Patents Issued in April 18, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190111338
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing system including an imaging section, an identification section, a setup section, and a display control section. The imaging section captures an image of a user-designated body and outputs multispectral data regarding a subject. The multispectral data indicates light intensity in four or more wavelength bands. The identification section identifies the type of the subject in accordance with the multispectral data regarding the subject. The setup section sets, based on the type of the subject, an object corresponding to the subject appearing in a game. The display control section causes the object to be displayed in the game in a manner based on the type of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi NAKATA, Takashi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190111339
    Abstract: A method of rendering a grid based user interface includes selecting a gaming object with an illumination value to be updated. The gaming objects located directly adjacent to the selected gaming object each having an associated illumination value. The updated illumination value takes into account the illumination values of the directly adjacent gaming objects. The game object is rendered using the updated illumination value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Manuel Kurt BOSZE
  • Publication number: 20190111340
    Abstract: A device for transmitting game data files between a plurality of smart devices through a short-range wireless communication network can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Un Jae Sung, Yun Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20190111341
    Abstract: A device for interfacing with an interactive program, including: a housing, including, an IR projector for projecting an IR pattern into an interactive environment; a camera for capturing images of the projected IR pattern; an image processor configured to process the captured images for identification of the projected IR pattern; a transceiver configured to communicate with a computing device that executes the interactive program, the transceiver configured to transmit data generated by the image processor to the computing device, such that a position of the device in the interactive environment is determined based on the captured images of the IR pattern, the determined position of the device being utilized to update a state of the executing interactive program at the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaodong Mao, Noam Rimon
  • Publication number: 20190111342
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: a direction indicator is provided on the GUI, the direction indicator including a direction identifier for identifying a direction; a location marking operation is detected, a marking location is determined in the game scene according to the location marking operation, and direction information of the marking location is acquired; and a graphical identifier corresponding to the marking location is generated at a position corresponding to the direction indicator according to the direction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Qingbo MIAO
  • Publication number: 20190111343
    Abstract: A method for interactive event broadcasting includes receiving a video stream depicting an interactive event. Data representing one or more interactive event controls is received, the interactive event controls being manipulable by a viewer of the interactive event to provide input to the interactive event. The video stream depicting the interactive event and the one or more interactive event controls are displayed as components of a user interface, the video stream and the interactive event controls having a first spatial relationship. Based on detecting a change in state of the interactive event, the first spatial relationship between the video stream and the one or more interactive event controls is changed to a second spatial relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gershom L. PAYZER, Richard Michael FOX, Gregory M. SMITH, Hutchenson Judson WHITE, Connor PEET
  • Publication number: 20190111344
    Abstract: An information processing device that carries out the processing of a fighting game in which a player-character is made to fight an opponent-character, the device including a first condition determination means that determines whether the player-character and the opponent-character, as a whole, have fulfilled a first condition during the fight; a second condition determination means that determines a character, among the player-character and the opponent-character, that has fulfilled a second condition during the fight; and a bonus awarding means that awards a bonus that can be used in the fight to a fulfilling character, among the player-character and the opponent-character, that fulfills the second condition after the fulfillment of the first condition. The first condition determination means sets a partial or a complete fulfillment of a given set of conditions as the first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoko HIROKI, Souya MIKUMO, Seiji FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190111345
    Abstract: A ranking method and system for providing a ranking of a game friend. The method includes registering a game friend who has joined a game service. The method further includes calculating a ranking of the user with respect to a game friend based on a ranking inquiry request received from the user terminal, and providing the user terminal with the calculated ranking of the user. The user terminal drives a game service platform associated with a plurality of games and provides some information needed for automatic friend registration and the ranking inquiry request information through the game service platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Seong Youn JOO, Kyung E MOON
