Patents Issued in March 5, 2019
  • Patent number: 10220340
    Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric that comprises first fibers, and a second nonwoven fabric that comprises second fibers. The second nonwoven fabric is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric. An average fiber diameter D1 of the first fibers and an average fiber diameter D2 of the second fibers satisfy a relation of D1>D2. In viewed from a side of a principal surface of the second nonwoven fabric being not opposed to the first nonwoven fabric, a total area of first portions of the second fibers superimposed on the first fibers and existing on the nearer side than the first fibers is larger than a total area of second portions of the second fibers existing and superimposed on voids S of the first nonwoven fabric formed of the first fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Motomura, Takahiko Murata, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Takatoshi Mitsushima
  • Patent number: 10220341
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventions include a filter frame and an air filter. The air filter has filtration media and a wood fiber-based filter frame securing filtration media. The filter frame having an upstream facing surface. The upstream facing surface having an orientation substantially perpendicular to a direction of air flow through the filter. The filter additionally having a plurality of sides coupled to the upstream facing surface, the plurality of sides having an orientation substantially parallel to the direction of air flow through the filter, the direction of air flow through the filter defining an exterior side of the filter frame; and a folded edge defined between the upstream facing surface and a first side of the plurality of sides, the folded edge having a debossing on the exterior side of the filter frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CAMFIL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Mohamed Zied Driss, Joseph John Gorman, Donald Dean Thornburg, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10220342
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a graduated filtering assembly is disclosed. The graduated filtering assembly comprises a filter module that is inserted into a receiving duct. A series of filters of graduating sizes are contained inside the filter module. Each of the filters are inside filter trays which allow them to be removed and replaced when needed. The filtering assembly filters either liquid or gas fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Grant Getts, Seth Myer
  • Patent number: 10220343
    Abstract: An air filter for a fuel cell vehicle may include a first filtration layer formed in a two-layered dust holding structure, a gas adsorption layer formed of amorphous activated carbon, a second filtration layer having amorphous pores formed therein, and a cover layer for maintaining a physical form of the air filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Sang-Cheol Baek, Chan-Jung Jung
  • Patent number: 10220344
    Abstract: A filter cartridge has a folded filter medium that is formed into a prism at least in regions and comprises two interconnected end folds, and which filter cartridge is constantly or cyclically subjected to stresses, specifically subjected to stresses from dedusting by means of pressure surges, is characterized in that the end folds overlap one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KG
    Inventors: Karsten Schulz, Georg Hirsch, Andreas Krahmer, Rainer Kaffenberger, Hans Wiegand
  • Patent number: 10220345
    Abstract: Provided are apparatus and systems for performing a swing adsorption process. This swing adsorption process may involve passing streams through adsorbent bed units to remove contaminants, such as water, from the stream. As part of the process, the adsorbent bed unit is purged with a purge stream that is provided from the overhead of the demethanizer. The configuration integrates a RCTSA dehydration system with a cryogenic recovery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Ananda K. Nagavarapu, Bennett D. Marshall
  • Patent number: 10220346
    Abstract: Provided are apparatus and systems for performing a swing adsorption process. This swing adsorption process may involve passing streams through adsorbent bed units to treat the feed stream to remove certain contaminants from the stream. In the method and system, active valves may be used with passive valves to manage the flow of the streams through the adsorbent bed units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Tracy A. Fowler, Richard A. Huntington, John W. Fulton
  • Patent number: 10220347
