Patents Issued in September 10, 2019
  • Patent number: 10407272
    Abstract: A yarn tensioner is designed for adjusting tension in a running yarn. The yarn tensioner includes a rotatable tension wheel having opposing yarn-contacting surfaces formed along an annular region thereof and configured to frictionally contact opposite sides of the running yarn such that the running yarn causes rotational movement of the tension wheel. An elongated wheel shaft is directly affixed to the tension wheel. A tension adjustment assembly frictionally contacts the wheel shaft, and creates select rotation resistance between adjacent parts of the assembly and the wheel shaft such that rotation of the tension wheel is adjustably frictionally controlled, thereby adjusting tension in the running yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: American Linc, LLC
    Inventor: Donald Lynn Hoover
  • Patent number: 10407273
    Abstract: An elevator control system is configured to control an elevator car constructed and arranged to move along a hoistway defined by a stationary structure. The elevator system may include a communication pathway and a hoistway control system supported by the stationary structure and configured to send a continuous brake command signal over the pathway. A car control system is carried by the elevator car and is configured to receive the continuous brake command signal and initiate a brake Ustop mode upon a loss of the brake command signal, and independent of the hoistway control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: David Ginsberg, Xiaodong Luo, Shashank Krishnamurthy, Dang V. Nguyen, Richard Fargo
  • Patent number: 10407274
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an elevator. The elevator includes an elevator car to move along a first direction. A transmitter for transmitting a signal having a waveform. A receiver for receiving the waveform. A processor having memory is configured to represent the received waveform as a hybrid sinusoidal frequency modulated (FM)-polynomial phase signal (PPS) model. The hybrid sinusoidal FM-PPS model having PPS phase parameters representing a speed of the elevator car along a first direction and a sinusoidal FM phase parameter representing a vibration of the elevator car along a second direction. The processor solves the hybrid sinusoidal FM-PPS model to produce the speed of the elevator car or the vibration of the elevator car or both. A controller controls an operation of the elevator using the speed of the elevator car or the vibration of the elevator car, or both, to assist in an operational management of the elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Pu Wang, Philip Orlik, Kota Sadamoto, Wataru Tsujita
  • Patent number: 10407275
    Abstract: A sensor system for a passenger conveyance system includes a multiple of 3D sensors mounted to a movable structure within a vertical shaft and/or a horizontal shaft and a processing module in communication with the multiple of 3D sensors, the processing module operable to identify an obstruction within the horizontal or vertical shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Yehia F Khalil, Richard N Fargo, Randall Roberts, Randall S Dube, Gary L Nuschler, Peter DePaola, Jr., Arthur Hsu, Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Bruce P Swaybill, Alan Matthew Finn, Richard J Ericson
  • Patent number: 10407276
    Abstract: An elevator device that can continuously evacuate any evacuee left in a building by using an elevator. The elevator device includes a control device configured to maintain an evacuation operation mode corresponding to a rescue floor concerned when a car operation instructing device is operated on the rescue floor concerned before a predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned, and release the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned when the car operation instructing device is not operated on the rescue floor concerned before the predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Chiaki Honda, Masashi Komatsu, Ashiqur Rahman, David Willem Lodewijk Offerhaus, Takaharu Ueda, Shinichi Kuroda, Koji Yamagishi, Kenji Taniyama
  • Patent number: 10407277
    Abstract: An apparatus for catching a shaft conveyor means (5) in the event of overtravel of a conveyor device, including an overtravel brake device, wherein coupling devices (80,90) are provided for automatic, form-fitting engagement with one another for fixing on the brake device and on the shaft conveyor means (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMAG TECBERG GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Koch, Johann Merkel
  • Patent number: 10407278
    Abstract: The present invention provides a safety device for elevators, which belongs to the field of elevator safety technologies. The safety device for elevators includes a housing; a safety piece having a guide rail groove, the safety piece being disposed in the housing; and asymmetric active and counter wedges that are slidably disposed on the safety piece at both sides of the guide rail groove, respectively. Moreover, the device further includes a U-shaped elastic element and a blocking piece that are disposed on the safety piece. The safety device for elevators can provide a relatively stable arresting force, is reliable in repetitive work, achieves high safety, is relatively easy as well as fast and efficient in restoration, and is especially suitable for high-speed elevators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Lifeng Zhang, James M. Draper, Byeongsam Yoo, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 10407279
