Patents Issued in January 11, 2024
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Publication number: 20240009630Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods for modulating activity of cells and tissue with materials that are capable of being activated by an energy pulse, such methods useful for treating diseases. The disclosure also provides devices and systems suitable for use in such methods, particularly devices and systems having a carbon-based material comprising one or more monolithic porous carbon membranes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Bozhi Tian, Aleksander Prominski, Lingyuan Meng
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Publication number: 20240009631Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a cross-linked polymeric membrane, the method comprising: contacting a polymeric membrane with a cross-linking solution to form the cross-linked polymeric membrane, wherein the cross?linking solution comprises a cross-linker comprising at least one acyl halide functional group dissolved in a polar protic solvent. There is also provided a cross-linked polymeric membrane. In a preferred embodiment, hollow fiber polybenzimidazole (PBI) is crosslinked by trimesoyl chloride (TMC) or isophthaloyl chloride (I PC) in a solvent of ethanol or isopropyl alcohol (IPA).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Seppure Pte LtdInventors: Mohammad Hossein Davood Abadi FARAHANI, Alfred Jun Jie TAY, Keng Siang GOH
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Publication number: 20240009632Abstract: The container for diffusing volatile substances comprises a transparent container body (1) for a material impregnated with volatile substances and provided with an opening (2); a permeable membrane (3) that closes the opening (2) of the container body (1); and a barrier layer (4) removably connected to the permeable membrane (3); wherein the permeable membrane (3) is sealed with the container body (1) in a sealing zone (6), the permeable membrane (3) being transparent in the sealing zone (6). It permits to provide a container for diffusing volatile substances with an improved or high-performance membrane that allows at first sight to see that the sealing of the container is correct.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Cedric MORHAIN, Stefano DEFLORIAN
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Publication number: 20240009633Abstract: A low head oxygenator system includes one or more chambers, each of the one or more chambers having an open top, and one or more distribution plates, each distribution plate disposed over the open top of a corresponding one of the one or more chambers. Each of the one or more distribution plates has a predetermined number of orifices distributed within one or more zones of the respective distribution plate and no orifices in at least one remaining zone of the respective distribution plate. The oxygenator system further includes a container (e.g. trough), disposed on top of the one or more distribution plates, and configured to allow a liquid contained in the container to flow through the orifices of the one or more distribution plates into the one or more chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: INNOVASEAInventor: Barnaby Jude WATTEN
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Publication number: 20240009634Abstract: A low head oxygenator system includes one or more chambers, each of the one or more chambers having an open top, and one or more distribution plates, each distribution plate disposed over the open top of a corresponding one of the one or more chambers. Each of the one or more distribution plates has a predetermined number of orifices distributed within one or more zones of the respective distribution plate and no orifices in at least one remaining zone of the respective distribution plate. The oxygenator system further includes a container (e.g. trough), disposed on top of the one or more distribution plates, and configured to allow a liquid contained in the container to flow through the orifices of the one or more distribution plates into the one or more chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: INNOVASEAInventor: Barnaby Jude WATTEN
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Publication number: 20240009635Abstract: A stirring impeller, an arrangement, and a use. The impeller comprises a hub disc comprising a shaft attachment structure arranged centrally in the hub for receiving a shaft centrally and perpendicularly from an upper side of the hub disc, a plurality of upper blades arranged on the upper side of the hub disc, and a plurality of lower blades arranged on a lower side of the hub disc. At least one of said plurality of upper blades is arranged to have jet angle of 5°-45°, and the lower blades have a jet angle that is different than said jet angle of least one of said plurality of upper blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Metso Outotec Finland OyInventors: Marko Latva-Kokko, Jiliang Xia, Pekka Immonen
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Publication number: 20240009636Abstract: Method and apparatus for continuous processing to perform chemical or physical reactions comprises a tube in which internal axial stirrer blades mounted at the periphery of the tube are driven by a drive system. This generates tangential flow of material at the perimeter. Stationary axial baffles mounted inside the swept path of the stirrer blades convert tangential flow into turbulence and radial mixing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Robert ASHE
