Automatic Control Patents (Class 210/143)
  • Patent number: 10527594
    Abstract: A liquid chromatography measurement method includes: switching between a first measurement mode using a liquid chromatography method in which hemoglobin A1c and a hemoglobin variant are measured in a measurement sample by sequentially delivering a first component-separating eluent, a second component-separating eluent and a wash eluent to an analytical column, and a second measurement mode using the liquid chromatography method in which the hemoglobin A1c is measured by sequentially delivering the first component-separating eluent and the wash eluent to the analytical column; delivering the wash eluent in the first measurement mode prior to an influence from the second component-separating eluent disappearing such that a first retention time of the hemoglobin A1c in the first measurement mode and a second retention time of the hemoglobin A1c in the second measurement mode are substantially the same as each other; and delivering the first component-separating eluent after the wash eluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Sezaki, Takeshi Takagi
  • Patent number: 10464821
    Abstract: A system for cleaning and sterilizing a water flow comprises a main treatment line with a pump to pump water from a water storage, a main filter, a sterilizing station and a system outlet. The main filter is provided with a first filter element and a backflush member to rinse the first filter element with backflush water. The secondary treatment line connects to an outlet of the backflush member, and has a backflush filter to remove silt from the backflush water. The main filter is designed such that the pressure difference over the first filter element is at least 0.1 bar (10 kPa) and the backflush filter is designed such that the pressure difference over the backflush filter element is less than 0.05 bar (5 kPa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: B.V. SCHEEPSWERF DAMEN GORINCHEM
    Inventor: Matthijs Schuiten
  • Patent number: 10463775
    Abstract: A renal therapy apparatus includes a blood filter, a blood pump, a treatment fluid pump, and a control unit configured to control at least one of the blood pump or the treatment fluid pump during a filter cleaning sequence. In a first phase of the filter cleaning sequence, a first fluid including a blood-compatible and physiologically safe fluid is transferred back and forth across the insides and/or outsides of the blood filter. After the first phase, a second fluid is formed by mixing the first fluid with air. In a second phase of the filter cleaning sequence, the second fluid is transferred across the insides and/or outsides of the blood filter at least one time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Justin Rohde, Derek Wiebenson
  • Patent number: 10465403
    Abstract: I have designed a thermostatically controlled passive solar heater that blows by solar powered fan using very low wattage, warm air over a feces pile in an Improved Ventilated Privy (outhouse) for the purpose to dry or break the wet film over the feces pile rendering it odorless. I call it the Feces Odor Eliminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Inventor: Alan Lowberg
  • Patent number: 10434237
    Abstract: A dialysis system includes a fluid line fluidly communicating with a fluid source, a peritoneal dialysis configured to be placed in fluid communication with the fluid line, the peritoneal dialysis including a first user interface and a first control unit, the first user interface configured to receive first user inputs related to a peritoneal dialysis treatment, the first control configured to operate the peritoneal dialysis in accordance with the first user inputs to perform the peritoneal dialysis treatment, and a blood treatment configured to be placed in fluid communication with the fluid line, the blood treatment including a second user interface and a second control unit, the second user interface configured to receive second user inputs related to a blood treatment, the second control configured to operate the blood treatment in accordance with the second user inputs to perform the blood treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Gino Cicchello, Christian Bernard, Robert W. Childers, Anthony Simiele
  • Patent number: 10391218
    Abstract: It is described an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus (1) with a user interface (12) device capable configuring and allowing execution of one or more isolated ultrafiltration tasks during the course of a dialysis treatment. The extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus (1) is controlled in a normal mode, where dialysis fluid is fed to the blood treatment unit (2), and in an isolated ultrafiltration mode, where fresh dialysis fluid is no longer fed to the blood treatment unit (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Gambro Lundia AB
    Inventors: Michela Carpani, Guy Mercier, David Nepote-Vesino
  • Patent number: 10382957
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward methods, apparatuses and systems for operating at a fluid-maintenance site. In certain embodiments, the methods, apparatuses, and systems include a fluid filter, a sensor that provides parameters that characterize fluid flowing through the fluid filter, and a wireless interface circuit. The wireless interface circuit operates in a set-up mode and a normal-operation mode. In the set-up mode, the wireless interface circuit operates by communicating authentication data with a mobile data-processing device while the mobile data-processing device is proximate to the fluid-maintenance site. In the normal-operation mode, the wireless interface circuit operates by sending the parameters wirelessly, according to the authentication protocol, to a remotely-situated server via a wireless communication medium and a broadband connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Hemang R. Patel, Michael N. Cormier, Justin M. Mazzoni
  • Patent number: 10370633