    Abstract: A clip for attaching an elevator guide rail to a support bracket includes: an attachment part for attaching the clip to the support bracket; a clamping part for clamping the guide rail against the support bracket; a pin guided in the clamping part and movable between a pushed-in position and a protruding position, in which the pin protrudes from the clamping part; a spring element arranged inside the clamping part and biased against the movement from the protruding position into the pushed-in position; wherein the clamping part includes a clip friction surface for touching the guide rail, when the pin is in the pushed-in position, and the pin includes a pin friction surface for touching the guide rail, when the pin is in the protruding position, which pin friction surface has a lower friction coefficient than the clip friction surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Eduardo Kalynytschenko
  • Patent number: 10407280
    Abstract: A wire rope device having adjustable length between a first end and a second end thereof. The wire rope device comprises a first wire rope extending from the first end and a second wire rope extending from the second end. A length adjusting structure is disposed between the first end and the second end. The length adjusting structure has the first wire rope and the second wire rope connected thereto. A support structure is disposed between the first end and the second end. The support structure has the length adjusting structure rotatable movable mounted thereto. A first guiding structure and a second guiding structure are disposed in the support structure for guiding the first wire rope and the second wire rope, respectively, such that when in operation a portion of the first wire rope extending from the first guiding element and a portion of the second wire rope extending from the second guiding element are disposed substantially along a same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventor: Brad Hillgardner
  • Patent number: 10407281
    Abstract: A crane, such as a bridge crane or gantry crane, having at least one horizontally extending crane girder, which is designed as a lattice girder having a plurality of braces and on which a crane trolley having a lifting device can be moved. At least some of the braces are planiform, and each of the planiform braces has a flat main surface, which extends transversely to a longitudinal direction of the crane girder. On each longitudinal side of the braces, a first cut-out and a second cut-out are provided in the main surfaces. The longitudinal sides of at least some of the planiform braces are free of edge bends at least between the first and second cutouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Konecranes Global Corporation
    Inventors: Christoph Passmann, Richard Kreisner, Thomas Schlierbach-Knobloch, Stefan Noll
  • Patent number: 10407282
    Abstract: A large manipulator includes a boom arm with a turntable and a plurality of boom segments, which are configured to be pivoted at respective articulation joints with respect to an adjacent boom segment or the turntable. The boom arm further includes at least one inertial sensor configured to measure inclination and/or acceleration of at least one of the plurality of boom segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Schwing GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Henikl, Wolfgang Kemmetmüller, Andreas Kugi
  • Patent number: 10407283
    Abstract: An apparatus for moving a counterweight includes an attachment fixed to a frame of a machine, a supporting member that includes a supporting face for placing a counterweight thereon when the counterweight is mounted on the machine, and a link mechanism that moves the counterweight. The link mechanism includes an arm and a rotating cylinder that rotates the arm. One end of the arm is pivotally supported by the attachment while the other end of the arm is pivotally supported by the upper inner portion of a recess of the counterweight. One end of the rotating cylinder is pivotally supported by the upper inner portion of the recess of the counterweight. The supporting face is shaped so as to coincide with the arc locus drawn by a contact face arranged on the side of the counterweight, as the counterweight moves. The contact face comes into contact with the supporting face when the counterweight is mounted on the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Kenichi Mori, Ryo Iguchi, Hirokazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10407284
    Abstract: It is aimed to enable an easier attachment of a lower spreader to a machine main body. The mast 30 is tiltably attached to the machine main body 13, and operable to lie over the machine main body 13. The lower spreader retainer 40 is fixedly attached to the machine main body 13, and adapted for retaining the lower spreader 50. The connector 60 connects the mast 30 and the lower spreader 50 with each other so that the mast 30 holds the lower spreader 50. The lower spreader 50 and the lower spreader retainer 40 are arranged at a position that allows the lower spreader retainer 40 to retain the lower spreader 50 in a state where the mast 30 holding the lower spreader 50 is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dairo Matsui
  • Patent number: 10407285
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a system and method for limiting a swing angle of a jib crane, the jib crane having a jib rotatably mounted to a mast. The device can have a collar having a collar height and a collar width, the collar being configured to be fit to the mast at a stop height. The device can also have one or more stopping tabs enagagable with the collar and configured to be positioned on the collar at one or more points about a circumference of the mast. The stop height can place the one or more stopping tabs in a position coincident with the jib to interfere with the swing angle of the jib. The method can use the device to limit the angle through which the jibe crane can swing unimpeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: D & R CRANE, INC.