  • Publication number: 20190111346
    Abstract: A method for distributing a shareable video experience among plural video-consumer devices includes receiving a data stream defining the shareable video experience and generating first and second shared video experiences. The first experience is configured for video-consumer devices capable of real-time interaction with the shareable video experience; it includes a first video stream conveying visual content of the shareable video experience and a first set of interface controls, the first set of interface controls being useable by video-consumer devices capable of real-time interaction to modify the shareable video experience. The second experience is configured for video-consumer devices incapable of real-time interaction; it includes a second video stream conveying visual content of the shareable video experience and a second set of interface controls that are useable by video-consumer devices incapable of real-time interaction to present supplementary data in connection to the shareable video experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gershom L. PAYZER, Richard Michael FOX, Gregory M. SMITH, Connor PEET
  • Publication number: 20190111347
    Abstract: A method for sharing recorded content of an interactive application, including: recording, by a computer, a three-dimensional video clip to a storage, the three-dimensional video clip generated from a session of the interactive application; receiving, by the computer, a request to share the three-dimensional video clip over a communications network; generating, by the computer, a two-dimensional video clip by converting the three-dimensional video clip to a two-dimensional format, the two-dimensional video clip being configured for viewing through a two-dimensional display; sharing, by the computer, the two-dimensional video clip over the communications network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Noam Rimon
  • Publication number: 20190111348
    Abstract: A game operating device (controller) includes a longitudinal housing, and a holding portion held by hand to be wrapped by its palm it is formed in the housing. A direction switch is provided on an upper surface at a position where it can be operated by thumb of the hand holding the holding portion, and a start switch and a select switch are provided backward thereof. An X button 46 and a Y button are further arranged in line on the upper surface of the housing. An imaging information arithmetic unit is provided at a front end of the housing in a longitudinal direction in such a manner that an imaging device thereof is exposed from a front-end surface. A concave portion is formed on a lower surface at a position corresponding to the direction switch. The concave portion includes a valley and two inclined surfaces. An A button capable of being operated by index finger of the hand holding the holding portion is provided on the backward inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Akio IKEDA, Ryoji KURODA, Masahiro URATA, Kuniaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20190111349
    Abstract: Described herein is an apparatus and method to convey an object through the air in a controlled and repeatable manner. The apparatus may comprise an object attached to at least one resilient member, the resilient member or members constraining object movement in a substantially vertical y-axis direction. The apparatus may also comprise at least one support member coupled to the at least one resilient member, and the support member or members constrain object movement in a substantially horizontal x-axis direction. In use, the resilient member is energised, movement initiated, and object movement then occurs in an x-axis and a y-axis direction, the movement path substantially governed by the resilient member(s) and the support member(s). The apparatus and method may allow the object to experience a variety of movement sensations, one being the feeling of flight or gliding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Henry Van Asch, David Mitchell, Tim Porter, Geoff Wilson, Kevin Andrew Wright
  • Publication number: 20190111350
    Abstract: An amusement ride includes a robot assembly having at least one multi-link robot arm with a base and a passenger holder for transporting at least one person. A controller for controlling the robot assembly includes a storage device for storing a limit of a working space arrangement having at least one work space, a distance device for determining a distance of the passenger holder from the working space arrangement, and a safety device for determining maximum permissible motion components in at least two spatial directions depending on the determined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Fornoff, Axel Tillmann
  • Publication number: 20190111351
    Abstract: A kinesthetic device with different seating orientations comprises a base unit, an actuator unit, a platform unit, and a seat unit. The base unit includes a base seat. The actuator unit includes an actuator module disposed on the base seat. The platform unit includes a platform body disposed on the actuator module. The seat unit includes plural seats disposed at the edge of the platform body, wherein the orientations of the plural seats are different, so that it can have the plural seats provide with different kinesthesia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Teng-Hung Lai, Ming-Tzung Huang, Chih-Huang Wang
  • Publication number: 20190111352
