In Vented Container Patents (Class 55/385.4)
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Patent number: 6447565Abstract: A transmission vent assembly includes an apparatus having a central, internal passage extending therethrough. The internal passage has a larger diameter portion defining a pocket. A filter is disposed in the pocket to condense and return fluid to the transmission through the internal passage. The apparatus includes a shoulder adjacent the upper surface and a double lead thread initiating at the shoulder and terminating at a lower end. The assembly further includes a cup-shaped cap, press fittingly disposed over the apparatus. The cap and shoulder define an annular cavity and the cap and the double lead thread define first and second threaded passages. The cap includes an outward impression in the closed end which cooperates with the upper surface of the apparatus to define a connecting passage. Two bi-directional air flow paths extend between the transmission and the atmosphere through the internal passage, connecting air passage, annular air cavity, and each of the two threaded passages.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2001Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: James Allen Raszkowski, Conrad L. Rockey
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Publication number: 20020117052Abstract: 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2000Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventor: Karl S. Beers
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Patent number: 6439992Abstract: A electronic gaming system cooling device for resisting the over heating of a video game system. The electronic gaming system cooling device includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and a peripheral wall integrally coupled to and extending between the top and bottom walls. The housing has an inlet port therein and an outlet port therein. A fan member draws air into the housing through the inlet port. The fan member is positioned over the inlet port. The game system is positioned over the outlet port such that air is brought into the house and blown across the game system to cool the game system.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Inventor: James Lee Demeter
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Publication number: 20020066370Abstract: A one-way degassing valve (4) for containers of aromatic products such as coffee and the like, comprising a valve body (5, 6), a valve element (12) and a filter (17), comprising a selective filter layer (21a), preferably consisting of activated charcoal, which allows the passage of low molecular weight gases, such as carbon dioxide, and retains high molecular weight gases that constitute the product's aroma, and an oxygen and CO2 adsorbing layer (21b), able to eliminate the residual oxygen present in the container and suitably reduce the amount of CO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Inventors: Franco Goglio, Osvaldo Bosetti, Giorgio Bottini
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Patent number: 6395068Abstract: A bulk tank depressurization filter apparatus is disclosed which comprises a filter cartridge having an inlet and an outlet, a gas passageway therebetween, at least one gas-capturing filter through which gas in the gas passageway passes, and a Chicago coupling for attaching the inlet of the filter cartridge to a tank containing a pressurized gas. Also disclosed is a method of capturing the residual gas in a tank containing a gas under pressure using the bulk tank depressurization filter apparatus. The inlet is attached to the tank and the pressurized gas is permitted to flow from the tank into the filter cartridge where the gas is captured by the material in the filter.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Inventor: Dennis M. Rooney
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Patent number: 6395050Abstract: Vent filters for containers such as barrels which contain hazardous waste, such as transuranic (nuclear) waste, include a bore therethrough which does not intersect the material of carbon-to-carbon filter media inserts disposed within the vent filter. Each of the bores has a stainless steel tube disposed therein wherein the stainless steel tube has at an interior end a septa-type seal and at an outer end an impenetrable plug. In order to sample head gases, a syringe is used with a needle that penetrates the septa-type seal. After the needle is withdrawn, the septa-type seal closes and the impenetrable plug is replaced.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Nuclear Filter Technology, Inc.Inventors: Terry J. Wickland, Michael D. Peterson, David E. Joseffy, Gilbert A. Brassell
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Patent number: 6364924Abstract: The present invention provides a compact and inexpensive air-permeable cap and an outdoor lamp, automobile lamp and automobile electrical component including such an air-permeable cap. A novel air-permeable cap is provided including a closed-end cylindrical cover member, a substantially cylindrical body fitted in the closed-end cylindrical cover member, and an air passage formed between the inner wall of the closed-end cylindrical cover member and the outer wall of the substantially cylindrical body and between the bottom surface of the closed-end cylindrical cover member and the lower end of the substantially cylindrical body, wherein the mounting portion at which the air-permeable cap is mounted on the mounting opening of the housing is formed at the top of the substantially cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Mashiko, Hiroyuki Nishii, Norikane Nabata
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Patent number: 6355078Abstract: A bag for containing nuclear waste material has a venting arrangement having of a plurality of vent holes through the wall of the bag. Each vent hole includes a filter arrangement in which there is a first film mounted on the inside of the bag in alignment with the vent hole and a second film mounted on the outside of the bag aligned with both the vent hole and the first film to define a chamber between the first and second films, the chamber including the vent hole. A HEPA filter media is disposed in the chamber, so that fluid in the chamber passing through apertures in the first and second films also passes through the filter media. A preferred use of the present invention is to vent explosive gasses, such as hydrogen, from bags containing waste material such as nuclear waste material.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Nuclear Filter Technology, Inc.Inventor: Terry J. Wickland
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Publication number: 20020014057Abstract: There is provided a cap liner including a fluid impermeable layer for venting gas to and from the container and an adhering device for adhering the impermeable layer to a rim of a container and a channel extending therethrough for venting gas therethrough. Also provided by the present invention is a method of sealing an opening of a container by affixing a meltable layer of a sealing member to a container rim and venting the container through a vent patch, meltable layer, a foil layer, and a fluid impermeable layer having pathways thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: Karlis Vizulis, John W. Grover
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Patent number: 6334888Abstract: A lid with a housing suited for receiving a filter for absorbing odors and fats given off during cooking, and having inlets and outlets communicating externally, the housing has an opening emerging on the side of the lid, and the filter is mounted retractable and sealed through said opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2000Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Laboratories Serobiologiques (Societe Anonyme)Inventors: Guy Collas, Jean Lereverend
