Patents Issued in March 5, 2019
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Patent number: 10220340Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Motomura, Takahiko Murata, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Takatoshi Mitsushima
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Patent number: 10220341Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CAMFIL USA, INC.Inventors: Mohamed Zied Driss, Joseph John Gorman, Donald Dean Thornburg, Jr.
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Patent number: 10220342Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: David R. Hall, Grant Getts, Seth Myer
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Patent number: 10220343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Sang-Cheol Baek, Chan-Jung Jung
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Patent number: 10220344Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KGInventors: Karsten Schulz, Georg Hirsch, Andreas Krahmer, Rainer Kaffenberger, Hans Wiegand
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Patent number: 10220345Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Ananda K. Nagavarapu, Bennett D. Marshall
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Patent number: 10220346Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Tracy A. Fowler, Richard A. Huntington, John W. Fulton
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Patent number: 10220347Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Sivakumar Sadasivan Vijayakumari, Charles-Edouard Sanders
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Patent number: 10220348Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CO2 Solutions Inc.Inventors: Sylvie Fradette, Julie Gingras, Norman Voyer, Jonathan Carley, Glenn R. Kelly, Olivera Ceperkovic
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Patent number: 10220349Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Jason Bell, Mark Vander Hoff, Todd Benson, Marc Pugh, Joseph Peters
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Patent number: 10220350Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Wing-Keung Adrian Law, Tian Li, Anthony Gordon Fane
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Patent number: 10220351Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignees: The Regents of The University of Michigan, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Anish Tuteja, Arun Kumar Kota, Gibum Kwon, Joseph M. Mabry
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Patent number: 10220352Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Gernot Boiger, Martin Veit, Jochen Reyinger
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Patent number: 10220353Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: BHA Altair, LLCInventor: Robert Warren Taylor
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Patent number: 10220354Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Osmotex AGInventor: Trond Heldal
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Patent number: 10220355Abstract: A fouling resistant and antibiotic copolymer including a first structural unit and a second structural unit is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyo Kang, Sung Soo Han
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Patent number: 10220356Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ALLCHEM PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, LPInventors: Kenneth Mark Sims, Brian Bokowy, David Jack Thomas
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Patent number: 10220357Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Huang Liang Precision Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chung-Kuei Hsueh
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Patent number: 10220358Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Buddy Tools, LLCInventor: Ronald J. Morton
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Patent number: 10220359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventors: Richard James Greene, Tyson Marquad Dagenais
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Patent number: 10220360Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: AROTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ching-Hua Wang, Yu-Wen Yen
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Patent number: 10220361Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventors: Boris Dushine, Annya Dushine
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Patent number: 10220362Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Felix Thies, Jan Von Der Heyden, Reiner Emmermacher
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Patent number: 10220363Abstract: 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 portiType: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The University of Western OntarioInventor: Hugo de Lasa
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Patent number: 10220364Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Stella H. North, Evgeniya H. Lock, Scott G. Walton, Chris Rowe Taitt
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Patent number: 10220365Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Hydro Dynamics, Inc.Inventor: Douglas G. Mancosky
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Patent number: 10220366Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PERPETUUS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LIMITEDInventors: Ian Walters, Dylan Walters
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Patent number: 10220367Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATIONInventors: Sunghoon Kwon, Hyoki Kim, Yadong Yin, Jianping Ge
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Patent number: 10220368Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Morikawa, Yoshihiro Goto, Toshitaka Tanabe, Masahide Miura, Hiromasa Suzuki
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Patent number: 10220369Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CALGON CARBON CORPORATIONInventors: Richard A. Mimna, Walter G. Tramposch
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Patent number: 10220370Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventor: Michael S. Wendland
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Patent number: 10220371Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Hydro-Thermal CorporationInventors: James Zaiser, Scott Lucas
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Patent number: 10220372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.Inventors: Dong-Il Lee, Joo-Hwan Seo, Hyun-Jae Kim, Hye-Youn Jang, Seong-Moon Jung
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Patent number: 10220373Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunosuke Nakahara, Ohki Houshito, Hironori Iwakura, Yuki Nagao, Masato Machida
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Patent number: 10220374Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventor: Opinder Kishan Bhan
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Patent number: 10220375Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: WUHAN KAIDI ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiguang Yang, Qianqian Liu, Dechen Song, Changyuan Li, Xiaodong Zhan, Jiaqi Jin, Yanfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 10220376Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: James G. Davidson
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Patent number: 10220377Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 10220378Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Elena A. Rozhkova, Peng Wang, Richard D. Schaller, Nada M. Dimitrijevic, Tijana Rajh, Shankar G. Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 10220379Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, David Andrew Komar
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Patent number: 10220380Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Heesung Catalysts CorporationInventors: Hyun Sik Han, Seung Chul Na, Sang Yun Han
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Patent number: 10220381Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO KG.Inventor: Stéphane Masson
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Patent number: 10220382Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SHIBUYA CORPORATIONInventor: Kanjun Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10220383Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Orion Diagnostica OYInventors: Jukka Laukkonen, Jaana Raussi, Sanna Eilola, Jaakko Rissanen
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Patent number: 10220384Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Jae Go Kwon
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Patent number: 10220385Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CyVek, Inc.Inventors: Martin A. Putnam, Jeffrey T. Branciforte, Charles O. Stanwood, Jane M. Tu
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Patent number: 10220386Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
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Patent number: 10220387Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Robert Granier, Ramin Haghgooie, Ken Kotz, Anne C. Petrofsky, Ronald G. Tompkins
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Patent number: 10220388Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignees: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanjing UniversityInventors: Minghui Tang, Ho-Pui Ho, Guanghui Wang, Siu-Kai Kong, Fong-Chuen Loo, Ho Chin Kwok, Shu-Yuen Wu, Xuping Zhang
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Patent number: 10220389Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CAPITAINER ABInventors: Göran Stemme, Gabriel Lenk, Olof Beck, Niclas Roxhed