    Abstract: A toy top includes a shaft portion, an additional part and an engaging part. The shaft portion includes a spinning shaft. The additional part is attached to the shaft portion movably in an axis direction of the spinning shaft. The engaging part engages the additional part with the shaft portion at different positions in the axis direction of the spinning shaft. An attachment position of the additional part is changeable by changing engagement of the additional part by the engaging part. A grounding state or a height of the shaft portion is changeable according to change of the attachment position of the additional part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto MURAKI, Takeaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190111353
    Abstract: A detachable structure includes a toy and a detaching tool. The toy comprises a first part and a second part engaged with the first part. The detaching tool comprises a presser and elastic holders with holding parts that are at any one of a holding position and a holding releasable position. The first part is elastic and comprises an elastic engaging hook that is at any one of an engaged position and an engagement releasing position. The second part engages with the first part when the second part is brought to the first part in a certain direction so that the second part slidably contacts the first part to move the elastic engaging hook to the engagement releasing position and then further to the engaged position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Takeaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20190111354
    Abstract: A reconfigurable toy includes a plush body and an attachable appendage. The plush body contains a first magnetic attachment assembly including a flexible retaining element, a base layer, a magnetic layer, and an acoustic feedback layer. The attachable appendage includes a second magnetic attachment assembly. Magnetic attraction between the first magnetic attachment assembly and the second magnetic attachment assembly removably couples the attachable appendage to the plush body. A corresponding method is also disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Marissa Louie, Corey Reese
  • Publication number: 20190111355
    Abstract: A self-rotating display device (1) includes and outer light transmissive container (2) containing a light transmissive fluid (6) and a body (4) containing an electric motor (14) for rotating the body with respect to the outer container. The body also carries a compass magnet (18) as a source of counter-torque for the motor to operate against. A magnetic positioning structure (20) made of ferromagnetic material secured to the container interacts with the magnetic field of the compass magnet to cause the body to migrate toward a location minimizing the distance between the magnetic positioning structure and compass magnet, so that the body can remain centered within the display while rotating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: TURTLETECH DESIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Hsien Yang, Shawyueh Lin, Ai-Chin Chiang
  • Publication number: 20190111356
    Abstract: An integrally-formed finger manipulation skill toy having an elongated central shaft and a bell at each end of the shaft, the bells having a width greater than that of the shaft. The toy has cylindrical symmetry about its longitudinal axis and mirror symmetry about a mirror plane through its midpoint to which the longitudinal axis is a normal vector. The contour when viewed in profile along an axis in the mirror plane and through the midpoint has concave regions in the center and convex regions at the ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Haihui Qi, Matthew Bryan Hiebert
  • Publication number: 20190111357
    Abstract: A data line for a toy brick includes a connecting portion for the toy brick, a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion. The connecting portion for the toy brick is a modular combination structure and includes a first connection end and a second connection end electrically connected to the first connection end. Use first connecting portion includes a third connection end and a first device connection end electrically connected to the third connection end. The second connecting portion includes a fourth connection end and a first device connection end electrically connected to the fourth connection end. The first and second device connection ends respectively connect to a first device and a second device. The data line for the toy brick still can be connected to a data line to improve the enjoyment of the data line for the toy brick after any combination of the toy bricks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: David WANG
  • Publication number: 20190111358
    Abstract: A device that produces bubbles and adds lighting to the bubbles being released and including a synchronized series of lights producing a light show and/or sounds, an at least three-way switch, as well as, a mechanical or electrical system with an improved engine design, chimney and extensions, as well as, an improved battery compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher D. Kelly, Joshua C. Kelly, Max Armendariz Lalama, Macaulay Bruton
  • Publication number: 20190111359
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure includes a multi-stage compressor having a low pressure compressor stage and a high pressure compressor stage operable for compressing a working fluid. An integrated device including a heat exchanger directly connected to a combination unit is operable for reducing pressure pulsations, cooling and separating moisture in a first compressed flow stream and a second compressed flow stream discharged from the low pressure stage and the high pressure stage respectively. A first pressure pulsation dampener, a first moisture separator, a second pressure pulsation dampener and a second moisture separator are integrally formed within the combination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: HARDIK VINODBHAI GOHEL, P. PRABHU, MAHESH KUMAR.K.R, VISHAL UMASHANKER GUPTA, SHAMBHU M. VAGHANI
