Patents Issued in February 20, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200055740
    Abstract: A method for directly and deeply purifying high concentration organic wastewater, specifically includes following steps of: (1) fortified precipitation treatment; (2) rapid filtration of sediment of suspended solids; (3) pH value adjustment; (4) hydrolysis acidification: pH value adjusted waste water enters a water distribution unit in which biological hanging film filter is arranged to fortify an anaerobic hydrolysis acidification function of the waste water; and (5) bio-filter treatment. A rapid and low cost treatment method for high concentration, high ammonia and high nitrogen organic waste water is provided by means of water and air distribution by the biological filtering bed, an air-water backwashing bed layer structure, setting of a temperature regulation system for the biological filtering bed, and a combined process of the biological filtering bed with a fortified sedimentation unit, a suspension object sediment rapid filtration unit, and like unit structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Xilin Chai, Shijun Wang
  • Publication number: 20200055741
    Abstract: The invention belongs to liquid predominantly to water purification devices which are used as off line units in household, outdoors, in the village and service departments. Particularly the given invention is in the filed of pressure off-line units. The invention can be used for water purification and other liquids of household use, in medicine and other branches of industry. Liquid purification device, operating under gas pressure and containing raw liquid vessel with the spout, lid, filtration cartridge, purified liquid vessel, output purified liquid means, the gas injection block, connected to raw liquid vessel, and containing gas injection means, control panel and power supply, characterized in that the liquid purification device is capable of at least two stage opening of the lid and the pressure relief down to atmospheric is on the first stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Alexander Alexandrovich Chernyi, Aleksey Leonidovich Kuzmin, Joseph Shmidt
  • Publication number: 20200055742
    Abstract: An adjusting method to adjust dispensing of at least one chemical product in a circulation hydraulic circuit having one or more branches (230, 240, 250), wherein at least one dispensing device (D1, D2, D3) is configured to dispense, when activated, at least one respective chemical product in the circulation hydraulic circuit, comprising the step of: detecting one or more liquid flow rates in one or more respective branches (230, 240, 250) of the circulation hydraulic circuit through one or more respective flow rate sensor devices (F1, F2, F3); wherein: if a regular condition occurs wherein said one or more liquid flow rates detected in said one or more respective branches (230, 240, 250) of the circulation hydraulic circuit are not lower or are higher than respective flow rate threshold values, an activation of said at least one dispensing device (D1, D2, D3) is enabled, and if an error condition occurs that is caused by at least one of said one or more liquid flow rates detected in at least one respecti
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Cristian Creati, Luigino Esposito, Adrio Pantaleoni
  • Publication number: 20200055743
    Abstract: The invention provides a water purification and dispensing system, preferably for producing ultrapure water and offering the purified water at one or more dispensing sites in a desired volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Pascal Roitel, Christophe Paragot, Laurent Moreau
  • Publication number: 20200055744
    Abstract: A monitoring system for distributed utilities. A generation device is provided for converting an available resource to a desired utility; the resource may be water, in which case the generator is a purifier for providing potable water, or, alternatively, the generator may convert a fuel to electrical power. In either case, an input sensor is provided for measuring input to the generation device, while an output sensor is provided for measuring consumption of output from the generation device. The monitoring system has a controller for concatenating measured input and consumption of output on the basis of the input and output sensors. Measured parameters are telemetered to a remote site where utility generation and use are monitored and may also be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Jason A. Demers, Kingston Owens
  • Publication number: 20200055745
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gradient sub-boiling distiller and a distillation method. The gradient sub-boiling distiller includes a condensation pipe, an evaporation surface, a heating device, a liquid distributor, a tail liquid trough, a condensate trough, a tail liquid pipe, a liquid inlet pipe, a condensate pipe, and a shell. A raw material liquid is preheated through the condensation pipe, flows down from the evaporation surface after being further preheated in the heating device, and is continuously evaporated. With the temperature continuously decreasing, vapor condenses on the surface of the condensation pipe, the heat of condensation preheats the raw material liquid in the condensation pipe, and the flow direction of the raw material liquid in the condensation pipe is opposite to that on the evaporation surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Fei LIU
