Treating An Article Patents (Class 62/62)
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Patent number: 8113007Abstract: Method and apparatus (1) for receiving, storing and distributing blood bags including a cabinet (2) for containing all the components of the apparatus (1); a refrigerated space (21) for containing the bags; a magazine (3) housed inside the refrigerated space (21) comprising a plurality of cells (31), each capable of containing a single bag, each of the cells being identified by a cell code. The apparatus (1) further includes a data processing system (7) housed inside the cabinet (2), capable of controlling a movement system (5) and a cooling system (6) each housed inside the cabinet (2), and capable of controlling the receiving, the preservation and the releasing of the bags, and capable of exchanging data from and to an external data-management system (17) with which the apparatus (1) can interact.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Angelantoni Industrie SpAInventors: Mauro Zenobi, Simone Ventura, Cristiana Neri
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Publication number: 20120031112Abstract: An appliance system including an appliance and a turbo-chilling chamber is provided. The turbo-chilling chamber has a main body portion that typically includes: a rigid distal wall surrounding a foodstuff receiving space that accommodates variously sized foodstuffs (beverage containers); a rigid inner wall having at least one aperture along the length thereof and surrounding the foodstuff when the foodstuff is within the foodstuff receiving space; and a rigid intermediate wall between the rigid inner wall and the rigid distal wall that defines a coolant chamber between the rigid distal wall and the rigid intermediate wall and also defines an air cooling channel between the rigid intermediate wall and the rigid inner wall. A fan moves air through the air cooling channel and the at least one aperture and past the foodstuff. A method of turbo-chilling a foodstuff/beverage container/beverage within the turbo-chilling chamber is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: TUSHAR V. KULKARNI, GUOLIAN WU
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Publication number: 20120031111Abstract: An appliance system that includes an appliance and a turbo-chilling chamber is provided. In one embodiment, the turbo-chilling chamber for chilling a beverage within a beverage container or a foodstuff is operably engaged to an interior surface of the appliance and typically includes a rigid outer wall; a flexible inner wall defining a coolant chamber; and at least one coolant spaced between the rigid outer wall and flexible inner wall in the coolant chamber. The flexible inner wall defines a receiving space, accommodates various sized beverage containers or foodstuffs, and moves between a first position and a second position. The coolant within the coolant chamber is typically at higher than atmospheric pressure when the flexible inner wall is in the second position and a lesser pressure when the flexible inner wall is in the first position. The method of turbo-chilling a beverage container/beverage/foodstuff within the turbo-chilling chamber is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: TUSHAR V. KULKARNI, GUOLIAN WU
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Publication number: 20120023971Abstract: The present invention relates to refrigerators, and a method for controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a body, a door rotatably coupled to the body, a storage space in the body for storing goods therein, a camera unit mounted in the storage space for sensing an infrared ray from the stored goods to visualize a surface temperature distribution of the stored goods, a memory unit for storing the surface temperature distribution of the stored goods visualized thus by the camera unit therein, and a control unit for determining whether the stored goods are damaged or not with reference to a difference of the surface temperature distributions of the stored goods stored in the memory unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Deulre MIN, Eunyoung Park
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Publication number: 20120017609Abstract: A system for use in freezing, storing and thawing biopharmaceutical materials includes a flexible sterile container means for holding biopharmaceutical material therein and a holder more rigid than said container means. The container means is received in a cavity of the holder and the holder extends along a perimeter of the container means. The holder is fixedly connected to the container means. The holder includes opposing sides defining an opening and the container means extends between the opposing sides of the holder defining the opening. The container means includes a substantially smooth exterior surface extending between the opposing sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: SARTORIUS STEDIM NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventors: Nicolas VOUTE, Eric K. LEE, Dimitry YAKOUSHKIN
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Publication number: 20120011862Abstract: A method of adjusting a base recipe for a product introduced into a processor, includes providing a base recipe used by the processor on the product, identifying at least one parameter of the base recipe to be altered to compensate for at least one corresponding physical parameter of the product discharged from the processor, automatically changing the base recipe in response to the at least one altered parameter to compensate for the at least one physical parameter of the product discharged, and processing new product introduced into the processor with the changed base recipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Robert Muscato, Michael D. Newman
