With Means Applying Electromagnetic Wave Energy Or Corpuscular Radiation To Reactants For Initiating Or Perfecting Chemical Reaction Patents (Class 422/186)
  • Patent number: 12224548
    Abstract: A single-photon Raman optical frequency comb source is provided, including: a light source assembly, a filtering mechanism, at least three electro-optical modulators, a wavelength division multiplexer and a single photon generating mechanism. The light source assembly is configured to generate a Raman scattering light. The filtering mechanism is configured to pass a light having a specific wavelength, to filter the Raman scattering light and obtain at least three Raman scattering spectral lines. Each electro-optical modulator is configured to modulate a frequency of one of the Raman scattering spectrum lines in one-to-one correspondence, so as to cause a frequency shift of the Raman scattering spectrum line. The wavelength division multiplexer is configured to multiplex all modulated Raman scattering spectral lines and output a Raman optical frequency comb. The single photon generating mechanism is configured to adjust the Raman optical frequency comb to obtain a single-photon Raman optical frequency comb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Chong Wang, Haocheng Yang, Xianghui Xue, Yudie Li, Tingdi Chen
  • Patent number: 12219684
    Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus has a magnetron, a circulator, a heating assembly, and an end assembly. The heating assembly has a base waveguide tube and a guiding tube obliquely mounted through the base waveguide tube. An included angle between the guiding tube line and the base waveguide tube is smaller than 90 degrees. The end assembly includes a reflecting component having a reflecting surface facing toward the guiding tube, and an adjusting module for adjusting a distance between the reflecting component and the guiding tube. By adjusting the included angle between the guiding tube and the base waveguide tube, an inclined angle of the reflecting surface of the reflecting component and the distance defined between the reflecting component and the guiding tube, a best impedance matching of the microwave can be set according to impedance change of liquid to be heated and heating efficacy of the microwave heating apparatus can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: WAVE POWER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Hao Teng, Han-Ying Chen
  • Patent number: 12203651
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating gaseous pollutant with plasma comprises a microwave source generating a microwave oscillation; a waveguide component coupled to the microwave source; and a resonant cavity coupled to the waveguide component, the microwave oscillation is substantially propagated toward a waveguide direction, the resonant cavity comprises a first chamber and a second chamber, the waveguide direction is substantially parallel to a reference axis defined in the first chamber, the first chamber has an inner wall surrounding the reference axis, the inner wall comprises a first inner wall obliquely inclined toward the reference axis and a second inner wall substantially parallel in respect to the reference axis relatively, an area of the first inner wall is larger than that of the second inner wall so that the first chamber has a tapered space, and the microwave oscillation interacts with an ignition gas in the second chamber to generate a torch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BHT SERVICES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Chee Wei Chan
  • Patent number: 12195331
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus for synthesizing nanoparticles by irradiating, with an electron beam, a nanoparticle aqueous solution in a reaction vessel provided inside a shielding chamber, and more particularly, to an apparatus for synthesizing nanoparticles, which is capable of preventing radiation generated in a shielding chamber from leaking out, and facilitating maintenance and repair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KORENS RTX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Min Shin, Dae Soo Yang, Ki Baek Song, Yeong Cheol Yoon, Hyean Yeol Park, So Yeon Lim
  • Patent number: 12194173
    Abstract: An aircraft sanitization system is disclosed. The aircraft sanitization system includes an armrest comprising a pocket, a top lid, and a retractable mechanism. The pocket is configured to store a tray and the top lid is covers the pocket. The retractable mechanism enclosed in the pocket includes a first end removably attached to the tray and a second end fixed within the pocket. The retractable mechanism is configured to extract the tray from the pocket in an open state and retract the tray into the pocket in a closed state. The aircraft sanitization system further includes a first set of Ultraviolet (UV) Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) affixed on each inner wall of the pocket. The first set of UV LEDs is configured to sanitize each surface of tray, when the tray is in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Greg Irmen, Samaresh Swaro
  • Patent number: 12186727
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LED light source photocatalytic tubular reactor and application thereof. The LED light source photocatalytic tubular reactor comprises an LED light source, a temperature control chamber and a transparent reaction pipeline; the transparent reaction pipeline is located in the temperature control chamber; at least one side of the temperature control chamber is a light-transmitting plate; the LED light source provides a light source for the transparent reaction pipeline through the light-transmitting plate; and the transparent reaction pipeline has a diameter-to-length ratio of the inner diameter to the length of 0-0.1, but not 0. The LED light source continuous photocatalytic tubular reactor of the present disclosure can eliminate the scaling up effect, increase the yield and allow continuous production with an advantage of easy to use and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Shanghai SynTheAll Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Shanghai STA Pharmaceutical R&D Co., Ltd., Shanghai STA Pharmaceutical Product Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Like Chen, Ruiheng Zhu, Zhenbing Zhao, Donglin Li, Abdolsamad Tadayon, Xiaoyong Fu
  • Patent number: 12181309
    Abstract: Various laser level systems that provide for automatic alignment between a laser level and a detector are shown. In one example, a laser level system processes a detected laser to determine an orientation of a detector with respect to the laser level. In another example, a laser level system processes a detected laser to determine a distance between the laser and the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Y. Wong, Gareth J. Mueckl
  • Patent number: 12156951