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recovering methane from a gas stream comprising methane and ethylene, comprising: a sorption step which comprises contacting the gas stream comprising methane and ethylene with a sorption agent which has a lower affinity for methane than for ethylene, wherein the gas stream comprising methane and ethylene also comprises a compound for which the sorption agent has a lower affinity than for methane and ethylene, resulting in sorption of ethylene and methane by the sorption agent and in a gas stream comprising the compound for which the sorption agent has a lower affinity than for methane and ethylene; a first desorption step which comprises desorbing part of the sorbed methane resulting in a gas stream comprising methane in an amount of 1 to 99.9% based on the amount of methane in the gas stream that is subjected to the sorption step; and a second desorption step which comprises desorbing sorbed compounds resulting in a gas stream comprising the desorbed compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Sivakumar Sadasivan Vijayakumari, Charles-Edouard Sanders
  • Patent number: 10220348
    Abstract: A process for desorbing CO2 gas from an ion-rich aqueous mixture comprising bicarbonate and hydrogen ions, includes providing micro-particles in the ion-rich aqueous mixture; and feeding the ion-rich aqueous mixture into a desorption reactor; the micro-particles comprising a support material and biocatalysts supported and stabilized by the support material and being sized and provided in a concentration in the desorption reactor such that the micro-particles are carried with the ion-rich aqueous mixture to promote transformation of the bicarbonate and hydrogen ions into CO2 gas and water, thereby producing a CO2 gas stream and an ion-depleted solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CO2 Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Sylvie Fradette, Julie Gingras, Norman Voyer, Jonathan Carley, Glenn R. Kelly, Olivera Ceperkovic
  • Patent number: 10220349
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for separating starch from processing solutions containing starch containing plants or roots such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, wheat, corn, tapioca, yams, cassaya, sago, rice, pea, broad bean, horse bean, sorghum, konjac, rye, buckwheat and barley to provide commercially acceptable starch while reducing disposal of solid or liquid waste matter into landfills or water treatment facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Bell, Mark Vander Hoff, Todd Benson, Marc Pugh, Joseph Peters
  • Patent number: 10220350
    Abstract: A membrane filtration module configured for use in a filtration reactor, the module comprising: hollow fiber membranes configured to perform filtration of feed fluid in the reactor; and a vibration mechanism configured to vibrate the hollow fiber membranes to generate shear stresses on the surface of the hollow fiber membranes for reducing fouling of the hollow fiber membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wing-Keung Adrian Law, Tian Li, Anthony Gordon Fane
  • Patent number: 10220351
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a porous material having a surface that is concurrently both superhydrophilic (having a first apparent advancing dynamic contact angle of less than or equal to about 5° for water) and oleophobic (having a second apparent advancing dynamic contact angle of greater than or equal to about 90°) or superoleophobic (a second apparent advancing dynamic contact angle of greater than or equal to about 150° for oil). Such materials can be used in a separator device to separate a liquid-liquid mixture of immiscible components (e.g., oil and water) or miscible components (e.g., alcohols). Separation apparatus incorporating such materials and methods of making and using these materials are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: The Regents of The University of Michigan, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Anish Tuteja, Arun Kumar Kota, Gibum Kwon, Joseph M. Mabry
  • Patent number: 10220352
    Abstract: A water separating device of a filter element for separating water from a liquid hydrocarbon has a coalescing medium in the from of a hollow body and designed to coalesce water droplets of the liquid hydrocarbon passing through the coalescing medium in a flow direction of the liquid hydrocarbon. A hydrophobic separating medium in the form of a hollow body and permeable for the liquid hydrocarbon is provided. The hydrophobic separating medium is arranged in a flow direction of the liquid hydrocarbon downstream of the coalescing medium and separates water droplets of the liquid hydrocarbon from the liquid hydrocarbon. At least one precipitation gap is formed between the coalescing medium and the separating medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Gernot Boiger, Martin Veit, Jochen Reyinger
  • Patent number: 10220353
    Abstract: A media comprising a hydrophobic media layer and a hydrophilic matrix applied to one face of the hydrophobic media layer is provided. The media may be incorporated into a filter cartridge for an air filtration system for a gas turbine engine. The media may have the capability to wick droplets of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BHA Altair, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Warren Taylor
  • Patent number: 10220354
    Abstract: A porous membrane for use in an electroosmotic pump for pumping a fluid by electroosmotic transport, the porous membrane comprising: first and second opposite surfaces and a net fluid flow direction extending in the porous membrane between said opposite surfaces, wherein when a given amount of charge flows through the porous membrane from the first to the second opposite surface more electroosmotic transport of the fluid will occur than when the same amount of charge flows through the porous membrane from the second to the first, opposite surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Osmotex AG
