Patents Issued in October 10, 2017
  • Patent number: 9782706
    Abstract: A flow connector adapted to connect a lug-type filtration sump to a screw-type filtration head, having a first portion for receiving a lug-type filtration sump, and a second portion receivable by a screw-type filtration head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SELECTO, INC.
    Inventor: Ehud Levy
  • Patent number: 9782707
    Abstract: Flexible housing filters for filtration of fluids and methods of making such filters are disclosed. The filters may include one or more peripheral seals in the flexible housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Fenwal, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Lynn, Scott Day, Paolo Verri
  • Patent number: 9782708
    Abstract: A filtration sealing system is provided for sealing a filter element in a housing at a mating interface therebetween. The sealing system includes a keyed interface. A replacement filter element is provided for such filtration sealing system, with the replacement filter element including a keyed interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Caryn J. Kindkeppel, Brian W. Schwandt, Thomas J. Braun, Christopher E. Holm, Pathikrit T. Banerjee, Buwa A. Baldeh
  • Patent number: 9782709
    Abstract: An air filter arrangement for use in a truck pneumatic product transfer system using a generally rectangular housing and two air filter cartridges to alter the shape thereof (primarily reduce the width thereof) allowing the unit to be mounted centrally behind a truck cab or in other locations. The design and shape allows mounting on the truck in preferred areas that are less utilized for accessory equipment and can increase truck aerodynamics. Additionally the filter arrangement can reduce overall truck weight compared to traditional units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Bokor Manufacturing Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Bokor, Waguih Elmaraghy, Abdo Al-Zaher
  • Patent number: 9782710
    Abstract: A wind turbine tower includes a door access opening in a down tower area of the tower. A hinged door panel covers the door access opening, with a ventilation opening defined through the door panel. A multi-sided intake structure, such as a box-like structure, is connected to an exterior of the door panel over the first ventilation opening. The intake structure extends transversely from the door panel and includes a top side, a bottom side, and at least two vertical sides extending between the top side and the bottom side. The vertical sides are open to air flow therethrough. The top and bottom sides may also be open to air flow therethrough. Air from multiple directions is drawn into an interior of the wind turbine tower through the intake structure and ventilation opening. A filtering system with first and second stage filters may be incorporated with any of the intake structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pritesh Jain, Vijendra Singh Chauhan, Darren John Danielsen, Roman Kolar, Danian Zheng, Jay F. Leonard, Brian Keith Andreson, Adam Lord
  • Patent number: 9782711
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic control of a baghouse fabric filter system as a single unit to maintain a consistent pressure drop are disclosed. The fabric filter system may be a pulse jet cleaning system, and a controller may be provided to receive inputs from pressure sensors and other components and to control activation of pulse pipes for cleaning filter bags. The controller may adjust parameters including the dwell time between pulses, the duration of each pulse, and the pulse air pressure. The controller may further optimize these parameters to provide the minimum cleaning necessary per pulse to achieve the consistent differential pressure. By continuously adjusting the parameters, the system maintains the maximum amount of filter cake on the bags to promote optimal emissions control performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: COVANTA ENERGY, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Barker
  • Patent number: 9782712
    Abstract: A system includes a device on a fabric filter having an attribute that is adjustable and a module on the fabric filter that is configured to adjust the attribute responsive to a control signal carried on a power line from which the module receives a power signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Dust Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Wyatt Baxter
  • Patent number: 9782713
    Abstract: An air cleaner includes a housing and an access cover. The internal volume of the housing can be reached through an opening in a side wall of the housing. A filter element having fluted filter media is removable and replaceable from the air cleaner. The housing is constructed and arranged to cam the element into sealing engagement with the housing. The access cover includes structure to help support and ensure proper seating of the filter element within the housing. A method of installing the filter element in the air cleaner includes sliding a portion of the filter element against a slide surface in the housing. A method of servicing an air cleaner includes tilting the filter element against a tilt surface in the housing to release a seal between the filter element and the housing. The filter element can have a handle to assist in servicing of the air cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry R. Nepsund, Bradley A. Kuempel, Donald F. Engel, Bruce Allen Boehrs, Sheldon Anderson, Richard L. Bucholtz, Thomas John Lundgren
