With Means Applying Electromagnetic Wave Energy Or Corpuscular Radiation To Reactants For Initiating Or Perfecting Chemical Reaction Patents (Class 422/186)
  • Patent number: 11866376
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing boron nitride nanotubes and continuous boron nitride nanotube yarn or tapes is provided. The apparatus includes rotating reaction tubes that allow for continuous chemical vapor deposition of boron nitride nanotubes. The rotation of the reaction tubes allows the boron nitride nanotubes to be spun into yarns or made into tapes, without post process or external rotation or spinning of the gathered nanotubes. Boron nitride nanotube yarns or tapes of great length can be produced as a result, thereby providing industry with a readily useable format for this type of material. Dopants such as carbon can be added to engineer the band gap of the nanotubes. Catalysts may be formed outside or inside the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: University of New Hampshire
    Inventors: David S. Lashmore, Tyler Bennett
  • Patent number: 11857938
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for controlling production of low-carbon liquid fuels and chemicals. In an aspect, provided herein is a method controlling a process that produces e-fuels. In another aspect, provided herein is a system for producing an e-fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Infinium Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Schuetzle, Robert Schuetzle, Anja Rumplecker Galloway, Glenn McGinnis, Alex Mattana
  • Patent number: 11826499
    Abstract: A system for treating air includes a first vent and second vent and an air passage in fluid communication between the first and second vents. Air is drawn into the first vent, moved through the air passage, and expelled from the second vent. The air passage includes an ultraviolet-C (“UV-C”) chamber, comprising a UV-C source, and a filter located after the UV-C chamber in the air passage and exposed to the UV-C source. Air moved through the air passage is treated by the UV-C source and then the filter. Such system may be used to treat air containing coronavirus particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CEC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: William R. Johnston
  • Patent number: 11801467
    Abstract: An electronic microbicidal air filter is provided as an ambient air filter in aeration supports or ventilation grids and as an air filter for PPE protection masks. The filter includes an UVC luminaire (2), a power module (3), activation sensors (4), internal structure (5) with walls defining filtering chambers (6) with exposure membranes (7) sandwiched between the chambers (6) under the luminaire (2), so that the chambers (6) determine a winding zigzag path for the air that passes therethrough, while the particles carried by the air are irradiated by the luminaire (2) directly. The functional elements in the internal structure (5) of chambers (6) are integrated in an encapsulation (9) that surrounds the external part of the assembly and defines a sealed space for the functional and support elements at the ends of the structure (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventor: Juan Enrique Sanchez Gil
  • Patent number: 11786627
    Abstract: A respiratory droplet suction device includes an air inlet end and an exhaust end. A plurality of filtering devices are arranged between the air inlet end and the exhaust end. The filtering device is provided with a bacteria filtering screen for adsorbing bacteria and an ultraviolet sterilization lamp for inactivating the bacteria. The filtering device includes a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall is connected to the air inlet end, and the second side wall is connected to the exhaust end. The air entering from the first side wall is filtered by the bacteria filtering screen and discharged through the second side wall. The ultraviolet sterilization lamp is arranged corresponding to the bacteria filtering screen. A respiratory droplet filtering apparatus includes the respiratory droplet suction device, and a respiratory droplet electric suction system includes the respiratory droplet filtering apparatus are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Guangzhou Ajax Medical Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Lyu, Yuansheng Zhou, Xuehua Huang, Qing Xiang, Zhijie Li
  • Patent number: 11771770
