Patents Issued in March 13, 2018
  • Patent number: 9914089
    Abstract: An absorption method includes: a step for preparing a minute passage; a main circulation step for circulating, in the minute passage, a gas as a first fluid containing a component to be absorbed and an absorbing liquid as a second fluid so that the component to be absorbed is absorbed from the gas into the absorbing liquid; and a sub-circulation step for circulating, while the gas and the absorbing liquid are circulated in the minute passage, a third fluid in the minute passage in order to raise the pressure inside the minute passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Koji Noishiki, Akitoshi Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 9914090
    Abstract: Vapor-liquid contacting apparatuses and methods for removing contaminants from gas streams are provided. In an embodiment, a vapor-liquid contacting apparatus includes a vortex contacting stage having a contacting zone bound by a wall and defining an axis, a radially inner region surrounding the axis, and a radially outer region adjacent the wall. The vapor-liquid contacting apparatus also includes a feed conduit configured to direct flow of a feed gas into the radially outer region of the contacting zone in a direction tangential to the axis to form a vortex. Further, the vapor-liquid contacting apparatus includes a liquid conduit configured to deliver a liquid absorbent stream to the radially inner region in the contacting zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Lev Davydov, Xiaoming Wen, Lubo Zhou
  • Patent number: 9914091
    Abstract: A method for cool drying gas, making use of a heat exchanger whose primary section forms the evaporator of a cooling circuit with a compressor, an expansion valve and a bypass pipe across the compressor with a hot gas bypass valve, whereby the method makes use of a formula that makes the link between the state of the expansion valve and hot gas bypass valve, whereby on the basis of this formula: either the state of the expansion valve is adjusted as a function of the state of the hot gas bypass valve; or adjusting the state of the hot gas bypass valve as a function of the state of the expansion valve or vice versa; or the states of both valves are controlled with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap
    Inventors: Maarten Kooyman, Johan Hendrik R. De Herdt, Frank Jacques E. Roelants, Frits Cornelis A. Baltus
  • Patent number: 9914092
    Abstract: A method for cool drying gas by guiding gas through the secondary section of a heat exchanger whose primary section forms the evaporator of a closed cooling circuit in which a coolant can circulate by means of a compressor that is followed by a condenser and expansion means through which the coolant can circulate, whereby use is made of an air-cooled condenser with a frequency controlled fan, and the method comprises the step of controlling the speed of the aforementioned fan so that the condenser pressure is kept equal to a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Maarten Kooyman, Johan Hendrik R. De Herdt, Frank Jacques E. Roelants, Frits Cornelis A. Baltus
  • Patent number: 9914093
    Abstract: Methods for the heat treatment of a material flow and the cleaning of resulting exhaust gases are disclosed. The material flow may be preheated in a preheating zone, burned in a sintering zone, and cooled in a cooling zone. Exhaust gases of the sintering zone may flow through a preheater and be used for preheating the material flow. The exhaust gases leaving the preheater may be cooled at least partially in a comminuting device in interconnected operation or at least partially in a cooling device in direct operation. Exhaust gases may then be at least partly dedusted in a dust filter. A temperature of the dedusted exhaust gas may then be raised before the exhaust gas is cleaned of pollutants in at least one catalyst. A temperature at which the exhaust gases flow through the catalyst in direct operation may be higher, at least in phases, than a temperature at which the exhaust gases flow through the catalyst in interconnected operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Melanie Flaβpöhler, Kathrin Rohloff, Timo Stender
  • Patent number: 9914094
    Abstract: A marine exhaust gas scrubbing device including an enclosure having a first end and a second end, an exhaust gas inlet, at least one quencher, at least one pre-treater, at least one venturi component including a venturi inlet and a venturi outlet, an impingement basket, at least one demister, an exhaust gas outlet, and a receiver, and a process for scrubbing a marine exhaust gas including cooling the exhaust gas, pre-treating the exhaust gas, washing the exhaust gas, mixing the exhaust gas and exhausting the scrubbed exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: MARINE EXHAUST SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Garth E. Jenkins, Kiley G. Sampson, David S. Dumont, Seyed Milad Mousavi
  • Patent number: 9914095
