Patents Issued in February 22, 2018
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Publication number: 20180050261Abstract: A target game including at least one target and at least one projectile. The at least one target is constructed of a flexible and self-supporting material. The at least one target is able to be configured in a first orientation and a second orientation. In the first orientation, the at least one target is generally planar. In the second orientation, the at least one target is generally conical.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: T.M. SHEA PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Thomas M. SHEA
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Publication number: 20180050262Abstract: To prevent a loss or replacement of card packages while operating casinos using packages of multiple cards in the casinos or other card game facilities using card game tables, a management system for managing packages of shuffled playing cards is provided. The management system including a management control device (7) stores ID codes (4) attached to a plurality of packages (2) brought into a management/storage box (10), constructs a database, reads the ID codes (4) of the plurality of packages (2) brought into the management/storage box (10) at predetermined time intervals, confirms existence of each ID code (4) registered in the database in the management/storage box (10), and manages the ID codes (4) of the packages (2) before use and the ID codes (4) of the drawn packages (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
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Publication number: 20180050263Abstract: A game communication assembly includes a sensor to sense a parameter and create a sensor signal based on that sensed event. An electronic control unit is electrically connected to the sensor to receive the sensor signal and to output a command signal. A transceiving unit is electrically connected to the electronic control unit to receive the command signal and to transmit the command signal remote from the game communication assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Colt R. Correa, Amy L. Correa, Caleb S. Correa, Lydia M. Correa
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Publication number: 20180050264Abstract: A method for identifying one or more light sources may include capturing, via an imaging device, an image, the imaging device having a rolling shutter. The method may also include receiving, via at least one processor, the captured image, and detecting, via the at least one processor, whether the image includes a set of alternating stripes. The method may further include measuring, via the at least one processor, if the image includes a set of alternating stripes, a width of at least one stripe of the set of alternating stripes included in the captured image, and identifying, via the at least one processor, a light source causing the set of alternating stripes based on the measured width.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: JIE HE, JINGWEN DAI, TAO ZHU, CONGLING WAN
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Publication number: 20180050265Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which may include a display unit that displays a virtual space, an operating unit that outputs input operation data associating an input operation of a user with coordinate information, and a storage unit that stores the input operation data and may execute a game where a character moves based on the input operation. The information processing apparatus may retrieve the input operation data from the storage unit, perform control including moving the character in a predetermined direction when the input operation is determined to be a first input operation and when the input operation is determined to be the second input operation, and may determine that the input operation is the second input operation when a distance, in the predetermined direction, between an intermediate point and an end or start point is larger than a distance in the predetermined direction between the start and end point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Nariaki Wada, Masao Kajikawa
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Publication number: 20180050266Abstract: Provided is a program causing a computer to realize a function of receiving operation information of an operation unit, the program causing the computer to execute a display control function of displaying a plurality of articles, which are disposed along a predetermined direction with respect to a reference position, on the display unit, a direction determination function of determining an indicating direction indicating the one article from the reference position, on the basis of a tilting direction of the operation unit in a case where an amount of tilting is less than the predetermined threshold value, a correction function of determining an amount of correction in a case where the amount of tilting is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value, and performing at least one of correction of the indicating direction and correction to shift positions of the plurality of articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi MINAGAWA, Teppei TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20180050267Abstract: A tactile feedback system for use with a virtual reality system comprises a support structure and tactile feedback units coupled to and spaced apart around the