In Environmental Air Enclosure Patents (Class 55/385.2)
  • Patent number: 12121853
    Abstract: A system for directly capturing and measuring greenhouse gasses from a mixture of gasses over a wide range of concentrations from ambient air to combustion exhaust products including: an emissions capture reaction vessel; a reaction media container configured to house a volume of reaction media, the reaction media configured to extract a constituent gas from gas flowing through the emissions capture reaction vessel and capture constituent gas; an intake and exhaust manifold configured to receive and release, respectively a portion of a gas stream via a first access tap on the exhaust stack; a computer system comprised of sensors and actuators connected to a network to directly measure efficiency and uptake of a system, and a fan arranged within the housing and configured to influence the amount and speed of the gas stream processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Thalo Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Hermalyn, John Kolaczynski, Samuel Patterson, Mihir Juvvadi, Thomas Evenat, Peter Schultz
  • Patent number: 12109523
    Abstract: A system for reducing airborne pathogens and contaminants in a breathing zone of a person is disclosed. A manifold assembly includes a tube fitted with an air intake nozzle. The air intake nozzle is positioned at the breathing zone of the person such that an air gap is created between the person and the nozzle. Exhaled air is routed from the person to the manifold assembly via the tube. A purification unit deactivates and/or filters airborne pathogens and contaminants of the exhaled air supplied from the manifold assembly. A suction assembly draws the exhaled air from the breathing zone of the person, through the manifold assembly and the purification unit, to a one-way exhaust valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MagPlasma, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin E. Toomajian, Timothy E. Moore
  • Patent number: 12107018
    Abstract: A method of measuring the concentration of Fe in a p-type silicon wafer by an SPV method enabling improvement in the measurement accuracy for Fe concentrations of 1×109/cm3 or less. The method of measuring the concentration of Fe in a p-type silicon wafer includes measuring an Fe concentration in the p-type silicon wafer based on measurement using an SPV method. The measurement is performed in an atmosphere in which the total concentration of Na+, NH4+, and K+ is 1.750 ?g/m3 or less, and the total concentration of F?, Cl?, NO2?, PO43?, Br?, NO3?, and SO42? is 0.552 ?g/m3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Fukushima, Takehiro Tsunemori
  • Patent number: 12097310
    Abstract: An apparatus for irradiating air flow in a vehicle includes a filter unit configured to couple to a recirculating-air conduit connected to a manifold of an air circulation system, the filter unit having an inlet end, and a filter disposed in the inlet end of the filter unit, including an outer High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) media. The apparatus further includes a plurality of ultraviolet light transmissive strands that each have distal ends disposed in a spaced apart manner in an interface region between the outer HEPA media filter and an inner activated carbon filter or HEPA filter, and proximal ends connectable to an ultraviolet light emitting source such that ultraviolet light is transmitted by the transmissive strands into the interface region. The transmissive strands are configured to receive emitted ultraviolet light that is substantially between 222 nm and 265 nm for irradiating air passing through the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Bryce Vandyke
  • Patent number: 12084282
    Abstract: Two transport units are provided with a partition device. The partition device includes a partition body, a partition body guide mechanism, and a movement assist mechanism. The movement assist mechanism includes a cable body and a cable body guide mechanism. A coupling portion is coupled to an upper portion of the partition body. A grip portion is provided on the cable body spaced apart from the coupling portion. The cable body guide mechanism includes a guide body. The cable body extends along a curved extending direction along the guide body. A portion of the cable body on the coupling portion side relative to the guide body extends along a width direction on a protruding side in the width direction relative to the guide body, and a portion of the cable body on the grip portion side relative to the guide body extends along an up-down direction below the guide body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinsuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12084912
    Abstract: An assembly type ventilation device for windows and doors is disclosed. The assembly type ventilation device for windows and doors comprises: a filter frame provided with an insertion part into which an air filter module is detachably inserted and fixed; a first fixing part installed on one side of the filter frame and fixed to a window; and a second fixing part installed on the other side of the filter frame and fixed to a window frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Mi Ran Lim
  • Patent number: 12070708
    Abstract: A filtering device is provided and has an integrally formed housing, a filtering assembly disposed on one side of the housing and a fan disposed on the other side of the housing through a closure plate. The housing and the closure plate are fabricated separately, thereby allowing the filtering device to be formed with great weight and volume. Further, during operation of the fan, the housing is prevented from vibration, and operation noise of the filtering device is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: VERO VERIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chien-Teh Huang
