube connected to mating connection screw rod of the gas-delivery tube, gyrating nozzle head assembly including gas-supply tube connected to mating connection screw rod and suspended in attachment tube, bearing, cap, linking module and gyrating nozzle head mounted on one end of the gas-supply tube, and water-delivery tube having one end extended bottom of coupling hole of gas-delivery tube and connected to water tank for sucking in water and opposite end thereof inserted through gyrating nozzle head for ejecting fluid for creating mist of fine droplets upon ejection of compressed air through the gas-supply tube and oblique jet hole and central axle hole of the gyrating nozzle head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Den-Nan FU
  • Publication number: 20170120267
    Abstract: An electrostatic spray dryer for drying liquid into powder including an elongated body defining a drying chamber, a spray nozzle assembly at one end of the drying chamber and a filter element housing and powder collection chamber at an opposite end. A non-structural non-metallic liner is disposed within the elongated body in spaced relation to an inner wall surface for defining an internal drying zone. The liner is releasably supported within the body for enabling selective removal and replacement following a particular usage. The illustrated elongated body has a modular construction comprising a plurality of modules, with at least one being selectively removable and replacement for altering the length of the drying chamber for a particular spray application. The liner also is replaceable with a liner of a length corresponding to the altered length of the drying chamber or with a different diameter for a particular usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas E. Ackerman, Christopher W. Barnes, Adam C. Bright, David C. Huffman, Scott J. Kocsis, Kristopher E. Roskos, Glenn R. St. Peter, Brian K. Smith, Joseph P. Szczap, Michel R. Thénin
  • Publication number: 20170120268
    Abstract: A storage holder 1 for placement in a liquid or foam dispenser, comprising a liquid reservoir 2, a pump 3 and a spacer 4. The liquid reservoir 2 has an opening 5 provided with a plug 6. The pump 3 is provided with an inlet tube 9, which inlet tube 9 is fixed into the opening of the plug by a clamping connection. The spacer 4 is provided with an opening for the inlet tube 9 and provided at its exterior with a means 11 to couple the storage holder 1 to the liquid or foam dispenser. The spacer 4 is positioned between the pump 3 and the plug and fixed into position relative to the plug 6 and relative to the pump 3 only by the clamping connection between inlet tube 9 and plug 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Everhardus Ganzeboom
  • Publication number: 20170120269
    Abstract: Provided are nozzle assemblies and related methods for a spraying apparatus. The nozzle assembly includes a fluid side wall defining a fluid passageway that extends longitudinally along a fluid axis and terminates in a fluid aperture; an air cap side wall extending around the fluid side wall and partially defining an air passageway that terminates in an atomizing aperture adjacent the fluid aperture. A pair of diametrically opposed air horns protrude past the fluid aperture from the air cap side wall and define respective air horn cavities in communication with the air passageway, each air horn having an external surface and a fan control aperture extending along a fan control axis through the external surface to flow air against a fluid stream discharged from the fluid aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: John B. Scheibner, Daniel Siltberg
  • Publication number: 20170120270
    Abstract: An improved cartridge structure that both heats the materials contained therein and provides for enhanced structure such that the bypass leaking of the low viscosity heated components is avoided. The cartridge is preferably formed from a rigid material such as reinforced fiberglass tubing. The wall of the cartridge is then wrapped in a flexible heating element or has a heating element cast directly in the wall thereof. The heating elements preferably heat the interior contents and epoxy cartridges to between 150 degrees and 180 degrees Fahrenheit. The wall structure may be of single wall construction with the heaters embedded therein or of a double wall construction such that the heaters are contained between an inner and outer wall. Further the wall construction is preferably formed to withstand the pressures applied when spray applying the epoxy contained therein to prevent the tube wall deformation and resulting blow by leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Philip Warren
  • Publication number: 20170120271
    Abstract: A marker airbrush device for transferring marking solution from a marking device onto a writing surface using air is provided. The airbrush device includes a housing with an air outlet, a dual-action trigger for controlling an amount of air travelling through the air outlet, and a marker positioner coupled to the housing. The dual-action trigger may be either pushed down or pulled back to control air flow through the air outlet. The marker positioner positions a marking device relative to the air outlet such that air traveling through the air outlet contacts at least one surface of the marking device to transfer marking solution onto a writing surface. The marker positioner may include a rotatable collar that couples the marking device within the marker position and creates a seal around the marking device to prevent pressurized air from escaping around the marking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: DOUGLAS BRAND, ADAM SCOTT SHARP, THOMAS R. RAU, ADAM SANDT, JOHN D. MCBRIDE, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170120272
    Abstract: A tip for dispensing liquid for mounting on a container. A valve includes at least two elements that are mobile in relation to one another, each mobile element including a bearing zone against the other mobile element. One of the mobile elements bears anti-microbial material on or in the immediate proximity of a part of its bearing zone forming a blocking barrier and all surfaces of the dispensing tip in contact with the inside are free of anti-microbial material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Nemera La Verpillière S.A.S.