    Abstract: Solutions having a solvent and a cold atmospheric plasma dissolved in the solvent are described. Methods and systems of forming cold atmospheric plasma (CAP)-containing solutions are also described. A system for producing (CAP)-containing solutions includes a gas source; a plasma generating device having a hollow body fluidically coupled with the gas source, a closed proximal end and an open distal end, the hollow body receiving gas from the gas source, and at least one electrode in or about the hollow body and ionizing the gas to discharge a cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) from the open distal end; and a container for housing a fluid, the open distal end of the plasma generating device in fluid communication with an inner portion of the container. CAP-containing solutions can be used in treatment of cancer cells, infected tissue sterilization, microorganism inactivation, promotion of wound healing, skin regeneration, and blood coagulation, and teeth bleaching/whitening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: The George Washington University
    Inventors: Michael Keidar, Zhitong Chen, Xiaoqian Cheng, Li Lin
  • Patent number: 11744913
    Abstract: A fluid conduit disinfector includes a conduit with a fluid disinfection channel defined by inner side surface of the conduit, wherein the inner side surface of the conduit is reflective with a germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) light reflectance R of 50%-99%; a GUV light source for emitting GUV light into the fluid disinfection channel; a fan for forcing a fluid to be disinfected to flow through the fluid disinfection channel, and a filter for filtering particles from the fluid. The fluid disinfection channel may include a first section, a second section and a third section, wherein the first section has a cylindrical shape with a first diameter, the third section has a cylindrical shape with a third diameter larger than the first diameter, the second section has a truncated conical shape and is positioned between the first section and the third section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOLB INC.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhang, Ling Zhou, Ying Gao, Huazhong Deng, Peter Gordon, Cuong Le
  • Patent number: 11739430
    Abstract: A system to generate gases from a liquid or a solid source including a generator, a dual arbitrary generator, a turbine, a thermoelectric generator, a pulse-width modulation device, a suction pump, a radiolytic cell, and magnets. The radiolytic cell includes a body, a first disk, a second disk having a plurality of perforations, and a plurality of radiotrodes. Each radiotrodes includes a large diameter tube, a small diameter tube concentric with the large diameter tube, and metallic wires having an end fixed into an upper section of the large and small diameter tubes and to lower sections of the large and small diameter tubes. The second ends of each one of the metallic wires are connected into the perforations of the corresponding first disk or second disk. The radiotrodes hang up inside the radiolytic cells by the metallic wires producing movement or vibration of the radiotrodes inside the radiolytic cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Adolfo Gustavo Fraccalvieri, Tulio Benjamin Garcia Ocana, Domingo Fernandez y Rajo
  • Patent number: 11724253
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide carried out in the liquid phase and/or in the gas phase under irradiation using a photocatalyst comprising a support made from alumina or silica or silica-alumina and nanoparticles of molybdenum sulfide or tungsten sulfide having a band gap greater than 2.3 eV, said method comprising the following steps: a) bringing a feedstock containing carbon dioxide and at least one sacrificial compound into contact with said photocatalyst, b) irradiating the photocatalyst with at least one source of irradiation producing at least one wavelength smaller than the width of the band gap of said photocatalyst so as to reduce the carbon dioxide and oxidise the sacrificial compound in the presence of said photocatalyst activated by said source of irradiation, in such a way as to produce an effluent containing, at least in part, C1 or above carbon-containing molecules, different from CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Antoine Fecant, Audrey Bonduelle-Skrzypczak, Ranin Atwi
  • Patent number: 11685865
    Abstract: A system and method for producing liquid hydrocarbons is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes at least one renewable power system configured to generate a DC electric power output; at least one water electrolysis system in electrical communication with the renewable power system and configured to utilize the DC electric power to produce a hydrogen output; and a liquid hydrocarbon synthesis system in fluid communication with the water electrolysis system and configured to utilize the hydrogen output and a carbon dioxide feed to produce a liquid hydrocarbon product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: METHYLENNIUM ENERGY CORP.