  • Patent number: 9782714
    Abstract: A system and method for storing nitrogen-enriched air (NEA) comprising an air separation device (ASM) and producing NEA in the ASM. One example implementation may include bleed air being supplied to a pressure intensifier. The pressure intensifier is powered by NEA compressed by a first compressor, and the pressure of the bleed air is increased by the pressure intensifier and supplied to an ASM. In another example implementation, a turbine may be drivingly connected to a second compressor and the bleed air supplied to the second compressor. The NEA compressed by the first compressor is supplied to and drives the turbine, which drives the second compressor, and the air compressed by the second compressor is supplied to the ASM. In another example implementation, a turbine may drive an electric generator, which in turn may power an electric motor that drives the second compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald Ray Snow, Jr., Anthony J. Banker
  • Patent number: 9782715
    Abstract: An exemplary single bed reversing blower adsorption based air separation unit is configured to follow the O2 load placed thereon by adjusting flow rates therethrough and power consumption. At least one and preferably multiple pressure sensors sense O2 pressure within an O2 storage region downstream of an adsorber vessel. These sensed pressures are utilized to generate control signals controlling flow rates at locations upstream of the compressor, such as at a reversible blower and an output compressor. Control loops for the blower and the compressor are independent of each other and have different time constants. Effective following of the O2 load is thus achieved without driving the air separation unit into operational conditions outside of design and also maintaining optimal power consumption for the O2 produced, such that efficiency is maintained over a large turndown ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Pacific Consolidated Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Javier Lopez, Jason Burns, William K. Goshay, Tarik Naheiri
  • Patent number: 9782716
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing water from compressed air is disclosed. The method includes the steps of passing a stream of compressed air through a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) dryer. The dryer includes at least one vessel containing a desiccant material bound into pieces, for example tubes, using a polymer binder. The PSA dryer also has a control system for controlling the flow of the compressed air and switching between drying and purging modes. In particular the vessel and desiccant material contained therein are sized to produce a dew point suppression of less than 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NORGREN LIMITED
    Inventor: Colin Billiet
  • Patent number: 9782717
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon separation system for an engine fuel supply system is disclosed. The hydrocarbon separation system may include an untreated gas conduit configured to transport a raw gas stream including methane, ethane and higher carbon chainlength hydrocarbon molecules. The system may also include a separator downstream of and fluidly coupled to the untreated gas conduit configured to segregate methane or ethane of the raw gas stream from the higher carbon chainlength hydrocarbon molecules of the raw gas stream. A treated gas conduit may be located downstream of and fluidly coupled to the separator and be configured to transport the methane or ethane of the raw gas stream away from the separator. Lastly, the system may include an electronic controller configured to receive a breakthrough signal and transmit a regeneration signal in response to the breakthrough signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: David T. Montgomery, Victor L. Sheldon, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9782718
    Abstract: Sweep-based gas separation processes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from gas-fired power plants. The invention involves at least two compression steps, a combustion step, a carbon dioxide capture step, a power generate step, and a sweep-based membrane separation step. One of the compression steps is used to produce a low-pressure, low-temperature compressed stream that is sent for treatment in the carbon dioxide capture step, thereby avoiding the need to expend large amounts of energy to cool an otherwise hot compressed stream from a typical compressor that produces a high-pressure stream, usually at 20-30 bar or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventors: Richard W Baker, Timothy C Merkel
  • Patent number: 9782719
    Abstract: A method of removing acid gases from a gaseous stream is provided. The acid gases may include carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and/or sulfur dioxide, by example. Embodiments of the method include mixing an amine-terminated branched polymer solvent with the gaseous stream, resulting in the substantial absorption of at least some of the acid gases. The solvent is an amine-terminated branched PEG, such as by example amine-terminated glycerol ethoxylate, amine-terminated trimethylolpropane ethoxylate, and/or amine-terminated pentaerithritol ethoxylate. Embodiments of the present inventive methods further include regenerating the solvent using electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NRGTEK, INC.