  • Patent number: 12051609
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for reducing the humidity within a FOUP (Front Opening Unified Pod) when loaded on an EFEM (Equipment Front End Module) for transfer of a semiconductor wafer substrate during fabrication processes. A deflector of specified structure is placed inside the EFEM above the load port of the FOUP. The deflector directs airflow in the EFEM away from the load port. The deflector includes a body with a plurality of apertures in the deflector body, and with a sloped front surface. Thus, the degree of penetration of high-humidity air from the EFEM into the FOUP is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Ju Huang, Kuang-Wei Cheng, Cheng-Lung Wu, Yi-Fam Shiu, Chyi-Tsong Ni
  • Patent number: 12023422
    Abstract: A UV air purification system. In some implementations, the system includes a UV lamp housed in a module that can be installed in a vehicle anywhere that the vehicle's return air is accessible. In some implementations, the module includes a filter, and provides a UV light/cabin filter module that replaces the OEM filter in the return air duct in the vehicle. In other implementations, the module is installed in the vehicle's glove compartment or auxiliary recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew Grafton
  • Patent number: 12025343
    Abstract: A gas detection and purification device is provided for being carried by a user and includes a body, a purification module, a gas-guiding unit, and a gas detection module. The gas detection module detects a gas nearby the user to obtain a gas detection data, and the gas detection module controls the operation of the gas-guiding unit based on the gas detection data, guides the gas into the body, guides the gas to pass through the purification module for being filtered and purified to become a purified gas, and discharges the purified gas to a region nearby the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Ching-Sung Lin, Chin-Chuan Wu, Yung-Lung Han, Chi-Feng Huang
  • Patent number: 12018485
    Abstract: A ceiling façade system includes: a ceiling tile including an interior panel defining a first edge extending along a first side of the ceiling tile and a second edge extending along a second side of the ceiling tile opposite the first edge, a heating element, and an insulator layer arranged over the heating element opposite the interior panel; a first receiver extending along and configured to support the first side of the ceiling tile on a linear lighting track arranged on a ceiling structure and configured to locate the first edge of the interior panel adjacent and partially concealing the linear lighting track; and a second receiver extending along and configured to support the second side of the ceiling tile on a linear seam track arranged on the ceiling structure, the linear seam track laterally offset from the linear lighting track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Cover Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexis Xavier Rivas, Jemuel Joseph, Thomas Heyer, Craig Derian, Katherine Stavisky, Robert Jackson, Scott Kevern, Tyler Peterson, Jose Morales
  • Patent number: 12018857
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to various embodiments of a hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system that can be readily transportable and assemblable and provide for maintaining a minimum inert gas volume and maximal access to various devices and apparatuses enclosed therein. Various embodiments of a hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system of the present teachings can have a gas enclosure assembly constructed in a fashion that minimizes the internal volume of a gas enclosure assembly, and at the same time optimizes the working space to accommodate a variety of footprints of various OLED printing systems. Various embodiments of a gas enclosure assembly so constructed additionally provide ready access to the interior of a gas enclosure assembly from the exterior during processing and readily access to the interior for maintenance, while minimizing downtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Mauck, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Eliyahu Vronsky, Shandon Alderson
  • Patent number: 12011975
    Abstract: The transportation refrigeration system (100) comprising: a transport container being integrally connected to a vehicle; a transportation refrigeration unit configured to provide conditioned air to the refrigerated cargo space; an energy storage device (350) configured to provide electrical power to the transportation refrigeration unit; an electric generation device (340) configured to generate electrical power from at least one of the wheel (364) and the wheel axle (365) to charge the energy storage device (350) when the electric generation device is activated; an inertial sensor (360) configured to detect at least one of a deceleration of the vehicle and a downward pitch of the vehicle; and a power management module (310) in electrical communication with at least one of the energy storage device (350), the electric generation device (340), and the inertial sensor (360), wherein the power management module activates the electric generation device when the inertial sensor detects at least one of the decelera
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rudolf Johannes Van Wijk, Peter van der Plas
  • Patent number: 12014937