    Inventor: Maxim Lyubovsky
  • Patent number: 11664208
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for simultaneously measuring the value of forsterite and trace elements in olivine, comprising the following steps: Step S1: selecting samples, wherein the samples are olivine samples; Step S2: placing the samples in a sample chamber of LA-ICP-MS, and adjusting the position of the samples in the optical axis direction so that the laser beam is well focused; Step S3: optimizing the instrument to make the signal-to-noise ratio of 57Fe be the best; Step S4: adopting LA-ICP-MS peak hopping mode and receiving all the mass peaks of the samples by single electron multiplier (SEM). The present disclosure overcomes the disadvantages of long test cycle and high test cost in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shitou Wu, Yadong Wu, Yueheng Yang, Hao Wang, Chao Huang, Liewen Xie
  • Patent number: 11664204
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma device which includes: a base including a power supply unit configured to receive electric power and form an AC signal, a gas flow rate adjustment unit configured to receive gas and control a flow rate of output gas, an input unit configured to receive an input of a user, and a controller configured to control the power supply unit and the gas flow rate adjustment unit according to the input; and a handpiece including a boosting transformer configured to boost the AC signal, an electrode structure configured to receive the boosted AC signal and the gas and form plasma, a switch configured to receive a plasma discharge signal of the user, and a nozzle configured to discharge the formed plasma, wherein the handpiece is connected to the base via a connector and is exchangeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FEMTO SCIENCE INC
    Inventors: Moo Hwan Kim, Yeon Sook Chang
  • Patent number: 11657360
    Abstract: An operating method of a manufacturing service device for managing a floating factory including obtaining demand information on an electronic product at a demand location, calculating cost information of at least one floating factory of a plurality of floating factories based on the demand information and status information of each of the floating factories, selecting a floating factory from the plurality of floating factories corresponding to the calculated cost information indicating a lowest cost, generating movement scheduling information of the selected floating factory based on the demand location and manufacturing locations of components of the electronic product, transmitting the movement scheduling information to the selected floating factory, configuring the selected floating factory to manufacture the electronic product and test the electronic product for defects based on the movement scheduling information, while moving to the demand location may be provided, and supplying the electronic product t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joon-Sung Lim
  • Patent number: 11648332
    Abstract: An air purification system is provided. The air purification system utilizes a multi-pronged approach to both filter air as well as irradiate it with ultraviolet light. Optionally, a humidifier and/or dehumidifier may be used to further treat the outlet air. The system may be positioned fixedly in building air ducts, or may be used in mobile applications to treat and purify air in a room or other space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Innovative Technologies
    Inventor: Nassar Ismail
  • Patent number: 11618685
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) according to an embodiment may ensure mass-production, may increase yield by reducing a production time, and may prepare BNNTs with high purity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NAIEEL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Min Kyung Zo, Jaewoo Kim, Duck Bong Seo, Hee Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11617805
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light and disinfection system, comprising: a lighting system which includes an illumination source and a diffusion hood suitable for the illumination source; a disinfection system which includes a disinfection light source and a cover adapted to transmit the disinfection light source, wherein the diffusion hood and the cover are respectively used for the illumination source and the disinfection light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Ming Lei, Huisheng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11603498
    Abstract: In an aspect, a method of decontaminating a hydrocarbon fluid comprises applying an ultrasonic wave to the hydrocarbon fluid in a storage tank to maintain or reduce an amount of a microorganism in the storage tank; wherein a source of the ultrasonic wave is located within the storage tank and the storage tank has at least one of an inner volume of greater than or equal to 20 meters cubed and/or that is capable of storing 55 to 160,000 liters of the hydrocarbon fluid. In another aspect, a method of decontaminating a hydrocarbon fluid comprises applying an ultrasonic wave to the hydrocarbon fluid to disrupt a cell membrane of a microorganism to form a disrupted microorganism and to reduce a particle size of the disrupted microorganism to be less than or equal to 1.5 micrometers thereby forming a clean hydrocarbon fluid suitable for injecting through an injection nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: PHOENIX ENVIRONMENTAL, INC.
