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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: An optional device is for an electrical machine. The optional device is mountable to the electrical machine without electrical connection to the electrical machine. The optional device includes a duct, an air flow sensor, an air purifier, and a controller. Through the duct, an air flow containing an exhaust gas from the electrical machine is guided. The air flow sensor is configured to detect presence or absence of the exhaust gas from the electrical machine. The air purifier is configured to purify the exhaust gas and discharge the purified exhaust gas into an atmosphere. The controller is configured to control an operation of the air purifier based on an output from the air flow sensor.

Abstract: Completely self-contained and self-supported mobile isolation and containment unit (ICU) facilities are disclosed that can be transported on roads and highways to a location in need of an isolation facility and rapidly deployed to provide isolation and treatment. In some embodiments, exemplary ICUs can safely provide isolation and treatment to a level that meets or exceeds “bricks and mortar” hospital isolation and containment facilities and any applicable regulations. In some examples, the mobile ICUs include sophisticated heating ventilation and air Conditioning (HVAC) systems that can separately maintain areas within the facility at different levels of pressure to ensure contaminated air does not escape the facility. And the mobile ICUs may also incorporate a multiple-vestibule with airlock design for ensuring safe entry and exit from the facility. The mobile ICUs disclosed herein may also include automated decontamination systems for disinfecting and/or sterilizing spaces within the facility.

Abstract: A filtration system for use in connection with a central vacuum system in a hospital or other medical facility. In certain aspects, the filtration system comprises a removable filter for removing contaminants; a fitting adapted for connection to a central vacuum source/system which provides constant suction, which fitting is positioned between the filter and the central vacuum source; a flow control valve positioned between the filter and the fitting; wherein the relative positions of the fitting, flow valve and filter prevent contaminants from being discharged into the central vacuum system. In other aspects, the system provides variable filter life based upon variable flow.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet; an discharge duct connected to the outlet, and configured to guide air discharged from the outlet to an indoor space, a blow fan assembly disposed in the inside of the housing such that a rotating shaft of the blow fan assembly extends in a vertical direction, and configured to inhale air in the vertical direction in which the rotating shaft extends and to discharge the air in a radial direction, and a heat exchanger extending along a part of a circumference of the blow fan assembly, and including a bending portion.

Abstract: An air filter article, including: a wall-flow honeycomb particulate filter; and at least one anti-microbial agent on at least a portion of the interior surfaces. The disclosure also provides a filtration system that incorporates or uses the air filter article, and methods for making the air filter article.

Abstract: In an embodiment, the present invention discloses a EUV cleaner system and process for cleaning a EUV carrier. The euv cleaner system comprises separate dirty and cleaned environments, separate cleaning chambers for different components of the double container carrier, gripper arms for picking and placing different components using a same robot handler, gripper arms for holding different components at different locations, horizontal spin cleaning and drying for outer container, hot water and hot air (70 C) cleaning process, vertical nozzles and rasterizing megasonic nozzles for cleaning inner container with hot air nozzles for drying, separate vacuum decontamination chambers for outgassing different components, for example, one for inner and one for outer container with high vacuum (e.g., <10?6 Torr) with purge gas, heaters and RGA sensors inside the vacuum chamber, purge gas assembling station, and purge gas loading and unloading station.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for culturing cells in a bioreactor, the waste-air line of which leading out of the reactor interior comprises a waste-air filter having a sterile-filtration microfilter membrane, wherein at least one prefilter having a hydrophobic filter material is placed upstream of the waste-air filter toward the reactor interior.

Abstract: An inert gas generating system includes an air source configured to provide an air stream that comprises at least one of ram air, external air, conditioned air, or compressed air. An electrochemical gas separator is configured to receive the air stream and to produce an oxygen-depleted air stream. A contained volume is configured to receive the oxygen-depleted air stream.

Abstract: A suction wall with properties of suction and differentiated filtration of different types of pollutant is provided which is useful for industrial working areas. The suction wall includes a box-like frame, an inner compartment, a suction device for drawing in air, a first air inlet, a filtering device, and a second air inlet. The inner compartment is located between a rear panel and a front permeable diaphragm of the box-like frame, and also includes partitions in the compartment. The filtering device includes at least two filtering units.

Abstract: Adsorbent materials are disclosed, along with filter elements containing the adsorbent materials methods of using adsorbents to remove siloxane contaminants from a gas stream. The method includes providing an adsorbent material that has been washed with an acid and passing a gas through the adsorbent material so as to reduce siloxane levels in the gas. A filter element for reducing siloxane levels in a gas includes a first adsorbent material, the first adsorbent material comprising an acid-washed adsorbent; and a second adsorbent material, the second adsorbent material comprising an acid-impregnated adsorbent.

Abstract: A relocatable corrosion control facility preferably includes a red zone, a yellow zone and a green zone. The red zone is a work area. The work area preferably includes at least one combination paint and sanding booth, an eye wash, a compressor, an air tank, a storage enclosure and a hazardous storage. The yellow zone is an undressing area. The undressing area preferably includes at least two air showers; a respirator and personal protective equipment locker room (RPPE); and at least one dirty locker room. The technician removes equipment in the RPPE locker room and exits into a dirty locker room. The dirty locker room includes dirty clothes storage, showers and sinks. An exit of each dirty locker room leads into a green zone. The green zone is a staging area. The staging area includes at least one clean locker room, at least one office and a lobby.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing that includes an air inlet, and an air-intake duct section provided to supply air to the air inlet, and a filter housing that houses a filter provided to cover the air inlet, and moves toward the air-intake duct section in a thickness direction of the filter housing, to shift from a closed state in which the filter covers the air inlet to an open state in which the air inlet is uncovered.

Abstract: A filter retention system for releasably retaining a filter cartridge in an operable position within air supply and air exhaust systems is comprised of a filter cartridge, filter retainers, mounting frame with integral sealing knife edge and filter alignment brackets. The filter retainers allow for installation and removal of the filter cartridge without the use of tools. The retention system automatically aligns filter cartridges such that an airtight seal is created between the sealant containing groove in the filter cartridge and the sealing knife edge of the retention system.

Abstract: A remote operation and control system for a pressure filter; a PLC controller in a pressure filter body is connected to the interface of a GPRS-DTU communication network; the aerial of the GPRS-DTU communication network is linked to a communication tower via a signal; the communication tower is connected to a GGSN communication interface and an SGSN communication interface, forming a GPRS communication network; the GPRS communication network is connected to the wiring port of a router; a wire connects to a firewall via the router, and enters the wiring port of a switch; an industrial Ethernet is configured to connect to the wiring port of the switch. The remote operation and control system for a pressure filter achieves unattended operation on the working site of the pressure filter, thus improving the technical level of the control system.