Material Introduced So As To Cause Rotary Motion In Mixing Chamber (e.g., Cyclonic) Patents (Class 366/165.1)
  • Patent number: 11779645
    Abstract: The disclosure provides nanometer sized water clusters comprising or consisting essentially of ultrapure water that encapsulate a solute, wherein the water clusters have a median diameter of between about 2 to about 400 nanometers and uses thereof. Also provided by the disclosure are processes and methods for making nanosized water clusters, including processes and methods for encapsulating hydrated solutes in nanosized water clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HYDROSOME HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Charles Bishop
  • Patent number: 11725543
    Abstract: An exhaust duct for a fossil fuel powered engine includes an exhaust gas passage, a cooling fluid passage, a mixing device for mixing cooling fluid with the hot exhaust gas and a selective catalytic reduction catalyst for removing nitrogen oxides arranged in the exhaust gas passage. The mixing device has a mixing chamber with a first wall and an opposed second wall, the first and second wall arranged upstream of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst in the exhaust gas passage and extending over the cross-sectional area of the exhaust gas passage, both walls perforated by through holes, wherein through holes of the first wall are connected with through holes of the second wall in pairs by pipes extending through the mixing chamber, the pipes perforated by at least one hole into the mixing chamber and the cooling fluid passage ending into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NEM ENERGY B.V.
    Inventor: Richard Toonssen
  • Patent number: 11419791
    Abstract: A container system includes at least one flexible wall defining a compartment containing a dissolvable solid or concentrate, a support adjacent a first end of the at least one flexible wall, and a nozzle assembly coupled to a second end of the at least one flexible wall. The second end of the wall is distal from the first end. The nozzle assembly comprises a hollow body defining a longitudinal axis. The hollow body further defines a plurality of orifices through a wall thereof. Each orifice is able to form a fluid connection between an interior volume within the hollow body and the compartment. Each orifice is configured to deliver liquid from the interior volume to the compartment in a direction having an angle of between 5° and 85° from a direction of the longitudinal axis. Related nozzles and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Lynn E. Jensen, DeLoy Lindley, Natalie Rebacz, Mary Hoover, Troy Dayton, Michael P. Smith
  • Patent number: 11293096
    Abstract: A vaporization system includes a vaporization chamber having a first portion and a second portion. A first fluid supply part is connected to the first portion of the vaporization chamber, and configured to supply a mixed fluid in which a first carrier gas and a liquid precursor are mixed, toward the second portion. A second fluid supply part is configured to supply a second carrier gas toward the mixed fluid at the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Morikawa, Masakazu Shimada, Takeshi Kasai, Kenichi Suzaki, Hirohisa Yamazaki, Yoshimasa Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 10081559
    Abstract: A cavitation plate and system comprises a plurality of flow elements through the thickness of the cavitation plate. Each of the plurality of flow elements comprises an inlet channel a converging nozzle coupled to the inlet channel, a throat in fluid communicating with the converging nozzle, a diverging diffuser in fluid communication with the throat and an outlet channel in fluid communication with the diverging diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Fluid Equipment Development Company, LLC
    Inventor: Eli Oklejas, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9795936
    Abstract: The fluid mixing element in accordance with this invention forms a first internal flow channel whose starting end opens on an end surface of one end part and whose terminal end opens on an end surface of the other end part and a second internal flow channel whose starting end opens on a side peripheral surface of a middle part and whose terminal end opens on an end surface of the other end part. It is possible for the fluid mixing element to securely mix a first fluid flowing in a main flow channel with a second fluid flowing in a sub-flow channel by the use of a pipe with a short length with a simple arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Yasuda, Shigeyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9408495
    Abstract: Device for producing a frothed liquid comprising a chamber opened to atmosphere with a transverse bottom wall and a longitudinal upward wall, at least one diluent inlet, at least one liquid delivery outlet. The diluent inlet is provided through the upward wall and is dimensioned and oriented for directing a thin jet of diluent in the chamber. The at least one liquid delivery outlet is configured in the bottom wall for liquid to rise up along the side of the upward wall by the jet of diluent entering the chamber as a result of the direction and dimension of the diluent inlet in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Raphael Gugerli, Jean-Luc Thuliez, Iwan Kissling, Raphael Bernhardsgruetter, Cedric Beausire, Nihan Dogan, David J. Harrison, David Hamel
  • Patent number: 9227161
    Abstract: A device for the enrichment of a liquid stream with a gas is provided including a flow mixer (14) with a venturi nozzle (36), having a rotationally symmetrical contraction (40) with a diameter D and being flown through axially by the liquid stream. The invention additionally includes a gas feed for the lateral feed of the gas into the contraction (40) of the venturi nozzle (36). The gas feed includes at least one gas channel (54, 54?) with a diameter d<0.5D, ending laterally in the contraction (40) of the venturi nozzle (36) in a way, such that the elongated longitudinal axis (56, 56?) thereof is tangential to an imaginary cylinder surface (58), which is coaxial to the contraction (40) and has a diameter D?>d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: LUXEMBOURG PATENT COMPANY S.A.