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Publication number: 20240009637Abstract: A composite vortex reactor comprises a Rankine cyclone reactor and a Taylor vortex reactor. The Rankine cyclone reactor comprises a reaction chamber, a side wall of the reaction chamber is provided with a first inlet pipe and a second inlet pipe, and fluids entering the reaction chamber through the first inlet pipe and the second inlet pipe can form a gyro-fluid in the reaction chamber, and the middle of the top of the reaction chamber is provided with a gyroscopic outlet pipe. The Taylor vortex reactor comprises an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder which are coaxially provided, the inner cylinder is driven by a rotary driving device to rotate, an annular reaction space is formed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder. The upper end of the outer cylinder is provided with a reaction outlet pipe communicating with an upper portion of the annular reaction space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: XIAOGANG YANG, Jiaying Lu, Yanqing Guo, Shanshan Long, Bin Dong
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Publication number: 20240009638Abstract: A method and system are used to enhance a marker material to include a plurality of air bubbles. The method of manufacturing a marker includes enhancing a marker material to include a plurality of air bubbles using at least a first EFD and a second EFD. The method may include cycling repeatedly through a transfer process between a first container and a second container. A system for enhancing a marker material includes a transfer apparatus configured to receive a marker material and a selected amount of air. The system comprises a first EFD coupled to a first end of the transfer apparatus and a second EFD coupled to a second end of the transfer apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Timothy Zimmer, Michelle Louise Johnson, Stephen D. Stallard
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Publication number: 20240009639Abstract: The disclosure relates to a preferably automated change system for changing a mixer, comprising a mixing device, having a mixer, for mixing at least two different components for a multi-component application agent for application onto a workpiece, and a handling device for moving the mixing device, wherein the change system comprises a change station for depositing a mixing device with a mixer to be changed and preferably for receiving a mixing device with a new mixer. The disclosure relates also to a corresponding changing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Bernd Locher, Sebastian Gries, Alexander Fitterer, Rik Brodersen
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Publication number: 20240009640Abstract: A microbial repairing agent production line includes a feeder, where the feeder is connected to a storage bin, the bottom of the storage bin is connected to a metering tank, the metering tank is in communication with a granulator through a spiral or pneumatic conveying apparatus, a screening device is arranged below the granulator, and a discharge port of the screening device is connected to one end of a conveyor belt; a production process for includes: conveying a raw material to a storage bin through a feeder; then adding the raw materials to a metering tank in sequence through a spiral or pneumatic conveying apparatus, and metering and weighing the raw materials; conveying metered raw materials into a granulator; discharging the microbial repairing agent; and screening the microbial repairing agent, and collecting and maintaining the microbial repairing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Chunxiang QIAN, Tianwen ZHENG
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Publication number: 20240009641Abstract: A reactor includes a separation membrane permeable to a product of a conversion reaction of a raw material gas containing at least hydrogen and carbon oxide to a liquid fuel, a non-permeation side flow path extending in an approximately vertical direction on a non-permeation side of the separation membrane, the raw material gas flowing through the non-permeation side flow path, and a catalyst configured to fill the non-permeation side flow path and promote the conversion reaction. The catalyst includes a first layer and a second layer disposed upward of the first layer, and a mean equivalent circle diameter of catalyst particles included in the first layer is larger than a mean equivalent circle diameter of catalyst particles included in the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke NAKAGAWA, Kazuki IIDA, Hirofumi KAN, Atsushi TORII
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Publication number: 20240009642Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and method for continuously separating, removing and purifying the solid residue, resulting from the conversion of hydrocarbons into carbon and hydrogen, from the homogeneous phase of different density contained in a cracking reactor with which said solid residue is not soluble, and where the separation of the solid carbon occur at two subsequent moments: a first separation occurs inside the reactor between the reaction products, including carbon, and the melting bath; a second separation then occurs outside the reactor between the carbon and the gas produced in a separation system (1) of the solid phase from the gas phase, where said separation system (1) also includes carbon purification.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Michael EPSTEIN, Gaetano IAQUANIELLO, Salvatore ROMAGNUOLO, Emma PALO