    Inventors: Davis Smith, Casey Joe Smith
  • Patent number: 11603560
    Abstract: Provided is a particle measuring method for measuring, based on image data containing an image of a plurality of particles, a size of each of the particles included in the image data. The particle measuring method includes: acquiring a position of each of the plurality of particles from the image data; extracting two particles vicinal to each other; and calculating the size of each of the particles based on a distance between the two vicinal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11577214
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nanoparticle synthesis device capable of improving productivity of nanoparticles by increasing the size of a reaction region of laser pyrolysis of a source gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: LG CHEM, LTD., KNU-INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jin Mi Jung, Bu Gon Shin, Seong Beom Kim, Seok Ho Maeng
  • Patent number: 11541139
    Abstract: A method of sterilizing material includes receiving the material in a sterilizing chamber, vaporizing sterilant supplied to vaporizer from a sterilant source, exposing the material to the vaporized sterilant by conducting a sterilization cycle in the sterilizing chamber, heating ambient filtered air supplied to the vaporizer from an ambient filtered air source, and removing residuals of the vaporized sterilant absorbed or adsorbed by the material during the sterilization cycle by conducting an aeration cycle in the sterilizing chamber. The removing of the residuals includes conducting a plurality of aeration pulses to provide the sterilizing chamber with an aeration atmosphere comprising the heated filtered air to vaporize the absorbed or adsorbed residuals, and conducting a plurality of aeration vacuum pulses to evacuate the aeration atmosphere and vaporized residuals from the sterilizing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: American Sterilizer Company
    Inventor: Randal W. Eveland
  • Patent number: 11541140
    Abstract: Sterilisation apparatus comprising a sterilisation instrument configured to be inserted through the instrument channel of a surgical scoping device and a withdrawal device for withdrawing the sterilisation instrument from the instrument channel at a predetermined rate. The sterilisation instrument comprises an elongate probe having a probe tip with a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to produce an electric field from received RF and/or microwave frequency EM energy. In operation the instrument may disinfect an inner surface of the instrument channel by emitting energy whilst being withdrawn through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: CREO MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Hancock, Louis Turner, Patrick Burn, Sandra Swain, Julian Mark Ebbutt, Simon Meadowcroft, George Christian Ullrich, David Edward Webb, John Bishop
  • Patent number: 11504445
    Abstract: A photo catalytic filter is configured such that a plurality of plate-shaped members on which a photocatalyst is carried face each other with a gap therebetween, and the gaps form an air flow path. Each plate-shaped member has end surfaces respectively on an air entrance side and an air exit side of the gap. A UV irradiation unit faces the end surfaces on at least one of the air entrance side and the air exit side of the plate-shaped members, and is a predetermined distance away from those end surfaces. An air supply path for taking air from a lateral direction substantially parallel to the end surfaces, and supplying the air to the flow path, or an air discharge path for discharging the air exiting the flow path to a lateral direction substantially parallel to the end surfaces, is formed between the UV irradiation unit and the end surfaces of the plate-shaped members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: APS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruo Watanabe, Hidemitsu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Takafumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11465186
    Abstract: A microwave plasma gasification and recycle integrated system for domestic garbage. The system is fixed in a garbage truck compartment with a garbage inlet, and includes a closed chain-plate type feeder, a shredding machine, and a closed magnetic separator which are connected in sequence. The magnetic separator is further separately connected to a microwave plasma gasification furnace and a metal recycle tank. The microwave plasma gasification furnace is further separately connected to a stink processor, a plastic residue recycle tank, an integrated sewage treatment device, and a residue smashing machine. The stink processor is connected to a gas recycle tank. Both the residue smashing machine and the integrated sewage treatment device are connected to an aerobic fermentation tank. The aerobic fermentation tank is connected to a decomposed material recycle tank by means of a decomposed material forming and screening machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guixin Zhang, Cheng Liu, Hong Xie, Lei Deng
  • Patent number: 11433438
    Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a dissolved ozone removal unit, a substrate treating apparatus including the same, and a substrate treating method. The dissolved ozone removal unit includes a fluid channel providing member having a fluid channel through which a processing liquid passes and a light source member that is mounted in the fluid channel providing member and that supplies UV light to the processing liquid, and the fluid channel providing member includes a helical fluid channel configured such that the processing liquid is exposed to the UV light while helically moving around the light source member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Moon Soon Choi
  • Patent number: 11291742