    Inventor: Trond Heldal
  • Patent number: 10220355
    Abstract: A fouling resistant and antibiotic copolymer including a first structural unit and a second structural unit is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyo Kang, Sung Soo Han
  • Patent number: 10220356
    Abstract: A feeder is disclosed for dissolving a chemical and mixing it with a liquid. The feeder includes a hopper adapted to hold the chemical, a nozzle located in the hopper, and a supply of the liquid to the nozzle to dissolve the chemical on contact with the liquid from the nozzle to form a solution. A solution basin is disposed under the hopper and a drain is provided from the hopper into the solution basin. An outlet from the solution basin has an outlet valve which opens when a solution level in the solution basin rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ALLCHEM PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Kenneth Mark Sims, Brian Bokowy, David Jack Thomas
  • Patent number: 10220357
    Abstract: A decanter for bottled wine includes a main body having a first end, a second end, a bottle mouth insertion portion, an accommodating chamber and a wine guide portion, an outer cylinder covering the main body and a rotary shaft. At least one retaining ring is provided on an outer wall of the bottle mouth insertion portion. A bottom of the accommodating chamber has a plurality of equally spaced first through, protruding posts each having a second through hole, and an inner shaft seat. An inner end of the rotary shaft is pivotally connected to the inner shaft seat. The wine guide portion is disposed inside the second end of the main body and located at an outer end of the accommodating chamber. The wine guide portion includes an outer shaft seat for pivotally connecting an outer end of the rotary shaft and a plurality of wine guide holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Huang Liang Precision Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chung-Kuei Hsueh
  • Patent number: 10220358
    Abstract: A mixing device including a blade with radially outwardly extending arms and/or with a longitudinally extending wall with an elliptical cross-section. The elliptical cross-section may synergistically provide enhanced mixing and enhanced durability of the blade compared to previously known joint compound mixers. For example, the elliptical cross section may provide structural support to the radially outwardly extending arms and/or the longitudinally extending walls while allowing the radially outwardly extending arms and/or the longitudinally extending walls to cut through and spread joint compound. The structural support may allow the blade to be made of a plastic material. For example, the blade may be made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). Making the blade out of plastic may reduce scratching and degradation of the container that holds the joint compound during mixing, compared to previously known drywall mixers made of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Buddy Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald J. Morton
  • Patent number: 10220359
    Abstract: A spray can mixer system includes a spray can mixer assembly having a drive shaft, a sleeve having an inner volume, a base, and a securer. The sleeve is configured to receive an aerosol can. The securer is located at an open end of the sleeve and is configured to secure the aerosol can within the inner volume of the sleeve. The drive shaft is mounted to the base and is configured to be received by a drill to permit rotating and mixing contents of the aerosol can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventors: Richard James Greene, Tyson Marquad Dagenais
  • Patent number: 10220360
    Abstract: During the use of a liquid mixing apparatus, a liquid container can be installed onto an adapter. The liquid container drives a lifting assembly to allow a piercing assembly to pierce through the adapter. Once a fluid flows into a flowing passage portion via a fluid inlet, a portion of the fluid is pressurized via a branch passage portion with easy control and further flows into the liquid container to mix with a fragrance material inside the liquid container. The mixed fragrant liquid then flows out of a fluid outlet from the piercing assembly via the return passage portion and the flowing passage portion. With the pressurization design of the branch passage portion, the apparatus allows the increase of dimension to increase the flow rate while maintaining the pressurized liquid, which is convenient to use and facilitated for the control of the mixture amount with greater variation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: AROTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ching-Hua Wang, Yu-Wen Yen
  • Patent number: 10220361