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust system of a wafer treatment device, and the main purpose thereof is to prevent secondary contamination of a wafer by not allowing foreign substances such as process gases and fumes and the like floating in the wafer treatment device to make contact with the wafer in a side storage. The wafer treatment device comprises: a cleaning device for removing foreign substances remaining on a wafer; and an exhaust device comprising first and second main bodies at the lower side of a main body of the wafer treatment device. By not allowing foreign substances such as process gases and fumes and the like floating in the wafer treatment device to make contact with a wafer in a side storage, secondary contamination of the wafer is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: PICO & TERA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bum Je Woo
  • Patent number: 11951430
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for user customizable configurations and replacement of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning filter media and frames. A filter media may be combined with a media frame according to user specifications. One filter media or combinations of multiple filter media may be chosen by a user to create custom filter configurations. Filter media may be separated from the media frame and disposed of in a manner generally more convenient than traditional HVAC filter replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Papeltec Overseas, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter A. Rodriguez, Jason Rodriguez, Craig Austin
  • Patent number: 11933519
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a filter and an irradiation unit that irradiates the filter with ultraviolet light. An optical axis of the ultraviolet light emitted from the irradiation unit is inclined relative to a plane orthogonal to a thickness direction of the filter. This makes it possible to efficiently disinfect the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Umemura, Ryuji Seino
  • Patent number: 11913655
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for filtering a fluid within a building is shown. The system includes one or more sensors configured to measure one or more characteristics of a first fluid within an air duct of the BMS and measure one or more characteristics of a second fluid after the second fluid has been filtered. The system further includes a pollutant management system configured to receive data from the one or more sensors and control a filtration process. The filtration process selects a filter of a plurality of filters based on at least one of a level of the one or more characteristics of the first fluid or the one or more characteristics of the second fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Timothy C. Gamroth, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. ElBsat, David S. Eidson, James Burke, Kirk H. Drees, Thomas M. Seneczko
  • Patent number: 11904267
    Abstract: An apparatus for irradiating air flow in a vehicle includes a filter unit configured to couple to a recirculating-air conduit connected to a manifold of an air circulation system, the filter unit having an inlet end, and a filter disposed in the inlet end of the filter unit, including an outer wall of filter media having a shape that defines an interior volume of the filter. The apparatus further includes an ultraviolet light disposed on an end plate, configured to be mounted with the ultraviolet light positioned in the interior volume of the filter and the end plate against an open end of the filter. The ultraviolet light is configured to emit ultraviolet radiation substantially at between 222 nm and 265 nm for irradiating air flow through the filter into the air circulation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Bryce A. Vandyke, Kevin S. Callahan, Stephen M. Trent
  • Patent number: 11901205
    Abstract: Purge diffusers for use in systems for transporting substrates include: i) a purge diffuser core having an internal purge gas channel, one or more diffuser ports and an outer surface; ii) filter media secured to the outer surface of the purge diffuser core; and iii) a purge port connector for mounting the purge diffuser to a purge port of a substrate container for transporting substrates. The purge diffuser core may be a unitary article, may be formed by injection molding, and may include diverters internal to the internal purge gas channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark V. Smith, Nicholas Thelen, Matthew A. Fuller, Michael C. Zabka, Sung In Moon, John P. Puglia
  • Patent number: 11891174
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing repair operations using an unmanned aerial vehicle. The methods are enabled by equipping the UAV with tools for rapidly repairing a large structure or object (e.g., an aircraft or a wind turbine blade) that is not easily accessible to maintenance personnel. In accordance with various embodiments disclosed below, the unmanned aerial vehicle may be equipped with an easily attachable/removable module that includes an additive repair tool. The additive repair tool is configured to add material to a body of material. For example, the additive repair tool may be configured to apply a sealant or other coating material in liquid form to a damage site on a surface of a structure or object (e.g., by spraying liquid or launching liquid-filled capsules onto the surface). In alternative embodiments, the additive repair tool is configured to adhere a tape to the damage site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Gary E. Georgeson, Samuel R. Goertz
  • Patent number: 11786628
