Patents Issued in September 20, 2018
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Publication number: 20180264368Abstract: A padded grating system comprising sheets of multiple composite members secured together with multiple support bars or battens, wherein each composite member preferably consists of an elongated rigid bar with a foam layer adhered thereto which are encapsulated by a PVC or plastic water impervious tube or sleeve that has been heated and shrunk thereon. The sheets are specifically designed to be used in connection with water rides such as the FlowRider® and can be modularly installed on site to cover certain drainage areas. The composite members are preferably made by gluing the rigid bars onto a sheet of foam and cutting the foam sheet to form the composite members, and after the tube or sleeve has been heat shrunk around each one, the ends of the composite members are then cut and sealed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Thomas J. Lochtefeld
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Publication number: 20180264369Abstract: An item includes a first portion, a second portion coupled to the first portion, and a flap movable between a first position in which the first and second portions together define a first configuration, and a second position, in which the first and second portions together define a second configuration having a different appearance from the first configuration. The flap includes a first surface having a first face represented thereon, the second portion includes a covering having a second face represented thereon, such that when the flap is in the first position, the first face is revealed on the second portion and the second face is hidden underneath the flap, and when the flap is in the second position, the second face is revealed on the second portion and the first face is hidden adjacent the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Joseph A. Sutton
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Publication number: 20180264370Abstract: A toy figure such as a doll has at least a portion thereof such as a head covered in a conformal coating that is easily peeled away. The coating has separation lines such as die cuts in it that allow different portions of the coating to be independently peeled away. The different portions of the coating have tabs, or string embedded therein, or other means for grasping those portions respectively. The child peels away one portion of the coating to reveal a first part of the figure, then another portion of the coating to reveal more of the figure, and finally the character is revealed once all of the coating portions have been peeled away. In this way the figure is slowly revealed to the child in an interactive process that involves the child. The slow reveal helps to arouse the child's sense of excitement and anticipation as the child slowly and serially uncovers and thus reveals different parts of the doll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: MGA Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Blanche Consorti, Marc Goodrich, Paula Garcia
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Publication number: 20180264371Abstract: The present disclosure provides a human-powered entertainment device. The entertainment device includes an inflatable base and a paddling component which is connected with the inflatable base, wherein the paddling component is adapted to swing when a force is imposed thereon, so as to perform paddling in water to make the human-powered entertainment device move on water. Accordingly, the entertainment device of the present disclosure can be driven to move and low in cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Shuiyong HUANG
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Publication number: 20180264372Abstract: A ride-on, wheeled toy picks up small objects from a plane surface. The ride-on toy can be driven by the feet of a child sitting on the toy or by the hands of a person standing behind the toy. The pick-up mechanism of the toy is a continuous gear and belt system with flexible sweeping fins. The pick-up mechanism can be activated or deactivated by a push button or switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Tova Bernbaum, Eliezer Leider
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Publication number: 20180264373Abstract: A toy construction set includes first and second construction elements, a pin, and a fastener including a body and a head. Each of the first and second construction elements includes through-holes and grooves on two major surfaces, respectively, of the construction element. A thickness of each groove is substantially the same. At at least one end of each groove, an edge of the groove is curved. The pin includes a body having a cavity and a member. A first portion of an edge of the member is curved, and a second portion of the edge of the member is straight. A thickness of the member is not larger than the thickness of each groove. The member of the pin is fixed in place in one of the grooves of the first construction element when the first and second construction elements are coupled by the pin and the fastener so as to constrain the pin from rotating with respect to an axis of the body of the pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Zuobing WANG, Zhiguang DAI