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Publication number: 20240009643Abstract: Methods and apparatus for compact and easily maintainable waste reformation. Some embodiments include a rotary oven reformer adapted and configured to provide synthesis gas from organic waste. Some embodiments include a rotary oven with simplified operation both as to reformation of the waste, usage of the synthesized gas and other products, and easy removal of the finished waste products, preferably in a unit of compact size for use in austere settings. Yet other embodiments include Fischer-Tropsch reactors of synthesized gas. Some of these reactors include heat exchanging assemblies that provide self-cleaning effects, efficient utilization of waste heat, and ease of cleaning.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Raven SR, Inc.Inventors: Terry R. Galloway, Joseph Oscar Waidl
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Publication number: 20240009644Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing multilayer spherical particles and, more specifically, to a method for preparing multilayer spherical particles comprising the steps of: (i) preparing a core component comprising an active ingredient and a shell solution comprising a first polymer component; (ii) forming the core component and shell solution of step (i) into core-shell particles by electro-coextrusion; (iii) drying the core-shell particles obtained from step (ii); and (iv) capsulizing the dried core-shell particles of step (iii) by means of a second polymer. Further, the present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising multilayer spherical particles prepared by the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Hong Geun JI, Young Ah PARK, Yu Jin KANG, Dong Ock KIM, Tae Kyung LEE
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Publication number: 20240009645Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for a new way to separate biologics using coated pegboards—plastic plates affixed with an array of 96-pegs which align with the wells of a traditional 96-well plate used in bench top experiments. The ends of the pegs are conjugated to various compounds which are able to bind tags on engineered proteins (ex. Ni-NTA would bind a His-Tag on an engineered protein). These pegs extend into plate wells to specifically bind the tagged protein from the cell lysate which contains hundreds of other proteins. The pegboard, now laden with the protein of interest (POI), may then be dipped into sequential buffers to wash away potential non-specifically bound proteins to purify the POI.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Sylvia SARNIK, Simon James Bradshaw MALLINSON, Peter SMITH, Yannick J. BOMBLE, Hunter Blake HARRINGTON
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Publication number: 20240009646Abstract: Polyolefin powder is transferred from a gas-phase polymerization reactor to a solid-gas separator having a relatively low pressure, while an amount of monomer gas discharged from the gas-phase polymerization reactor is kept low. A polyolefin production apparatus includes a gas-phase polymerization reactor 10 that polymerizes an olefin monomer to produce polyolefin powder, a solid-gas separator 20, a circulation pipe LC having both ends connected to the solid-gas separator, and provided with a first compressor CP1, a hopper 30, a first powder-conveying pipe L1 connecting the gas-phase polymerization reactor and the hopper, and provided with a first valve V1 halfway, and a second powder-conveying pipe L2 connecting an outlet of the hopper and the circulation pipe, and provided with a second valve V2 halfway.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Satoshi ITOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240009647Abstract: Method and associated apparatus (1) for bringing together one or more first bodies comprising a first substance with one or more second bodies comprising a second substance for the purpose of the first and second bodies, or the first and second substances contained therein, chemically and/or physically reacting together. the apparatus (1) comprising: a container (48) containing a dielectric medium (50) comprising one or more dielectric materials. especially one or more dielectric fluids or pseudo-fluids: first means (10N; 30, 36, 14, 10T) for forming the said one or more first bodies comprising the first substance and applying thereto an electric charge of a first polarity. and second means (20N; 30, 38, 24, 20T) for forming the said one or more second bodies comprising the second substance and applying thereto an electric charge of a second polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Andrew Brian King
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Publication number: 20240009648Abstract: Shale processing systems may include a reactor comprising. a first inlet in fluid communication with a shale gas source. a plasma zone in fluid communication with the first inlet, the plasma zone comprising, an outlet in fluid communication with the plasma zone, a collection vessel configured to receive fluid from the reactor outlet, and a voltage supply and monitor system in electrical communication with the inner electrode and with the outer electrode. The shale gas processing systems may be configured to generate various fluid products, including nitrogen (N)-containing compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Jason Christopher Hicks, Deanna Poirier, Gerardo Rivera-Castro