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Publication number: 20120000212Abstract: A transport unit including a container defining a cargo space. The transport unit includes position detection apparatus coupled to the container, and adapted to determine a geographic location of the container and to generate a signal indicative of the geographic location. The transport unit also includes a refrigeration system in communication with the cargo space, and a control system including route data that defines a plurality of potential destinations of the container. The control system is programmed to predict a container route defined by at least two potential destinations of the container based on the geographic location and the route data, and to determine a proximity of the container relative to at least one potential destination of the route. The control system is in communication with the refrigeration system to control the refrigeration system based on the proximity of the container relative to the at least one potential destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: THERMO KING CORPORATIONInventors: Russell L. Sanders, Ashok Muralidhar, Timothy A. Walker
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Publication number: 20110311700Abstract: A system and method for chilling a food product in or proximate to a food processing device adapted to dice, slice, shred, chop, or cut the food product is disclosed. The disclosed system and method involves a two or three stage application of a liquid cryogen or carbon dioxide snow to cool the food product. The cooling stages include a first stage of cryogen application upstream of the entrance of the food processing device, a second stage of cryogen application or delivery into one or more zones within the food processing device, and a third stage of cryogen application to the region proximate to and downstream of the exit to the food processing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Paul Cyrus Shah, Gary Dee Lang, Bruce Michael Squires, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Balazs Hunek, Steven Michael McCarty
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Publication number: 20110296853Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the in-line processing of liquid or pasty or semi-liquid media or further, media which contain solid elements in a liquid base, in pipe for conveying the medium between two steps in a plant by direct injection of a cryogenic fluid into the pipe, characterized in that the method uses, for the injection into the pipe, an injection device including a hollow cylindrical body in which a valve urged by a spring is inserted, said injection device including a through-channel substantially parallel to said valve and supplied with a pressurized cryogenic fluid, wherein one end of the through-channel is connected to the cryogenic fluid supply system while the opposite end opens at the seat of the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Jo Algoet, Dominique Bras, Patrick Cazorla, Carinne Kempen
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Publication number: 20110283714Abstract: A refrigerated point-of-use food holding cabinet keeps food products cold in compartments having cross sections that are substantially U-shaped. Food products are kept refrigerated using heat-absorbing, heat-exchangers thermally coupled to the U-shaped compartment. Refrigeration is provided by either a conventional reversed-Brayton cycle, one or more Peltier devices or a chilled, re-circulating liquid that does not change phase as it circulates but which is chilled by another refrigeration system, such as a conventional refrigeration system. An optional cover helps prevent food flavor transfers between compartments. Semiconductor temperature sensors and a computer effectuate temperature control.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: PRINCE CASTLE, INC.Inventor: Loren Veltrop
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Publication number: 20110283717Abstract: A cryogenic refrigeration system for lyophilization is disclosed. The cryogenic refrigeration system includes a cryogenic heat exchanger system adapted for vaporizing a liquid cryogen and using the gaseous cryogen to cool heat transfer fluid and a heat transfer cooling circuit that cools the lyophilization chamber as well as the condenser. The disclosed heat transfer cooling circuit includes a primary recirculation loop adapted for cooling the lyophilization chamber with the heat transfer fluid, a secondary recirculation loop adapted for cooling a condenser with the heat transfer fluid, and one or more valves operatively coupling the cryogenic heat exchanger system, the primary recirculation loop, and the secondary recirculation loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventor: Alan Cheng
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Publication number: 20110271695Abstract: A cooling method for an electronic device, comprising: naturally circulating a refrigerant between: an evaporator which vaporizes the refrigerant by heat exchange with exhaust hot air from the electronic device, and cools the exhaust hot air; and one of a cooling tower and a condenser which is placed at a position higher than the evaporator, and liquefies the vaporized refrigerant; and valve-controlling a flow rate of a refrigerant liquid to be supplied to the evaporator so that an air temperature after heat has been exchanged for cooling by the evaporator becomes a temperature suited to an operating environment of the electronic device, wherein one of a condensation temperature and a condensation pressure of a refrigerant gas in one of the cooling tower and the condenser do not fluctuate even when the flow rate of the refrigerant liquid to be supplied to the evaporator is valve-controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Yasuhiro KASHIRAJIMA, Junichi Ito, Yasuhiko Inadomi, Masakatsu Senda, Ryoji Shimokawa, Noboru Oshima, Takumi Sugiura
