Impeller Patents (Class 261/84)
  • Patent number: 11826715
    Abstract: A fine bubble generator may include an inlet, an outlet, a first fine bubble generation portion including a first flow path, and a second fine bubble generation portion including a second flow path. The first flow path may include a diameter-reducing flow path and a diameter-increasing flow path. The second flow path may include a guide flow path and a collision flow path disposed downstream of the guide flow path. A first bearing and a first impeller rotatably attached to the first bearing may be disposed on the collision flow path. The first impeller may include a disc disposed at a position at which the gas-dissolved water collides with the disc; a first rotation shaft disposed on a downstream surface of the disc and rotatably attached to the first bearing; and one or more first vanes disposed on an upstream surface of the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Shimazu
  • Patent number: 11262001
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a vent cover with an integrated drain tube attachment. The vent cover provides a structure for fastening or attaching a drain tube and guiding condensate from behind the vent cover in a controlled fashion. The structure is provided on a cover for connection of a drain tube rather than allowing the drain tube to simply float behind the cover. This positioning allows for controlled drainage in a manner that is preselected and retains the drain tube in a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dometic Sweden AB
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Mark Raymond Fazi
  • Patent number: 11154828
    Abstract: A system for mixing particles that includes a liquid comprising inert particles and defining a liquid and air interface; magnetic microparticles suspended at the liquid and air interface; and a magnetic source configured to apply a uniaxial alternating magnetic field parallel to the liquid and air interface, wherein the uniaxial alternating magnetic field promotes a turbulent motion of the magnetic microparticles, which in turn promotes a diffusive motion of the inert particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Oleksiy Snezhko, Gasper Kokot
  • Patent number: 10953425
    Abstract: An aerosol creation system can include a pair of counter-rotating rollers configured to be positioned adjacent each other and define a nip between each other, a fluid source configured to provide a fluid to the nip, a driving element configured to drive the pair of counter-rotating rollers to rotate in counter rotation with respect to each other and cause the fluid to be drawn through the nip, and a collection shell configured to be positioned substantially around the pair of counter-rotating rollers, the collection shell having a nozzle configured to allow passage of the fluid from the nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Herwin Jerome Unidad, Ravi Neelakantan, Jamie Kalb, Elif Karatay
  • Patent number: 10688457
    Abstract: An apparatus is described for reducing formation of ice in an ice fishing hole. The apparatus includes low voltage variable speed motor contained within a housing that draws water into and up through the housing and out of the housing through a matrix of multiple rows and columns of holes that form the water outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventors: Arthur Jensen, Robert Natzic
  • Patent number: 10605146
    Abstract: A channel cross-sectional area of a lower side channel is set to be smaller than an upper side channel in a predetermined region and greater than the upper side channel on an upstream side and a downstream side of the predetermined region. Accordingly, an ability to drain condensed water is improved by guiding exhaust gas to the lower side channel and facilitating an increase in a flow rate of the exhaust gas guided to the lower side channel. The exhaust gas flowing in the upper side channel and the lower side channel receives flow resistance from a partition member from an extending portion to a front of a main muffler. Thus, the ability to drain the condensed water can be improved with reduction in pressure loss generated in the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Oya, Hideki Fukushima, Takatoshi Sugihara
  • Patent number: 9983492
    Abstract: Provided is a continuous reaction apparatus which can precisely control the path of flow of the liquid reaction mixture in the reaction vessel. Further, provided is a continuous reaction apparatus which can efficiently mix the liquid reaction mixture in the reaction vessel. The continuous reaction apparatus comprises a plurality of mixing vessel units and a plurality of partition units. These units are connected in the state of being alternately stacked on one another. Each mixing vessel unit has an agitating blade disposed in the inner space thereof. The relationship between the inner diameter D1 of the mixing vessel unit, the height H of the mixing vessel unit, and the outer diameter d1 of the agitating blade satisfies the formula (1): 10?(D1/H)?1.5, and the formula (2): 0.99?(d1/D1)?0.7. The agitating blade is a circular disc-type agitating blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuqing Xu
  • Patent number: 9878295
    Abstract: Fluid impellers for biocontainers, and bioprocessing units including the impellers and biocontainers, and methods of using the impellers, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Pall Corporation
    Inventor: Glenn P. Marshall
  • Patent number: 9695728
    Abstract: The condensed water treatment device obtains (S1) the storage water quantity (QW) of a condensed water tank, and drains (S4) condensed water in the condensed water tank when the storage water quantity (QW) is larger than a threshold value (tu) and also urea water is supplied to an exhaust passage for a selective-reduction type NOx catalyst. Thereby, the condensed water is neutralized and then drained to the outside of an internal combustion engine through the exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Takada, Takeshi Hashizume
  • Patent number: 9599404
    Abstract: A fluid direct contact heat exchanger having a contact chamber with a source fluid inlet provided by a source fluid inlet pipe, a source fluid outlet provided by a source fluid outlet pipe, a transfer fluid inlet provided by a transfer fluid inlet pipe, and a transfer fluid outlet provided by a transfer fluid outlet pipe. The source fluid and the transfer fluid have substantially different specific gravities and the source fluid and the transfer fluid are each insoluble in the other. The heat exchanger incorporates a heat transfer inducement element in the contact chamber which has a rotatable inducer shaft and a transfer accelerator element attached to the inducer shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Black Night Enterprises, INC.