    Inventors: Thierry Decock, Guillaume Grevin, Xavier Julia, Gaëtan Painchaud, Thierry Rimlinger
  • Publication number: 20170120273
    Abstract: A container for dispensing a liquid has a housing adapted to hold the liquid with an open upper end and a removable cap mateable with the open end. The housing exterior has a series of vertically spaced recesses that are located to align with fingers of an individual's hand gripping the container. The recesses accept interchangeable inserts that provide a gripping surface for the finger aligned with the recess. The container be constructed with inner and outer walls, the outer wall having apertures for the recesses, while the inner wall provides back surfaces for the recesses. The recesses may be of different sizes, but each is constructed to accept a common-sized insert, which is positioned between the finer and outer walls. The container may be provided with a spray cap having multiple spray exit apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Dana M. GOLDSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20170120274
    Abstract: A closed-loop refillable dispensing system may include one or more reusable or refillable product packages configured to dock with an automated filling station. The automated filling station automatically mixes concentrated chemical product with a diluent and dispenses the resulting chemical product solution. The product package may include a fitment insert configured to mate with a docking connector at the automated filling station. When the product package is removed from the docking connector, the fitment insert provides a positive, leak-proof seal for the product package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Schultz, Kenneth T. Dobizl, Brian L. Sholes
  • Publication number: 20170120275
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for packaging and dispensing pasty products, comprising a rigid bottle (1) bearing a pump body (2) mounted on a ring (3) that is fixed in the neck of the rigid bottle (1), comprising a lower peripheral annular stop rib (8) that engages with a clip-fastening collar (12) borne by the pump body in order to fix the pump body (2) to said ring (3), this ring (3) being secured to the neck of a pouch (4) that has a deformable and flexible wall and contains the product to be dispensed, the pump body (2) bearing, above said clip-fastening collar (12), a seal (5) accommodated in an annular groove (6) in the pump body. According to the invention, at least the stop rib or the clip-fastening collar (8, 12) is provided with at least one vent hole (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Patrice PUVILAND, Jean-Philippe TABERLET
  • Publication number: 20170120276
    Abstract: A dispensing device dispenses a viscous or liquid product from a fluid reservoir. The dispensing device has an actuator (10), a dispensing member (12) configured to be actuated by the actuator, and a collar (14) configured to be linked to the reservoir and to support the dispensing member. The dispensing device being configured so that the actuator (10) can shift from a first position in which an actuation of the dispensing member (12) by the actuator (10) is allowed along an longitudinal axis of the dispensing device to a second position in which an actuation of the dispensing member (12) by the actuator (10) is blocked by abutting surfaces of the actuator (10) and the collar (14). One or some of the abutting surfaces and at least one reinforcement zone are provided on two opposite sides of a locking sleeve (60) of the dispensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Herve Imenez, Christophe Desanaux, Jonathen Woodman
  • Publication number: 20170120277
    Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser, in which an upright and inverted dual unit includes a joint member, a pipe holding member, and a valve body. The joint member includes a through hole, which may be closed by the valve body, a valve-body-holding wall portion, which accommodates the valve body above the through hole in a manner such that the valve body is displaceable upward and downward, and an opening portion, which is formed in the valve-body-holding wall portion. In the inverted position, the upright and inverted dual unit permits content liquid contained in a container to be supplied to the dispenser main body by passing content liquid through a flow path from opening portion, through the hole, to the flow path defined between the joint member and pipe holding member sequentially. The valve body is inserted through the opening portion to be accommodated in the valve-body-holding wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Shigeo IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20170120278
