Central Internal Liquid Receiver, E.g., Tube Patents (Class 210/437)
-
Patent number: 8640884Abstract: Fluid treatment arrangements and methods for making and using fluid treatment arrangements are disclosed. A ribbon including a permeable fluid treatment medium may be spirally wound in a plurality of windings to form a fluid treatment element having a disk-shaped body. For some embodiments, the ribbon may comprise a composite having first and second layers. At least two and as many as many as fifty or more fluid treatment elements may be positioned along a core assembly with spaces between at least some of the adjacent fluid treatment elements. Many, most, or substantially all of the spaces may be substantially free of structure. A fluid treatment arrangement may be contained in a housing to form a fluid treatment assembly. The housing may include an inlet port and an outlet port and may define a fluid flow path between the inlet port and the outlet port. The fluid treatment arrangement may be positioned in the housing across the fluid flow path.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Thomas Welch, Jr., Tanweer ul Haq, Joseph Verschneider
-
Publication number: 20140008451Abstract: Irrigation systems, irrigation components and related methods are provided. In one example, an irrigation system includes at least one irrigation span configured for fluid communication with a water source, where the irrigation span includes a pipe and at least one sprinkler nozzle in fluid communication with the pipe. One or more drive units are associated with irrigation span or spans for selectively displacing the span or spans. A separator is in fluid communication with the pipe. The separator includes a housing defining an inlet, a first outlet and a second outlet. A screen divides an interior space of the housing into a first zone and a second zone, wherein the first outlet is associated with the first zone and the second outlet is associated with the second zone. A valve is in fluid communication with the first outlet and a dispersing structure is in fluid communication with the second outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventor: Robert O. Christiansen
-
Patent number: 8622221Abstract: A filtering device (100) for plastic melts exhibits at least one screen plunger (10) arranged movably between an inlet channel (5) and an outlet channel (6) of a housing (1) and containing replaceable, three-dimensional filter elements (25). The inside of the filter elements (25) is connected to at least one melt channel (11, 12) formed in the screen plunger (10). The melt channel is connected to the inlet or outlet channel (5, 6) of the housing (1) when in the production position. The screen plunger (10) exhibits at least one receiving chamber (14) that can be closed using a cover (16) on the face side. Several filter elements (25) are bundled with a central distribution element (20) to a filter cartridge (30) that can be placed in the receiving chamber (14).Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Kreyenborg GmbHInventors: Frank Hartmann, Michael Andress
-
Patent number: 8617391Abstract: A component (5) for filters (10) comprising a plate (50) provided with at least a through-opening (54) in a thickness thereof and a perimeter edge to which a seal (51) is fixed, which seal (51) is destined to be interposed between a beaker-shaped body (21) and a cover (22) of a casing (20) of a filter (10), and a flat filter wall (55) fixed to the plate (50) in such a way as to intercept the at least a through-opening (54) and a hollow shank (53) suitable for accommodating the end of a pipe (56) for removal of the water accumulated on the bottom of the beaker body (21).Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: UFI Filters S.p.A.Inventor: Giorgio Girondi
-
Patent number: 8590712Abstract: Disclosed are modular filter-in-filter elements, namely an outer filter element and an inner filter element which may be assembled to form a filter cartridge for use in separation methods and systems. The outer filter element typically functions as a coalescing element and the inner element typically functions as a particulate filter element. The disclosed filter cartridges may be structured for separating water from a hydrocarbon-based liquid fuel as the fuel moves through the cartridge from outside to inside.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP Inc.Inventors: Mark T. Wieczorek, Terry Shults, William C. Haberkamp, Jonathan Sheumaker, Barry M. Verdegan, Christopher E. Holm, Brian W. Schwandt
-
Patent number: 8562831Abstract: A water filtration system includes a faucet assembly and a filtration assembly. The filtration assembly includes a filter assembly; a filter bracket or mounting assembly for securing the filter assembly to a support surface or structure; and a filter manifold assembly including an unfiltered water inlet for connecting to an unfiltered water supply and a filtered water outlet for connecting to a valve assembly of the faucet assembly. The filter assembly interfaces with the filter manifold assembly to provide filtered water to the faucet assembly under control of the valve assembly. A filter that otherwise would not interface with the filter bracket/mounting assembly and/or the filter manifold assembly can be adapted to work in the water filtration system by using a filter adaptor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Moen IncorporatedInventors: Mark S. Bors, Todd C. Loschelder, Sanjeev S. Moghe, Yaakov Korb, Matthew S. Smith, Allen L. Talley, W. Randall Tucker
