Patents Issued in March 2, 2021
  • Patent number: 10933328
    Abstract: A method includes communicatively coupling a physical object with a body. One or more of the body or the physical object has connectivity to a computer having a processor. The method also includes detecting a sound determined to match an audio fingerprint. The method further includes setting a function of the physical object based on the audio fingerprint. The method additionally includes generating a virtual representation of the physical object and the body in a virtual reality viewable by way of a display associated with the computer. Generating the virtual representation of the physical object and the body includes orienting a virtual version of the physical object with respect to a virtual version of the body. The method also includes causing the virtual version of the physical object to be usable in accordance with the function of the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PLAYFUSION LIMITED
    Inventors: Riaan Hodgson, David Gomberg, Mark Gerhard
  • Patent number: 10933329
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to adjusting individualized content made available to users of an online game based on user gameplay information. In implementations, information relating to prospective usage of the online game is used to classify users according by user type, and content made available to the users is customized accordingly. Information relating to prospective usage may include predictive information such as demographic and geographic information, as well as game usage information for the users. User types may include resource collection, player versus player, and player versus environment. Customized content may include content made available to the users through the users in-game actions, such as exploring a map, researching a technology or skill, purchasing an in-game item, and completing an in-game achievement, including in-game items, in-game powers, in-game skills, in-game technologies, in-game pets, in-game transportation units, in-game units, and in-game buildings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington, Matthew Curtis, James Koh, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Michael C. Caldarone
  • Patent number: 10933330
    Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to providing dynamic and static contest prize allocation based on in-game achievement of a user in an online game in order to encourage players to continue to purchase items to improve their tournament metrics even if they may be unable to improve their tournament rank. For example, calculation of a dynamic prize may comprise for rank x, the player may gain 1 prize unit for every y Glory gained (when Glory may be the measured by the tournament). The y value may increase for lower ranks achieved in the tournament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventor: Luc Pieron
  • Patent number: 10933331
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems directed towards generating and utilizing earned gameplay resources for metagaming. The interconnected gameplay is carried out via a first party platform that tracks and integrates user gameplay information coming from a plurality of different video games. The first party platform gameplay information is used to affect the user's performance and progress within a separate game which in turn can be used to affect the progress and performance of video games associated with the first party platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventors: Warren M. Benedetto, Landon Noss
  • Patent number: 10933332
    Abstract: An information processor comprises a terminal-side controller programmed to execute: (A1) a process of allowing a creation of a message to the information processor of a transmission destination; and (A2) a process of expanding a representable range of the message on condition of charging when the message is created, and a server comprises a server-side controller that calculates a charge amount charged for the message in the information processor by referring to a charge amount determination data, and a server-side memory that stores the charge amount correspondingly to each of the information processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10933333
    Abstract: A control program which may cause a game apparatus to implement: a match execution function for executing a match between a plurality of players; a setting function for setting a first player who wins as a superior player to which a second player who loses is subordinate on the basis of a result of execution of the match and setting a subordination rank of the second player; and a control function for performing control such that at least a part of executable actions are different depending on a setting of the setting function, wherein, in a case where a player is subordinate to the first player, the setting function is implemented to set a subordination rank of the second player on the basis of the subordination rank of the player subordinate to the superior player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Junnosuke Nagai
  • Patent number: 10933334
    Abstract: A life and death judgment system for a go game played with a computer comprising an input reception unit that receives an input by a player, a life and death judgment processing unit that judges whether judgment subject stones or target stones are alive, and an output processing unit that outputs the result of the life and death judgment is provided. The life and death judgment processing unit tentatively determines the priority of a move at each point when implementing the judgment in a judgment realm, judges a point of a move with a high possibility and/or a move with a low possibility of a result of the judgment, changes the priority of the point of the move with a high possibility with respect to each priority of the tentatively determined point, and undertakes the move of each stone based on the priority after such change, thereby implement the judgment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PANDANET INC.