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber that defines an internal space in which a plurality of types of chemicals are supplied to a substrate at different timings, an individual exhaust flow path that removes an atmosphere within the chamber through an exhaust inlet and an exhaust cleaning device that forms a dispersion region where a removal liquid, which removes a chemical contained in an atmosphere, is dispersed in at least one of a position on an upstream side of the exhaust inlet and a position within the individual exhaust flow path by discharging the removal liquid into air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Koji HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170120279
    Abstract: Provided are a pump position feedback type dispenser and dispensing method, in which an image of a work, to which a viscous liquid is to be dispensed, is captured to determine an accurate position and direction of the work, and then a position of a pump is received in real time so as to dispense the viscous liquid to the work while ensuring that the pump reaches the accurate position of the work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: PROTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JONG MYOUNG CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170120280
    Abstract: Provided are a flowrate measuring type viscous liquid dispenser and dispensing method, in which a viscous liquid is dispensed by measuring a flowrate of the viscous liquid in real time so as to accurately control the flowrate of the viscous liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: PROTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Min HONG
  • Publication number: 20170120281
    Abstract: A process includes setting a preset temperature; setting up a counter, wherein a first number is displayed on the counter in response to a water control switch switching from a low position to a high position, a second number is displayed on the counter in response to the water control switching from the high position to the low position; setting a target temperature in response to a first determination as to whether the first number or the second number is displayed on the counter, wherein the target temperature is equal to the preset temperature in response to the first number being displayed and the target temperature is equal to preset temperature less an adjustment temperature in response to the second number being displayed; and maintaining the target temperature for a period of time, then restoring the target temperature to the preset temperature after the period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Minghui Zhu, Haixing SUN, Bo HU
  • Publication number: 20170120282
    Abstract: A coating apparatus includes: a nozzle having a nozzle front end configured to spray a coating solution and a head configured to store the coating solution; a movement axis configured to cause the nozzle to move back and forth in a straight line; a rotating connection member configured to connect the movement axis with the nozzle and allow the nozzle to rotate; a stage disposed under the movement axis; and a cleaning means disposed at an end of the movement axis, and having a nozzle front end insertion unit in a concave shape of the nozzle front end and a base fixing the insertion unit, wherein the nozzle is fixed in a normal direction of a surface of the stage by the movement axis, moves back and forth in an extension direction of the movement axis, and rotates with respect to the movement axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Kyun JEONG, Kyong-Deuk JEONG, Jong-Ik PARK, Myung-Shik KIM, Hyoung-Won KIM, Dong-Ki SHIN, Jeong-Hak CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170120283
    Abstract: A showerhead structure includes a ball assembly and a showerhead assembly. The ball assembly includes a ball body, a wearing proof sheet, a locating ring, a connection nut and a fixing nut. The wearing proof sheet supports the upper half of the ball body, and the locating ring supports the lower half of the ball body. The connection nut and the fixing nut are used for connecting the ball assembly and the showerhead assembly. The ball assembly includes an irregular-shaped gasket disposed between the wearing proof sheet and the locating ring. When the connection nut and the fixing nut are tightened, the irregular-shaped gasket is used for sealing the ball body. The wearing proof sheet and the ball body are in clearance fit. The showerhead structure can automatically adjust to a horizontal position under the action of its own weight to prevent one side of the showerhead from dripping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Guangyin Huang
  • Publication number: 20170120284
    Abstract: A unit dose capsule for use with a sonic generator includes a deformable membrane adapted to releasably engage the distal end of the elongate horn, a nozzle including at least one delivery opening; a nozzle including at least one delivery opening; and a reservoir containing a liquid composition disposed therebetween. When the unit dose capsule is engaged to the distal end of the elongate horn, the nozzle is disposed in an outwardly facing orientation, and the reservoir is in liquid communication with the at least one nozzle. The unit dose capsule can be included in a kit with a handheld misting device comprising a housing having a dispensing window arranged and configured to contain a sonic generator and a power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Alexandru Paunescu, Richard J. Fougere