    Inventors: Sascha Bormes, Hartmut Britzen
  • Patent number: 9155420
    Abstract: The present invention has as an objective to provide an apparatus for brewing a beverage that provides an attractive brewing experience for the consumer, which can perform an effective and efficient brewing process, and which also can be easily rinsed to remove any spent infusible material. These objectives have been met by a beverage brewing machine having an at least one water inlet port that is arranged at an angle of less than 4 degrees relative to the wall of the brew chamber to direct water around the wall of the brew chamber. The apparatus also provides for improved agitation of infusible material. Moreover a method is provided to brew a beverage using the brewing machine of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Edward Quinn, Marco Karreman, Tjeerd Jan Pieter Gerbranda, Edwin Jeroen Muller
  • Publication number: 20150138911
    Abstract: A system includes a solids combining system with a solids mixing section having a mixing chamber and a plurality of solids inlets configured to supply one or more solids into the mixing chamber. The system also includes a solids breakup section having a plurality of fluid inlets configured to supply one or more fluids into the mixing chamber and a solids flow control section having a converging-diverging passage downstream of the mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Edward Pan
  • Publication number: 20150124554
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a swirl is disclosed that is used to induce an axi-symmetric swirling flow to an incoming flow. The disclosed subject matter induces a uniform and axi-symmetric swirl, circumferentially around a discharge location, thus imparting a more accurate, repeatable, continuous, and controllable swirl and mixing condition of interest. Moreover, the disclosed subject matter performs the swirl injection at a lower pressure drop in comparison to a more traditional methods and devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: U.S. Department of Energy
    Inventors: Robert E. Haden, Donald G. Lorentz
  • Publication number: 20150103619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing device for mixing a fluid in a container, in particular of a fluid system, comprising a fluid supply and at least one outlet arm with an outlet opening, the fluid supply being connected to the at least one outlet arm in a fluid-communicating fashion. According to the invention, the outlet opening, for an outlet of the fluid, is oriented towards an outlet direction in order to set the fluid in the container rotating at least in sections thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Lutz Telljohann, Andreas Ihme, Frank Hasselmann, David Trinkner, Frank Twiehaus, Holger Hoffmann, Lars Pockehr, Udo Lepper
  • Patent number: 8992070
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for blending process materials. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to a process material contacting system to increase wetted surface area for liquid contact as well as increase forced convective mixing efficiency of the liquid mixture. Use of a novel process material contacting apparatus allows one solid feeding element to serve multiple process material tanks, thus reducing overall system costs and decreasing set-up time/process variability while increasing operational efficiency. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, rather than adding a process material to a volume of liquid held in a blending tank, the added process material is remotely blended with the liquid outside the process material tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
  • Patent number: 8899822
    Abstract: The invention provides a working trough and a method for maintaining a uniform temperature of a working fluid. The working trough is applied to an electrical discharge machine that performs wire cutting using the working fluid. The method for maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid is applied to the working trough and characterized by forming opening structures in a receiving slot of the working trough such that a spiral swirl having a predetermined height is allowed to be formed in the working fluid, thereby maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid in the receiving slot when a wire cutting process is performed in the working fluid by the electrical discharge machine. The disturbance of the spiral swirl also facilitates the discharge of scraps. The present invention further has an advantage of low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tzuo-Liang Luo, En-Sheng Chang, Jui-Kuan Lin, Yang-Xin Lin, Chin-Mou Hsu
  • Patent number: 8894966
    Abstract: A micro-mixer and use thereof for synthesis of barium sulfate particles is disclosed. The micro-mixer includes feeding tubes, reservoirs, a mixing channel, a buffer reservoir and a sampling tube. The mixing channel is made of hydrophobic materials and processed into a spiral structure, in which baffles are set in interval arrangement at both sides of the channel wall. The types of the baffles include leaning-forward baffles, vertical baffles and leaning-backward baffles. Setting the baffles helps produce local secondary flow in the mixer, which enhances fluids mixing process. The micro-mixer is suitable to rapid reactions or precipitation processes, whose reaction time is much less than mixing time, and has broad application prospects in many fields involving mixing reaction such as pharmaceutical and chemistry industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Ziuzhang Chemical Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chao Yang, Xi Wang, Yumei Yong, Guangji Zhang, Jingcai Cheng, Xin Feng, Xiangyang Li, Weipeng Zhang, Yuanyuan Li, Zaisha Mao
