Patents Issued in October 14, 2021
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Publication number: 20210316294Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a device and a method for continuously producing catalysts based on low-temperature coprecipitation. The device mainly includes: a metal salt preparation kettle, a primary reaction kettle, a secondary reaction kettle, a precipitant preparation kettle, a circulating refrigeration system, an automatic control system, a non-aqueous solvent storage tank and a water storage tank. Independent preparation kettles are provided for rapid dissolution of the raw materials, and can be used to prepare the raw materials for the next batch during the reactions that are carried out in the primary and secondary reaction kettles; the circulating refrigeration system refrigerates the primary and secondary reaction kettles, and thus during the reaction, the low-temperature precipitant makes it possible to offset the precipitation reaction heat and the heat caused by the stirring in the primary reaction kettle, and improve the refrigeration efficiency of the primary reaction kettle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Bo MENG, Yifan HAN
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Publication number: 20210316295Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the liquid phase activation of catalysts. Such activated catalysts have particular utility in hydrogenation of aldehydes to alcohols. As such, the present invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation of aldehydes to alcohols in the presence of a catalyst which has been activated in accordance with the first aspect of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Michael BAINBRIDGE
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Publication number: 20210316296Abstract: The present invention provides a particulate cobalt ion adsorbent which has a high adsorption capacity. A particulate cobalt ion adsorbent which contains potassium hydrogen dititanate hydrate represented by chemical formula K2-XHxO.2TiO2.nH2O (wherein x is 0.5 or more and 1.3 or less, and n is greater than 0), and no binder, wherein the particulate cobalt ion adsorbent has a particle size range of 150 ?m or more and 1000 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: TITAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi SAKUMA, Makoto KOMATSU, Takeshi IZUMI, Nobuyuki HASHIMOTO, Toshimasa SEKI, Takafumi TANAKA, Hidenori ISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20210316297Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for liquid transfer and performing reactions. In one aspect, a system includes a liquid transfer device having a housing having a pipette tip and a plunger assembly; and a reaction chamber, wherein the housing of the liquid transfer device is configured to sealably engage with the reaction chamber. In another aspect, a liquid transfer device including a housing having a pipette tip; and a plunger assembly disposed within the housing and the pipette tip, wherein a portion of the plunger assembly is configured to engage a fluid reservoir such that the plunger assembly remains stationary relative to the fluid reservoir and the housing moves relative to the plunger assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Simon Roderick Grover, Paul Graham Wilkins, Nick David Rollings, Peter Laurence Mayne, Wai Ting Chan, Natalie Frances Scott, Olivier Fernand Flick, Henry Charles Innes, Martyn Gray Darnbrough Beedham, Nicholas David Long, Richard John Hammond
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Publication number: 20210316298Abstract: A biological sample analysis device that is an easily portable free-standing device for determining the rate of deterioration of biological samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: William Brinton
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Publication number: 20210316299Abstract: A device for a centrifugation container, such as a tube, is for separation of liquid fractions having a desired density range, in particular to biological and/or liquids forming suspensions. The device has a partition (7) that separates the interior of the container (1) into at least two chambers in a vertical arrangement—an upper chamber (2) and a lower chamber (3). The device having the partition (7) has an aperture (4) which can be lined up with the guide (12), on which liquids, in particular a fluid sample, can flow down from an upper chamber (3) to a lower chamber (4), of the container (1) for centrifugation. A method using the device separates out a fraction having the desired density range from the sample containing fractions of different density.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: SPARK-TECH SP. Z O.O.Inventors: Mateusz Grzegorz ADAMSKI, Patryk GUMANN
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Publication number: 20210316300Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microfluidic device and a method for transporting and sampling a defined volume of plasma, providing a fluid passageway from an inlet to an outlet comprising a first region with the inlet with a first high flow resistance configured to receive and collect a whole blood sample and to separate plasma; and a second region with the outlet lower flow resistance. The second region is in fluid connection with the first region and configured to meter the separated plasma by comprising a metering channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Anna OHLANDER, Hans Peter STARCK-JOHNSON, Janosch HAUSER, Göran STEMME, Niclas ROXHED
