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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7976618 | Motor vehicle A motor vehicle has a filter device for purifying untreated gases. The filter device has a filter housing and at least one filter element, in particular an adsorber element, which is arranged therein, with an auxiliary filter that is positioned outside and above the... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7909920 | Desiccant box for dehumidifying air The invention concerns a desiccant box for dehumidifying air, with a cylindrical outer housing (10), a lid (11) that closes the outer housing, and an inner housing (12) to accommodate desiccant (13). The lid (11) features at least ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7713337 | Canister device A canister device includes a main canister, a sub-canister, and a hose. The main canister includes a charging port, a purging port, and a main canister-side connection port. The sub-canister is separated from the main canister and located on a side of the main canis... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7393381 | Removing siloxanes from a gas stream using a mineral based adsorption media A plurality of different layers of filter media are used to remove siloxanes from a gas stream. Based on an analysis of the specific gas stream to be filtered, a filter media having an average pore size enabling the preferential removal of a specific class of contam... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7364603 | Method and apparatus for the abatement of toxic gas components from a semiconductor manufacturing process effluent stream An apparatus and process for abating at least one acid or hydride gas component or by-product thereof, from an effluent stream deriving from a semiconductor manufacturing process, comprising, a first sorbent bed material having a high capacity sorbent affinity for t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361214 | Disposable cartridge for air/gas dryer A disposable dryer cartridge for an air/gas dryer apparatus for installation in an air/gas line delivering compressed air or gas to an air/gas-driven tool. The cartridge includes a flexible elongated casing having a drying composition therein. The casing has an air/... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7335240 | Air filter unit and service line enclosure for a refrigerator An assembly for installation in a refrigerator provides comprises an enclosure for conducting service lines therethrough and an air filter unit mounted to the enclosure. The air filter unit includes an air filter housing that contains an air filter and includes open... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332013 | Compressed air/gas-driven tool with integrated dryness indicator An air/gas-driven tool with an integrated air/gas dryness indicator. The tool includes a housing that defines a cavity. An air/gas dryness detector is disposed in the cavity. An air/gas flow passage is situated to provide a stream of compressed air/gas to the drynes... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322343 | Fuel vapor storage canister A fuel vapor storage canister for an automotive vehicle, includes a casing formed thereinside with charge, purge and drain ports connected to a gas passage. First, second, third and fourth adsorption layers are disposed in the gas passage and arranged in order of fi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320725 | Disposable cartridge air/gas dryer A disposable cartridge air/gas dryer apparatus for installation in an air/gas line delivering compressed air or gas to an air/gas-driven tool. The dryer includes a pressure vessel having first and second ends, an inlet port, and an outlet port. A disposable dryer ca... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316736 | Carbon filter panel for an air cleaner A carbon filter panel for an air cleaner is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The carbon filter panel includes a frame including one or more side members and a frame interior space and a plurality of spaced-apart carbon elements extending across ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316732 | Air treatment filter and related method An activated carbon filter that treats a gas stream having a varying relative humidity, the gas stream contaminated with at least one of formaldehyde, an acid gas and an alkaline gas. The filter includes a plurality of activated carbon granules mixed together in a c... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311764 | Gas mask filter canister A filter for a gas mask has an elliptical or circular, convex shape to conform to the curvature of the wearer's face, or a planar shape. The filter comprises a double particulate filter element and a double adsorption filter element configured for axial airflow ther... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7294179 | Canister of vehicle Two types of activated charcoals having different adsorption and desorption functions are appropriately disposed in a canister. Gas movement is evenly dispersed via an air space and diffuser equipped between the two activated charcoals. Thereby, leakage of fuel vapo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281525 | Filter canister family A family of canisters that includes at least two canisters that are adapted to filter a flow of fluid from a fuel tank. Each canister includes a first portion that defines a first perimeter and a first area each common to all canisters of the family. A second portio... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7264651 | Adsorption process and system using multilayer adsorbent beds containing regenerator section For PSA or TSA prepurifiers, the temperature rise on adsorption is particularly troublesome when the temperature rise reaches the end of the bed at the end of the adsorption step. This results in an increase in the CO2 and N2O concentration at ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264648 | Removing siloxanes from a gas using a segmented filtration system customized to the gas composition A plurality of different layers of filter media are used to remove siloxanes from a gas stream. Based on an analysis of the specific gas stream to be filtered, a filter media having an average pore size enabling the preferential removal of a specific class of contam... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261763 | Method for the recovery and recycle of helium and chlorine Methods for recovering and recycling helium and unreacted chlorine from a process for manufacturing optical fiber are disclosed. Helium-rich and chlorine-rich gas streams are recovered from the consolidation furnace and separated. The helium-rich stream is dried and... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7217313 | Dehumidification system and dehumidification method A dehumidifying system supplies a gas free of organic substances. The dehumidifying system includes a holding case, and a rotor rotatably held in the holding case and bearing an adsorbent. The interior of the holding case is divided into an adsorbing zone and a rege... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214258 | Evaporated fuel processing device An evaporated fuel processing device (10), in particular for an internal combustion engine of an automotive vehicle, comprises a tank port (12) and an atmospheric port (22); a first adsorbent chamber (14) between the tank port (12)... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213595 | Multi-stage respirator filter with TIM filter option A filter canister assembly for a gas mask comprising a primary canister with a first filter medium adapted to remove aerosols, particulate materials and droplets from air and a second filter medium comprising an adsorbent filter medium adapted to remove toxic gases ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7182802 | Evaporative emissions filter An evaporative emissions filter for an engine air induction system. The evaporative emissions filter includes a hydrocarbon vapor-adsorbent member disposed within the air induction system. A mechanism is provided for mounting the evaporative emissions filter within ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175698 | Canister In a canister, an activated charcoal layer is placed in a fluid passage by which an air intake port is connected to a charge port or purge port, and a chamber dividing the charcoal layer into sections so as to traverse the fuel passage is defined by a grid and a fil... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7166149 | Adsorption process for continuous purification of high value gas feeds Using a high pressure rotary adsorbent wheel, a high value compressed gas feed can be purified by concentrating the impurity such as water, condensing it out, before final purification. Instead of exhausting gas from the system, the effluent can be put back into the... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163573 | Chemical filter medium, chemical filter including the chemical filter medium and method for manufacturing the chemical filter A chemical filter medium for removing ozone and nitrogen oxide includes a first ozone absorption layer for mainly removing ozone having a filtering base material for removing ozone, a first nitrogen oxide absorption layer for mainly removing nitrogen oxide formed on... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159579 | Resilient sling for mounting a carbon monolith in an evaporative emissions canister An emissions control canister including an insert tube and a final scrubber inside the tube. Because a scrubber formed as a carbon monolith is relatively fragile and easily damaged, a flexible, porous, resilient sling is provided for installing and retaining scrubbe... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160366 | Filter element An improved filter element which can be used in gas masks is formed of short lengths of porous monolithic carbon formed by partially curing a phenolic resin to a solid, comminuting the partially cured resin, extruding the comminuted resin, sintering the extruded res... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160369 | Adsorption filter material with high adsorption capacity and low breakthrough behavior An adsorption filter material used especially for producing protective materials, such as NBC protective suits, has a first layer, a second layer, and an adsorption layer arranged between the first layer and the second layer. The adsorption layer has a first activat... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7150778 | Recirculation jacket filter system The present invention is a system and method for improving the useful life of sorbent beds, such as activated carbon filter beds. It is known that breakthrough in carbon filter beds first occurs at the low gas velocity regions of the filter bed, i.e., at the filter'... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144445 | Use of an adsorbent in solid foam form for the purification or separation of gases Process for purifying or separating a gas or gas mixture using a monolithic adsorbent for the separation or purification of gases or gas mixtures, having a cellular structure with open porosity in the form of a solid foam permeable to the gas molecules. The gas phas... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7132007 | Air filter unit with several filter elements A filter unit for the purification of air includes at least a first filter element, which contains granular, especially spherical, activated carbon as an adsorbent material, and at least a second filter element, which contains a combination of granular, especially s... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7122073 | Low void adsorption systems and uses thereof A low void pressure swing adsorption system wherein flow movement and pressure pulse are influenced from the same source comprised of at least one hermetically sealed vessel containing an adsorbent bed with an inlet coupled to the adsorbent bed by way of an inlet he... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7115152 | Four bed regenerable filter system A regenerable filter system includes a flow path along which a stream of fluid flows between an inlet and an outlet. A first filtering unit is located in the flow path. The first filter unit includes first and second regenerable filter beds, wherein each bed has a f... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114663 | Thermally protected lance for repairing high temperature process vessel walls with pumpable fibrous refractory material and systems employing the same Systems and methods are provided whereby pumpable viscous fibrous material may be applied onto surfaces of high temperature process vessels while hot (i.e., while at or near such vessels' high operational temperatures of several hundreds up to several thousands of d... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7101423 | Respiratory air filter A respiratory filter includes an air-permeable sleeve and at least one filter layer that is arranged in the sleeve and contains activated carbon. The activated carbon contained in the filter layers serves as a gas filter that, by absorption, at least partially remov... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097697 | Fuel vapor treatment device A fuel vapor treatment device for an automotive vehicle includes a casing having a charge port connected to a fuel tank, a purge port connected to an intake side of an engine, and an atmospheric air port through which atmospheric air is introduced. Fuel vapor adsorb... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7077891 | Adsorbent sheet material for parallel passage contactors An adsorbent material fabricated into a reinforcement-free, self-supported coherent thin sheet and configured for use as a parallel passage contactor element in adsorption/separation applications with gases and liquids is disclosed. The adsorbent sheet material is o... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7051717 | Evaporative emissions canister having an internal insert An emissions control canister including an insert having an elongate well and flange. The insert extends into a chamber such that a carbon adsorption column is a hollow cylinder around the insert. After vapors flow through the column of adsorbent, flow is directed t... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052532 | High temperature nanofilter, system and method A filter, system and method is provided for filtering nanoparticles in a hot gas, namely particles about 200° C. and further particularly >about 450° C. including diesel exhaust. The filter includes filter media material composed of fibro... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047952 | Canister A canister comprises a tank port communicated with an upper air chamber in a closed fuel tank, a purge port communicated with an intake passage of an engine, an atmospheric port opened to the atmosphere, and a main adsorbent chamber containing activated carbon, and ... | 05/23/2006 |