  • Publication number: 20140286122
    Abstract: Methods are provided for achieving dynamic mixing of two or more fluid streams using a mixing device. The methods include providing at least two integrated concentric contours that are configured to simultaneously direct fluid flow and transform the kinetic energy level of the first and second fluid streams, and directing fluid flow through the at least two integrated concentric contours such that, in two adjacent contours, the first and second fluid streams are input in opposite directions. As a result, the physical effects acting on each stream of each contour are combined, increasing the kinetic energy of the mix and transforming the mix from a first kinetic energy level to a second kinetic energy level, where the second kinetic energy level is greater than the first kinetic energy level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: David Livshits, Lester Teichner
  • Patent number: 8834011
    Abstract: A device for pneumatic treatment of powder materials in a recipient chamber (22), with introduction of two material streams into the above through two inlet tubes (40, 40a), optionally in a counter-current and/or approximately tangential sense and swirled in the recipient chamber (22). The material streams are for introduction at roughly the same level in the container and the tracks thereof are interleaved. The material streams are also introduced at an inclination angle (w) to a radial plane (E) of the recipient chamber (22) which is inclined downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dietrich Engineering Consultants S.A.
    Inventors: Frédéric Dietrich, Yves Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20140223892
    Abstract: A device for providing a mixture of compressed air and liquid reducing agent includes a first inflow duct for reducing agent, a second inflow duct for compressed air, an outlet duct for the mixture, a mixing point at which compressed air and reducing agent are merged, and a mixing duct which adjoins the mixing point and which connects the mixing point and the outlet duct. The first inflow duct opens into the mixing point in an axial direction. The second inflow duct is connected to the mixing point through at least one injection duct. The at least one injection duct opens into the mixing point in a tangential direction. A method for mixing liquid reducing agent and compressed air to form a mixture and a motor vehicle having the device, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: EMITEC GESELLSCHAFT FUER EMISSIONSTECHNOLOGIE MBH
    Inventors: GUILLAUME MARTINELLE, PHILIPPE MERTES, GEORGES MAGUIN
  • Patent number: 8771524
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vortex mixer comprising a mixing chamber having an axial outlet and at least one inlet which is at least substantially tangential. The mixer further comprises a residence chamber extending axially on the side of the mixing chamber opposite from the axial outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Purac Biochem B.V.
    Inventors: Marcus J. A. W. Vorage, Neda Radenovic-Pelletier, Jildert E. Visser, Paola S. Garzon Lopez
  • Publication number: 20140177381
    Abstract: The invention provides a working trough and a method for maintaining a uniform temperature of a working fluid. The working trough is applied to an electrical discharge machine that performs wire cutting using the working fluid. The method for maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid is applied to the working trough and characterized by forming opening structures in a receiving slot of the working trough such that a spiral swirl having a predetermined height is allowed to be formed in the working fluid, thereby maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid in the receiving slot when a wire cutting process is performed in the working fluid by the electrical discharge machine. The disturbance of the spiral swirl also facilitates the discharge of scraps. The present invention further has an advantage of low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tzuo-Liang LUO, En-Sheng CHANG, Jui-Kuan LIN, Yang-Xin LIN, Chin-Mou HSU
  • Publication number: 20140158644
    Abstract: One embodiment can be an apparatus for contacting a first liquid and a second liquid. The apparatus can include a vessel, which in turn, may include at least one wall, a first member, and a funnical frustum. The at least one wall can form a perimeter about an interior space. Also, the first member can be positioned within the interior space and form a plurality of passageways. Each passageway may be bordered by a first side and a second side from an outer region to an interior surface of the first member. Generally, the funnical frustum is positioned downstream of the first member to facilitate a swirling of at least one of the first and second liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicants: Boreskov Institute of Catolysis, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, UOP LLC
    Inventors: Andrey Kuzmin, Aziz Sattar, Lev Davydov
  • Publication number: 20140160879
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be an apparatus for contacting a first liquid and a second liquid. The apparatus can include a vessel. The vessel can include a wall and a funnical frustum. The wall may form a perimeter about an interior space and include a first side and a second side forming a passageway communicating at least one of the first and second liquids to the interior space. The funnical frustum may be positioned proximate to the passageway and abut the wall for facilitating contacting of the first and second liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicants: Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, UOP LLC
