Plural Injectors Patents (Class 366/173.1)
  • Patent number: 11742538
    Abstract: A liquid tank system includes a tank body and a liquid coolant supplying device. The tank body has an accommodating space, a liquid inlet, and an upper outlet. The liquid inlet and the upper outlet communicate with the accommodating space. The accommodating space is sealed except for the liquid inlet and the upper outlet. The liquid coolant supplying device is connected to the liquid inlet so as to continuously provide a liquid coolant to the accommodating space through the liquid inlet. The liquid coolant in the accommodating space overflows out of the tank body through the upper outlet. A Li-ion battery cooling system includes a Li-ion battery and the above liquid tank system. The Li-ion battery is disposed in the accommodating space and submerged in the liquid coolant. The continuously flowing liquid coolant dissipates heat from the lithium battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corp., Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Chi-Cheng Hsiao, Yi-Kuan Liao
  • Patent number: 11484862
    Abstract: A chemical reactor/mixer, in particular for producing hydrates comprising a mixer network plate and heat exchanger plates wherein the network mixer plate comprises an array of chambers that are connected by channels where the flow of one or more fluids is mixed and divide sequentially. The network mixer plate is confined by the heat exchanger plate that have an inner chamber where a heat exchanger fluid is introduced. Said network plates and heat exchanger plates are designed to have the option to be assembled as modules of larger processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PETROGAL, S.A.
    Inventors: José Carlos Brito Lopes, Madalena Maria Gomes de Queiroz Dias, Marcelo Filipe Dos Santos Costa, Ricardo Jorge Nogueira dos Santos, Carlos André De Moura Teixeira
  • Patent number: 11432431
    Abstract: A two-phase cooling apparatus for an information handling system, including a container holding dielectric fluid, the dielectric fluid having a vapor-fluid boundary within the container, the container further containing a printed circuit board (PCB) including computing components, with the dielectric fluid surrounding the PCB and the computing components, the dielectric fluid decreasing a temperature of the PCB by removing heat from the PCB in the form of vaporization; a pump positioned within the container, the pump capturing a portion of vapor of the dielectric fluid, at the vapor-fluid boundary, that results from the vaporization of the dielectric fluid; and a diffuser positioned within the container and coupled to the pump to introduce the captured vapor into the dielectric fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Patent number: 10762774
    Abstract: A method for computing an index on a sediment disaster, performed by a computer, the method includes: creating a computation model for computing the index on a sediment disaster at a specific point using information on a geometry of a precipitation zone at the specific point and long rainfall and short rainfall at the specific point, the information being created from past precipitation data accumulated in a storage unit; and computing the index on a sediment disaster using the computation model from the information on the geometry of the precipitation zone at the specific point, the information being created from the input precipitation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 10168112
    Abstract: A jet-flow heat exchanging device for transferring heat from or to one or more heat transfer surfaces comprises one or more orifice groups, each for directing a heat carrier medium onto the heat transfer surface with at least one of the orifice groups including a main orifice for generating a main jet-stream, and at least two control orifices associated with the main orifice and configured to generate control jet-streams for interacting with the main jet-stream, so as to cause the heat carrier medium of the main jet-stream to swirl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cool Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Spokoyny, Nick Ortenberg
  • Patent number: 9359583
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to fluid fabric enhancing compositions and processes of making and using same. Such fluid fabric enhancing compositions have a desirable fabric enhancer active efficiency that is, at least in part, due to the particle index of such fluid fabric enhancing compositions. Certain chemical processing and physical processing methods are not required to produce such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Traneil K. Clark, Jeffrey Scott Dupont, Nathan Lee Hall
  • Publication number: 20150125351
    Abstract: A device for heat, mass, and chemical exchange and interaction between gases and liquids. Nozzles feed the gas at angles in different directions to form a gas-liquid mix, swirls, and/or foam above an array of such nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Vladimir V. Fedorov
  • Patent number: 8986547
