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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120080373 | ANISOTROPIC FILTRATION MEDIA AND METHOD OF MAKING A method of making an anisotropic filtration media includes, foaming a media, straining the media in a selected direction, and relieving strain of the media in the selected direction... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120000847 | FILTER WITH HIGH FILTRATION CAPACITY A filter with high filtration capacity, comprising a filtering element, whose particularity is that the filtering element is made of a plant fiber selected among hemp, kenaf, jute and agave.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110284459 | Mullite Module for Liquid Filtration The disclosure relates to a material suitable for forming a honeycomb monolith for liquid filtration and, more particularly, to a mullite material for forming a cross-flow filtration device for separating a feed stock into filtrate and retentate, methods for forming the... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110247801 | SCREEN DEVICE AND DOWNHOLE SCREEN A screen device includes a foam body having a passageway that extends longitudinally through the foam body, the foam body has an open cell structure such that at least two surfaces of the foam body are in fluidic communication with one another through the foam body.... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110155662 | Thin, Porous Metal Sheets and Methods for Making the Same Thin, porous metal sheets and methods for forming them are presented to enable a variety of applications and devices. The thin, porous metal sheets are less than or equal to approximately 200 μm thick, have a porosity between 25% and 75% by volume, and have pores with ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110033772 | SINTERED POROUS STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Simple, low cost methods of manufacturing highly porous structures are provided. The methods involve building up porous structures with elements shaped to provide the desired strength, porosity and pore structure of the porous structure and then sintering the elements t... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110024350 | METHODS,TOOLS, AND PRODUCTS FOR MOLDED ORDERED POROUS STRUCTURES A mold for use in forming form a porous molded product via an injection molding process is provided. The method comprises injecting a material into the mold comprising multiple layers of shaping elements extending through a cavity, each layer of shaping elements includi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100237007 | Cordierite Aluminum Magnesium Titanate Compositions And Ceramic Articles Comprising Same Disclosed are ceramic bodies comprised of composite cordierite aluminum magnesium titanate ceramic compositions and methods for the manufacture of the same.... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100200494 | HIGH-OUTPUT SOLVENT-BASED ELECTROSPINNING The present invention generally relates to solution electrospinning processes for fabricating fibers, to the fibers prepared thereby, and to non-woven webs, fabrics, porous composite filter media, and articles comprising the fibers.... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100108608 | CO-SINTERED POLYMER STRUCTURES A co-sintered porous polymer includes at least one molecule specific powder for adsorbing at least one target molecule from a complex liquid mixture when the liquid is passed through the porous co-sintered polymer. The co-sintered polymer can include a sintered porous p... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100038304 | FILTER MEDIUM The instant invention generally provides a porous filter medium, a porous composite filter medium, a filter assembly, processes of making the same, and processes suitable for filtering contaminants from liquids.... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100038308 | MULLITE MODULE FOR LIQUID FILTRATION The disclosure relates to a material suitable for forming a honeycomb monolith for liquid filtration and, more particularly, to a mullite material for forming a cross-flow filtration device for separating a feed stock into filtrate and retentate, methods for forming the... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100025324 | FILTERING MEDIUM FOR MOLTEN METAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME A filtering medium for molten metal which is excellent in inclusion removal performance and durability and further may provide sufficient throughput and a method for producing the same. A filtering medium for molten metal in the present invention includes a two-layered ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090283480 | POROUS MATERIAL WITH A NONOPOROUS COATING The invention relates to a porous material comprising a substrate based on at least one organic polymer A and a coating, where
| 11/19/2009 |