  • Publication number: 20200055746
    Abstract: A method for treating waste water from various sources, removing solids and pollutants and then either evaporating or recycling the treated water. Waste water is received at the treatment site where the solids are removed before entering the system for treatment. The treatment consists of injecting the pressurized waste water into the exhaust stream of a turbine which is at least 900 degrees Fahrenheit, capturing it in pipes to keep it at above 600 degrees Fahrenheit for at sufficient time, temperature and turbulence to dispose of any volatile organic compounds. The system continues to either immediate atmospheric venting of the remaining treated water or in collecting ponds or tanks for evaporation. If the water is to be recovered it is cooled, condensed and sparged to release exhaust gases and the exhausted and condensed water is recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Norman Birmingham, John Verno
  • Publication number: 20200055747
    Abstract: Disclosed is a waste water treatment system with a buffering device, the system comprising a waste water pretreatment device, an evaporator, a circulating crystallizer, a crystal filtration device and a water removal device which communicate with each other in sequence, and further comprising a primary buffering device and a secondary buffering device, wherein one end of the primary buffering device is in bi-directional communication with the circulating crystallizer, and the other end thereof is connected to the evaporator; and the secondary buffering device is in bi-directional communication with the circulating crystallizer. Further disclosed is a waste water treatment method for a waste water treatment system with a buffering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Xufeng Tian
  • Publication number: 20200055748
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to iron-based desalination of water. In some cases, an inflow of water including chlorine and sodium can be received. A plurality of iron nanoparticles may capture the chlorine and the sodium. The iron nanoparticles may at least partially include Zero Valent Iron (ZVI). An outflow of the water may be emitted. The chlorine and the sodium may be omitted from the outflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: William J. Walker
  • Publication number: 20200055749
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection system for treating water prior to its delivery to a water usage device. One or more UV light emitting diodes (LEDs) are positioned within a water system floor interface in order to expose water flowing through the system to germicidal light treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: MAG Aerospace Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Goeschel, Razmik B. Boodaghians, Cynthia L. Chapman
  • Publication number: 20200055750
    Abstract: A method of treating water in a water treatment system after a replacement of an ion exchange bed includes introducing water to be treated into the ion exchange bed of the water treatment system to produce treated water, calculating a current exchange daily average flow rate of water through the water treatment system, calculating a cumulative daily average flow rate of water through the water treatment system, and determining an estimated number of days remaining to exhaustion of the ion exchange bed based on the current exchange daily average flow rate and the cumulative daily average flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Erich G. Hoefferle, Isabel Rozario, Stephen Mildner
  • Publication number: 20200055751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrochemical advanced oxidation process combined with a membrane in which electrode reactions and membrane filtration occur simultaneously, a water treatment device based on the electrochemical advanced oxidation process, and a water treatment system using the water treatment device. The electrochemical advanced oxidation process includes: providing a membrane electro-oxidation tank where electrodes are combined with a membrane; accommodating wastewater containing pollutants in the membrane electro-oxidation tank; and supplying power to the electrodes to decompose the pollutants and simultaneously separating particles through the membrane (water treatment). The electrodes are arranged downstream of the membrane. Gases released from the electrodes induce a vertical flow of the fluid to improve the contact efficiency between a reactive solution and the electrodes and remove the pollutants attached to the surface of the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Kwang Ho CHOO
  • Publication number: 20200055752
    Abstract: An electrolyzed water production device produces electrolyzed water including hypochlorous acid by electrolyzing water including chloride ions, and includes an electrolytic cell through which water passes, and an electrode provided inside the electrolytic cell; and the electrode includes a catalyst layer including iridium oxide, tantalum oxide, and rhodium oxide, in which a proportion of a number of rhodium atoms included in the rhodium oxide to a sum of a number of iridium atoms included in the iridium oxide, a number of tantalum atoms included in the tantalum oxide, and the number of rhodium atoms is not less than 31% and not more than 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Tomohiro HARA, Hiroaki AMEMORI, Yusuke NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20200055753