  • Publication number: 20190111360
    Abstract: Environmentally friendly demulsifiers are useful to break emulsions, e.g. water-in-oil and oil-in-water emulsions, particularly oilfield emulsions, where the demulsifiers are polymers made by reacting a suitable resin with at least two different monomers, one having a Hansen solubility parameter similar to ethylene oxide and the other having a Hansen solubility parameter similar to propylene oxide, and where the polymers have an absence of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide. In a non-limiting embodiment, suitable resins include butyl resin, nonyl resin, nonyl/butyl resin, amyl resin, nonyl/butyl/amyl resin, phenol/formaldehyde resin, and combinations thereof. Suitable monomers include caprolactone, lactic acid, lactide, methacrylic acid ester, stearyl ester, hexyl ester, lauryl ester, urethane, ethylene adipate, vinyl esters, amides, allyl ethers, vinyl ethers, vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate, acrylic acid methyl ester, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Hanna, Mindy Hai Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20190111361
    Abstract: Anti-drainback valves, flex tube assemblies that include one or more anti-drainback valves, and fluid filters that include one or more flex tube assemblies and/or anti-drainback valves are disclosed. In embodiments the anti-drainback valves and flex tube assemblies are described in the context of their use in a multi (e.g. dual) pump fluid filter, such as a dual pump transmission fluid filter. Dual pump fluid filters including integral and separable flex tube assemblies are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Ibrahim A. KHALIL, Mieko ZUKERAN
  • Publication number: 20190111362
    Abstract: A polymer melt candle filter having a support which comprises a hollow cylindrical body defined by a first end, a second end, and a cylinder wall having a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion includes a screw thread on its outside surface and optionally a hex fitting on its inside surface for receiving a hex wrench. The second end portion includes a plurality of holes in the cylinder wall. The area of the openings of the holes on the outside surface of the cylinder wall may be larger than the area of the openings of the corresponding holes on the inside surface of the cylinder wall. The shape of the openings of the holes on the outside surface may be non-circular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Westlake Longview Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Wayne MOSER, Andrew Colin LEWIS, Bert Eugene ALLEN, Stephen Wayne COE, Douglas James LANDRY, Wayne Scott STRASSER
  • Publication number: 20190111363
    Abstract: A filter insert is provided for being removably arranged in a compartment in a filter housing, which filter housing has a filter insert access opening which is adapted for being opened and closed, respectively, via a filter housing counterpart, wherein the filter insert includes a filter material body, a first end panel arranged on a first side of the filter material body, wherein the first end panel includes an arrangement for sealing engagement with the filter housing counterpart, and at least care recess formed in a radially outer peripheral surface for engagement with a radially inwards extending projection of the lifter housing, which when engaged rotationally lock the filter insert from rotation relative to the filter housing during attachment of the filter housing counterpart relative to the filter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Anders HEDMAN
  • Publication number: 20190111364
    Abstract: A filter element for use in a filter disc, wherein a plurality of filter elements are arranged on a rotor shaft in a manner allowing liquid communication between the inside of the filter elements and the inside of the rotor shaft. The filter element has at least one passage in an edge structure for liquid communication between the inside of adjacent filter elements when the filter elements are assembled forming a filter disc. The passage has different passage area along the edge structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Stuart Lee
  • Publication number: 20190111365
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus is provided. The water treatment apparatus includes a filtering unit including a water filter filtering raw water, a sterilizing water generator producing sterilizing water from purified water filtered by at least a portion of the filtering unit, and a discharge member through which the purified water, filtered by the filtering unit, is discharged externally. The sterilizing water produced in the sterilizing water generator sterilizes the discharge member and at least a portion of a flow path connected to the discharge member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Sun-Hyeok PARK, Jung-Hwan LEE, Jong-Hwan LEE, Woo-Jin JOO, Hyun-Soo SHIN, Kyung-Heon LEE, Byoung-Hoon LIM, Sung-Kon CHO
  • Publication number: 20190111366
    Abstract: A fluid filter may include a filter housing in which a ring filter element is arranged and an electric heating device configured to prevent freezing of a fluid to be filtered. The electric heating device may be structured as a separate assembly and include a heating housing. The heating housing may be structured substantially complementarily to an external geometry of the filter housing such that the heating device is at least one of slidable and clipable onto the filter housing. The heating housing may at least partially enclose the filter housing when at least one of slid and clipped onto the filter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Anna Eichner, Andreas Kollmann, Werner Schadler, Gerald Scharfer, Mario Wetzl