    Inventors: Andrey Kuzmin, Aziz Sattar, Lev Davydov
  • Patent number: 8746960
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for blending process materials. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to a process material contacting system to increase wetted surface area for liquid contact as well as increase forced convective mixing efficiency of the liquid mixture. Use of a novel process material contacting apparatus allows one solid feeding element to serve multiple process material tanks, thus reducing overall system costs and decreasing set-up time/process variability while increasing operational efficiency. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, rather than adding a process material to a volume of liquid held in a blending tank, the added process material is remotely blended with the liquid outside the process material tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Mega Fluid Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Kandiyeli, Quay Issac Gene Williams, Barry Kennedy Cavinaw, Charles Richard Boley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8740448
    Abstract: A micromixing chamber, roughly in the form of an hourglass, having a first outer end with a tangential inflow opening and a second outer end with a tangential outflow opening. The mixing chamber in the overall flow direction first narrows more or less gradually and subsequently widens more or less abruptly. The micromixer may be made at least partially of glass, or at least partially of a plurality of glass plates. A micromixer having a plurality of such micromixing chambers connected fluidically in series is also disclosed. Methods for manufacturing such a micromixing chamber of such a micromixer, as well as method for mixing by means of such a micromixing chamber or by means of such a micromixer, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventors: Marko Theodoor Blom, Michael Christiaan Mulder, Jordan Macleod Macinnes, Raymond William Kenneth Allen
  • Patent number: 8696191
    Abstract: The invention provides a working trough and a method for maintaining a uniform temperature of a working fluid. The working trough is applied to an electrical discharge machine that performs wire cutting using the working fluid. The method for maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid is applied to the working trough and characterized by forming opening structures in a receiving slot of the working trough such that a spiral swirl having a predetermined height is allowed to be formed in the working fluid, thereby maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid in the receiving slot when a wire cutting process is performed in the working fluid by the electrical discharge machine. The disturbance of the spiral swirl also facilitates the discharge of scraps. The present invention further has an advantage of low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tzuo-Liang Luo, En-Sheng Chang, Jui-Kuan Lin, Yang-Xin Lin, Chin-Mou Hsu
  • Publication number: 20140098628
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for blending process materials. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to a process material contacting system to increase wetted surface area for liquid contact as well as increase forced convective mixing efficiency of the liquid mixture. Use of a novel process material contacting apparatus allows one solid feeding element to serve multiple process material tanks, thus reducing overall system costs and decreasing set-up time/process variability while increasing operational efficiency. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, rather than adding a process material to a volume of liquid held in a blending tank, the added process material is remotely blended with the liquid outside the process material tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
  • Publication number: 20140051774
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a composition having a disperse phase finely dispersed in a continuous phase with low polydispersity, the method which is excellent in production efficiency This object is achieved by a method for producing a composition having a disperse phase finely dispersed in a continuous phase, the method comprising the steps of: (A) supplying a swirl flow of a continuous phase liquid into a cylinder having a circumferential surface partially or wholly composed of a porous membrane; (B1) jetting a disperse phase fluid through the porous membrane into the swirl flow to form a fluid column extending from a surface of the porous membrane into the cylinder; and (B2) by means of a shear force of the swirl flow, cutting off a part of the fluid column at a position with a distance of 2P to 10P in a radial direction from the surface of the porous membrane, where P is an average pore size of the porous membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuya Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20140014270
    Abstract: Embodiments of gas mixing apparatus are provided herein. In some embodiments, a gas mixing apparatus may include a container defining an interior volume, the container having a closed top and bottom and a sidewall having a circular cross section with respect to a central axis of the container passing through the top and bottom; a plurality of first inlets coupled to the container proximate the top of the container to provide a plurality of process gases to the interior volume of the container, the plurality of first inlets disposed such that a flow path of the plurality of process gases through the plurality of first inlets is substantially tangential to the sidewall of the container; and an outlet coupled to the container proximate the bottom of the container to allow the plurality of process gases to be removed from the interior volume of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: KARTIK SHAH, KALYANJIT GHOSH, SCOTT MCCLELLAND