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Publication number: 20180264374Abstract: A device for converting a liquid into vapor, having an evaporation surface, a liquid inlet, a heater for heating the evaporation surface, a flow controller, a control unit configured to control a liquid flow rate injected into the liquid inlet, a chamber containing the evaporation surface, and a temperature sensor arranged on the evaporation surface. The control unit is configured to control a heating power of the heater according to a flow rate and to a temperature measured by the temperature sensor according to a predetermined control law. The predetermined control law varies, for each flow rate, non-linearly and inversely proportionally to the difference between a reference temperature of the chamber and the measured temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Andre CHATROUX
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Publication number: 20180264375Abstract: The invention is directed to a device and associated method for recovering at least one product from a fermentation broth. The invention relates to the use of a vacuum distillation vessel to recover products, such as ethanol, from a fermentation broth, where the fermentation broth comprises viable microbial biomass, and where the recovery of the product is completed in such a manner to ensure the viability of the microbial biomass. The invention provides for product recovery at an effective rate so as to prevent the accumulation of product in the fermentation broth. To ensure the viability of the microbial biomass, the invention is designed to reduce the amount of stress on the microbial biomass. By ensuring the viability of the microbial biomass, the microbial biomass may be recycled and reused in the fermentation process, which may result in an increased efficiency of the fermentation process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Paul Alvin Sechrist, Nicholas Bourdakos, Robert John Conrado, Allan Ha Gao, Jason Carl Bromley, Christophe Daniel Mihalcea
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Publication number: 20180264376Abstract: A method of real-time prognosis of a flooding phenomenon in a packed column includes steps as follows. An online data collection step is conducted, wherein a plurality of values of a pressure drop are collected from the packed column under operation. A detrending step is conducted to obtain a plurality of values of a detrended pressure drop. A fitting step is conducted, wherein the values of the detrended pressure drop are fitted with an EGARCH(p, q) model to obtain a value of at least one of model coefficients. A repeat step is conducted to obtain another value of the at least one of model coefficients. A statistical step is conducted, wherein a value of the monitoring statistic is calculated. A control step is conducted, wherein the value of the monitoring statistic is compared to a control limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Yuan YAO, Bo-Fan HSEUH
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Publication number: 20180264377Abstract: A crystallization column and a crystallization method. The crystallization column comprises an upper head (1), a tower body (2) and a lower head (3), wherein a crystallization section (11) is provided with a tray (14); and the tray (14) comprises a tray plate (15) and a plurality of lower crystallization members (17). The top end of the lower crystallization member (17) can form a movable connection with the tray plate (15), so that the two adjacent lower crystallizing members (17) are capable of oscillating collisions. The tray (14) may also comprise a plurality of upper crystallization members (21) extending upwardly from the upper surface of the tray plate (15).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Deqiang PENG, Huimin QI, Luyao WANG, Xin CHEN, Fanfei MENG, Yan WANG, Jie LIU
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Publication number: 20180264378Abstract: A system and method for removing residual glutaraldehyde from a natural polymer scaffold crosslinked with glutaraldehyde is provided. The system includes a cleaning solution comprising carbon dioxide and one or more polar solvents and an environmental chamber that can include and a treatment chamber. The environmental chamber is maintained at a temperature greater than 31.1° C. and the carbon dioxide is maintained at a pressure greater than 7.38 megapascals to form supercritical carbon dioxide. A crosslinked natural polymer scaffold treated via the glutaraldehyde removal system and method can have a glutaraldehyde content of less than about 3 parts per million. A crosslinked natural polymer scaffold cleaning solution comprising supercritical carbon dioxide and one or more polar solvents is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Dominic M. Casali, Michael A. Matthews
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Publication number: 20180264379Abstract: A device and method for extracting a solute from a substrate using a hydrocarbon solvent is disclosed. The device includes a storage tank for storing solvent at temperature T1 and pressure P1, with T1 and P1 below the boiling point. A material column is included for holding the substrate and a compression pump to pump the solvent from the storage tank to the material column at a second pressure P2 to leach the substrate material of solute, P2 being higher than P1. A collection vessel is included for receiving the solvent/solute solution. The collection vessel being configure to separate the solute from solvent by raising the solution to a second temperature T2 above the boiling point of the solvent. A heat exchanger for liquefying the solvent gas before the solvent is transferred back to the storage tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Linden Noble