    Inventor: Subramanian Iyer
  • Patent number: 9782720
    Abstract: A degradant concentration measurement device 14 according to the invention has an electric conductivity measurement instrument 71A measuring the electric conductivity of a lean solution 16 that is an acidic gas-absorbing solution and detection means 72 obtaining the concentration of a degradant contained in a lean solution 16 from the measured electric conductivity of the lean solution 16 based on the relationship between the previously-obtained electric conductivity of the lean solution 16 and the concentration of the degradant contained in the lean solution 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Kouji Horizoe, Yudai Kato, Haruaki Hirayama, Kazuo Ishida
  • Patent number: 9782721
    Abstract: Systems and methods of continuous operation of a urea-SCR system at low temperatures (200-350° C.) in the presence of high SOx containing flue gas are described. The methods comprise introducing a solution of urea and an NO2 forming compound, preferably an alkaline earth metal nitrate, into an exhaust stream before the exhaust stream contacts an SCR catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Rodney Foo, Rainer Leppelt, Joerg Werner Muench, Ralf Dotzel, Maria Brandmair
  • Patent number: 9782722
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for the decomposition of nitrous oxide, said catalyst comprising oxides of cobalt, zinc and aluminum and an alkali metal promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Srikant Gopal, Andreas Klemt, Ralf Schricker, Madhusudhan Rao Panchagnula
  • Patent number: 9782723
    Abstract: A catalyst converter includes: a substrate (1) having a cell structure formed of a center area (1A) having the highest cell density, a peripheral area (1C) having the lowest cell density, and an intermediate area (1B) having the cell density between that of the center area and that of the peripheral area; a first catalyst layer formed in the center area (1A); a second catalyst layer formed in the intermediate area (1B); and a third catalyst layer formed in the peripheral area (1C). A length in a longitudinal direction of the second catalyst layer is longer than that of the first catalyst layer. A length in the longitudinal direction of the third catalyst layer is longer than that of the second catalyst layer. A ratio of the length in the longitudinal direction of the first catalyst layer to the length of the substrate is 65% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Aoki, Hiromasa Suzuki, Hiroyuki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 9782724
    Abstract: There is provided a process for effecting separation of at least a gaseous permeate-disposed operative material from a gaseous supply material that is being supplied to a gaseous supply material receiving space that is disposed in mass transfer communication with a permeate receiving space through a membrane, the gaseous supply material including an operative material that defines a gaseous supply material-disposed operative material, and the membrane including a gel. The process includes replenishing liquid material that has become depleted from the gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: IMTEX MEMBRANES CORP.
    Inventors: Xianshe Feng, Ian Glenn Towe, Ali Hamza, Juan Carlos Perez
  • Patent number: 9782725
    Abstract: Electrochemical purification apparatuses for treating water and methods of assembling the devices are provided. The apparatuses may be cross-flow electrochemical devices. The devices may be assembled and sealed through masking and application of a potting material. The devices may comprise various structures configured to improve the current efficiency of the device, reduce leakage, and improve the distribution of potting material to the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Vivian Leow Hwee Teng, Keng Hoo Yeo, Chin Hiang Tan
  • Patent number: 9782726
    Abstract: A method of recovering one or more insoluble oils from a liquid source using one or more membrane or membrane contactors, comprising the steps of: pumping the liquid source comprising the one or more oils to the membranes or membrane contactors, contacting the liquid source with a first surface of the membrane or membrane contactors, coalescing the one or more oils within the liquid source onto the first surface of the membrane contactors, pumping one or more recovery fluids through the membrane or membrane contactors in contact with the second surface of the membrane or membrane contactors, and removing a first stream of oil coalesced from the second surface of the membranes or membrane contactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Frank Seibert, Stacy S. Truscott, Stephen William Briggs, Peter B. Kipp
  • Patent number: 9782727
    Abstract: A thin film composite membrane (TFC) includes an active layer on a support. The active layer includes at least 8 barrier layers of star-polymers each having at least three linear polymers attached at a central core. Each of the barrier layers has a thickness between 5 and 50 nm, and the barrier layers have alternating charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Geraud J. Dubois, Victor Y. Lee, Robert D. Miller, Young-Hye Na, Joseph Sly
  • Patent number: 9782728