  • Patent number: 8573830
    Abstract: A device is provided for mixing mixable and unmixable liquids and/or producing emulsions, which has a first connection to a pressure-operated system and second connection for supplying the liquid to be admixed and which is sucked in by the flow of the pressurized liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Inventor: Hartmut Wolf
  • Patent number: 8557122
    Abstract: The present invention provides ballast water treatment equipment which can decompose fungicide included in ballast water and reduce the amount of use of fungicide adsorbing material by passing through the ballast water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Tohoku University, Kowa Kogyo Co., Ltd., Yamanishi Corporation, Tsuda Kaiun Co., Ltd., Japan Basic Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kijima, Yasuaki Kohama, Masae Suzuki, Ikuo Chiba, Kouji Onodera, Keiki Kano, Kouichirou Kanno, Takayuki Ito, Yoshinobu Yashima, Toshihiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20130260462
    Abstract: Provided are electrokinetically-altered fluids (e.g., gas-enriched (e.g., oxygen-enriched) electrokinetic fluids) comprising an ionic aqueous solution of charge-stabilized gas-containing nanostructures in an amount sufficient to provide, upon contact with a cell, modulation of at least one of cellular membrane potential and cellular membrane conductivity. Further provided are the methods of making the electrokinetically-altered ionic aqueous fluid compositions. Particular aspects provide for regulating or modulating intracellular signal transduction associated by modulation of at least one of cellular membranes, membrane potential, membrane proteins such as membrane receptors, including but not limited to G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCR), and intercellular junctions (e.g., tight junctions, gap junctions, zona adherins and desmasomes). Other embodiments include particular methods of producing the electrokinetically-altered fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Revalesio Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony B. Wood, Richard L. Watson, Gregory J. Archambeau
  • Publication number: 20130252323
    Abstract: A mixing device for mixing a first and second material together to create an output mixture. The device includes a first chamber containing the first material coupled to a mixing chamber defined between a rotor and a stator. The rotor is disposed inside the stator and rotates therein about an axis of rotation. The first chamber houses an internal pump configured to pump the first material from the first chamber into the mixing chamber. The pump may be configured to impart a circumferential velocity into the first material before it enters the mixing chamber. At least one of the rotor and stator have a plurality of through-holes through which the second material is provided to the mixing chamber. Optionally, a second chamber is coupled to the mixing chamber. The second chamber may house an internal pump configured to pump the output material from the mixing chamber into the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Revalesio Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony B. Wood, Gregory J. Archambeau, Richard L. Watson
  • Patent number: 8523425
    Abstract: A mixing unit may be disposed under water of a circular reservoir tank. The mixing unit squirts out water at an upward, outward and skewed angle so as to facilitate rotation of the water within the tank and vertical mixing of the water so as to destratify the temperature gradients within the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Mark Malmquist
  • Publication number: 20130215705
    Abstract: In order to dissolve cleaning tablets in a constant stream of media, a rinsing out chamber is suggested, in which the tablet is dissolved in an upward rotary stream of the medium, that keeps it afloat against a filter mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DENTAL CARE INNOVATION GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Mueller
  • Patent number: 8511887
    Abstract: A cement mixing method and apparatus for mixing cement used in cementing oil wells casing and the mixer used in that method. The mixer employs a straight bulk cement inlet, five annular recirculation jets and five annular water jet orifices located downstream of the recirculation jets so that all of the jets discharge at an angle towards the mixing chamber and the discharge from the water jet orifices intersects with the flow from the recirculation jets. This five jet, intersecting flow design allows for more thorough wetting of the cement powder with a smaller, lighter, less expensive and more durable mixer that is less inclined to foul and easier to clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Estate of Thomas E. Allen
    Inventor: Thomas E. Allen
  • Publication number: 20130148464
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for mixing streams of regenerated and carbonized catalyst involves passing a catalyst stream into and out of a chamber in a lower section of a riser. The chamber fosters mixing of the catalyst streams to reduce their temperature differential before contacting hydrocarbon feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Lev Davydov, Lisa M. Wolschlag, Paolo Palmas, Robert L. Mehlberg, Mohammad-Reza Mostofi-Ashtiani, Daniel R. Johnson, Chad R. Huovie, Michael S. Sandacz, Peter J. Van Opdorp, Thomas W. Lorsbach, Karthikeyan Paramanandam
