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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120067792 | Apparatus and Method for Water Treatment An apparatus comprises two inlets for receiving water flows of differing quality. The apparatus comprises a water treatment device for treating one of the water flows. The apparatus is arranged to disable the treatment device if only water from the other inlet is convey... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110315641 | CONTROLLER FOR AN ACOUSTIC STANDING WAVE GENERATION DEVICE IN ORDER TO PREVENT CLOGGING OF A FILTER The invention relates to a method and apparatus to continuously monitor and control acoustic energy and vacuum pressure to maintain a net unidirectional flow of multi-phase heterogeneous fluids through a porous filter or membrane. The heterogenous fluid may come form a ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110284473 | MOBILE CLEANING METHOD AND MOBILE CLEANING MODULE FOR FLUIDS A cleaning method is provided for fluids of a fluid circuit (31) of a mobile device (2) comprising a mobile cleaning module (1), wherein the mobile cleaning module (1) comprises at least one connection element (3, 4, 5, 6) for making a... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110220561 | SEAWATER DESALINATION SYSTEM According to one embodiment, a seawater desalination system includes a membrane filtering pump, a first to third flowmeter, a filtering membrane, a high-pressure pump, a pressure gauge, a reverse osmosis membrane, a discharge valve and a control module. The membrane fil... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110186517 | Dialysis machine, in particular peritoneal dialysis machine The present invention relates to a dialysis machine, in particular a peritoneal dialysis machine, to which a fluid system having a multi-chamber container with at least two chambers with individual solutions separated by a partition arrangement to be opened mechanically... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110031171 | Solar Powered Utility Unit A solar power utility unit is disclosed that collects solar power during the day; stores the power in a battery pack; and distributes the energy stored in the battery to one or more utilities. The utilities can include a water purification system using a UV lamp, lights... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110000858 | FLUID PURIFICATION PRESSURE CONTROL APPARATUSES AND METHODS Apparatuses and methods for improved operation of a fluid purification apparatus. The fluid purification apparatus includes a pressure sensor to energize and de-energize one or more components of the fluid purification apparatus based on the pressure entering or in the ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100258512 | HYDROCYCLONES FOR TREATING DRILLING FLUID Methods and systems are disclosed for treating a drilling fluid mixture including feeding the drilling fluid mixture to a hydrocyclone (or hydrocyclones) with a flow-volume-adjustable inlet for controlling flow of the drilling fluid mixture into the hydrocyclone(s). Thi... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100237013 | AUTONOMOUS FILTER ELEMENT An autonomous filter device and a method for improving the filter life and performance is disclosed. The filter element is equipped with one or more sensors, adapted to measure one or more characteristics or parameters of the fluid, such as temperature, pressure, or flo... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100122946 | WATER DISINFECTION APPARATUS A water disinfection apparatus includes a chamber adapted for connection to a pressurized water source. An ultra violet light is oriented to shine ultra violet rays into the chamber and to disinfect water therein, and a normally closed output valve connects the chamber ... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100096338 | Management arrangement The invention discloses a management arrangement for a swimming pool. The arrangement includes a number of sensors being adapted to measure variables and generate input data relating to a swimming pool. The input data is processed by a processing unit to generate output... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100038321 | GRIT CHAMBER AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME A system for controlling the sedimentation of sand or grit particles suspended in waste water contained in a grit chamber by determining the temperature of water contained in the grit chamber and by operating a turbulence creating means on the hasis of the water tempera... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100032373 | METHOD FOR THE OPTIMISED MANAGEMENT OF A MEMBRANE FILTRATION UNIT AND EQUIPMENT FOR REALISING THE SAME The invention relates to a method for the optimised management of a membrane filtration unit based on membrane micro-coagulation, that comprises at least one measurement of the effluent temperature (7), one measurement of the filtration flow rate (8), and ... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100006753 | Extraction detection system and method An apparatus, system and method for the continuous flow extraction, collection and analysis of small amounts of energetic substance/s and their reacted/unreacted residue/s in real time are provided. The apparatus includes an agitator that generates a particulate materia... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090223881 | Reverse Osmosis System with Dual Water Intake Disclosed is an improved multi-state reverse osmosis system with dual water inlets for improving filtration efficiency. More specifically, the system includes a pressure vessel with a series of semi permeable membranes. A seawater inlet is included at both a first end o... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090223900 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD Bacterial contamination is removed from wastewater by a sterilizing process and apparatus (10). A wastewater piping circuit (26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34) interconnects a supply tank (12), three serial heat exchangers (16, 18, 20), and a storage ta... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090107921 | Chemical treatment system and method A chemical treatment system that injects one or more dosage chemical solutions into a process. Conditions of the process are sensed by sensors, communicated to a chemical treatment management system. The chemical treatment management system processes the process conditi... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090101552 | Manifolds for Use in Conducting Dialysis The present invention is directed to novel systems for conducting the filtration of blood using manifolds. The manifolds integrate various sensors and have fluid pathways formed therein to direct fluids from various sources through the requisite blood filtration or ultr... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090008306 | EXTRACORPOREAL DIALYSIS READY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS MACHINE A dialysis system includes: (i) a dialysate pump; (ii) a patient line having a connector configured to be attached to a peritoneal patient part; (iii) an extracorporeal circuit; (iv) a blood pump in fluid communication with the extracorporeal circuit; (v) a blood filter... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080290041 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT OPERATION OF AN ABATEMENT SYSTEM A method of operating an electronic device manufacturing system is provided which includes the steps of receiving information with an interface, wherein the information relates to an abatement system, and shutting down a process tool and an abatement tool in response to... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080290037 | Methods and Apparatuses for Separating Biological Particles Methods and apparatuses for separating biological particles are provided.... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20070246406 | Tangential flow filtration apparatuses, systems, and processes for the separation of compounds The invention relates to apparatuses, machines, systems and methods for the recovery and purification of proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, biologically produced polymers and other compounds from aqueous fluids. The aqueous fluids can comprise enzyme concentrates and or... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070199867 | Assembling Unit For Filtration And Adsorption Of Waste And Sewage Water Wastewater and sewage filtering and adsorbing unit includes sewage reservoir, clean water reservoir, active coke powder storage, filtering and adsorbing tank, control cabinet, saturated active coke sludge settling tank, filtering and adsorbing material. The sewage reser... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070090030 | Complete Water Management Process and System A complete water management system employing a plurality of tanks to control the use of potable, gray, and black water. The system is centrally controlled and continuously monitors the condition of all reservoirs, (i.e. the potable, the gray, and the black). The same co... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20060226057 | Integrated automatic blood processing unit A system for automatically processing blood components is described. The system includes a console, which contains all motors, pumps, sensors, valves and control circuitry, and a unique disposable set that includes a cassette supporting a centrifuge with an improved des... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060226084 | Marine vessel liquid strainer clogging indicator and method An apparatus and method for estimating blockage within a liquid strainer used in a marine vessel is provided. The apparatus includes a sensor for measuring the rate of liquid flow through the strainer and a sensor for measuring the operational speed of a device utilizin... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060213820 | Removal of contaminants from a fluid A method and apparatus for removing contaminants from a fluid are disclosed. The fluid is introduced into a decontamination chamber such that the fluid is cooled and contaminants fall out within the decontamination chamber, producing a purified fluid. The purified fluid... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060163146 | Fuel filter for diesel engines with high pressure direct injection of common rail type and the like Fuel filter for diesel engines with high pressure direct injection of common rail type and the like, comprising an outer casing provided with a fuel inlet conduit (3) and an outlet conduit (4), and containing in its interior a filter means(5), a tem... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060027500 | Liquid handling for filtration and preparative chromatography A method and system are provided for high-precision separation of pharmaceutical or biotechnology liquids. The separation can be in accordance with direct flow filtration, tangential flow filtration or preparative chromatography. Movement of the pharmaceutical or biotec... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060011553 | Water purification system and method An oxidation filtration system for cleaning groundwater, the system having an aeration tower and a filtration tank. Within the filtration tank is an upper chamber and a lower chamber. Contained within the lower chamber is a plurality of Styrofoam™ filter media. Separa... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050023195 | Device for treating working fluid for electric discharge machining The device for treating working fluid includes a fluid level detecting device for detecting a fluid level of cleaned fluid in a cleaned fluid tank, and a control unit for determining an adjustment value for a discharge rate command for a filter device pump, based on the... | 02/03/2005 |