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically preparing infant feed formulation from powdered infant formulae is herein disclosed. The system of the present invention is specifically designed to achieve consistent homogeneous reconstitution of the powdered material, maximizing efficient solubilization while minimizing negative side effects such as oxidation, foaming, and protein denaturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventors: Boris Dushine, Annya Dushine
  • Patent number: 10220362
    Abstract: A mixing vessel for a food processor operated by an electric motor, which mixing vessel has a mixing mechanism which can be connected to a rotary drive of the food processor by means of a coupling driver, wherein the mixing vessel has a cleaning device for cleaning an inner wall of the mixing vessel, in particular a floor of the vessel. The cleaning device is arranged on the mixing vessel, in particular on a vessel wall and/or the mixing mechanism, and has at least one cleaning element which is designed such that, upon actuation of the cleaning device, it sweeps over the inner wall and/or over sub-regions of the mixing mechanism and, by interacting mechanically with any deposits which may be located on the inner wall and/or the mixing mechanism, helps to remove the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Thies, Jan Von Der Heyden, Reiner Emmermacher
  • Patent number: 10220363
    Abstract: A reactor comprises a reactor vessel defining a confined reactor volume, a support assembly extending about a periphery of the confined reactor volume, a basket positioned within the reactor vessel and supported by the support assembly, the basket having an interior surface and an exterior surface, a downflow zone being defined between the exterior surface of the basket and an interior surface of the confined reactor volume, an inlet screen positioned adjacent to one end of the interior surface and an outlet screen positioned adjacent to an opposite end of the interior surface, an upflow zone defined between the inlet screen and outlet screen, the inlet screen and the outlet screen containing a quantity of particulate catalyst, and a circulating device positioned above said upflow zone and configured to continuously circulate fluid upwardly though said upflow zone and downwardly through said downflow zone, the support assembly and the basket configured to promote the formation of a fluid vortex within a porti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: The University of Western Ontario
    Inventor: Hugo de Lasa
  • Patent number: 10220364
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of: treating an organic polymer with an electron beam-generated plasma; exposing the treated polymer to air or an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas, generating hydroxyl groups on the surface of the polymer; reacting the surface with an organosilane compound having a chloro, fluoro, or alkoxy group and a functional or reactive group that is less reactive with the surface than the chloro, fluoro, or alkoxy group; and covalently immobilizing a biomolecule to the functional or reactive group or a reaction product thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Stella H. North, Evgeniya H. Lock, Scott G. Walton, Chris Rowe Taitt
  • Patent number: 10220365
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of inducing chemical reactions such as hydrogenation of a fluidized substance includes mixing hydrogen with the substance, passing the mixture through a cavitation zone, and inducing intense shockwaves in the cavitation zone by continuously generating high energy cavitation events within the mixture. In one embodiment, the treatment zone is the interior of a controlled cavitation reactor. Interior surfaces of the reactor may be coated with a catalyst required for the desired chemical reaction so that the catalyst need not be added directly to the mixture and need not be recovered after the reaction is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hydro Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas G. Mancosky
  • Patent number: 10220366
    Abstract: According to the invention there is a particle including a plurality of stacked sub-structures, each sub-structure including a stack of graphene layers, in which the separation between successive stacked sub-structures is greater than the separation between successive graphene layers in each sub-structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PERPETUUS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Walters, Dylan Walters
  • Patent number: 10220367
    Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a microsphere having a structural color, which includes providing a composition for generating a structural color including a curable material and magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in the curable material, forming an emulsion by adding the composition for generating a structural color to an immiscible solvent, arranging the magnetic nanoparticles located in the emulsion droplet of the curable material in a one-dimensional chain structure by applying a magnetic field to the emulsion, and fixing the chain structure by curing the emulsion droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kwon, Hyoki Kim, Yadong Yin, Jianping Ge
  • Patent number: 10220368