    Inventors: James Henry Schroeder, Byron R. Patrick
  • Patent number: 10407286
    Abstract: A winch arrangement including a cable guide having a plurality of manually-repositionable guide surfaces to guide the cable as it is wound onto the winch drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventor: William B. Bellis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10407287
    Abstract: A chain block includes: a main body frame; and a gear cover that is attached to the main body frame to form an internal space sealed off from an outside between the gear cover and the main body frame, and rotatably supports one end side of a reduction gear member, wherein a gear-side frame part is provided with a bottom part and an outer peripheral wall part projecting from an outer peripheral edge portion of the bottom part, and an upper rib having both ends coupled to the outer peripheral wall part is provided at a portion of the gear-side frame on an upper side where an insertion hole and a link shaft are provided and on a side nearer a center of the internal space than is the outer peripheral wall part, and the upper rib is provided adjacent to the insertion hole and the link shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akinori Shirota
  • Patent number: 10407288
    Abstract: A lift device includes a chassis, a rear leveling assembly coupled to a rear end of the chassis, and a front leveling assembly coupled to a front end of the chassis. The rear leveling assembly includes a first rear actuator and a second rear actuator. The first rear actuator and the second rear actuator are selectively engageable to facilitate providing active control of a rear pitch adjustment and a rear roll adjustment of the rear leveling assembly. The front leveling assembly includes a first front actuator and a second front actuator. The first front actuator and the second front actuator are (i) selectively fluidly couplable to facilitate providing passive control of a front pitch adjustment and a front roll adjustment of the front leveling assembly and (ii) selectively fluidly decouplable to facilitate providing active control of the front pitch adjustment and the front roll adjustment of the front leveling assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: JiHong Hao, Ignacy Puszkiewicz
  • Patent number: 10407289
    Abstract: A container filling machine is provided having one or more filling units. The filling units have a valve actuator assembly having a first end moveably connected to the filling machine to effect both lateral movement and reciprocating longitudinal movement; and a valve connected to a second end of the valve actuator assembly, such that longitudinal movement of the valve actuator assembly actuates the valve to open and fill a container. The filling machine has alternating filling units each comprising a different valve dedicated for a particular variety of container. A method is also taught for filling one or more types of containers with a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Donald Bondi, Allan Joseph Merlo, John Joseph Bedek
  • Patent number: 10407290
    Abstract: A dispensing unit is operatively associated with a refrigeration appliance for selectively dispensing water and ice at a dispensing station. The dispensing unit includes an actuator that is movable to selected positions in order to support the dispensing of the water and ice. The dispensing unit can include a passageway through which ice is dispensed, and an ice door can be provided for selectively opening and closing the passageway to the dispensing of ice. In one aspect, the ice door can be opened and closed mechanically and in another aspect, the ice door can be opened and closed electromechanically. The dispensing unit also can provide for the position of a water-dispensing nozzle to be adjusted for the purpose of dispensing water to receptacles outside a recessed area at which the nozzle is located and to provide for the activation of illuminating devices to indicate operating conditions at the refrigeration appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez, Thomas W. McCollough, Nilton Carlos Bertolini, Travis McMahan, Justin Morgan
  • Patent number: 10407291
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cartridge comprising a wall region, to one end of which a connection region is connected, which is closed particularly with a membrane, and on the opposite end of which optionally a bottom region is provided, the wall region and optionally the bottom region containing a cavity which receives a beverage and/or food substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Freezio AG
    Inventors: Marc Krüger, Günter Empl, Daniel Fischer
  • Patent number: 10407292
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing system including a control unit and a touch screen. Inputs are made to the touch screen to dispense beverages and apply system adjustments. The control unit controls a plurality of beverage dispensing valves according to inputs made to the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Hecht, Jun Feng, Boris Brodsky, Richard A. Martindale
  • Patent number: 10407293