    Inventor: Neldon P. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9089822
    Abstract: An aeration system including a housing, a fluid inlet at a first end of the housing, an outlet at a second end of the housing, a cylindrical support member rotatably mounted within the housing between the inlet and the outlet, and supported by a plurality of bearings, the support member having an interior surface enclosing an interior cavity, the cavity being in communication with the inlet and the outlet, at least one vane disposed on the interior surface of the support member and extending from the interior surface towards the rotational axis of the support member, the vane including an inner edge positioned such that a gap is defined between the inner edge of the vane and the rotational axis of the support member, at least one gas inlet in communication with the cavity of the support member, and a motive device for rotating the support member within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Inventor: Hugh B. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9028700
    Abstract: A system and method of operating the same includes an absorption tank having a compressor communicating gas thereto, a suspended solid filtration tank having a primary inlet, a secondary inlet, a primary outlet and a secondary outlet and a pump comprising a pump inlet coupled to the secondary outlet and a pump outlet communicating fluid to the absorption tank. The absorption tank forms a solution from the fluid and gas. A turbine mechanically couples the pump with a common shaft extending to the pump. The turbine has a turbine inlet coupled to the absorption tank and a turbine outlet coupled to the secondary inlet. The turbine depressurizes the solution. The system may also use a centrifugal pump in place of a turbine and absorption tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Fluid Equipment Development Company, LLC
    Inventor: Eli Oklejas, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150108044
    Abstract: What is claimed is a flotation separation system for partitioning a slurry. The slurry includes a hydrophobic species that can adhere to gas bubbles that form within the slurry. The flotation separation system includes a flotation separation cell. The flotation separation cell has a sparger unit and a separation tank. The separation tank is constructed to allow the bubble dispersion to form a froth at the top of the slurry contained in the separation tank. The sparger unit includes a slurry inlet, a slurry outlet, a sparging mechanism, a high shear element, and a gas inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Michael J. Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench, Eric S. Yan, Gerald H. Luttrell
  • Patent number: 9011646
    Abstract: Mechanical visbreaking and pyrolysis between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers in a continuous radial counterflow process minimizes wastewater discharges. In one example, a cataclastic shear retort comminutes, shear thins, and shear heats an axial feed, such as tar sand, oil shale, coal tailings, distillation bottoms, or lignite. Pyrolyzing the feedstock in this shear retort yields a product stream of gases, naphthas, and oils which first mixes with the feedstock and then is axially extracted, while spent solids are simultaneously extruded from the periphery as coked devolatilized residue, such as char sand for upgrading soil to terra preta. Recirculation of shear-heated solids in long residence time within the shear retort brings heat from the spent solids at the periphery to the feedstock without an external heated sand loop. CO2 emissions from combustion to heat water for oil extraction are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: McCutchen Co.