-
Patent number: 8561810Abstract: A filter cartridge includes a housing, a lid, a filter element and a positioning cylinder. The lid is provided for covering an opening of the housing. The filter element is disposed in the housing. The positioning cylinder together with the filter element is disposed in the housing and defining a passageway for reception of the filter element. Further, the positioning cylinder includes a plurality of bulging portions disposed about the passageway and each protruding toward a centerline axis of the passageway. The bulging portions of the positioning cylinder have their highest points equally spaced apart from the centerline axis of the passageway.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Inventor: Fu-Chung Tsai
-
Patent number: 8561808Abstract: A filter assembly comprises a filter housing (23) into which a filter element is insertable. A core element (38) is provided extending within the housing (23). The filter assembly comprises a coupling assembly (200) that is insertable into the housing (23), the coupling assembly (200) comprising a leaf spring (201) having a span larger than an internal diameter of the filter housing (23), such that when the leaf spring (201) is inserted into the filter housing (23) the outer edge of the leaf spring (201) engages an inner surface of the filter housing (23) and the leaf spring (201) bulges in the direction of insertion of the leaf spring into the housing, preventing removal of the leaf spring, in a direction opposite to the insertion direction, from the filter housing (23), the coupling assembly (200) comprising a connecting part for connecting the core element (38) to the coupling assembly (200).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Parker Filtration B.V.Inventors: Henk van Savooijen, Pieter van Gisbergen, Richard Theodorus Antonius Arts, Marinus Johannes Berend van Boven
-
Patent number: 8550255Abstract: A filter device having a filter element (9) forming a body extending along a longitudinal axis received in a housing (1) closed by a cover part (3). A sealing arrangement (49) is provided to form a fluid-tight seal between the housing (1) and the cover part (3). The sealing arrangement (49) is a component of a filter element (9) and is fixed to a sealing carrier (48) rigidly connected to the filter element.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Hydac Filtertechnik GmbHInventors: Michael Sakraschinsky, Norbert Sann
-
Publication number: 20130256207Abstract: A filter arrangement is provided, as well as methods of assembly and use. Advantageous features, relating to a preferred filter cartridge and a preferred slide arrangement, are provided. A filter cartridge is provided that includes a plurality of projections spaced from one another around a central axis. Also, a liquid filter assembly arrangement is provided that includes a plate arrangement having a central liquid flow channel, the central liquid flow channel including a cartridge positioning projection arrangement therein, comprising at least one projection extending radially toward a central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: ENRICO GRECO, Fabrizo Buratto, Mauro Cantoni, John Connelly, John Hacker
-
Patent number: 8540080Abstract: An endcap includes a first plate member having a radial inner portion, a radial outer portion, and defining a longitudinal axis. The endcap also includes a flange disposed between the radial inner and outer portions, and projecting axially along the longitudinal axis in a first direction. The endcap also includes a first seal member disposed adjacent the flange. The first seal member includes a first portion engaged with an axial facing surface of the first plate member and a second portion engaged with a radially facing surface of the flange. The endcap further includes a second plate member disposed radially outward of the radial outer portion and a second seal member disposed adjacent the second plate member including at least a portion axially spaced from the axially facing surface of the first plate member in a second direction along the longitudinal axis opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., Advanced Filtration Systems Inc., Donaldson Company Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Salvador, Randall W. Heibenthal, Dennis M. Deedrich, David B. Harder, John R. Hacker, Richard Eisenmenger
-