    Abstract: A fuel tank disinfection system, including one or more ultraviolet (UV) light emitters disposed within a fuel tank and configured to irradiate one or more water collecting areas within the fuel tank with UV light; and one or more UV light sensors disposed within the fuel tank and in proximity to the one or more water collecting areas and configured to measure the UV light irradiated on the one or more water collecting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Murat Saylik, Joseph Andrew Bolton
  • Patent number: 12153210
    Abstract: A method for scanning a microarray, including (a) providing a microarray to an optical scanner, wherein the microarray includes a surface having features having different target molecules; (b) scanning the surface in the x or y direction to acquire optical signals from the features at sequential regions of the surface, wherein the focus setting between the optical scanner and the surface is dynamically controlled in real time by repeatedly (i) adding a predetermined focal offset, thereby introducing an error in the focus setting, and (ii) adjusting the focus setting to reduce the error in the focus setting, thereby acquiring the optical signals from different regions at different degrees of focus such that a subset of the regions that are scanned have an introduced focus error; and (c) analyzing the optical signals that are obtained at the different degrees of focus to identify the different target molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Robert Segale, John Moon, Hongji Ren
  • Patent number: 12134062
    Abstract: A portable air purifier is provided that may include a housing having an inlet forming a passage through which air is suctioned into the housing, a filter disposed at an upper side of the inlet and configured to purify air suctioned in through the inlet and flowing upward, an irradiator disposed at a lower side of the filter, installed at a height at which the irradiator overlaps the inlet and configured to irradiate light for sterilization onto the filter, and a sterilizer support configured to support the irradiator and configured to be fixed to the housing and disposed around an outer perimeter of the irradiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Eun Choi, Hyungho Park, Seongkyeol Hong
  • Patent number: 12103874
    Abstract: In a system for decomposing organic compounds in water for use in semiconductor manufacturing, a chemical reactor vessel having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a persulfate anion addition system upstream of the reactor vessel, and a light emitting device contained within the reactor vessel. The light emitting device provides light capable of decomposing persulfate anions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Steve D. Sitkiewitz, Gary M. Carmignani, Lee W. Frederick
  • Patent number: 12083255
    Abstract: A sanitizing photocatalytic reactor suitable for air liquid or liquid fluids includes a reaction region containing a photocatalyst selected from nanotechnological materials of natural light photocatalyst type, which is supported on an inert support or mixed with a plastic material, and an illumination region having white color LED lights, the reaction region further having one or more channels through which the fluids to be sanitized flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Earth & Sea Group S.r.l., Inpigest S.r.l.
    Inventors: Michele De Campo, Giuseppe Bavestrello
  • Patent number: 11992819
    Abstract: A device includes an insulated reaction chamber, light sources above a stirring module, the light sources surrounding the reaction chamber, and holders containing reaction vessels, the holders configured to fit within the insulated reaction chamber in a manner that enables an even distribution of light between the reaction vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: Marc J. Bazin, Ryan S. Buzdygon
  • Patent number: 11990388
    Abstract: In one aspect, a pump-motor assembly is provided outside of and adjacent to a storage container that stores a back-up energy storage unit. The pump-motor assembly includes a pump-motor that maintains a minimum pressure of a liquid coolant in a liquid coolant system that cools the back-up energy storage unit, and a housing that is completely enclosed, the housing containing the pump-motor, and having a removable access panel on one side thereof the enclosed structure, and an opening on another side thereof to the storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Adam C. Grove, Nirag Sheth, Umakanth Sakaray, John M. Tanner, Jeremy Byrd, Gregory S. Hasler
  • Patent number: 11958043
    Abstract: A method of making a multicomponent photocatalyst, includes inducing precipitation from a pre-cursor solution comprising a pre-cursor of a plasmonic material and a pre-cursor of a reactive component to form co-precipitated particles; collecting the co-precipitated particles; and annealing the co-precipitated particles to form the multicomponent photocatalyst comprising a reactive component optically, thermally, or electronically coupled to a plasmonic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Nancy Jean Halas, Peter Nordlander, Hossein Robatjazi, Dayne Francis Swearer, Chao Zhang, Hangqi Zhao, Linan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11956879
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material, the apparatus including a thermal insulator including an inner wall at least partially defining a heating zone for receiving at least a portion of an article including smokable material, wherein the inner wall includes heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field to heat the heating zone; an outer wall; and an insulation region bound by the inner wall and the outer wall, wherein the insulation region is evacuated to a lower pressure than an exterior of the insulation region; and a magnetic field generator for generating a varying magnetic field that penetrates the inner wall in order to heat the inner wall in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mitchel Thorsen, Thomas Woodman, Stephen Shannon
  • Patent number: 11946154
    Abstract: Provided are a dielectric material, a device including the dielectric material, and a method of preparing the dielectric material, in which the dielectric material may include: a layered perovskite compound, wherein the layered perovskite compound may include at least one selected from a Dion-Jacobson phase, an Aurivillius phase, and a Ruddlesden-Popper phase, a temperature coefficient of capacitance (TCC) of a capacitance at 200° C. with respect to a capacitance at 40° C. may be in a range of about ?15 percent (%) to about 15%, and a permittivity of the dielectric material may be 200 or greater in a range of about 1 kilohertz (kHz) to about 1 megahertz (MHz).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungjun Kim, Chan Kwak, Takayoshi Sasaki, Yasuo Ebina, Changsoo Lee, Dohwon Jung, Giyoung Jo, Takaaki Taniguchi
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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