    Inventors: Wilmot H. McCutchen, David J. McCutchen
  • Patent number: 8998179
    Abstract: An aeration ship including a ship body, a ship bottom, and an aerator. The aerator includes an air cylinder having an upper section and a lower section. The upper section of the air cylinder is fixed on the ship body, and the lower section of the air cylinder penetrates the ship bottom and extends downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Inventors: Shulin Sun, Jian Sun
  • Publication number: 20150053625
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for producing a flow in a wastewater treatment tank (1), comprising a substantially horizontal bottom (B) and a horizontal mixer (2, 3, 4), which is provided in the wastewater treatment tank (1) and which has a propeller (4) driven by means of a propeller shaft (3). According to the invention, in order to save energy to produce flows, the axis (A) of the propeller shaft (3) is tilted relative to the bottom (B) by an angle ? of 1 to 10° in such a way that a flow directed toward a surface (O) of the wastewater (W) can be produced by the horizontal mixer (2, 3, 4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Marcus Hoefken
  • Patent number: 8960650
    Abstract: A multifunctional Schumann wave machine of the present invention includes a shell, a luminous device, a rotary device, a rotary blade, a droplets straining device and an air blower. The present invention provides color therapy as its luminous bodies emit lights to outside of the shell and release Schumann waves. The rotary blade and droplets straining device can produce and spray fine droplets with anions. Additionally, the water contained in the present invention is added some aromatic essential oil. Bodies and minds of users are relaxed and happy in the fresh and clean environment which is full of sunlight, air and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Chung-Ming Lee
  • Publication number: 20150008191
    Abstract: A low-turbulent aspirating type aerator, introduced into a body of liquid, comprising of: a gas conveyance tube having a gas inlet end and a gas outlet end; a gas-liquid mixture chamber incorporating; an impeller affixed to a rotatable shaft, at the least one gas intake opening and at the least one gas-liquid discharge opening at or near bottom end of gas-liquid mixture chamber. Rotation of the impeller creates a low-pressure zone (vacuum) allowing gas conveyed via gas conveyance tube to come into contact with rotating impeller forming a gas-liquid mixture at the impeller interface wherein bubbles are formed. Gas-liquid mixture chamber confines gas bubbles thereby allowing the action of impeller and liquid shearing force to produce and discharge micro-sized gas bubbles of predominantly less than 0.85 millimeters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Richard LADOUCEUR
  • Publication number: 20140332989
    Abstract: The rotating disc aerator is a portable aeration device utilizing atmospheric air, rather than using a compressor for its air supply. The aerator includes a motorized base having a rotary shaft and diametrically opposed, oppositely reciprocating rods extending therefrom. A plurality of discs are disposed along the shaft and are connected to the ends of the rods. The discs are free to slide along the shaft as the rods reciprocate, but rotate with the shaft. A plurality of resilient absorbent elements (sponges, etc.) are installed along the rotary shaft between the discs. The aerator assembly is buoyant, about one-half of each absorbent element extending above the surface of the water when the aerator is placed therein. The upper portions of the absorbent elements absorb air as they rotate above the surface, and are compressed to expel the air into the water as they rotate beneath the water surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Bader Shafaqa ALENZI
  • Patent number: 8851457
    Abstract: A low-turbulent aspirating type aerator, introduced into a body of liquid, comprising of: a gas conveyance tube having a gas inlet end and a gas outlet end; a gas-liquid mixture chamber incorporating; an impeller affixed to a rotatable shaft, at the least one gas intake opening and at the least one gas-liquid discharge opening at or near bottom end of gas-liquid mixture chamber. Rotation of the impeller creates a low-pressure zone (vacuum) allowing gas conveyed via gas conveyance tube to come into contact with rotating impeller forming a gas-liquid mixture at the impeller interface wherein bubbles are formed. Gas-liquid mixture chamber confines gas bubbles thereby allowing the action of impeller and liquid shearing force to produce and discharge micro-sized gas bubbles of predominantly less than 0.85 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Inventor: Richard Ladouceur
  • Patent number: 8820214
    Abstract: A foamed beverage system for creating foamed beverages from a powder, a liquid, and air. The foamed beverage system may include a mixing chamber having a mixing zone and a pressurized zone. An impeller is positioned between the mixing zone and the pressurized zone. The powder and the liquid are added to the mixing chamber and the air is entrained within the mixture of the powder and the liquid within the pressurized zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Charles Bradley Green, Xinhua Chen, Carter Crittenden Bennett
  • Patent number: 8814147