    Abstract: An air sterilization lamp device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a body in which an intake fan is installed and which suctions outside air through an intake hole provided in the outer surface thereof and is coated with a coating solution containing a photocatalytic material, a lamp which is connected to and installed in the body and through which the outside air suctioned into the body is introduced, and a light emitting source installed inside the lamp and configured to emit light by power supplied from the body. According to the present disclosure, an air sterilization lamp device that can purify indoor air through a function of removing to generated fine dust and performing sterilization treatment as the lamp coated with the coating solution containing the photocatalytic material is irradiated with light, and can simultaneously function as lighting is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: S.M.DOCTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Changho Lee
  • Patent number: 11249089
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to method and system of characterizing a protein using an electrospray ionization source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Shunhai Wang
  • Patent number: 11097022
    Abstract: A sterilization system having a controllable non-ionizing microwave radiation source for providing microwave energy for combining with a gas to produce atmospheric low temperature plasma for sterilizing biological tissue surfaces or the like. A plasma generating region may be contained in a hand held plasma applicator. The system may include an impedance adjustor e.g. integrated in the plasma applicator arranged to set a plasma strike condition and plasma sustain condition. The gas and microwave energy may be transported to a plasma generating region along an integrated cable assembly. The Integrated cable assembly may provide a two way gas flow arrangement to permit residual gas to be removed from the surface. Invasive surface plasma treatment is therefore possible. The plasma applicator may have multiple plasma emitters to produce a line or blanket of plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CREO MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Hancock
  • Patent number: 11101328
    Abstract: Provided is a vapor deposition apparatus including: a plasma generator configured to change at least a portion of a first raw material gas into a radical form; a corresponding surface corresponding to the plasma generator; a reaction space between the plasma generator and the corresponding surface; and an insulating member separated from, and surrounding the plasma generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk-Won Jung, Myung-Soo Huh, Choel-Min Jang
  • Patent number: 10934186
    Abstract: A system for treating a polar liquid includes a signal generator for providing an alternating electrical current, and a transducer electrically coupled to the signal generator. The transducer includes a solenoidal coil and two ferromagnetic end pieces at the ends of the coil and transverse thereto. In operation, the transducer is at least partially immersed in a polar liquid and, when energized with the current provides a magnetic field into the liquid, the field may change a property of the liquid, e.g. an interfacial mass transfer rate. This can be used in many different industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Rudy Parisien, David Tat Fai Fung, Ron Vered, James Stuart Wight
  • Patent number: 10875794
    Abstract: For changing a property of a polar liquid a device comprising a signal generator and a transducer is provided adjacent to the liquid or at least partially immersed therein. The signal generator provides an alternating electrical signal to the transducer, wherein the electrical signal is of a frequency and an amplitude to affect the transducer to produce an alternating magnetic field having a magnetic flux density so as to change the property of the polar liquid, wherein a portion of the magnetic field penetrates the liquid, having an effect thereon and providing a change in the property of the liquid at a distance of at least 1 meter from the transducer. The property is a gas exchange rate and the change is at least 5%, or the property is surface tension and the change is at least 1%, or the property is viscosity and the change is at least 0.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Rudy Parisien, Neil Teitelbaum, David Tat Fai Fung, Ron Vered, James Stuart Wight
  • Patent number: 10835631
    Abstract: A photocatalytic element including: a photocatalytic layer containing at least one photocatalytic material; and a light emitting source in optical communication with the photocatalytic material, the light emitting source disposed sufficiently proximal to the photocatalytic material to raise the surface temperature of at least some of the photocatalytic material to a temperature between 10° C. and 90° C. is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Ekambaram Sambandan, Sazzadur Rahman Khan, Takuya Fukumura, Hiroyuki Katayama
  • Patent number: 10834846
    Abstract: A disclosed apparatus includes: a vessel accommodating an object to be treated; an ultraviolet ray lamp that emits ultraviolet rays to the object to be treated; a control unit accommodating circuit equipment that controls energization of the ultraviolet ray lamp; and two (i.e., first and second) fans disposed in series with each other in an exhaust opening, formed in a casing of the control unit, for cooling the circuit equipment within the control unit. While the apparatus is in operation, the first fan is normally kept in a driven state and an air flow exhausted by the first fan passes through the second fan while idling the second fan. The apparatus further includes an abnormality detector that detects an abnormality of the first fan, such that the second fan is activated in response to the abnormality of the first fan being detected by the abnormality detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PHOTOSCIENCE JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Yamakoshi, Arata Ishii, Hiroshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 10828615