  • Publication number: 20190111367
    Abstract: A cylindrical or tubular filter insert (10) of a filter material (2) for liquid media (7) is disclosed. A filtration arrangement (30) serves to receive the cylindrical or tubular filter insert (10). The filtration arrangement (30) comprises a filter housing (31) with an inlet (32) for the medium (7) to be filtered and an outlet (34) for the filtered medium (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Ludwig Kuenzel
  • Publication number: 20190111368
    Abstract: The invention provides improved filtration materials and mediums accommodating to various filter types and designs. Materials/mediums include both “raw” cannabis (cannabinoids) as filter components such as but not limited to fibers, as well as altered materials (compounds) such as but not limited to sponges. These materials/mediums can be fashioned into any form, shape, density or design such as but not limited to inserts for faucet attachments, mechanical oil filters, or home AC filters. A primary feature of cannabis in use as filtration material is the anti-bacterial/-microbial properties. Trace cannabinoids found in all cannabis remain chemically active through material processing, providing a surficial efficacy as high as 99% with regard to sanitizing effects. Specifically as liquids, gases or solids come in contact with these materials/mediums they will be “sanitized” while the materials/mediums also capture particulates, compared to UV or chlorine treatment—neither of which removes particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Daniel Crippen
  • Publication number: 20190111369
    Abstract: A device for separating liquid from a volume flow of a gas-liquid mixture may include a separating element and a deflection arrangement for deflecting the volume flow in a direction of the separating element to precipitate liquid on the separating element and thereby separate the liquid. The deflection arrangement may comprise a flow channel that extends axially away from a volume flow inlet and comprises an aperture area that extends axially on the flow channel. The aperture area may be at least partly covered by a covering means that is movable relative to the aperture area. The covering means may be movable to different extents at two axially-spaced locations to influence a magnitude of a part volume flow of the deflected volume flow flowing out of the flow channel through the aperture area at one axial location differently than at another axial location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG
    Inventors: Tony STEIN, Ulf MÜLLER, Robert REICHELT
  • Publication number: 20190111370
    Abstract: Provided is a dust collection method using a dust collection device. The dust collection device includes: a main body provided in a tubular shape; an exhaust tube provided so as to extend outside from midstream inside the main body through one end of the main body, the exhaust tube cooperating with a suction device to suck air inside the main body; a supply nozzle for supplying a liquid to inside of the main body; a recovery unit for recovering the liquid from the main body; and a pump for returning the liquid from the recovery unit to the supply nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: AFLAIR INC.
    Inventors: Akinobu HASEGAWA, Shyrcherng KUO
  • Publication number: 20190111371
    Abstract: A filter insert for installation in a fluid filter has at least one main separator for separating liquid from aerosol. The main separator is supported at a main separator support tube. The filter insert further has at least one post separator for separating liquid from aerosol that is supported at a post separator support tube. The post separator is arranged downstream of the main separator in a flow direction of a fluid to be cleaned. The post separator is arranged concentric to the main separator and is radially spaced by an intermediate space from the main separator. The post separator support tube is configured to add axial elasticity to the support tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Felix Nimtz
  • Publication number: 20190111372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a removable basket for a catalytic reactor comprising a horizontal base (1) and a plurality of vertical side walls (2) and/or at least one ellipsoidal side wall, and a plurality of vertical chimneys (3, 4) that are open at their lower (5) and upper (6) ends, each chimney comprising a lower part (7) comprising the lower end fastened to the base and extending between the side walls, in which a first chimney comprises an upper part (8) extending above the side walls, and the upper part of the first chimney is suitable for being inserted into a lower part of a chimney of another removable basket. The present invention also relates to a filtration and distribution device comprising said removable basket, a reactor comprising said device, and a hydrotreating and/or hydrocracking process using said reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried WEISS, Cecile PLAIS
  • Publication number: 20190111373
    Abstract: A filter assembly for a vacuum cleaner has a housing, a filter medium disposed in the housing, a recess formed in a surface of the housing, a tab movable between a first position and a second position, and a fixing member movable between a fixing position and a release position. The fixing member is engageable with the vacuum cleaner when in the fixing position to fix the filter assembly to the vacuum cleaner. The fixing member is disengageable from the vacuum cleaner when in the release position such that the filter assembly may be removed from the vacuum cleaner. The tab is movable between the first and second positions to move the fixing member between the fixing and release positions. The tab is disposed within the recess such that the tab is located below the surface of the housing in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Adam Samuel HILLIARD