Patent number: 8524081Abstract: Separation media, separation modules and methods are provided for separating water from a water and hydrocarbon emulsion and include a fibrous nonwoven coalescence layer for receiving the water and hydrocarbon emulsion and coalescing the water present therein as a discontinuous phase to achieve coalesced water droplets having a size of 1 mm or greater, and a fibrous nonwoven drop retention layer downstream of the coalescence layer having a high BET surface area of at least 90 m2/g or greater sufficient to retain the size of the coalesced water droplets to allow separation thereof from the hydrocarbon.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Ahlstrom CorporationInventors: Christine M. Stanfel, Farina Diani Pangestu
-
Patent number: 8523974Abstract: A filter core includes a tubular body that has a first end and a second end. The tubular body includes a plurality of surface features spaced longitudinally along the tubular body between the first and second ends. Each of the surface features includes a first portion for flow area and a second portion for bridging across an opening for strength.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jason Mei, Charles Grant Carothers, Jeffrey Allen Canfield
-
Patent number: 8517185Abstract: A water separator and particulate filter with a first or outer stage configured to coalesce water from fluid such as fuel, and a second or inner stage configured to separate coalesced water from the fluid and also remove fine solid contaminants from the fluid. The coalescing stage includes a pleated cylinder of polymeric media. The pleated cylinder has pleat valleys and downstream pleat tips, and release sites defined at the downstream pleat tips. The separator stage includes a non-pleated cylinder of polymeric media surrounding and in contact with outer pleat tips of a multi-layer pleated cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Inventors: Mark Wieczorek, Terry Shults, William Haberkamp, Jonathan Sheumaker, Barry M. Verdegan, Christopher E. Holm, Brian W. Schwandt
-
Patent number: 8511481Abstract: A liquid filter with a filter housing (9) with a filter element (8, 108, 208) arranged within. Within the filter element (8, 108, 208) a standpipe (3, 103, 203) is arranged. This standpipe is sealing connected with the filter element, whereby in the connecting range between standpipe and filter element a sealing element (15, 115) is arranged for sealably closing a discharge hole (11) in the housing (9). The sealing element (15, 115) seals the discharge hole and also sealably separates a clean side from a contaminated fluid side by sealing between the standpipe and the filter housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventor: Herbert Jainek
-
Publication number: 20130206679Abstract: A filter device includes a main body portion having a cylinder shape, and the main body portion is inserted along a center axis of the pipe. One end portion of the main body portion structuring a filter device is blocked. At least one portion of a flange portion is provided between both end portions of the cylinder, and the flange portion divides a space inside the pipe in a liquid-tight state by elastically deforming and by being attached firmly to an inner surface of the pipe. A first passing portion of the liquid is provided in a cylinder side portion between the one end portion of the cylinder and the flange portion, and a second passing portion of the liquid is provided on a side close to the other end portion of the cylinder than the flange portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Shoh Kawaguchi
-
Patent number: 8505742Abstract: A separator cartridge includes a support tube formed of a perforated strip of metal configured to normally have a first diameter and a spaced array of hexagonal apertures formed therein and a substantially cylindrical screen member having a diameter less than the first diameter of the support tube, wherein a diameter of the support tube is decreased from the first diameter to a diameter less than the diameter of the screen member to be received in the screen member, and wherein the support tube causes the screen member to be maintained in a substantially taut manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Velcon Filters, LLCInventors: David Stanley Hawkins, Carl Robert Perkins, Gregory Scott Sprenger
-
Patent number: 8496821Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a capsule configured to direct fuel flow within a fuel filter assembly housing. The capsule has a tubular element configured to define a flow path between the capsule and a fuel filter assembly housing. The tubular element defines an interior chamber, a proximal end, and a distal end defining a manifold. The tubular element is configured to be removably received by the fuel filter assembly housing. The interior chamber is configured to receive a fuel filter element. The capsule is configured to direct fuel flow from the proximal end of the capsule, around the tubular element, to a point beyond the distal end of the capsule, and to receive fuel flow from the point beyond the distal end of the capsule and direct the fuel flow via the manifold to the filter element, thereby providing at least two passes of the fuel flow through filter elements within the fuel filter assembly housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Rhett Dakota Ringenberger