  • Publication number: 20130148463
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for mixing streams of regenerated and carbonized catalyst involves passing a catalyst stream into and out of a chamber in a lower section of a riser. The chamber fosters mixing of the catalyst streams to reduce their temperature differential before contacting hydrocarbon feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Lev Davydov, Lisa M. Wolschlag, Paolo Palmas, Robert L. Mehlberg, Mohammad-Reza Mostofi-Ashtiani, Daniel R. Johnson, Chad R. Huovie, Michael S. Sandacz, Peter J. Van Opdorp, Thomas W. Lorsbach, Karthikeyan Paramanandam
  • Publication number: 20130058186
    Abstract: A method of introducing a first flow and a second flow into a process liquid flowing through a conduit including: injecting the first flow with an introduction liquid into the process liquid in transverse to a flow direction of the process liquid, wherein the injected first flow forms a mixing field comprising counter-rotating vortices in the process liquid; and injecting a second flow transverse to the flow direction of the process liquid and between the counter-rotating vortices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: WETEND TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Jouni MATULA
  • Publication number: 20130028841
    Abstract: To provide a mixing device, a mixing tube, a drug solution injecting system, and a drug solution mixing method capable of evenly and efficiently mixing a plurality of kinds of drug solutions. The mixing device according to the present invention includes: a swirling flow generating chamber; a first inflow opening for introducing a first drug solution into the swirling flow generating chamber in a direction parallel to a central axis of the swirling flow; a second inflow opening for introducing a second drug solution into the swirling flow generating chamber so as to generate a swirling flow of the second drug solution having a specific gravity lower than that of the first drug solution; an outflow opening for discharging a mixed drug solution; and a narrowing chamber which is interposed between the swirling flow generating chamber and the outflow opening and has a space continuously narrowed toward the outflow opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: NEMOTO KYORIDNO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanobu Yagi, Young Kwang Park, Mitsuo Umezu
  • Patent number: 8277111
    Abstract: Several improvements are provided for a microingredient additive dispensing system. One improvement is the use of a fluid eductor to entrain and mix the additives. Another improvement is to weigh and dispense ingredients using one or more non-compartmentalized vibratory trays that are mounted on a single weigh frame. Another improvement is a summing and filtering circuit that sums and filters the signals from four different load cells to accurately determine the weight of the dispensed additives. Yet another improvement is the placement of a pump upstream of the eductor, isolating the pump from additives that are pumped to the feed mixing station. Another improvement is a line-flushing mode in which a turbulent mixture of air and water are used to clean the delivery conduit of residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Comco Manufacturing, Ltd.
    Inventor: Derrick A Englot
  • Patent number: 8277110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a micromixer biochip, comprising: a substrate having a surface; a fluidic channel layer disposed above the surface of the substrate, including a mixing chamber and a single-opening fluidic channel, wherein one end of the single-opening fluidic channel is closed and the other end of the single-opening fluidic channel connects to the mixing chamber, and a top portion of the single-opening fluidic channel is made of a flexible material; and an air chamber layer disposed above the top portion of the fluidic channel layer, including an air pore, at least one chamber, and an air channel connecting the chamber and the air pore, wherein the number and position of the air chamber correspond to the number and position of the single-opening fluidic channel of the fluidic channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Gwo-Bin Lee, Sung-Yi Yang
  • Patent number: 8251571
    Abstract: An inline mixer structure that is compact and has a high mixing efficiency is provided. In an inline mixer structure that forms a fluid mixture by evenly mixing and diffusing different types of fluid, a cylindrical mixer body (10) that is provided with a space portion (11) that passes therethrough in an axial direction, and a plug-shaped member (20) that is integrated by being inserted from the upstream side of the space portion (11) are provided. A chemical fluid and pure water are mixed and diffused after merging inside the space portion, where the chemical fluid is radially discharged toward a space portion (11) because the downstream end portion of a chemical fluid flow path (21) that is formed in an axial direction of the plug-shaped member (20) is closed, and pure water flows in from an eccentric fluid flow path formed so as to pass through the outer peripheral surface of the mixer body (10) at a position offset from the axial center of the space portion cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Surpass Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Imai
  • Patent number: 8215823