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Publication number: 20210316301Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The microfluidic apparatus includes a microfluidic substrate including a base substrate, an electrode array layer located on the base substrate, and a hydrophobic layer, where the electrode array layer includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in an array; and a microfluidic structure layer including at least one microfluidic channel; where the microfluidic substrate is configured to apply a voltage to each of the plurality of electrodes according to the at least one microfluidic channel to drive a droplet in each of the at least one microfluidic channels to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wei Li, Baiquan Lin, Kerui Xi, Linzhi Wang, Zhenyu Jia
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Publication number: 20210316302Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a microfluidic device capable of mimicking a biological microenvironment thereby achieving control of a microenvironment with time through control of the diffusion of target elements between chambers by interrupting or generating fluid flow inside a channel, and a method for manufacturing the same, and the microfluidic device according to an aspect of the present disclosure can mimic the biological microenvironment which changes constantly with time via a simple temporary operation of generating or interrupting fluid flow in the channel mechanically and can control diffusion via a simple method, and accordingly, a complicated microenvironment can be reproduced since the number and arrangement of diffusion chambers and channels can be designed variously.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Seung Beum SUH, Sunghyun CHO
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Publication number: 20210316303Abstract: A flow cell is provided that includes surface-attached structures in a chamber. The structures are movable in response to a magnetic or electric field. A target extraction or isolation system includes the flow cell and a driver configured for applying a magnetic or electric field to the interior of the flow cell to actuate movement of the structures. The flow cell may be utilized to extract or isolate a target from a sample flowing through the flow cell. Further, a microfluidic system is provided that includes surface-attached structures and a microarray, wherein actuated motion of the surface-attached structures is used to enhance flow, circulation, and/or mixing action for analyte capture on the microarray.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicants: Redbud Labs, Inc., THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLInventors: Richard Chasen Spero, Jay Kenneth Fisher, Richard Superfine
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Publication number: 20210316304Abstract: To introduce a reagent with a small amount of residual liquid and enable a fluidic manipulation by deformation of an elastic film, a sealed type of sample processing device is configured with a reagent storage including a joint portion which joins an upper film and a lower film at a periphery of a storage space which stores a reagent between both films, an analysis chip including a lower surface fluid channel through which a liquid flows on a lower surface side and an upper surface fluid channel through which the liquid flows on an upper surface side, and an elastic film which seals the lower surface side of the analysis chip. A portion of the lower film is joined to the upper surface side of the analysis chip, a removed portion, in which the lower film is partially removed, is in an upper part of the upper surface fluid channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro NAGAOKA, Wataru SATO, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Taro NAKAZAWA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Ayaka OKUNO
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Publication number: 20210316305Abstract: A microfluidic chip includes an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, a flow passage for fluid located between the upper surface and the lower surface, a communication hole that communicate with the flow passage and open at the upper surface or the lower surface, and an annular seal formed from an elastomer, the annular seal being placed in contact with or being formed on the upper surface or the lower surface at which the communication hole opens and surrounding the communication hole. The microfluidic chip further includes a support structure fixed at a position within the flow passage, the position overlapping the annular seal, the support structure securing a height of the flow passage so as to prevent blockage of the flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Takumi YOSHITOMI, SooHyeon KIM, Teruo FUJII, Mingyue SUN