    Abstract: The system described herein employs electronic technology to improve the ability to dispense liquid from a container. The container can be programmed to dispense a specific amount of liquid, at a specific time. It can be voice-activated and connected to other electrical components such as a laptop or alarm system. The system may be used in laboratory equipment, medicine bottles, and food processors, although alternate methods may also be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: United States as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Nghia X. Tran
  • Patent number: 10407294
    Abstract: A fuel island redundant monitoring system having sensors of varying purpose to transmit data signals to dual remote monitoring stations. One monitoring site is a live monitoring station manned by personnel. The other monitoring station is a data receiving station utilizing unmanned machines, e.g., computers. The unmanned data station is capable of transmitting information to the manned monitoring station, to local fuel island managers and/or to local emergency responders, and/or to control equipment at the fuel island. The manned monitoring station is capable of transmitting commands or inquiries to the unmanned data station and/or to control equipment at the fuel island, and/or to local fuel island managers and/or to local emergency responders. Sensors may be dedicated to either the unmanned data station or the manned live monitoring station, or may send data to both stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: HOLYSTONE USA, INC.
    Inventor: R. Keith Barker
  • Patent number: 10407295
    Abstract: An object is to suppress excessive insertion of a fueling nozzle during fueling. A nozzle guide configured to form a nozzle guide path that guides a fueling nozzle is placed inside of a filler neck main body configured to include a fuel passage that introduces a fuel supplied from the fueling nozzle toward a fuel tank. This nozzle guide comprises a first projection for nozzle restriction provided on a nozzle guide end opening portion at an end of the nozzle guide path along a nozzle guide direction and protruded from an end opening circumferential wall of the nozzle guide end opening portion to narrow at least part of a diameter of the nozzle guide path; and a second projection for nozzle restriction provided on a downstream side of the first projection along the nozzle guide direction and protruded from the end opening circumferential wall to narrow at least part of the diameter of the nozzle guide path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kubo, Naoki Nishimoto, Yoshinari Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10407296
    Abstract: An optical fluid sensor (OFS) is disclosed that includes a body defining a chamber and having one or more apertures to allow a fluid to enter the chamber, a light source optically coupled to the chamber and configured to emit light into the chamber, and a detector optically coupled to the chamber and configured to receive light from the chamber. The light source may emit IR, visible, and UV light into the chamber, and the detector may measure an intensity of one or more wavelengths of IR or visible light received by the detector. When fluid is disposed within the chamber, the light emitted by the light source may pass into and through the fluid disposed in the chamber before being received by the detector. A crossover protection system is also disclosed that includes an OFS for determining a transported liquid type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KNAPPCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Paul Bjornebo, Jeffrey Joseph Blair, Mark William Dudley, Richard Lee Henderson
  • Patent number: 10407297
    Abstract: A fueling apparatus 1 including: a fueling pipe 4 accommodated in a housing main body 2 having a fueling mechanism, one end of the fueling pipe 4 being connected to the fueling mechanism; an elbow 5 connected to another end of the fueling pipe 4; a fueling hose 10, one end of which being connected to a fueling nozzle 11 with vapor recovering function, and in which a vapor passage 10c and a fuel oil passage 10d are separately disposed from each other; and a separable joint 9 for communicating the fuel oil passage 10d of the fueling hose 10 and inside of the elbow 5 with each other, and for communicating the vapor passage 10c of the fueling hose 10 and a vapor pipe 4 connected to the vapor recovery mechanism with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Tatsuno Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Karino, Tsuyoshi Koike
  • Patent number: 10407298
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a substrate, a micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) device and an attachment element. The substrate defines an opening penetrating the substrate. The MEMS device has an active surface facing away from the substrate and a sensing region facing toward the opening. The attachment element is disposed on the substrate and surrounding the opening and the sensing region of the MEMS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING KOREA, INC.