    Inventors: Hiroko Taki, Tomoya Saeki, Hiroshi Oomoto
  • Patent number: 10933335
    Abstract: Systems and methods for hybrid actuator system control are disclosed herein. The system can include a simulation vehicle. The simulation vehicle can transit at least one passenger through a ride experience, can include a plurality of controls, and can be mounted on an actuator system controllable to move the simulation vehicle in connection with at least one ride event. The system can include a processor. The processor can: provide content to the at least one passenger; receive user inputs via the plurality of controls of the simulation vehicle; identify authored control data; generate algorithmic control data; generate a hybrid control signal according to a combination of the authored control data and the algorithmic control data; and control movement of the simulation vehicle according to the hybrid control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Ashbrook, Robert E. Huebner, Asa K. Kalama, Daniel Sass, Michael Arevalo
  • Patent number: 10933336
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for presenting a conversation interface in a messaging application to enable a plurality of participants in a conversation to exchange messages with each other. A request from a participant of the plurality of participants to view a list of gaming applications is received. In response to receiving the request, a size of a display region in which to present the list of gaming applications to the participant is determined. Based on the determined size of the display region, a presentation format is selected for displaying the list of gaining applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: William Wu, Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Alexander R. Osborne
  • Patent number: 10933337
    Abstract: An amusement ride with controllable, and a racer motorcycle enabling at least one rider accelerating of the racer motorcycle and changing a position and an orientation of said at least one rider in relation to a vertical line during a riding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Ali Kiani
  • Patent number: 10933340
    Abstract: The animation puppet includes a body core, a head configured for friction-fit engagement with the body core and forming a head joint therebetween, a pair of upper limbs configured for friction-fit engagement with the body core and forming a respective pair of upper limb joints therebetween, and a pair of legs configured for friction-fit engagement with the body core and forming a respective pair of leg joints therebetween. Each of the joints include a pair of articulable surfaces in said friction-fit engagement by way of a surface interface pre-tension having a coefficient of friction relatively greater than the weight of the animation puppet such that each joint independently supports the weight of the animation puppet while simultaneously permitting relative independent position posing of one or more of the head, the pair of arms, and/or the pair of limbs relative to the body core for stop-motion animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: StickyBones Inc.
    Inventor: Erik J. Baker
  • Patent number: 10933341
    Abstract: An educational toy that is formed of parts that function as tools. For example, a toy car axle can be a screwdriver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Don M. Billeter
  • Patent number: 10933342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat transfer tube (9) for falling film evaporation having a heating medium surface (21) to be heated by a heating medium, a falling film surface (20) to have spent liquor passing over it, and being made from an sheet metal material. The falling film surface of the heat transfer tube is equipped with a multitude of wire bumps (WB), each wire bump being spaced apart along the longitudinal axis (CC) of the heat transfer tube from a neighbouring wire bump by 3-300 mm, said wire bumps (WB) having a height (h) in the range 0.3 to 5.0 mm, a width (w) in the range 0.3-5.0 mm, and an inclination angle (a) versus a plane orthogonal to a longitudinal axis (CC) of the heat transfer tube in a range of 0-70 degrees. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing said heat transfer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: VALMET AB
    Inventors: Krister Pettersson, Martin Apel
  • Patent number: 10933343
    Abstract: A spray drying system for drying liquid into powder including an elongated body and a closure arrangement at opposite upper and lower ends of the elongated body for forming a drying chamber within the elongated body. One of the closure arrangements including a drying gas inlet for introducing drying gas into the drying chamber. A spray nozzle assembly is supported in one of the closure arrangements. The lower end closure arrangement including a powder collection vessel for collecting powder dried in the drying chamber. The powder collection vessel is configured such that a blanketing gas may be directed into the interior of the powder collection vessel to blanket the powder in the powder collection chamber and thereby protect the powder from exposure to the drying gas from the drying chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Szczap, Michel R. Thenin, Joel R. Migchelbrink
  • Patent number: 10933344