    Abstract: A method utilizes a three-way catalytic converter, having a catalyst formed from a plurality of particles each including a first metal oxide center, a second metal oxide monolayer, and a catalytically active metal to decrease concentration of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas during stoichiometric, rich, and lean conditions, wherein a molar ratio of metal in the monolayers to metal in the centers is between about 0.01 and 0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Gregory Getsoian, Joseph Robert Theis, Christine Kay Lambert
  • Patent number: 9914096
    Abstract: An integrated waterway assembly of a reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration device includes a main body, a shut off valve, a mounting shelf, a top cover, a bottom cover and a fixing ring. Water to be filtered sequentially goes through a water inlet, a shut off valve, a RO cartridge joint and a check valve, and a filtered water outlet on the main body to get the water filtered. The RO cartridge joint on a bottom portion of the main body is connected with a RO cartridge, and water enters the RO cartridge and further flows through the RO cartridge joint to get the water filtered. Given the foregoing structure, the water filtration device is structurally compact and integrated and has less water leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: XIAMEN RUNNER INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan Zheng Sun, Mang Lu, Jing Ming Li
  • Patent number: 9914097
    Abstract: In a first membrane filtration module comprises a membrane module comprising a plurality of permeable hollow membranes; a fluid distribution device adapted to removably surround at least a portion of the membranes of the membrane module, the fluid distribution device comprising a plurality of through-hole openings for distributing a fluid, and the fluid distribution device adapted to distribute a flow of fluid along a surface of the permeable hollow membranes. In a second membrane filtration device comprises a membrane module comprising a plurality of permeable hollow membranes, each of the permeable hollow membranes having a surface; and a gas distribution device: adapted to distribute gas bubbles to the surface of the permeable hollow membrane, adapted to removably surround at least a portion of the plurality of permeable hollow membranes, and defining a plurality of through openings for distributing the gas bubbles to the membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Gregory Biltoft, Zhiyi Cao, Jen Thai Law, Huw Alexander Lazaredes
  • Patent number: 9914098
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an additive that may be used in the manufacture of thin-film polyamide composite membranes. Thin-film polyamide composite membranes are used in filtration processes, such as reverse osmosis and nanofiltration. The additive may be an amino-siloxane compound. The amino-siloxane compound includes repeated groups of silicon bonded to oxygen with at least one amine functional group. Optionally, the amino-siloxane compound may also include a hydrophilic group. The additive reacts with an aqueous phase and an organic phase to form a thin polyamide film on a porous substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventors: Xingpeng Zhang, Lawrence C. Costa, Steven John Harrold, Babu Narayanswamy
  • Patent number: 9914099
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include methods for the production of porous membranes. In certain aspects the methods are directed to producing polymeric porous membranes having a narrow pore size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventors: Klaus-Viktor Peinemann, Suzana Nunes
  • Patent number: 9914100
    Abstract: A dialysis concentrate production system includes a container and a stationary production system. The container comprises a discharge port and a combined port. The stationary production system comprises a storage container comprising a mixing inlet and an outlet, a delivery pump arranged downstream of the outlet, a first water jet pump arranged downstream of the delivery pump, and a second water jet pump arranged downstream of the delivery pump and parallel to the first water jet pump. The first water jet pump comprises a driving inlet in fluid communication with the delivery pump, a suction port in fluid communication with the combined port, and an outlet. The second water jet pump comprises a driving inlet in fluid communication with the delivery pump, a suction port in fluid communication with the discharge port, and an outlet in fluid communication with the mixing inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTERMEDT MEDIZIN & TECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Dumschat
  • Patent number: 9914101
    Abstract: A mixing bit having an elongated shaft configured to fit into a chuck of a drill at a first end also has a second end is provided with a blade assembly having a plurality of specifically shaped and equally-spaced blades. The blades extend perpendicularly from the shaft and then converge onto the shaft at a distal end of the second end. The bit is provided with a rounded spinner feature enabling smooth sliding of the device across a floor portion of a container during mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan Schrudder, Victoria Schrudder