    Abstract: A continuous sterilizing apparatus circulates, through members constituting a flow channel, a sterilizing medium that sterilizes the members to sterilize the members, circulates a sterilizing liquid subjected to sterilization treatment through pipes, performs a series of pieces of treatment including heating treatment, holding treatment, and cooling treatment on the sterilizing liquid, controls a flow rate, a temperature, and a pressure to be preset conditions, and switches a liquid to be circulated through the flow channel from the sterilizing liquid to a liquid to be sterilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Mimitsuka, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Ken Morita, Yuki Yamamoto, Kenichi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 10363352
    Abstract: A disposable set and system for dialysis are disclosed. An example peritoneal dialysis system includes an automated peritoneal dialysis (“APD”) machine comprising a pumping mechanism and a peritoneal dialysis fluid heater. The example peritoneal dialysis system also includes a disposable set comprising a disposable cassette operable with the pumping mechanism and a heater bag operable with the heater. The example peritoneal dialysis system additionally includes a conductivity sensor positioned and arranged to provide feedback to the APD machine. The example APD machine is configured to mix a peritoneal dialysis fluid for treatment in the heater bag using a plurality of peritoneal dialysis constituent fluids. In addition, the example APD machine is configured to use feedback from the conductivity sensor to evaluate the mixed peritoneal dialysis fluid for treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Robert W. Childers, David S. Brown, Ramesh Wariar, Sujatha Karoor, Shahid Din, Leo Martis, Cody Buchmann, Paul Soltys
  • Patent number: 10351453
    Abstract: A composition and method of inhibiting corrosion and white rust on metal components in a water system. The composition preferably comprises an amino-acid based polymer (most preferably a polyaspartic acid or a salt thereof), hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid, and a second phosphonic acid (preferably a phosphonocarboxylic acid), and does not require the use of regulated metals. The composition is effective even in the presence of biocides. A preferred method of inhibiting white rust comprises adding an amino-acid based polymer or hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid or both to the water system. A preferred method of inhibiting corrosion or white rust comprises adding an amino-acid based polymer, hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid, and a phosphonocarboxylic acid to the water system. Preferably the active concentrations are at least 3 ppm each of the amino-acid based polymer and hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid when added to a volume of water in the water system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: NCH Corporation
    Inventors: Marta Drewniak, Lyle H. Steimel
  • Patent number: 10345127
    Abstract: A cassette module for a differential flowmeter has a first channel and a second channel which carry fluid during operation of the differential flowmeter and are permeated by a magnetic field during operation of the differential flowmeter, each having an electrode pair arranged on the first channel and on the second channel. A flow difference between the first fluid-carrying channel and the second fluid-carrying channel can be determined by comparing the signals on the first electrode pair and on the second electrode pair. The first channel has an additional section that is permeated by the magnetic field during operation. Another electrode pair is arranged in the additional section, so that a change in the measurement conditions can be detected by comparing the signal on the first electrode pair and on the additional electrode pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic
  • Patent number: 10342910
    Abstract: Devices and methods for the prognosis of intradialytic parameters such as a blood pressure are described, wherein at least one learning algorithm and/or at least one neural network is/are provided. A memory device stores patient-individual intradialytic parameters, laboratory parameters, and/or machine parameters, which can be used in the prognosis of patient-specific parameter progress during a dialysis treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG
    Inventors: Richard Atallah, Janosch Henze, Christof Strohhoefer
  • Patent number: 10329177
    Abstract: A sensor is configured to sense a parameter of an aqueous liquid. The sensor has an analog output port configured to provide an analog signal indicative of a sensed parameter, and a calibration memory device storing individual digital information indicative of a calibration of the sensor. A digital output port provides a digital signal indicative of the digital information. A treatment system and method is matched to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Digital Concepts of Missouri, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Greenwood, Christopher Seay Green, Kenneth W. Law
  • Patent number: 10308525
    Abstract: A suspended-matter removing method and a suspended-matter removing apparatus are disclosed that require no sludge treatment facility, and inexpensively provide filtrate satisfying a water quality standard. The suspended-matter removing method includes: feeding a protrusion element to a filter layer formed by filling a solid filter material, adding a protrusion to a surface of the solid filter material; after feeding protrusion element, determining whether a protrusion has been added to the surface of the solid filter material, and when it is determined that the protrusion has been added, reducing a feeding amount of the protrusion element as compared with when adding the protrusion; forming a biofilm on the surface of the solid filter material; and passing water to be treated containing suspended matters through the filter layer having the solid filter material added with the protrusion in a state in which the feeding amount of the protrusion element is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Tabata, Seiji Furukawa, Katsunori Matsui, Hideo Suzuki, Gaku Kondo, Shigeru Yoshioka, Masaki Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 10252920