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a membrane comprising a flat, flexible substrate having a plurality of openings and having a porous inorganic coating situated on and in said substrate, the material of the substrate being selected from woven or non-woven, electrically non-conductive fibers, characterized in that the substrate comprises polyaramide fibers that are pure or connected to fibers of the further polymer or at least of one of these further polymers, wherein the fibers of at least one of said further polymers comprise a melting point that is lower than the decomposition point of the polyaramide fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Pascaly, Rolf-Walter Terwonne, Christian Hying
  • Patent number: 9782729
    Abstract: A ceramic separation membrane structure in which a zeolite separation membrane formed on a ceramic porous body is repaired, and a repair method thereof. In the ceramic separation membrane structure, a zeolite separation membrane is disposed on a ceramic porous body, and defects of the zeolite separation membrane are repaired by zeolite repaired portions containing zeolite of structure different from the structure of zeolite of the zeolite separation membrane. The zeolite separation membrane and the zeolite repaired portions are made of a hydrophobic zeolite having a ratio of SiO2/Al2O3=100 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Miyahara, Makiko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9782730
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to polymeric membrane materials formed, at least in part, from monomeric material selected from 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (CF3CF?CH2, HFO-1234yf) or trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (CF3CH?CFH, HFO-1234ze), and to membrane preparations and uses thereof in water desalination, filtration, membrane distillation, pervaporation, and selective gas separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Changqing Lu, Andrew J. Poss, Rajiv R. Singh
  • Patent number: 9782731
    Abstract: A system and process are disclosed for dissolution of solids and “difficult-to-dissolve” solids. A solid sample may be ablated in an ablation device to generate nanoscale particles. Nanoparticles may then swept into a coupled plasma device operating at atmospheric pressure where the solid nanoparticles are atomized. The plasma exhaust may be delivered directly into an aqueous fluid to form a solution containing the atomized and dissolved solids. The composition of the resulting solution reflects the composition of the original solid sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Martin Liezers, Orville T. Farmer, III
  • Patent number: 9782732
    Abstract: A system for blending polymers and other chemicals in an aqueous liquid is provided. Static mixers and tubes, preferably in one or more tube bundles, provide a volume sufficient to allow a residence time in the system to hydrate a polymer. Static mixers may be integrated with a tube bundle. The system may be mounted on a portable base such as a trailer. The concentration of polymer and chemicals in water may be controlled by a controller. A variable speed electric pump may be utilized to precisely control the amount of polymers or other chemicals added to the aqueous liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Noles Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventor: Jerry W. Noles, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9782733
    Abstract: An apparatus for mass producing monodisperse microbubbles contains a microfluidic flow focusing device. The microfluidic flow focusing device includes a dispersed phase fluid supply channel having an outlet that discharges into a flow focusing junction, a continuous phase fluid supply channel having an outlet that discharges into the flow focusing junction, and a bubble formation channel having an inlet disposed at the flow focusing junction. The configuration of the flow focusing junction is such that, in operation, a flow of dispersed phase fluid discharging from the outlet of the dispersed phase fluid supply channel is engageable in co-flow by a focusing flow of continuous phase fluid discharging from the outlet of the at least one continuous phase fluid supply channel under formation of a gradually thinning jet of dispersed phase fluid that extends into the inlet of the bubble formation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE, UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
    Inventors: Willem van Hoeve, Elena de Castro Hernàndez, José Manuel Gordillo Arias de Saavedra, Andreas Michael Versluis, Detlef Lohse
  • Patent number: 9782734
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a rotary mixer and disperser head consisting of a shaft to which is connected a mixing chamber that is to be disposed into a vat or the like for dispersing, dissolving or blending of solids liquids or gasses with other liquids. The mixing chamber has secured to its upper and lower ends a plurality of impeller blades which have an end thereof located outside the mixing chamber to direct material into the mixing chamber and out through openings in the side wall of the mixing chamber during the mixing and dispersing thereof. The mixer and disperser head also comprises shear arms having a sharpened leading edge, thereby providing an additional initial shear zone. The specific mixing chamber and its configuration provide for a very efficient mixing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ADMIX, INC.