    Abstract: A high capacity and high efficiency co-current and cross-flow vapor-liquid contacting apparatus and process is useful in distillation columns and other vapor-liquid contacting processes. The apparatus is characterized by an arrangement of offset contacting modules in horizontal stages. The modules define a co-current contacting volume and in an exemplary configuration the modules include a liquid distributor and a demister. Half modules comprise downcomers against the shell of the vessel for transporting liquid to the subjacent stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Zhanping Xu
  • Patent number: 10933345
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for installing a packing disk of a structured packing into a vessel of a material-exchange column. The apparatus has a separating device for separating the endless packing strip into individual packing sheets, a conveying device for conveying individual packing sheets to the vessel, to stack the individual packing sheets in the vessel to form the packing disk, and a measuring device designed to measure a preferably horizontal distance between two mutually opposite points of an internal contour of the vessel. The separating device is designed to separate individual packing sheets from the endless packing strip such that a respective length of the packing sheets is less than or equal to the measured distance. A central axis of the vessel is arranged horizontally in the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Karlmann Kanzler
  • Patent number: 10933346
    Abstract: An improved solar water distillation system including: a flow system for collecting one or more condensate streams from an input treatment liquid; and an input treatment liquid separator within the flow system adapted to collect excess input treatment liquid from the flow system separate from the one or more condensate streams. The treatment liquid is maintained separate to the condensate streams to substantially minimise cross-contamination of the one or more condensate streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: MAXIM ELECTRICAL SERVICES (VIC) PTY LTD
    Inventor: Robert Minney
  • Patent number: 10933347
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating trichome heads containing resin from cannabis plants using a double vortex liquid flow to remove the trichome heads without macerating the plant material and a multi-tiered filtration process to isolate the resin product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Separations, LLC
    Inventors: Didier Camilleri, Benjamin K. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10933348
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating trichome heads containing resin from cannabis plants using a double vortex liquid flow to remove the trichome heads without macerating the plant material and a multi-tiered filtration process to isolate the resin product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Separations, LLC
    Inventors: Didier Camilleri, Benjamin K. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10933349
    Abstract: An arrangement for mounting components in a heating chamber for heating a fluid of a fluid separation apparatus, wherein the arrangement comprises a mounting board having at least one mounting recess each configured for accommodating at least one component, and the at least one component each configured to be mountable in and/or on the at least one mounting recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ansgar Waldbaur, Armin Steinke, Ralf Schaeffer
  • Patent number: 10933350
    Abstract: A parallel assembly of chromatography column modules, the assembly having one common assembly inlet and one common assembly outlet, each column module comprising a bed space filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules are adapted to connect the bed space of the column module with the assembly inlet and the assembly outlet, wherein the total length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the assembly inlet to one bed space together with the length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the same bed space to the assembly outlet is substantially the same for all bed spaces and modules installed in the parallel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB
    Inventor: Klaus Gebauer
  • Patent number: 10933351
    Abstract: An effluent processing apparatus comprises a separator device arranged to receive an effluent mixture to separate oil and water from the effluent mixture and thereby to provide clean air. A member selectively allows either only oil or only water of the separated oil and water to pass from a first side of the member through openings in the member to a second side of the member. A sump is arranged to (i) receive and retain the oil on the first side if only water passes from the first side to the second side, and (ii) receive and retain the oil on the second side if only oil passes from the first side to the second side. Clean air from the separator device is exhausted through an air outlet to atmosphere, and water is drained through a water outlet to atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Fred W Hoffman, Stephen Howe, David W Perry, Gregory R Ashley
  • Patent number: 10933352