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Publication number: 20110265497Abstract: A device for cooling a tissue sample on a microtome includes a cooling element (44), a first air channel (32), and a ventilation device (22). The cooling element (44) has a cold region facing the tissue sample and a hot region which faces away from the tissue sample and dissipates the heat generated in the cooling element (44) to the ambient environment. The first air channel (32) is provided for dissipating the heat released by the cooling element (44). The ventilation device (22) generates an air flow through the first air channel (32), said air flow absorbing and removing the heat released via the hot region of the cooling element (44).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: LEICA BIOSYSTEMS NUSSLOCH GMBHInventors: Karl-Heinz Westerhoff, Claudia Dorenkamp, Christian Lorenz, Eva Goedecke
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Patent number: 8037696Abstract: The temperature of a biological material is changed from a first temperature to a second temperature within a time period, one of the said first or second temperature being above freezing temperature and the other being below freezing temperature, by placing the biological material in tight contact with at least one, preferably between two heat exchangers, and controlling the temperature in at least one of said heat exchangers such that a freezing temperature front propagates in said material away from at least one of the two heat exchangers.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2005Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Core Dynamics LimitedInventors: Ginadi Shaham, Udi Damari, Benny Rousso
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Publication number: 20110247349Abstract: A system for using freezing, storing and thawing biopharmaceutical materials which includes a holder and a container for holding biopharmaceutical materials therein. The holder has a cavity and the container is received in the cavity. The holder includes a first portion and second portion. The container is received between the first portion and the second portion to connect the container to the holder. The holder includes an interior cradle having a bottom and edges extending from the bottom. The cradle bounds the cavity. An outer rim is connected to the cradle and separated from the cavity. The bottom includes an inner surface facing the cavity receiving the container and an outer surface. The outer surface of the bottom is recessed relative to an outer surface of the outer rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: SARTORIUS STEDIM NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventors: Jonathan CUTTING, Isabelle GAY, Eric K. LEE, Nicolas VOUTE
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Publication number: 20110247348Abstract: A cooling system for a data center, in which a plurality of servers having exothermic electronic components is installed in a housing. The cooling system comprises: a cooling circuit, a main cooling device to cool cooling medium heated by electronic components, and an auxiliary cooling device to assist the main cooling device in cooling the cooling medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Koichi MASHIKO, Randeep SINGH, Masataka MOCHIZUKI, Gerald CABUSAO, Thang NGUYEN
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Publication number: 20110232303Abstract: A temperature regulation apparatus includes a dry ice module that encloses dry ice so that the module's outside surface is not hazardous to touch. Insulation, breathable material, or a combination of insulating and breathable materials, allows dry ice sublimation at a sufficiently slow rate within the attached dry ice module to control the ambient temperature in the area to be cooled. The dry ice module can be attached in a location that maximizes the dry ice cooling properties, typically at or near the top of the area to be cooled. Since sublimated carbon dioxide is heavier than normal air, it falls to the bottom of the area to be cooled and builds up. The venting placement in the dry ice module is based upon the make up of the dry ice module and the breathable materials inside of it.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventor: Robert E. Whewell, JR.
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Patent number: 8001795Abstract: A method of adjusting temperatures of products to a desired product temperature. The method may include enabling the selection of a product, enabling the selection of the desired product temperature, enabling the placement of the product into a temperature adjust device, circulating a liquid or a gas through the temperature adjust device, the liquid or the gas having been cooled to a cool temperature less than the desired product temperature or heated to a warm temperature greater than the desired product temperature, determining when the desired product temperature has been obtained, and ceasing circulation of the liquid or a gas through the temperature adjust device.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Steven C. Pfister, Brock Kolls, Carlos A. Barreto, Mathew Scott Reichardt, Thomas P. Howell, Willy Van Esch
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Publication number: 20110191268Abstract: The invention provides a heat transfer composition comprising R-1234ze(E), R-32 and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: Mexichem Amanco Holding S.A. de C.V.Inventor: ROBERT E. LOW
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Publication number: 20110185749Abstract: A system and method according to which ice is automatically disposed in respective bags and the bags of ice are distributed and stacked within a temperature-controlled storage unit, such as an ice merchandiser.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: REDDY ICE CORPORATIONInventor: Mark C. Metzger
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Publication number: 20110179812Abstract: A method of cooling foodstuff comprises immersing at least one perforated container containing foodstuff into an ice slurry bath for a period of time sufficient to allow ice slurry to enter the at least one perforated container and then subsequently removing the at least one perforated container from the ice slurry bath. Various apparatuses for cooling foodstuff are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2007Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: SUNWELL ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Vladimir Goldstein