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Publication number: 20210316306Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical apparatus for imaging and/or manipulating micro-objects in a microfluidic device, such as a light-actuated microfluidic (LAMF) device, and related systems and methods. The optical apparatus can comprise a structured light modulator, a first and a second tube lens, an objective lens, a dichroic beam splitter, and an image sensor. The structured light modulator can be configured to receive unstructured light beams and transmit structured light beams for illuminating micro-objects located within an enclosure of the microfluidic device and/or selectively activating one or more of a plurality of dielectrophoresis (DEP) electrodes of the microfluidic device. The image light beams received by the image sensor can be used to form an image of at least a portion of the microfluidic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Paul M. LUNDQUIST, Paul M. LEBEL, Phillip Ronald Thomas JESS
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Publication number: 20210316307Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor assembly (1) for body fluids.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Christian STRANGE, Peter FRISCHAUF
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Publication number: 20210316308Abstract: The invention relates to a microfluidic device and to a method for use thereof for the separation, purification and concentration of components of fluid media. The invention relates in particular to a microfluidic device and a method for processing blood samples. A microfluidic device is provided, comprising: a structured component (1), which is formed as a flat body; a microfluidic channel system (2), which is configured in the structured component (1); at least one component (3) applied to a surface of the structured component (1); at least one porous functional element (5); and at least one fluidic interface (4.1, 4.2, 4.3), which is arranged at the structured component (1), for supplying media into the microfluidic channel system (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Claudia Gartner, Richard Klemm, Christian Moche
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Publication number: 20210316309Abstract: Microfluidic methods of altering the spacing of a stream of objects. In an exemplary method, objects of the object stream may be transported in carrier fluid along a microfluidic channel structure having an inflow region, an outflow region, and an expanded region extending from the inflow region to the outflow region. The expanded region may have a greater cross-sectional area for fluid flow than each of the inflow region and the outflow region. Objects of the object stream may be moved from the inflow region to the expanded region such that at least a subset of such objects are moved closer to one another. Objects of the object stream may be passed from the expanded region to the outflow region to increase a distance between such objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Lung-Hsin Hung, Robert Meltzer, Lucas Frenz
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Publication number: 20210316310Abstract: Provided is a technique for moving all of a droplet from a microchannel in which the droplet have been introduced to another layer. The droplet transport device of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a through-hole or a recess, a first electrode provided on the substrate along the surface of the substrate and arranged at a position adjacent to the through-hole or the recess, a plurality of second electrodes provided on the substrate along a surface of the substrate and to which a voltage for moving the droplet introduced on the substrate is applied, and a dielectric layer covering the surface of the substrate, the first electrode, and the second electrodes, and a water-repellent film provided on the inner wall surface of the through-hole or the recess, and on the dielectric layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Naoshi Itabashi, Michiru Fujioka, Shuhei Yamamoto, Yoshimitsu Yanagawa, Yusuke Goto
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Publication number: 20210316311Abstract: Fluidic device includes a manifold body having first and second body sides. The first body side has receiving ports forming a port array that defines a reaction region. The second body side has open-sided recesses forming reaction chambers when the fluidic device is mounted onto a sample substrate. The reaction chambers form a chamber array that defines a fluid-delivery region. The reaction region is greater than the fluid-delivery region. The manifold body also includes vent openings that open to an exterior. The fluidic device also includes upstream channels extending through the manifold body. Each of the upstream channels fluidly couples a corresponding receiving port of the port array to a corresponding reaction chamber of the chamber array. The fluidic device also includes venting channels extending through the manifold body. Each of the venting channels fluidly couples a corresponding reaction chamber of the chamber array to a corresponding vent opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Illumina, Inc.Inventor: Darryl Donovan
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Publication number: 20210316312Abstract: There is provided a pipette tip disposal assembly. The assembly comprises a receiving element adapted to support an end of at least one pipette tip, the at least one pipette tip being toppled in use from the receiving element along a first direction; and a container positioned to receive the at least one toppled pipette tip, the at least one pipette tip falling towards a base of the container on being received by the container. The base of the container has a first linear dimension aligned with the first direction corresponding to the length of a pipette tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Paul Courtney, Martin Reid, Stuart Jackson, John Lamont, Ivan McConnell, Peter Fitzgerald