  • Patent number: 9914102
    Abstract: A receptacle includes a cardboard box in which is arranged a plastics container. A first securement element associated with the plastics container is positioned in a gap defined by the cardboard of the box thereby to restrict movement of the container within the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Jones, John Pickles, Harry Baker
  • Patent number: 9914103
    Abstract: A method for processing liquids and suspensions using shockwaves that includes providing an apparatus including a shockwaves generation and processing sections and a reaction products dumping tank or reservoir; placing media to be processed into the shockwaves processing section through continuous or intermittent injection; introducing a pressurizing gas into the shockwaves generation section; introducing a detonable mixture into the shockwaves generation section; causing formation of at least one of a shockwave within the shockwaves generation section by igniting the detonable mixture so that at least one of a shockwave propagates from detonation section into shockwaves processing section; utilizing physical, chemical, biological or mechanical effects of the shockwaves in the shockwaves processing section; purging detonation products and pressurizing gas from the shockwaves generation section into reaction products dumping tank; and repeating to achieving a pre-determined degree of processing liquids, liquid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventor: Shmuel Eidelman
  • Patent number: 9914104
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and processes for three phase contacting and reactions in a cross flow reactor with reduced feed vaporization, low pressure operation, higher liquid holdup, lower reactor pressure drop, low severity operation, and reduced product inhibitory effects. A cross flow reactor for three phase catalytic hydroprocessing, having at least one reactor stage is disclosed. The reactor stage has a central gas distributor with perforated lateral surface for distributing gas, a middle region accommodating a packed catalyst bed, and an outer gas space for removal of effluent gases from the middle region. The middle region receives a liquid reactant and gas from central gas distributor to carry out three phase catalytic hydroprocessing reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Prashant Udaysinh Parihar, RaviKumar Voolapalli, Srinivasulu Kaalva
  • Patent number: 9914105
    Abstract: A suspension fluid prepared by dispersing polyethylene oxide particles into a solvent including water and one or more types of compounds selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol, and a method for manufacturing the same. The phase-change suspension fluid can be a shear-thinning fluid showing a constant newtonian behavior in a low shear rate or low frequency region, but showing a non-newtonian behavior appearing as liquid-like suspension in a high shear rate or high frequency region due to viscosity decrease, and is capable of reversible phase changes by the vibration of a vehicle, and therefore, may provide effects of having advantages of a hydraulic bush in a low frequency region and also having advantages of a solid bush in a high frequency region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jong Min Park, Jae Sik Seo, Kyung Mo Yang, Dae Sung Chang, Hyung Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 9914106
    Abstract: A method of making silicone microspheres comprises nebulizing a silicone precursor solution comprising one or more oligomeric dimethylsiloxanes, a catalyst and a solvent into an aerosol comprising a plurality of droplets. Each droplet comprises the silicone precursor solution. The droplets are entrained in a gas which is flowed through a reaction zone comprising light energy and/or heat energy. Upon exposure of the droplets to the light energy and/or the heat energy, the solvent evaporates and the one or more oligomeric dimethylsiloxanes are polymerized. Thus, silicone microspheres are formed from the droplets of the aerosol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Kenneth S. Suslick, Nitin K. Neelakantan, Jacqueline M. Rankin
  • Patent number: 9914107
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of increasing the capacity of an existing urea plant. With reference to the regular components of a urea plant, including a synthesis section comprising a high pressure carbamate condenser and a reactor, and a recovery section, the method comprises installing an additional reactor between the recovery section and the high pressure carbamate condenser. The additional reactor is preferably installed in connection with an ejector, so as to allow ground placement of the additional reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: STAMICARBON B.V.