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Publication number: 20110179811Abstract: Methods for filling magnets, cooling magnets and energizing magnets are disclosed. The methods are performed at a helium transfill facility, and helium is employed in filling the magnet, cooling the magnet to appropriate temperatures and energizing the magnet such that it can be employed in operations where superconductive magnets are required.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Matthias Bohn, Niels Lose, Dan Baciu
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Patent number: 7984616Abstract: A cryostorage device (100) is described that includes at least one data storage device (200) and at least one sample receptacle device (300) with at least one sample chamber (301, 302, etc.) for the uptake of a suspension sample, the at least one sample chamber (301, 302, etc.) being connected to the data storage device (200) and having a elongated, hollow shape that extends from an inlet end (320) over a predetermined length to an outlet end (330) and being attached to the at least one data storage device (200) in a flexible and movably hanging manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2005Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Günter Fuhr, Heiko Zimmermann
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Publication number: 20110173997Abstract: Heat transfer compositions are usable in their own right or are suitable as a replacement for existing refrigeration usages. The compositions possess a reduced Greenhouse Warming Potential, yet have a capacity and energy efficiency (which may be conveniently expressed as the “Coefficient of Performance”) ideally within 20% of the values of those attained using R-134a, and preferably within 10% or less (e.g. about 5%) of these values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: MEXICHEM AMANCO HOLDING, S.A. de C.V.Inventors: ROBERT E. LOW, Stuart Corr
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Publication number: 20110171732Abstract: [Problems] A purpose of the invention is to provide highly porous 3D scaffolds made of biodegradable polymer such as poly-lactic acid, which can be preferably used for cell culture. Another purpose of this invention is to provide a method for seeding cells homogeneously inside the above mentioned 3D highly porous scaffolds. Another purpose of this invention is to provide a top-down processing method for obtaining planar porous 2D scaffolds starting the above mentioned highly porous scaffolds to be used as building blocks for thick tissue reconstruction. [Solution] Highly porous scaffolds made of biodegradable polymer such as poly-lactic acid can be fabricated by following steps: (i) biodegradable polymer is dissolved in dioxane at the defined concentration; (ii) a vessel containing the solution is mounted on a metal plate thermally driven by a cold finger to a defined temperature below 10° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Corrado Mandoli, Enrico Traversa
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Publication number: 20110167840Abstract: A refrigeration system for a frozen product dispenser is controlled to have a variable cooling capacity that is determined by variable cooling load demands of the dispenser. This is accomplished, in part, by providing the refrigeration system with a variable speed compressor and one or more adjustable expansion valves for metering refrigerant to associated evaporators that are heat exchange coupled to associated freeze barrels of the dispenser, and by controlling the metering setting of the expansion valves and the speed of operation of the compressor in accordance with the cooling load demands of the dispenser. The arrangement provides for efficient operation of the refrigeration system from an energy standpoint and for a reduction in on/off cycling of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Daniel C. Leaver, Gregory M. Billman
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Publication number: 20110162410Abstract: A heat transfer composition comprising trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (R-1234ze(E)), carbon dioxide (R-744) and a third component selected from difluoromethane (R-32), 1,1-difluoroethane (R-152a), fluoroethane (R-161), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a), propylene, propane and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Mexichem Amanco Holding S.A. de C.V.Inventor: ROBERT E. LOW
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Publication number: 20110138820Abstract: A portable, automated, cold-chain maintaining, cooling apparatus is disclosed. This apparatus comprises one or more portable cooling modules in communication with one or more portable transition modules. The cooling modules have cooling module conveyor apparatus to move containers of product through the module and a product cooling apparatus to provide cooling air to the product. The portable transition module is in communication with each of said one or more portable cooling modules in such a manner to maintain the cold temperature of said cooled product. A transition module conveyor apparatus within the transition module is in communication with the cooling module conveyor apparatus and automatically transfer the product from the cooling modules into the portable transition module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Frederic R. Weeth, Michael J. Azzopardi
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Publication number: 20110126557Abstract: A cooling element for cooling goods to be chilled is proposed, comprising a shell with at least one heat transfer wall for exchanging thermal energy with the goods. The cooling element further comprises at least one fluid space proximate to the heat transfer wall and at least one storage space separated from the fluid space by at least one separating element, wherein the storage space is configured to hold a supply of cooling medium in the solid aggregate state. The separating element is configured to substantially separate the supply of cooling medium in the solid aggregate state from the fluid space and to enable the cooling medium in the liquid aggregate state to pass over from the storage space to the fluid space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Ideapro GMBHInventors: Markus Baumgartner, Klaus Kauer