    Abstract: Data relating to fluid dynamics is obtained using a flow field sensor that measures acceleration and angular velocity of the sensor on three axes. Ballast control allows the sensor to obtain neutral buoyancy within the fluid. The sensor is effective in opaque fluids and closed containers as data is stored in a removable memory. Froth flotation systems are among the applications for the sensor. The small size, the geometry, and the center of mass of the sensor allow it to follow the flow field in a vessel without material disruption of the flow field or weight-induced angular displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julia S. Baldauf, Darcy James Beurle, Matthew Downton, Stephen M. Moore, Christine Schieber, George Yiapanis
  • Patent number: 10226736
    Abstract: A system for supplying dry air to a fuel tank to remove moisture and inhibit contamination includes a dry air supply assembly having an air compressor and an air dryer configured to remove moisture from air supplied by the air compressor to the air dryer, and includes a fluid pump mounted within the fuel tank above a fuel level, with the fluid pump receiving dried air from the air dryer. A suction line extends from the fluid pump and includes an open end disposed at a bottom of the fuel tank. The fluid pump is adapted to receive dried air from the air dryer as a motive force to draw liquid from the bottom of the tank into the opening and up the suction line to the fluid pump, and discharge liquid from the fluid pump above the fuel level within the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Inventor: Brent R. Cottingham
  • Patent number: 10207277
    Abstract: A drilling fluid conditioning system can include a centrifuge, and at least one heat transfer property sensor that outputs real time measurements of a heat transfer property of a drilling fluid that flows through the centrifuge. A method can include measuring a heat transfer property of a drilling fluid, and determining, based on the measured heat transfer property, an operational parameter of a centrifuge through which the drilling fluid flows. A well system can include a drilling fluid that circulates through a wellbore, and a drilling fluid conditioning system including a centrifuge and at least one heat transfer property sensor that measures a heat transfer property of the drilling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Katerina V. Newman, Dale E. Jamison, Xiangnan Ye, Cato R. McDaniel, Timothy N. Harvey
  • Patent number: 10155080
    Abstract: A renal therapy system with cassette-based blood and dialysate pumping is disclosed. An example system includes a blood pump actuator, a dialysis fluid pump actuator, a dialysis fluid heater, a dialyzer, and a disposable unit. The example disposable unit includes a blood cassette portion configured to be operatively connected to the blood pump actuator to pump blood through the blood cassette portion. The example disposable unit also includes a dialysis fluid cassette portion, separate from the blood cassette portion, configured to be operatively connected to the dialysis fluid pump actuator to pump dialysis fluid through the dialysis fluid cassette portion. The blood cassette portion and the dialysis fluid cassette portion are both in fluid communication with the dialyzer. The example disposable unit also includes a heater bag configured to be placed in operable communication with the dialysis fluid heater and in fluid communication with the dialysis fluid cassette portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
    Inventors: Ying-Cheng Lo, Robert W. Childers, Thomas D. Kelly, Justin Rohde
  • Patent number: 10131560
    Abstract: A system and method includes an aeration subsystem that excites enzymes in the liquid waste passing through the septic system along with a bypass system that directs liquid waste during power outages. The bypass system utilizes a mechanically activated bypass valve moved by a float. The aeration subsystem includes a compressor section that compresses the liquid waste. The method includes mixing enzymes into the fluid waste material, compressing the fluid waste material with the compressor, injecting air into the compressed fluid waste material, and determining whether the fluid waste material is at a desired cleanliness, and if not, recirculating the fluid waste material through the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Kistner, Carolyn R. Kistner
  • Patent number: 10126759
    Abstract: The invention is in the field of medical fluid management machines, in particular dialysis machines. The invention is based on the problem of expanding the input and output devices of medical fluid management machines and creating alternative possibilities for monitoring medical fluid management machines or treatments performed using such machines. In accordance with the teaching disclosed, this problem is solved by the fact that mobile computers such as tablet PCs or smartphones can be connected mechanically to the medical fluid management machines, and there is a data transmission between the medical fluid management machine and the mobile communication device or mobile computer leading to the display of information pertaining to the medical fluid management machine or a treatment performed using this device on the display unit of the mobile communication device or the mobile computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Mueller
  • Patent number: 10087095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ballast water treatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TECHCROSS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyuwon Park, Seongtae Kim, Haidon Lee, Yongseok Park, Daewon Kim, Kisung Lee, Jahun Ku, Yujin Kim
  • Patent number: 10087087