    Abstract: A system is provided for treating and distributing water. The system includes a first container and an input conduit that supplies water (e.g., purified, unpurified, etc.) to the first container. The system also has a treatment delivery system that delivers a mineral composition into the first container. Further, the system uses a controller to selectively deliver the mineral composition in to the first container so that the mineral composition mixes with, and dissolves in the water delivered to the first container. This produces treated water having a programmed profile, which can be distributed to a destination (e.g., a coffee shop) via an output conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Taylor Minor, Charles R. Nick
  • Publication number: 20200055754
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes: a reaction vessel that contains water to be treated, including an upper part from which the water to be treated is introduced and a lower part from which the water to be treated is discharged, to form a downward flow; an ozone supply unit that supplies ozonized gas into the reaction vessel from the lower part to form an upward flow of the ozonized gas containing ozone gas and oxygen; and an electrolysis electrode pair disposed on the upper part of the reaction vessel, the pair that produces hydrogen peroxide from the water to be treated and the oxygen gas contained in the ozonized gas by electrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi MURAYAMA, Naohiko SHIMURA, Kanako MORITANI, Ryutaro MAKISE, Kie KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200055755
    Abstract: The efficiency of water disinfection can be significantly increased by supplying the ozone in combination with oxygen to an inlet of a cavitation pump. The ozone and the oxygen are turned into ultra-fine bubbles via cavitation action within the pump, facilitating the dissolution of the oxygen and ozone within the water. The water mixed with the oxygen and the ozone is subsequently supplied to a line atomizer, where the dissolution of the ozone within the mixture is completed. The combined use of the cavitation pump and the line atomizer can lead to a substantially complete dissolution of the supplied ozone within water that needs to be disinfected, allowing to easily achieve the concentration of ozone necessary for water disinfection. Due to this efficiency, the system and method described are highly scalable and suitable for water purification at water purification plants of various sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Whitney Rich
  • Publication number: 20200055756
    Abstract: A process for treating domestic wastewater may include directing wastewater into a tank containing a membrane filter and mixed liquor. The process may include recirculating wastewater and mixed liquor from a top end of the tank into a bottom end of the tank via a recirculation conduit. The process may include introducing a flow of wastewater and mixed liquor from the recirculation conduit into an aeration device and drawing ambient air into the aeration device using the flow of wastewater and mixed liquor from the recirculation conduit. The process may also include drawing wastewater and mixed liquor proximately surrounding the aeration device into the aeration device using the flow of wastewater and mixed liquor from the recirculation conduit. The process may include aerating a mixture of wastewater and mixed liquor with the ambient air below the membrane filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: Scientific Associates, B.G. Negev Technologies and Applications Ltd.
    Inventors: Jack GILRON, Shibam MITRA, Naphtali DALTROPHE
  • Publication number: 20200055757
    Abstract: Control over the wastewater purification can be achieved through controlling delivery of gas-dispersion return sludge solely to an aerobic reaction vessel. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is pressurized with an atomizer pump, and then at a pressure of not more than approximately 5.5 MPa, the mixture is passed through an atomizer which uses cavitation or ultrasound at a frequency of less than 12,000 KHz to instantly render the reactive gas in the mixture to an ultra-fine bubble state. A portion of the gas is placed into a dissolved state, reaching a state of supersaturation with a high DO value of 20-40 mg/l, and causing the remaining ultra-fine bubbles to create an ultra-fine bubble condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Kousuke Chiba, Whitney Rich
  • Publication number: 20200055758