    Abstract: An emulsion is provided for defoaming water used in processing of various products such as cellulose or wood-based products or in food processing which is formed by reacting a fatty acid with a compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, sodium, potassium and combinations thereof so as to form a water soluble soap, dispersing the water soluble soap in water and homogenizing the dispersed water soluble soap with hydrophobic oil or hydrocarbon oil to produce the emulsion. Methods for preparing the emulsion and using the emulsion are also provided. The emulsion is advantageous in that it can improve water resistance and/or reduce the use of water resistant additives during processing of cellulose or wood-based products or food-grade products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: STATE LINE HOLDINGS, LLC.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Hundley, Steven A. Dunwoody, David M. Hundley
  • Patent number: 10933353
    Abstract: A support grid assembly for use in a vessel. The support grid assembly includes panels each including a first wall including a media-supporting screen and a second wall to be supported by the vessel wall inner surface. A manifold is coupled to the panels and is in hydraulic communication with vessel outlet. The manifold and the panels permit fluid to flow through the screen in each panel, through the panels, into the manifold, and through the manifold to the outlet of the vessel, as well as in the reverse direction. At least a portion of the first wall may slope downward toward the manifold, and at least a portion of the second wall may form a bottom surface that is curved to substantially conform to a curvature of the vessel wall inner surface. The panels may be arranged in a circular configuration extending radially from the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Aqseptence Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Garth Hayes Saul, Robert Glen Norell, Dean Gerald Brabec, Benjamin Schmitt, Dusan Visekruna, Michael Richard Ekholm, Eugene Eberhardt, Edmund M. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 10933354
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotating type foreign substance collection equipment, and according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is an effect in separating and collecting foreign substances such as oil from foreign substance-fluid mixtures at high speeds by the separation membrane that traps foreign substances such as oil that float in water while allowing sea water or river water to pass through and be discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Myoung-Woon Moon, Kwang Ryeol Lee, Seohyun Cho, Young A Lee, O Chang Kwon
  • Patent number: 10933355
    Abstract: A filter bag comprising with a wall structure defining an inner volume with an opening. The wall structure extends from a bottom to the opening. A filter extends from the bottom toward the opening to separate the inner volume into a sample receiving compartment and a filtrate collection compartment. An orifice in the wall structure is in communication with the filtrate collection compartment, and a closure system has a closed state wherein access through the orifice is prevented and an open state wherein access through the orifice is permitted. The closure system can have a moveable part operative to selectively seal the orifice and a stationary part fixed to the wall structure with a separative limit therebetween. A fastening system can selectively retain a foldable portion of the wall structure against the wall structure to adjust the opening from an open state to a closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERSCIENCE
    Inventor: Emmanuel Jalenques
  • Patent number: 10933356
    Abstract: This disclosure relates a fluid filter whose pores are created by raised structures on a base. The raised structures may be macro, micro and/or nanometer scale structures. The structures can be configured in myriad ways to control flow rate and extracted particle size of a filtering system. Typically a plurality of filter panels will be stacked to form a filtering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Imagine TF, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Edward Richardson
  • Patent number: 10933357
    Abstract: A device and a method for filtering viscous or highly viscous liquids, in particular plastics melts, includes use of an oscillating filter plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Next Generation Analytics GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Kastner
  • Patent number: 10933358
    Abstract: Sweeper and filter assembly for beverage preparation machines comprising a sweeper associated with a filter, the sweeper comprising a carrier band mounted on at least two shafts. The carrier band can perform the filtering function itself as it is made from a filtering material or is provided with suitable orifices. The carrier band is flexible and preferably elastic. The shafts on which the band is mounted are supported by a casing, where at least one of said shafts engages a drive element comprising a motor and an electronic device for managing the motor. At least one scraper is provided joined to the casing in order to clean the carrier band. The motor of the drive element is independent from the motor of the juicing machine, the device having sweeping and filtering cycles independent of the juicing cycles of the main machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ZUMEX GROUP, S.A.