    Abstract: A subsea contaminate remediation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a conduit. The conduit includes a first end adapted to receive a first liquid stream having at least one contaminate; a second end adapted to release a second liquid stream; a grating associated with the second end of the housing; and at least one chemical injection port. The chemical injection port is adapted to introduce a chemical to the first liquid stream to form the second liquid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: Michael J. Baccigalopi
  • Patent number: 8986628
    Abstract: A microfluidic method and device for focusing and/or forming discontinuous sections of similar or dissimilar size in a fluid is provided. The device can be fabricated simply from readily-available, inexpensive material using simple techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto
    Inventors: Howard A. Stone, Shelley L. Anna, Nathalie Bontoux, Darren Roy Link, David A. Weitz, Irina Gitlin, Eugenia Kumacheva, Piotr Garstecki, Willow R. Diluzio, George M. Whitesides
  • Publication number: 20150071024
    Abstract: A method of effectively mixing a gas with a liquid using an agitator. The agitator can be a component of a larger liquid analysis system. The method includes using the action of a reciprocating member to draw liquid from a sample liquid chamber through a liquid passageway into an agitation chamber. In the agitation chamber, a gas is added to the liquid and the mixture is then forced by the action of the reciprocating member through the liquid passageway into the sample liquid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Horan, Seamus O'Mahony
  • Publication number: 20150049575
    Abstract: A method including: introducing a first chemical to a first passage of a mixing apparatus attached to the process liquid flow pipe; introducing an injection liquid into a second passage of the mixing apparatus; introducing to a third passage of the mixing apparatus a second chemical having an electrical charge opposite to the electric charge of the first chemical; injecting the first chemical into the injection liquid by passing the first chemical through a passage between the first passage and the second passage; introducing the mixture of the first chemical and the injection liquid to a process liquid flowing through the process liquid flow pipe, and introducing the second chemical from the third passage to the process liquid in the process liquid flow pipe, wherein the second chemical passes from the third passage to the process liquid a distance from the injection of the first chemical into the injection liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: WETEND TECHNOLGIES OY
    Inventors: Jouni Matula, Jussi Matula, Jari Makinen
  • Publication number: 20150018575
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mixing conduit (100) having at least a cylindrical inner surface or a cylindrical outer surface and increased number of jet openings (102). The mixing conduits according to embodiment of the present invention improve mixing rates thus reducing formation of undesired by-products without sacrificing structural integrity. Particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a static mixer (150) having a substantially circular mixing conduit (100) with more than about 22 jet openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Paul A. Gillis, Joydeep Mukherjee, Paulo Pereira
  • Patent number: 8911683
    Abstract: A microfluidic device is provided including at least one chamber accessible by microfluidic channels characterized in that the surface of the channels and the chambers are patterned and comprise hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas. The surface energy in correspondence of the areas, i.e., the capillary force, being such that a liquid can be guided along the hydrophilic path, enter the chamber from one side, wet part of one surface of the chamber as a thin layer without touching the opposite surface of the chamber, thus avoiding to fill the volume inside the chamber in correspondence of the hydrophilic pattern until a second liquid, either sequentially or in parallel, comes to wet part of the opposite surface of the chamber and eventually touches the first liquid layer, resulting in a sudden coalescence and efficient mixing between the liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Curcio, Carlo Effenhauser, Michael Glauser
  • Publication number: 20140104975
    Abstract: A multilayer microfluidic module (10) contains a micromixer (12) comprising, in order along an internal fluid path (14), a first fluid channel (16) lying within a first layer (51) of the module (10) along a first direction (15) with the first layer having a lower boundary (21); at least one additional fluid channel (17) lying within the first layer (51) of the module (10) along an additional direction (19); a first injection passage (20) extending from a first injection passage inlet (22) in the lower boundary (21) of the first layer (51) of the module (10) through a second layer (52) of the module (10) to a first injection passage outlet (24), the first injection passage inlet (22) being fluidically connected to the first fluid channel (16) and to the additional fluid channel (17) either individually through the lower boundary (21) of the first layer (51) or via a manifold (25) within the first layer (51); and a second fluid channel (26) lying within a third layer (53) of the module (10), the third layer (53