support structure. A microcontroller is coupled to the tactile feedback units to independently control their activation. The microcontroller has a communication interface configured to communicate with the virtual reality system to receive control signals for controlling operation of the tactile feedback units. The microcontroller activates the tactile feedback units in response to control signals received from the virtual reality system to indicate aspects of the virtual reality experience. In another aspect, a haptic gun for use with a virtual reality system has tactile feedback units and a linear actuator for simulating a recoil of firing the gun. In another aspect a video game system provides a single game play instance for multiple clients utilizing different game platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Allan Jones
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Publication number: 20180050268Abstract: A tactile feedback system for use with a virtual reality system comprises a support structure and tactile feedback units coupled to and spaced apart around the support structure. A microcontroller is coupled to the tactile feedback units to independently control their activation. The microcontroller has a communication interface configured to communicate with the virtual reality system to receive control signals for controlling operation of the tactile feedback units. The microcontroller activates the tactile feedback units in response to control signals received from the virtual reality system to indicate aspects of the virtual reality experience. In another aspect, a haptic gun for use with a virtual reality system has tactile feedback units and a linear actuator for simulating a recoil of firing the gun. In another aspect a video game system provides a single game play instance for multiple clients utilizing different game platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Allan Jones
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Publication number: 20180050269Abstract: A video game system for providing a single game play instance for multiple clients each utilizing a different game platform. The system includes a first game platform executing a virtual reality game on a virtual reality system and a second game platform executing a game having a similar representation of the virtual reality game modified for the second game platform. The first game platform and second game platform communicate with each other to provide a single instance game space for the first game platform and second game platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Allan Jones, Robert Leyland, Patrick Griffith
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Publication number: 20180050270Abstract: An eccentric magnet rotates around a spool under the influence of an electric field generated by a rotational coil surrounding the magnet to produce haptic output by rotational vibration. The ends of the spool are connected to springs, and linear actuating coils are disposed near the respective ends of the spool to cause the spool and, hence, the magnet rotating around it, to reciprocate, generating additional haptic output from the vibrations of the reciprocating motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Dennis Castleman
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Publication number: 20180050271Abstract: A portable information processing apparatus includes a display, stereo loudspeakers, a pair of vibrators, and one or more processors. The pair of vibrators is provided on a left side and a right side of a main body of the information processing apparatus with respect to a center of the display. The one or more processors are configured to: generate sound signals to be output to the stereo loudspeakers, and output the sound signals; generate vibration signals for vibrating the pair of vibrators by vibrations, each having a plurality of frequency components, and output the vibration signals; and control an image to be displayed on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Kazutoshi OBANA, Kochi KAWAI, Junichiro MIYATAKE, Masahiko INAMI, Kouta MINAMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20180050272Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a game program executed by a server device, in a game system which is realized by a plurality of user terminals operated by respective users and the server device capable of being connected to the plurality of user terminals through communication, the program causing the server device to function as: a game medium setter that sets one or more kinds of game media to be in a state of being capable of being given to a plurality of users; an upper limit setter that sets a predetermined upper limit to a number of game media capable of being given to the plurality of users; and a game medium giver that gives a user a game medium that the user desires to be given among the game media which are set by the game medium setter in a range not exceeding the predetermined upper limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kensei FUJINAGA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yoshihiro UENO
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Publication number: 20180050273Abstract: A multi-player gaming system includes a reflective display assembly that presents multiple views of a 3D game object as seen from different viewpoints. The reflective display assembly includes a plurality of reflectors the each reflect an image of the 3D game object toward a respective position disposed around the gaming system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Nicholas Matthew GAROUFALIS, Robert James GLENN, II, Paul Michael LESLEY, Timothy C. LOOSE