    Inventors: Fernando Casaní Montaner, Maximilia Marti Soler, Ramón Asensio Camacho, Ignacio Ballester Pérez, Juan Carlos Coronado Sanz
  • Patent number: 10933359
    Abstract: A feed system for a rotary screen separator has a feed housing and a feed lid movably attached to the feed housing. The feed housing has a feed chamber, an inlet opening, and an outlet opening. The feed chamber defines a proximal portion adjacent to the inlet opening and a distal portion at least a portion of which is adjacent to the an outlet opening. A cross-sectional area of at least a portion of the proximal portion is greater than a cross-sectional area of the distal portion. The feed lid is movably attached to the feed housing such that the feed lid covers the outlet opening in a closed position, and does not cover the outlet opening in at least one open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: David DeWaard
  • Patent number: 10933361
    Abstract: A filtration filter that filters a filtration target contained in a fluid. The filtration filter includes a porous metal film having a plurality of through holes. Moreover, wave-shaped irregularities are provided in a peripheral direction along inner peripheral surfaces of the through holes of the porous metal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Banju, Junko Watanabe, Takashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10933362
    Abstract: An system includes a fabric filter, an air supply system, a pulsing valve that is coupled to the air supply system and is configured to generate a statistical pulse of air that is directed to the fabric filter, an air flow monitor that is configured to monitor a flow of air associated with the statistical pulse of air, and a valve controller that is coupled to the air flow monitor that is configured to generate a performance signature for the pulsing valve based on the flow of air that was monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DUST COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert W. Baxter, Derrick J. Hinkle, Ralph E. Bard
  • Patent number: 10933363
    Abstract: In a method for assessing a condition of a particulate filter for use in an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, a difference between a pressure exerted on the input side of the particulate filter and a pressure exerted on the output side of the particulate filter is recorded by a differential pressure sensor. The difference in pressure is taken into account when assessing the condition. Furthermore, the pressure exerted on the output side of the particulate filter in relation to the atmospheric pressure is recorded by a relative pressure sensor. When assessing the condition of the particulate filter, the pressure recorded by the relative pressure sensor is also taken into account. A frequency of changes in pressure and/or an amplitude load of the pressure is assessed. The invention also relates to an exhaust system for a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Wunderlich, Werner Sauter, Rosario Pepe, Michael Scholz, Judith Baehr, Julius Schwaab, Ramakrishnan Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 10933364
    Abstract: A filtering module includes a cyclone having a contaminated air inlet part into which external contaminated air and cleaning water cleaning the contaminated air are each introduced, and a cleaned air outlet part through which air cleaned by bringing the cleaning water into contact with the contaminated air is discharged; a water tank coupled to the cyclone, to which the cleaning water cleaning the contaminated air is introduced, and storing mixed water in which a pre-stored fluid and the cleaning water are mixed; and a fluid circulating part providing the mixed water stored in the water tank to the contaminated air inlet part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wan Soo Kim, Yangkyeong Kim, Byungkyu Park
  • Patent number: 10933365
    Abstract: This invention discloses a decontaminating column for on-line replacing adsorption material, and it includes: a tank having an inner tank being used for filling the adsorption material, and one end of the tank being set to be opened; at least one discharging part is being attached to the tank, and an open-close unit by which the adsorption material can be discharged and which is installed between the discharging part and the tank. There is a chamber in the discharging part, which is connected to a gas replacement unit. At the same time, this invention also discloses a glove box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: VIGOR GAS PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Delong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10933366
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a pressure swing adsorption process of a hydrogen production system is provided. The hydrogen production system includes a desulfurization process for removing sulfur components from raw natural gas; a reforming reaction process for producing a reformed gas containing hydrogen generated by the reaction of natural gas through the desulfurization process and steam; and a pressure swing adsorption process of concentrating the hydrogen using a pressure swing adsorption from the reformed gas. In a desorption step of the pressure swing adsorption process, a cocurrent depressurization and a countercurrent depressurization are simultaneously performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Jong-ho Park, Hee-tae Beum, Sang-sup Han, Dong-woo Cho, Kanghee Cho
  • Patent number: 10933367