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Mikhail Sergeevich Chivilikhin
  • Patent number: 8695618
    Abstract: Methods of controllably creating three-dimensional (3D) combined-flow-interface patterns in multi-lane fluidic devices, and systems, apparatuses and software therefor. In one example, the 3D-pattern is created and varied as a function of one or more of the geometry of the inlets to a main fluidic channel in which the 3D-pattern is formed, the Reynolds number of the flows, the dimensions of the main fluidic channel and the inlets, and the spacing of adjacent inlets. In one embodiment particularly disclosed, differing 3D combined-flow-interface patterns are created using a three-lane fluidic device having a fixed inlet geometry. In another embodiment particularly disclosed, differing 3D combined-flow-interface patterns are created using a five-lane fluidic device having a fixed inlet geometry that can be used to effectively mimic variable inlet geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Yong Tae Kim, William C. Messner, Philip R. LeDuc
  • Patent number: 8657483
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus designed to impregnate a sorbent. In some embodiments apparatus of the disclosure may comprise a mixing vessel having either a conical mixing chamber or an cylindrical mixing chamber designed to increase the contact surface area and/or contact/residence time of a sorbent and impregnant to produce compositions comprising an impregnated sorbent. Apparatus of the disclosure may also comprise one or more atomizers operable to produce atomized droplets of impregnant. The disclosure also provides methods for impregnation of a milled sorbent or an un-milled sorbent. Methods of the disclosure provide several technical advantages and may be cost effective. Impregnant sorbent compositions produced by methods and/or apparatus of the disclosure may have higher concentrations of an impregnant, a more uniform distribution of an impregnant and may have a greater sorbent efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cabot Norit Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Nebergall, Patton M. Adams
  • Patent number: 8622250
    Abstract: A mixing device and method for mixing at least one first ingredient and at least one second ingredient. The device includes a body which has a wall defining a cavity. A first inlet communicates with the cavity for introducing the first ingredient and a second inlet communicates with the cavity for introducing the second ingredient. An outlet is provided in communication with the cavity receiving the mixed first and second ingredient which have been mixed in the cavity. The ingredients are mixed by introducing one ingredient as a stream and the second ingredient as a forcefully introduced stream. An area upstream of the ingredients is provided for mixing ingredients. Once mixed the ingredients must flow through the body before reaching the outlet. Multiple mixing devices can be cascaded to produce additional variations and mixing methods. The device can be in the form of a kit for retrofitting on existing devices such as beverage dispensers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Kadyk, Suresh Radhakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8616761
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for combining multiple materials. The multiple materials may include both a major material and one or more minor materials. The major and minor materials are added at transient or steady state flow rates, depending upon a command from a control signal. The actual flow rates track the commanded flow rates, but deviate by an error. The claimed arrangement provides an instantaneous and time-based error believed to be unobtainable in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jon Kevin McLaughlin, Roger Phillip Williams
  • Patent number: 8602634
    Abstract: A feeding device for feeding a chemical into a process liquid flowing through a process liquid flow duct, the feeding device includes: a feeding liquid duct having a discharge opening; a mixing liquid feed duct extending through the feeding liquid duct, a sidewall and a closed end wall, wherein the end wall extends beyond the discharge opening of the feeding liquid duct and extending into the process liquid flow duct; a mixing space adjacent the end wall and within the sidewall of the mixing liquid feed duct; a chemical feed duct extending through the mixing liquid feed duct and having a discharge opening proximate to the mixing space in the mixing liquid feed duct, and a mixture discharge opening in the side wall of the mixing liquid feed duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Wetend Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8459861
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mixing at least one fluid flowing through a fluid system using ultraviolet light to control organisms. Ultraviolet lamps are positioned in the fluid flow and arrays of triangularly shaped mixing elements are arranged at spaced intervals along the length of each lamp, wherein the plurality of arrays of triangularly shaped mixing elements create four vortices surrounding each elongated member forming a square array of vortices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Calgon Carbon Corporation