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for relieving a corrosive environment of a boiling water reactor, the method including a step of injecting hydrogen and a noble metal compound into water to be replenished into the reactor pressure vessel during a period of a generating operation of a boiling water nuclear power plant including the reactor pressure vessel. In the method, the hydrogen is injected into water to be supplied into the reactor pressure vessel, and the noble metal compound is injected into water in a line of the boiling water nuclear power plant in which a concentration of oxygen or hydrogen peroxide is stoichiometrically higher than the concentration of hydrogen at which hydrogen undergoes a chemical reaction to turn to water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kazushige ISHIDA, Youichi WADA, Masahiko TACHIBANA, Nobuyuki OOTA, Ryosuke SHIMIZU, Mayu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200055759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cleaning and/or disinfecting liquid and/or aqueous media, comprising the following method steps: cavitation treatment of the medium, in particular by means of jet cavitation, at a negative pressure <1 bar, preferably 0.3 to 0.7 bar; subsequent treatment of the medium in a hydrodynamic reactor having a a rotating magnetic field and magnetic and/or magnetisable elements, in particular having ferromagnetic needles or a rotating cutting mechanism at a negative pressure <1 bar, preferably 0.3 to 0.7 bar; subsequent separation, in particular sedimentation of the treated medium by means of sludge separation at a negative pressure of <1 bar, preferably 0.3 to 0.7 bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Alfons Schulze Isfort, Dominik Schulze Isfort, Frieda Tauber, Otto Tauber
  • Publication number: 20200055760
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a beverage dispenser, including: an inlet connected to a water source; an outlet for dispensing the water to a user vessel; at least one filter element having an input and an output for filtered water; a pump for pumping water to the input of the filter element; a flow sensor connected between the inlet and the outlet, wherein the flow sensor determines the actual flow rate of the water; at least one water preparation element connected between the output for outputting filtered water and the outlet and adapted to prepare the water for drinking by a human, wherein the water preparation element comprises a water preparation rate input by which the water preparation rate of the water preparation element can be controlled; and a controller connected to the water preparation rate input of the water preparation element and the flow sensor, wherein the controller controls the water preparation rate of the water preparation element by a signal to the water preparation rate input such t
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Monique Bissen, Josef Schucker
  • Publication number: 20200055761
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a beverage dispenser, including: an inlet connected to a water source; an outlet for dispensing the water to a user vessel; at least one filter element having an input and an output for filtered water; a pump for pumping water to the input of the filter element; a flow sensor connected between the inlet and the outlet, wherein the flow sensor determines the actual flow rate of the water; at least one water preparation element connected between the output for outputting filtered water and the outlet and adapted to prepare the water for drinking by a human, wherein the water preparation element comprises a water preparation rate input by which the water preparation rate of the water preparation element can be controlled; and a controller connected to the water preparation rate input of the water preparation element and the flow sensor, wherein the controller controls the water preparation rate of the water preparation element by a signal to the water preparation rate input such t
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Monique Bissen, Josef Schucker
  • Publication number: 20200055762
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of converting waste, such as wet biomass, to a clean product and energy, including heat, and/or power. The disclosed method combines hydrothermal processing, also known as anaerobic hydrothermal carbonization, followed by wet air oxidation, adding sufficient oxygen to ensure rapid and complete destruction of organics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION, ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RE
    Inventor: Charles J. CORONELLA
  • Publication number: 20200055763
    Abstract: An improved system and method for forming falling hot glass gobs which will be molded into glass containers in an Individual Section (IS) machine is disclosed which controls the weight, length, and shape of such glass gobs as they are produced. The system includes a gob feeder apparatus and a gob shearing mechanism a controller using models being used to correlate the effect of a number of feeder control settings on gob weight, length, and, shape. The controller is configured to adjust various feeder control settings based on a prioritized order of the feeder control settings such that gobs having different physical characteristics for different ones of the individual sections can be produced during a single machine cycle. By implementing the models, a closed loop system has been developed to set up controls to achieve the desired gob forming for each individual section and cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Emhart Glass
    Inventors: Xu Ding, Jonathan S. Simon