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Publication number: 20240009649Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to reactor systems that include (a) a housing having an interior surface that may be at least partially reflective, (b) at least one reactor cell disposed within an interior of the housing, the at least one reactor cell including an enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the at least one enclosure, where the enclosure is optically transparent and includes at least one inlet for a reactant to enter the at least one cell and at least one outlet for a reformate to exit the at least one cell and (c) at least one light source disposed within the interior of the housing and/or external to the housing. At least one light-management feature and/or at least one thermal-management feature is applied to the reactor cell, reactor system, or a reformer system comprising many reactor systems, in order to improve efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Syzygy Plasmonics Inc.Inventors: Suman Khatiwada, Shreya Shah, John Welch, Trevor William Best, Braden Paul Adams
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Publication number: 20240009650Abstract: An absorbent material may include glucomannan and biodegradable and/or non-biodegradable additives/base material. The biodegradable additives may be corn, walnut shells, newspaper, grass, wood chips, x-DDGs, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Brice Patrick MURPHY
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Publication number: 20240009651Abstract: An improved device for solid phase microextraction, the device including a plastic substrate, a pre-coating layer on the plastic substrate, and an SPME coating on the precoating layer. SPME coatings are typically incompatible with plastic substrates due to differences between the surface energies of the substrate and the coating, leading to uneven coating and poor adhesion. The addition of the precoating layer provides increased evenness and stronger adhesion of the SPME coating to the plastic substrate. Also provided are method of coating an SPME coating on a plastic substrate, the method including the step of precoating the plastic substrate to provide a precoated substrate and then coating the precoated substrate with an SPME coating, wherein precoating provides improved coating evenness and adhesion of the SPME coating to the plastic substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Yong Chen
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Publication number: 20240009652Abstract: The present invention disclose catalyst compositions for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, consisting of at least one oxide of vanadium in an amount of 2.0 to 4.0 wt.-%, calculated as V2O5 and based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, at least one oxide of tungsten in an amount of 2.5 to 7.2 wt.-%, calculated as WO3 and based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, at least one oxide of antimony in an amount of 0.6 to 3.4 wt.-%, calculated as Sb2O5 and based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, at least one oxide of zirconium in an amount of 0 to 1.0 wt.-%, calculated as ZrO2 and based on the total weight of the catalyst, and at least one oxide of titanium in an amount of 84.6 to 94.9 wt.-% calculated as TiO2 and based on the total weight of the catalyst, wherein the weight ratio of the oxides of vanadium, tungsten, antimony, titanium and optionally zirconium, calculated as V2O5, WO3, Sb2O5, TiO2 and optionally ZrC2, respectively, add up to 100 wt.-%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Mattia Sist, Elsa Brix Roedern, Elodie Quinet, Peter Havgaard Steffensen, Jennifer Marion Gabrielsson
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Publication number: 20240009653Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst with high selectivity for an ?,?-unsaturated aldehyde, an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid, and the like. Problems are solved by a catalyst containing at least molybdenum and bismuth and having a B/A of 1.3 to 5 when a ratio of the amount of bismuth atoms to the amount of molybdenum atoms, calculated from ICP (inductively coupled plasma) atomic emission spectrometry is A, and a ratio of a peak area of bismuth atoms to a peak area of molybdenum atoms, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectrometry is B.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Kensuke Nishiki, Yu Kurihara, Takuro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20240009654Abstract: A composition or material, in particular a catalytically active composition or material, a process for producing the composition or material, a composition or material obtained or obtainable by the process, and uses of the composition or material. The composition or material includes a permanently polarized hydroxyapatite and a brushite and/or a brushite-like material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Carlos Enrique Alemán Llansó, Jordi Puiggalí Bellalta, Jordi Sans, Pau Turón Dols, Vanesa Sanz Beltrán, Anna Maria Rodríguez Rivero
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Publication number: 20240009655Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a recycled catalyst comprising at least one metal M1 from group VI B, and/or at least one metal M2 from group VIII, optionally phosphorus and/or sulfur, and a support based on oxide(s). The process comprises the recycling of at least a part of the metal or metals of a source catalyst comprising the metal M1 and/or the metal M2 common with the recycled catalyst to be produced, with: an extraction by an extraction solution of the metal M1 and/or of the metal M2 from said source catalyst, in order to obtain a solution of extracted metal/metals, then—an impregnation of the support with an impregnation solution resulting from said solution of extracted metal/metals, in order to obtain an impregnated substrate, said extracted metal(s) remaining in the liquid phase from the extraction until the impregnation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Elodie DEVERS, Pierre-louis CARRETTE, Philibert LEFLAIVE, Marine MINIERE