    Inventor: Keith G. Bircher
  • Publication number: 20130010569
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation, and components for the apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a mixing and/or cavitation chamber with an element such as an orifice component that is located adjacent the entrance of the cavitation chamber. The apparatus may further include a blade, such as a knife-like blade, disposed inside the mixing and/or cavitation chamber opposite the orifice component. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured to be scalable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Erich William Gansmuller, Ke-ming Quan, Yunpeng Yang, Francesc Corominas
  • Patent number: 8333927
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hole-jetting type reactor and its applications, in particular to a process for the production of isocyanates by the phosgenation of aliphatic or aromatic diamines or triamines in the gas phase using this reactor. The present invention achieves a good mixing and reacting result of the gas-phase phosgenation reaction at a high temperature by improving the mixing of reactants in the reactor to reduce the possibility of forming swirls and eliminate negative pressure produced at a local jet area, which can finally reduce back-mixing and formation of solid by-products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Ningbo Wanhua Polyurethanes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiansheng Ding, Yong hua Shang, Deqiang Ma, Jingquan Hao, Peicheng Luo, Shuang Hu
  • Patent number: 8322910
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mixing by producing shear and/or cavitation, and components for the apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a mixing and/or cavitation chamber with an element such as an orifice component that is located adjacent the entrance of the cavitation chamber. The apparatus may further include a blade, such as a knife-like blade, disposed inside the mixing and/or cavitation chamber opposite the orifice component. In one version of such an embodiment, the apparatus is configured to be cleaned in place. The apparatus may, be provided with at least one drain in liquid communication with the mixing chamber. If the apparatus comprises a blade, the apparatus may further include a blade holder that is movable so that the distance between the tip of the blade and the discharge of the orifice can be varied. In this or other embodiments, the apparatus is configured to be scalable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Erich William Gansmuller, Ke-ming Quan, Yunpeng Yang, Francesc Corominas
  • Patent number: 8313231
    Abstract: A droplet mixing apparatus can be applied for use with a variety of liquids, can provide a mixing speed of hundreds of nl/s by adjusting an opening/closing time of a solenoid valve, can effectively mix droplets, and can reduce a reaction time when applied to clinical appliances that utilize expensive liquids. The droplet mixing apparatus includes a plurality of pressure containers storing liquids that are to be dispensed, a plurality of solenoid valves that are respectively connected to the pressure containers to dispense the liquids fed from the pressure containers into a mixing container, and a control unit that controls the solenoid valves such that the solenoid valves are either simultaneously opened or alternately opened and closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Tai-Hun Kwon, Sung-Jae Park
  • Patent number: 8308339
    Abstract: An extremely dilute mixture of a liquid in a flowing fluid stream is prepared by forming tiny droplets of the liquid and injecting the droplets individually into the flowing stream. The rate at which liquid is added to the flowing stream is determined by the number of droplet forming units that are provided and upon the frequency with which the units are activated, allowing a precise digital control of the concentration of the liquid in the flowing fluid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy P. Karpetsky, John C. Berends, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8303163
    Abstract: An in-line mixing apparatus is especially useful for iodine extraction from brine. Three fluids (brine, an oxidant such as sodium hypochlorite, and an acid such as HCl) are mixed in the apparatus. The apparatus includes an inner tube and an outer tube. Openings are present in the sidewall of the inner tube to connect the interior volume of the inner tube with the annular volume between the inner tube and the outer tube. Fluid is passed into the inner tube and flows through the openings into the annular volume, causing immediate and vigorous mixing and chemical reaction to obtain elemental iodine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventor: Charles A. Schneider
  • Patent number: 8262279
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wet-type recirculation system for particle size analysis of sample including coarse particles (hundreds to thousands ?m). According to the wet-type recirculation system of the present invention, the mixture liquid is recirculated using not a single recirculation line but two recirculation lines between the mixer and the particle size analyzer and the recirculation lines are connected with the mixer at the upper inputting part side of the mixer to discharge the mixture liquid. Further, the rotatable baffle is attached to the inside of the mixer to generate vortex in a horizontal direction as well as a vertical direction within the reservoir of the mixer and the baffle is rotated by a pressure of the mixture liquid discharged from the two recirculation lines to form vortex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resouces