  • Publication number: 20200055764
    Abstract: Glass-ceramic articles are manufactured by an ion exchange process that results in glass-based articles having improved stress profiles. A knee may be located at a depth of 3 microns or deeper. A compressive stress at a surface may be 200 MPa or more and at a knee may be 20 MPa or more. A non-sodium oxide may have a non-zero concentration that varies from the first surface to a depth and a depth of compression (DOC) may be located at 0.10·t, or even at 0.17·t or deeper. A two-step ion exchange (DIOX) includes, for example, a potassium bath in a first treatment to form a spike in a spike region of the stress profile, followed by a second treatment which includes, for example, a potassium and sodium mixed bath to maintain the spike and form a tail region of the stress profile. The glass-ceramic articles may thereby avoid developing a vitreous surface layer, which facilitates repeatable and reliable measurement of waveguide modes and determination of compressive stress in the surface (CS) and depth of the spike.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Delena Lucinda Justice Duffy, Constance L. Fieno, Jill Marie Hall, Yuhui Jin, Vitor Marino Schneider
  • Publication number: 20200055765
    Abstract: Provided are a device for press-cutting glass, a method for press-cutting glass, and a glass-cutting system having the device for press-cutting glass. The device for press-cutting glass comprises a supporting member, having a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion for supporting a glass substrate, which are arranged in a spaced apart manner in a first direction; and a press-cutting member for press-cutting an edge of the glass substrate, which is positioned between the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion in the first direction. The device for press-cutting glass has advantages including high press-cutting efficiency, simple structure, low manufacturing cost, and easy assembling with other devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: TUNGHSU TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., TUNGHSU GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Zhou, Li Qing, Lihong Wang
  • Publication number: 20200055766
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method of forming a glass article comprises perforating a glass substrate along a contour with a laser forming a plurality of perforations, such that the contour separates a first portion of the glass substrate from a second portion of the glass substrate. After perforating, thermal forming the glass substrate into a non-planar shape with a mold, and separating the first portion of the glass substrate from the second portion of the glass substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Alejandro Antonio Becker, Michele Marie-Louise Fredholm, Thomas Hackert, Albert Roth Nieber, Sergio Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20200055767
    Abstract: Glass flakes of the present invention have an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 15 ?m and an average thickness of 0.1 to 2 ?m. The glass flakes have a particle size distribution in which the particle diameter at 99% of the cumulative volume from the smaller particle diameter is 45 ?m or less, and the maximum particle diameter of the glass flakes is 62 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20200055768
    Abstract: A silicate glass that is tough and scratch resistant. The toughness is increased by minimizing the number of non-bridging oxygen atoms in the glass. In one embodiment, the silicate glass is an aluminoborosilicate glass in which ?15 mol %?(R2O+R?O—Al2O3—ZrO2)—B2O3?4 mol %, where R is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and R? is one of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew John Dejneka, Adam James Ellison, Sinue Gomez, Robert Michael Morena
  • Publication number: 20200055769
    Abstract: A thermally tempered glass element is provided made of glass with two opposite faces that are under compressive stress of at least 40 MPa. The glass has a working point at which the glass has a viscosity of 104 dPa·s of at most 1350° C. The glass has a viscosity versus temperature profile and a coefficient of thermal expansion versus temperature profile of the glass are such that a variable (750° C.?T13)/(CTELiq?CTESol) has a value of at most 5*106 K2. The CTELiq is a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the glass above a glass transition temperature Tg, the CTESol is a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the glass in a temperature range from 20° C. to 300° C., and the T13 is a temperature at which the glass has a viscosity of 1013 dPa·s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Michael Schwall, Christian Mlx, Jochen Alkemper, Peter Thomas
  • Publication number: 20200055770