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Publication number: 20180264380Abstract: A water absorbing and releasing body that absorbs water in engine oil and releases water when the temperature of the engine oil is high in order to maintain the performance of the engine oil, automotive parts including the water absorbing and releasing body, and a method for producing the water absorbing and releasing body for engine oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicants: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro KUDO, Ippei FUKUTOMI, Yasuhiro SHIMAKURA, Yoji HORIUCHI
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Publication number: 20180264381Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating an aqueous suspension of solid mineral particles arising from the extraction of ores, comprising the following steps: a soluble polymer is prepared in water, comprising: o at least one non-ionic monomer, selected from the group consisting of acrylamide; methacrylamide; N-monoderivatives of acrylamide; N-monoderivatives of methacrylamide; N,N-derivatives of acrylamide; N,N-derivatives of methacrylamide; acrylic esters; methacrylic esters; N-vinylformamide; and N-vinylpyrrolidone; o at least one anionic monomer representing between 10 and 70 mol %, selected from the group consisting of monomers having a carboxylic functional group and salts thereof; monomers having a sulphonic acid functional group and salts thereof; monomers having a phosphonic acid functional group and salts thereof; o at least one cationic monomer representing between 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: S.P.C.M. SAInventor: Morgan TIZZOTTI
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Publication number: 20180264382Abstract: In one example, a core cover includes an inner wall that defines a fluid passageway configured to communicate with an interior of a filter core when the core cover is engaged with the filter core. As well, the core cover includes an outer wall spaced apart from the inner wall, and a complementary structure located on the outer wall and configured to engage a corresponding complementary structure of a filter core. Finally, the core cover includes one or more indicia that indicate a flow rate, or range of flow rates, associated with the core cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Nikhil P. Dani, Russell Bell
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Publication number: 20180264383Abstract: A filter cartridge having a bypass filtration media is described. The filter cartridge includes main filtration media. In some arrangements, the main filtration media includes first filtration media and second filtration media that has a different filtering efficiency than the first filtration media. The filter cartridge is configured to be installed in a filtration system having a bypass mode. While in the bypass mode, fluid passing through the filtration system is allowed to bypass the main filtration media. To avoid unfiltered fluid from passing from the inlet of filtration system to the outlet (e.g., and on to an internal combustion engine), the fluid flows through the bypass filtration media (e.g., during cold start conditions). In some arrangements, the bypass filtration media has a lower filtering efficiency than the main filtration media.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Inventors: Sonali Bisurkar, Amit S. Wankhede, Hariprasad M. Bhalerao, Shrikant A. Kamble, Christopher E. Holm, Peter K. Herman, Arun P. Janakiraman
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Publication number: 20180264384Abstract: A combination gas and fluid filter housing for supporting said gas and fluid filter media, having a first subassembly for supporting the gas filter media, and a second subassembly for supporting the fluid filter media, the second subassembly having ingress and egress ports at an end opposite of the first subassembly attachable to a manifold, the first and second subassemblies removably attached to one another such that the first subassembly is removable from said second subassembly to facilitate gas filter media replacement without disconnecting the second subassembly ingress and egress ports from the manifold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Robert Roth, Blake Savoy, Jerome Barrillon
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Publication number: 20180264385Abstract: A filter media for dewatering slurry is disclosed. The filter media comprises: a first layer comprising a polypropylene-containing fabric, the polypropylene-containing fabric comprising felt having a random needled felt weave; a second layer comprising a polypropylene-containing fabric, the polypropylene-containing fabric comprising felt having a random needled felt weave; and a third layer provided between the first layer and the second layer, the third layer comprising a polyester-containing fabric, the polyester-containing fabric comprising monofilament polyester. A method of manufacturing the filter media is further disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Brent Stokes
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Publication number: 20180264386Abstract: The present disclosure relates to filter media comprising base filter fibers and cellulose filaments. For example, cellulose filaments can increase at least one mechanical property of the filter media as compared to filter media prepared from the base filter fibers alone. The disclosure also relates to various processes for preparing a filter medium, processes for increasing filtration efficiency of a filter medium, processes for increasing a minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) rating of a filter medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: François DROLET, Michelle Agnes RICARD, Cloé BOUCHARD-AUBIN, Natalie PAGÉ, Gilles DORRIS