  • Publication number: 20170120285
    Abstract: A handheld misting device has a housing having a dispensing window is arranged and configured to contain a sonic generator, a power source coupled to the sonic generator, a plurality of reservoirs, each containing a liquid, and a plurality of nozzles, each nozzle arranged and configured for removable coupling to the sonic generator. Each nozzle is associated with and in liquid communication with a single reservoir. The sonic generator includes a converter and an elongate horn having a proximal end coupled to the converter and a distal end, and the nozzle is removably coupled to the distal end of the horn. Thus, the device delivers the liquid through a delivery opening formed in the nozzle, and activating the sonic generator energizes the liquid in the nozzle to generate an aerosol plume that is delivered through the dispensing window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Alexandru Paunescu, Robert A. Brennan
  • Publication number: 20170120286
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for ejecting a liquid, comprising a base segment, a central segment which is mounted on the base segment in a pivotal manner about a first pivot axis, an end segment which is mounted on the central segment in a pivotal manner about a second pivot axis (ignition) that is arranged at an angle to the first pivot axis and which comprises a nozzle portion for dispensing the liquid, said nozzle portion being radially spaced from the second pivot axis, and a supply system for the liquid, said supply system being connected to the nozzle portion. The aim of the invention is to provide measures by means of which negative effects of forces reacting to a device for ejecting a liquid are reduced in the device. According to the invention, this is achieved in that the supply system comprises two end lines which open into the nozzle portion from different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Matthias Kestler
  • Publication number: 20170120287
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a substrate is provided having a treating module, a buffer module, and an index module arranged in sequentially along a first direction. The index module includes a load port where a substrate receiving container places an index module configured to transfer the substrate between the load port and the buffer module. The buffer module includes a first and second buffer unit arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The treating module includes a first treating unit, a second treating unit, a first transfer chamber, and a second transfer chamber, wherein the first transfer chamber includes a first transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate between the first buffer unit and the first treating unit, and wherein the second transfer chamber includes a second transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate between the second buffer unit and the second treating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Gilsoo PARK
  • Publication number: 20170120288
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for preparing and applying adhesive, comprising a feed unit, a preparing unit, and an application unit, wherein the feed unit is used to feed a basic component of the adhesive and/or of at least one additive, wherein the preparing unit effects continuous mixing of the basic component of the adhesive with the one or more fed additives to form the prepared adhesive and continuous conveying of the prepared adhesive, wherein the adhesive prepared in such a way is conveyed from the preparing unit into the application unit and can be applied to a workpiece by the application unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicants: HOMAG GMBH, HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Johannes SCHMID, Knut HOFFMANN, Jürgen LOTZ
  • Publication number: 20170120289
    Abstract: An installation for fabricating a thermal protection covering of a body or of a rear assembly for a thruster, includes an extruder presenting a die having an outlet orifice through which a strip of elastomer material is to be extruded, the extruder having a die control system to vary the size of the outlet orifice; a mandrel to be set into rotation about its axis; a deposition head to deposit the strip on the mandrel; a conveyor system to convey the strip from the outlet orifice of the die of the deposition head; and a thickness monitoring system to measure the thickness of the strip on the deposition head and on the mandrel and to compare each measured thickness value with a predetermined value, the thickness monitoring system to control the die control system so as to cause the size of the outlet orifice of the die to vary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Caroline VENNET, Edouard BORIE, Julien RODOLAUSSE, Pierre LASSALLE, Matthieu MUNOZ, Johan BOIRIE