    Abstract: The glass flakes of the present invention include first glass flake substrates and second glass flake substrates and satisfy at least either of the following conditions (A) and (B): (A) an average thickness of the first glass flake substrates is 0.05 to 2 ?m, an average thickness of the second glass flake substrates is 2 to 20 ?m, and the average thickness of the second glass flake substrates is 3 or more times greater than the average thickness of the first glass flake substrates; and (B) a thickness D1 representing a modal value of a thickness distribution (on a number basis) of the first glass flake substrate is 0.03 to 2.5 ?m, a thickness D2 representing a modal value of a thickness distribution (on a number basis) of the second glass flake substrates is 1.5 to 25 ?m, and the thickness D2 is 2 or more times greater than the thickness D1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shinichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20200055771
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film-attached glass substrate, characterized by: being provided with a glass substrate having two primary surfaces each having a compressive stress layer, and a film containing 1 at % or more of K disposed on one of the primary surfaces of the glass substrate; and the ratio of the difference in the amount of K in the compressive stress layer between the primary surfaces, the ratio being represented by formula (1), being ?0.027 to 0.027.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke TAKEDA, Toru IKEDA, Naofumi AOYAMA, Tatsuya MIYAJIMA, Yoichi SERA
  • Publication number: 20200055772
    Abstract: A method of producing a colored film-attached glass sheet includes a step of obtaining a colored film-forming coating solution by mixing the following components: (a) a reaction product obtained by reacting an amino group-containing silane compound with at least one boron compound selected from the group consisting of H3BO3 and B2O3; (b) a metal alkoxide and/or a metal alkoxide condensate; (c) a synthetic resin; (d) a triazine-based UV absorber; (e) a solvent substantially consisting of a non-aqueous solvent having an SP value of 8 to 11.5 (cal/cm3)1/2; and (f) a pigment. The colored film-forming coating solution contains the UV absorber in an amount of 5 to 12% by mass relative to the total solids content and the pigment in an amount equal to 0.02 to 0.50 times the amount of the UV absorber by mass ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakai, Yoshihiko Obara
  • Publication number: 20200055773
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a chemically strengthened glass in which reduction in glass surface strength is effectively suppressed even without performing a polishing treatment after a prolonged chemical strengthening treatment has been conducted at a high temperature. The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass having a specific glass composition, wherein: the surface roughness (Ra) is a specific value or greater; the compressive stress layer depth of a surface layer is a specific value or greater; by setting the hydrogen concentration in the glass surface layer to be within a specific range, the surface strength of the glass is dramatically improved even without performing an etching treatment using hydrofluoric acid or polishing the glass surface after a prolonged chemical strengthening treatment has been conducted at a high temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJIWARA, Izuru Kashima, Michinori Suehara
  • Publication number: 20200055774
    Abstract: A process for synthesis of a waste-derived CO2-activated clinker, which comprises firing nodules at temperatures between 1000-1100° C. for a time sufficient to obtain CO2-reactive clinker phases within the nodules, cooling the clinker nodules, and reducing to powder to obtain a clinker powder; wherein the nodules are agglomerates of a stoichiometric mix of uniformly-sized powders of municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration residues; wherein the stoichiometric mix respects the primary compositional requisite of containing Ca, Al, and Si in their oxide forms within the ranges of 35-45 wt. % CaO, 2-8 wt. % AI2O3, and 12-20 wt. % SiO2; wherein the fmal stoichiometric mix has a total-sulfur content of 1 to 10 wt. %, total-carbon content of 2 to 20 wt. %, and a total-chlorine content of 2 to 15 wt. %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Zaid AL-GHOULEH
  • Publication number: 20200055775
    Abstract: A method of making a cement composition, comprising grinding a cement clinker and a strength-enhancing agent, thereby producing a hydraulic cementitious powder, wherein the strength-enhancing agent is present in the hydraulic cementitious powder in an amount of from 0.001% to 0.09% based on dry weight of the hydraulic cementitious powder. The strength-enhancing agent is a compound represented by the following structural formula (I). The definitions of variables R1, R2, and R3 as well as R10, R20, and R30 are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Denise A. Silva, Josephine H. Cheung, David F. Myers, Byong-Wa Chun, Ernie Rocha, Wee Fuk Lai, Leslie J. Buzzell
  • Publication number: 20200055776
    Abstract: A concrete element with improved fire resistance having a textile reinforcement, such as carbon fibers. The concrete covers the textile reinforcement around 10 to 25 mm, the concrete being made from binding agents based on geopolymers or calcium-aluminate cements or Portland cement or blast furnace cement combined with an increased concentration of more than 2 kg/m3 polypropylene fibres and high temperature resistant aggregates. The textile reinforcement with fibers/filaments are impregnated with an impregnation mass/resin, ensuring, even at very high temperatures, a transmission of force between the fibres and the impregnation mass and protecting against the entry of oxygen. It also contains an organic faction of, for example, a maximum of 20 wt. %, wherein the impregnation masses being used, have a filler which is stable at high temperatures in an added amount of, for example, at least 12.5% in the form of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Marcus Hinzen, Georgios Toskas, Andreas Tulke