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Publication number: 20210316313Abstract: Various embodiments of a hammermill system, hammer, and methods are disclosed. A hammermill hammer comprises a metal composite comprising a plurality of inserts and a body portion disposed between each of the plurality of inserts. The composition of the plurality of inserts is different than composition of the body portion. The material of the plurality of inserts has a greater abrasion resistance than the material of the body portion and the material of the body portion has a greater impact resistance than the material of the inserts. The hammers produced have improved wear resistance and longer useful life compared to conventional hammermill hammers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Robert F. Miller
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Publication number: 20210316314Abstract: In a flotation recovery circuit which includes the steps of: a grinding stage wherein a predetermined quantity of ore is ground to a predetermined size while irrigating the ore with water including recovered process water thereby to form a ground ore portion; conveying the ground ore portion mixed with the recovered process water to a flotation recovery stage; applying flotation recovery to the ground ore portion thereby to extract a recovered metal portion from a mix of the recovered process water and the ground ore portion; returning at least a portion of the recovered process water to the grinding stage; a method of increasing recovery of the metal portion from the predetermined quantity of ore; said method comprising applying a magnetic field to the ground ore portion in a magnetic conditioning stage while it is contained in the recovered process water subsequent to the grinding stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Barry Graham LUMSDEN
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Publication number: 20210316315Abstract: A tramp metal separation assembly comprises a housing, a core rod and a sleeve tube. The housing includes a first and second discharging areas and a feeding area. The core rod includes a first and second non-magnetic sections and a magnetic section. The core rod is mounted on the housing in a way that the first and second non-magnetic sections correspond respectively to the first and second discharging areas and the magnetic section corresponds to the feeding area. The sleeve tube includes a first and second portions. The sleeve tube is sleeved outside the core rod in a way that it is moveable between a first position, wherein the first portion corresponds to the magnetic section and the second portion corresponds to the second non-magnetic section, and a second position, wherein the first portion corresponds to the first non-magnetic section and the second portion corresponds to the magnetic section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: TAI HAN EQUIPMENT ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.Inventors: Shyh-Yi WEY, Wen-Cheng CHANG, Ken-Der LIN, Bao-Ding LI
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Publication number: 20210316316Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for concentrating desired particles comprising a carrier-magnetic-separation comprising the following steps a) providing a feedstock which contains the desired particles and an undesired material; b) adding hydrophobic magnetic particles to the feedstock which results in a loaded feedstock containing agglomerates of the magnetic particles and the desired particles or of the magnetic particles and the undesired material; c) separating the agglomerates from the loaded feedstock by a separation method which results in isolated agglomerates, where the separation method is selected from sorting, electric separation, magnetic separation, screening, classification, gravity concentration, and flotation; d) breaking up the isolated agglomerates to obtain a suspension comprising the magnetic particles in desagglomerated form; and e) separating the magnetic particles from the suspension obtained in step d) by a separation method selected from sorting, electric separation, magneType: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Wolfgang ROHDE, David Johann GILBERT, Bernhard SCHULER, Oliver KUHN, Michael MENTGES
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Publication number: 20210316317Abstract: Embodiments of a portable and compact centrifugal system are described, comprising a centrifuge body comprising a motor; and a monolithic rotor, suitable for manufacturing in a straight-pull injection mold, with an attachment hub, fixed retainer for exactly one sample tube, arms for the retainer, and a thin, aerodynamic counterweight. Embodiments include a rotor with a counterweight and wherein the tube retainer and the counterweight are angled downward; a central clearance volume for manual placement of a sample tube; and dimensions optimized to just fill a fixed rotational circle. Embodiments include a centrifuge with: an enclosure, hinged lid, lid-closure sensor, motor, and automatic timer; free of both user controls and user displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Sandstone Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: Ulrich Schaff, Angela Le, Tifany Pan, Kyungjin Hong, Clara Neal