| 20090261035 | NANOWEBS A nonwoven web of fibers that have a number average diameter of less than 1 micron. The web can have a Poisson Ratio of less than about 0.8, a solidity of at least about 20%, a basis weight of at least about 1 gsm, and a thickness of at least 1 micrometer.... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090178971 | CERAMIC FILTER A ceramic filter comprising: (a) from about 75% to about 95% by weight of diatomaceous earth; (b) from about 10% to about 20% by weight of a flux; and (c) from about 0.03% to about 0.4% by weight of a metallic compound; the percentages by weight being percentages by wei... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090127187 | CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROPOROUS FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND FILTRATION FILTER A crystalline polymer microporous film including: a plurality of pores penetrating through from a first surface to a second surface, wherein the average pore size of pores at the first surface is larger than the average pore size of pores at the second surface, the aver... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090107927 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING NUCLEIC ACIDS Methods and devices for isolating nucleic acids from a mixture containing such nucleic acids and extraneous matter are provided. In one embodiment, the method of the invention comprises passing the mixture through a glass frit under conditions effective to separate the ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090071293 | Filter Device for Molten Metal Filtration and Method for Producing Such Filters The present invention relates to a ceramic filter device for molten metal filtration comprising a major ceramic phase and a minor carbon phase bonded by phosphate bond, a method for producing such filter devices, and the use of such filter devices for the filtration of ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090065416 | ELASTIC POROUS COLUMN MATERIAL A packing composition (110) for inserting into a fluidic device (100), the packing composition (110) comprising a packing material (114) adapted for separating different components of a fluid and an elastic network (115) in which the p... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090001021 | Air filtration media comprising non-metal-doped precipitated silica and/or silicon-based gel materials The present invention relates generally to an environmental control unit for use in air handling systems that provides highly effective filtration of noxious gases (such as ammonia). Such a filtration system utilizes novel undoped precipitated silica or silicon-based ge... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090001014 | Composite caustic silica gel manufacturing method and gels made thereby New silica gel materials and novel methods of producing such are provided. The method itself entails a manner of mixing the reactants together in a one-pot process such that the time required for aging is reduced without compromising the ability to target pore size prod... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080245040 | Diesel particulate filter and method for forming such filter A method for forming a diesel particulate filter is presented. The method includes provided an extruder for receiving material to be extruded such extruder being configured to converting such material into a honeycomb structure having a lower portion and an upper portio... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080223797 | FILTERS WITH IMPROVED MEDIA UTILIZATION AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME Multi-core solid profile filter media blocks include multiple sub-blocks, which may be formed by providing a block with multiple interior cavities extending deep into the block, to allow water to flow deep inside the filter block to access the media of the sub-block (in... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080210626 | Porous Cured Epoxy Resin A porous object comprising a three-dimensional network skeleton of a cured epoxy resin and having interconnecting pores, characterized in that the three-dimensional network skeleton forms a non-particle-aggregation type porous object constituted of a three-dimensional b... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080121579 | LIQUID FILTRATION SYSTEM In some embodiments, a filtration system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a housing having a bottom portion, a middle portion coupled to the bottom portion and an upper portion, and a cap coupled to the upper portion, (b) a sediment storage area wi... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080110820 | Gravity Flow Carbon Block Filter A gravity fed carbon block water filter includes activated carbon particles; a binder material interspersed with the activated carbon particles; and a lead scavenger coupled to at least one of the activated carbon particles and binder material, the lead scavenger being ... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080028839 | Separation device and chemical reaction apparatus made from polycrystalline diamond, apparatuses including same such as separation apparatuses, and methods of use The present invention relates to a porous polycrystalline diamond structure that may be employed as a separation device in a separation apparatus for separating at least one reaction product of a chemical reaction, as a stationary phase support and/or stationary phase i... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080017573 | Diesel particulate filter An improved particulate filtration system has an inlet, for the fluid to be filtered, connected to a housing containing a filter medium such that the fluid passes through the filter medium, and an outlet for the filtered fluid to exit. The filtration system's improvemen... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070295656 | Filter with better performance by minimizing clogging A filter comprises at least one filtration unit with a filtration passage having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the filtration unit includes at least one groove formed in an inlet side surface of the filtration unit, said at least one groove extending to the inlet and ... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070221561 | LIQUID FILTRATION SYSTEMS Provided are liquid filtration systems and filter elements. An aspect of the invention provides a filter element comprising: a filter block having an inlet and an outlet; an end cap having a handle and a passage, the passage operatively connecting the outlet of the filt... | 09/27/2007 |