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Publication number: 20240009656Abstract: A composition of matter is provided comprising hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous material having well-defined long-range mesoporous ordering of cubic symmetry. The composition possesses mesopores having walls of crystalline microporous material and a mass of mesostructure between mesopores of crystalline microporous material. Long-range ordering is defined by presence of secondary peaks in an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and/or cubic symmetry observable by microscopy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Rajesh Kumar PARSAPUR, Robert Peter HODGKINS, Omer Refa KOSEOGLU, Kuo-Wei HUANG, Anissa Bendjeriou SEDJERARI
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Publication number: 20240009657Abstract: A composition of matter is provided comprising hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous material having well-defined long-range mesoporous ordering of hexagonal symmetry. The composition possesses mesopores having walls of crystalline microporous material and a mass of mesostructure between mesopores of crystalline microporous material. Long-range ordering is defined by presence of secondary peaks in an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and/or hexagonal symmetry observable by microscopy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Rajesh Kumar PARSAPUR, Robert P. HODGKINS, Omer Refa KOSEOGLU, Kuo-Wei HUANG, Anissa Bendjeriou SEDJERARI
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Publication number: 20240009658Abstract: A deodorizing catalyst containing a composite oxide and a metal component containing Pt supported on the composite oxide, and having a degree of reduction represented by the following formula (1) in a range of 60% to 86%: degree of reduction (%)=100?[X/Y]×100 (1), in which X represents a peak area obtained from a thermal conductivity detector (TCD) when the catalyst is dried and reduced by heating from 40° C. to 400° C., and Y represents a peak area obtained from the TCD when an oxidation catalyst obtained by heat-treating the catalyst in an air or under oxygen atmosphere at 150° C. for 2 hours and then cooling the catalyst to 40° C. or lower is reduced by heating from 40° C. to 400° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Jun KAWAHARA, Naoshi NAGAI, Akihiro OKABE, Susumu SAITO, Shuji TAHARA
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Publication number: 20240009659Abstract: Internal dienes (including supported versions) and their Periodic Groups IX, X and Pt Group Metal Complexes as catalysts for hydrosilylation/coupling reactions. A process for the hydrosilylation of an unsaturated compound comprising reacting (a) a silyl or siloxy hydride with (b) an unsaturated compound in the presence of (c) one or more platinum complex containing said internal dienic ligand or (d) a platinum compound and one or more said internal dienic ligand additive. For Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, or Pd, catalyzed processes such as C—C/C—N or C—O coupling comprising reacting (a) an aromatic halide/vinyl halide/an aromatic triflate with (b) a primary/secondary amine/amide, an alcohol/aryl boronic acid/aryl boronate/vinyl halide or an activated olefin in the presence of (c) a Group IX or X or Pt Group metal complex containing said dienic ligand(s) or (d) a suitable compound of these metals and of one or more said internal dienic ligand additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Aroop Kumar Roy
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Publication number: 20240009660Abstract: Methods for synthesis of hierarchically ordered zeolites and zeolite-type materials are provided. Synthesized hierarchically ordered zeolites and zeolite-type materials formed according to the methods herein possess a high-degree of well-defined long-range mesoporous ordering. The methods include base-mediated reassembly, by dissolution of the parent material to the level of oligomeric structural building units of the parent material, and minimizing or avoiding amorphization/structural collapse. The dissolution and self-assembly is comprehensively controlled to produce hierarchically ordered zeolites and zeolite-type materials according to the methods herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Rajesh Kumar PARSAPUR, Robert Peter HODGKINS, Omer Refa KOSEOGLU, Kuo-Wei HUANG, Anissa Bendjeriou SEDJERARI
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Publication number: 20240009661Abstract: A method for testing salt formation includes heating, by a first heater of an apparatus, an anion solution arranged in a first vessel of the apparatus to a first predetermined temperature and heating, by a second heater of the apparatus, a cation solution arranged in a second vessel of the apparatus to a second predetermined temperature. The method also includes conveying, by a fluid pump of the apparatus, a volume of the anion solution from the first vessel to the second vessel and simultaneously rotating a stirrer arranged in the second vessel to form a mixed solution. The method includes conveying the mixed solution from the second vessel of the apparatus to a sampler of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Hamad Al Saiari, Christian Canto Maya, Hassan Alshahdood