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Publication number: 20180264387Abstract: A filter precleaner for precleaning an unfiltered gaseous mixture. A coalescing filter includes a filter media for filtering a gas, a nozzle assembly for precleaning an unfiltered gaseous mixture, and a lower endplate. The nozzle assembly includes a first nozzle plate positioned upstream of the filter media. The lower endplate is positioned at a lower end of the filter media beneath the first nozzle plate. The lower endplate allows liquid to drain through the lower endplate. The unfiltered gaseous mixture impacts the lower endplate such that liquid from the unfiltered gaseous mixture flows through the lower endplate and gas from the unfiltered gaseous mixture flows through the filter media.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Inventors: Brian K. Wagner, Anil I. Sawant, Madhuri S. Gawali
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Publication number: 20180264388Abstract: A filter bank includes a filter enclosure. A first filter panel and a second filter panel are flexibly joined along respective proximal ends of the first filter panel and the second filter panel by a living hinge. A first sealing gasket extends along a distal end of the first filter panel and forms a first air seal within the filter enclosure. A second sealing gasket extends along a distal end of the second filter panel and forms a second air seal within the filter enclosure. A third sealing gasket extends along the living hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Nino V. Silvestro
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Publication number: 20180264389Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator in which short-passing of combustion gas is prevented. A cylindrical filter 30 including a first annular end surface 32 abutted against a top plate 12 and a second annular end surface 33 abutted against a bottom plate 21 is disposed inside a housing 10. A corner portion 75 formed by a bottom surface 71 and an outer circumferential wall 74 of a support member 70 is abutted against an abutting portion between the second annular end surface 33 and the bottom plate 21 to prevent the short-passing of the combustion gas from this portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiro IMOTO, Masayuki YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20180264390Abstract: Provided is a ventilation and air cleaning device for a protective cover installed at a four-wheel or three-wheel baby carriage, the ventilation and air cleaning device includes at least one natural ventilation type filter so that an inside of the baby carriage cover is naturally ventilated due to temperatures of the inside and outside of the baby carriage cover and/or a pressure difference therebetween and furthermore, air is purified so that an infant or child who rides on a seat of the baby carriage is calmed, the infant's or child's health is kept in good condition and the infant or child takes comfortable sleep.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Eui-Woong KIM
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Publication number: 20180264391Abstract: A system and method for maintaining, monitoring and improving air quality and purity in a room or environment, such as a hospital room or operating room.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Aerobiotix, Inc.Inventor: David Louis Kirschman
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Publication number: 20180264392Abstract: An air filter medium includes a first porous PTFE membrane and a second porous PTFE membrane. An average fiber diameter of fibers included in the first porous PTFE membrane is 0.24 to 0.45 ?m, an average fiber diameter of fibers included in the second porous PTFE membrane is 0.04 to 0.23 ?m, the air filter medium has a first main surface and a second main surface, and the first porous PTFE membrane and the second porous PTFE membrane are arranged so that an air flow moving from the first main surface to the second main surface passes through the first porous PTFE membrane and subsequently through the second porous PTFE membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi NIKI, Masaaki MORI, Shiho WADA, Atsushi DAIMON
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Publication number: 20180264393Abstract: A gas chromatograph includes a separation column, a column oven, a heat insulating material covering an outer surface of the column oven, a sheet metal covering an outside of the heat insulating material, a detector including a detection unit disposed outside the sheet metal, a flow path part of the detector communicating with the detection unit and being connected to the separation column through upper surfaces of the sheet metal, the heat insulating material, and the column oven, and an outside seal member interposed between the sheet metal and the heat insulating material on at least the upper surface side of the column oven and blocking an outward fluid movement from an inside of the sheet metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Masayuki OKADA, Ryuta SHIBUTANI