    Inventors: Fredericus Henricus Maria Buitink, Luc Louis Maria Dieltjens
  • Patent number: 9914108
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for exfoliating a laminar material to form an exfoliated material, in which the laminar material is ultrasonicated in a solution of a surfactant for sufficient time to form the exfoliated material. At all times during the ultrasonication the concentration of the surfactant in the solution is maintained sufficient to form a complete monolayer on the surfaces of the laminar material and the exfoliated material in the solution, or sufficient to sterically stabilize the laminar and exfoliated materials against aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Australian National University
    Inventor: Shannon Notley
  • Patent number: 9914109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to zeolitic adsorbents based on agglomerated crystals of FAU zeolite comprising barium and/or potassium, with large external surface area, combining optimum properties in terms of selectivity and mechanical strength. These adsorbents find applications in the separation of cuts of C8-aromatic isomers and notably of xylenes, in the separation of isomers of substituted toluene such as nitrotoluene, diethyltoluene, toluenediamine, in the separation of cresols, and polyhydric alcohols, such as sugars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Catherine Laroche, Philibert Leflaive, Ludivine Bouvier, Serge Nicolas, Cecile Lutz, Marie-Laurence Labede
  • Patent number: 9914110
    Abstract: Mesoporous activated carbon having a mesopore structure of at least about 10%. In at least some embodiments, the activated carbon may be coconut shell-based. The enhanced activated carbon may have an intraparticle diffusion constant of at least about 40 mg/g/hr1/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Adam M. Redding
  • Patent number: 9914111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mercury-containing wastewater treatment technology field, in particular to an attapulgite-crosslinked chitosan composite adsorbent and its solid-phase synthetic method. The attapulgite-crosslinked chitosan composite mercury adsorbent in the invention is synthesized by the method of adding chitosan and glutaraldehyde in batches. In consideration of the limited solubility of chitosan, batch addition can not only dissolve chitosan, but also minimize the use of organic acid, resulting in less discharge of wastewater and waste gas, which is suitable for large-scale industrial production. The prepared mercury adsorbent can be applied to the removal of mercury ions in the wastewater owing to the excellent adsorptive property and regeneration performance. Meanwhile, the solid-phase synthetic procedure for preparing the mercury adsorbent is simple, easy to handle and environmental-friendly. Moreover, the product cost is greatly reduced due to the use of attapulgite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Wuhu Gefeng Green Technology Research Center Co., Ltd., Shandong Wuzhou Detection Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Feng, Menglu Shi, Wengui Zhang, Huanghe Wu, Weiwei Liang, Zhifeng Lan, Jian You, Changlu Zhang
  • Patent number: 9914112
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbent polymer particles by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a surrounding heated gas phase in a reactor comprising a gas distributor (3), a reaction zone (5) and a fluidized bed (27), the gas leaving the reactor is treated in a condenser column (12) with an aqueous solution, the treated gas leaving the condenser column (12) is recycled at least partly to the fluidized bed (27), wherein the gas leaving the condenser column (12) comprises from 0.05 to 0.3 kg steam per kg dry gas and the steam content of the gas entering the gas distributor (3) is less than 80% of the steam content of the gas leaving the condenser column (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Bauer, Norbert Herfert, Jürgen Freiberg, Rudolf Schliwa, Karl J. Possemiers, Robert Bayer
  • Patent number: 9914113
    Abstract: Process for hydrocracking and/or hydrotreatment of hydrocarbon feeds utilizing a catalyst comprising at least one hydro-dehydrogenating element of group VIB and of non-precious group VIII used alone or mixed, and a support comprising at least one porous mineral matrix and at least one dealuminated USY zeolite having an overall silicon-to-aluminium atomic ratio comprised between 2.5 and 10, a fraction by weight of extra-network aluminium atom greater than 10% relative to the total mass of the aluminium present in the zeolite, a mesopore volume measured by nitrogen porosimetry greater than 0.07 ml.g?1, and a crystal parameter a0 of the elemental mesh greater than 24.28 ?, in which a quantity of the element nickel comprised between 0.5 and 3% by weight relative to the total mass of the zeolite is deposited on said USY zeolite and in which said catalyst is in the sulphide form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Jeremy Francis, Laurent Simon, Emmanuelle Guillon, Nicolas Bats, Avelino Corma, Christophe Pichon
  • Patent number: 9914114