    Abstract: An air purifier according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an air passage defined between a first inner wall surface and a second inner wall surface that are planar and face each other, having a flat passage cross section in which a distance between the first inner wall surface and the second inner wall surface is small, and meandering in a plane parallel to the first inner wall surface and the second inner wall surface; a catalyst member including a support having a flat mesh shape, and a photocatalyst supported on the support, the catalyst member being disposed parallel to the first inner wall surface and the second inner wall surface in the air passage; and a plurality of light sources dispersed on the second inner wall surface, and configured to irradiate the catalyst member with light that activates the photocatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sunstar Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoharu Usa, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11771610
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tent-type mobile infectious disease clinic, and more particularly, to a mobile infectious disease clinic, which is a tent-type mobile infectious disease clinic that makes it possible to promptly install a large number of mobile infectious disease clinics due to having mobility and being easy to install and remove, that allows a test subject to be tested by a healthcare provider using an infectious disease test kit while the test subject is isolated in the tent-type mobile infectious disease clinic, the healthcare provider is outside the tent-type mobile infectious disease clinic, and exposure of the body parts is minimized, that performs sterilization of an infectious disease using an ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp to reduce the time taken for disinfecting the clinic, and that allows the light radiation intensity of the UV-C lamp to be adaptively adjusted according to the body temperature of the test subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, KOREA ENGINEERING & CLEAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Suk Lee, Kyo Chul Koo, Hyung Min Park, Joo Yeon Park, Ye Eun Kang, Seok Gyu Park, Dae Sick Choi, Seon Il Kim, Sun Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 11766372
    Abstract: An automated dose-response record system including a module for housing waste-heat producing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment including at least one physiologic monitor, and including a system to measure, temporally correlate and record dose and response events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Susan D. Augustine, Garrett J. Augustine, Brent M. Augustine, Ryan S. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold
  • Patent number: 11752056
    Abstract: An anesthetic equipment storage and waste air management module configured to housing electronic and electromechanical surgical equipment including a system to measure and record administration of one or more IV medications or fluids for IV administration. The module can include a housing having a lower section and a tower-like upper section, wherein the lower section is configured to house unrelated waste heat-producing electronic and electromechanical surgical equipment. The module can also include a cowling that substantially confines waste heat generated by the unrelated waste heat-producing electronic and electromechanical surgical equipment, and can include a system for measuring and recording the administration of the one or more IV medications and fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Susan D. Augustine, Garrett J. Augustine, Brent M. Augustine, Ryan S. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold
  • Patent number: 11747032
    Abstract: An air filter essentially for use in woodworking workplaces includes a casing having a top panel, a bottom panel, two sidewalls, a filter gauze, a motor, and whizzer blades. The casing has an inlet anteriorly and an outlet. The casing has therein an inner blocking wall which extends rearward to form two inner sidewalls. The two inner sidewalls are each penetrated by a through hole. The two through holes face each other. The casing further has a curved panel bending in its thickness direction. The curved panel and the two inner sidewalls together define a receiving space. The curved panel curves to an extent corresponding in curvature to part of the outer edges of the whizzer blades and is spaced apart from the whizzer blades by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: JPW INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Sam Su
  • Patent number: 11744666
    Abstract: Disclosure herein are aerodynamic surgical lights and methods of manufacturing and use thereof. The aerodynamic surgical lights may include a light head made of one or more substantially tubular light housings. The substantially tubular light housings contain and protect a plurality of LED lights and their respective reflectors that aim a light beam toward the lower side of the substantially tubular light housings. The substantially tubular light housings are vertically elongate. The vertically elongated substantially tubular light housings include upper sections that are aerodynamically curved or pointed to streamline airflow past the light housings. The upper sections of the substantially tubular light housings are made of molded plastic resin reinforced with carbon fibers or glass fibers and the lower sections of the substantially tubular light housings are made of a clear moldable plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC
    Inventor: Scott D. Augustine
  • Patent number: 11746905
