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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7775368 | Micro-channel long molecule manipulation system Laminar flow of a carrier liquid and polymeric molecules through micro-channels is used to straighten, align, separate, and/or sort the polymeric molecules. The polymeric molecules may be analyzed and/or manipulated in the carrier liquid or attached to a wall of the... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7374685 | Process for separating metallic from semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes A method for separating semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes from metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes is disclosed. The method utilizes separation agents that preferentially associate with semiconducting nanotubes due to the electrical nature of the nan... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368088 | Apparatus for producing purified aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution An apparatus for producing a purified aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution. The apparatus includes at least one purifier tower packed with an ion exchange resin, a chelate resin or an adsorption resin for receiving a charged aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution containi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7350567 | Increasing media permeability with acoustic vibrations A coalbed methane production method comprises acoustic radiators strategically placed within exhaust boreholes that sonically vibrate the immediate wall areas. The gas volume output that can be realized by an exhaust well is mainly determined by the penetrability of... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7325375 | Selective product inserter apparatus and process The combination of a plurality of streams of printed products. The first stream of products is selectively inserted into a packaging device while being merged into a second stream of products. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318527 | Apparatus for separating organic material from inorganic material An apparatus (100, 100′, 100″) for separating organic material from inorganic material includes a container (1), a feeding apparatus (4), a charging apparatus (9), a lifting apparatus (21), a discharging apparatus (24) a... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7311814 | Process for the production of hydrocarbon fluids Hydrocarbon fluids are produced by hydrocracking a vacuum gas oil stream, fractionating and/or hydrogenating the hydrocracked vacuum gas oil. The fluids typically have ASTM D86 boiling point ranges within the range 100° C. to 400° C. the range being no more than 7... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304258 | System for transporting and selectively sorting particles and method of using the same A system for transporting and selectively sorting particles includes a first wall and a traveling wave grid extending along the first wall. The system includes a second wall having a passage extending therethrough and a gate operatively associated with the passage. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296682 | Process for controlling operation of a flotation cell A method for controlling operation of a flotation cell, where the liquid level and the foam level in the cell are measured and controlled. The method includes measuring at least one quality characteristic of the accept leaving the cell and determining the set value(... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7270986 | Ejection of localized volumes from fluids A method is provided for acoustically ejecting from a channel or other container a plurality of fluid droplets, each of which contains one or more particles or other localized volumes. The localized volumes, which can be living cells, are ejected towards sites on a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7261008 | Air sampler An air sampler having a fan; an air inlet tube; a main body having a cyclonic cup, a stripping column and a demister; and fluidic circuitry for inputting fluids to the main body and the air inlet tube, and for outputting fluids from the main body. Air flow through t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7238223 | Acoustical stimulation of vapor diffusion system and method An apparatus for removing constituents from a fluid stream is provided. The apparatus includes a duct, a collection device, a sorbent injector, and an acoustic generator. The duct has a fluid passageway to receive a fluid stream having constituents. The collection d... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7217901 | System for transporting and selectively sorting particles and method of using the same A system for transporting and selectively sorting particles includes a first wall and a traveling wave grid extending along the first wall. The system includes a second wall having a passage extending therethrough and a gate operatively associated with the passage. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7182206 | Screen energizer A screening system including a vibratory screen separator having a resiliently mounted frame with a low frequency vibratory drive coupled to that frame. A taut screen is rigidly mounted in the frame and a vibration transmitter assembly is resiliently mounted to the ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7163106 | Strainer for cleaning fibrous suspensions A strainer for fibrous suspensions, having a container, a filtering basket inside the container and a rotor inside the filtering basket coupled to motorization means suited to set it rotating. In the container there are a drain chamber of the rejected suspension, a ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7150779 | Modulated acoustic agglomeration system and method An acoustic agglomerator for agglomerating constituents in a fluid is provided. The acoustic agglomerator includes an area containing a fluid having constituents and an acoustic generator operable to generate a modulated acoustic field to enhance agglomeration of th... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7108137 | Method and apparatus for separating particles by size A method and apparatus for separating a mixture of particles of various sizes in a capillary tube into groups by size using multiple forces of controlled amplitude. Ultrasonic radiation at a first selected frequency is applied to set up a standing pressure wave in t... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102095 | Co-mailing apparatus and method The combination of a first and a second product mail streams wherein the first stream includes wrapped products and the second stream includes unwrapped products. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7083047 | Polymeric film for water soluble package A water soluble package comprises a polymeric film, the polymeric film comprising a polymeric backbone derived from a polymer which is water soluble, as defined herein, and one or more derivatising groups attached to the backbone, the derivatising group(s) being der... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081192 | Methods for manipulating moieties in microfluidic systems This invention relates generally to the field of moiety or molecule manipulation in a chip format. In particular, the invention provides a method for manipulating a moiety in a microfluidic application, which method comprises: a) coupling a moiety to be manipulated ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080742 | Method and apparatus for improving silicon processing efficiency A method for processing polycrystalline silicon workpieces to form size distributions of polycrystalline silicon pieces suitable for use in a Czochralski-type process includes: (1) preparing a polycrystalline silicon workpiece by a chemical vapor deposition process;... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7074310 | Method for separating single-wall carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof The invention relates to a process for sorting and separating a mixture of (n, m) type single-wall carbon nanotubes according to (n, m) type. A mixture of (n, m) type single-wall carbon nanotubes is suspended such that the single-wall carbon nanotubes are individual... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7056869 | Hydrocarbon fluids Hydrocarbon fluids are provided which have ASTM D-86 boiling point ranges within 235° C. to 400° C. and a naphthenic content greater than 60%, the naphthenics containing polycyclic materials, the fluids preferably have an aromatic content below 2% and an aniline p... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7037479 | Method for cleaning nanomorphic carbon species An exemplary method for substantially non-chemically-reactive separation of nanomorphic carbon species (140) comprises inter alia the steps of suspending a nanomorphic carbon sample (100) in an aqueous surfactant suspension (110), adding nanopar... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6994219 | Method for magnetic/ferrofluid separation of particle fractions A particulate feed comprising a first particle type and a second particle type is separated by providing a separation apparatus having a separation vessel having a top and a bottom, and wherein the separation vessel includes inwardly sloping side walls. A magnet str... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974927 | Method and system for optically sorting and/or manipulating carbon nanotubes A method, apparatus, and system for optically sorting and/or manipulating carbon nanotubes by creating an optical dipole trap with a focused light source (e.g., a laser) are described in detail herein. In one representative embodiment, light from the light source ma... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6962092 | Method and apparatus for determining the length of single-walled carbon nanotubes The present invention is directed to at least one method and at least one apparatus for determining the length of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The method generally comprises the steps of: dispersing a sample of SWNTs into a suitable dispersing medium to for... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6959614 | Apparatus for controlling movement of specimen, method for controlling movement of specimen, and method for processing specimen An apparatus for controlling the movement of a specimen in order to handle the specimen, e.g., a cell, easily and quickly with high accuracy. A standing wave vibration (V) having at least one node (N1, N2) is generated in a vibrator (11). A spec... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6923979 | Method for depositing particles onto a substrate using an alternating electric field Uniform portions of fine powders are deposited on a substrate by electrostatic attraction in which the charge of the electric field and polarity of the charged particles are varied repeatedly to form a buildup of powder on the carrier surface. ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6905239 | Sprinkling method for preparing powder formulations The invention relates to a new process for producing powdered preparations for inhalation wherein a substance having a smaller particle size distribution is metered continuously through a suitable feed device onto a moving bed of a powdered substance having a larger... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906009 | Drilling fluid containing microspheres and use thereof The present invention provides a drilling fluid composition and a method of drilling comprising a drilling fluid, which may be oil- or water-based, and a composite microsphere component. The invention drilling fluid composition advantageously reduces the density of ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6878288 | System and apparatus for removing dissolved and suspended solids from a fluid stream A system and a method for removing dissolved and suspended solids from a fluid stream by passing the fluid stream into a processing zone in the presence of a ultrasonic standing wave and removing a stream concentrated in the solids from the processing zone at at lea... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6849678 | Polymerization, compatibilized blending, and particle size control of powder coatings in a supercritical fluid The current process for producing powder coatings can be replaced with a process utilizing supercritical fluids including polymer polymerization, compatibilized blending of powder coating ingredients, and particle size control and classification of the powder coatin... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6454945 | Microfabricated devices and methods This invention provides microfabricated systems for extraction of desired particles from a sample stream containing desired and undesired particles. The sample stream is placed in laminar flow contact with an extraction stream under conditions in which in... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6390303 | Method for optimizing flotation recovery A method for optimising a mineral recovery process. A slurry 10 is fed to a conditioning step 20. The condition slurry 30 is then provided to a flotation circuit 40 to recover a concentrate 50. The remainder of the slurry is then rejected as tail 60 or pa... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6386372 | Process for recycling wooden pallets and installation for practicing such a process Wooden pallets are recycled by carrying out a first separation in a reception region (10) between pallets easily reparable and those which are not, in directing the separated items to conveyors: one conveyor (11) which brings them to a disassembly station... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6379973 | Chromatographic separation apparatus and method A fractionation apparatus comprises two channels coupled through a semipermeable membrane. A time and position dependent concentration of precipitation reagent is produced in one of the channels. Sample entities such as macromolecules or cells introduced ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6358352 | Method for creating higher grade wood products from lower grade lumber The present invention is directed to a process whereby low-grade lumber, (i.e., lumber having surface defects such as knots, voids, wane, and bark pockets, and warp defects such as twist, bow, crook and sweep), is converted to higher grade lumber and pane... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6340722 | Polymerization, compatibilized blending, and particle size control of powder coatings in a supercritical fluid The current process for producing powder coatings can be replaced with a process utilizing supercritical fluids including polymer polymerization, compatibilized blending of powder coating ingredients, and particle size control and classification of the po... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6329436 | Process to recycle shredder residue A system and process for recycling shredder residue, in which separating any polyurethane foam materials are first separated. Then separate a fines fraction of less than about 1/4 inch leaving a plastics-rich fraction. Thereafter, the plastics rich fracti... | 12/11/2001 |
