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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110036581 | SYSTEM FOR PULSE-INJECTING FLUID INTO A BOREHOLE For injecting e.g. water into ground formation around a borehole, and for superimposing pulses onto the outflow of the injected water, it is important that the pulses have a rapid rise-time. A piston is connected to a pulse-valve of the tool. A bias spring urges the pis... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100320100 | COMBINED CANDY CONTAINER AND CARD HOLDER The device includes a plastic body in two hinged halves or portions and a tray. When the device is closed, the tray is held between the two portions. A candy-chamber (for holding several small candies) is defined between the tray and the candy-portion, and a card-pocket... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100284050 | N-NARY OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR AND AN OPTICAL AND-GATE An N-nary photonic transistor (PT) based on a heterojunction optical semiconductor microstructure is presented. The PT has one control signal input, one data signal input, and one output. The lights for each input can be one of the wavelengths within the N number (N-nar... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100269914 | AT-SURFACE TOOL FOR PULSE-INJECTION OF LIQUIDS For pulsed injection of liquids into the ground, the tool has a rotating cylinder, having through-slots. The tool has an insert, which is pressed against the rotating cylinder. As the cylinder rotates, the slots in the rotor cover/uncover the slots in the insert, creati... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100223969 | LOWERING VISCOSITY OF BIOSOLIDS Sewage sludge is dewatered to a cake-like state. The viscosity of the sludge is lowered by admixing a quantity of urea, urea-ammonium-nitrate, or other nitrogen-containing material, in with the dewatered sludge. The treatment also removes pathogens, and renders the prod... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100089823 | FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING ELIMINATION OF BIOMASS IN SEWAGE SLUDGE Already-treated sludge is fed back into incoming sewage, and is effective to supply nutrients needed for the microbiological breakdown of the sludge. The feedback sludge has a solids content of 10% or more, and has been sheared and heated to drive its viscosity down to ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100065124 | Placement of Fluids in Ground by Pulse-Injection For use when injecting remediation liquid via an injection-well into contaminated groundwater, in the ground. The injection equipment includes a pulse-generator, which has an upstream chamber and a downstream chamber, linked by a pulse-conduit and a bypass conduit. The ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100011907 | EXTRACTION OF METALS FROM SULPHIDE MINERALS Nickel entrained in the sulphide mineral pyrrhotite is engineered to dissolve in leaching acid in a two step procedure. First, a slurry of the mineral and the acid is activated by oxidation. This is done in a time T1 by electrolysis; or alternatively chemically, ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090294109 | HEAT EXCHANGER USING CORRUGATED SHEETS In an MVR evaporator, a heat exchanger core comprises several condensing units. Each unit comprises front and back corrugated sheets, arranged trough-to-trough. The units are arranged side-by-side, in peak-to-trough configuration, creating sinuous passageways between th... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090294074 | WASTEWATER EVAPORATION SYSTEM The water evaporation system functions to increase the concentration strength of a contaminant solution in wastewater, for more economical disposal. A blower conveys an air stream along an air-conduit, over a nozzle or atomizer. The atomizer converts the incoming dilute... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090150591 | VIDEO COMMUNICATION NETWORK-COMPUTER INTERFACE DEVICE The interface device is interposed between a switched-packet network and the bus of a computer. The interface device de-packets and de-compresses HD video data from the network, and places the de-packeted and de-compressed HD video data stream on the computer bus, ready... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090107920 | SLUDGE TREATMENT SYSTEM When liquefying sludge, e.g as in U.S. Pat. No. 6,808,636, the combination of temperature, pH, and shearing, is synergistic. Described here is a system that provides for collating test sampling and full-scale data inputs, recording achieved results and the engineering p... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090013636 | WOOD TRIM SYSTEM For attaching wood trim around a door or window frame. In the disclosed system, plastic spline-clips attached to the jambs serve to fix the jamb to the wall. The spline-clips have two splines, which engage slots in the wood trim, forming a dovetail connection between th... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080302528 | Borehole Seismic Pulse Generation Using Rapid-Opening Valve During a surge-pulsing operation in a borehole (e.g an oil-well undergoing remediation) liquid is stored under pressure upstream of a valve, and then released through the valve suddenly enough to create a seismic wave, which propagates into the formation around the bore... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080302889 | LIQUEFYING DE-WATERED SLUDGE PREPARATORY TO DRYING Sewage sludge that has been de-watered to 25% solids is subjected to a combination of shearing and heating that liquefies the sludge, and drops its viscosity to below 12,000 cP. The fact of liquefaction prepares the sludge such that subsequent drying can be done more co... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080277289 | WASTEWATER AMMONIUM EXTRACTION AND ELECTROLYTIC CONVERSION TO NITROGEN GAS A new system is disclosed for extracting ammonia from a wastewater stream, and for transferring the ammonia into the secondary water circuit, where the dissolved ammonium is electrolysed and transformed into gaseous nitrogen. The new system makes use of a membrane of ga... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080222926 | SNOWPLOW WITH PIVOTING SIDEBLADES The left and right sideblades are hinged to the mainblade about vertical axes, and can pivot each through 180°. The sideblades are rotated by means of left and right hydraulic rotary actuators. The actuator includes a piston formed with helical splines, which drive a r... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080222927 | Snowplow with pivoting sideblades The left and right sideblades are hinged to the mainblade about vertical axes, and can pivot each through 180°. The sideblades are rotated by means of left and right hydraulic rotary actuators. The actuator includes a piston formed with helical splines, which drive a r... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080216775 | Automotive Coolant Pump Apparatus An automotive coolant pump has movable vanes, which are adjustable as to their orientation in accordance with the temperature of the coolant, whereby the rate of coolant flow through the pump impeller accords with coolant temperature. A thermal-actuator is operated by a... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080184824 | DIMPLE TEST FOR DETECTING IMPROPERLY INSERTED HOSE In a crimped hose, a length of rubber tubing is crimped into a blind-ended ferrule. To determine whether the tubing has been fully inserted, a dimple is pressed into the ferrule. The force needed to produce the dimple is small or large, depending whether the rubber is i... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080153154 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING FOAM BLOCK The water to be treated might be river water which needs to be clarified, or might be septic tank effluent which needs to have its BOD and dissolved organics content diminished, and its ammonium oxidised. Treatment is done by passing the water through a block of soft op... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080145212 | Guide-Case For Water Turbine Guide case (24) for use in conjunction with a water turbine (20), with a helical top wall (35) of the annular chamber (27) extended downstream of the inner wall (39) of the inlet port (30). The extension is wetted on its downstr... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20070284795 | Use of magnets to provide resilience The clamp-unit is arranged in class-1 double-lever configuration. The levers carry a pair of jaws at one end, and magnets at the other end. The magnets are arranged in repulsive pairs, whereby the magnets urge the jaws together.... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070261985 | Indexing pill dispenser A rotary manually operated pill dispenser is disclosed, for holding and dispensing a collection of pills from several separate compartments. A cover has an integral dispensing porthole which overlies each compartment in turn. Six tapered tabs strategically placed on a l... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070241026 | Frame and door for a locker A frame for a locker is a single piece of material having exterior edges, interior edges and one or more frame hinge halves formed monolithically therein. The frame is made from a blank, which is a single piece of material. A door for a locker is formed similarly from a... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070104108 | Procedure for correcting errors in radio communication, responsive to error frequency Errors of e.g database synchrony between radio-connected stations can be especially troublesome if continued and repeated, in that the task of detecting and correcting errors in transmissions between a mobile station and a server can quickly deplete resources in the mob... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070105546 | SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING ERRORS IN RADIO COMMUNICATION, RESPONSIVE TO ERROR FREQUENCY Errors of e.g database synchrony between a radio-connected mobile-station and a server can be especially troublesome if continued and repeated, and can quickly deplete resources in the mobile-station. This problem is addressed by keeping an error-event-count in the serv... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070033887 | System for alleviating in-vault condensation in double-glazed windows A hole is drilled through from the outside atmosphere into the between-panes vault, and into the hole is inserted a normally-open valve assembly. The valve Is arranged to close responsively to the presence of a pressure differential in such direction that air would tend... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070034449 | SAFETY AID FOR SLOPING ROOF The aid provides a manner of supporting a plank, on a roof, for workers to stand on. The plank is carried on plank-jacks, but the plank-jacks are not attached directly to the roof joists. Rather, the plank-jacks are suspended via rope-slings from a pair of ridge saddles... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20060213618 | Safety system for constraining crossbeams in a belt splicer In a belt splicer, having crossbeams straddling over and under the splice area, and having tie-bolts holding the ends of the crossbeams together, the safety system comprises link-spacers which link the crossbeams together. The link-spacers are profiled complementarily t... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060197238 | Wastewater evaporation system Water evaporation apparatus, which includes: a water-inlet, through which incoming-water containing a dissolved chemical at a relatively dilute concentration is conveyed to an atomizer of the apparatus; a final-water-outlet, through which final-water containing the diss... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060166660 | Cell-phone operation giving increased full service in manual/select mode In the manual/select mode of scanning, if the manually-selected network is not available, the phone performs a general search, and settles on a suitable alternative network. The phone is programmed to provide full call service on that found network. Upon returning home,... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060131168 | Electrochemical treatment of ammonia in waste-water In a sewage treatment plant, dissolved ammonium is extracted from the waste-water stream, and is transferred to a body of secondary water. The secondary water is passed through an electrolysis station, where the ammonium is transformed to nitrogen gas. The capture and t... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060061859 | Shock resistant mounting for small display screen The display screen unit of a cell phone or PDA is carried in a mounting frame, which is bolted into the casing. The screen unit is sandwiched between cushioning layers of foam. The screen unit can move laterally, relative to the mounting frame, putting the foam in shear... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060042693 | Vented port-cap for fire hydrant The vented port-cap includes a check-valve, which admits air into the barrel of the hydrant when the pressure inside is lower than the pressure outside. After an inspection of the hydrant, the hydrant can be left to drain by itself, even though the port-cap has been rep... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060014405 | Structure for mounting a component to a circuit-board A digital camera is mounted to a circuit-board in a cellphone. The camera is mounted in a plastic main-body, and is supported therein on a bed of springs, which provides a stable resilient mechanical support. The springs double as connector-strips, being electrically-ac... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050189108 | Enhancement of flow rates through porous media For extracting a liquid (such as oil) from a porous medium, the liquid is subjected to pulses that propagate through the liquid flowing through the pores of the medium. The pulses cause momentary surges in the velocity of the liquid, which keeps the pores open. The puls... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050184000 | Wastewater treatment station in shipping container A standard 20 ft or 40 ft sea-freight shipping container is configured as a septic tank, or as an aerobic trickle filter station. The shipping-container is lined with a watertight shell or liner. The liner may be a preferabricated separate structure inserted into the co... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050166859 | Cage for transporting poultry The cage comprises a metal support framework and plastic panels that define trays for containing live-poultry. Horizontal floor panels of the trays are domed and slitted to prevent pooling of water. Vertical fence panels are formed as open lattice boxes, combining good ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050106040 | Thermal control of flowrate in engine coolant system An impeller pump with thermostatically adjustable swirl-vanes, in use as an automotive engine-driven coolant pump. Flow variation is controlled by varying the orientation of the swirl-vanes. A change in orientation is effected by a thermal driver, e.g a wax-type thermos... | 05/19/2005 |