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Publication number: 20240009662Abstract: An apparatus for collecting a saliva sample is described herein. In a described embodiment, the apparatus comprises a filter; and a pressure generator operable to generate pressure to cause the saliva sample to be transferred through the filter, the filter being configured to reduce a viscosity of the saliva sample as the saliva sample is transferred through the filter. A method collecting a saliva sample from a user is also described, among other aspects.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Agata Blasiak, Paul Anthony Macary, Dean Ho
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Publication number: 20240009663Abstract: The cartridge includes a carrier having a spotting region and an assay region, a first reagent holding part that holds a first reagent and that starts a supply of the first reagent to the carrier by directly or indirectly receiving an external force, a second reagent holding part that starts a supply of the second reagent to the carrier by directly or indirectly receiving an external force exerted by an internal mechanism provided in the immunochromatographic assay apparatus, and a suppression structure that suppresses transmission of an external force exerted by a user directly or indirectly to the second reagent holding part or application of an external force by the user to the second reagent holding part, while allowing the external force exerted by the internal mechanism to be transmitted to the second reagent holding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasutake TANAKA, Hiroyasu ISHII
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Publication number: 20240009664Abstract: A bio-chip is provided. The bio-chip includes a substrate and a first organic photoelectric conversion element disposed on the substrate. The first organic photoelectric conversion element defines pixel units. The bio-chip also includes a polarizing array disposed on the first organic photoelectric conversion element. The polarizing array includes polarizing sets, each polarizing set corresponds to one pixel unit and has sub-polarizing units that have different polarizing angles. The bio-chip further includes reaction sites disposed on the polarizing array. Each reaction site corresponds to one sub-polarizing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Hsin-Yi HSIEH, Lai-Hung LAI
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Publication number: 20240009665Abstract: Provided herein include various examples of a flow cell and methods for forming aspects of flow cell. The method may include applying a first adhesive to a substrate. The method may include orienting a die on the first adhesive. The method may also include orienting a package on the first adhesive. The package includes a die and a top surface of the die comprises an active surface and electrical contact points. Surfaces adjacent to the active surface on at least two opposing sides of the active surface form fanout regions for utilization in a fluidic path of the flow cell. The method further may include applying a second adhesive to a part of the package and attaching a lid to the second adhesive to define a fluidic flow-cell cavity below the lid and above a surface comprising the active surface and the fanout regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Ravi BILLA, John WALKER, Arvin EMADI, Jon ADAY, Tara BOZORG-GRAYELI, Ludovic VINCENT, Hai TRAN, Sanket RATHORE
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Publication number: 20240009666Abstract: A flow apparatus for measuring at least one biophysical property of one or more components is provided. The apparatus comprises one or more microfluidic devices. Each microfluidic device comprises: a sample channel having a sample inlet port for introducing a sample fluid flow comprising one or more components at a first flow rate into an elongate distribution channel, an auxiliary channel having an auxiliary inlet port for introducing an auxiliary fluid flow at a second flow rate into the elongate distribution channel. The distribution channel is configured to enable a lateral distribution of the components from the sample fluid flow into the auxiliary fluid flow. Each microfluidic device further comprises two or more capillary channels provided downstream and in fluid communication with the distribution channel, at least one outlet port provided downstream of each of the capillary channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Fluidic Analytics LimitedInventors: Ashish Asthana, Jean-Paul Delport, Sean Devenish, Anthony Douglas, Hannah Kenyon, Maren Butz, Viola Denninger, Simon Morling, Thomas Mueller, Laurence Young, Simon Chandler
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Publication number: 20240009667Abstract: Provided is a liquid feeding method for removing bubbles from a solution introduced into a fluidic device, wherein: the fluidic device includes a flow path of a volume v, a first chamber having a volume V1 and connected to a first side of the flow path, and a second chamber having a volume V2 and connected to a second side, being different from the first side, of the flow path; V1, V2, and v satisfy Formula (1) and Formula (2), ? is a solubility of gas in the solution at a temperature of the second chamber, ? is a solubility of gas in the solution at a temperature of the flow path, P0 is a pressure of a surrounding environment of the fluidic device, ?P is a bubble internal pressure rise value, where ?P=4?/d, ? is a surface tension of the solution, and d is a diameter of the flow path; and the liquid feeding method includes: disposing the solution at a first position opposite to the flow path with respect to the second chamber; pressurizing and feeding the solution so that the solution is transferred through tType: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Saaya Shimizu, Ryo Imai, Yoshimitsu Yanagawa