    Inventors: Chulwoo Rhee, Jaehwa Jin, Minjun Kim, Yikyun Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120206994
    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: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Thomas E. Allen
  • Patent number: 8240908
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for combining multiple materials into a stream. The multiple materials may include both a major material and one or more minor materials. The minor materials are added using inlet tubes. The major and minor materials are added at transient or steady state flow rates, depending upon a command from a control signal. The apparatus and method utilize a control system which does not have flow control valves, flow control feedback loops or a dynamic mix tank. The actual flow rates track the commanded flow rates, but deviate by an error. The claimed arrangement provides a time-based error believed to be unobtainable in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Roger Phillip Williams, Jon Kevin McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20120201724
    Abstract: There are provided a micro mixer capable of efficiently mixing at least two types of liquids in a simple structure and a microfluidic chip provided with the micro mixer. In order to achieve the object, the micro mixer includes a minute passage through which first and second liquids are caused to flow respectively, and a mixing vessel in which a liquid injecting port caused to communicate with the minute passage is provided in a bottom part, and the liquid injecting port is provided in a shifted position from a center of the bottom part in the bottom part. Moreover, the liquid injecting port may be provided in a shifted position from a center line of the mixing vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyata, Takahiro Mohri, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Masashi Nishikado, Gou Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20120156783
    Abstract: A method for continuously preparing a medium formulation mixes a diluent with a plurality of chemically incompatible concentrate solutions in such a manner that none of the ingredients of the concentrate solutions chemically react in an adverse manner. The method utilizes a static mixing chamber to add the concentrate solutions to the diluent stream sufficiently in advance of one another so that adverse chemical reactions do not occur. The method also adjusts a pH level of the diluent prior to adding any of the concentrate solutions to the diluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Kubiak, Todd A. Battistoni, David W. Jayme
  • Patent number: 8201988
    Abstract: An apparatus is presented for the mixing of a feed fluid with a process fluid between two adsorbent beds. The apparatus creates a space for mixing and redistributing a fluid mixture between the two adsorbent beds, where a process fluid is received from the upper adsorbent bed, and a distributor box passes the feed fluid to space between the adsorbent beds and mixes the feed fluid with the process fluid. The mixture is then redistributed and passed through to the lower adsorbent bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Bing Sun, Paul A. Sechrist
  • Patent number: 8182132
    Abstract: A microdevice for multistage-mixing of process fluids which has plurality of freely-detachable units connected to each other without using pipes, wherein a microchannel for flow of the process fluids and a channel for flow of a heat-exchange medium are formed in the microdevice by mutual connection of a plurality of the units and the microdevice is locally and independently temperature-controllable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Youichi Nagai, Kazuhiro Mae, Nobuaki Aoki
  • Patent number: 8172455
    Abstract: A liquid feeding method for feeding liquid in a minute flow path is provided. The minute flow path includes flow paths 43a, 43c, 43d connected to each other directly at respective first ends. The liquid feeding direction of blood S in the minute flow path is controlled by creating a high-pressure state at a second end of the flow path 43a located across the blood S, while creating a low-pressure state or a closed state at a second end of the flow paths 43d, 43c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Noda
  • Patent number: 8167479
    Abstract: An apparatus for dosing and mixing solid powders in technological processes for converting plastic materials, comprising an assembly for dosing the solid powders to be mixed with a first process liquid before mixing with an additional process liquid, the dosage assembly comprising at least one hydraulic cylinder for introducing the powders at a preset pressure which is correlated to the pressure of the first process liquid kept at a controlled pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Impianti OMS S.P.A.