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Publication number: 20110113794Abstract: Tray having a container receiving space and a stepped outer sidewall including a lower step and an upper step, a cooling unit providing cooled air to the space and having a housing with a stepped base that includes a lower step and an upper step, the cooling unit venting exhaust from an end distal to the base, a plurality of containers each having a perimeter flange and, when the container is inserted into the space, portions of the flange are seated on the respective lower steps of the tray and the stepped base of the housing, and a cover configured to sealingly contact the upper steps when the cover is in a closed position, the cover shielding the containers from the exhaust, and being movably attached to the housing and movable along the housing in a range that includes the closed position at which the cover contacts the upper steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventor: Maher Pidarow
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Publication number: 20110100028Abstract: Cryogranulation systems with improved dispenser assemblies are provided for use in manufacturing frozen pellets of pharmaceutical substances in a fluid medium. Methods of cryogranulating the pharmaceutical substance in the fluid medium are also provided. In particular embodiments, the dispenser assembly is used with suspensions or slurries of pharmaceutical compositions including biodegradable substances, such as proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids. In certain embodiments, the pharmaceutical substance can be adsorbed to any pharmaceutically acceptable carrier particles suitable for making pharmaceutical powders. In one embodiment, the pharmaceutical carrier can be, for example, diketopiperazine-based microparticles. The dispenser assembly improves the physical characteristics of the cryopellets formed and minimizes product loss during processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: MannKind CorporationInventors: Edwin Amoro, Karel Vanackere, Michael A. White
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Publication number: 20110100029Abstract: A cooling apparatus for holders such as glasses, provided with a gas source (2) in which gas under pressure is stored, a pipe (3) and a spray opening (4), wherein the pipe is included between the spray opening and the gas source, for passing gas under pressure from the gas source to the spray opening, wherein a cooling (30) is provided which extends along and/or around at least a part of the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V.Inventors: Hans-Peter Voss, Patrick Johannes Blom
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Publication number: 20110088412Abstract: A process for treating mixed loads of tools and/or parts which incorporates an optional pre-heat phase, a cryogenic phase, and an optional post temper phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: David M. Snyder, Leslie D. Baych
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Publication number: 20110086336Abstract: Extracts obtained from the genus Hippophae or other plant sources or compositions produced by chemical or molecular biological techniques each having in common certain moieties in amounts effective when combined with reproductive cells to reduce the loss of function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Lisa Ann Herickhoff, James August Herickhoff
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Patent number: 7908876Abstract: A refrigerator and a method to control the same are provided. The refrigerator includes a body having a supercooling compartment, a cooling unit to provide cool air to the supercooling compartment, an electromagnetic radiation sensor to detect electromagnetic radiation emitted when a food placed in the supercooling compartment begins to freeze, an energy supply to apply energy to the food placed in the supercooling compartment to prevent freezing of the food, and a controller to receive a detection signal from the electromagnetic radiation and then to activate the energy supply. Electromagnetic radiation emitted from each beverage in a supercooled state when the beverage begins to freeze is detected and energy is applied to the beverage according to the detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Shik Shin, Vladimir Urazaev, Jin Ha Jeong, Jung Soo Lim, Bong Su Son
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Patent number: 7908870Abstract: The present invention is directed to a transport package which efficiently maintains payload temperature within a predetermined temperature range during delivery through regions having ambient temperatures outside the desired range. The transport package is used for transporting temperature sensitive materials and thermally protecting the materials from cold and hot ambient temperatures in a manner that does not require a power source or other mechanical devices. Aspects of the invention relate to a temperature maintaining packaging system having an outer container, thermal insulation materials and two or more different phase change materials.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Entropy Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Preston Noel Williams, Henry Adolph Cousineau, III, Arnold Charles Hillman, Christian Peter Kramer, David Nicholas Legas