  • Publication number: 20170120290
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming and fibrillating a molten polymeric film into nanofibers consisting of a plurality of two-phase flow spinning nozzles arranged in a substantially liner array each nozzle into nanofibers including one or more first input orifices for a process gas; one or more second input orifices for a polymer melt; a flow channel including two or more channel walls and a monotonically decreasing flow area wherein the process gas and polymer melt are combined into a stratified two phase flow with the polymer melt formed into a film on one or more of the channel walls; and one or more channel exit openings, each exit opening including an edge at which the process gas reaches sonic velocity or less and where the edge is configured to fibrillate the polymeric film into a stream of nanofibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: VERDEX TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Larry Marshall, Michael Bryner, Michael Burt
  • Publication number: 20170120291
    Abstract: A method for painting with a plurality of colors at least an article of manufacture, preferably a thermoplastic article of manufacture for the perfumery and cosmetic field, each color of said plurality of colors being that of a respective paint of a corresponding plurality of paints, said method comprising at least the operating steps of: a) providing said at least an article of manufacture in a condition suitable for painting; b) providing a plurality of painting guns arranged in a succession in a painting tunnel and each being adapted to apply a paint of a said respective color of said plurality of colors; c) orienting said at least an article of manufacture with respect to said plurality of painting guns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Giovanni PATTI
  • Publication number: 20170120292
    Abstract: A surface finishing method comprises applying coatings of a hydrophobic material and a water-borne material to a surface of a metal substrate. First, a patterned coating of a first one of the hydrophobic or water-borne materials is applied to a surface of the metal substrate to partially cover the surface. A second fill coating of the other of the hydrophobic or water borne materials is then applied after the first patterned coating whereby the water borne material and the hydrophobic material repel and the second fill coating coats the surface of the metal substrate in areas uncoated by the first coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: KUAN-TING WU, CHUNG-HUNG HUANG
  • Publication number: 20170120293
    Abstract: A low friction wear surface with a coefficient of friction in the superlubric regime including graphene and nanoparticles on the wear surface is provided, and methods of producing the low friction wear surface are also provided. A long lifetime wear resistant surface including graphene exposed to hydrogen is provided, including methods of increasing the lifetime of graphene containing wear surfaces by providing hydrogen to the wear surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Anirudha V. Sumant, Diana Berman, Ali Erdemir
  • Publication number: 20170120294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for texturing surfaces providing the latter with superhydrophobic, superoleophobic, superhydrophilic or even superoleophilic properties. This process comprises i) a step of texturing the surface (via the deposition of nanoparticles of different sizes); ii) a step of curing the surface thus textured (with a curing agent); and, optionally, a step of modifying the properties of the surface with perfluorinated (and therefore hydrophobic) molecules. This process is suitable, inter alia, for treating transparent and/or heat-sensitive materials and surfaces. Specifically, none of the steps of the process use a temperature higher than 100° C. Thus, the process of the invention is particularly suitable for treating transparent surfaces composed of non-mineral materials, such as polycarbonate for example, as it wilt affect neither their transparency nor their optical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicants: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Surfactis Technologies
    Inventors: David Portet, Nicolas Lefevre, Stéphane Bejanin, Abdelhafed Taleb, Dorra Ben Jazia Dallel, Olivier Favrat
  • Publication number: 20170120295
    Abstract: Metal nanomaterials and nano structures may be formed via shearing force in the presence of a reactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Thuo, Ian Tevis
  • Publication number: 20170120296