    Inventor: Loris Massarotto
  • Patent number: 8152359
    Abstract: A method for reducing tar fuel viscosity by steam heating, during slurrification in a rotary slurrifier, is described for creating slurries of many small tar particles suspended in a continuous water phase. This heating is done at pressure to avoid evaporation of the water. The tar in water slurry is evaporatively cooled by subsequent depressurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Joseph Carl Firey
  • Patent number: 8147121
    Abstract: A pre-mixing apparatus for a turbine engine includes a main body having an inlet portion, an outlet portion and an exterior wall that collectively establish at least one fluid delivery plenum, and a plurality of fluid delivery tubes extending through at least a portion of the at least one fluid delivery plenum. Each of the plurality of fluid delivery tubes includes at least one fluid delivery opening fluidly connected to the at least one fluid delivery plenum. With this arrangement, a first fluid is selectively delivered to the at least one fluid delivery plenum, passed through the at least one fluid delivery opening and mixed with a second fluid flowing through the plurality of fluid delivery tubes prior to being combusted in a combustion chamber of a turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Paul Lacy, Balachandar Varatharajan, Willy Steve Ziminsky, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Ertan Yilmaz, Patrick Benedict Melton, Baifang Zuo, Christian Xavier Stevenson, David Kenton Felling, Jong Ho Uhm
  • Patent number: 8123396
    Abstract: An extremely dilute mixture of a liquid in a flowing fluid stream is prepared by forming tiny droplets of the liquid and injecting the droplets individually into the flowing stream. The rate at which liquid is added to the flowing stream is determined by the number of droplet forming units that are provided and upon the frequency with which the units are activated, allowing a precise digital control of the concentration of the liquid in the flowing fluid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy P. Karpetsky, John C. Berends, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20110268611
    Abstract: A liquid mixing apparatus of the present invention includes: a first tank; a first introduction section that introduces a first liquid into the first tank; a second introduction section that introduces a second liquid into the first tank; a first opening portion provided above a highest liquid level of the first tank; a second tank; a third introduction section that introduces a third liquid into the second tank; a second opening portion provided above a highest liquid level of the second tank; a liquid transfer conduit that connects a bottom surface portion of the first tank and a bottom surface portion of the second tank; an opening/closing valve provided in the liquid transfer conduit; a gas transfer conduit having one end arranged above the highest liquid level in the first tank and another end arranged above the highest liquid level in the second tank; a pump capable of forward/reverse operation that can transfer a gas in two directions inside the gas transfer conduit; and an atmospheric release control
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Akahori, Shinichiro Kawachi, Jiro Komiya, Hisashi Kuroshima
  • Patent number: 8007164
    Abstract: For easier and surer fixing to a syringe holder, a mixing tip fixed at two portions of a top end of a syringe holder (X) containing two parallel syringes (Y, Y) comprising: a housing (2) including a mixing element (1); a paste guiding member (3) including paste inlets (3a) attached to nozzles of two syringes (Y, Y), and flow paths (3b) to introduce pastes extruded from the syringes into the housing (2) through the paste inlets (3a); and two locking members fixed at or integrally formed with the paste guiding member (3) or the housing (2) to be locked to the syringe holder (X), wherein the two locking members are a pawl part (4) locked with a locking hole (Xa) formed at the syringe holder (X) and a projection part (5) inserted into a hole part (Xb) provided at the syringe holder (X), or two pawl parts (4, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunosuke Miyano, Masayuki Takahashi, Kazuma Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7985019
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for continuously mixing two flows, a first, larger flow and a second, smaller flow. The second flow is introduced counter-directed into the first flow. The apparatus comprises a T pipe where a first connection constitutes an inlet for the first flow. A second connection, at 180° in relation to the first connection, constitutes an inlet for the second flow. The second flow is led into the first flow through a conduit within the T pipe. The first connection is provided with a conical portion in which are provided a number of holes, so that the first flow is throttled and divided up into a plurality of subflows immediately before the mixing operation. A third connection is oriented at 90° in relation to the other connections and constitutes an outlet for the intermixed flows, which implies that the intermixed flows are caused to change direction immediately after the mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA
    Inventors: Eric Lundgren, Bengt Palm
  • Patent number: 7942566
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for treating fly ash and a method of use thereof. The system and method allow for the quick and consistent application of a chemical entity to fly ash so that the characteristics of the fly ash are changed in order to allow use of the fly ash in a new capacity. One specific example is the use of treated fly ash in concrete. The system disclosed herein may be used to treat fly ash as it is produced at a coal-burning power plant or as it is unloaded from a pneumatic truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Flyashdirect, Ltd.