    Inventors: Jens Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Peter Leitner
  • Patent number: 9782735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixer and applicator device for mixing and applying a compound obtained by means of mixing two products which comprises: a casing which internally houses a movable push rod, where the casing allows housing a container which is fixed to the casing, a drill or rotor for driving the movable push rod, a base part coupled to a rear portion of the drill or rotor, at least one guide which is secured at a first end on the base part and at a second end on the casing where the ends of the at least one guide are fixed on the casing such that the at least one guide allows the fixing and rotation of the casing, and at least one member going through the at least one guide respectively such that the rotation of the casing does not take place in response to the actuation of the drill or rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventor: Daniel Ortiz Garcia
  • Patent number: 9782736
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing various types of microdroplets are provided. The apparatus has a cross intersection portion 7 at which a first continuous phase 2, a first dispersion phase 4, and a second dispersion phase 6 intersect with each other; a first liquid feed device 12 controlling the first dispersion phase 4; a second liquid feed device 13 controlling the second dispersion phase 6; and a control device 11 connected to the first liquid feed device 12 and the second liquid feed device 13, in which the first liquid feed device 12 and the second liquid feed device 13 are controlled by a signal from the control device 11 so that microdroplets 9 formed of the first dispersion phase 4 and microdroplets 10 formed of the second dispersion phase 6 are sequentially produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Toru Torii, Toshiro Higuchi, Takashi Nishisako, Shingo Okushima
  • Patent number: 9782737
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cartridge system with two containers (2a, 2b) respectively having an outlet connector (4a, 4b), and a common connection section for a mixer (1) having a positioning aperture (7), and with a static mixer (1) with inlet connectors (14a, 14b) and a positioning element (16). The connection section of the cartridge comprises a ring (5) having an inner thread (6) that surrounds the outlet connectors (4a, 4b), whereby the mixer (1) has an outer thread (11). Further, the invention relates to a static mixer (1) for a cartridge system of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kettenbach GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Bublewitz, Jens-Peter Reber
  • Patent number: 9782738
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for continuously producing carbon nanotubes, the apparatus includes i) a reactor to synthesize carbon nanotubes, ii) a separator to separate a mixed gas from the carbon nanotubes transferred from the reactor, iii) a filter to remove all or part of one or more component gases from the separated mixed gas, and iv) a recirculation pipe to recirculate the filtered mixed gas to the reactor for carbon nanotubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Hyun Chang, Jin-Do Kim, Kwang-Woo Yoon
  • Patent number: 9782739
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods, devices and systems for processing of carbonaceous compositions. The processing may include the manufacture (or synthesis) of oxidized forms of carbonaceous compositions and/or the manufacture (or synthesis) of reduced forms of oxidized carbonaceous compositions. Some embodiments provide methods, devices and systems for the manufacture (or synthesis) of graphite oxide from graphite and/or for the manufacture (or synthesis) of reduced graphite oxide from graphite oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Nanotech Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Laine
  • Patent number: 9782740
    Abstract: A control system of a full-automatic cold plasma seed processor comprises a human-machine interaction interface, a PLC, a transport module, a vacuum degree module, an ionization module, and an energy supply module. The human-machine interaction interface is in a communications connection with the PLC by using a serial port. The energy supply module supplies a power source required by another module in a system. The PLC controls a transport rate of seeds by using the transport module, controls, by using the vacuum degree module, the vacuum degree of the system to reach a dynamic balance, and at last, controls the ionization time and the ionization power by using the ionization module, so as to adapt to processing requirements of different seeds and achieve an optimal processing effect. The control system can automatically process seeds of various grains, and brings short processing time and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: Changzhou Zhongke Changtai Plasma Technology Co., Ltd., Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Yuanhua Dong, Hanliang Shao, Jiangang Li, Qin Miao
  • Patent number: 9782741
    Abstract: Described herein are method for conducting sonochemical reactions and processes in a liquid. The liquid is passed through a device that generates a liquid jet containing cavitation bubbles and collides the liquid jet with an impact body or other liquid jet to force the collapse of the cavitation bubbles at a select compressive stagnation pressure. The compressive stagnation pressure of the liquid is between 50 and 99 percent of the static pressure of the liquid upon entry of a constriction that generates the liquid jet containing cavitation bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ARISDYNE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Oleg Kozyuk
  • Patent number: 9782742