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Publication number: 20210316318Abstract: A cyclone includes a hollow cylindrical upper portion and a hollow conical lower portion having an inclined wall and a base wall. The base wall and the inclined wall are continuous contact with each other, and the inclined wall of the hollow conical lower portion is in continuous contact with an outer wall of the hollow cylindrical upper portion. A total cyclone height is from about 10 to about 30 millimeters, and a ratio of the total cyclone height to an inner diameter of the hollow cylindrical upper portion is from about 0.7 to about 1.3. An angle between an inner surface of the base wall and an inner surface of the inclined wall is from about 110 to about 130 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Brian E. Damit, Plamen A. Demirev, Elizabeth C. Corson, Felix C. Sage, Benjamin B. Alvarez, Charles A. Fancher, Kelly A. Van Houten, Christopher J. Rosenker
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Publication number: 20210316319Abstract: A nozzle apparatus may comprise a nozzle body having a nozzle tip with a discharge port for spraying a treatment fluid onto a substrate; a nozzle moving member for moving the nozzle body relative to the substrate; a rotating member for rotating the nozzle body or the nozzle tip so that a treatment fluid is sprayed onto the substrate during rotation; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the nozzle moving member and the rotating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Min Jung PARK
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Publication number: 20210316320Abstract: A nozzle arrangement for applying fluids to a substrate has a connection body that is connectable to a distributor mounting region and has a spray nozzle that is connectable to the connection body. The spray nozzle has a nozzle body that longitudinally extends and has a first fluid channel for the fluid to be applied to the substrate. The spray nozzle has a nozzle housing in which the nozzle body is received. Second fluid channels for shaping air are formed between a lateral surface and inner of the nozzle body. The second fluid channels extend in the direction of a nozzle outlet opening of the nozzle body such that, by way of the shaping air dispensed from the second fluid channels at the nozzle outlet region, a spiral-shaped deflection of the fluid dispensed from the nozzle outlet opening of the nozzle body is created.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Andreas Pahl
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Publication number: 20210316321Abstract: A system and method of fluid delivery for providing a surface fluid pattern, the system comprising: a fluid delivery head for fluid flow therethrough, the fluid delivery head comprising: a fluid delivery surface having surface openings defined therein and arranged across the fluid delivery surface as a two-dimensional display; wherein at least some of the surface openings are grouped as a surface opening unit having at least one aspiration opening through which fluid can be provided to the fluid delivery surface and at least one injection opening through which fluid can be moved away from the fluid delivery surface, the surface opening unit comprising at least three surface openings positioned as a two-dimensional display and outwardly of at least one other surface opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Thomas GERVAIS, Pierre-Alexandre GOYETTE, Etienne BOULAIS
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Publication number: 20210316322Abstract: A shower head assembly contains: a body, a cover, and a movable massage set. The body includes a shower head and a handle, the handle having an inlet segment, a conduit, a water supply face, and an external fence. The water supply face has multiple spray nozzles and receiving orifices. The external fence has a slide face, a first coupling portion, and two second coupling portions. The cover includes a head portion and a gripping portion. The head portion has a connection face, and the gripping portion has a fixing protrusion. The connection face has a first retainer, and the cover has two second retainers. The movable massage set includes a flexible portion which has a connection element and multiple defining extensions. The movable massage set also includes a control unit which has an actuation projection and two sliding bosses. The flexible portion has a first abutting section and a second abutting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Chin-Lin CHANG
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Publication number: 20210316323Abstract: An adapter for use with a spray gun. A first side of the adapter has a base having a first surface and a second surface, a first friction fit interface raised from the first surface, a second friction fit interface raised from the second surface, and a central orifice.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Matthew Michael Petkus, Rachel Farmer, Dennis Shireman