    Inventors: Soonheung Bae, Hoguen Yoon, Kyunghwan Sul, Dukyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10407299
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device is provided. The device comprises a central MEMS wafer, and top and bottom cap wafers. The MEMS wafer includes a MEMS structure, such as an inertial sensor. The 5 top cap wafer, the bottom cap wafer and the MEMS wafers are stacked along a stacking axis and together form at least one hermetic cavity enclosing the MEMS structure. At least one of the top cap wafer and the bottom cap wafer is a silicon-on- insulator (SOI) cap wafer comprising a cap device layer, a cap handle layer and a cap insulating layer interposed between the cap device layer and the cap handle layer. At 10 least one electrically conductive path extends through the SOI cap wafer, establishing an electrical convection between an outer electrical contact provided on the SOI cap wafer and the MEMS structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Motion Engine Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Mark Boysel
  • Patent number: 10407300
    Abstract: An integrated structure of an MEMS pressure sensor and an MEMS inertia sensor are provided, comprising: an insulating layer formed on a substrate, a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode both formed on the insulating layer, further comprising a first upper electrode forming an air pressure-sensitive capacitor together with the first lower electrode, and a second upper electrode forming a reference capacitor together with the second lower electrode; further comprising an inertia-sensitive structure supported above the substrate by a third support part, and a fixed electrode plate forming an inertia detecting capacitor of an inertia sensor together with the inertia-sensitive structure; and a cover body which packages the inertia detecting capacitor composed of the inertia-sensitive structure and the fixed electrode plate on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Goertek.Inc
    Inventor: Guoguang Zheng
  • Patent number: 10407301
    Abstract: MEMS device, in which a body made of semiconductor material contains a chamber, and a first column inside the chamber. A cap of semiconductor material is attached to the body and forms a first membrane, a first cavity and a first channel. The chamber is closed on the side of the cap. The first membrane, the first cavity, the first channel and the first column form a capacitive pressure sensor structure. The first membrane is arranged between the first cavity and the second face, the first channel extends between the first cavity and the first face or between the first cavity and the second face and the first column extends towards the first membrane and forms, along with the first membrane, plates of a first capacitor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Enri Duqi, Lorenzo Baldo, Roberto Carminati
  • Patent number: 10407302
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wafer-level package that includes a first thinned die, a multilayer redistribution structure, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The first thinned die includes a first device layer formed from glass materials. The multilayer redistribution structure includes redistribution interconnects that connect the first device layer to package contacts on a bottom surface of the multilayer redistribution structure. Herein, the connections between the redistribution interconnects and the first device layer are solder-free. The first mold compound resides over the multilayer redistribution structure and around the first thinned die, and extends beyond a top surface of the first thinned die to define an opening within the first mold compound and over the first thinned die. The second mold compound fills the opening and is in contact with the top surface of the first thinned die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Edward Vandemeer, Jonathan Hale Hammond, Julio C. Costa
  • Patent number: 10407303
    Abstract: Use of a material (3) for producing hydrogen or electricity, wherein the material comprises at least 50% by weight of a reagent for hydrolysis upon contact with an aqueous solution to obtain hydrogen. The reagent comprises: a first compound chosen from magnesium metal, magnesium hydride, and mixtures thereof, and a second compound alloyed with the first compound, wherein the second compound is chosen from graphite, carbon fibers, and mixtures thereof. The first compound represents at least 75% by weight of the reagent, while the second compound represents between 1% and 25% by weight of the reagent. Use of a capsule containing the material. Method and corresponding production device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Fabrice Claude Michel Mauvy, Jean-Louis Bobet, Jocelyn Sabatier, Frédéric Bos