-
Patent number: 8496825Abstract: The present invention is directed toward spiral wound modules including membrane sheets with regions (70,72) having different permeabilities. Said regions are arranged either axially or radially or both.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Steven D. Jons, Allyn R. Marsh, III
-
Patent number: 8485365Abstract: An internal combustion engine liquid filter, comprising: a filter housing and housing cover a ring filter element; at least one intermediate piece arranged below the filter housing cover and above the housing; an inlet channel arranged on the housing side, communicating with a crude side of the ring filter element, and an outlet channel arranged on the housing side, communicating with a pure side of the ring filter element; a drainage channel on the housing side, wherein the housing space drains through the drainage channel when removing the filter housing cover; and a closure mechanism arranged in the intermediate piece and the closure mechanism is rotatable about a filter axis, wherein the closure mechanism has a closure element for closing the drainage channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventor: Benoît Monzie
-
Patent number: 8480896Abstract: A scavenging filter includes a volume containing activated beads or fiber particles of a scavenging material housed in a removable housing in a cartridge filter body having an axial inlet extending to a space below a permeable false bottom, the fluid permeating upwards through the material, and cleaned liquor leaving via an annular space surrounding the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Madison Filter 981 Ltd.Inventor: Martin Moss
-
Patent number: 8470268Abstract: An apparatus for collecting oral fluid, comprising a vial formed with an inner specimen receptacle for receiving the oral fluid. The open top of the vial is cylindrical and formed with threads on a portion of its outer surface adjacent its open top. The specimen receptacle is disposed within the vial, spaced along its length from the inner surface of the vial and has a closed bottom end and an open top end. The entire periphery of the receptacle top end is sealingly secured to the inner surface of the vial proximal to but spaced from the vial's open threaded end. The bottom end of the vial can be open and flat and extend beyond the closed end of the specimen receptacle to enable the vial to be set on a horizontal surface. A funnel is removably placed in the open top end of the vial and narrows to an inner neck fits within the open top end of the vial.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Inventor: Johnson N. S. Wong
-
Patent number: 8464877Abstract: A filter module is formed of wound filter material having openings wherein the boundary surfaces of the openings constitute flow-through surfaces. The openings of the wound layers of the filter material form channels angled relative to the winding axis, wherein one group thereof opens at the outer peripheral surface of the roll and the other group opens at the inner peripheral surface of the roll and wherein the channels on the other end, respectively, are closed and wherein the channels, angled relative to the winding axis, are separated from one another by filter material, and wherein the inner area of the roll has a central channel arranged around a winding axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Diemer, Martin Zeiler
-
Patent number: 8453848Abstract: A liquid filter cartridge is provided. Preferred seal arrangements are provided, to provide for preferred axial load conditions, with respect to one or more of the end caps of the cartridge. Some cartridge configurations provided include no core structure or outer liner structure therein, to support axial load. Assemblies using the cartridge, and methods of assembly and use, are provided. The liquid filter cartridge can be a serviceable cartridge, or it can be retained permanently in a housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventor: John Hacker
-
Patent number: 8439204Abstract: A drop-in oil filter having top and bottom caps having annular recesses on facingly disposed surfaces adjacent their outer periphery, a pleated, woven metal cylindrical filter element having an outer and an inner diameter, a first cylindrical wire cage over the outer diameter of the filter element, a second cylindrical wire cage within the inner diameter of the filter element, ends of the filter element and the first and second cylindrical wire cages being fastened into the annular recesses in the top and bottom caps, the bottom cap having a first opening there through concentric with and within inner diameters of the filter element and the first and second cylindrical wire cages, and a first elastic grommet within the first opening having a central opening for sealing on a tube within a drop-in filter housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2006Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Pure Power! IncorporatedInventor: Kelly Tidwell
-