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Publication number: 20180050274Abstract: The invention is a car for a fairground ride with at least one axle arranged on a rotatable carrier structure and a coupling element for coupling a further car, wherein the coupling element is movably mounted and connected to the carrier structure via a mechanical operative connection so that a movement of the coupling element leads to a rotation of the carrier structure and of the wheel axle arranged thereon and a rotation of the rotatable carrier structure leads to a movement of the coupling element, and a method for controlling the rotation of a mounted carrier structure of a wheel axle of a car of a fairground ride with a coupling element for a further car, wherein a position change of the relative position of the car in relation to another is translated into a position change of the coupling element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Michael Kraus
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Publication number: 20180050275Abstract: Systems and related methods related to structures with large-scale rotatable elements. Some of the present systems comprise: a tower; a tower hub coupled to the tower and having a transverse dimension of at least 50 feet; an observation wheel rotatably coupled to the tower and having a central wheel hub; a plurality of roller bearings disposed between the tower hub and the wheel hub to rotatably support the observation wheel relative to the structure, the roller bearings each having a diameter that is less than one quarter of the transverse dimension of the wheel hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Cyril Silberman, Haskel Mayer
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Publication number: 20180050276Abstract: A vertical wind tunnel skydiving simulator including a flight chamber entrance that has a curved air deflector that extends into a waiting chamber, in which a convex surface of the curved air deflector faces across or towards the flight chamber entrance or into the flight chamber, and extends into the waiting chamber a sufficient distance to substantially reduce the flow of turbulent air into the waiting chamber. The curved surface is at the top of the entrance and can also be at the sides. The shape the curved surface takes is sufficient to minimize the flow of turbulent air into the waiting chamber; the effect is to make it more comfortable and less noisy for people in the waiting area. This also helps to preserves the laminar, non-turbulent flow of air in the flying chamber, even across the flight chamber entrance. This makes flying more comfortable and predictable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Ruslan ROMANENKO, Alexandr PARMANIN, Aleksandr IVONINSKII, Svjatoslav LISIN
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Publication number: 20180050277Abstract: A floating magnetic vehicle and track toy for education and entertainment of users includes an annular plate that has an inside edge and an outside edge. A first rim, positioned adjacent to the inside edge, and a second rim, positioned adjacent to the outside edge, are coupled to and extend perpendicularly from the annular plate. A plurality of first magnets is coupled to the annular plate. The toy comprises a car that comprises a plurality of second magnets. The second magnets are positioned on the car to repel the first magnets to suspend the car above the annular plate. The first rim and the second rim are positioned on the annular plate to retain the car between the first rim and the second rim. The car is configured to be motivated around the annular plate by a pushing action of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Adam Vargas
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Publication number: 20180050278Abstract: A wearable article for soap bubble generation is provided as a liquid-resistant wearable article having a portion shaped to receive a body part. A web is provided integrally with the article having at least one hole adapted to form soap bubbles when the web is dipped in bubble solution and air is moved through the at least one hole. Preferably, the article has at least two films of liquid-resistant material sealed at a common edge and a pocket between the films. The pocket is shaped to receive a body part such as a hand (e.g., the article is glove/mitten-shaped). The films of the article substantially prevent the body part inside the pocket from touching the bubble solution when the web is dipped in the bubble solution while the article is being worn. Different sizes of holes may be provided in the web to generate different sizes of bubbles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Jenie Ping Fu, Kevin Williams, Matthew Romano, Benjamin Dominic Nimes
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Publication number: 20180050279Abstract: Methods of processing used oil vacuum tower bottoms in a heated chamber. The used oil vacuum tower bottoms are introduced into the chamber as a liquid. The used oil vacuum tower bottoms are introduced in a first section of the heated chamber. The used oil vacuum tower bottoms pass along the length of the chamber through a series of sections that are each heated to different temperatures. The sections may have varying lengths and may be heated to a variety of different temperatures. As the used oil vacuum tower bottoms progress along the length of the chamber, hydrocarbons are removed resulting in an outputted product that is substantially free of hydrocarbons and that has a substantially granular form. Vapor from the process is further captured producing vacuum gas oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: James Joseph Noble, James Ray Hanrahan