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Patent number: 7905109Abstract: A rapid cooling system for a rapid thermal processing chamber includes a rapid thermal processing chamber having a wafer support for supporting a wafer. A tank having a supply of cooling liquid is provided in fluid communication with the chamber. A pump is provided in fluid communication with the rapid thermal processing chamber and the tank for pumping the cooling liquid from the tank to the chamber and cooling the wafer during the cooling phase of rapid thermal processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chien Ling Hwang, Yu-Liang Lin, Fu-Kang Tien, Jyh-Chemg Sheu
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Publication number: 20110059217Abstract: Methods of sterilizing a temperature sensitive material, such as an acidified or non-acidified food product, pharmaceutical product or cosmetic product, are disclosed. The methods comprise freezing the temperature sensitive material to an initial temperature of less than or equal to ?2° C. and then either (i) pressurizing the frozen temperature sensitive material to a first elevated pressure of at least 250 MPa for a predetermined first period of time of at least 3 minutes or (ii) pressurizing the frozen temperature sensitive material to a first elevated pressure of at least 250 MPa for a predetermined first period of time of at least 90 seconds, releasing the first elevated pressure for a predetermined pause period of time and then pressurizing the temperature sensitive material to a second elevated pressure of at least 250 MPa for a predetermined second period of time of at least 90 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2008Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventor: Richard S. Meyer
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Publication number: 20110041521Abstract: A lined beverage-cooling container is disclosed, the container comprises a carton lined with a watertight liner bag. The walls of the bag are higher than the walls of the carton. Because the bag expands past the walls of the carton, a cavity for holding ice is formed on top of the carton. A method of use such container is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventors: Thomas Kessler, George Kessler
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Publication number: 20110036064Abstract: A mobile cooling apparatus and method for harvested produce includes working platform and a cooling zone. Produce harvested along the working platform and transferred thereto is placed into the cooling zone which, in one embodiment, is located on an opposite side of the working platform from where harvesting is occurring. The cooling zone may be open at an outward facing end thereof, to permit offloading of harvested produce to a second mobile apparatus. The cooling zone may be dimensioned to contain at least one pallet and, in one embodiment, two pallets positioned side-by-side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: Frank Maconachy, Jim Ivelich
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Patent number: 7870748Abstract: A containment apparatus (10) having a floor wall (12) with four side walls (16) extending therefrom and an opening (13) at the top. Each of the side walls (16) and the floor wall (12) include apertures (20) defined within to allow air to flow freely throughout the containment apparatus. A lid (18) may be provided to place on the containment apparatus to cover the opening (13). A divider (21) made of interlocking wall strips (23) that connect to define a plurality of separate compartments (25). Each interlocking wall strip (23) having multiple apertures (20) defined within to allow for free airflow around, through and between each compartment (25). An alternative embodiment of the divider (31) is comprised of a molded material such as plastic for holding thermosensitive product vials. The alternative divider (31) having a plurality of aligned wells (39). Each well (39) being adapted to support one thermosensitive product vial.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2006Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Inventor: Kathleen H. Byrne
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Publication number: 20110005240Abstract: A refreezable container for storage of perishable and/or temperature-sensitive items is described herein. A bottom surface, contiguous with one or more side surfaces is provided, each surface having an interior cavity at least partially filled with refreezable material, usable to retain contents within the container at a temperature less than ambient temperature. The bottom surface includes a lower groove therein. The side surfaces include a lip adapted for secure engagement for an upper object, which can include a top cover having a complementary groove, or the lower groove of an adjacent refreezable container, allowing multiple containers, with or without top covers, to be nested for storage or transport, and allowing multiple covered containers, or top covers independent of containers, to be stacked and nested.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventor: Adan Francisco Chapa
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Publication number: 20110000230Abstract: A method for preparing a hydrous, cryopreserved sample that is enclosed in a sample container (1, 1a, 1b, 1c), in the case of which, at least sample material is introduced into the sample container; this is then sealed pressure-tight and subsequently cooled by a cryogen (8) in a temporal and spatial sequence, a sacrificial region (4) of the container contents (2) initially solidifying and, only subsequently thereto, the entire container contents solidifying. A sample container (1a) that may be preferably used in this case is designed to be tubular, sealed at both ends thereof, and to essentially have a U-shaped form.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: LEICA MIKROSYSTEME GMBHInventors: Paul WURZINGER, Johannes LEUNISSEN