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Publication number: 20180264394Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a metal-organic framework (MOF) composition comprising one or more metal ions, a plurality of organic ligands, and a solvent, wherein the one or more metal ions associate with the plurality of organic ligands sufficient to form a MOF with kag topology. Embodiments of the present disclosure further include a method of making a MOF composition comprising contacting one or more metal ions with a plurality of organic ligands in the presence of a solvent, sufficient to form a MOF with kag topology, wherein the solvent comprises water only. Embodiments of the present disclosure also describe a method of capturing chemical species from a fluid composition comprising contacting a MOF composition with kag topology and pore size of about 3.4 ? to 4.8 ? with a fluid composition comprising two or more chemical species and capturing one or more captured chemical species from the fluid composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Mohamed Infas Haja MOHIDEEN, Karim ADIL, Youssef BELMABKHOUT, Mohamed EDDAOUDI, Prashant M. BHATT
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Publication number: 20180264395Abstract: A cartridge mounting an air treatment material has a housing. The air treatment material is received within the housing, and spaced from inner walls of the housing by a plurality of resilient sheets. The air treatment material is hydroxide sheets. There is an inlet direction into the housing for air flowing across the air treatment material and an outlet opening on an opposed end of the housing. There are top and bottom surfaces and side surfaces forming a perimeter about the air treatment material. The resilient sheets extend substantially continuously across the side surfaces and the top and bottom surfaces at least at the inlet end to increase airflow across the air treatment material. An enclosed inhabited space is also disclosed and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: James R. O'Coin, Leonard P. Senofonte, Elliot I. Jung, Gennaro Bonfiglio
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Publication number: 20180264396Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for regenerating a sorbent material of a scrubber, configured for scrubbing a contaminant from indoor air from an enclosed space. Some embodiments include a sorbent material portion (SMP) including a sorbent material, which may be configured to be cycled between an adsorption phase for adsorbing a contaminant from indoor air, and a regeneration phase configured for releasing at least a portion of the contaminant adsorbed by the sorbent material during the adsorption phase thereof, via temperature swing adsorption, into a purging airflow.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Enverid Systems, Inc.Inventors: Udi MEIRAV, Israel BIRAN
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Publication number: 20180264397Abstract: The present invention is to prevent an absorption member from dropping off while reducing damage to the absorption member. An absorption rotor includes plural spokes extending in a radial manner from the circumference of the rotation axis, a tubular rim 4 coupling end portions of the plural spokes, an absorption member accommodated in a space which is surrounded by the plural spokes and the rim, the absorption member that absorbs a substance to be absorbed when a gas passes through, and a drop-off prevention member respectively fixed to the spoke and the absorption member, the drop-off prevention member that prevents the absorption member from dropping off the spoke. The drop-off prevention member is arranged between the absorption member and the spoke, and between a surface from which the gas flows into the absorption member and a surface from which the gas flows out of the absorption member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Yusuke CHIGIRA, Katsuhiro YAMASHITA, Tomohiro DEGUCHI, Masahiro TSUZAKI, Teruzi YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20180264398Abstract: Hydrogen generation assemblies and methods of generating hydrogen are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method may include receiving a feed stream in a fuel processing assembly of the hydrogen generation assembly; and generating a product hydrogen stream in the fuel processing assembly from the received feed stream. Generating a product hydrogen stream may, in some embodiments, include generating an output stream in a hydrogen generating region from the received feed stream, and generating the product hydrogen stream in a purification region from the output stream. The method may additionally include receiving the generated product hydrogen stream in a buffer tank of the hydrogen generation assembly; and detecting pressure in the buffer tank via a tank sensor assembly. The method may further include stopping generation of the product hydrogen stream in the fuel processing assembly when the detected pressure in the buffer tank is above a predetermined maximum pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Element 1 Corp.Inventors: David J. Edlund, Robert Schluter