    Abstract: A water distribution system having a dual use water treatment unit. The same water treatment unit can be used to treat water supplied from a fill port to a storage tank during a fill operation, as well as water leaving the storage tank for supply to one or more points of water use during a supply operation. When a diverter valve is in a fill position, water supplied to the fill port can flow through the diverter valve and to the water treatment unit for treatment then to the storage tank for storage. When the diverter valve is in a supply position, the water from the storage tank can be delivered using means for pressurizing water to the same treatment unit for treatment, then through the diverter valve and to a point of water use device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Water-Guard Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Daniel Nolan
  • Patent number: 10080983
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for self-cleaning filters without having to open the filter housing. Wash nozzles are integrated with the filter housings such that when the filters are clogged, both back-wash and regular washing can be performed with practically no down time. Moreover, without opening the filter housing, the hazardous components of the fluid to be filtered can be contained and dealt with before they escape the filter housing, thereby significantly reduces the environmental impact and harm to the working crew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Filtration Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John Hampton, Greg Wallace
  • Patent number: 10080831
    Abstract: A dialysis system including a housing, a dialysate pump disposed in the housing, and a dialysate line configured to be operatively connected to the dialysate pump such that the dialysate pump can pump dialysate through the dialysate line when the dialysate line is in fluid communication with a dialysate source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Beiriger, Robert Dale Parks, Ryan Christopher Kaintz
  • Patent number: 10077999
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for measuring parameters based on the presence or absence of fluid at a plurality of fluid sensing zones in a disposable cassette are described herein. In an embodiment, a fluidic device includes a disposable cartridge including a fluid channel, an instrument configured to receive the disposable cartridge, the instrument including at least one sensor having a plurality of fluid sensing zones spaced along the fluid channel when the disposable cartridge is received by the disposable cartridge, each fluid sensing zone configured to determine a presence or absence of fluid at a respective portion of the fluid channel, and a control unit configured to determine at least one of a fluid volume, a volume displacement, a flow rate, a flow velocity or a volume ratio of gas bubbles of the fluid based on the presence or absence of the fluid at each of the fluid sensing zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: CYTOCHIP INC.
    Inventors: Wendian Shi, Yuzhe Ding
  • Patent number: 10076604
    Abstract: A medical fluid pump, comprising a first, inner fluid system including a motor-driven suction/pressure unit and a first fluid pressure chamber which can be filled with fluid and emptied by the suction/pressure unit, and a second, outer fluid system including a second fluid pressure chamber which is coupled to the first pressure chamber in a pressure- and/or volume-dynamic manner via a movable separating wall and which is alternately coupled—via a valve means of the second fluid system—to a suction line and pressure line depending on the current working phase of the suction/pressure unit of the first fluid system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: B. BRAUN MELSUNGEN AG
    Inventors: Rolf Heitmeier, Dominik Niedenzu, Berthold Wolfram, Matthias Schwalm, Heiko Rosenkranz, Juergen Steger
  • Patent number: 10059608
    Abstract: A plant for treatment of a waste water stream comprising fat includes pre-treatment apparatus for removal of liquid oil and gross contaminants, a flow-through assembly for electrocoagulation treatment of a liquid, a floc-separation apparatus arranged for removal of a flocculated fat-containing layer from the aqueous dispersion to provide clarified aqueous solution for disposal and a controller arranged to control voltage and/or current across the electrodes and the flow of the waste water stream through the components of the plant. Also disclosed are methods for using the plant to provide efficient separation with minimized power consumption as flow and contaminant level vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: KOLINA LIMITED
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Exley Ritchie, Roger Nicholas Hensby
  • Patent number: 10052424
    Abstract: Blood treatment/dialysis systems are disclosed. The systems include a water treatment unit, preferably of the reverse osmosis type, whose outlet has connected thereto a water supply line provided with a number of branch connections having fluidly coupled thereto blood treatment/dialysis machines in a selective manner, and a drain line through which exhausted blood treatment fluid can be discharged from fluidly coupled blood treatment/dialysis machines. Also disclosed is a machine-external heat exchanger, which is connected to the water supply line upstream of the branch connections on one side and to the drain line on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AG
    Inventors: Alexander Rohde, Siegmar Rott, Bjoern Broeker
  • Patent number: 10010854
    Abstract: A system for performing treatment of a liquid by ionized gas comprises a laminar flow liquid gas plasma reactor. The plasma reactor includes electrodes, an upper and lower flow spreader, and a housing. The reactor uses gas to form a gas zone above the liquid where the gas is ionized directly above and in direct contact with the liquid. The ionized gas reacts with the liquid to form an effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Ion Inject Technology LLC
    Inventor: Walter Riley Buchanan
  • Patent number: 10005680
    Abstract: The claimed invention relates to a filtering device for purifying a liquid, intended for softening and purifying tap water and other liquids for domestic use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTROPHOR INC.