    Abstract: A filter arrangement includes: a filter element in a first filter stage, the filter element having a filter material for filtering an air stream; a housing for receiving the filter element; and a circumferential gel seal arranged between the filter element and the housing in order to seal the filter element from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KG
    Inventors: Maik Sieh, Morfula Chirnside
  • Patent number: 11725667
    Abstract: An air source system of an agricultural system includes a fan configured to establish an airflow along an airflow path of the air source system via rotation of the fan, and a motor assembly configured to drive the fan to rotate. The motor assembly is positioned within the airflow path of the air source system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Smith, Trevor Philip Stanhope
  • Patent number: 11666845
    Abstract: A purification device for disinfecting and filtering intake air is disclosed. The purification device comprises a housing provided with a number of inlet perforations for allowing the intake air to enter the housing and a number of air outlet perforations for allowing air purified by the purification device to leave the housing. The purification device moreover comprises a fan arranged inside the housing to suck the intake air into the housing and blow the purified air out of the housing. The purification device further comprises an ultraviolet radiation lamp arranged inside the housing to irradiate the intake air. The purification device also comprises a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter arranged to filter the intake air before the intake air leaves the housing as purified air. The filter comprises a plurality of pleats arranged in such a manner that the angle between adjacent pleats is 30 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: RESPIRED LIMITED
    Inventor: Henrik Victor Hendriksen
  • Patent number: 11649629
    Abstract: A ceiling façade system includes: a ceiling tile including an interior panel defining a first edge extending along a first side of the ceiling tile and a second edge extending along a second side of the ceiling tile opposite the first edge, a heating element, and an insulator layer arranged over the heating element opposite the interior panel; a first receiver extending along and configured to support the first side of the ceiling tile on a linear lighting track arranged on a ceiling structure and configured to locate the first edge of the interior panel adjacent and partially concealing the linear lighting track; and a second receiver extending along and configured to support the second side of the ceiling tile on a linear seam track arranged on the ceiling structure, the linear seam track laterally offset from the linear lighting track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Cover Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexis Xavier Rivas, Jemuel Joseph, Thomas Heyer, Craig Derian, Katherine Stavisky, Robert Jackson, Scott Kevern, Tyler Peterson, Jose Morales
  • Patent number: 11571647
    Abstract: A gel-sealed air supply box includes an air inlet and a box body, wherein the box body is internally provided with a filter. A plurality of filter profiles that are sequentially connected are arranged on the inner side surfaces of the box body, and a corner dust generating pipe is arranged between two filter profiles. A dust distributing pipe is arranged at the top end of the filter profile, and the dust distributing pipe is communicated with the corner dust generating pipe. A plurality of dust holes are formed in the top end of the dust distributing pipe. According to the disclosure, dust can be uniformly generated and a more precise detection result can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SUZHOU GUOLI CLEAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Shuixing Li
  • Patent number: 11571644
    Abstract: A filter may remove PM2.5 and/or other airborne pollutants, which filter has fibers of an average diameter of no more than 500 nm, the fibers of at least 90 wt. % polyacrylonitrile, relative to all fibers in the filter; and a catalyst of at least 90 wt. % TiO2, relative to all catalytic metals in the filter, dispersed onto the fibers. The fibers need not be charged. The TiO2 may be condensed or precipitated onto the fibers out of a liquid containing the TiO2 and the fibers by simple methods. The catalyst may be activated by UV irradiation to decompose particulate matter having an average particle size of 2.5 ?m or less, i.e., PM2.5, and/or other airborne pollutants from air. Such filters may be implemented around areas of vehicle traffic, e.g., as elements of traffic lights, and may be used to controllably purify polluted air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Khaled Fikry Salama
  • Patent number: 11554336
    Abstract: A livestock facility air filter grid system comprising perimeter vertical and horizontal stiffener plates and interlocking horizontal and vertical field stiffener plates which provides an improved sealed assembly and eliminates the potential for direct air by-pass of the filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Barntools, LLC
    Inventors: Lloyd D. Snell, Nathan D. Fleege
  • Patent number: 11555589
