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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162293 | Device for applying cooling mist and dry air to individuals An apparatus and method are disclosed for cooling one or more exercising or resting individuals by applying a water mist and dry air. The apparatus can be free standing, fixed to the walls or ceiling, or attached to an object on which an individual is resting or exe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157248 | Carbonate spring producing system A carbonate spring producing system includes a gas-liquid separator which is connected on the downstream side of a carbonic acid gas dissolver which connects to a carbonic acid gas supply means and hot water supply. A liquid lead-out pipe is connected to the gas-liq... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8074970 | Dispersing fragrances A fragrance disperser in one form includes a single fan that passes air over a wicked single or double fragrance. A second form has the fan reversible to provide two different airstreams that evaporate respective different fragrances one after the other. Where two f... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8025270 | Decorative humidifier A decorative humidifier which has mainly a base seat, a water receptacle device for transforming water into vapor, a fan installed under the base seat, a water opening on the bottom of the water receptacle, a power source, a shaft connected with the power source for... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8016269 | Volatile agent diffusion device equipped with a blower for an automobile vehicle The invention relates to a diffusion device (1) for an automotive vehicle. The diffusion device (1) includes a housing (2) with an ambient air inlet (3), a treated air outlet (3), a diffusion chamber (4) and an insert (7 | 09/13/2011 |
| 8002245 | Adjustable cycle timer control for aerators A liquid container aeration system for replenishing gases dissolved in a selected liquid present in an interior of said liquid container that checks on an electrical power source capability to continue operation and allows selected liquid substitution in the interio... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997561 | Device for applying cooling mist to individuals without water accumulation An apparatus and method of use are disclosed for cooling one or more exercising or resting individuals with a water mist while automatically preventing the undesirable accumulation of excess water. In some embodiments, a sensor detects accumulated water on or near a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7942387 | System and method for managing water content in a fluid A system and method for managing water content in a fluid include a collection chamber for collecting water from the fluid with a desiccant, and a regeneration chamber for collecting water from the desiccant and transferring it to a second fluid. An evaporator cools... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7938385 | On-board fuel refining in motorized vehicles Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for on-board refining of fuels within motorized vehicles. On board fuel refining is a finish-refining step that allows a fuel to be more precisely tailored to a particular vehicle and i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7878488 | Method and device for volatizing aromatic oils in response to wireless signals Volatization of oil to impart a scent into air in an environment includes sensing a wireless transmitted signal in the environment and selectively outputting a control signal in response to the sensed wireless signal. The control signal activates a heater. Oil is tr... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7731161 | Devices, systems, and methods for carbonation of deionized water Devices, systems, and methods employed in wet cleaning semiconductor devices are provided. In particular, systems that can deliver deionized water with the desired concentration of CO2 and methods of generating deionized water with a desired concentration of CO2 for... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7677536 | Humidifier with controlled heated scent mechanism A portable appliance including a humidifier and an electrically heated scent mechanism. The heated scent mechanism includes a scent generator and an electrical heating element. The heating element and humidifier may be independently controllable such that the applia... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7648127 | Air freshener device and methods for controlling an amount of evaporated scented material emitted from the air freshener device A method for controlling an amount of evaporated scented material emitted from an air freshener device include generating a first control signal to induce the motor to rotate fan blades at a first rotational speed during a first time interval which urges air flow to... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7614613 | Method of operating a cooling fluid system In a gravity fed cooling tower liquid return system having a common header with a plurality of valved sub-headers, a distributive control system, risers on the sub-headers, and sensor/transmitters on the risers, some of the sensor/transmitters controlling the valves... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7611130 | Adjustable cycle timer control for aerators A liquid container aeration system for replenishing gases dissolved in a selected liquid present in an interior of said liquid container that checks on an electrical power source capability to continue operation and allows selected liquid substitution in the interio... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7484716 | Scent delivery device and method of simulating scent in a virtual environment A cartridge for releasing scents through a digital trigger mechanism. Also disclosed is a portable, wearable, lightweight necklace or “collar,” capable of holding 1 to 12 cartridges. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7419535 | Device for blowing a flow of perfumed air and installation comprising several devices A device for blowing (16) an air flow (12) filled with a fragrant substance, particularly a perfume to be tested, includes a dilution system (18), in which the air flow (12) circulates at a generally constant flow rate, which emerges in a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7372516 | Liquid crystal display with a perfume dispenser A liquid crystal display (LCD) with a perfume dispenser is disclosed to include a casing, which has an internal chamber, a front opening, and at least one through hole, a liquid crystal display mounted inside the internal chamber of the casing with the display scree... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7350720 | Active material emitting device An active material cartridge comprises a frame and an active material refill. The active material refill comprises at least one reservoir having an active material therein and a protrusion extending from a first end thereof. The active material refill is disposed on... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7329308 | Air handling and chemical filtration system and method The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling humidity and temperature in gases or air streams used in semiconductor processing systems. These systems and methods can be used in combination with systems and methods for contaminant detection an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329038 | Mixer A mixer capable of uniformly mixing a plurality of fluid materials without providing a mixing tank or an agitating vane. Different fluid raw materials are stored in raw material tanks, respectively. The raw materials are fed at a predetermined rate by variable restr... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320459 | Apparatus for dispensing a vapour into an air flow An apparatus for dispensing a vapor of a liquid into a ventilation system includes a vessel for holding the liquid, a heater for heating the liquid in the vessel to form a vapor, and means for delivering the vapor into the air flow passing through a passageway of th... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310539 | Portable communication device with plural olfactory cuing A portable communication device includes a body (11) having a container (111) and a buffer room (115), and a plurality of fragrance releasing apparatuses (12) housed in the container. The body houses main circuitry therein. The buffer roo... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7285248 | Fan type chemical dispersion equipment A fan type chemical dispersion equipment, wherein a chemical container (3) and a power supply storage body (2a) are disposed detachably from an equipment body (1) and so as not to be volumetrically limited with each other, whereby, becaus... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284381 | Heat exhaustion evaporative cooling A method and system for relief of heat exhaustion symptoms through evaporative and conductive cooling is provided, and, more particularly, involves a rapidly deployable mobile fogging system suitably designed for relief of heat exhaustion symptoms, including a mobil... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278628 | Device for the dosing of gaseous and/or vaporous matters Apparatus for dosing gaseous and/or vaporous substances An apparatus for dosing gaseous and/or vaporous substances, in particular for generating varying scents, includes a multitude of packaged storage containers (1) from which different gases and/or vapors a... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7246919 | LED light bulb with active ingredient emission A light bulb (10) includes a translucent housing (12) and a base (24). The housing (12) includes a plurality of LEDs (14a, 14b, 14c, and 15) positioned so as to emit light through the housi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7234690 | Humidifier with safety reservoir A humidifier (10) is disclosed having a top portion (11), a middle portion (12) and a bottom portion (13). The middle portion is essentially a water tank which provides water to be used in humidification. The bottom portion has a floor ( | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228794 | Kitchen appliance A housing in a kitchen device, in particular, a household fruit press, includes an electric motor and a circuit board, both of which can be simply mounted. The motor and board are to be simply assembled in the housing by configuring the mounting as a hollow cylinder... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7219880 | Safety protection device and control circuit for instantaneous atomization device An atomization device having a safety protection device and a control circuit includes: a main body, a water tank in which an inspection device component is provided, and an atomization room designed in the main body, under the atomization room an atomization groove... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215084 | Power control arrangement, as for a flashlight In a battery-operated apparatus comprising a load, a battery and a switch in circuit for selectively energizing the load: a comparator compares a potential produced by the battery and a reference potential for de-energizing the load when the battery potential is bel... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204870 | Diffuser device for volatile substances A diffuser device (1) for volatile substances comprises a motor unit (2) and a refill unit (3) which can be assembled with each other. The motor unit (2) comprises a fan (6) for sucking in air comprising a body (60) and an e... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191772 | Method of regulating an internal combustion engine Method of regulating an internal combustion engine in order to reach presettable nitrogen oxide emission values of the internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine is supplied at least some of the time with a first fuel and at least some of the... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188783 | Home fragrance dispenser A home fragrance dispenser has a reservoir for holding fragrance oil. The reservoir is capped with a silicone rubber cap with a vapor port therein for emitting vaporized fragrance oil. A capillary tube has its bottom end extending to the bottom of the reservoir wher... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182321 | Safety device for a humidifier The present invention is directed to control method for supplying water in a humidifier. In a conventional humidifier, when the water level in the base of the humidifier is lowered to the ON/OFF critical region, with the vibration of the water level, the floating ba... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7156376 | Carburetor electronic control system A carburetor electronic control system includes: transmission devices coupled to valves for opening and closing an intake path of a carburetor; electric motors that make the valves open and close via the transmission devices; and an electronic control unit for contr... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152758 | Scented material dispense system for a hand-held device A dispense system stores a scented material or materials and is provided with an electrical interface that is compatible with a hand-held device. The dispense system can be connected to the hand-held device and driven with the help of the hand-held device to dispens... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7121532 | Aeration system for liquid An aeration tank used in a method of treating effluent includes a pipe for transporting the effluent from the source to the tank bottom and a discharge duct having a siphon effect for tapping off an overflow from the tank as more effluent is added from the source. A... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122148 | Cooling water scale and corrosion inhibition A methods of the present invention for inhibiting silica scale formation and corrosion in aqueous systems where soluble silica residuals (SiO2) are maintained in excess of 200 mg/L, and source water silica deposition is inhibited with silica accumulations... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7100906 | Evaporative cooler water distribution system A water distribution system for wetting an evaporative media pad includes a nozzle spraying a stream of water onto a water distributor that diverts the stream into at least two different portions. A plurality of fingers extend in at least two different directions to... | 09/05/2006 |