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Publication number: 20180264399Abstract: A membrane contactor system for separating CO2 from a mixed gaseous feed stream comprising CO2, said contactor system comprising: (i) a composite membrane, said membrane having a permeate side and a retentate side; (ii) said retentate side being exposed to a mixed gaseous feed stream comprising carbon dioxide; (iii) said permeate side being exposed to a carbon dioxide capture organic solvent; (iv) said composite membrane comprising a porous layer and a non-porous selective polymer layer, said non-porous selective polymer layer selectively allowing transport of CO2 across the composite membrane from said mixed gaseous feed stream so that it dissolves in said capture solvent whilst limiting the transport of said capture solvent across the composite membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Liyuan Deng, Luca Ansaloni, May-Britt Hägg, Hallvard Fjøsne Svendsen, Hanna Knuutila
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Publication number: 20180264400Abstract: The invention relates to a device for attenuating an exhaust-gas noise, comprising a hollow chamber, which has an inlet for the exhaust gas, and comprising an absorber section, wherein the hollow chamber is closed form at the end spaced apart from the inlet, and the hollow chamber has, between the closed end and the inlet, a passage to the absorber section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Sylke Waldschmidt-Schroer, Till Amtmann
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Publication number: 20180264401Abstract: An apparatus that functions as an influent multiple passage reactor adaptable to simultaneously carry out a series of functions including effluent contaminant dissociation and molecular oxidation utilizing electrolytic and catalytic reactions is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a concentric outside that may be constructed of an electrically conductive material to serve as a first electrode. A smaller second concentric electrode mounted inside the outside housing may serve as a first cathode, with a third but smaller concentric electrode mounted inside the first cathode serving as a second anode, with yet a fourth but even smaller concentric electrode mounted inside the second anode serving as a second cathode and thereof (with additional anode/cathodes further included as desired). Between each electrode an influent passageway is formed with the series of electrodes and passageways stabilized by two slotted end caps which also serve to seal the apparatus housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Michael GREEN
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Publication number: 20180264402Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and compositions for cleaning gas. The use of segmented multistage ammonia-based liquid spray with different oxidation potentials to remove sulfur compounds from gas. The use of different oxidation potentials may reduce unwanted ammonia slip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Jing Luo, Changxiang Xu
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Publication number: 20180264403Abstract: Calcium hydroxide-containing compositions can be manufactured by slaking quicklime, and subsequently drying and milling the slaked product. The resulting calcium hydroxide-containing composition can have a size, steepness, pore volume, and/or other features that render the compositions suitable for treatment of exhaust gases and/or removal of contaminants. In some embodiments, the calcium hydroxide-containing compositions can include a D10 from about 0.5 microns to about 4 microns, a D90 less than about 30 microns, and a ratio of D90 to D10 from about 8 to about 20, wherein individual particles include a surface area greater than or equal to about 25 m2/g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Michael John Tate, Jared Ira Leikam, Michael Roach, Joseph Lewis, Shiaw Tseng
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Publication number: 20180264404Abstract: A system for carbon dioxide capture from a gas mixture comprises an absorber that receives a lean solvent system stream (containing a chemical solvent, physical-solvent, and water) from the stripper, a stripper that receives the rich solvent stream from the absorber and produces the product carbon dioxide and the lean solvent through the use of a reboiler in fluid communication with a lower portion of the stripper, a condenser in fluid communication with a vapor outlet of the stripper, a cross-exchanger in fluid communication with a rich solvent system outlet from the absorber and a rich solvent system inlet on the stripper, and a splitter. The splitter is configured to separate the rich solvent system stream into a first portion and second portion, where the first portion directly passes to the stripper and the second portion passes through the cross-exchanger prior to passing to the stripper.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Fluor Technologies CorporationInventors: Paul M. MATHIAS, Satish REDDY
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Publication number: 20180264405Abstract: The present invention provides a method for performing a decomposition treatment on a VOC and/or a gas-phase inorganic reducing compound in a gas through ozone oxidation, by which further enhancement of efficiency in oxidative decomposition reaction by ozone is achieved, a decomposition treatment can be performed efficiently on a high-flow rate exhaust gas containing substances such as a VOC and a malodorous substance in low concentrations, and the amount of ozone to be used can be reduced in a method for performing oxidative decomposition treatment with ozone on a VOC and the like using a high silica adsorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Jun IZUMI, Kaori FUKAHORI, Toru KAWAKAMI, Akira NISHIO