    Abstract: A cement mixing method for mixing cement used in cementing oil wells casing and the mixer used in that method. The mixer employs a straight bulk cement inlet, five annular recirculation jets and five annular water jet orifices located downstream of the recirculation jets so that all of the jets discharge at an angle towards the mixing chamber and the discharge from the water jet orifices intersects with the flow from the recirculation jets. This five jet, intersecting flow design allows for more thorough wetting of the cement powder with a smaller, lighter, less expensive and more durable mixer that is less inclined to foul and easier to clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Estate of Thomas E. Allen
    Inventor: Thomas E. Allen
  • Patent number: 8206652
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flow duct type jet reactor and a process for preparing isocyanates using it. The flow duct type jet reactor situates flow ducts in inner feed pipe which form whirlpool and reinforce vortex, thereby amine steam rapidly admixes and reacts with phosgene, and the byproducts are reduced. In addition, the present process uses a jet-absorption apparatus which rapidly cools the high temperature gas discharged from the reactor to a temperature at which the product is thermally stable, and at the same time provides negative pressure for the reaction process of the system, and thus saving bulky vacuum system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ningbo Wanhua Polyurethanes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonghua Shang, Zhongping Sun, Jianfeng Li, Yong Wang, Weiqi Hua, Deqiang Ma, Yongsheng Wang, Jiansheng Ding
  • Patent number: 8192070
    Abstract: A cement mixing method for mixing cement used in cementing oil wells casing and the mixer used in that method. The mixer employs a straight bulk cement inlet, five annular recirculation jets and five annular water jet orifices located downstream of the recirculation jets so that all of the jets discharge at an angle towards the mixing chamber and the discharge from the water jet orifices intersects with the flow from the recirculation jets. This five jet, intersecting flow design allows for more thorough wetting of the cement powder with a smaller, lighter, less expensive and more durable mixer that is less inclined to foul and easier to clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Estate of Thomas E. Allen
    Inventor: Thomas E. Allen
  • Patent number: 8162532
    Abstract: A multi-component coating spray application system comprises: a source of a first coating component, a source of a second coating component, a dynamic mixer in fluid flow communication with the sources of the first and second coating components, wherein the dynamic mixer comprises a mixing chamber and a movable stirring member in the mixing chamber, and a spray gun in fluid flow communication with an outlet port of the dynamic mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: PRC-DeSoto International, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Mark Toole
  • Publication number: 20120069698
    Abstract: A mixer for mixing immiscible fluids includes a mixer housing defining a flow passage therethrough from a first fluid inlet to an outlet thereof. An upstream portion of the flow passage defines a main longitudinal axis. A second fluid inlet is provided downstream of the first fluid inlet in fluid communication with the upstream portion of the flow passage. The second fluid inlet is offset with respect to the main longitudinal axis of the flow passage to introduce fluid along a path that is offset with respect to the main longitudinal axis for inducing swirl on fluids introduced at the first and second fluid inlets. In certain embodiments, a mixer section is included having a flow constriction defined in a downstream portion of the flow passage with a flow area smaller than that of the upstream portion of the flow passage for enhancing turbulent mixing of fluids therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Spencer D. Pack, Steven L. Smith
  • Publication number: 20120012534
    Abstract: A feedwell assembly for a thickener/clarifier includes a feedwell body, at least one infeed conduit connected at a downstream end to the body, and at least one spin or rotation inducement element disposed as part of the infeed conduit for imparting rotation or spin to a slurry stream fed to the feedwell body via the infeed conduit. The spin or rotation inducement element may be a fixed and rigid structural member such as a vane or baffle, or include actively operated elements. Multiple such spin or rotation inducement elements may be provided in various locations in or adjacent the infeed conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: FLSMIDTH A/S
    Inventor: Simon Turner
  • Publication number: 20110296808
    Abstract: A contained vortices device that allows for the flow of air or gas into and out of the device. In the process of gases moving through the device, a vortex is created within the device that allows for the separation of heavier materials, reduction of the size of any particulates, and the expelling of particulates of a significantly smaller size than was introduced to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: John L. Brock, Alexander Campbell Thompson, IV
  • Publication number: 20110199854
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supplying a slurry at high temperature and pressure, such as a process slurry from Bayer process digestion units, to a tank is disclosed. The process and the apparatus at least substantially eliminates bottom settling of solid particulate material and side wall scale by supplying the process slurry from Bayer process digestion units with a swirling motion into flash tanks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher Gordon Coleman, Jie Wu