Patent number: 8424686Abstract: A method and apparatus for reinforcing a tubular-shaped sealing collar, extending from a filter cartridge are provided, by embedding, or substantially encapsulating, a reinforcement element within the tubular-shaped sealing collar, for resisting a change in circumference of at least a portion of the tubular-shaped collar. The collar may be formed from a resiliently compressible foam material, and the reinforcement element may be formed from a substantially non-compressible material.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Baldwin Filters, Inc.Inventors: Brian Ehrenberg, Chad Banzhaf
-
Patent number: 8419938Abstract: An endcap including a first plate member including a radial inner portion, a radial outer portion, and defining a longitudinal axis. The endcap also includes a flange disposed between the radial inner and outer portions of the first plate member and projecting axially along the longitudinal axis in a first direction. The endcap also includes a first seal member disposed adjacent the flange. The first seal includes a first portion thereof engaged with an axial facing surface of the first plate member and a second portion thereof engaged with a radially facing surface of the flange. The endcap further includes a second plate member disposed radially outward of the radial outer portion and a second seal member disposed adjacent the second plate member including at least a portion thereof axially spaced from the axially facing surface of the first plate member in a second direction along the longitudinal axis opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Catepillar Inc., Advanced Filtration Systems Inc., Donaldson Company Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey R. Ries, Christopher J. Salvador, Randall W. Heibenthal, Dennis M. Deedrich, David B. Harder, John R. Hacker, Richard J. Eisenmenger
-
Patent number: 8388842Abstract: A filtration device having a tubular pressure vessel and a tubular filter assembly is provided. The tubular filter assembly is housed within the tubular pressure vessel and includes a filter element and a split ring seal circumscribing the filter element. The split ring seal has an annular body that includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end and slidably engaged with the first end, and an opening extending through the annular body.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: HydranauticsInventors: Irving Shelby, Craig R. Bartels, Dirk Dewinter
-
Publication number: 20130025246Abstract: A filter element having an end cap is provided with a seal that can better accommodate non-round holes. The seal may be a chevron type seal and/or other similar seal having a sealing flange for forming a radial seal. Methods of replacing a filter having an O-ring gasket to improve upon sealing are provided as well as filtration systems employing the filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: PERRY EQUIPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: David J. Burns, Daniel M. Cloud, Artimus Charles Jones, Tyler Glenn Boswell
-
Patent number: 8337582Abstract: A compressed air filter adapter for connecting a filter element (12) to a filter connection housing (13) includes a flow duct (21) enclosed by a wall (20) for compressed air, the flow duct (21) at a first end being delimited by a first opening (14), having an inner contour (142) defined by a first edge (141) and an outer contour (143), and at a second end by a second opening (15), having an inner contour (152) defined by a second edge (151) and an outer contour (153). The first opening (14) is provided for connection to a filter connection housing (13) and forms an opening cross-section (16), defined by the inner contour (142) of the first opening (14). The second opening (15) defines an opening on the filter side and forms a second opening cross-section (17), defined by the inner contour (152) of the second opening (15).Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Kaeser Kompressoren AGInventors: Michael Feisthauer, Norbert Fischer, Gerhard Leidner, Norbert Bär
-
Publication number: 20120298570Abstract: A filtration apparatus 10, includes: a filter body 4 formed by spirally winding a sheet-shaped member; and a filtration tank 1 through which water to be treated is passed, and into which the filter body 4 is charged such that the axis of the filter body 4 extends along the direction of water passage, wherein the sheet-shaped member is composed of a sheet-shaped mesh sheet 5 having holes through which the water to be treated passes, and a sheet-shaped spacer 6 through which the water to be treated passes with difficulty as compared with the mesh sheet 5, the sheet surfaces of the mesh sheet 5 and the spacer 6 being superposed on each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Masanobu Osawa, Keijirou Tada, Shigeru Sato
-