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Publication number: 20180264406Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial volatile organic compounds (VOC) processing system that includes a first phase processing structure, a second phase processing structure, a sensor detection device and a computer. The first phase processing structure includes a spraying chamber having an array of sprinklers for circularly spraying lytic enzyme solution to the VOC. The second processing structure includes a biodegradation chamber wherein microbial nutrient solution is circularly used for nourishing microbes that gnaw the VOC particles. The sensor detection device includes two detectors, one placed in the inlet side, and the other one placed in the outlet side of the system, detecting the content of the organic gas and sending the data to the computer. The computer calculates and compares in a real time the ratio of the contents of the organic gas in the inlet side and the outlet side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: YAO ZHANG
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Publication number: 20180264407Abstract: The present invention provides a system for processing VOC passing through a pipe structure. The pipe structure includes one or more stackable sections for heating decomposition of VOC molecules in the exhaust that passes through the sections and a self-powered cap assembly coupled to the outlet end of the pipe structure. The cap assembly includes a wind turbine mechanically coupled to a generator that supplies electricity to an electronic assembly and to the electrothermal converter in each of the heat decomposition sections. The heat decomposition section includes a paraboloidal heating dish which is coaxially fixed in a cylindric structure with its opening end facing the cap assembly. The electrothermal converter is placed in the focus of the paraboloidal dish. The exhaust gas that passes through the heating decomposition section rotates the turbine that further drives the generator through a shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: YAO ZHANG
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Publication number: 20180264408Abstract: An apparatus is provided for carrying out a process for removing N2O and NOx from offgases by catalytic decomposition of N2O by means of iron-containing zeolite catalysts and catalytic reduction of the NOx by means of reducing agents, the deNOx stage connected downstream of the deN2O stage being operated at inlet temperatures of T<=400° C., and the inlet gas for the deN2O stage comprising water and having a selected N2O/NOx ratio, and the operating parameters of temperature, pressure and space velocity of the deN2O stage being selected so as to result in an N2O degradation of 80 to 98%. Under these conditions, a degree of NOx oxidation of 30-70% is established at the outlet of the deN2O stage, which is defined as the ratio of the molar amounts of NO2 to the total molar amount of NOx. The result of this is that the downstream deNOx stage can be operated under optimal conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Meinhard SCHWEFER, Michael GROVES, Christian PERBANDT, Rolf SIEFERT
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Publication number: 20180264409Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a high-performance exhaust gas purifying catalyst that can achieve oxygen absorption/release capacity and NOx purification performance. The object is solved by an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, which comprises a ceria-zirconia composite oxide having a pyrochlore-type ordered array structure in the upstream part of the catalyst coating layer, in which the ceria-zirconia composite oxide contains at least one additional element selected from the group consisting of praseodymium, lanthanum, and yttrium at 0.5 to 5.0 mol % of the total cation amount, and has a molar ratio of (cerium+the additional element):(zirconium) of 43:57 to 48:52.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa SUZUKI, Takeru YOSHIDA, Masahide MIURA, Isao CHINZEI, Mitsuyoshi OKADA, Toshitaka TANABE, Akihiko SUDA, Hirotaka ORI, Akiya CHIBA, Kosuke IIZUKA, Akira MORIKAWA
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Publication number: 20180264410Abstract: Disclosed is a method of enhancing a rejection performance of a semipermeable membrane by pressurizing and feeding a liquid containing a rejection performance enhancer to a primary side of the semipermeable membrane to come into contact with a membrane surface thereof, the method including: a step of changing, at least once during the feeding, a pressure or an osmotic pressure of the liquid containing the rejection performance enhancer at a fluctuation rate of 0.05 MPa/s or more, or a feed flow rate to the semipermeable membrane, thereby changing at least either a pressure acting on the membrane surface or a permeation flow rate from that at the time of normal treatment, followed by maintaining.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INCInventors: Masahide Taniguchi, Hiroo Takabatake, Kazuya Sugita
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Publication number: 20180264411Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to methods of manufacturing a multi-leaf membrane module for filtering product fluid flow (e.g., food products or wastewater) and such multi-leaf membrane modules. In an embodiment, a multi-leaf membrane module is disclosed. The multi-leaf membrane module includes a permeate fluid flow tube defining a permeate fluid flow channel for permeate, and a membrane sheet spirally wound about the permeate fluid flow tube. The membrane sheet includes two or more leaves. Each of the two or more leaves includes a feed spacer including at least one opening formed therein that at least partially defines a feed channel for product fluid flow therethrough and a permeate structure defining a permeate fluid flow channel. The permeate structure of each of the two or more leaves includes at least one membrane and at least one porous permeate spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: John Herron