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Publication number: 20240009668Abstract: Structures for a microfluidic channel and methods of forming a structure for a microfluidic channel. The structure comprises a semiconductor substrate including a trench and a layer stack on the semiconductor substrate. The layer stack includes a first layer, a second layer between the first layer and the semiconductor substrate, and an opening penetrating through the first layer and the second layer to the trench. The structure further comprises a third layer inside the opening in the layer stack. The third layer, which comprises a semiconductor material, obstructs the opening to define a cavity inside the trench.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Ramsey Hazbun, Siva P. Adusumilli, Mark Levy, Bartlomiej Jan Pawlak
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Publication number: 20240009669Abstract: An assay cartridge includes a reagent container in which a reagent to be supplied to the carrier is sealed and from which the reagent is discharged to the outside by being crushed, a case having a pressing operation part that is operated to apply a pressing force to the reagent container, a first displacement part and a second displacement part, the first displacement part has a first pressing surface for pushing the second displacement part to the reagent container by pressing the second displacement part, and the second displacement part is disposed between the first displacement part and the reagent container and has a second pressing surface that crushes the reagent container in a case where the second displacement part is pressed from the first pressing surface and in which a projected area is larger than a projected area of the first pressing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichi USHIKURA, Hiroyasu Ishii
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Publication number: 20240009670Abstract: An assay device is disclosed comprising a housing and a test portion, electronic circuitry and a one-piece optical component each a least partially located in the housing. The test portion comprises one or more test zones adapted to receive an analyte and a fluorescent label associated with the analyte, the fluorescent label being excitable by excitation light and adapted to emit emission light upon excitation by excitation light. The electronic circuitry comprises one or more light sources and one or more light detectors. The optical component comprises one or more excitation light guides adapted to guide excitation light from the one or more light sources to the one or more test zones, and one or more emission light guides adapted to guide emission light from the one or more test zone to the one or more light detectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Romulo DE MACEDO, Geoff BYWATER
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Publication number: 20240009671Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerase chain reaction (hereinafter, referred to as ‘PCR’) disc apparatus for performing a PCR on a compact disc and an analysis method using the same, more specifically to a PCR disc apparatus and an analysis method using the same that are capable of allowing micro-needle tunnelling channels and different types of chambers to be integratedly arranged on a compact disc to perform DNA or RNA amplification, so that in a situation such as Coronavirus disease pandemic, a user can perform PCR analysis of non-face-to-face easily even at home to permit a doctor to remotely check PCR analysis results through the Internet network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITYInventor: Jae-Chern YOO
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Publication number: 20240009672Abstract: A container including a top wall and a fluid vessel depending from the top wall. The fluid vessel extends from a top wall aperture formed in the top wall to a bottom end of the fluid vessel. The container further includes gripping structures configured to enable an automated gripping mechanism to securely grip the container in a repeatable position and orientation with respect to the container-gripping components of the gripping mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: David BUSE, Byron J. KNIGHT
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Publication number: 20240009673Abstract: Work mat 10 for supporting laboratory vessels 12. The work mat 10 includes a flexible planar panel 14 having opposed sides 16, 18, where one side 16 defines a base 20, and the other side 18 defines a vessel support portion 22. Each of the base 20 and the vessel support portion 22 are configured to allow releasably adhering the panel 14 to another object. The base 20 is configured to adhere to another object more firmly than the vessel support portion 22. In use, the base 20 is adherable to a surface 24 (FIG.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Mincle Co Pty LtdInventors: Jean PAYETTE, Charles-Elliot Cedric SUNSTRUM