    Abstract: The photoreactor comprises at least one housing (11) for at least one reaction vessel and at least one light source for lighting said at least one reaction vessel, and the photoreactor comprises: a first module (1) provided with said at least one housing (11) for at least one reaction vessel and comprising a cooling/heating circuit (15) for regulating the temperature of said at least one reaction vessel; a second module (2) provided with said at least one light source; and a thermal insulating layer (5) placed between the first module (1) and the second module (2). It improves reproducibility of the reactions by temperature and light intensity control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT CATALÀ D'INVESTIGACIÓ QUÍMICA (ICIQ), INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS (ICREA)
    Inventors: Julio Lloret-Fillol, Carla Casadevall Serrano, José Luis León, Arnau Call Quintana, Alicia Casitas Montero, Joan Jose Pla, Javier Pérez Hernández, Francesc Xavier Caldentey Frontera
  • Patent number: 10814030
    Abstract: A hybrid full-spectrum air purification device employs a UV light source; ionization, both negative and positive or only negative ions; and, adsorbent VOC filters, zeolite, potassium permanganates, carbon, polymers, tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, tromethamine, and/or the like, applied to carbon monolith structures. Room temperature bi-metallic nano-particle catalysts, such as supported noble metal based catalysts (e.g. platinum, palladium, gold, silver, etc.) with inert oxide in this case platinized tin oxide (Pt/SnOx) combined with, or without, non-noble metal oxides such as manganese dioxide (MnO2) and/or titanium dioxide (TiO2), and/or the like, may also be applied to the carbon monolith(s). The device is suitable for installation immediately above, or adjacent, a cooling coil with the air flow entering the germicidal (UV) area first, followed by the VOC catalyst filters and finally being exposed to the dual/single polarity ionization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DUST FREE, LP
    Inventors: Gregg W. Burnett, Joshua Pulis
  • Patent number: 10763021
    Abstract: For changing a property of a polar liquid, a transducer including a solenoidal coil is disposed at least partially within the liquid, which is prevented from penetrating the interior of the coil. An alternating electrical current applied to the coil produces a magnetic field about the coil. The current has a frequency and an amplitude such that the magnetic field has an effect on the liquid changing a property of the liquid at a distance of at least 5 meters from the transducer, wherein the property is gas exchange rate, surface tension, viscosity, freezing point, or partial vapor pressure. A system may include two transducers, wherein the electrical currents are offset in phase or frequency for controlling the effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Rudy Parisien, David Tat Fai Fung, Ron Vered, James Stuart Wight
  • Patent number: 10737956
    Abstract: A system for treating a polar liquid includes a signal generator for providing an alternating electrical current, and a transducer electrically coupled to the signal generator. The transducer includes a solenoidal coil and two ferromagnetic end pieces at the ends of the coil and transverse thereto. In operation, the transducer is at least partially immersed in a polar liquid and, when energized with the current provides a magnetic field into the liquid, the field may change a property of the liquid, e.g. an interfacial mass transfer rate. This can be used in many different industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Rudy Parisien, David Tat Fai Fung, Ron Vered, James Stuart Wight
  • Patent number: 10736980
    Abstract: An ultraviolet sterilization device includes a processing chamber that houses a subject of sterilization and a light source that irradiates an interior of the processing chamber with ultraviolet light. A wall of the processing chamber has a stack structure including a first layer made of a fluororesin material and a second layer made of an ultraviolet reflective material, the first layer being provided on the inner side of the processing chamber. The light source includes an aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) based ultraviolet light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Mochizuki, Shinya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10717081
    Abstract: The invention provides microfluidic devices, systems, and methods for manipulating an object within a channel of a microfluidic device using an external electrode. The device has a channel disposed within the device, the channel having no included electrodes. The channel has a wall, at least a portion of which is penetrable by an electric field generated external to the device, the wall being penetrable such that the electric field extends through the wall portion and into a region within the channel. The system includes the microfluidic device and an electrode external to and not bonded to the device. In the method, the external electrode is placed adjacent to the device and energized to generate an electric field that extends through the wall of the device and into the channel, thereby manipulating an object within the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua I. Molho, Daniel G. Stearns, I-Jane Chen, Danh Tran, Bradley W. Rice, Tobias Daniel Wheeler
  • Patent number: 10633266
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a contaminated fluid has a UV lamp within a tubular housing. A plurality of baffles within the housing create meandering pathways parallel to the lamp for exposing the fluid to the UV light along the entire length of the pathways. A photocatalytic coating on the baffles and inner surfaces of the housing is maintained within a pre-set radial distance, preferably no more than about 75 mm, from the lamp for optimal creation of a photocatalytic reactant. The contaminated fluid flowing through the meandering pathways is maintained in close proximity to the lamp and has adequate time for exposure to the ultraviolet light and photocatalytic reactant for treatment before exiting the housing. The baffles are removably positioned within the housing for convenient maintenance or to alter the length of the pathways, without re-sizing the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: UV-DOX PATENT INC.