    Abstract: Method for the preparation of a metal exchanged crystalline microporous metalloaluminophosphate or mixtures containing metal exchanged microporous metalloaluminophosphates materials comprising the steps of providing a dry mixture containing a) one or more metalloaluminophosphates starting materials that exhibit ion exchange capacity, and b) one or more metal compounds; heating the mixture in a gaseous atmosphere containing ammonia to a temperature (less than 300 C) and for a time sufficient to initiate and perform a solid state ion exchange of ions of the metal compound and ions of the crystalline microporous material; and obtaining the metal-exchanged microporous metalloaluminophosphate material or mixtures containing the metal-exchanged microporous metalloaluminophosphate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Ton V. W. Janssens, Peter N. R. Vennestrøm
  • Patent number: 9914115
    Abstract: Catalysts include five-membered nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds as ligands for metal ions which have catalytic activity. The catalysts are used to electrolessly plate metal on metal clad and un-clad substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Kristen M. Milum, Donald E. Cleary, Maria A. Rzeznik
  • Patent number: 9914116
    Abstract: A microelement includes: a base being a body of the microelement, the base including a liquid inlet for a liquid to be introduced, a liquid outlet for the liquid to be discharged, and a groove for the liquid to flow from the liquid inlet toward the liquid outlet; a cover that covers the groove of the base; and a liquid flow controller film segment that is fixed to an inner surface of the cover so as to be opposite to the groove. The liquid flow controller film segment is arc-shaped curved-band-like extending in a direction crossing a flow direction of the liquid and has a radius about a center-corresponding position of the cover corresponding to a center of the liquid outlet of the groove. The liquid flow controller film segment is exposed in the groove and disposed on the downstream side to an exposed surface at the inner surface of the cover in the flow direction of the liquid in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuoki Hishida, Makoto Iyoda
  • Patent number: 9914118
    Abstract: A technique relates to a nanogap array. A substrate has been anisotropically etched with trenches that have tapered sidewalls. A sacrificial layer is on bottoms and the tapered sidewalls of the trenches. A filling material is formed on top of the sacrificial layer in the trenches. Nanogaps are formed where at least a portion of the sacrificial layer has been removed from the tapered sidewalls of the trenches while the sacrificial layer remains on the bottoms of the trenches. Each of the nanogaps is formed between one tapered sidewall of the substrate and a corresponding tapered sidewall of the filling material. The one tapered sidewall of the substrate opposes the corresponding tapered sidewall. A capping layer is disposed on top of the substrate and the filling material, such that the nanogaps are covered but not filled in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yann A. Astier, Markus Brink, Michael F. Lofaro, Joshua T. Smith
  • Patent number: 9914119
    Abstract: A system that includes a cartridge housing and a hollow transfer module, according to an embodiment is described herein. The cartridge housing further includes at least one sample inlet, a plurality of storage chambers, a plurality of reaction chambers, and a fluidic network. The fluidic network is designed to connect the at least one sample inlet, a portion of the plurality of storage chambers and the portion of the plurality of reaction chambers to a first plurality of ports located on an inner surface of the cartridge housing. The hollow transfer module includes a second plurality of ports along an outer surface of the transfer module that lead to a central chamber within the transfer module. The transfer module is designed to move laterally within the cartridge housing. The lateral movement of the transfer module aligns at least a portion of the first plurality of ports with at least a portion of the second plurality of ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: STAT-Diagnostica & Innovation, S.L.
    Inventors: Jordi Carrera Fabra, Anna Comengés Casas, Rafael Bru Gibert
  • Patent number: 9914120
    Abstract: A device for use in imaging a liquid sample comprises an inlet for accepting the sample, a connection conduit and a detection chamber for detection of the sample, preferably optical detection of the sample. The connection conduit connects the inlet to the detection chamber and contains one or more dry reagents for reaction with the sample as the sample passes through the connection conduit. Specific embodiments include devices arranged for treating a blood sample, in particular lysing and staining the sample. The liquid flow may be driven by capillary effect. The device may further include liquid handling structures arranged for centrifugally driven liquid flow, for example to meter a volume of sample and separate the sample into phases by centrifugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Biosurfit S.A.