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Patent number: 6306191Abstract: A seal, a vent for a filter housing and a system for using them. The seal is designed a first outer seal having a closed outer periphery that divides and isolates a first inner area from the outside environment and a second inner seal formed along a portion of the inner surface of the first outer seal and forming a second inner area within the first inner area and which is isolated from both the first inner area and the outside environment. The seal is incorporated into a vent for a filter housing having opening is contained within a vent area and the opening is offset from the center of the vent area. The opening establishes a fluid pathway from the interior to the exterior of the filter device. The inner seal surrounds the vent opening. The outer seal also surrounds the vent opening at one of its ends and surrounds the entire periphery of the vent area so as to isolate the vent area from the area outside of the vent area.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1999Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Millipore CorporationInventors: Kevin G. McInerney, Joseph M. Almasian, Chau Nguyen
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Patent number: 6281510Abstract: A method of transferring a sample to and from a treating chamber kept in a vacuum atmosphere through a pressure regulatively preparatory chamber. The sample is contained in the sample transfer container, which is kept air-permeable by a dust filtering filter, in a cleaned atmosphere before the sample is transferred to the treating chamber. The sample transfer container is transferred into the preparatory chamber, and the inside of the preparatory chamber is evacuated to a vacuum atmosphere. The sample is then extracted from the sample transfer container in the vacuum atmosphere and is transferred into the treating chamber. Also disclosed is an apparatus for supporting the sample transferring method.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shusuke Yoshitake, Yoshiaki Tsukumo, Ryoichi Hirano, Toru Tojo, Yoshiaki Tada, Makoto Kanda
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Patent number: 6245553Abstract: The need to filter gas emanating from a containment vessel is reduced or eliminated by maintaining, within the vessel, a gradient that concentrates most of the gaseous contaminants away from the vessel exits. This is achieved by reducing the density of gas drawn from the region near its source and discharging the reduced-density gas to another region of the vessel. Owing to its reduced density, the discharged gas already has a lower contaminant concentration than the source gas. The concentration decreases further as convection draws the discharged gas back to its source. So long as the gas flows within the containment vessel are non-turbulent, the concentration gradient remains substantially static, and the vents remain exposed only to low concentrations of contaminants. The gas density may be reduced by heating and humidification, catalytic reaction, or reaction among constituents of the gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Inventor: Gene E. Keyser
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Patent number: 6217639Abstract: Air enters the contamination control breather through openings in the top cap of the breather. Air then passes through air channels in the top cap. Dust particles are filtered by a filter assembly near the top of the breather, which also diffuses the air. The diffused air then passes through material which removes moisture, other gases, and liquids from the air. The air is then passed through another filtration layer to remove the desiccant particles from the air. The clean and dry air ultimately passes to a container or machinery, that uses filtered air, through an aperture in the bottom cap of the breather. The bottom cap can be permanently attached to the container so that only the elongated body and the filter assemblies need to be replaced when the desiccant reaches its maximum adsorption capacity.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Fluid Protection CorporationInventor: Ronald R. Jackson
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Patent number: 6214074Abstract: An air purifier unit having a mounting assembly that allows the mounting of the unit underneath a cabinet or on any like flat surface. A cartridge filter is provided and easily ejected or replaced through a filter door in the face of the enclosure. A motor speed indicator circuit enables the user to visually monitor the speed of the motor and blower. Air is drawn into the housing of the unit through an intake opening on the bottom surface of the housing, forced through a cartridge filter, and expelled out an air exhaust opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: The Holmes Group, Inc.Inventors: Rick Silviera, Anatoly Ratsimor, Johnson Hsu, Robert Sherwood
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Patent number: 6206943Abstract: An aircraft separator system for removing moisture suspended in a gas of an aircraft waste system includes a waste tank and a vacuum source operatively coupled to the waste tank for creating a vacuum for drawing the waste material into the tank and drawing the gas with the moisture suspended therein out of the tank. A disposable separator housing for removing moisture suspended in the gas is disposed on the tank and removably coupled between the waste tank and the vacuum source such that the entire separator housing may be detached from the waste tank and vacuum source and discarded. A two-stage filter is contained within an interior of the housing without extending into the waste tank. The filter has at least two areas of different density mesh defining two stages including a first area located proximal to a separator inlet opening which is less dense, and a second area located proximal to a separator outlet opening which is more dense.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: EDO Fiber ScienceInventors: Jeff Friesen, Chris Lalor, Mark Hale, Heidi Crist, Benko S. Ta'ala
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Patent number: 6207051Abstract: A portable hydraulic fluid handler cart capable of transporting liquid storage containers and providing filtered fluid transfer. Quick-disconnect couplers at the cart and system adapters, along with replaceable filter cartridges, maintain fluid integrity at the system and serviced equipment. An electric motor, transfer pump, retractable extension cord and power control switch mount to the cart. Forks, rails and an adjustable clamp contain a liquid drum to the cart. A pair of handles and four wheels facilitate gripping, tipping and transport of drum containers. A kickstand stabilizes the cart when used alone. The filter media at the cart and adapters is selected to simultaneously filter liquid-borne and airborne particles and water from the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Inventors: Steven D. Anderson, Kenneth R. Anderson, Nancy A. Faust
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Patent number: 6193601Abstract: A module bay requires less cleanroom airflow. A shaped gas inlet passage can allow cleanroom air into the module bay with flow velocity preferentially directed toward contaminant rich portions of a processing module in the module bay. Preferential gas flow direction can more efficiently purge contaminants from appropriate portions of the module bay, allowing a reduced cleanroom air flow rate for contaminant removal. A shelf extending from an air inlet slit in one wall of a module bay can direct air flowing therethrough toward contaminant-rich portions of the module bay, such as a junction between a lid and base of a processing module.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1998Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventor: John R. Torczynski