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Publication number: 20240009674Abstract: A support holder for a test device is disclosed, wherein the holder may include a base having a first plurality of sidewalls having a first length and a second plurality of sidewalls having a second length, wherein the second length is greater than the first length, wherein the plurality of sidewalls define a cavity in the base, the cavity including a surface for receiving a portion of the test device; and a plurality of projections extending away from the base, wherein each projection of the plurality of projections is configured to be associated with a leg portion, and wherein a first sidewall of the first plurality of sidewalls includes a center notch positioned between a first corner portion and a second corner portion, and wherein a second sidewall of the first plurality of sidewalls includes a removable portion configured to cover an opening into an interior of the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Christopher HUNTER, Steven DAVIS, Melissa SHER, David VANHOUTE
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Publication number: 20240009675Abstract: A screw flight system including a helical screw flight, and at least one wear lining element is disclosed. The screw flight system further includes a guiding system including at least one guide pin configured to be arranged on one of the helical screw flight and the at least one wear lining element, and at least one guide hole arranged on the other of the helical screw flight and the at least one wear lining element, wherein the at least one guide hole being configured to receive the at least one guide pin. A vertical grinding mill including the screw flight system, a replacement kit of wear lining elements, and a method for mounting thereof are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Metso Outotec Finland OyInventor: Francisco de Assis Nogueira Junior
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Publication number: 20240009676Abstract: A horizontal grinder rotor includes a grinding ring, multiple blades, and a center body. The grinding ring, the multiple blades and the central body are formed by 3D printing. The multiple blades are located between the grinding ring and the central body, and the multiple blades are arranged at intervals. The multiple blades are arranged in pairs and symmetrical with respect to the central body, and the horizontal grinder rotor further comprises one or more pins, the one or more pins are provided on at least one side of each of the multiple blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: MAO-SUNG CHEN, WEI-LUN CHEN, HONG-ZHENG LAI, TSENG-LUNG CHANG
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Publication number: 20240009677Abstract: A food waste disposer includes a housing, a grinding case inside the housing to dispose of food waste, a valve assembly mounted to a lower portion of the grinding case, and a driving device arranged on one side of the valve assembly to operate the valve assembly. The grinding case includes a discharge hole formed on a bottom surface. The valve assembly includes a valve member configured to open or close the discharge hole. The driving device includes: a driving motor to generate power; a power transmission member connected to the driving motor and configured to be moved in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction; a holding member that rotates based on the movement of the power transmission member and connects to the valve member to guide an open or closed state of the valve member; and a sensor in contact with the power transmission member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Yongjie JIN, Daegeon KIM, Namsoo PARK, Wonyoung SEO
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Publication number: 20240009678Abstract: A food waste disposer includes: a housing; a grinding case positioned inside the housing and configured to be separable from inside of the housing to outside of the housing and treat food waste; a rotating grinder configured to treat the food waste by rotating inside the grinding case and rotatably coupled with respect to a bottom surface of the grinding case; a grinder rotating shaft inserted in the rotating grinder and configured to rotate together with the rotating grinder; and a driver positioned below the grinding case and configured to provide rotation power of the rotating grinder, wherein the driver includes: a driving motor configured to generate power; a shaft driving gear configured to rotate by receiving power of the driving motor; and a connecting shaft configured to be rotatable within a range of a first angle with respect to the shaft driving gear, wherein one end of the connecting shaft is inserted in the grinder rotating shaft and another end of the connecting shaft is inserted in the shaft dType: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Daegeon KIM, Yongjie JIN, Namsoo PARK, Wonyoung SEO
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Publication number: 20240009679Abstract: A wood chipper which includes a chamber having a flywheel and which includes a wood in-feed system. The in-feed system includes a bin inclined for gravity-feeding wood product to the chamber and a cylindrical anvil disposed between an outlet of the bin and the flywheel. The flywheel includes a plurality of plates laminated together with fasteners. First and second ones of the plates have aligned first and second openings respectively for passage of chips. The second opening has a tab which extends from an edge thereof partially into the first opening. A knife is attached to the tab and supports a blade outwardly of the first plate and thus outwardly of the flywheel. A system is provided for providing water mist onto wood product only as it is being fed down the in-feed bin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Kurt M. Schie