    Inventors: João Manuel De Oliveira Garcia Da Fonseca, Ricardo Cabeça
  • Patent number: 9914121
    Abstract: A tube for chemical, biological or biotechnological matter is provided, wherein the tube has a positioning element, the positioning element shaped for engagement in a corresponding structure provided in a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: QIAGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Sasa Lazevski, Thomas Voit
  • Patent number: 9914122
    Abstract: A sample ampoule for calorimetric measurements includes a vial, a lid and a sealing member. The vial, lid and sealing member are adapted to form a hermetically sealed sample ampoule. The vial has a first contact surface and the lid has a second contact surface, the first and second contact surfaces are in contact with each other in a sealed position of the ampoule, and the vial and lid are formed out of materials with different strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SYMCEL SVERIGE AB
    Inventors: Christer Wallin, Magnus Jansson
  • Patent number: 9914123
    Abstract: A cover for a biological sample well tray, comprising a cap for sealing a sample well. The cap comprises a well lens for focusing light into the sample well and collecting light from the sample. In another aspect, the cap comprises an elongate portion configured to permit incoming light to pass into the sample well and out of the sample well. Various other aspects comprise a microcard for biological material, and an apparatus for a plurality of sample well strips. A method for testing a biological sample is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene F. Young, Steven J. Boege, Donald R. Sandell
  • Patent number: 9914124
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus includes a fluid reservoir and a dispensing assembly. The dispensing assembly includes a housing and a deformable member that define a metering chamber that is configured to receive a predetermined volume of fluid from the fluid reservoir. The deformable member is deformed from a rest position to an eject position and the deformation causes the volume of the metering chamber to change which results in a change in fluid pressure within the metering chamber. An increase in the fluid pressure within metering chamber causes a predetermined volume of fluid within the metering chamber to be ejected and a decrease in the fluid pressure within the metering chamber causes fluid to be drawn into the metering chamber from the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAKURA FINETEK U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Xuan S. Bui
  • Patent number: 9914125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for carrying out chemical or biological reactions, having a reaction vessel receiving element for receiving a microtiter plate with several reaction vessels, where the reaction vessel receiving element has several recesses arranged in a regular pattern to receive the respective reaction vessels, a treating device for heating the reaction vessel receiving element, and a cooling device for cooling the reaction vessel receiving element. The reaction vessel receiving element is divided into several segments so that the individual segments are thermally decoupled from one another, and each segment is assigned a heating device which can be actuated independently of the others. By means of the segmentation of the reaction vessel receiving element, it is possible for zones to be set and held at different temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Wolfgang Heimberg, Thomas Herrmann, Matthias Knulle, Markus Schurf, Tilmann Wagner
  • Patent number: 9914126
    Abstract: A component for a storage container configured to receive vertically oriented articles. The component includes a tubular sidewall extending longitudinally from a base, and at least one spacer portion extending from an underside of the base and configured for engagement with an interior surface of a corresponding storage container. The component also includes at least one pair of retainer elements extending laterally from an inner surface of the tubular sidewall and inwardly into an interior region of the component, and with the retainer elements being oppositely oriented and configured to retain a vertically oriented article therebetween by frictional engagement with opposite longitudinal edges of the article, and wherein an insertion force for resilient deflection of the retainer elements during insertion of the article is less than a removal force for resilient deflection of the retainer elements during removal of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank A. Chan
  • Patent number: 9914127
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for controlling the position of a movable jaw of a jaw crusher includes a hydraulic cylinder having a piston with a piston rod for positioning the movable jaw. The hydraulic cylinder has a bore side space for containing a hydraulic fluid taking up crushing forces exerted by the movable jaw on the piston rod, and an annular side space containing a hydraulic fluid pressing the piston against hydraulic fluid of the bore side space. The hydraulic system further includes an annular side space accumulator having a fluid compartment, which is in fluid contact with the annular side space, and a gas compartment containing a pressurized gas applying a pressure on the hydraulic fluid in the annular side space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Kristian Burhoff, Patrik Sjoberg, Andreas Wood
  • Patent number: 9914128
    Abstract: A top wear plate for the rotor of a rock crusher, wherein the rotor includes a rotor body, the rotor body having an upper surface. The top plate includes a lip positioned about and descending vertically from the underside of the outer circumference of the lip wear plate, the lip including a protrusion to engage with a complementary recess on the top surface of the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Metso Minerals, Inc.