  • Publication number: 20200055777
    Abstract: A dry construction composition that is easily wet-sprayed by a screw pump to form an insulating and mechanically resistant material after hardening comprises: at least one binder that includes at least one primary binder comprising lime and/or at least one source of alumina and/or at least one source of calcium sulfate, at least one water retention agent, and preferably at least one surfactant; and at least one plant-based bio-based filler based on sunflower stalk and/or corn stalk and/or rape stalk, having a Bulk Density (BD) in kg/m3 that is less than 110. The ratio of the binder to the filler is between 2 and 9 in liters/kg. The composition can be mixed with water in a ratio of water/binder that is greater than or equal to 0.8 to form a wet composition. The wet composition can be sprayed onto a horizontal or vertical substrate or molded to a desired shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Marco CAPPELLARI, Lisa DESROSES, Anne DAUBRESSE
  • Publication number: 20200055778
    Abstract: In an aspect, there is provided a shaped item comprising a synthetic marble-like material. In an aspect, there is provided a method for producing a shaped item comprising a synthetic marble-like material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Alexandre SEVAGEN
  • Publication number: 20200055779
    Abstract: The invention relates to a porous zirconia article in particular for use in the dental or orthodontic field, the porous zirconia article comprising ZrO2: 80 to 87 wt. %,Y2O3: 3 to 5 wt. %, AI2O3: 10 to 14 wt. %, wt. % with respect to the weight of the porous zirconia article, the porous zirconia article being characterized by a BET surface from 15 to 100 m2/g. The invention also relates to a sintered zirconia article in particular for use in the dental or orthodontic field, the sintered zirconia article comprising ZrO2: 80 to 87 wt 5, Y2O3: 3 to 5 wt. %), AI2O3: 10 to 14 wt. %, wt. %) with respect to the weight of the porous zirconia article, the sintered zirconia article being characterized by a corundum crystal phase content of 7 to 12 wt. %>and a flexural strength of at least 2,000 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Bjorn THEELKE, Rainer K. DITTMANN
  • Publication number: 20200055780
    Abstract: A sintered material includes a first phase and a second phase, wherein the first phase is composed of cubic boron nitride particles, and the following relational expressions are satisfied when more than or equal to two cubic boron nitride particles adjacent to and in direct contact with each other among the cubic boron nitride particles are defined as a contact body, Di represents a length of an entire perimeter of the contact body, n represents the number of contact locations at which the cubic boron nitride particles are in direct contact with each other, dk represents a length of each of the contact locations, and ?dk (where k=1 to n) represents a total length of the contact locations: Dii=Di+(2×?dk (where k=1 to n)); and [(Dii?Di)/Dii]×100?50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito ISHII, Katsumi OKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200055781
    Abstract: A ceramic and a method of forming a ceramic including milling steel slag exhibiting a diameter of 5 mm of less to form powder, sieving the powder to retain the powder having a particle size in the range of 20 to 400 removing free iron from the powder with a magnet, heat treating the powder at a temperature in the range of 700° C. to 1200° C. for a time period in the range of 1 hour to 10 hours and oxidizing retained iron in the powder, compacting the powder at a compression pressure in the range of 20 MPa to 300 MPA, and sintering the powder at a temperature in the range of 700° C. to 1400° C. for a time period in the range of 0.5 hours to 4 hours to provide a ceramic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nicolas Jean-Michel CALVET, Uver Dario Villalobos CARDOZO, Khaloud Mohammed AL NA'IMI, Jean Francois HOFFMANN
  • Publication number: 20200055782
    Abstract: A rapid sintering system and rapid sintering method, the rapid sintering system comprising: a furnace body (110) comprising a hearth (111) and a furnace mouth (112) that communicate with each other; a lifting device (120) arranged below the furnace mouth (112), comprising a support (122) and a sample stage (121), the sample stage (121) being disposed on the support (122); a temperature acquisition device (130), disposed on the sample stage (121); a control device (140), disposed outside of the hearth (111), electrically connected to the lifting device (120) and the temperature acquisition device (130) and used to control lifting of the lifting device (120) according to a temperature acquired by the temperature acquisition device (130) and a preset sintering condition; and a spacer (150), disposed at a first end of the lifting device (120), a first spacing being present between the spacer (150) and the sample stage (121), and the furnace mouth (112) is blocked by the spacer (150) when the rapid sintering syste