    Abstract: A structural light fixture for the ceiling of clean room, such as a clean room for pharmaceutical or electronic research or production, includes an outer U-shaped beam and an inner U-shaped beam. The inner U-shaped beam nests within the outer U-shaped beam. The inner and outer U-shaped beams are mutually reinforcing so that the combination of the two U-shaped beams is stronger and stiffer than either U-shaped beam alone. The top side of the outer U-shaped beam is exposed to the outside of the clean room and includes no perforations so that the outer U-shaped beam is a barrier to gas, particulates, microorganisms or disinfectants that otherwise would pass through the clean room ceiling. The removable inner U-shaped beam includes a lamp and power supply, allowing maintenance of the structural light fixture from the interior of the clean room without interrupting the barrier to contamination created by the structural light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AES Clean Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Geiger, Jason Peers, Andrew J. Kugler
  • Patent number: 11529533
    Abstract: A personal space protective enclosure defines an enclosed space that protects individuals within the enclosed space from infection by airborne pathogens. A plurality of vertically-hanging strips hang on hooks on a strip-mounting frame that is supported by a vertical support stanchion, or a plurality thereof. The hooks each have a rectangular cross-section defining and a straight upper surface when viewed in one direction and a curvilinear cross-section when viewed in another direction. The vertically-hanging strips each define an opening that has an upper straight edge that is contiguous with the straight upper surface of the hooks when hanging in resting position, and which return to the resting position after being disturbed from the resting position, such as by an individual reaching between the vertically-hanging strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Drew Geoffrey Kopf
  • Patent number: 11495481
    Abstract: There is provided an EFEM, including: at least one load port; a housing closed by connecting the at least one load port to an opening provided on a side wall of the housing and configured to define, in the housing, a transfer chamber for transferring a substrate; a substrate transfer device disposed in the transfer chamber and configured to transfer the substrate; an inert gas supply unit configured to supply an inert gas to the transfer chamber; and a gas discharge unit configured to discharge a gas in the transfer chamber, wherein the at least one load port includes: an opening/closing mechanism capable of opening and closing a lid of a mounted FOUP; and an accommodation chamber kept in communication with the transfer chamber and configured to accommodate a part of the opening/closing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kawai, Gengoro Ogura
  • Patent number: 11478656
    Abstract: A systemic human repair and enhancement system that provides stem cell therapy utilizing an apparatus and methods for administering a treatment schedule of non-invasive and drug-free narrow and specific 0.6180 Hz frequency continuous sine wave therapy to the patient's cells. The frequency therapy may be in-vivo and in-vitro applications. The frequency therapy stimulates systemic stem cell production, particularly at a tissue sites having loss of function due to a condition, aging, damage, and or disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Blair A. Souter
  • Patent number: 11465088
    Abstract: The invention herein disclosed is a system that supports sampling, testing and filtering of air in selected small volumes of air within a larger air pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Adam Benjamin Tannenbaum
  • Patent number: 11446600
    Abstract: A detoxification device for removing pathogens from air within an environment. The detoxification device may include a filtration media for catching and retaining particles larger than about 0.3 micrometers (?m) with an efficiency of at least 99%. The detoxification device may also include a heating element having a metallic foam. The heating element may be heated upon application of an electrical current to the heating element. The heating element may, upon being heated, heat the filtration media to a target temperature that is effective to kill a pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Hourani IP, LLC, University of Houston System
    Inventors: Monzer A. Hourani, Zhifeng Ren, Luo Yu
  • Patent number: 11434925
    Abstract: A tower fan housing assembly and a tower fan. Herein, the tower fan housing assembly may include a housing body having an opening (11) suitable for taking out a fan wheel inside the housing body, and an air-throughflow part detachably mounted at the opening (11) of the housing body. With the adoption of the tower fan having the tower fan housing assembly, the air-throughflow part may be demounted from the opening, thereby facilitating taking out and cleaning the fan wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES (WUHAN) CO., LTD, GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Hanbing Luo, Yesheng Ling, Chengyun Lao, Shuai Zhang, Xiaopan Mao, Lulu Zhu, Lin Cao, Yaozhen Lu, Siqi Yuan, Weichong Huang
  • Patent number: 11408816
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device and method for a dry-wet cycle simulation test of concrete in a tidal zone and a splash zone. A main structure includes a liquid storage tank, a test chamber, a communicating pipe, air holes of the liquid storage tank, air holes of the test chamber, ceiling fans, steel pipes, a support frame, an upper water level sensor, a lower water level sensor, a temperature and humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a chamber body support, a communication valve, a pipe support, a water inlet pump, a water inlet valve, a water outlet pipe, a water outlet pump, a water outlet valve, spray water pipes, spray heads, and a control box. The control box can control and record test parameters in real time, so that the boundary between the tidal zone and the splash zone is clear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Peng Zhang, Jiuwen Bao, Jianan Wei, Zhijie Zhuang, Tiejun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11328938