    Inventor: James H. Irvine
  • Publication number: 20110087009
    Abstract: A process for the production of a microparticle or a nanoparticle of a chemical compound comprising the steps of providing a solution of said chemical compound in a first liquid; providing a second liquid in which said chemical compound is insoluble or substantially insoluble; combining said liquids in a region of high shear thereby causing formation of said particles; and isolating said particles of said compound. The processing time of a coacervation style process can be reduced and the yield can be substantially increased both by control of the precipitation step which allows for desolvation step to be dispensed with leading to significant process time reduction. The invention also provides a molecular mixing unit comprising an outer body defining a mixing zone; a shear means to provide shear liquid in said mixing zone; at least one fluid inlet means for a first liquid; at least one fluid inlet means for a second liquid and a fluid outlet means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Sung Lai Jimmy YUN, Jian Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 7901128
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for mixing at least two fluid substances and carrying out or initiating a reaction between them, wherein the apparatus is a static mixer are described. The static mixer includes a fluid receiving chamber, a first conduit passing through the fluid receiving chamber and having at least one tapered aperture therethrough, and a second conduit operatively connected to the fluid receiving chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Joerg-Peter Gehrke, Paul A. Gillis, Hua Bai
  • Publication number: 20100225685
    Abstract: A droplet mixing apparatus can be applied for use with a variety of liquids, can provide a mixing speed of hundreds of nl/s by adjusting an opening/closing time of a solenoid valve, can effectively mix droplets, and can reduce a reaction time when applied to clinical appliances that utilize expensive liquids. The droplet mixing apparatus includes a plurality of pressure containers storing liquids that are to be dispensed, a plurality of solenoid valves that are respectively connected to the pressure containers to dispense the liquids fed from the pressure containers into a mixing container, and a control unit that controls the solenoid valves such that the solenoid valves are either simultaneously opened or alternately opened and closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tai-Hun Kwon, Sung-Jae Park
  • Patent number: 7789273
    Abstract: A mixing device and method for mixing at least one first ingredient and at least one second ingredient. The device includes a body which has a wall defining a cavity. A first inlet communicates with the cavity for introducing the first ingredient and a second inlet communicates with the cavity for introducing the second ingredient. An outlet is provided in communication with the cavity receiving the mixed first and second ingredient which have been mixed in the cavity. The ingredients are mixed by introducing one ingredient as a stream and the second ingredient as a forcefully introduced stream. An area upstream of the ingredients is provided for mixing ingredients. Once mixed the ingredients must flow through the body before reaching the outlet. The device can be in the form of a kit for retrofitting on existing devices such as beverage dispensers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery Kadyk, Suresh Radhakrishnan
  • Patent number: 7726870
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for mixing a static fluid with another component, such as a particulate material, a liquid, a compressible liquid or gas, or combinations thereof, using a motive fluid stream, producing a low pressure region within the static fluid using radial eductors in a tank. The invention further relates to a method for separating oil form an oil and water mixture using a motive fluid stream and air, producing a low pressure region in a tank with entrained air bubbles, wherein the oil attaches to the air bubbles and rises to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Vortex Systems (International) CI
    Inventor: William Gerald Lott
  • Patent number: 7717297
    Abstract: A mixing device and method for mixing at least one first ingredient and at least one second ingredient. The device includes a body which has a wall defining a cavity. A first inlet communicates with the cavity for introducing the first ingredient and a second inlet communicates with the cavity for introducing the second ingredient. An outlet is provided in communication with the cavity receiving the mixed first and second ingredient which have been mixed in the cavity. The ingredients are mixed by introducing one ingredient as a stream and the second ingredient as a forcefully introduced stream. An area upstream of the ingredients is provided for mixing ingredients. Once mixed the ingredients must flow through the body before reaching the outlet. Multiple mixing devices can be cascaded to produce additional variations and mixing methods. The device can be in the form of a kit for retrofitting on existing devices such as beverage dispensers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Kadyk, Suresh Radhakrishnan
  • Patent number: 7661872
    Abstract: An application for a device for mixing chemicals into a flow of a liquid includes a mixing chamber and an input port at a first end of the mixing chamber. The input port has an input connection for accepting a flow of the liquid and a plurality of input port channels. The input port channels direct the flow of the liquid from the input connection to the mixing chamber at an angle with respect to an inner wall of the mixing chamber. Located close to the input port is a chemical input orifice for accepting a chemical into the mixing chamber. Located at a distal end of the mixing chamber is an output port that has an output connection for discharging a mixture of the liquid and the chemical and a plurality of output port channels. The output port channels direct a flow of the mixture angularly with respect to the inner wall of the mixing chamber to the output connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Inventors: Ray Daniels, Frank R. Daniels, Donald D. Dawkins, Dale Mayberry