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Lingling HE, Wanting XIA, Ying GUO, Yingying BAI, Chengwei HAN
  • Publication number: 20200055783
    Abstract: Provided is a production method that can easily produce a calcium carbonate porous sintered body. The production method includes the steps of: preparing a dispersion liquid containing calcium carbonate and a gelling agent; adding a foaming agent to the dispersion liquid, followed by stirring until foamy to make a foam; turning the foam into a gel; and sintering the gelled foam to produce a calcium carbonate porous sintered body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: SHIRAISHI CENTRAL LABORATORIES CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Tajika, Shota Umemoto, Shunzo Shimai
  • Publication number: 20200055784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an additive for hydraulically setting compositions comprising a colloidally disperse preparation comprising at least one salt of a polyvalent metal cation with at least one organic phosphonate and/or phosphate compound as anion and at least one polymeric dispersant comprising anionic and/or anionogenic groups and polyether side chains. The additive is especially suitable as slump retainer and for improving early strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Torben GÄDT, Harald GRASSL, Luc NICOLEAU, Alfons SMEETS
  • Publication number: 20200055785
    Abstract: An admixture for a hydraulic composition includes a polycondensation product P containing a copolymer prepared by polycondensation of a monomer mixture containing compounds A to C of the following Formulae (A) to (C); and a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer Q including a structural unit having an amino and an imino group, and/or a structural unit having an amino, imino, and amido group: (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl, or alkenyl group; A1O is a C2-4 alkylene oxide group; p is a number of 1 to 300; and X is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, or acyl group; R2 is an alkyl or alkenyl group; A2O is a C2-4 alkylene oxide group; q is a number of 1 to 300; and Y1 is a phosphate ester group; and R3 is a hydrogen atom, carboxy, alkyl, alkenyl, phenyl, naphthyl, or heterocyclic group; and r is a number of 1 to 100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG, TOHO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaname SAITOH, Toshihiro OGAWA, Michael Wernher DANZINGER, Akira SUGA, Taro TSUSHIMA, Seiichi KOSHISAKA
  • Publication number: 20200055786
    Abstract: Provided are a concrete manufacturing method capable of preventing neutralization of concrete and oxidation of a reinforcing rod in reinforced concrete, and a method for manufacturing a reinforced concrete structure using the same. The concrete manufacturing method uses nitrogen dissolved water and is characterized by including: a step of generating nitrogen dissolved water by injecting nitrogen gas into water to replace oxygen and carbon dioxide dissolved in the water with nitrogen; and a step of generating a ready-mixed concrete by kneading the nitrogen dissolved water, cement, an aggregate, and an admixture. The method for manufacturing a reinforced concrete structure is characterized by forming a reinforced concrete structure using a ready-mixed concrete manufactured by a concrete manufacturing method using nitrogen dissolved water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Toshitsugi WAKAYAMA, Seiko WAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200055787
    Abstract: A refractory composition including refractory aggregate, one or more matrix components, and silicate-coated set accelerator particles. The silicate-coated set accelerator particles can include one more of silicate-coated calcium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, calcium chloride, calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and calcium sulfate. Suitable silicate coatings include sodium silicate, potassium silicate, lithium silicate and mixtures thereof. A method of recovering an aged refractory composition, a settable composition and a method of manufacturing silicate-coated calcium hydroxide particles are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: ALLIED MINERAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Pauley, Brittney KENNARD, Douglas Doza, Dana Goski, Kelley Wilkerson
  • Publication number: 20200055788
    Abstract: A process of coating a substrate containing silicon with an environmental barrier coating, comprising altering a surface of the substrate and applying an environmental barrier layer to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Erik A. Mikalsen, James T. Beals, Tania Bhatia Kashyap
  • Publication number: 20200055789
    Abstract: An article has a substrate and a layer atop the substrate. The layer has: a matrix comprising at least one of hafnium silicate (HfSiO4) and ytterbium disilicate (Yb2Si2O7); and barium magnesium alumino silicate (BMAS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Imelda P. Smyth