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Publication number: 20210316324Abstract: A nozzle device applied to a high-pressure cleaning machine is provided, including: a nozzle, including a nozzle casing, where a water outlet channel is provided in the nozzle casing, and a front end of the nozzle casing is provided with at least one liquid discharge port connecting with the water outlet channel; and an exhaust valve, connected to the nozzle casing, and including: a valve seat, provided with a valve cavity; and a valve core, movably arranged in the valve cavity; where the valve seat is provided with an air inlet hole and an air outlet hole, the water outlet channel and a main exhaust passage are arranged in parallel in the nozzle casing, and the valve core is movable relative to the valve cavity to a closed position for blocking the main exhaust passage and an open position for opening the main exhaust passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Yong QIAO, Qibin WANG, Yajie CHENG
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Publication number: 20210316325Abstract: A rotating sprinkler includes a housing and a movable core. The core can assume retracted and extended states relative to the housing and incudes a cover, an impact member and a stream deflector. In the extended state, both the cover and the impact member can pivot between pivoted and non-pivoted states about a hinge defining an axis H generally orthogonal to axis X and the stream deflector is fixed against rotation about the hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: NETAFIM, LTD.Inventors: GAD PELEG, NITZAN BUSTAN
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Publication number: 20210316326Abstract: A plurality of workpiece-holding spindles is arranged, each engaging an article being processed, and a plurality of trays, each removably engaging a plurality of said spindles. The trays are moved along a feeding line extending along a feeding path passing near a decoration module. By a transfer assembly, the spindles carrying the articles are transferred from the trays on the feeding path, to the decoration module. A decorative treatment is applied to the articles carried by the spindles, in correspondence with at least one treatment unit (40, 41, 42) operating along the decoration module. In correspondence with a painting module operatively connected with the feeding line, the articles carried by the spindles are painted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Luciano PEREGO
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Publication number: 20210316327Abstract: Provided is an application tool that allows reduction of an amount of waste by using no masking sheets, and can easily form a coated portion such as an antislip protrusion with reduced variation in a short time period. The application tool includes a support plate and a plurality of application bodies disposed at the support plate so as to protrude with height positions of the tips aligned with each other. A tip recess is disposed at the tip portion of each of the plurality of the application bodies as a holding recess for holding coating liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Sunstar Engineering Inc.Inventors: Kazuki FURUHASHI, Hirokazu OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210316328Abstract: A valve type nozzle controls discharge of liquid by opening and closing an discharge port by a valve element, the discharge port being configured to discharge the liquid, and the valve element being formed movably by applying a predetermined voltage to a piezoelectric element, whereby when the predetermined voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element, the valve element moves in a direction where the moving mechanism opens the discharge port when the piezoelectric element extends. This allows the liquid to be discharged. Further, when the application of the voltage to the piezoelectric element is released, the moving mechanism returns to an original shape, by which the valve element closes the discharge port is closed to prevent the discharge of the liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Tadashi KAIBA, Shuusei MURAI
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Publication number: 20210316329Abstract: A doctor blade is disclosed that includes a blade surface and at least one shaped feature that is formed of a polymeric material and is provided to assist in maintaining the doctor blade with a doctor blade holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Michael DRAPER, Kevin CALLUS, Robert LUCAS
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Publication number: 20210316330Abstract: A deposition device includes: a generation chamber; a deposition chamber; a transfer tubing; a target; a stage; and a mask member. The target is disposed in the deposition chamber, has an irradiation surface to be irradiated with the aerosol injected from the nozzle, and causes the raw material particles to be charged to plasma by collision with the irradiation surface. The stage has a support surface that supports a base material, fine particles of the raw material particles produced by discharging of the charged raw material particles being deposited on the base material. The mask member is disposed in the deposition chamber, and inhibits raw material particles specularly reflected on the irradiation surface, of the raw material particles that have been collided with the irradiation surface, from reaching the stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Eiji FUCHITA
