Plural Injectors Patents (Class 366/173.1)
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Patent number: 11742538Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corp., Inventec CorporationInventors: Chi-Cheng Hsiao, Yi-Kuan Liao
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Patent number: 11484862Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11432431Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Steven Thomas Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Jimmy Doyle Pike
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Patent number: 10762774Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Tomoyuki Tsunoda
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Patent number: 10168112Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Cool Technology Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Mikhail Spokoyny, Nick Ortenberg
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Patent number: 9359583Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Traneil K. Clark, Jeffrey Scott Dupont, Nathan Lee Hall
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Publication number: 20150125351Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventor: Vladimir V. Fedorov
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Patent number: 8986628Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Governing Council of the Univ. of TorontoInventors: 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
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Patent number: 8986547Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Inventor: Michael J. Baccigalopi
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Publication number: 20150071024Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Martin Horan, Seamus O'Mahony
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Publication number: 20150049575Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: WETEND TECHNOLGIES OYInventors: Jouni Matula, Jussi Matula, Jari Makinen
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Publication number: 20150018575Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Paul A. Gillis, Joydeep Mukherjee, Paulo Pereira
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Patent number: 8911683Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Mario Curcio, Carlo Effenhauser, Michael Glauser
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Publication number: 20140104975Abstract: 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 (53Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventor: Mikhail Sergeevich Chivilikhin
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Patent number: 8695618Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Yong Tae Kim, William C. Messner, Philip R. LeDuc
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Patent number: 8657483Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Cabot Norit Americas, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Nebergall, Patton M. Adams
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Patent number: 8622250Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic CorporationInventors: Jeff Kadyk, Suresh Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 8616761Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jon Kevin McLaughlin, Roger Phillip Williams
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Patent number: 8602634Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Wetend Technologies OyInventor: Jouni Matula
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Patent number: 8523425Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Inventor: Mark Malmquist
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Method and apparatus for use of mixing elements in wastewater / recycle water UV disinfection system
Patent number: 8459861Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Calgon Carbon CorporationInventor: Keith G. Bircher -
Publication number: 20130010569Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Erich William Gansmuller, Ke-ming Quan, Yunpeng Yang, Francesc Corominas
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Patent number: 8333927Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Ningbo Wanhua Polyurethanes Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiansheng Ding, Yong hua Shang, Deqiang Ma, Jingquan Hao, Peicheng Luo, Shuang Hu
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Patent number: 8322910Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Erich William Gansmuller, Ke-ming Quan, Yunpeng Yang, Francesc Corominas
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Patent number: 8313231Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Postech Academy-Industry FoundationInventors: Tai-Hun Kwon, Sung-Jae Park
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Patent number: 8308339Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Science Applications International CorporationInventors: Timothy P. Karpetsky, John C. Berends, Jr.
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Patent number: 8303163Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Inventor: Charles A. Schneider
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Patent number: 8262279Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral ResoucesInventors: Chulwoo Rhee, Jaehwa Jin, Minjun Kim, Yikyun Kwon
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Publication number: 20120206994Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventor: Thomas E. Allen
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Patent number: 8240908Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Roger Phillip Williams, Jon Kevin McLaughlin
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Publication number: 20120201724Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Kenichi Miyata, Takahiro Mohri, Kusunoki Higashino, Yasuhiro Sando, Masashi Nishikado, Gou Yanagihara
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Publication number: 20120156783Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: James Kubiak, Todd A. Battistoni, David W. Jayme
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Patent number: 8201988Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Bing Sun, Paul A. Sechrist
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Patent number: 8182132Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Youichi Nagai, Kazuhiro Mae, Nobuaki Aoki
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Patent number: 8172455Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventor: Yuichiro Noda
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Patent number: 8167479Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Impianti OMS S.P.A.Inventor: Loris Massarotto
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Patent number: 8152359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Inventor: Joseph Carl Firey
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Patent number: 8147121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: 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
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Patent number: 8123396Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Science Applications International CorporationInventors: Timothy P. Karpetsky, John C. Berends, Jr.
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Publication number: 20110268611Abstract: 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 controlType: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Hiromasa Akahori, Shinichiro Kawachi, Jiro Komiya, Hisashi Kuroshima
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Patent number: 8007164Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: GC CorporationInventors: Tatsunosuke Miyano, Masayuki Takahashi, Kazuma Noguchi
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Patent number: 7985019Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SAInventors: Eric Lundgren, Bengt Palm
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Patent number: 7942566Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Flyashdirect, Ltd.Inventor: James H. Irvine
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Publication number: 20110087009Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Sung Lai Jimmy YUN, Jian Feng Chen
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Patent number: 7901128Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Joerg-Peter Gehrke, Paul A. Gillis, Hua Bai
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Publication number: 20100225685Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONInventors: Tai-Hun Kwon, Sung-Jae Park
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Patent number: 7789273Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic CorporationInventors: Jeffery Kadyk, Suresh Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 7726870Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Vortex Systems (International) CIInventor: William Gerald Lott
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Patent number: 7717297Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic CorporationInventors: Jeff Kadyk, Suresh Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 7661872Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Inventors: Ray Daniels, Frank R. Daniels, Donald D. Dawkins, Dale Mayberry