    Inventors: Jozeph Lvovich Shmidt, Vladimir Sergeevich Urozhaev, Uriy Vladimirovich Tatuev
  • Patent number: 9981862
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the decontamination of contaminated liquid, as well as a reactor for implementing a decontamination method. The method comprises a step of mixing the contaminated liquid under stirring with at least one persulphate ion with the exception of ammonium persulphate, and at least iron, an iron atom or an iron ion in its ferrous or ferric form at a concentration between 50 ?M and 600 ?M, preferably between 100 ?M and 400 ?M, a second step in which the mixture obtained is subjected for a sufficient time to at least one UV/visible irradiation having a narrow wavelength spectrum comprised between 153 nm and 560 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Stephane Barbati, Serge Chiron, Moussa Mahdi Ahmed, Hichem Bouzidi
  • Patent number: 9974902
    Abstract: A pumping apparatus for use with a pump set to deliver fluid through the pump set to a subject includes a pumping device capable of acting on the pump set to produce a fluid flow within the pump set. A controller is in communication with the pumping device for controlling operation of the pumping device in a feeding configuration and in a flushing configuration. The controller is adapted to store a selected flow rate and a desired fluid volume of a first fluid in the memory and at least one of a flush rate and flush volume of a second fluid. A flush time compensator is capable of being run for determining a compensated feeding configuration of the first fluid based on an amount of time the controller will operate the pump device in the flushing configuration and the desired fluid volume of the first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KPR U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Eric Holderle, Michael Justin
  • Patent number: 9975788
    Abstract: An optical fluid treatment device comprising at least a holder provided with an aperture, a lamp device at least partly located in the aperture. The aperture comprises a fluid passage extending in a main fluid flow direction between a fluid inlet opening and a fluid outlet opening. The fluid passage extends at least partly along the lamp device, wherein the lamp device has an elongated shape extending substantially perpendicularly to the main fluid flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Georg Greuel, Sandeep Sangameswaran
  • Patent number: 9938172
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment device includes a first biological treatment device (10) that treats wastewater through a membrane-separated activated sludge method; a second biological treatment device (20) that treats wastewater through a biofilm method; measurement units (31, 32) that measure load concentration and flow rate in the wastewater flowing upstream of the first biological treatment device (10) and the second biological treatment device (20); and a control unit (30) that calculates a load quantity from the load concentration and the flow rate, determines, according to the load quantity, a distribution ratio between a flow rate of the wastewater supplied to the first biological treatment device (10) and a flow rate of the wastewater supplied to the second biological treatment device (20), and adjusts the flow rate of the wastewater supplied to the first biological treatment device (10) and the second biological treatment device (20), based on the distribution ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD
    Inventors: Kazuhide Kamimura, Takuhiro Maeda, Morikata Nishida, Kosuke Shigiishi, Seiichi Terakura, Hideo Suzuki, Gaku Kondo
  • Patent number: 9902686
    Abstract: A one-to-many parallelized millireactor system capable of high throughput production in millireactors. Also disclosed is a method for carrying out multi-phase reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Saif A. Khan, Swee Kun Yap
  • Patent number: 9884383
    Abstract: A wire-cut EDM machine in which the position of the liquid level of machining fluid is adjusted at the time of automatic wire threading includes a shape information acquisition unit for acquiring information on the shape of an object to be machined, a wire-threading position information acquisition unit for acquiring information on a wire-threading position of a wire electrode based on relative positions of upper and lower wire guides, and a liquid level position adjustment unit for acquiring the height of the object to be machined in the vicinity of the wire-threading position based on the information on the shape of the object to be machined and adjusting the position of the liquid level of the machining fluid at the time of automatic wire threading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keita Hada
  • Patent number: 9860302
    Abstract: A method, control module and extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus are provided for transferring data from said extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus. Data is retrieved pertaining to an operation of the apparatus, the data is encoded into a machine readable graphical representation for decoding at a remote server to recover the retrieved data and displaying the machine readable graphical representation as an image on the display to allow capture of the displayed image with an image capturing device and transmission of the image from the image capturing device to a remote server over a communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Gambro Lundia AB