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Publication number: 20180050280Abstract: A method and crystallizer for treating produced water through the steps of feeding produced water to a porous pipe in a chamber wherein the chamber is cylindrically shaped having an interior wall with a top and a bottom; feeding gaseous nitrogen to a nozzle present in the chamber, which is in fluid communication with an interior pipe; feeding the produced water to the interior pipe wherein slush is formed in the pipe and this slush is forced through the interior pipe to the top of the chamber; operating at least one scraper which is mounted circumferentially about the porous pipe and having arms that extend outwardly from the scraper center in contact with the interior wall of the chamber wherein the scraper will remove salt crystals from the interior walls of the chamber; recovering salt crystals from the bottom of the chamber; and recovering fresh water from the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Naveed Aslam
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Publication number: 20180050281Abstract: Materials and methods for mitigating the effects of halide species contained in process streams are provided. A halide-containing process stream can be contacted with mitigation materials comprising active metal oxides and a non-acidic high surface area carrier combined with a solid, porous substrate. The halide species in the process stream can be reacted with the mitigation material to produce neutralized halide salts and a process stream that is essentially halide-free. The neutralized salts can be attracted and retained on the solid, porous substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: CRYSTAPHASE PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: UMAKANT PRAVINCHANDRA JOSHI
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Publication number: 20180050282Abstract: Provided is a stationary phase for supercritical fluid chromatography, the stationary phase having satisfactory molecule-identifying ability, in particular, satisfactory separating properties with respect to not only acidic compounds or basic compounds but also fused aromatic compounds or aromatic isomers. The stationary phase for supercritical fluid chromatography includes a support having, bonded thereto, a polymer in which the main chain has nitrogenous aromatic rings in the repeating units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kanji NAGAI, Satoshi SHINKURA
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Publication number: 20180050283Abstract: In this infiltration intake system, a structural body integrally includes a waster discharge direction control portion controlling a discharge direction for wastewater discharged from a filter toward a raw water side at a backwash time with a backwash mechanism portion in a prescribed wastewater discharge direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: Hitachi Zosen CorporationInventors: Masaki INUI, Takayuki INOUE
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Publication number: 20180050284Abstract: The present invention describes a capsule (1) intended for a liquid flow, said capsule (1) comprising an inner casing (2) which is encasing liquid processing means and the liquid flow passing the liquid processing means, and which inner casing (2) is open for inflow and outflow of liquid into and out from the capsule (1); an outer unit (3) which has means having a pressure up-taking ability for the inner casing (2), wherein the inner casing (2) and outer unit (3) may be totally separated from each other, and wherein the inner casing (2) may function as a disposable part of the capsule (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Amir Mehrdad MAHDJOUBI NAMIN, Krister UVNÄS, Ragnar Lennart SJÖSTEDT, Dag Eskil REIMHAGEN
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Publication number: 20180050285Abstract: Disclosed is a filter apparatus comprising a filter housing having a filter head (3) and a filter bowl (7), which housing accommodates a filter element that separates a non-filtrate side (15) from a filtrate side (17), and comprising a differential pressure measurement device (59), which indicates at least a blockage of the filter element during filtration operation and which has a measurement piston (91) that is guided in a measurement housing (88) in a longitudinally displaceable manner, an end face (90) of which piston being subjected to the instantaneous pressure of the non-filtrate side (15), and the opposite end face of the piston being subjected to the instantaneous pressure of the filtrate side (17), each instantaneous pressure passing into the measurement housing (88) via at least one conduit (57, 61, 65, 89). The invention is characterised in that at least a section (57, 61) of the conduit is arranged in an element cap (43) of the filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Volkmar KLEIN, Michael SAKRASCHINSKY