    Abstract: A system includes a filter purge apparatus configured to supply a flushing gas to a portion of a factory interface chamber located upstream of a chamber filter to minimize moisture contamination of the chamber filter by ambient air. The filter purge apparatus is configured to supply the flushing gas in association with breach of the factory interface chamber which compromises controlled environment of the factory interface chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael R. Rice
  • Patent number: 11274842
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for filtering a fluid within a building is shown. The system includes one or more sensors configured to measure one or more characteristics of a first fluid within an air duct of the BMS and measure one or more characteristics of a second fluid after the second fluid has been filtered. The system further includes a pollutant management system configured to receive data from the one or more sensors and control a filtration process. The filtration process selects a filter of a plurality of filters based on a level of the one or more characteristics of the first fluid and the one or more characteristics of the second fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Timothy C. Gamroth, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. ElBsat, David S. Eidson, James Burke, Kirk H. Drees, Thomas M. Seneczko
  • Patent number: 11241889
    Abstract: Exemplary coating devices and exemplary coating methods for coating components with a coating agent, e.g., for painting motor vehicle body components with a paint, are disclosed. An exemplary coating device comprises an application device that applies the coating agent. The application device may include a paint head that discharges the coating agent out of at least one coating agent nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DÜRR SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Herre, Hans-Georg Fritz, Steffen Wesselky
  • Patent number: 11147892
    Abstract: A UV disinfection unit includes a frame, a flexible envelope supported by the frame, the envelope having a reflective inner surface defining an inner volume for receiving an object to be disinfected, and a UV source for being received in the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MINTIE, LLC
    Inventors: James M. Mintie, Jose Guadalupe Munoz, Christopher Foltz
  • Patent number: 11123674
    Abstract: A system and method for maintaining, monitoring and improving air quality and purity in a room or environment, such as a hospital room or operating room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Aerobiotix, Inc.
    Inventor: David Louis Kirschman
  • Patent number: 10953364
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a technology for efficiently separating carbon dioxide in a method for separating carbon dioxide from a mixed gas by using a membrane separation method. The problem is solved by a method including supplying a mixed gas to a separation membrane module to separate carbon dioxide from the mixed gas, in which the mixed gas is supplied to the separation membrane module at a high linear velocity in order to sufficiently mix a mixed gas in the vicinity of a membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikio Hayashi, Takahiko Takewaki, Nobuhiko Ueno
  • Patent number: 10850220
    Abstract: A reconfigurable modular fluid filter is disclosed herein. The modular fluid filter includes a base filter housing having an opening formed in one or more walls thereof. Each opening is constructed to receive and couple with one of a filter element module, a secondary filter housing, an outlet port and a flow blocking cover. An unrestricted internal flowpath within the base filter housing is fluidly connected between each filter element module and the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.
    Inventor: Hardik Dineshchandra Gandhi
  • Patent number: 10822707
    Abstract: This invention concerns a device for dissociating an aqueous phase to generate hydrogen gas, said device comprising: a first zone comprising said aqueous phase, a means of electron capture, a means for reducing protons, and an energy source, said device being characterized in that said means for proton reduction is a proton exchange interface with a front side facing said means of electron capture, and a back side, with only said back side of said proton exchange interface bearing at least one catalyst and/or at least one catalytic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: H2WIN S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Lorge, Claire Remacle, Stéphanie Gerin, Nathalie Job, Fabrice Franck, Giuseppe Caldarella, Bart Ghysels, Damien Godaux, Pierre Cardol
  • Patent number: 10763134
    Abstract: Electronic device processing apparatus including factory interface chamber with environmental controls and a purge control apparatus allowing purge of a chamber filter. The filter purge apparatus includes a chamber filter and a flushing gas supply configured to supply flushing gas to the chamber filter when an access door to the factory interface chamber is open to allow personnel safe servicing access to the factory interface chamber. The supply of flushing gas to the chamber filter minimizes moisture contamination of the chamber filter by factory ambient air when the access door is open thereby allowing rapid resumption of substrate processing after factory interface servicing. Purge control methods and apparatus are described, as are numerous other aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael R. Rice