    Abstract: A liquid aeration system comprising: an intermittent liquid feeding means (10) located at an upstream position for receiving liquid from a liquid resource; a liquid storage means (20) located at an downstream position for receiving the liquid from the intermittent liquid feeding means (10) quantitatively and intermittently; and a pipe (30) connected between the intermittent liquid feeding means (10) and the liquid storage means (20), the outlet of which is located below the liquid surface of the liquid storage means (20), such that the liquid can flow from the intermittent liquid feeding means (10) through the pipe (30) into the liquid storage means (20) intermittently and quantitatively using the liquid level difference between the upstream position and the downstream position, so as to inject the air existed in the pipe (30) into the liquid in the liquid storage means (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Fresh Water (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guohua Sheng
  • Patent number: 8740193
    Abstract: A system for forming mini microbubbles has a housing with an upper end and a lower end, a motor positioned in the housing, a shaft connected to the motor, a plate affixed to the shaft and extending radially outwardly therefrom, and an air line connected to the housing so as to open in a space within the housing adjacent the lower end thereof between the plate and the motor. The plate is positioned inwardly of the lower end of the housing. The plate has a smooth lower surface. The motor is a submersible motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas St. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 8726790
    Abstract: A milk frothing device comprises a housing (2) including a container (10) for receiving the milk to be frothed, and a frothing means (20), wherein the container comprises a side wall (11), a bottom portion (13) and an inclined wall portion (12), wherein the inclined wall portion is inclined with respect to the side wall and is confined by the side wall and the bottom portion, wherein the container and the frothing means together form an asymmetrical arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Green Lane Designs Limited
    Inventors: Gary Lane, Alan Green
  • Patent number: 8690129
    Abstract: A disposable mixing vessel comprising a flexible container, a centrally disposed shaft having first and second ends with one or more impellers thereon and a magnetic element associated with a first shaft end, a first flange adapted to rotatably engage the first shaft end and a second flange adapted to rotatably engage the second shaft end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Ludwig, Oscar-Werner Reif, Gerhard Greller, Wolfgang Kahlert, Guenther Pradel, Michael Bates, Magail Barbaroux, Stephane Baud, Isabelle Gay, Sebastian Chaussin
  • Publication number: 20140072502
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of: providing an apparatus and method for generating fine bubbles in a plurality of processing surfaces in a plurality of processing members disposed in opposition so as to be capable of being brought together and moved apart, at least one being capable of relative rotation with respect to the other; as well as providing a method for reacting fine bubbles using a method for generating fine bubbles. Provided are: a plurality of processing members disposed in opposition so as to be capable of being brought together and moved apart, at least one being capable of relative rotation with respect to the other; processing surfaces provided in mutually opposed positions in the respective processing members; and at least two independent flow path communicating with the space between the processing surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: M. TECHNIQUE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu Enomura
  • Publication number: 20130193595
    Abstract: The invention concerns a beverage dispenser comprising: a frame (1) for supporting the components of the dispenser, a whipper assembly (2) comprising a whipper 9b housing (21), a whipper device (22) and a back wall (23), the whipper housing and the back wall forming a whipper chamber (24) in which is lodged the whipper device, a drive shaft (3) for driving the whipper device (22), said drive shaft being supported by the frame (1), detachable connection means (4a, 4b) for attaching the back wall to the whipper housing, wherein it further comprises detachable connection means (5) for attaching the whipper housing to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Lucio Scorrano, Richard Luke Murphy, Cedric Rey, Albert Zsolt, Larry Sacha Baudet, Jonathan Gebs
  • Patent number: 8465642
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating impurities from a liquid stream includes a feed tank for containing an untreated liquid, a mixer for generating and mixing bubbles throughout the wastewater, and a settling tank for allowing the wastewater to settle for removal of impurities through dissolved gas floatation. The mixer includes a housing and a rotor rotatably mounted within the housing. The rotor is electrically isolated and the peripheral wall of the housing is electrically isolated and the rotor preferably has bores formed in its peripheral surface to produce cavitation to aid in mixing of fluid within the mixer. A power supply is coupled to establish a relatively positive electrical charge on the rotor and a relatively negative electrical charge on the wall of the housing. The charge causes electrolysis to occur within the fluid, which forms small low surface tension gas bubbles on the rotor and housing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hydro Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Bijan Kazem
  • Patent number: 8425109