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Publication number: 20180050286Abstract: A filter device, having a filter housing (1) which has a filter head (3), a filter pot (7) and a removable housing cover part (51) and which accommodates a filter element (13) which separates a non-filtrate side (15) from a filtrate side (17), and having a bypass valve device which has a valve closure element (65) which is preloaded by means of a closing spring (69) into a closed position in which it bears against a valve seat part (74) and which, if the filter element (13) is blocked, passes into a position in which it opens up a fluid path from the non-filtrate side (15) to the filtrate side (17), by passing the filter element (13), is distinguished by the fact that the valve closure element (65) and the closing spring (69) are arranged on the cover part (51) and the valve seat part (74) is situated on an element cap (43) of the filter element (13), which element cap has a receiving part (45) which forms an enclosure for that end of the filter material (27) of the filter element (13) which faces toward theType: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Michael SAKRASCHINSKY, Volkmar KLEIN
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Publication number: 20180050287Abstract: As shown for example in FIG. 5), the strainer (13) has a body (2) that defines a plurality of inlet holes (3). Each of the inlet holes (3) is in fluid communication with a hollow internal chamber. In use, liquid is sucked through the holes (3), thereby straining out larger contaminants such as rocks and stones, into the hollow internal chamber and then out the outlet. The majority of the strainer (13), is formed from a resilient deformable material that allows opposed sides of the internal chamber to be brought into contact with each other in response to the application of a compressive force. Once the force is no longer being applied, the resilience of the material allows the body (2) to resiliently return to substantially its pre-deformation shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Tom Monaghan
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Publication number: 20180050288Abstract: During the process of compressing air, atmospheric air along with water vapor and airborne contaminants are ingested into the air compressor. Many of these compressors utilize oil for lubrication, sealing and cooling. A compressor system utilizes drain valves to remove the condensate that accumulates in the system which are typically located on the compressor, moisture separators, coalescing filters, receivers, dryers, and drip legs. While the drain valves successfully remove the condensate, this condensate is now contaminated with lubricant. The compressor system also includes a filter for the removal of lubricant from the condensed water so that the water can be discharged to sewer. The filter is arranged to house a series of vertically stacked filter cartridges, each cartridge structured to pass fluid flow to the other cartridge. The housing is connected to the filter cartridges via a variable length pipe extension dependent on the number of filter cartridges used in an application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Janez Jakop, David Rosenthai
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Publication number: 20180050289Abstract: During the process of compressing air, atmospheric air along with water vapor and airborne contaminants are ingested into the air compressor. Many of these compressors utilize oil for lubrication, sealing and cooling. A compressor system utilizes drain valves to remove the condensate that accumulates in the system which are typically located on the compressor, moisture separators, coalescing filters, receivers, dryers, and drip legs. While the drain valves successfully remove the condensate, this condensate is now contaminated with lubricant. The compressor system also includes a filter for the removal of lubricant from the condensed water so that the water can be discharged to sewer. The filter is arranged to house a series of vertically stacked filter cartridges, each cartridge structured to pass fluid flow to the other cartridge. The housing includes a series of outlets having removable covers that, when removed, permit discharge of filtered water.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Janez Jakop, David Rosenthal
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Publication number: 20180050290Abstract: A ballast water production method is provided. The method includes a filtering step that passes raw water supplied into a housing through a filter from a primary side that is upstream of the filter to a secondary side that is downstream of the filter; a volume-increasing step after the filtering step that increases a volume of water present in a space on the secondary side of the housing while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped; a pressurizing step after the volume-increasing step that pressurizes an inside of the housing from the secondary side while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped; and a rinsing step after the pressurizing step that passes a fluid through the filter from the secondary side to the primary side while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Yasuhiro TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20180050291Abstract: A method for separating a slurry-liquid mixture, including using a plurality of filter plates each having a groove, by respectively disposing a plurality of filter disks on the plurality of filter plates, and connecting the plurality of filter plates and filter disks on the wall of a rotational pipe in which the grooves on the filter plates communicate with the inner cavity of the rotational pipe. The method also includes adequately controlling the rotational speed of the rotational pipe and removing the filter residue accumulated on the filter disks. The method of the invention allows for improving the filter efficiency and improving reliability in filtering the slurry-liquid mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Yilong CHEN, Jiaqi JIN, Yanfeng ZHANG, Manyi JIANG