  • Patent number: 10407304
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of biomethanol from the pulp industry in the production of biohydrogen. The preferred biomethanol comprises purified biomethanol derived from black liquor. The invention also relates to a process for the production of biohydrogen from crude biomethanol recovered from black liquor and to a process for producing hydrocarbon biofuel using such biohydrogen as a hydrogen source. The invention further relates to a biofuel production facility for producing fuel from biohydrogen and biohydrocarbon, and to biofuel so produced. The invention makes it possible to produce a biofuel, wherein 100% of the raw material stems from non-fossil sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: UPM-KYMMENE OYJ
    Inventors: Petri Kukkonen, Pekka Knuuttila, Pekka Jokela
  • Patent number: 10407305
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen is proposed, comprising a mixing unit (12), a mixing section and a mixing diffuser (16). The mixing unit (12) has a feed orifice (18) for supply of a hydrocarbonaceous stream, a feed orifice (20) for supply of an oxygenous stream, a swirl register and a distributor plate (24). The distributor plate (24) is disposed between the mixing section (14) and the feed orifice (18) for supply of a hydrocarbonaceous stream. The distributor plate (24) has orifices (28). The swirl register (22) is disposed between the feed orifice (20) for supply of an oxygenous stream and the mixing section (14). The mixing diffuser (16) is connected to the mixing section (14). There is a further proposal of a process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Kern, Michael Russ, Peter Renze, Maximilian Vicari
  • Patent number: 10407306
    Abstract: A method of producing fluoroapatite powder by using a calcium compound, a phosphate compound, and a fluorine compound as a raw material is provided. The method comprises: preparing a slurry containing fluoroapatite produced from the raw material by using a wet process; applying an ultrasonic wave to the slurry; and drying the slurry to obtain the fluoroapatite powder mainly constituted of the fluoroapatite. The method provides fluoroapatite powder having improved particle strength. Further, an adsorption apparatus including the fluoroapatite powder is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Yoshiyuki Ogawara, Tomohiko Yoshitake, Yukiko Murakami
  • Patent number: 10407307
    Abstract: Inside a furnace body with a vacuum environment or under the inert gas protection, the raw silicon material used to produce silicon carbide is melted or vaporized in a high temperature environment over 1300° C., and then the melted or vaporized raw silicon material will react with the carbonaceous gas or liquid to form silicon carbide. The present invention uses the carbonaceous gas with no metallic impurities, to replace petroleum coke, resin, asphalt, graphite, carbon fiber, coal, charcoal and some other carbon sources used in current production processes. When the carburizing reaction is in progress, the raw silicon material is melted or vaporized and the reaction takes place in the air. No container is required, so impurity contamination is lessened, and the produced silicon carbide has a fairly high purity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Taizhou Beyond Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hoshino, Lenian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10407308
    Abstract: A system for the exfoliation of a layered material is described, comprising in combination: an exfoliation station (14-22) operating on a volume of a dispersion of a layered precursor material, including a wet-jet milling device (10); and a collecting station (30, 40), located downstream of the exfoliation station (14-22), operating on a volume of a dispersion of the at least partly exfoliated material, in which the exfoliation station (14-22) and the collecting station (30, 40) are connected to each other through a fluid communication path (20) along which there are interposed flow regulating means (50) adapted to assume a first operating configuration in which the communication path (20) between the exfoliation station (14-22) and the collecting station (30, 40) is discontinued, where the exfoliation station (14-22) is adapted to subject a volume of dispersion of layered precursor material to a predetermined number of wet jet milling cycles; and a second operating configuration in which the communication pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECHNOLOGIA
    Inventors: Antonio Esau Del Rio Castillo, Alberto Ansaldo, Vittorio Pellegrini, Francesco Bonaccorso
  • Patent number: 10407309
    Abstract: Production of polycrystalline silicon in substantially closed-loop processes and systems is disclosed. The processes and systems generally involve disproportionation of trichlorosilane to produce silane or dichlorosilane and thermal decomposition of silane or dichlorosilane to produce polycrystalline silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Corner Star Limited
    Inventors: Puneet Gupta, Yue Huang, Satish Bhusarapu
  • Patent number: 10407310
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns embodiments of an annealing device and a method for annealing flowable, finely divided solids, such as annealing granular silicon to reduce a hydrogen content of the granular silicon. The annealing device comprises at least one tube through which flowable, finely divided solids are flowed downwardly. The tube includes a heating zone and (i) a residence zone below the heating zone, (ii) a cooling zone below the heating zone, or (iii) a residence zone below the heating zone and a cooling zone below the residence zone. An inert gas is flowed upwardly through the tube. The tube may be constructed from two or more tube segments. The annealing device may include a plurality of tubes arranged and housed within a shell. The annealing device and method are suitable for a continuous process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: REC Silicon Inc
    Inventors: Robert J. Geertsen, Matthew J. Miller, Justin Johnston, Stein Julsrud, Sefa Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 10407311
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments disclosed herein, a mesoporous zeolite may be made by a method comprising contacting an initial zeolite material with ammonium hexafluorosilicate to modify the framework of the initial zeolite material, and forming mesopores in the framework-modified zeolite material. The contacting may form a framework-modified zeolite material. The mesoporous zeolites may be incorporated into catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Lianhui Ding, Essam Al-Sayed, Kareemuddin Shaik, Abdennour Bourane
  • Patent number: 10407312
    Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a composition comprising a zeolite with high silica content. In some embodiments, the silica to aluminum ratio (SAR) for the zeolite is 2:1. In some embodiments, the zeolite comprises Zeolite HOU-2 (LTA-type). In some embodiments, the silica to aluminum ratio (SAR) for the zeolite is >3. In some embodiments, the zeolite comprises Zeolite HOU-3 (FAU type). In some embodiments, the zeolite is synthesized using a one-step method. In some embodiments, the zeolite is synthesized without the use of an organic structure-directing agent (OSDA). In some embodiments, the zeolite is synthesized without the use of post-synthesis dealumination. In some embodiments, the zeolite is synthesized without the use crystal seeds. In some embodiments, the zeolite is used in commercial ion exchange. In some embodiments, the zeolite is used for catalysis reaction. In some embodiments, the zeolite is highly thermostable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
    Inventors: Marlon T. Conato, Matthew D. Oleksiak, Jeffrey D. Rimer
  • Patent number: 10407313
    Abstract: A method is provided for the synthesis of a zeolite of the offretite structure using cyclopropyltrimethylammonium cations as a structure directing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Xie
  • Patent number: 10407314
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing a chabazite-type zeolite is provided having high heat resistance without having a large crystal size. A catalyst is also provided that contains such a chabazite-type zeolite and exhibits high nitrogen oxide reduction properties, and in particular high nitrogen oxide reduction properties in low temperatures below 200° C., even after exposure to high temperature and high humidity. A chabazite-type zeolite is provided having a silica to alumina molar ratio of no less than 15, a silanol group to silicon molar ratio of no more than 1.6×10?2, an average crystal size of 0.5 ?m to less than 1.5 ?m, and a ratio of 50%-volume particle size to 10%-volume particle size of no more than 3.2. The chabazite-type zeolite preferably contains at least one of copper and iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Nakao, Ko Ariga, Hidekazu Aoyama, Satoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10407315