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Publication number: 20210316331Abstract: The disclosure provides an apparatus for depositing poly(p-xylylene) onto a component (4). The apparatus comprises (i) a platen, (ii) an electrode, and (iii) a first feed means. The platen comprises an electrically conductive material, is electrically connected to an electrical power supply and is configured to support a component. The electrode is electrically insulated from the platen. The first feed means is configured to feed a poly(p-xylylene) monomer to the platen. Furthermore, the component either comprises an electrically conductive material or consists of an electrically insulating material. If the component consists of an electrically insulating material the electrical power supply is an alternating current power supply and generated an alternating electrical field which couples to the component, and is thereby able to penetrate through the component to create the plasma.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBHInventors: José Virgilio Anguita RODRIGUEZ, Sembukuttiarachilage Ravi Pradip SILVA
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Publication number: 20210316332Abstract: Coating compositions for coating an oilfield operational component, and related methods, may include in some aspects a coating composition having a trifunctional silane, a silanol, and a filler. The coating composition may be applied to a surface of the oilfield operational component that is configured to be exposed to a fluid. The coating composition may be applied to at least partially cover or coat the surface. The coating composition may be configured to chemically bond with a cured primer composition that includes an epoxy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: FORMULA NO. 37, LLCInventors: Greg Andrews, George D. Andrews, Jeff Capell
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Publication number: 20210316333Abstract: Coating compositions for coating an oilfield operational component, and related methods, may include in some aspects a coating composition having a trifunctional silane, a silanol, and a filler. The coating composition may be applied to a surface of the oilfield operational component that is configured to be exposed to a fluid. The coating composition may be applied to at least partially cover or coat the surface. The coating composition may be configured to chemically bond with a cured primer composition that includes an epoxy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: FORMULA NO. 37, LLCInventors: Greg Andrews, George D. Andrews, Jeff Capell
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Publication number: 20210316334Abstract: A method for generating a mechanical wave, including generating a high amplitude mechanical pulse; coupling the mechanical pulse in a proximal end of a transmission member; propagating the mechanical pulse into the transmission member from the proximal end and a distal end thereof; and transmitting the mechanical pulse at the distal end.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Martin Brouillette, Steven Dion, Louis-Phillippe Riel
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Publication number: 20210316335Abstract: A system and method reclaims select components containing rare earth metals of electronic media electronic storage devices such as hard disk drives, solid state drives and hybrid hard drives and destroys the data containing components thereof. The system employs first devices, such as milling tools, to loosen various components of the storage device. The various loosened components include the components containing the rare earth metals and the data containing portions. Second devices, such as pick and place mechanisms, are provided for removing components from the storage device. A holding chassis receives the storage device, and moves the storage device for engagement with the first and the second devices. A section is provided for destroying the data containing portion of the electronic media storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Kevin P. Clark
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Publication number: 20210316336Abstract: The invention relates to a system for sorting veneer sheets. The system comprises: an assembly section; a reject section; a feeding section arranged between the assembly section and the reject section; at least one detection device configured to scan a top surface of a topmost veneer sheet of a stack of veneer sheets to provide a plurality of successive scan lines images; at least two parallel transfer devices; and a control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Peter William GIBSON, Andrew Edward SMITH, Stefan MURESAN, Jeffrey Michael WEBBER
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Publication number: 20210316337Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for cleaning and polishing connections of underwater equipment, comprising: a connection element (3) adapted to be connected to a torque-generating device; a cleaning-fluid-discharge device (2) comprising at least one cleaning-fluid reservoir (20); and a cleaning element connected to the discharge device via a support (4) for the cleaning element, wherein the support (4) for the cleaning element comprises at least one channel (41) that in a fluidic manner connects the at least one cleaning-fluid reservoir (20) to the cleaning element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: Carlos Americo VEIGA DAMASCENO JUNIOR