    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 one purification unit (12) and at least one regeneration unit (40) wherein condensed water (72) from the regeneration unit is combined with the regenerated lean hybrid solvent (55) prior to reuse in the purification unit and none of the condensed water is recycled into the regeneration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: John R. Dowdle, Christophe R. Laroche, Diego Ortiz Vega, Linda L. Pirtle
  • Patent number: 10933368
    Abstract: Gas treatment systems and processes for reducing tail gas emissions such as SO2, SO3, H2SO4, NOx, HC, CO, and other pollutants are provided. The processes include transferring tail gas from at least one source of tail gas to at least one destination sulphuric acid plant via a tail gas transfer system, wherein the tail gas replaces or supplements one or more of the combustion gas, air feed, dilution gas, and quench gas used by the destination sulphuric acid plant. The systems include at least one destination sulphuric acid plant and a tail gas transfer system for transferring tail gas from at least one source of tail gas to the at least one destination sulphuric acid plant. The systems and processes described herein may be used to eliminate start-up emissions and/or convert sulphur-containing species present in tail gas emissions into commercial H2SO4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrés Mahecha-Botero, Kim Martin Nikolaisen, Bradley Wayne Morrison, C. Guy Cooper, Brian Ferris
  • Patent number: 10933369
    Abstract: An air dehydration module includes polymeric fibers for separating water vapor from air, and also includes a carbon filter material, positioned at an outlet end of the module, and within the same pressure vessel which houses the fibers. The module may generate its own sweep stream, in which case a portion of its output is directed to flow through an orifice, towards the inlet end of the module. In an alternative embodiment, the sweep gas is produced by a distinct gas-separation module, which receives an input stream from the output of the dehydration module. The dehydration module produces clean and dry air which can be used as is, or as an input stream to an air separation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Generon IGS, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Straub, Luis Brizuela, John A. Jensvold
  • Patent number: 10933370
    Abstract: A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Midwest Energy Emissions Corp
    Inventors: Edwin S. Olson, Michael J. Holmes, John H. Pavlish
  • Patent number: 10933371
    Abstract: An energy efficient and durable thermal swing type carbon dioxide recovery and concentration device can be made smaller and use low-temperature heat waste of 100° C. or less. A honeycomb rotor carries adsorption particles having a sorption capacity for carbon dioxide. The rotor is rotated in a sealed casing divided into at least an sorption zone and a desorption zone and is brought into contact with material gas that contains carbon dioxide in a state wherein the honeycombs in the sorption zone are moist so as to adsorb the carbon dioxide while carrying out evaporative cooling of water. Then, the honeycombs that have adsorbed the carbon dioxide are moved to the desorption zone and brought into contact with low pressure vapor so as to desorb high concentration carbon dioxide. Thus, it is possible to continuously recover carbon dioxide at a high recovery rate and high concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIBU GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Okano
  • Patent number: 10933372
    Abstract: Oxygen is removed from a gas feed such as a landfill gas, a digester gas or an industrial CO2 off-gas by heating the feed gas, optionally removing siloxanes and silanols from the heated feed gas, optionally removing part of the sulfur-containing compounds in the heated feed gas, injecting one or more reactants for oxygen conversion into the heated feed gas, carrying out a selective catalytic conversion of any or all of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the gas, including sulfur-containing compounds, chlorine-containing compounds and any of the reactants injected, in at least one suitable reactor, and cleaning the resulting oxygen-depleted gas. The reactants to be injected comprise one or more of H2, CO, ammonia, urea, methanol, ethanol and dimethyl ether (DME).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Kresten Egeblad, Niklas Bengt Jakobsson, Rasmus Trane-Restrup, Jacob Hjerrild Zeuthen, Troels Dahlgaard Stummann
  • Patent number: 10933373
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate filter which comprises a wall flow filter of length L and three mutually different catalytically active coatings X, Y and Z, wherein the wall flow filter comprises channels E and A that extend in parallel between a first and a second end of the wall flow filter and are separated by porous walls forming surfaces OE and, respectively, OA, and wherein the channels E are gas-tightly sealed at the second end and the channels A are gas-tightly sealed at the first end, characterized in that the coating X is located in the porous walls, the coating Y is located in the channels E on the surfaces OE and the coating Z is located in the channels A on the surfaces OA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Naina Deibel, Stephanie Spiess, Martin Roesch, Joerg-Michael Richter, Jan Schoenhaber, Susanne Kunert
  • Patent number: 10933374