    Inventor: Reinhard Schuetz
  • Patent number: 10625260
    Abstract: An analysis system may perform operations on an analyte that may be combined with multiple regents prior to being introduced into a flow cell. The instrument may include a volume into which the reagents to be combined with the analyte are aspirated one-by-one. The volume may be formed as a serpentine channel in a valve manifold associated with sippers for aspirating the reagents. The reagents may then be mixed by cycling a pump to move the reagents within the mixing volume or channel. For this, the reagents may be aspirated from a recipient into the volume or channel, ejected back into the recipient, and this process may be performed repeatedly to enhance mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Kent Drews, Michael Dai Wang, Umberto Ulmanella, Stephen Wayne Clark, Johanna Lynn Whitacre, Steven Scott Phelps, Michelle L. Alvarez, Michael Adalbert Niziolek, Debra Sue Bryan, Joshua Augustin Darland
  • Patent number: 10570029
    Abstract: A liquid treatment system (2) comprising a liquid enclosure (4) having a main axis A, at least one ultra-violet (UV) light source (6) with an extension along said main axis and configured to emit UV light to a liquid in the liquid enclosure (4). The liquid enclosure comprises at least one liquid section (8) with an extension along the main axis and structured to contain the liquid. The system (2) comprises swirl generating members (12) configured to generate a swirling motion of the liquid around a swirling axis S in the at least one liquid section (8) wherein the swirling axis is essentially parallel to the main axis, wherein the swirling motion is such that a controlled varying distance is induced to essentially all liquid elements of the liquid in relation to said light source (6) such that essentially all liquid elements are moved into high UV radiation zones closest said UV transparent wall (10), to achieve uniform UV radiation of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Wallenius Water Innovation AB
    Inventors: Ulf Arbeus, Staffan Strand
  • Patent number: 10451617
    Abstract: A method for capturing a molecule in a sample, comprising mixing the sample with magnetic particles. Each of the particles being coupled with an element capable of binding selectively to the molecule for capture, so as to form at least one complex comprising a magnetic particle. The element and the molecule bound to the element, immobilizing the at least one complex on a support comprising ordered magnetic field microsources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS), Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble
    Inventors: Guillaume Blair, Luiz Fernando Zanini, Gilbert Reyne, Nora Dempsey, Marianne Weidenhaupt, Franz Bruckert, Orphée Cugat
  • Patent number: 10443962
    Abstract: A high temperature plate heat exchanger with low chromium rejection for fluids above 550° C. and a method of cooling a gas is suggested. The heat exchanger comprises a plurality of heat transfer plates made of a chromium-containing alloy, particularly high-temperature stainless steel or Ni-based chromium-containing alloy and having two heat transfer surfaces. The plurality of heat transfer plates comprise at least on one heat transfer surface of the heat transfer plates a chromium absorber coating comprising porous titanium dioxide over at least a first portion of the length of said heat transfer surface. The chromium absorber coatings of two adjacent heat transfer plates are facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Bosal Emission Control Systems NV
    Inventor: Yves De Vos
  • Patent number: 10371445
    Abstract: A microwave furnace includes a microwave casket having an inner surface forming an internal cavity. A heatable body, formed at least in part of a microwave susceptor material, is located in the internal cavity of the casket and heats in response to a microwave field. A thermal control system is provided, which includes a fluid flow path extending through the casket and has an inlet and an outlet formed in the microwave casket. A portion of the fluid flow path is adjacent the heatable body. The thermal control system flows a thermal transfer fluid through the fluid flow path via the inlet to absorb heat from the heatable body and to transfer the absorbed heat along the fluid flow path until the thermal transfer fluid exits the fluid flow path via the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
    Inventor: Edward B. Ripley
  • Patent number: 10354786
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to hybrid magnetic material structures for electronic devices and circuits. An embodiment of an inductor includes a first layer of magnetic film material applied on a substrate, one or more conductors placed on the first layer of magnetic film material, and a second layer of magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles are suspended in an insulating medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Donald S. Gardner, Gerhard Schrom, Edward A. Burton