    Abstract: A device and method prevents freeze over of a fishing hole cut through a layer of ice overlying a body of water. The device has a housing; a motor; at least one water inlet in the housing; at least one water outlet in the housing; and at least one water-moving element driven by the motor and moving water out of the at least one water outlet. The device may spin within the hole and stir water to prevent too rapid ice buildup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Inventor: Daniel V. Foss
  • Publication number: 20130032957
    Abstract: An aeration system including a housing, a fluid inlet at a first end of the housing, an outlet at a second end of the housing, a cylindrical support member rotatably mounted within the housing between the inlet and the outlet, and supported by a plurality of bearings, the support member having an interior surface enclosing an interior cavity, the cavity being in communication with the inlet and the outlet, at least one vane disposed on the interior surface of the support member and extending from the interior surface towards the rotational axis of the support member, the vane including an inner edge positioned such that a gap is defined between the inner edge of the vane and the rotational axis of the support member, at least one gas inlet in communication with the cavity of the support member, and a motive device for rotating the support member within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventor: Hugh B. NICHOLSON
  • Publication number: 20130020400
    Abstract: A rotor for use in a slurry separation flotation cell having a tank within which the rotor is contained. The rotor has a shaft that has a conduit adapted to communicate a fluid, preferably a gas such as air, therethrough. The rotor also has impeller blades extending radially from the shaft and a baffle adjacent the bottom of the impeller blades. The baffle extends from an end of the shaft to at or near an outer edge of the impeller blades, directing the gas to the outer edges of the impeller blades for dispersion into the slurry. The rotor is located adjacent a floor of the tank and, in use, draws slurry downwards into the impeller portion and forces it outwards with the gas being mixed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventor: Roger Farnworth Bridson
  • Patent number: 8322693
    Abstract: A milk froth machine includes a base and a top cover. A heating element is electrically connected to a controller mounted in the base. First and second electric connectors are respectively mounted to the base and top cover and electrically connected to the controller. The first and second electric connectors are coupled together when an agitator on the top cover is aligned with a supporting top face of the base. A motor is mounted in the top cover and electrically connected to the second electric connector. A container can be placed on the supporting top face with the agitator extending into the container and with the first and second electric connectors electrically coupled together. The controller controls the motor to drive the agitator to agitate milk in the container to form milk froth or controls the heating element to heat the milk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Splendor Corp.
    Inventor: Yu-Yuan Lin
  • Patent number: 8204672
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting an anomaly in fuel demand data and fuel supply data generated by a fuel metering system for an engine, The method comprises collecting the fuel demand data and the fuel supply data during operation of the fuel metering system, generating expected fuel supply data based on the collected fuel demand data and a nominal response model describing the expected behavior of the fuel metering system, and detecting the anomaly if a difference between the expected fuel supply data and the collected fuel supply data exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Dinkar Mylaraswamy, Girija Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 8162295
    Abstract: A reaction vessel assembly achieves enhanced aeration or gas exchange in its gas-in-liquid multiphase mixing reaction through the use of its mixing energy and gas-lift venting, and without the traditionally practiced external line gas sparging. It combines the best of both shake flask and stirred tank reactor vessel and possesses some of the key generic features like cost and parallel experiment advantages of the traditional flasks and shaker hybrid but without their shortcomings like limited gas exchange and uncharacteristic mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventor: Duen Gang Mou
  • Patent number: 8152142
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing water having dissolved ozone therein of the type direct-connectable to a pressurized-water supply faucet (26) includes a nozzle (5) for directing a flow of pressurized water from the supply faucet (26) to a turbine (1) to effect rotation thereof, the turbine (1) having magnets (13) attached thereto magnetically coupled to corresponding magnets (13) attached to a disc (14) of a power generator (3). Rotation of the turbine (1) is magnetically coupled to the power generator (3) to generate electrical power for supply to an ozone generator to generate ozone for combination with the so-supplied water to produce ozonated water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nissho Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenzo Hirakui
  • Publication number: 20110259196