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an engine is provided with a first purifying catalyst including an HC adsorbent that adsorbs HC at a low temperature and releases HC at a high temperature and a diesel oxidation catalyst capable of oxidizing HC, a second purifying catalyst including a NOx catalyst capable of storing NOx contained in exhaust, a NOx catalyst regenerator that regenerates the NOx catalyst while raising the temperature of the NOx catalyst, and HC controller that decides whether the amount of adsorbed HC that is HC adsorbed by the HC adsorbent is equal to or more than a preset reference amount and, when the amount of adsorbed HC is decided to be equal to or more than the reference amount, raises the temperature of the first purifying catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto, Masanobu Kanno
  • Patent number: 10933375
    Abstract: A fluid to fluid pressurizer includes an elongated stationary portion comprising a plurality of flow channels, said stationary portion comprising a first face at a first end and a second face at a second end. A first and second rotor housing are disposed adjacent to the end of the elongated stationary portion and have a fluid inlet fluidically coupled to respective first and second annular channels. A first and second rotary valve plates are in the housings and have inlet valve ports coupling the fluid inlet to the plurality of flow channels and outlet valve ports fluidically coupling the flow channels to adjacent the rotor faces. The rotary valve plates have sealing surfaces adjacent the stator faces. Annular seals are disposed between the rotor housings and the rotary valve plate between the annular channels. A motor or motors rotate the rotary valve plates within the housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FLUID EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Eli Oklejas, Jr., Kevin L. Newcomer, Robert A. Oklejas
  • Patent number: 10933376
    Abstract: A reverse osmosis system includes a first pretreatment system and a fluid source located below a reservoir. A first membrane housing has a reverse osmosis membrane therein. A first turbocharger includes a first pump portion and a first turbine portion. The first pump portion receives feed fluid from the first pretreatment system, pressurizing the feed fluid and communicates the feed fluid to the feed fluid inlet. The first turbine portion receives brine fluid from the brine outlet. The system further includes a second and third turbocharger. A second turbine portion and the third turbine portion receive brine fluid from the first turbine portion. Second feed fluid is communicated through a booster pump, a second pretreatment system, and second pump portion to increase a pressure of the second feed fluid. The second feed fluid is communicated to the third pump portion which communicates the pressurized second feed fluid to the first pump portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FLUID EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Eli Oklejas, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10933377
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and an apparatus assembly for assessing the suitability of a membrane, such as an osmotic membrane in an osmotic process. Furthermore, the apparatus, and apparatus assembly provide the means to optimise the parameters of an osmotic process, including the ability to gather key data for different membrane based osmotic systems to enable osmotic process and system optimisation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Aquafortus Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Daryl Joseph Briggs, Samrith Kim
  • Patent number: 10933378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel cartridges and modules for separation of fluid mixtures, especially for gas separation, to a process for production thereof and to a method of use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Evonik Fibres GmbH
    Inventors: Tymen Visser, Steven Pedersen
  • Patent number: 10933379
    Abstract: Provided are a plate-type filter module for water treatment and a filter assembly for water treatment comprising the same. The plate-type filter module for water treatment according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of filter units having a predetermined area and formed in a plate shape; a block frame to which the plurality of filter units is engaged so that the filter units are kept parallel to each other; and a collecting/receiving tube fixed on one side of the block frame and including a plurality of first fittings respectively connected to the plurality of the filter units to allow filtered water produced in the filter units to be introduced thereinto and at least one second fitting for discharging the filtered water introduced through the plurality of first fittings to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amogreentech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung Gu Han
  • Patent number: 10933380
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and a device for manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane module. The present invention, by penetrating the hollow fiber membrane wires into the steel wires and performing rigidization treatment, greatly improves the rigidity of the hollow fiber membrane wire module, thereby avoiding the bending and deformation of or the damage of hollow fiber membrane wire module due to a small force during the production process, which greatly improves the production efficiency of the hollow fiber membrane module. The device of the present invention is used to achieve the above-mentioned method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dongguan University of Technology
    Inventors: Simin Huang, Kui He