    Inventors: Bernd Wittner, Jacob Kroon
  • Patent number: 9855520
    Abstract: A filtering apparatus has a plurality of filtering elements (9) in a filter housing (1), a filter inlet (45) and a filter outlet (43). During the filtration operation, one of the filtering elements (9) can be back-flushed by a back-flushing device (13, 21). The back-flushing device has a pressure control device (13) including a hydraulic accumulator (13). One accumulator fluid chamber (67) can be filled during the filtration operation with a quantity of filtered fluid and can be connected for a back-flushing operation via a back-flushing guide (21) to the clean side (59) of the filtering clement (9) to be cleaned. Another accumulator fluid chamber (79) can be subjected to a media pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Wnuk, Jörg Hermann Gerstner, Thomas Bottcher, Thomas Morawietz
  • Patent number: 9836185
    Abstract: Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to display and select various historical data for extracorporeal blood treatments. Historical data related to extracorporeal blood treatments may be displayed on a two-dimensional graph and in a list view that may be switched there between. Further, historical data may include various datasets (e.g., fluid datasets, patient fluid removal datasets, anticoagulation datasets, etc.) and event information that may be displayed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Gambro Lundia AB
    Inventors: John O'Mahony, Jonas Schaefer, Andrew Wenger
  • Patent number: 9802141
    Abstract: A cleaning system for filter beds uses the existing permanent infrastructure of a water filtration plant. Treatment fluids of opposite pH are introduced into a pair of filter cells that are separated by a gullet. Each filter cell contains a filter bed. One filter cell receives an acidic treatment fluid and the other receives an alkaline treatment fluid. After treatment is complete, the treatment fluids from each filter cell are simultaneously drained into the gullet, where mixing and neutralization occur. The resulting spent treatment fluid has an intermediate pH that allows it to be safely drained into a wastewater sewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: IMC Consulting LLC
    Inventors: Wolfgang F Zwanziger, Natasha S Zwanziger, M Matt Smith
  • Patent number: 9791355
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sample preparation container for purification and/or enrichment of bio-organic compounds from cellular material, viruses and/or sub-components of these. The container includes a reaction chamber and a chromatography medium. The reaction chamber is for holding the cellular material, etc. and is configured to perform reactions inside. The chromatography medium is configured to purify the bio-organic compounds. The chromatography medium is located at a wall of the reaction chamber, and the wall is closed or sealed and configured to be opened for obtaining purified bio-organic compounds. The sample preparation container further includes a receiving chamber for receiving the bio-organic compounds, that is adjacent to the chromatography medium such that the chromatography medium separates the reaction chamber from the receiving chamber. The outer face of the receiving chamber is closed and configured to be opened for obtaining purified bio-organic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
    Inventors: Nils A. Kulak, Matthias Mann, Seyed Babak Azimifar, Nagarjuna Nagaraj
  • Patent number: 9779922
    Abstract: Systems for the generation of discovery ion currents. One of the systems includes a mass spectrometer providing ion current measurement. The system includes a controller coupled to the mass spectrometer. The system also includes a liquid handler coupled to the controller and the mass spectrometer. The controller is configured to identify a base average ion current of each mass to charge interval, the mass to charge interval comprising at least one mass to charge channel. The controller is configured to calculate a relative change between a current ion current measurement for a charge interval to the base average for the charge interval. The controller is configured to compare the relative change to a threshold. The controller is also configured to, in response to determining that the relative change exceeds the threshold, start fraction collection using the liquid handler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Advion Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence Klecha
  • Patent number: 9772303
    Abstract: Methods of maintaining accuracy in the measurement of one or more parameters of industrial water in industrial water systems are provided. The methods include the use of physical and/or chemical procedures to prevent and/or remove deposition from one or more surfaces utilized in measurement of the one or more parameters. The deposition may be caused by, for example, corrosion, fouling, or microbiological growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kun Xiong, Brandon M. Davis, William A. Von Drasek
  • Patent number: 9709589