    Abstract: An inductive magnetoelectric biochemical reaction system includes a reaction unit which includes a reaction chamber, which includes a reactant container and is disposed in a rotatable perpendicular magnetic field; a primary coil, which is wound around one side of a closed-loop iron core and is connected to a control unit; a secondary coil, which is wound around the other side of the closed-loop iron core and includes an insulating tube which allows a reaction solution acting as a conductor, two ends of the insulating tube being communicated with the reactant container; a rotating magnetic field unit, which is configured to generate the rotatable perpendicular magnetic field; and a control unit, which is at least configured to adjust an excitation voltage and a signal type applied on the primary coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Xueming Xu, Na Yang, Yamei Jin, Nannan Zhang, Dandan Li, Fengfeng Wu, Zhengyu Jin, Yisheng Chen, Xing Zhou, Aiquan Jiao, Jie Ren
  • Patent number: 9782743
    Abstract: [Object]To provide an adsorbent, an adsorbent sheet, and a carbon/polymer composite for adsorbing a virus having further improved virus adsorption capability. [Solving Means] An adsorbent for adsorbing a virus according to the present invention has a specific surface area value as measured by the nitrogen BET method of 10 m2/g or more and a pore volume as measured by the BJH method of 0.1 cm3/g or more. An adsorbent sheet for adsorbing a virus according to the present invention includes a porous carbonaceous material having a specific surface area value as measured by the nitrogen BET method of 10 m2/g or more and a pore volume as measured by the BJH method of 0.1 cm3/g or more. A carbon/polymer composite for adsorbing a virus according to the present invention includes a porous carbonaceous material having a specific surface area value as measured by the nitrogen BET method of 10 m2/g or more and a pore volume as measured by the BJH method of 0.1 cm3/g or more; and a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Iida, Shun Yamanoi, Machiko Minatoya, Seiichiro Tabata, Shinichiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9782744
    Abstract: Composite films comprising an organic salt (or GUMBOS) such as 1-n-butyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate and a polymer such as cellulose acetate are prepared. These films are useful in detecting vapors of volatile organic compounds, and in determining their molecular weights. A quartz crystal microbalance-based sensor was designed by depositing a thin film of this composite material on the gold electrode surface of a quartz crystal resonator. The sensor exhibited rapid response toward a variety of volatile organic compounds, and complete regeneration, high sensitivity, low detection limits, and wide dynamic ranges. The ratio of the change in frequency to the change in motional resistance is a concentration-independent quantity that is proportional to the molecular weight of the absorbed chemical species. These properties facilitate the easy identification and molecular weight determination of a broad range of organic vapors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Inventors: Isiah M. Warner, Bishnu P. Regmi, Bilal El-Zahab, Daniel J. Hayes
  • Patent number: 9782745
    Abstract: Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials particularly useful for adsorbing CO2. More specifically the MOF has pores and comprises zinc ions, oxalate, and a cycloazocarbyl compound. A preferred cycloazocarbyl compound is 1,2,4-triazolate. Methods for making the porous MOH and methods for using the porous MOH for adsorbing CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: George Shimizu, Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Simon Iremonger, Kyle Deakin, Jian-Bin Lin, Karl W. Dawson
  • Patent number: 9782746
    Abstract: Polymeric ionic liquids, methods of making and methods of using the same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Jared L. Anderson, Fei Zhao, Yunjing Meng, Qichao Zhao
  • Patent number: 9782747
    Abstract: An oxygen-absorbing composition of the present invention contains: a gas barrier resin (A) having an oxygen transmission rate of 500 mL·20 ?m/(m2·day·atm) or less as measured at 20° C. and 65% RH; a thermoplastic resin (B) including repeating units represented by General Formula (I) below (where X is a methylene group or an oxygen atom, R1 is an alkenylene group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 5 to 5000); at least one type of metal salt (C) selected from the group consisting of an iron salt, a nickel salt, a copper salt, a manganese salt, and a cobalt salt; and a bifunctional processing stabilizer (D) that is a compound having an acrylate structure and a hindered phenol structure in a same molecule. The oxygen-absorbing resin composition of the present invention performs excellent oxygen-absorbing properties, and enables to reduce generation of an unpleasant odor caused by decomposition of the oxygen-absorbing composition during oxygen absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wataru Hirose
  • Patent number: 9782748
    Abstract: Photo-initiated polymeric ionic liquids, methods of making and methods of using the same are disclosed. A preferred embodiment for making a photo-initiated polymeric ionic liquid (P-PIL) coated support, comprises: mixing at least one ionic liquid (IL) monomer with at least one photo-initiator; at least partially coating a support with the mixture; and exposing the coated support to UV light to form a photo-initiated polymeric ionic liquid (P-PIL) coated support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: The University of Toledo
    Inventor: Jared L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9782749