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Publication number: 20180050292Abstract: A fuel filter may include a housing and a filter element positioned within the housing. A water collection chamber may be defined in the housing and may be constructed and arranged to collect water separated from a fuel. A water level sensor may be positioned within the water collection chamber. The water level sensor may be constructed and arranged to detect a water level in the water collection chamber. The water level sensor may include an electrically conductive plastic first terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Werner Schadler
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Publication number: 20180050293Abstract: A substrate for use in a filter media including, for example, in a hydrocarbon fluid-water separation filter; methods of identifying the substrate; methods of making the substrate; methods of using the substrate; and methods of improving the roll off angle of the substrate. In some embodiments, the substrate includes a hydrophilic group-containing polymer or a hydrophilic group-containing polymer coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Bradly G. Hauser, Stephen K. Sontag, Davis B. Moravec, Stuti S. Rajgarhia, Andrew J. Dallas, Vijay K. Kapoor, Aflal Rahmathullah, Charles S. Christ, Joseph M. Block
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Publication number: 20180050294Abstract: A filter cartridge has a filter medium that is provided at least on an end face with a flange that serves for the installation of the filter cartridge in a filter arrangement, whereby the flange has a radial flange and a support section, whereby the support section extends in the lengthwise direction of the filter cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Karsten Schulz, Georg Hirsch, Juergen Klaus, Renate Tapper
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Publication number: 20180050295Abstract: A dust removal device includes: an upper cover, a base, a support body, and a dust collector. The support body couples with the upper cover and the base. The dust collector includes: a first connecting member, a second connecting member, and a dust collecting body. The dust collecting body is coupled with the first connecting member and the second connecting member and has a folded structure. When an external force enables a shape of the first dust collecting body to be changed, a distance between the first connecting member and the second connecting member is also changed. In a cleaning mode, the dust collecting body is stretched and compressed in a reciprocating manner by using a structure of the dust collecting body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Tai-Hsin HSU, Chih-Hsiung CHIOU
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Publication number: 20180050296Abstract: A filter element with at least one filter medium body and with a grip configured to hold and guide the filter element is provided. At least one locking element is arranged at the grip and configured to lock the filter element on a receiving filter housing. A filter device with such a filter element has a receiving filter housing to receive the filter element and a cover to secure the locking element in locked position on the filter housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Torsten Fritzsching, Pedro Miguel Pereira Madeira, Andreas Franz, Nadine Donauer, Martin Gruber, Joachim-Paul Krieger, Marcel Holzwarth, Manfred Winter
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Publication number: 20180050297Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a filtration element. In an embodiment, the invention includes a filtration element for an airplane cabin that includes a first media portion upstream from a second media portion. The first media portion can include activated carbon. The second media portion can include a catalyst material. Other embodiments are also included herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: William S. ROSSITER
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Publication number: 20180050298Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a water collecting device and a water collecting method each of which makes it possible to efficiently extract water absorbed as moisture in a polymeric moisture-absorbing material. The object is achieved by a water collecting device including: a stimulus applying section for applying an external stimulus which is intended to decrease the affinity with water of a polymeric moisture-absorbing material; and a vibration section for providing vibration to the polymeric moisture-absorbing material having a decreased affinity with water and thereby causing water to be released from the polymeric moisture-absorbing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: NOBUKI SAKIKAWA, YOSHIHIRO URAMOTO, TAKASHI MIYATA