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Publication number: 20100307170Abstract: A cryogenic treatment for wooden baseball bats to provide a new, cryogenically treated wooden baseball bat that has many of the advantages of the traditional and alternative material bats mentioned heretofore, but with a significant novel feature, that of having been cryogenically treated. The result is a new, cryogenically treated wooden baseball bat which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art, either alone or in combination thereof because cryogenic treatment is typically implemented upon metallic objects and not on wooden objects. The process relates to a process/method/system of manufacture wherein the same can be utilized for improving the strength of standard wooden baseball bats via cryogenic treatment, thereby reducing the occurrence of breakage of said bats. This is intended to increase the safety of players and fans through the reduced risk of being struck by sharply pointed projectiles/shrapnel that results when breakage does occur.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Gregory Dean Kendra, James Cortez
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Publication number: 20100300621Abstract: A method of transferring heat from or to a workpiece support in an RF coupled plasma reactor includes placing coolant in an internal flow channel that is located inside the workpiece support and transferring heat from or to the coolant by circulating the coolant through a refrigeration loop in which the internal flow channel of the workpiece support constitutes an evaporator of the refrigeration loop. The method further includes maintaining thermal conditions of the coolant inside the evaporator within a range in which heat exchange between the workpiece support and the coolant is primarily or exclusively through the latent heat of vaporization of the coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Paul Lukas Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Douglas A. Buchberger, JR., Douglas H. Burns, Kallol Bera, Daniel J. Hoffman
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Publication number: 20100293969Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally provide methods and systems that distribute an additive in solid carbon dioxide in an interior of food processing equipment. The additive may be injected into a flow of liquid carbon dioxide upstream of an expander at or adjacent to the interior. Injection of the additive into the interior may be alternated with directing a flow of expanded carbon dioxide into the interior. In some embodiments, the freezing point of the additive with or without a diluent composition and/or additive(s) is lower than a temperature of the liquid carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: David C. BRAITHWAITE, Meenakshi SUNDARAM, Vasuhi RASANAYAGAM
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Publication number: 20100293970Abstract: A cooler for beverage containers, comprising an outer holder (5) and at least one inner holder (17), received in the outer holder (5), provided with: at least a series of receiving positions (28) within the inner holder, for beverage containers (30); a cooling device (13) for froming an ice layer between the at least one inner holder and the outer holder; pumping means (22) for drawing coolant from the at least one inner holder (17) and lifting coolant between the inner holder (17) and the outer holder (5); at least one overflow (32) for reintroducing lifted coolant into the inner holder (17)Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V.Inventors: Ronald Johannes Mooijer, Hans-Peter Voss, Patrick Johannes Blom
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Patent number: 7810338Abstract: A control method for the air-conditioning treatment of products cyclically measures, at definable time intervals, the product temperature and, according thereto, automatically adjusts several environmental parameters inside the treatment chamber. In order to provide a process that is automatic and gentle and to save energy and time in comparison to conventional methods, actual values for a characteristic temperature of the product, the temperature of the air inside the treatment chamber and the temperature of the incoming air are measured in each cycle. At least at the beginning of the treatment process, the desired final state of the product is defined based on characteristic parameters, and set values for the measured parameters for the next cycle are automatically determined from the measured and defined parameters and, in the next measuring cycle, are compared with the respective actual values.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Inventors: Siegfried Marx, Martin Marx
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Patent number: 7810349Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for rapidly cooling small volumes of fluids. The apparatus includes a plurality of cooling elements each including a housing forming a sealable cooling fluid chamber which can house a cooling fluid. At least one spacer is arranged to separate opposed cooling elements and provide a separation distance between the opposed cooling elements. Each of the plurality of cooling elements is arranged to be independently separable to allow ready assembly, disassembly, and cleaning. The plurality of cooling elements can include a stack of disc-shaped cooling elements or concentric cylinders that can be situated in a container and rotated by a motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Inventor: Patrick Laughlin Kelly
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Publication number: 20100255138Abstract: The cooling assembly comprising several cooling pins (1) that are connected to the same fluid inlet. Each cooling pin (1) is adapted to cool a moulded hollow plastic piece (P), and comprises a hollow blowing pipe (2) having a fluid inlet (20a) at one end and at least one fluid outlet (21a) at the opposite end, and fluid boosting means (3) for boosting by Venturi effect the cooling fluid flow at the inlet (20a) of the blowing pipe (2). The cooling assembly can be mounted on a moulding machine, and in particular an injection moulding machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: La Seda De Barcelona S.A.Inventors: Jan Deckers, Roald Duchateau