    Abstract: An oxygen storage material comprises three pyrochlore-type composite oxides which are a ceria-zirconia composite oxide, a lanthana-zirconia composite oxide, and a ceria-zirconia-lanthana composite oxide, and which coexist together, wherein the oxygen storage material contains: first secondary particles made of the pyrochlore-type ceria-zirconia composite oxide and the pyrochlore-type ceria-zirconia-lanthana composite oxide; and second secondary particles made of the pyrochlore-type lanthana-zirconia composite oxide and the pyrochlore-type ceria-zirconia-lanthana composite oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Morikawa, Yoshihiro Goto, Toshitaka Tanabe, Masahide Miura, Hiromasa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10220369
    Abstract: A mercury sorbent and method for enhancing mercury removal performance of activated carbon from flue gas by the addition of non-halogen ammonium-containing compounds are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CALGON CARBON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard A. Mimna, Walter G. Tramposch
  • Patent number: 10220370
    Abstract: A method of capturing a basic, nitrogen-containing compound is provided. The basic, nitrogen-containing compound is captured by sorption (e.g., adsorption) on a sulfonic-acid containing polymeric material. The sulfonic acid-containing polymeric material is formed from a polymerizable composition that contains a free-radically polymerizable spirobisindane monomer. Additionally, a polymeric material is provided that is a reaction product of a sulfonic acid-containing polymeric material having at least one —SO3H group and a basic, nitrogen-containing compound of formula Q. This polymeric material has at least one group of formula —SO3?(QH+).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Michael S. Wendland
  • Patent number: 10220371
    Abstract: A method and system of depressurizing a molecular sieve used in ethanol production is shown and described. The method and system utilizes a vapor mixing condenser that receives a vapor sieve feed from the molecular sieve during the depressurization cycle. The vapor from the molecular sieve during the pressurization cycle is used to heat the 190-proof product flow. The heated product flow is diverted directly to the 190-proof product vaporizer, which increases the input product flow temperature to the vaporizer, thereby reducing the amount of heat needed to vaporize the 190-proof product flow. The reduction in heat needed reduces energy costs and increases equipment life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hydro-Thermal Corporation
    Inventors: James Zaiser, Scott Lucas
  • Patent number: 10220372
    Abstract: A photocatalytic functional film has a structure of a substrate, a barrier layer and a photocatalytic layer stacked one on another. The barrier layer is an amorphous TiO2 film, the photocatalyst layer comprises an amorphous TiO2 film, and particles of visible light responsive photocatalytic material formed on the surface of the amorphous TiO2 film. A method for producing a photocatalytic functional film includes: adding an alcohol solvent and an acid to a titanium precursor to obtain a TiO2 amorphous sol by dehydration and de-alcoholization reaction; applying and drying the TiO2 amorphous sol on a substrate to form a barrier layer; and applying and drying a composition formed by mixing particles of visible light responsive photocatalyst material with the TiO2 amorphous sol on the barrier layer, to form a photocatalyst layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Il Lee, Joo-Hwan Seo, Hyun-Jae Kim, Hye-Youn Jang, Seong-Moon Jung
  • Patent number: 10220373
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification catalyst carrier of the invention includes a modified aluminum borate which contains aluminum borate and at least one addition element selected from the group consisting of a rare earth element and an alkaline earth metal and which has an electronegativity of 2.732 or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunosuke Nakahara, Ohki Houshito, Hironori Iwakura, Yuki Nagao, Masato Machida
  • Patent number: 10220374
    Abstract: A self-activating hydroprocessing catalyst for treating heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks is further activated by contacting the self-activating catalyst with steam. The steam may be added to the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock prior to contacting with the self-activating catalyst or may be added to a reactor vessel containing the self-activating catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Opinder Kishan Bhan
  • Patent number: 10220375
    Abstract: A catalyst, including a molecular sieve carrier and an active component. The active component includes: iron, manganese, copper, and a basic promoter potassium. The molecular sieve carrier is a cerium salt and/or praseodymium salt modified-aluminosilicate molecular sieve carrier and/or silica-rich molecular sieve carrier. A method for preparing a catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, includes: 1) fully dissolving a ferric salt, a manganese salt, a copper salt, and an alkali or a salt containing potassium element in water to yield an aqueous solution, stirring and adding sodium lauryl sulfate to the aqueous solution, and continuing stirring to yield a uniform solution; and impregnating a modified molecular sieve in the uniform solution to yield a mixed solution; and 2) drying and calcining the mixed solution to yield the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN KAIDI ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiguang Yang, Qianqian Liu, Dechen Song, Changyuan Li, Xiaodong Zhan, Jiaqi Jin, Yanfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10220376