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the treatment of gaseous effluents, such as those originating from the production of semi-conductors involving contact with a liquid. The inventive apparatus consists of: a gas/liquid contact chamber which can receive a liquid in the lower part thereof and which is topped with a gas cover, said chamber comprising means for introducing a gas to be treated and means for releasing residual gases following treatment involving contact with the liquid; turbine-type gas/liquid contacting means comprising one or more stages which ensure improved contact between the gas and the liquid, the upper part of said means being equipped with an opening for drawing the gas situated in the gas cover above the liquid; and, preferably, means for measuring the pH of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et L'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Hervé Dulphy, Pascal Moine, Thierry Laederich
  • Publication number: 20110089582
    Abstract: A liquid aeration system comprising: an intermittent liquid feeding means (10) located at an upstream position for receiving liquid from a liquid resource; a liquid storage means (20) located at an downstream position for receiving the liquid from the intermittent liquid feeding means (10) quantitatively and intermittently; and a pipe (30) connected between the intermittent liquid feeding means (10) and the liquid storage means (20), the outlet of which is located below the liquid surface of the liquid storage means (20), such that the liquid can flow from the intermittent liquid feeding means (10) through the pipe (30) into the liquid storage means (20) intermittently and quantitatively using the liquid level difference between the upstream position and the downstream position, so as to inject the air existed in the pipe (30) into the liquid in the liquid storage means (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Guohua Sheng
  • Patent number: 7887765
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the conversion of aromatic alkyls to aromatic carboxylic acids in a reactor are provided, wherein the location of the feeding of the reaction mixture into the reactor significantly increases the conversion efficiency of the precursor materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Tereftalatos Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V.
    Inventors: Fernando Varela-Fuentes, Arturo Bulbarela-Croda, Guillermo Ramirez-Aguilar, Bertha Moran-Delgado
  • Patent number: 7874547
    Abstract: Reduced size evaporative cooling apparatus utilizes a convex flare at the outlet of the apparatus to control air flow exiting the apparatus and cause air to flow along a helical path that produces an updraft off the ground below the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventors: Larry R. Gordon, Jon E. Jelen
  • Patent number: 7823865
    Abstract: An air humidification system for large enclosed spaces, comprising at least one humidification line constituted by at least one humidification module comprising a box-like container with a water flow pipe inside which is functionally connected at its inlet to a water pump and at its outlet to a water discharge space. The pipe has, along its extension, a plurality of nozzles adapted to provide a water aerosol. The nozzles are open onto a first opening provided in the box-like container and are oriented toward the outside of the first opening. A cross-flow impeller is provided within the box-like container along a rotation axis which is parallel to the pipe and is suitable to aspirate air from a second opening of the box-like container and direct it toward the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Carel S.p.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Baldon, Michele Martello, Luigi Nalini
  • Publication number: 20100219539
    Abstract: Intended is to provide an apparatus, which is small in size and low at cost and which can manufacture a minus-ion generating liquid in a large quantity stably and continuously by a method safer than that of the prior art. In the apparatus, a single-stage reproducing pump comprises a casing having a suction port for sucking a liquid and a discharge port for discharging the liquid sucked from the suction port, an impeller disposed in the casing and forming a multiplicity of blades on the circumference of its disc, and a passage formed in the casing along the outer circumference of that impeller for guiding the liquid sucked from the suction port, to the discharge port. The area normal to the liquid flow direction of the passage becomes narrower from the suction port side to the discharge port side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: DAIICHITECHNO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Harada, Mitsuo Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100207285
    Abstract: A submersible aerator has an impeller which includes blades having partition walls which separate liquid passages and air passages and which is accommodated within a guide casing for rotation between a lower surface of an intermediate plate having an air suction opening and an upper surface of a suction cover having a liquid suction opening. The liquid passages and the air passages meet through communication portions at radially outer ends of rear-side blade partition walls. Intermediate blades are provided at radially outer ends of the liquid passages. A conical space is defined between the blade lower end surfaces and the suction cover upper surface such that the space, which is wide at a portion adjacent to the liquid suction opening, becomes narrower toward a radially outward region including guide vane tongues. A plurality of support legs and a plurality of straining projections are integrally formed on the lower surface of a peripheral portion of a bottom wall of the guide casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Satoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7708257