    Inventor: Clint Hackworth
  • Patent number: 9914129
    Abstract: This invention relates to a wear part for the rotor of a rock crusher, the rotor including at least one outlet port, and a mounting bar, wherein the wear part is configured to engage with the mounting bar, the wear part including: a body having an upper surface and a lower surface, the body also including a surface configured to abut against the outlet port, characterized in that the wear part is configured with a channel having substantially an U-shaped cross section running between the upper surface and the lower surface of the body, the channel having a mouth and a location portion, wherein the locating portion is complementary to the width of the mounting bar; wherein the exterior surface of the bottom portion of the U-shaped cross section includes a lateral projection and abuts the outlet port in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Metso Minerals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hackworth Clint, Chandrasekaran Prem, Omundsen Shane, Dew Joseph
  • Patent number: 9914130
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and system for grinding fragmentary starting material, in particular ores, with a dry grinding system. An embodiment of the method includes the steps of determining the moisture of starting material for a certain period of time, preparing at least one screening stage, the cut point of which is selected depending on the determined moisture in such a manner that the moisture of a screen oversize does not exceed a predetermined moisture limit value when starting material having the determined moisture is fed to the screening stage, feeding starting material to the screening stage, transferring a screen oversize arising in the screening stage to the dry grinding system, and grinding the screen oversize in the dry grinding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventor: Egbert Burchardt
  • Patent number: 9914131
    Abstract: A wood-based cement additive is formed by mixing high-density pellet particles of various sizes. The additive is to be introduced into a cement source to create a slurry mixture. The density of the mixture of pellet particles is selected to be less than the density of the particular cement type in which the pellet particles are introduced. The pellet particles are formed from sawdust or fiber pressed under high pressure, resulting in brittle pellets. The pellets may then be crumbled and screened into particles of an appropriate size. The particles do not disassociate into their constituent materials when mixed with the cement, and thus maintain their density during use in the cementing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Fiber Resources, Inc.
    Inventor: William R. Weaver
  • Patent number: 9914132
    Abstract: A system for processing a heterogeneous material includes a conduit for a pressurized fluid and a nozzle assembly in fluid communication with the conduit. The nozzle assembly includes a plurality of adjustable nozzles configured such that fluid streams passing through each nozzle intersect at an oblique angle after passing through the nozzles. At least one of the fluid streams comprises a heterogeneous material. A method of processing a heterogeneous material includes entraining heterogeneous particles into at least one fluid stream, passing the fluid stream through an adjustable nozzle, impacting the fluid stream with another fluid stream at an oblique angle to ablate the heterogeneous particles, and classifying the heterogeneous particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventors: Michael J. Pilgrim, David H. Scriven
  • Patent number: 9914133
    Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator for an air purifier includes a first spiral strip having a continuous conductive electrode, a second spiral strip having a continuous conductive electrode and nested with the first strip, a plurality of combs. Each comb extends from an outer periphery of the precipitator to an intermediate region between the outer periphery and a center of the precipitator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: FKA Distributing Co., LLC
    Inventor: Mordechai Lev
  • Patent number: 9914134
    Abstract: An air cleaning system has a field charger comprising a plurality of bars comprising a conductive inner core and a non-conductive overmold, and a plurality of pins attached to the bars and extending out of the non-conductive overmold. The conductive inner core is molded over the plurality of pins, conductively connecting the pins, and the non-conductive overmold is molded over the conductive inner core. A method of manufacturing the field charger includes placing a plurality of metal pins in a mold, placing contact points in the mold, molding a conductive resin over at least a portion of the plurality of pins and contact points, molding an insulating resin over the inner core, plurality of pins, and contact points, wherein at least a portion of the pins and contact points extend from the non-conductive overmold, and mounting an earthplate to the conductive overmold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Jameson, Mark D. Woodruff, Jay E. Field
