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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8252179 | Solid-liquid separator A liquid cyclone is configured for inflowing raw water containing impurities as targets of collection to be forced to swirl inside to spin down impurities contained in raw water, an inflow pipe is connected with an upper portion of the liquid cyclone to supply the l... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8226826 | Compact disk based system for separating immunomagnetic bead labeled particulates and method thereof Disclosed is a disk based system for separating at least two types of particulates contained in a sample fluid. The system includes a disk-like carrier board and a magnetic attraction unit. The disk-like carrier board forms at least one flow channel structure, which... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8216454 | Purifying apparatus and purifying method An apparatus comprising at least vessel (2) for stocking conductive liquid (1) containing impurities; electromagnetic force generator (3) for generating electromagnetic force (F) capable of circulating the conductive liquid (1) in the con... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8197684 | Desalination device using selective membranes and magnetic fields Device designed to desalinate brackish water which performs said function by the combined action of magnetic fields generated inside the device and ion-selective membranes, thus obtaining two separate water currents, one with a low salt concentration and the other r... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8075771 | Apparatus for magnetic field gradient enhanced centrifugation This invention relates to apparatus for carrying out continuous or batch centrifugation solid-liquid separation processes in which the solid-liquid mixture is subjected to magnetic field gradients and centrifugation. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8066877 | Apparatus for magnetic field and magnetic gradient enhanced filtration This invention relates to various apparatus for carrying out cake-filtration solid-liquid separation processes in which the solid-liquid mixture is subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field, a magnetic field gradient or both and cake-filtration. ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8029669 | Fluid treatment method and apparatus Apparatus for treating a fluid in a conduit, comprising first and second core elements of magnetically conductive material adapted to be mounted to the conduit to surround same at spaced positions therealong; and means for establishing radio frequency magnetic fluxe... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025801 | Radial counterflow inductive desalination Simultaneous source-sink flow, or radial counterflow, is driven by a centrifugal pump disposed within a casing. Radially outward source flow of brine goes into a shrouding tank and concentrates while a radially inward sink flow of fresh water flows back over the pum... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7976704 | Filtration device A filtration device is provided with a filter tank, filter media unit, and magnet. The filter media unit includes a filter media accommodation case and a large number of magnetic granular filter media. The magnet is movable between first and second positions. In the... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7906021 | Contaminated fluid recovery apparatus A contaminated fluid recovery apparatus includes a dirty tank, a conveyor, and a drum-shaped filter unit. Inlet ports of the drum-shaped filter unit open along an axis of a magnet drum. The conveyor scrapes out an object for removal settled on a bottom portion of th... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7780849 | Magnetically enhanced oil filter apparatus A magnetically enhanced oil filter apparatus includes an oil filtration assembly which includes a filtration assembly base having oil inlets and an oil outlet located in the filtration assembly base. A filtration material support bracket rests on the filtration asse... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7763169 | Magnetic separation device A magnetic separation device, comprising: a separator, including a top base and a bottom base; at least a groove set, each composed of two arc-like grooves having curvatures opposite to each other; at least a magnetic member, being movably fitted inside the two arc-... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7691264 | Semipermeable membrane system for magnetic particle fractions In a semi-permeable membrane system for transferring magnetic particle fractions contained in a first fluid to a second fluid, comprising a membrane through which passages extend and which separates the first fluid from the second fluid being a pressure generation a... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7658845 | Functional water purifier The invention relates to bio water purifier which improves the structure of water molecular and changes the water to weak alkali drinker. The invention comprises a sediment filter removing rust and floating matters in the water, a precarbon filter removing chlorine ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7569142 | Method and apparatus for liquid treatment with combined electronic and centrifugal processes to remove contaminants An apparatus and method for treating dirty water or other liquids containing particles of varying size includes a magnetic treatment unit and a centrifugal separator through which the liquid flows as a stream in sequence. The magnetic treatment unit causes very smal... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7517451 | Filter for drinking water The present invention provides a filter for drinking water, including six filtering bottles. The fifth filtering bottle is formed with ion exchange resins, and the sixth filtering bottle is formed with a ceramic filtering core. The arrangement of the original third ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7504032 | Filter device A filter device has a filter tank into which a contaminated fluid is introduced, a magnetic ball filter medium using a large number of metal balls, magnets, and lift rods. The magnetic ball filter medium is formed of an aggregate of a large number of spherical metal... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7473356 | Wastewater treatment system by superconducting magnetic separation An object of the invention is to provide a wastewater treatment system using a superconducting magnetic separator that can wash the magnetic filter efficiently. The system comprises in a bore of a superconducting magnet a removably built-up multiunit magnetic filter... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7435343 | Vibration filter A vibration filter that eliminates the problems of polarization, blockage and fouling is disclosed to include a separation membrane for removing solid matter in a fluid, a base, a magnetic field generator controllable to provide a variable magnetic flux, and vibrato... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429331 | Apparatus and process for inducing magnetism The present invention provides an apparatus for inducing magnetism in a flowstream of an at least partially magnetizable particulate feed material suspended in a liquid, the apparatus including: a treatment chamber having an inlet and an outlet through which the flo... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427355 | Water treatment unit for bottle or pitcher A water treatment unit for positioning in a sport bottle or container for treating water includes a prefilter section, a pretreatment section, a treatment section and a post treatment section. A first chamber in the pretreatment section contains a first treatment me... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427351 | Water preconditioning system A water preconditioning system is provided. The system includes a circulating tank configured to receive therein water, an ozone machine in fluid communication with the circulating tank and configured to add ozone to the water as the water circulates through the ozo... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427353 | System for enhancing oxygen An apparatus for enhancing, structuring and/or pre-structuring oxygen includes a vessel having an inlet and an outlet so as to allow oxygen to pass therethrough, a pair of screens positioned within the vessel so as to form a gap therebetween, and a magnetic source c... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427352 | Fluid purifier having magnetic field generation A fluid purifier includes a filter having a chamber of reduced cross section formed either between an inner wall and an outer wall or within the inner wall. A ceramic layer of granular ceramic particles and at least a pair of magnetic layers each comprising an annul... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7410573 | Waste water purification apparatus and waste water purification method including the regeneration of used coagulant A waste water purification system for purifying polluted salt water including oil and the like by coagulating and separating pollutant matter in the polluted salt water can regenerate and reuse a coagulant in the system while scarcely resupplying the coagulant, an a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410014 | Metal debris cleanout system and method A cleanout system and method for removal of metal debris from a fluid flow, such a flow of re-circulated drilling mud employs one or more magnetic unit positioned in the path of the fluid for collecting metal particles from the flow. The magnetic unit has a removabl... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7396460 | Filter element A filter element (8), especially for use in backwash filtering systems, includes a filtering element through which a contaminated fluid flows in at least one direction (24). An intercepting device (62) has at least one rod-shaped permanent magne... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7390405 | Magnetic device adapted for various engine oil filtering apparatuses A magnetic device adapted for various engine oil filtering apparatuses is proposed in the present invention. It includes an elastic metal plate; multiple holding bases, each of which has at least a containing portion, the holding bases being disposed on the elastic ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384561 | Apparatus and method for separating magnetic particles An apparatus for separating a predetermined amount of magnetic particles in a fluid, including a fluid conveyance portion having at least a first flow channel for supplying a fluid containing the magnetic particles, a second flow channel for discharging the separate... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7371327 | Device for the immobilization of nano- and micro-sized particles in a solid-fluid contact vessel facilitating mass-momentum, and heat-transport at the solid-fluid interfaces What is presented is an innovative design of a chemical reactor for catalytic breakdown of halogenated hydrocarbons, the body of which acts as a specialized electromagnet capable of immobilizing and retaining very large quantities of non-magnetized ferro- dia- or pa... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371320 | Magnetic separation unit and water purification system A magnetic separation unit can prevent any magnetic flocs deposited on an inner wall of a water passing pipe from closing a water channel for stabilizing a magnetic separation performance and reduce cost by a small-diameter portion of the water passing pipe. The mag... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357859 | Methods and systems for membrane testing A method for testing the integrity of a membrane includes steps of placing a magnetically susceptible material in a fluid upstream of the membrane, collecting the material downstream of the membrane using a magnetic field, and detecting the material using a sensor. | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357862 | Fluid conditioning system and method An exemplary method and system for reducing or eliminating the formation of solid precipitates/deposits of a flowing fluid, such as oil, or for reducing or eliminating existing solid precipitates/deposits contained in a flowing fluid, is provided. A fluid conditioni... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357872 | Lift station and method A lift station for raising the level of an open channel flow of liquid by sweeping blades mounted to a rotated wheel into the liquid flow after entering a housing to sweep the liquid up and back along a housing interior wall and over a weir edge located well above t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350409 | Magnetic separation in fluids Methods and apparatus are disclosed for recovering magnetically attractable wellbore casing fragments from drilling fluid used in hydrocarbon-producing formations. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7334557 | Engine lubrication system for supplemental oil filtering and controller based activation of a prelubrication pump An engine lubrication system comprising a pump for supplying oil to an engine, a filter for purifying the oil and at least one sensor for discerning parameters of the engine lubrication system and generating signals indicative thereof. The engine lubrication system ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332346 | Method of collecting chemically contaminating impurity constituents contained in air The method is intended to detect with high sensitivity and high accuracy chemically contaminating impurities in which there exist chemically contaminating impurity constituents of basic series, acidic series, and organic substance series, in gaseous and particle sta... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329342 | Metallic particle trap bypass filter A metallic particle trap bypass filter is disclosed generally comprising a housing, a filter element disposed therein, an inflow chamber, an outflow chamber, a bypass valve connecting these chambers, and a magnet disposed in the outflow chamber. In some embodiments,... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7314552 | Electrochemical method and apparatus for producing and separating ferrate(VI) compounds The method for separating ferrate salts from a solution comprising providing contact between the solution of essentially of aqueous hydroxide and the ferrate salts and a surface having a magnetic attraction, magnetically securing the ferrate salts to the surface; an... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314572 | Methods of and apparatus for low-angle-tray settling with multi-zone configuration Settleable-particles are separated from a dirty flow of settleable-particles and fluid by trays having a planar section configured with opposed ends and opposed sides, and an entrance edge and an exit edge on opposed ends. The section has opposed side edges, and an ... | 01/01/2008 |