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for producing a multilayer coated film which involves obtaining a first layered body by forming, on a film substrate, a wet-coated film including a coating material (A) containing an active energy ray-curable resin which contains a first photopolymerization initiator and a second photopolymerization initiator, the reaction wavelengths of which differ from one another; and forming a pre-cured coated film including the coating material (A) in a dry-to-the-touch state by preliminarily curing the wet-coated film including the coating material (A), by irradiating the first layered body with active energy rays which include the reaction wavelength of the first photopolymerization initiator and do not include the reaction wavelength of the second photopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: RIKEN TECHNOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taketo HASHIMOTO, Nozomu WASHIO
  • Publication number: 20170120297
    Abstract: A haptic actuator having a vibrating body which comprises a first magnetic body disposed on one end of the coil member in the vertical direction; a second magnetic body disposed on an opposite end of the coil member in the vertical direction; a first magnet and a second magnet mounted on both ends of the first magnetic body in the horizontal direction respectively; a third magnet and a forth magnet mounted on both ends of the second magnetic body in the horizontal direction respectively; a third magnetic body mounted on one ends of the first magnet and the third magnet in the horizontal direction; a forth magnetic body mounted on the opposite ends of the second magnet and the forth magnet in the horizontal direction; and a first weight and the second weight mounted on the third magnetic body and the forth magnetic body respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Se Jun CHUN
  • Publication number: 20170120298
    Abstract: A vibration motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibration motor includes a shell providing an accommodating space, a vibrating system accommodated in the accommodating space, a pair of elastic connectors for suspending the vibrating system in the accommodating space, and at least one block member fixed to the shell. The vibrating system includes at least one mass member with a limiting groove, the limiting groove is formed at a surface of the at least one mass member along a direction perpendicular to a vibrating direction of the vibrating system. The at least one block member is partly received in the limiting groove, and a distance between the at least one block member and the at least one mass member is not greater than a maximum vibrating amplitude of the vibrating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Hongxing Wang, Fei Hou
  • Publication number: 20170120299
    Abstract: A vibration motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibration motor includes a shell providing an accommodating space, and a vibrating system elastically suspended and accommodated in the accommodating space. The vibrating system includes a magnet assembly and a coil assembly arranged opposite to each other. The coil assembly includes a coil unit with a lead wire, and a first circuit board connected to the lead wire. The vibrating system further includes a second circuit board fixed to the shell, and a twist line unit connected between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Fei Hou, Hongxing Wang
  • Publication number: 20170120300
    Abstract: A conveyor assembly insertable within a conveying system including a low friction conveying surface having both forward and lateral conveying forces for moving articles toward a parallel lateral sidewall and a downstream conveyor. A first diverging sidewall gradually converges parcels toward the center of the conveyor. An inwardly directed offset extends from a first diverging sidewall to a second lateral sidewall for shifting parcels inwardly toward a second lateral sidewall. A raised high friction conveying surface or rail belt extends along an outer edge of the low friction conveyor. At least a portion of the high friction belt is raised above the surface of the adjacent conveying surface in flow communication with the low friction conveying surface. Parcels contacting the high friction belt are prevented from shifting over toward the sidewall and parcels having a center of gravity outside the tipover point fall over the belt onto a recirculation conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Steven Vann Schroader
  • Publication number: 20170120301
    Abstract: An electronic product sorting system includes a conveying device; an image capturing device configured to capture at least one image of an electronic product; a storage unit configured to pre-store appearance characteristic information of a plurality of predetermined electronic products; a processing unit coupled to the image capturing device and the storage unit, configured to determine appearance characteristic information of the electronic product according to the at least one image of the electronic product, and generate a comparison result by comparing the appearance characteristic information of the electronic product and the plurality of predetermined electronic products; and a sorting unit configured to sort the electronic product according to the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Justin Wang