    Abstract: Automated fluid handling system comprising a housing and two or more fluid handling units arranged as interchangeable modular components with an external fluidics section and an internal non fluidics section, and wherein the housing comprises a liquid handling panel with two or more of component positions for receiving said interchangeable modular components such that the external fluidics section is separated from the non fluidics section by the liquid handling panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: GE HEALTHCARE BIO-SCIENCES AB
    Inventors: Johan Blomberg, Mats Lundkvist
  • Patent number: 9703926
    Abstract: Methods for customization of a user interface of a microprocessor controlled medical apparatus for extracorporal blood treatment are disclosed, whereby the medical apparatus comprises a software component driving the user interface on a touch screen of the medical apparatus, and the software component has a technical support and maintenance mode and a treatment mode. At least one target window is displayed on the touch screen during therapy in the treatment mode, and such target window shows at least data regarding measured and/or set values of the therapy, whereby at least the appearance of one target window is modified by a customization procedure that is performed within the target window in the treatment mode. The invention further relates to a medical apparatus for extracorporal blood treatment that uses the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AG
    Inventors: Sandor Dolgos, Robert G. Schin, Peter Szamko, Gyorgy Bogatin
  • Patent number: 9690905
    Abstract: A dialysis system includes: a home dialysis machine located at a patient's home; a clinician computer associated with a dialysis center, the dialysis center located remotely from the home dialysis machine; a server in data communication with the home dialysis machine and the clinician computer; and wherein the system is configured and arranged for (i) treatment data to be sent by the home dialysis machine to the clinician computer via the server, and (ii) the treatment data to be analyzed to form a treatment prescription that is delivered to and used by the home dialysis machine to perform a subsequent treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Anping Yu, Robert W. Childers, Borut Cizman
  • Patent number: 9623410
    Abstract: Provided are a simple, quick, and low-processing cost method capable of reliably separating part of an accommodated substance accommodated in a vessel only by simple mechanical operation while maintaining a hermetically-sealed state without any contact with an outside atmosphere, as well as a vessel with which the method may be used. A separable vessel comprises a first vessel portion, a second vessel portion which is contiguous with the first vessel portion, a fracture-inducing portion formed between the first vessel portion and the second vessel portion, and a self-fusing material provided on an outer surface so as to cover the fracture-inducing portion; and may contain an accommodated substance therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9611547
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for forming a thin oxide film. The method includes reacting metallic precursors with a reactant, which contains an OH radical, to form the thin oxide film on a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Hyungjun Kim, Taewook Nam
  • Patent number: 9599567
    Abstract: A chemical detector for rapid, simultaneous detection of multiple chemicals including chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals, and explosives having one or more gas chromatography columns each with a chemosorbent or a chemo-reactive stationary phase and an infrared-transparent base, a bright infrared light source, a mechanism to direct the light source to any point along any of the columns, and an infrared sensor. Another disclosed detector has one or more gas chromatography columns each on the surface of a substrate having at least one infrared-transparent waveguide pattern, a bright infrared light source, and at least one ring resonator for each column, where each ring resonator is coated with a chemosorbent or a chemo-reactive stationary phase, and where each ring resonator spectroscopically probes the stationary phase. Also disclosed are the related methods for chemical detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: R. Andrew McGill, Robert Furstenberg, Viet K. Nguyen, Chris Kendziora, Michael Papantonakis, Todd H. Stievater
  • Patent number: 9579625
    Abstract: A fluid processing assembly includes a lumen for receiving at least one inlet stream and dispensing a primary product stream, and an energizing device for supplying energy to an energizable portion of the lumen. A primary product collection assembly is in fluid communication with the lumen for receiving the primary product stream. The energizable portion is positioned exterior to the primary product collection assembly. A pressurized gas source is downstream of the lumen. The pressurized gas source supplies pressurized gas to the primary product collection assembly for pressurizing at least a portion of the primary product collection assembly and the lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Total Synthesis Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Organ, Debasis Mallik