Gas separation: apparatus inventions 02/07

20070039471 - Filter element and method for the production thereof: A method for producing a filter element involving applying a membrane layer to a carrier substrate, etching a membrane chamber, producing pores in the membrane layer, subjecting the membrane layer to an additional treatment to increase the mechanical strength.... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070039472 - Air filtration system: An air filtration system includable in and for HVAC equipment includes one or more intense field dielectric filter units and a field charging unit retained in a support structure or cabinet by a removable door which includes control circuitry and contactors engageable with corresponding contact members on a filter unit... Agent: William J. Beres, William O'driscoll, Michael E. Martin

20070039474 - Borazine-boron nitride hybrid hydrogen storage system: A hybrid hydrogen storage composition includes a first phase and a second phase adsorbed on the first phase, the first phase including BN for storing hydrogen by physisorption and the second phase including a borazane-borazine system for storing hydrogen in combined form as a hydride.... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC Office Of Intellectual Property

20070039473 - Guest-host hydrogen storage material: A hydrogen storage and release material is provided in the form of a supportive host component that carries or contains a hydrogen absorbing guest material. Metal compounds, such as oxides, carbides, nitrides, or the like, are prepared to carry polyaromatic molecules that absorb hydrogen in conjugated double bonds. Examples of... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070039475 - Device for defoaming oil in the lubricant circuit of an internal combustion engine: A device for defoaming and/or deaeration of oil in the lubricant system of an internal combustion engine in which the lubricant oil flowing back into an oil pan is conveyable by an oil suction pump into a separate oil tank. The device has an oil separator, preferably mounted on the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070034081 - Electrostatic air-purifying window screen: A window screen apparatus employing electrostatic principles to purify air. The window screen mesh wires encompass electrically-conductive filaments that are charged by a high-voltage DC pulse generator. Between and surrounding the wires an electric field is created that charges, traps, and repels airborne particulate. An alternative embodiment consists of a... Agent: Christian F. Kurasek

20070034082 - Air purifier: The present invention is an air purifier including an ionizing assembly that operates to charge particulate material in an air flow passing through the purifier. The charged particulate material is attracted to and retained by a filter element disposed downstream of the ionization assembly and having an electrical charge opposite... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20070028775 - Device for ionizing particles carried in an airflow, for ventilation, heating, and/or air-conditioning system in particular: The object of the invention is a device for ionizing (2) particles carried in an airflow (4) circulating inside a system, this device (2) including at least two electrodes (8, 9) held by a chassis (13) and connected, respectively, to the corresponding terminals (10, 11) of a polarized electrical power... Agent: Valeo Climate Control Corp. Intellectual Property Dept

20070028776 - Axle assembly with purge reservoir for air dryer: An axle assembly includes an axle beam with an inner cavity that forms a purge reservoir. The purge reservoir is fluidly connected to an air dryer with a purge valve. The air dryer is part of a vehicle air supply system that supplies air from a compressor to storage reservoirs... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070028777 - Purge valve: A purge valve for use with an air drying system is provided. The valve includes a housing or body, a piston disposed within the body, and a valve in communication with the piston. The respective geometries of the piston body and the valve define a circumferential cavity between and around... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070028778 - Method and arrangement at gas removal, and the use thereof: The invention relates to an arrangement for gas removal including a vertical cylindrical vessel (1) having an outlet (8) and a tangentially arranged inlet (6). The inlet includes means which bring an incoming fluid (4) into a jet which is sharply delimited in the radial direction and runs close to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070022880 - Air cleaner: A fuel adsorption member 16 is fixed to an inner surface of a housing 13 by fixing pins 14. A fuel vapor leaking from an intake system of an engine is adsorbed by an active carbon included in an adsorption sheet member of the fuel adsorption member 16. The fuel... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20070022881 - Air filter sensor: The present invention is directed towards a sensor including, inter alia, a body having first and second spaced-apart apertures, the first aperture having a shape producing an audible noise upon a fluid passing therethrough; a piston positioned within the body; and a chamber having an additional fluid disposed therein, with... Agent: Michael D. Falcon