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Publication number: 20210316338Abstract: A spray wand for use with a chemical or chemical formulation in solid form. The wand hose end has a wand hose end valve for control of water flow from a hose. A refill cartridge having a swirl chamber may be attached to the hollow tube. The refill cartridge has at least one nub, indent and/or external channel or groove on its external surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Kevin Andrew KAVCHOK, Matthew Michael PETKUS, Alana BYRD, Rachel Ann FARMER
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Publication number: 20210316339Abstract: A mattress cleaning system receives a mattress in a tank of wash liquid so that the mattress is fully submerged. A pressure applicator, for example a mechanical structure or a jetted flow of wash fluid, applies a cyclical compressive force to the sleeping surface of the mattress while the mattress is fully submerged so as to cause flushing of the wash liquid outwardly of the mattress through at least the sleeping surface of the mattress. When using a barrier to isolate one of the surfaces of the mattress on a first side of the barrier from remaining surfaces of the mattress on a second side of the barrier, use of a blower to create an air pressure differential between opposing sides of the barrier causes migration of the wash liquid through the mattress from the isolated surface of the mattress to the remaining surfaces for drying the mattress.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Robert COMEAU, Robert AMBORrSKY
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Publication number: 20210316340Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing microscopic contaminant particulates by high pressure liquid nitrogen jet cleaning from the inner surface of a superconducting radio frequency cavity or a string of multiple cavities and transporting the removed particulates out of the inner space enclosed by the cleaned surfaces. The cleaning method of the invention suppresses field emission, resulting in an increase of the usable accelerating gradient of the cavities and a reduction of the activated radioactivity in accelerator components around cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: RONGLI GENG
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Publication number: 20210316341Abstract: A method for cleaning primary packaging means in pharmaceutical filling and/or packaging installations. The method includes a step of treating at least one surface of the primary packaging by means of blasting with carbon dioxide (CO2) snow, a step of using a gas flow for the suction extraction of substances cleaned off from the surface, and a step of filtering the gas flow comprising the substances contained in the cleaned-off substances. A related system includes a supply device for supplying liquid CO2 and compressed air to at least one nozzle designed to generate solid particles by means of expanding the liquid CO2 to be directed onto a surface to be treated, a holding device for primary packaging, a substance removal device to remove substances cleaned from at least one surface by means of a gas flow; and a filter device for the gas flow comprising the cleaned substances.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Bausch + Ströbel Maschinenfabrik Ilshofen GmbH + Co. KGInventors: Werner ILÄNDER, Jonas LECHLER, Thomas BÜHLER
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Publication number: 20210316342Abstract: Provided is a self-cleaning food processor, comprising a body and a crushing assembly provided on the body. The crushing assembly comprises a cup body (01), a cup lid (03), a crushing electric motor (02) and a crushing device, wherein the cup lid (03) cooperates with the cup body (01) to form a crushing cavity, an output shaft of the crushing electric motor (02) extends into the crushing cavity, the crushing device is located in the crushing cavity and is connected to the output shaft of the crushing electric motor (02), and the volume of the crushing cavity is V1. A cleaning process is provided after the food processor completes food processing, and in the cleaning process, cleaning water, the volume of which is no less than V0, is injected into the cup body at least twice, and the crushing device is controlled to drive the cleaning water to move in the crushing cavity, wherein 0.2V1?V0?0.6V1. The food processor can realize self-cleaning, and the crushing efficiency is high.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Xuning WANG, Hongwei GUO, Yanhua WU, Qilang HUANG
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Publication number: 20210316343Abstract: A fume hood comprises a curved canopy supported by at least one hollow leg wherein the curved canopy is set over a workstation. The curved canopy has a plurality of adjustable fume intake ports under its apex. At least one hollow leg has a fluid connection with the fume intake ports and has an air outlet port that is configured to be connected to a negative pressure system such that fumes underneath the curved canopy are drawn into the fume intake ports, through the hollow leg, and out through the air outlet port to the negative pressure system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Imperial Systems, Inc.Inventor: Jeremiah Wann