    Abstract: Apparatus for treating solids, in particular mixing, pelletizing or drying, includes a vessel receiving a solid product, and a driveshaft which is arranged in the vessel. Disposed in fixed rotative engagement with the driveshaft is at least one mixing member which rotates in a rotation direction and has two mixing arms. Each mixing arm includes a main vane of generally triangular cross section to define an apex which is directed in the rotation direction of the mixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Ekato Solidmix GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Schmidt, Christian Krumbholz, Martin Amsler
  • Patent number: 7621511
    Abstract: A fragrance disperser includes a first source (25) of fragrance associated with a first flowpath (21) and a second source of fragrance (26) associated with a second flowpath (23). A fan (17) provides a flow of air along the first flowpath (21) or the second flowpath (23) to release the associated fragrance. A flow controller (38, 52) is movable by an actuator (34) to open and close the flowpaths (21, 23) so that only one fragrance is released at a time or a proportionate mixture of the two fragrances is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Carbonate Limited
    Inventors: Paul Richard Hayes-Pankhurst, Keith Graham Lacy, Paul Simon Wells
  • Publication number: 20090256269
    Abstract: A swing-type submersible floating aerator, comprising a gas-ring compressor, a base, a pipe, a support tube, a swing device and a driving device, wherein the base is disposed between the gas-ring compressor and the support tube, the base is disposed at the center of the swing device, and the driving device drives the swing device to rotate. The swing-type submersible floating aerator is capable of rotating 360 degrees in a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction, and push-flow and aeration can be performed in any direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Shulin SUN, Jian SUN
  • Publication number: 20090152744
    Abstract: A reaction vessel assembly achieves enhanced aeration or gas exchange in its gas-in-liquid multiphase mixing reaction through the use of its mixing energy and gas-lift venting, and without the traditionally practiced external line gas sparging. It combines the best of both shake flask and stirred tank reactor vessel and possesses some of the key generic features like cost and parallel experiment advantages of the traditional flasks and shaker hybrid but without their shortcomings like limited gas exchange and uncharacteristic mixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Duen Gang Mou
  • Patent number: 7547364
    Abstract: A sprayer device including a generator for generating an air stream having a predetermined velocity and a nozzle unit for the discharge of liquid therefrom, whereby to produce a mist stream capable of being propelled to a predetermined location. The mist stream has a measurable and controllable lateral dimension at the predetermined location. The sprayer device is used particularly for moistening cattle, especially cows, in sheds, and taking into account the effect of the wind. Rows of sprayers project water sprays directed toward the cattle. The sprayers may be angularly shifted to take into account the deviating effect of the wind. A processor calculates the angular shift that is needed for the existing wind direction and intensity. All the sprayers concurrently receive the angular shift, which is transmitted to the first sprayer from a control station and successively from each sprayer to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Inventor: Arieh Jehuda Polak
  • Fan
    Patent number: 7527246
    Abstract: A fan includes a motor; a front end of a rotary shaft of the motor having an eccentric wheel; a periphery of the blade being installed with a protection web frame; a moisture generator installed at one side of the motor; an interior of the moisture generator having a plug; one end of the plug resisting against a lateral surface of the eccentric wheel; the eccentric wheel serving to drive the plug moving reciprocally in a plug chamber so as to suck water into a moisture generator; then the water is pressured to be sprayed out. Operation of the fan will drive the moisture generator to actuate so as to generate moisture for reducing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Inventor: Mao-Kun Chang
  • Publication number: 20090057931
    Abstract: A tabletop humidifier is disclosed which embodies one or more of low voltage operation from a high voltage supply through a current-limited transformer to provide a safely limited shock risk proximate to its water containing areas, tool-free and uncomplicated disassembly to enable end-of-life recycling of its components, and improved humidification efficiency through an inexpensive and reliable by-pass preventing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Chi-Hsiang Wang, Yung Ming Tai
  • Publication number: 20090039534
    Abstract: This invention concerns an apparatus and a method for producing carbonated water capable of obtaining high concentration carbonated water effectively. Carbon dioxide gas is passed through a first carbon dioxide gas dissolver composed of a membrane module to be dissolved in water and the carbonated water passing through the first carbon dioxide gas dissolver is passed through a static mixer, which is a second carbon dioxide gas dissolver. Consequently, a high concentration carbonated water can be obtained remarkably, effectively and easily with a simpler structure than conventionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI RAYON ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Ken Ooyachi, Hiroki Sakakibara, Hiroshi Tasaka, Masaaki Satou, Masanori Itakura, Katsuya Sanai