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Publication number: 20180050299Abstract: Humidity absorber that does not drip, occupies a small space and can be reused, usable both outdoors and indoors, comprising a bag that houses a sack that in turn contains a hygroscopic material, the bag being made of a 3D spacer material configuring a single cavity that houses the sack, provided with an opening having closing means, the opening allowing the sack to be introduced in the cavity or removed from the same such that the sack with hygroscopic material can be replaced to reuse the absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Eva Schmidt Dios
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Publication number: 20180050300Abstract: An on-board aircraft dried inert gas system includes a source inert gas containing water, an air cycle or vapor cycle cooling system, and a heat exchanger condenser. The heat exchanger condenser has a heat absorption side in thermal communication with the air cycle or vapor cycle cooling system. The heat exchanger condenser has a heat rejection side that receives the inert gas containing water and outputs dried inert gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Jonathan Rheaume, Brian St. Rock, Charles E. Lents
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Publication number: 20180050301Abstract: A method for extending useful life of a sorbent for purifying a gas by sorption of an impurity is provided. The method generating a electrical discharge within the gas to obtain a spectral emission representative of a concentration of the impurity. The method also includes monitoring the concentration of the impurity according to the spectral emission. The method also includes lowering the concentration of the impurity by conversion of at least a portion of the impurity into a secondary impurity having a greater affinity to the sorbent than the impurity. The method also includes comparing the concentration of the impurity to a polluting concentration and managing the sorption of the gas onto the sorbent according to the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Yves GAMACHE
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Publication number: 20180050302Abstract: A cement solidification device for waste includes a slurrying vessel 14 that dissolves and slurries waste 11 containing harmful substances and deliquescent compounds in solvent water 12 to obtain slurried material 13; an iron-based additive supply unit 16 that adds an iron-based additive 15 to the slurrying vessel 14; a cement kneading vessel 20 that adds a cement solidifying agent 17 from a cement-solidifying agent supply unit 18 to the slurried material 13 in which the iron-based additive 15 is mixed to obtain a cement kneaded product 19; and a cement solidification unit 22 that cures the cement kneaded product 19 to form a cement solidified product 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Kamiyama, Seiji Kagawa, Tetsu Ushiku, Satoru Sugita, Toshihiro Fukuda
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Publication number: 20180050303Abstract: Method for the purification of exhaust gas from the production of cement clinker in a rotary kiln, in which raw materials are ground in a mill to form raw meal, raw meal is preheated in countercurrent in a preheater with exhaust gas from the rotary kiln and optionally precalcined, preheated and optionally precalcined raw meal is supplied to the rotary kiln and burned in the rotary kiln to form cement, the exhaust gas from the rotary kiln is denitrified before entering the preheater of a selective non-catalytic nitrogen oxide reduction with a reagent which provides ammonia, and wherein, according to the invention, the exhaust gas from the preheater is subjected to gas conditioning and catalytic oxidation of ammonia. The object is further solved by means of a device for gas conditioning and catalytic oxidation which is arranged between the preheater and the mill.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: HEIDELBERGCEMENT AGInventor: Stefan FEDERHEN
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Publication number: 20180050304Abstract: A sorbent composition for removing mercury from flue gas, including a powdered sorbent having a fifty percent distribution particle size of from about 20 micrometers to about 75 micrometers. The invention also include a method of cleaning flue gas, the method including injecting a powdered sorbent into the flue gas, wherein the powdered sorbent has a fifty percent distribution particle size of from about 20 micrometers to about 75 micrometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: David W. Mazyck, Regina Rodriguez, Christine O. Valcarce
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Publication number: 20180050305Abstract: In one aspect the invention provides a fumigant gas capture apparatus. This apparatus includes at least one channel adapted for connection to a volume containing a fumigant gas, the channel defining an inlet which receives gas and an outlet which allows gas to exit the channel. The apparatus also includes at least one drive structure arranged to drive fumigant gas through the channel, at least one spray nozzle adapted to deliver a treatment liquid into the channel, and at least one packing element positioned within the channel to allow a spray nozzle or nozzle to spray treatment liquid on to the packing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Nicholas Mark SELF