Patent number: 8312997Abstract: The invention relates to a module for processing a fluid having a body of wound layers of a sheet material, the body having inner and outer surfaces, first and second end faces and a passage extending along the winding axis of said body in fluid communication with the inner surface, the sheet material having openings forming at least three types of channels, the channels extending from the inner surface to the outer surface, a first type of channel being open at the outer surface of the body and closed at the other end, a second type of channel being open at the inner surface of the body, in fluid communication with said passage and closed at the other end, a third type of channel being closed at both ends thereof and positioned such as to receive fluid from one or more channels of the first or second type.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Denis Hahn, John Miller, Wolfgang Diemer, Martin Zeiler, Klaus Feifel
-
Patent number: 8308835Abstract: To be able to achieve better compensation for length changes in a cylindrical filter element (100) having a cylindrical filter bellows (11) which is closed off at each of its end faces (1, 2) with an end disk (20), the filter bellows (11) which encloses a central tube (12) and an end disk (20) which serves as fixed bearing and is fixed relative to the central tube (12) or is connected with this is provided, as is a second end disk (20) is configured as movable bearing, with at least the second end disk (20) having an annular shape and being connected via an internal radial ring seal (22) to the central tube (12).Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbHInventor: Klemens Dworatzek
-
Patent number: 8307993Abstract: A filter apparatus that while maintaining a high revolution speed, realizes reduction of filter element vibration.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Inventor: Takerou Yoshida
-
Patent number: 8272516Abstract: An endcap including a first plate member including a radial inner portion, a radial outer portion, and defining a longitudinal axis. The endcap also includes a flange disposed between the radial inner and outer portions of the first plate member and projecting axially along the longitudinal axis in a first direction. The endcap also includes a first seal member disposed adjacent the flange. The first seal includes a first portion thereof engaged with an axial facing surface of the first plate member and a second portion thereof engaged with a radially facing surface of the flange. The endcap further includes a second plate member disposed radially outward of the radial outer portion and a second seal member disposed adjacent the second plate member including at least a portion thereof axially spaced from the axially facing surface of the first plate member in a second direction along the longitudinal axis opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., Advanced Filtration Systems Inc., Donaldon Company Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Salvador, Randall W. Heibenthal, Dennis M. Deedrich, David B. Harder, John R. Hacker, Richard Eisenmenger
-
Publication number: 20120228209Abstract: A liquid filter assembly is provided. The preferred assembly includes a serviceable filter cartridge having a primary filter section and a secondary or bypass filter section. The preferred assembly includes a bypass valve arrangement and a suction filter arrangement. A valve, to allow flow from an interior of the assembly to a reservoir if needed, is provided. Preferred serviceable filter cartridges are shown.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventor: Claudio Formica
-
Publication number: 20120211410Abstract: The invention relates to a filter device, in particular for fluids such as hydraulic oil, lubricating media, processing, surface or sea water, having at least one filter element (3) that has at least one effective filter surface (23), which is suitable for removing contaminants from a media flow crossing the filter surface, wherein an effective filter surface is designed as a flexible filter sock (23) that can be pulled onto a support body (13) of the filter element (3). The invention is characterized in that the filter sock (23), while enlarging the effective filter surface thereof, is designed to be longer in the axial direction of the filter element (3) such that the effective filter surface lies in folds upon pulling the filter sock (23) over the support body (13).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Ralf Wnuk, Martin Winter
-
Patent number: 8245851Abstract: One embodiment is a filter assembly wherein the shape of the filter is a non-circular geometry. Other embodiments include unique apparatus, devices, systems, and methods to remove contaminates from a flow of fuel while at the same time providing a unique filter and filter assembly geometry. Further embodiments, forms, objects, features, advantages, aspects, and benefits of the present application shall become apparent from the detailed description and figures included herewith.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Inventors: Charles W. Hawkins, Jeffrey A. Husband, Mark Wieczorek
-