  • Publication number: 20190111374
    Abstract: Air cleaner assemblies, components, features and methods of assembly and use are described. Example air cleaner assemblies are depicted and described in which a main filter cartridge sealing surface is recessed from an open end of a housing body. An access cover of the housing is configured with a portion extending inwardly to engage a main filter cartridge portion and bias it against the main filter cartridge sealing surface. In selected assemblies, the portion of the access cover extending inwardly toward the main filter cartridge, is a precleaner having flow separator tubes therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: David J. BURTON, Hubert Julius RAHN
  • Publication number: 20190111375
    Abstract: A coolant gas, multi-filter filtering unit, for use with servers and other electrical equipment that can be utilized as a retrofit device for existing servers or provided as OEM equipment with the server is described. A series of static centrifugal force filtering units are position upstream of a replaceable surface filter. The surface filter can be a HEPA filter, or alternatively include an absorbent layer or separate third filter of charcoal to remove VOCs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Chao-Jung CHEN, Yu-Nien HUANG, Hou-Hsien CHANG, Kuen-Hsien Wu
  • Publication number: 20190111376
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methodologies, systems, apparatus, kits, and microfluidic separation devices based on separation columns and restrictors that are matched and bundled together for distribution as a unit, where the mobile phase flow rate and post-column pressure are specified based on this combination of matched separation column and restrictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael O. Fogwill, James P. Murphy, Geoff C. Gerhardt
  • Publication number: 20190111377
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling prepurifier cycle time by monitoring ambient CO2 level in order to prevent CO2 breakthrough occurrences caused by extreme instantaneous variations in ambient CO2 level. Rather than operating solely by prepurifier design bed capacity, the method of the invention continuously updates bed capacity for the contaminants using the feed temperature, pressure and contaminants composition, calculating the total amount of contaminants that were fed to the prepurifier during the feed step and estimates the perturbation front velocity, i.e., the velocity at which the contaminants front coming from an extreme instantaneous variations of ambient level is going to propagate inside the adsorbents bed. Estimating the perturbation front velocity allows for a more precise estimate of the maximum time remaining for the feed step before starting to experience CO2 breakthrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Olivier Dube, Cem E. Celik, Thomas A. McNamara
  • Publication number: 20190111378
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a gas separation method by which a removal performance to remove a removal object gas component and a recovery rate to recover a recovery object gas component can be satisfied at the same time, and furthermore, a generation efficiency of a product gas can be improved. A raw material gas g0 is fed to one adsorption vessel 11 of an adsorbing device 10 and a permeated gas g1 is sent out. A pressure of the other the adsorption vessels 12 is made lower than a pressure during adsorption and a desorbed gas g2 is sent out. In accordance with an operating cycle of the adsorbing device 10 or according to a condition of the raw material gas g0 or the like, one of the permeated gas g1 and the desorbed gas g2 that has a lower concentration of a priority removal object gas component than the raw material gas g0 is provided as a return gas to the adsorbing device 10, the priority removal object gas component being a gas component to be preferentially removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya ISHII, Yoji FUJIMORI, Kazumi OKADA, Tomohiro OOTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20190111379
    Abstract: Provided is method for concentrating ozone gas the method including the steps of: allowing ozone gas to be adsorbed onto the adsorbent by introducing ozone gas-containing raw material mixed gas into an adsorption vessel (20) that houses an adsorbent for adsorbing ozone gas; reducing a pressure in a concentration vessel (30) in a state where the concentration vessel (30) does not communicate with the adsorption vessel (20), the concentration vessel (30) being configured to be connected to the adsorption vessel (20) so as to be interswitchable between a state where the concentration vessel (30) communicates with the adsorption vessel (20) and a state where the concentration vessel does not communicate with the adsorption vessel (20); and introducing concentrated mixed gas including ozone gas with a higher ozone gas concentration than the ozone gas concentration in the raw material mixed gas into the concentration vessel (30) by desorbing the ozone gas adsorbed onto the adsorbent using a pressure difference betw
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: IWATANI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadaki NAKAMURA, Koichi IZUMI, Naohisa MAKIHIRA
  • Publication number: 20190111380
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for regenerating a hybrid solvent used to remove contaminants from a fluid stream and to provide an improved yield of purified fluid. Said process comprises at least two purification units and at least one regeneration unit wherein regenerated lean hybrid solvent and condensed water from the regeneration unit is used to reclaim additional purified fluid in the second purification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: John R Dowdle, Timothy D. Helnon, Christophe R. Laroche, Diego Ortiz Vega, Linda L. Pirtle, Gerardo Padilla