    Abstract: The aluminum silicate of the invention has: an element ratio of Si and Al, represented by Si/Al, of from 0.3 to 1.0 by molar ratio; a peak at approximately 3 ppm in a 27Al-NMR spectrum; peak A at approximately ?78 ppm and peak B at approximately ?85 ppm in a 29Si-NMR spectrum; and a peak at approximately 2?=26.9° and a peak at approximately 2?=40.3° in a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum. The aluminum silicate has an area ratio of peak B with respect to peak A of from 2.0 to 9.0, or does not include a tubular substance having a length of 50 nm or more as observed in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) photograph of the aluminum silicate taken at a magnification of 100,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mikuni, Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 9782750
    Abstract: In an activated carbon for adsorbing a noble metal from an aqueous solution containing the noble metal, the difference (absolute value) between a zeta-potential in a 10 mmol/L aqueous solution of sodium tetraborate and a zeta-potential in a 0.01 mmol/L aqueous solution of sodium tetraborate is adjusted to not more than 18 mV and the pore volume of pores with a pore radius of not more than 1 nm is adjusted to 150 to 500 mm3/g. The activated carbon of the present invention may have a carbohydrate solution decolorizing performance of not less than 30%. The aqueous solution containing the noble metal may be a plating wastewater. According to the present invention, a noble metal can efficiently be adsorbed (or recovered) from a solution containing the noble metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: KURARAY CO., LTD., TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hanamoto, Takayuki Yamada, Yoshichika Sabae
  • Patent number: 9782751
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrocarbon gas reforming supported catalyst, and methods for its use, that includes a catalytic material capable of catalyzing the production of a gaseous mixture comprising hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) from a hydrocarbon gas and a clay support material comprising a clay mineral, wherein the catalytic material is chemically bonded to the clay support material, and wherein the chemical bond is a M1-M2 bond, where M1 is a metal from the catalytic material and M2 is a metal from the clay support material, or the chemical bond is a M1-O bond, where M1 is a metal from the catalytic material and oxygen (O) is from the clay support material, wherein the supported catalyst comprises at least 70% or more by weight of the clay support material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Lawrence D'Souza, Vinu Viswanath
  • Patent number: 9782752
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a ruthenium catalyst solution which is active during the transvinylation of a surfactant vinyl ester with a surfactant carboxylic acid, comprising an Ru metal concentration of more than 0.5 wt. % based on the total weight of the ruthenium catalyst solution. The invention is characterized in that a) at least one ruthenium (III) halogenide with at least one inorganic or organic base, at least one surfactant vinyl ester, and at least one surfactant carboxylic acid is reacted at a temperature of 70° C. to 170° C.; b) the molar ratio of surfactant vinyl ester to surfactant carboxylic acid is 1:1.8 to 1.8:1; and c) the ruthenium (III) halogenide is used in a quantity of >0.5 wt. % of Ru metal based on the total weight of the surfactant vinyl ester and surfactant carboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventor: Peter Gigler
  • Patent number: 9782753
    Abstract: Provide is a catalytic converter including a substrate which includes regions having different cell densities, in which exhaust gas purification performance is superior in all the regions of the substrate. A catalytic converter 10 includes catalyst layers in which a noble metal catalyst is supported on a support in surfaces of cell walls 2 of a substrate 1 having a cell structure in a longitudinal direction of the substrate 1 in which gas flows, in which the substrate 1 has a first region 1A having a relatively high cell density and a second region 1B having a relatively low cell density, and a ratio of a thickness of a catalyst layer 3A in the second region 1B to a thickness of a catalyst layer 3 in the first region 1A is in a range of more than 0.95 times and 1.2 times or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Aoki, Hiromasa Suzuki, Hiroyuki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 9782754
    Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising (a) a metal M selected from the group consisting of platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), rhodium (Rh), rhenium (Re), ruthenium (Ru) and iridium (Ir), (b) tin (Sn), (c) zinc (Zn), (d) alkaline earth metal and (e) a porous metal oxide catalyst support, wherein the amount of each of elements (a), (b) and (d) is independently chosen in the range of from 0.1 to 5 wt. % based on the porous metal oxide catalyst support and wherein the amount of element (c) is chosen in the range of from 0.1 to 2 wt. % based on the porous metal oxide catalyst support. Furthermore, the invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said catalyst composition and its use in non-oxidative dehydrogenation of an alkane, preferably propane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abdulrahim Al-Zahrani, Lachezar A. Petrov, Mohammad Daous, Mohammad Umar, Mohammed Al-Hazmi, Yahia Al-Hamed
  • Patent number: 9782755
    Abstract: A nickel-supported catalyst for combined steam and carbon dioxide reforming, as a catalyst which is used in a process of preparing a synthesis gas by combined steam and carbon dioxide reforming with natural gas, is provided. More particularly, in the nickel-supported catalyst, nickel is supported as an active metal on a lanthanum oxide support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dong Ju Moon, Eun Hyeok Yang, Gi Hoon Hong, Sung Soo Lim, Jae Sun Jung, Young Su Noh, Na Young Kim, Jae Suk Lee, Ji In Park, Sang Yong Lee