Patent number: 8245853Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter module comprising a body of wound layers of sheet material, with an inner and outer peripheral surface, a winding axis and a passage within the body, the sheet material having a plurality of openings forming at least two types of channels within the wound layers, the channels extending in a direction from the inner peripheral surface to the outer peripheral surface, a first type of channels in fluid communication with the outer periphery and closed at the end toward the inner periphery, a second type of channels in fluid communication with the inner periphery and closed at the end toward the outer periphery, the two types of channels separated by portions of sheet material, one of the types of channels being outlet channels and being covered by a filter material.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Diemer, Martin Zeiler, Dieter Mohn, Klaus Feifel
-
Patent number: 8246825Abstract: A filter assembly for filtering particulate contaminants from a fluid comprises: a generally cylindrical filter unit with one end closed and the other end open; a filter head comprising a generally cylindrical sleeve extending generally horizontally an open end for receiving the open end of the filter unit with that has a vent port aligned with a vertical axis through an upper portion of the sleeve and a drain port aligned with the vertical axis extending through a lower portion of the sleeve; and a coupling for securing the open end of the filter unit to the filter head to seal the sleeve vent and drain ports; wherein loosening the coupling allows the filter unit to slide away from the filter head sufficiently to establish fluid communication between the sleeve vent and drain ports.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Timothy P. Walgren, Paul E. Honkanen
-
Publication number: 20120205300Abstract: Liquid filter assemblies, features, components and methods are described. In general, a liquid filter cartridge is provided which includes features that help ensure that when the assembly is serviced, the cartridge positioned within the assembly is a proper one, in proper sealing orientation, for appropriate use. Features that can be used to provide for this include: a seal on the filter cartridge that defines a seal pattern non-orthogonal to a plane perpendicular to a central axis of the filter cartridge; and, a member of a projection/receiver arrangement on the filter cartridge which is orientated to engage a portion of a liquid filter assembly, for example a liquid flow collar, to allow sealing when the cartridge is a properly positioned cartridge and a properly configured cartridge. Assembly features are described. Also, a flexible radial projection arrangement providing snap-fit interaction between a cartridge and housing is provided. Methods of assembly and use as described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Donaldson Compan, Inc.Inventors: Luca Piva, Fabrizio Buratto, Jason P. Johnson, Kurt Bryan Joscher, Daniel Robert Frembgen, Claudio Formica, Francesco Marangoni
-
Patent number: 8240483Abstract: A filter module comprises a body of wound layers of sheet material, said body having inner and outer peripheral surfaces and a winding axis and a passage extending along the winding axis and in fluid communication with the inner peripheral surface, the sheet material having openings forming two channel types extending from the inner to the outer peripheral surfaces, a first channel type open at the outer peripheral surface and closed adjacent to the inner peripheral surface, a second channel type open at the inner peripheral surface, in fluid communication with the passage and closed adjacent to the outer peripheral surface, the two channel types separated from each other by sheet material, one channel type communicating with a module port, the other channel type communicating with another module port, wherein a majority of openings forming the inlet channels incompletely register with corresponding openings of an adjacent layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Diemer, Martin Zeiler
-
Publication number: 20120181237Abstract: A screen structure which is unusually effective at removing stickies from recyclable fiber but is tolerant of substantial swings in throughput which result in variations in the flow velocity through the screen-slot velocity. One example of the screen structure is created by forming a very large number of similarly shaped vanes then locking them into a ring structure to form a cylindrical screen basket but equivalent surface configurations can also be formed into sheet stock.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LPInventors: Wayne F. Winkler, Bradley E. Lucas
-
Publication number: 20120181224Abstract: A filter module includes a filter element with a ring of media and an end cap at one end of the ring. The end cap includes an annular body with a sealing member located around a surface of the body circumscribing a central opening, wherein the sealing member has a repeating, undulating, non-planar geometry. The axial, distal end of the annular body also has an repeating, undulating non-planar geometry, matching the geometry of the sealing member, and can have one or more tabs projecting axially outward from the distal end, positioned at a point of maximum amplitude of the distal end, and which are received in cooperating slots formed in a socket of a diaphragm, to facilitate positioning and installing the element into the module. The socket includes an outer wall having a matching non-planar geometry which receives and seals against the sealing member on the end cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Parker-Hannifin CorporationInventor: Daniel P. Rapin