  • Publication number: 20190111381
    Abstract: Generally, the present invention relates to the selective removal of divalent sulfur oxyanions (e.g., sulfate) from an aqueous solvent using an anion exchange resin. More particularly, this invention relates to regenerative processes for the selective removal and recovery of sulfur dioxide from a source gas using an aqueous absorption medium in which an anion exchange resin is used to selectively remove divalent sulfur oxyanion impurities accumulating in the recirculating aqueous absorption medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Ernesto Vera-Castaneda
  • Publication number: 20190111382
    Abstract: Provided is an acid gas separation membrane that includes an acid gas separation layer containing a hydrophilic resin and an acid gas carrier, a hydrophobic porous membrane layer supporting the acid gas separation layer, a porous membrane protective layer protecting the acid gas separation layer, and a first layer having a Gurley number of less than or equal to 0.5 times a Gurley number of the hydrophobic porous membrane layer and the porous membrane protective layer, the Gurley number of the first layer being greater than or equal to 0.1 s and less than or equal to 30 s. Also provided is an acid gas separation method using the acid gas separation membrane, as well as an acid gas separation module and an acid gas separation apparatus that each include the acid gas separation membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Cui LIANG, Hironori TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190111383
    Abstract: A tablet having a deliquescent desiccant and a fragrance encapsulated on or within a binding agent. The tablet is in a pressed form. A method of making a tablet involves providing a deliquescent desiccant, encapsulating a fragrance by spray drying the fragrance on a carbohydrate, combining the deliquescent desiccant and the carbohydrate encapsulated fragrance, and pressing the combination into the tablet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Rachel Ann Farmer, Dennis Earl Shireman, Charles L. Hawes, Brett Justin Healey, Matthew Michael Petkus
  • Publication number: 20190111384
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are contemplated in which a tube cell that produces a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) is individually configured to minimize the mixing of unwanted byproducts of the generated plasma with an exhaust air stream. The tube cell generates a DBD within a tube cell, such that oxidants or radicals are generated in an environment substantially separated from the exhaust stream. The generated oxidants are directed to intersect with the exhaust stream to minimize the generation of unwanted byproducts. The tube cells are further shaped and arranged in tube cell arrays to alter the flow dynamics of the exhaust stream and the oxidant or radical streams, including mixing of the streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Garrett Hill
  • Publication number: 20190111385
    Abstract: An absorption column is equipped with: a CO2 absorption section absorbing CO2 from CO2-containing exhaust gas using a lean solution; a main rinse section recovering an entrained CO2 absorbent using rinse water; a rinse water circulation line circulating a rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent recovered in a liquid storage section of the main rinse section; a pre-rinse section provided between the CO2 absorption section and the main rinse section; a rinse section extraction liquid supply line extracting a portion of the rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent from the rinse water circulation line, and introducing the same into a reflux section of an absorption liquid regeneration tower; and a refluxed water supply line extracting a portion of refluxed water, introducing the same as pre-rinse water for the pre-rinse section, and connected on the pre-rinse section side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Takahiko Endo, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi
  • Publication number: 20190111386
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module for ventilation equipped with a biological system for purification of indoor and/or outdoor air of an environment having a box body with a first (2) and a second (4) wall facing each other, and at least one of the first and the second wall comprising a sheet made of a material transparent to light; a pair of sidewalk (6) each one connected to the first (2) and second wall (4) and adapted to close the box body laterally; a base (3) and a lid (5) each one connected to the pair of sidewalk (6) and to the first (2) and second (4) wall to close the box body at the bottom and at the top respectively; a purification chamber (30) where a biofilter (10) is arranged for purifying an input air flow (A) entering the module (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Orio DE PAOLI, Marco SIMONETTI, Angelica MORRA, Monica NOVARA
  • Publication number: 20190111387
    Abstract: A process and a plant for decreasing the concentration of NOx nitrogen oxides in the residual gas in the preparation of nitric acid, where the temperature of the residual gas is regulated by means of a temperature regulating apparatus during shutdown and/or start-up of the plant, with the residual gas being conveyed in a circuit and here flowing through the temperature regulating apparatus and the residual gas purification plant so that colorless shutdown and/or start-up of the plant is made possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Klaus RUTHARDT, Michael GROVES, Paul KERN