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system including an exhaust pipe having a hollow longitudinal portion. The hollow longitudinal portion has an inner surface which defines a cavity, and there is also a plurality of steel rods mounted along a length of the hollow longitudinal portion and inside the cavity. The plurality of steel rods are coated with a slurry of a catalytic composition having a tectosilicate having titanium, one or more raw material having magnetic properties, and an acrylic oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventor: James G. Davidson
  • Patent number: 10220377
    Abstract: The present invention is a metal colloid solution comprising: colloidal particles consisting of metal particles consisting of one or two or more metal(s) and a protective agent bonding to the metal particles; and a solvent as a dispersion medium of the colloidal particles, wherein: a chloride ion concentration per a metal concentration of 1 mass % is 25 ppm or less; and a nitrate ion concentration per a metal concentration of 1 mass % is 7500 ppm or less. In the present invention, adsorption performance can be improved with adjustment of the amount of the protective agent of the colloidal particles. It is preferable to bind the protective agent of 0.2 to 2.5 times the mass of the metal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGOY K.K.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Ohshima, Hitoshi Kubo, Tomoko Ishikawa, Noriaki Nakamura, Junichi Taniuchi, Yoshiteru Tsuchiya, Hiroaki Takahashi, Hidenori Takanezawa, Kenichi Inoue, Syunsuke Kato, Hirokazu Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10220378
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an efficient entirely man-made nanobio hybrid fabricated through cell-free expression of transmembrane proton pump followed by assembly of the synthetic protein architecture with semiconductor nanoparticles for photocatalytic H2 evolution. The system produces H2 at a turnover rate of 240 ?mol of H2 (?mol protein)?1 h?1 under green and 17.74 mmol of H2 (?mol protein)?1 h?1 under white light at ambient conditions, in water at neutral pH with methanol as a sacrificial electron donor. Robsutness and flexibility of this approach allows for systemic manipulation at nanoparticle-bio interface toward directed evolution of energy materials and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Elena A. Rozhkova, Peng Wang, Richard D. Schaller, Nada M. Dimitrijevic, Tijana Rajh, Shankar G. Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 10220379
    Abstract: A catalyst and its use for selectively desulfurizing sulfur compounds present in an olefin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock to very low levels with minimal hydrogenation of olefins. The catalyst comprises an inorganic oxide substrate containing a nickel compound, a molybdenum compound and optionally a phosphorus compound, that is overlaid with a molybdenum compound and a cobalt compound. The catalyst is further characterized as having a bimodal pore size distribution with a large portion of its total pore volume contained in pores having a diameter less than 250 angstroms and in pores having a diameter greater than 1000 angstroms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, David Andrew Komar
  • Patent number: 10220380
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of coating a catalyst support, in which a monolithic catalyst support provided therein with a plurality of longitudinally formed channels is quantitatively coated with catalyst slurry applied to post-treatment of exhaust gas, including the steps of: introducing catalyst slurry into a quantitative container whose bottom is vertically moved; moving a catalyst support to the top of a container such that the bottom of the catalyst support and top of the container are horizontally disposed each other; sealing the bottom of the catalyst support and the top of the container from the outside; moving the bottom of the container upward; and applying a vacuum to the channels of the catalyst support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Heesung Catalysts Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Sik Han, Seung Chul Na, Sang Yun Han
  • Patent number: 10220381
    Abstract: The present inventions is concerned with an apparatus and a method of improving the accuracy of coating a ceramic or metallic honeycomb body, which can usually be used as a catalyst in automotive exhaust mitigation. The invention achieves to directly test whether the coating slurry in the coating chamber is ready to be submitted to the monolith or needs to be replaced before coating the monolith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO KG.