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Publication number: 20180264412Abstract: Fluid separation membrane module assembly with a vessel (7) having a tubular shape with a tubular surface and two opposite end apertures and one or more fluid separation membrane modules (12) positioned along a centerline of the vessel (7). Each fluid separation membrane module (12) comprises membrane elements configured for separating a feed flow into a residual flow and a permeate flow. Adjacent ones of the one or more fluid separation membrane modules (12) are fluidly connected together. The fluid separation membrane module assembly further comprises a feed and permeate connection assembly (6) closing off one of the two opposite end apertures of the vessel (7). The feed and permeate connection assembly (6) has a feed connector (5) and a permeate connector (3). The feed connector (5) and the permeate connector (3) are positioned off-center in the feed and permeate connection assembly (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicants: FUJIFILM MANUFACTURING EUROPE B.V., FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Erwin Michael Toet, Yujiro Itami, Adrianus Johannes Antonius van Geffen, Misha Dennis
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Publication number: 20180264413Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane having achieved both strength and water-permeable properties. This composite semipermeable membrane is provided with a substrate, a porous support body disposed on the substrate, and a separation function layer provided on the porous support body. The substrate has a structure provided with a crimped portion and a non-crimped portion. The porous support body is impregnated inside a crimped portion and inside a non-crimped portion of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Shuji FURUNO, Hiroho HIROZAWA, Takao SASAKI, Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20180264414Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a membrane are described. The method includes causing a nanomaterial to contact at least a portion of a wall of at least on channel extending through a membrane, and causing the nanomaterial to adhere to the portion of the wall of the at least one channel. A fluid filtration system is also described. The filtration system includes a housing and a filter membrane. The housing may have a reservoir and a filter compartment. The filter membrane may have a channel extending therethrough. The channel may have a plurality of micropores along a wall thereof. The filter compartment may be configured to receive the filter membrane therein, the filter membrane configured to guide fluid thereacross to remove substances from the fluid or to modify substances in the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: University of MarylandInventors: Liangbing Hu, Fengjuan Chen, Amy Gong
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Publication number: 20180264415Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous material in which at least the pores of the porous material are lined with nanoparticles capable of treating fluids or fluid mixtures that pass through the pores of the porous material and whose treating properties can be fully reinstated through heating the porous material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Zonglin Chu, Stefan Seeger
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Publication number: 20180264416Abstract: This disclosure relates to a hydrophilic graphitic material. The graphitic material may be a carbon nanotube film having superior chemical, mechanical and electrical properties compared to traditional membrane materials. The hydrophilic graphitic material includes a kosmotropic polymer or kosmotropic molecule coating that increases the hydrophilicity of a graphitic material. Methods for preparing the hydrophilic graphitic material are disclosed along with potential applications and uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Chunhong LI
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Publication number: 20180264417Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a container for the production of a foamed sclerosant composition, to kits and systems including such a container, to methods for preparing a foamed sclerosant composition using such containers, and to foamed sclerosant compositions obtainable by such methods. In an aspect, the container comprises a sealed sterile container body having one or more sidewalls extending between a top and a bottom of the container body and defining a foaming space. The container further comprises a mixing element disposed in the container body. The container contains a previously introduced gas and liquid sclerosant composition. The mixing element is configured to be operatively coupled with a rotatable actuator without the actuator reaching the foaming space. A medical professional may select the appropriate quantity and concentration for every treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Enrique ROCHE REBOLLO, Guiu LLUSÁ MELÉNDEZ