-
Patent number: 8220641Abstract: A filter module comprises a body of wound layers of a sheet material, said body having inner and outer peripheral surfaces, a winding axis and a passage along the winding axis and in fluid communication with the inner peripheral surface, the sheet material having openings forming two channel types from the inner to the outer peripheral surfaces, a first channel type open at the outer peripheral surface and closed adjacent to the inner peripheral surface, a second channel type open at the inner peripheral surface, in fluid communication with the passage and closed adjacent to the outer peripheral surface, the two channel types separated from each other by sheet material, one channel type being inlet channels communicating with an inlet, the other channel type being outlet channels communicating with an outlet, the edge of the inlet channel openings having a thickness less than the thickness remote from those openings.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Diemer, Martin Zeiler
-
Patent number: 8215494Abstract: A filter module is formed of wound filter material having openings wherein the boundary surfaces of the openings constitute flow-through surfaces. The openings of the wound layers of the filter material form channels angled relative to the winding axis, wherein one group thereof opens at the outer peripheral surface of the roll and the other group opens at the inner peripheral surface of the roll and wherein the channels on the other end, respectively, are closed and wherein the channels, angled relative to the winding axis, are separated from one another by filter material, and wherein the inner area of the roll has a central channel arranged around a winding axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Pall CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Diemer, Martin Zeiler
-
Patent number: 8215492Abstract: A cartridge for treating water capable of releasably engaging a water treatment device. The cartridge includes a housing, an inlet for introducing untreated water into the cartridge, an outlet port for egress of treated water from the cartridge, and a treatment media for treating untreated water that is in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet port. The cartridge includes a first tube and a second tube, wherein each of the tubes comprise an inside surface, an outside surface, a proximal end, and a distal end, where the inside surface and/or the outside surface is a sealing surface. The first tube extends from the housing and surrounds the outlet port. At least a portion of the first tube or the second tube surrounds the other such that a gap is formed between the first tube and the second tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Pur Water Purification Products, Inc.Inventors: John D. Tanner, David James Emmons
-
Patent number: 8202493Abstract: The present invention includes a harvesting and irrigation device, a method and a kit for the collection of viable fat cells and/or adipose tissue with decreased handing and improved yield and viability.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Genesis Biosystems, Inc.Inventor: Brian Buss
-
Publication number: 20120145625Abstract: A liquid filter assembly is provided. The assembly includes a liquid filter cartridge and a housing. The liquid filter cartridge, includes, among other things, first and second, opposite, end caps each having a central aperture therethrough. A seal arrangement including a radially directed seal is mounted on a seal support of the first end cap that projects away from the second end cap. The cartridge includes a seal mount configured to define a seal plane non-orthogonal to a central axis of the cartridge. The housing includes a filter head and a housing sidewall. The filter head includes a filter head having a body, a top cover and a bottom aperture opposite the top cover. The housing extends through the bottom aperture. The cartridge as described is installed in the housing, with an end cap radially sealed against a tube in a bottom of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Angelo Schiavon, Mauro Cantoni, Andrey Zanettin, Claudio Formica
-
Patent number: 8177976Abstract: A liquid filter assembly is provided. The preferred assembly includes a serviceable filter cartridge having a primary filter section and a secondary or bypass filter section. The preferred assembly includes a bypass valve arrangement and a suction filter arrangement. A valve, to allow flow from an interior of the assembly to a reservoir if needed, is provided. Preferred serviceable filter cartridges are shown.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventor: Claudio Formica