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of systems and/or methods for synthesis of zinc oxide are described, including a chamber enclosure, a wafer substrate holder, a fluid handling system, and sequences for implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jacob J. Richardson, Evan C. O'Hara
  • Patent number: 10407316
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for extracting metals and salts from titanium-bearing minerals such as perovskite. More particularly, although not exclusively, the invention relates to extracting titanium dioxide and optionally other compounds from melter slag derived from an iron-making process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: AVERTANA LIMITED
    Inventors: David Jonathan Hassell, James Kevin Obern, Sean Daniel James Molloy, Sherif Owen Zaki Emad Marshall Ibrahim, Mohammed Shereez Ali
  • Patent number: 10407317
    Abstract: The filtration system of the present invention comprises first and second filtration tanks. The first filtration tank has a first floating filter media layer, a first upper screen with a first aperture ratio, a first inlet, a first backwash water supply source, and a first backwash water outlet means. The second filtration tank has a second floating filter media layer, a second upper screen with a second aperture ratio, a second inlet, an inflow blocking mechanism capable of blocking inflow of water to be treated through the second inlet, a second backwash water supply source, and a second backwash water outlet means. The first aperture ratio is smaller than the second aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: METAWATER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Miyata, Yoshihiko Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10407318
    Abstract: A cross-linked polymeric resin which contains reacted monomer units of an aniline, a diaminoalkane, and an aldehyde, and which is functionalized with at least one dithiocarbamate moiety. A process for producing the cross-linked polymeric resin whereby an aniline and a diaminoalkane are linked together by Mannich-type polycondensation reactions with an aldehyde. The resulting Mannich-type polycondensation product is converted into the cross-linked polymeric resin through functionalization of one or more amine functional groups with dithiocarbamate moieties. A method for removing heavy metals, such as Hg(II), from an aqueous solution, whereby the cross-linked polymeric resin is contacted with the aqueous solution, and the heavy metal is thus adsorbed onto the cross-linked polymeric resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Oluwafemi S. Akintola, Tawfik Abdo Saleh Awadh, Mazen Mohammad Khaled, Othman Charles Sadeq Al Hamouz
  • Patent number: 10407319
    Abstract: A photocatalytic filter including first photocatalytic particles each of which is a composite of an adsorbent and titanium apatite, second photocatalytic particles each of which is glass coated with titanium apatite, a light source configured to emit ultraviolet rays, and a container accommodating the first photocatalytic particles, the second photocatalytic particles, and the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Wakamura, Mineharu Tsukada, Toshihisa Anazawa
  • Patent number: 10407320
    Abstract: Techniques for depleting target organisms in water include a waterproof transducer configured for ensonifying a container of water with low intensity sound at one or more ultrasound frequencies for a duration sufficient to prevent maturation of at least 90% of the target organism. In some cases the target organism is mosquito larvae. For example, a portable system for depleting target organisms in water includes a control system and a plurality of waterproof transducers. The system is configured for ensonifying a surface layer of water in an acoustic frequency range from about 40 kilohertz to about 100 kilohertz and in a power concentration range from about 35 milliwatts per milliliter to 100 milliwatts per milliliter for a duration in a range from about 1 to about 100 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Szabolcs Marka, Imre Bartos, Zsuzsanna Marka
  • Patent number: 10407321
    Abstract: A centrifugal, liquid-liquid separator relies on a sweep flow in excess of the flow rate naturally occurring in the heavy constituent or species being separated out from a lighter species, in order to prevent access by the long-chain polymers of the lighter species to solids that may separate out and make a durable composition of polymers and particles that adheres and compacts against the shell wall of the centrifuge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: THOUGHT PRESERVE, LLC
    Inventors: C. Michael Miller, David A. Bell