    Inventor: Stéphane Masson
  • Patent number: 10220382
    Abstract: An isolator comprises a manipulation chamber isolated from the external atmosphere, a door for opening and closing a portal formed on the manipulation chamber, a linear guide mechanism for guiding a linear motion of a front-side edge of the door along the portal, and a rotation guide mechanism defining a rotation of the door about an axis coinciding with the front-side edge. The door is closed by positioning the front-side edge at the front side of the manipulation chamber, and the door is opened inward into the manipulation chamber by moving the front-side edge toward the back side while rotating the door about the front-side edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHIBUYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kanjun Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10220383
    Abstract: A sampling and assay kit comprises a cuvette for holding a quantity of a buffer solution and a sample holder including a capillary tube for obtaining a sample. The sample holder includes a body portion which holds the capillary tube. The body portion when inserted in the cuvette, is effective to position the capillary tube within the cuvette at a predetermined position above the end of the cuvette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Orion Diagnostica OY
    Inventors: Jukka Laukkonen, Jaana Raussi, Sanna Eilola, Jaakko Rissanen
  • Patent number: 10220384
    Abstract: A device is described that overlays a first fluid, such as blood or a cellular suspension onto a base material, such as a density gradient. In some embodiments, the fluid layering device includes a cylindrical reservoir, a fluid barrier, a coupling extension, a plunger, and an exhaust vent. The fluid layering device can be coupled through its coupling extension to an open end of a container, such as a conical centrifuge tube, including the density gradient. Once attached, the plunger may be lowered to a position above the surface of the density gradient. A first fluid may flow from the reservoir into the conical tube across the plunger, so that a suitable overlay is formed without substantially disturbing a surface of the density gradient. The plunger may be buoyed upward by the first fluid during operation, providing a constant regulation of flow throughout overlaying, regardless of the care and skill of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventor: Jae Go Kwon
  • Patent number: 10220385
    Abstract: A method for preparing a plurality of micro-length tubular flow elements for use in a fluid assay, each element having interior and exterior surfaces and having at least one axially-extending flow passage through its interior, includes aggressively agitating the flow elements in a solution of assay capture agent to impart disrupting shear forces on the exterior surface of the elements, the shear forces causing the axially-extending external surfaces of the flow elements to be free of assay capture agent, while at least a portion of the interior surface of the flow elements not experiencing such disruptive shear forces and carrying deposits of the assay capture agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CyVek, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin A. Putnam, Jeffrey T. Branciforte, Charles O. Stanwood, Jane M. Tu
  • Patent number: 10220386
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: 10220387
    Abstract: A modular analytic system includes a base, at least one fluid sample processing module configured to be removably attached to the base, at least one fluid sample analysis module configured to be removably attached to the base, a fluid actuation module positioned on the base, a fluidic network comprising multiple fluidic channels, in which the fluid actuation module is arranged to control transport of a fluid sample between the at least one sample processing module and the at least one sample analysis module through the fluidic network, and an electronic processor, in which the electronic processor is configured to control operation of the fluid actuation module and receive measurement data from the at least one fluid sample analysis module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Granier, Ramin Haghgooie, Ken Kotz, Anne C. Petrofsky, Ronald G. Tompkins
  • Patent number: 10220388
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a centrifugal microfluidics control system and a method configuring the same. The system may comprise a centrifugal tube; a centrifugal unit for accommodating the centrifugal tube and providing a centrifugal force to the centrifugal tube; a control unit fixed in bottom of the centrifugal tube; and a microfluidic supporting unit coupled to the control unit in the centrifugal tube. The control unit may change an orientation of the microfluidic supporting unit to change a direction of the centrifugal force applied to the microfluidic supporting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanjing University
    Inventors: Minghui Tang, Ho-Pui Ho, Guanghui Wang, Siu-Kai Kong, Fong-Chuen Loo, Ho Chin Kwok, Shu-Yuen Wu, Xuping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10220389
    Abstract: A microfluidic device comprises an inlet port for liquid, and a capillary channel in fluid connection to the inlet port for receiving liquid from the inlet port, the channel having a defined volume. At least one dissolvable valve is provided comprising a dissolvable membrane having a first side oriented towards the capillary channel, and a capillary connected to the second side of the dissolvable membrane such that when the membrane is dissolved by the liquid, liquid is transported through the valve to the second side of the membrane by capillary action. A method of controlling a flow of liquid uses such a microfluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CAPITAINER AB
    Inventors: Göran Stemme, Gabriel Lenk, Olof Beck, Niclas Roxhed