  • Patent number: 9914135
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the selection or processing of particles sensitive to the application of an external stimulus, in which is produced, by applying the external stimulus, the rupture/lysis of at least one selected particle or the fusion of first and second selected particles, by means of the organization of the particles using a first field of force by selectively energizing electrodes of an array of selectable electrodes having dimensions comparable to or smaller than those of the particles, applying to the electrodes a first configuration of stresses; and by applying to the electrodes a second configuration of stresses, so as to create a second field of force, located substantially close to at least one selected particle to be lysated or to a pair of first and second particles to be fused and such as to produce the application of a stimulus suited to produce their lysis or fusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Menarini Silicon Biosystems S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicolò Manaresi, Gianni Medoro, Mélanie Abonnenc
  • Patent number: 9914136
    Abstract: A chemical treatment process and separation module are described for removal of soluble organic compounds and suspended or emulsified oils and/or solids from produced waters that accompany operations for oil and gas recovery. The process occurs in its entirety within an interval of several minutes. The solubility of organic compounds is first reduced, in an optional step, by pH reduction, followed by treatment with coagulants and flocculants, the latter in conjunction with microbubble flotation. The organic compounds that are rendered insoluble, along with other oily solids, are captured in the floe created by the coagulant and flocculant treatment, and simultaneously made buoyant by the concurrent addition of microbubbles. The water and floe is passed over an array of sloped strainers that separates and diverts the floe from the effluent water, which contains significantly reduced soluble organic content. The separated stream of oily solids can be dewatered for disposal as waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Aquero Company, LLC, 1257 122 Alberta Ltd.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Webber, T. Daniel Sikes, C. Steven Sikes
  • Patent number: 9914137
    Abstract: A method of removing impurities from silicates or clays through selective flocculation. The method comprises mixing a chemical product with silicates or clays, where the chemical product comprises a copolymer of acrylic acid, acrylamide, or a combination of acrylic acid and acrylamide with at least one of the following monomers: hydroxyl ethyl methacrylate, 2-acrylamido-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid, and/or 3-allyloxy-1,2-propanediol, or a derivative thereof; allowing impurities to separate from the silicates or clays; and removing the impurities from the silicates or clays. The chemical product may further comprise tannic acid, where the active tannic acid to active polymer concentration is 1% to 25% tannic acid, or more particularly 1% to 5% tannic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Arr-Maz Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Lucas R. Moore, David Taylor, Kevin Price, Guoxin Wang
  • Patent number: 9914138
    Abstract: A separation disc for a centrifugal separator and a method for manufacturing the separation disc are disclosed. The separation disc is of metal material and adapted to be compressed in a stack of separation discs inside a centrifugal rotor for separating a liquid mixture. The separation disc has a truncated conical shape with an inner surface and an outer surface and a plurality of spacing members extending a certain height above at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface for providing interspaces between mutually adjacent separation discs in the stack. The spacing members are of such small size that each one of them has a width which is less than 2 mm along the surface of the separation disc. The surface of the separation disc is configured with a distribution pattern of the small-sized spacing members, in such a way as to provide equidistant interspaces in the compressed disc stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Sven-Åke Nilsson, Peter Thorwid
  • Patent number: 9914139
    Abstract: 1. A hydrocyclone for separating a fiber suspension into a heavy fraction and including a distribution head for supplying a fluid to the separation chamber, which distribution head is situated centrally in the separation chamber relatively close to the other end. The distribution head has at least one outlet passage designed for spraying a fluid jet, the fluid jet having a flow component in the direction towards the other end of the separation chamber, and the fluid jet having another flow component directed towards the one end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: GL&V Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Valentina Kucher, Gunnar Liliengren, Jan Backman