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Publication number: 20180050306Abstract: The method of simultaneous removal of NO and carbonic particles and inorganic dust from flue gases in the reactor equipped with the catalyst for direct decomposition of nitric oxide located on a metallic monolith consists in tangential introduction of flue gases to the reactor circumfer-ence generating rotational flow of the flue gases downwards of the reactor with simultaneous flow disturbance due to flue gases contact with undulating surface of metallic foil located on an inner wall of the reactor chamber and split of the flue gases by contact with the catalyst located on a spiral band falling to the lower part of the reactor, and next flue gases jet direction counter-currently to a cylindrical inner chamber containing the slices of the monolithic catalyst disturbing laminar flow of the flue gases jet. The deposited solid particles of the pollutants are collected in the lower part of the re-actor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2012Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Mieczyslawa NAJBAR, Ryszard LECH, Marek DANIELEWSKI, Janusz BUDZIOCH
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Publication number: 20180050307Abstract: An exhaust purification device purifies an exhaust gas exhausted from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust purification device has a three-way catalytic agent that is located in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and a particulate filter that is located downstream of the three-way catalytic agent in the exhaust passage and that collects an exhaust particulate. The particulate filter is provided with cells that includes sealed-inlet cells of which upstream ends are sealed and through cells through which an upstream side and a downstream side of the particulate filter communicate with each other. The particulate filter is arranged at a location where a temperature of the exhaust gas reaching an upstream end of the particulate filter is higher than or equal to a combustion temperature of the exhaust particulate, when the three-way catalytic agent is in an active state and when the internal combustion engine is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Shingo NAKATA, Takao MISHIMA
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Publication number: 20180050308Abstract: Disclosed are an extendable pressurized-type hollow fiber membrane module which facilitates improvement of filtrate quality through a multistep-filtration, enhanced easiness of installation and maintenance, decrease of footprint, and/or enlargement of filtration apparatus (without causing decrease of permeate flux of a unit hollow fiber membrane), and a filtration apparatus manufactured using the same. The filtration apparatus of the present invention comprises first and second pressurized-type hollow fiber membrane modules, wherein an inlet port of the first pressurized-type hollow fiber membrane module for introducing feed water and an outlet port of the second pressurized-type hollow fiber membrane module for discharging filtrate or air are coupled to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventor: Ah Reum LEE
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Publication number: 20180050309Abstract: The present invention discloses high selectivity copolyimide membranes for gas, vapor, and liquid separations. Gas permeation tests on these copolyimide membranes demonstrated that they not only showed high selectivity for CO2/CH4 separation, but also showed extremely high selectivities for H2/CH4 and He/CH4 separations. These copolyimide membranes can be used for a wide range of gas, vapor, and liquid separations such as separations of CO2/CH4, He/CH4, CO2/N2, olefin/paraffin separations (e.g. propylene/propane separation), H2/CH4, He/CH4, O2/N2, iso/normal paraffins, polar molecules such as H2O, H2S, and NH3 mixtures with CH4, N2, H2. The high selectivity copolyimide membranes have UV cross-linkable sulfonyl functional groups and can be used for the preparation of UV cross-linked high selectivity copolyimide membranes with enhanced selectivities. The invention also includes blend polymer membranes comprising the high selectivity copolyimide and polyethersulfone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Chunqing Liu, Sudipto Chakraborty, Nicole Karns
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Publication number: 20180050310Abstract: This invention discloses a membrane composition, a method of making, and applications for a new type of high selectivity, high plasticization-resistant and solvent-resistant, both chemically and UV cross-linked polyimide membranes. Gas permeation tests on these membranes demonstrated that they not only showed high selectivities, but also showed extremely high CO2 plasticization resistance under CO2 pressure up to 4923 kPa (700 psig). This new type of high selectivity, high plasticization-resistant and solvent-resistant, both chemically and UV cross-linked polyimide membranes can be used for a wide range of gas separations such as separations of H2/CH4, He/CH4, CO2/CH4, CO2/N2, olefin/paraffin separations (e.g. propylene/propane separation), O2/N2, iso/normal paraffins, polar molecules such as H2O, H2S, and NH3 mixtures with CH4, N2, H2, and other light gases separations. The membranes can also be used for liquid separations such as in the removal of organic compounds from water.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Chunqing Liu, Howie Q. Tran