  • Patent number: 10316872
    Abstract: A magnetic trap droplet controller is provided that includes a solid substrate, a controller operated by an appropriately programmed computer, a two-dimensional distribution of magnetized domains disposed on a surface of the solid substrate, a fluid chamber disposed above the two-dimensional distribution of magnetized domains, and an active magnet, where the active magnet is disposed to provide a dynamic magnetic field in-plane with the solid substrate, where the dynamic magnetic field controls north and south poles of the two-dimensional distribution of magnetized domains according to the controller, where a fluid under test that is disposed in a carrier fluid that is disposed in the fluid chamber propagates according to the controlled north and south poles of the two-dimensional distribution of the magnetized domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Manu Prakash, Georgios Katsikis
  • Patent number: 10173193
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a base having first and second inlets. Inner and outer cylinders are disposed on the base, with the outer cylinder being concentric with the inner cylinder. An inner surface of the inner cylinder defines an internal volume. An outer surface of the inner cylinder and an inner surface of the outer cylinder define a chamber space. An ultraviolet lamp is disposed within the internal volume. A top cover is positioned over the inner and outer cylinders and in a sealing relationship with the cylinders. The top cover has a first passageway in flow communication with the chamber space, and a second passageway in flow communication with the internal volume. The first inlet is in flow communication with the chamber space and the second inlet is in flow communication with the internal volume. A system including a process chamber and an ammonia radical generator also is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamed Sabri, Karl Leeser
  • Patent number: 10147575
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch for a starter includes a coil that includes a first lead wire connected to a power supply side and a second lead wire connected to a ground side, the coil being supplied with an energization current through the first and second lead wires to form an electromagnet while a starter relay is on. The electromagnetic switch further includes a surge suppression device that absorbs part of energy emitted from the coil when the starter relay is turned from on to off so that a remaining part of the energy is applied to the starter relay to cause an arc current to flow between contacts of the starter relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10121580
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gluing device, a gluing method and a colloid for packaging devices. The gluing device includes an instillation head configured to guide a glue added with magnetic material in an instillation direction; and a magnetic field generation mechanism configured to apply a magnetic field within the instillation head, so as to apply a force to the magnetic material through the magnetic field in a direction identical to or opposite to the instillation direction. Thus a flow rate of the glue in the instillation direction is controlled through the force applied by the magnetic material to the glue. The glue in the gluing device may be smoothly dripped out at a constant flow rate, thereby to prevent the occurrence of discontinuous or thin glue lines in the related art due to an insufficient pressure during gluing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Quan, Chiahao Chang, Chinlung Liao
  • Patent number: 10040700
    Abstract: A light-shielding strip, for preventing a sealing member from deterioration due to ultraviolet rays, is made of a ultraviolet-shielding material having a resilient plate shape, and comprises: a main light-shielding portion having a length according to at least a circumferential length of an inner periphery of a lamp-protective tube; and first and second overlap portions extending from respective ones of both ends of the main light-shielding portion in a longitudinal direction with each forming a non-parallel convergence shape. The light-shielding strip, rolled in the longitudinal direction, is disposed in the lamp-protective tube to closely fit to the inner periphery of the lamp-protective tube and positioned to oppose to the sealing member. Repulsive force against bending force around an end portion of the light-shielding strip can be dispersed due to the non-parallel convergence shape of the overlap portions, so that a possible-raised portion around the end portion can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: PHOTOSCIENCE JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Akiyama, Yuji Yamakoshi