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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7285255 | Deodorizing and sanitizing employing a wicking device A device and method for sanitizing and deodorizing including the selective transportation of a sanitizing composition by the capillary action of a wick to an acidic composition which may be held in a reservoir, or which also may be selectively transported through th... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7162881 | Thermophoretic wand to protect front and back surfaces of an object Methods and apparatus for enabling a clean, fragile object to be transported while protecting both front and back surfaces of the object are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a thermophoretic wand that is arranged to carry an object having... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6685842 | Thermophoretic particle removing system A method and apparatus for carrying out a method for thermophoretically removing particles from a particulate containing liquid the method including providing a heated turbulent flowing particulate contain liquid through a first conduit; redirecting a por... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6413781 | Thermophoretic pump and concentrator The method and apparatus of the invention create a dynamic Soret effect for propelling a target chemical constituent along a pathway. A moving temperature profile impressed upon the pathway produces consecutive alternating warmer and cooler zones along th... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6387282 | Method of drying a filter cake and a press for carrying out the method The filter cake in a filter press is heated by direct contact with a heating plate opposite the pressing membrane so that a vapor phase is generated which moves uniformly in a planar pressure front through the filter cake to dry residual liquid therefrom.... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6223904 | Continuous process for recovering raw materials from coated foils, device for carrying out this process and foil materials recovered thereby Continuous recovery of raw materials from coated films and apparatus for this purpose and film material recovered therewith. Large amounts of coated films can be fed to a continuous recycling process in which any pigments present in the coating and the su... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6123860 | Method for separating cell populations by thermophilic characteristics The method for removing a thermophilic group of cells from a source of mixed cells, such as blood, comprises the steps of obtaining a sample, testing the sample to determine the temperature gradient required to cause migration of the thermophilic cells fr... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6096185 | Method and apparatus for recovery of water and slurry abrasives used for chemical and mechanical planarization Abrasive components and water are recovered from an aqueous chemical mechanical slurry used for planarization of semiconductor materials. The slurry effluent is preferably brought to a neutral pH, and cooled to a temperature between about 0° C. and about... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5928492 | Method and apparatus for recovery of water and slurry abrasives used for chemical and mechanical planarization Abrasive components and water are recovered from an aqueous chemical mechanical slurry used for planarization of semiconductor materials. The slurry effluent is preferably brought to a neutral pH, and cooled to a temperature between about 0° C. and about... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5158690 | Thermophoretic filtering of liquids A thermophoretic filter cell for the filtering of particles from a liquid is constructed in a particular manner so that the liquid introduced into the filter acts as the heat sink. The cell is designed so that the thermophoretic velocity of the particles ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 4830756 | High speed separation of ultra-high molecular weight polymers by hyperlayer field-flow fractionation A process for high speed separation of ultra-high molecular weight polymers using a hyperlayer field-flow fractionation technique comprising forcing a carrier fluid containing a small sample of the high molecular weight polymer through a thin flow channel... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4048063 | Induced temperature gradient settling vessel An apparatus and method are provided for settling small particles of micron and submicron size from a liquid in which the particles are contained. The method of the invention entails introducing the particle containing liquid into an apparatus of this inv... | 09/13/1977 |
