Gas separation inventions 12/06

20060288671 - Cyclone dust collecting apparatus for wet vacuum cleaner: A cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a wet vacuum cleaner having a cyclone body separating air from drawn in contaminants and water, a contaminant receptacle formed at a bottom portion of the cyclone body to collect contaminants and water separated by the cyclone body, and a water tank integrally formed... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060288672 - Mounting structure for air cleaner: A mounting structure for an air cleaner on a combustion engine according to the present invention includes an engine cover (9) for covering at least a portion of the combustion engine (E). The cover (9) includes an air cleaner casing (81) having an opening and an air cleaner cover (83)... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20060288673 - Velocity stack air filtration assembly: In an internal combustion engine, an air filtration assembly provides a large frustoconical air filter positioned within an intake velocity stack affixed to its mouth. The air filter medium is located along the inside walls of the velocity stack throughout a substantial portion of its length. A funnel plate secures... Agent: Gregory J. Gore

20060288674 - Filter sealing system: An axial flow filter element including alternately arranged flat and folded filter media layers forming axial channels having an open cross-section, one end of each channel of a first group being sealed and the remaining channels being sealed at the other end so that fluid flowing through the element from... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060288675 - Filter assembly and method of making a filter assembly: A filter assembly has an annular outer wall with a channel for receiving a layer of adhesive and a center ring within the outer wall. A filter media having a plurality of pleats in a closed loop is bonded with adhesive to the outer wall. The assembly is made by... Agent: Thomas E. Sisson Jackson Walker, LLP

20060288676 - Particulate filtration system: A particulate filtration system including a frustoconical-shaped filtration element, a housing enclosing the filtration element and coaxial therewith, an inlet, and an outlet. The filtration element has a closed first end and a larger oppositely-disposed open second end. The housing has a first closed end, a larger oppositely-disposed open second... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20060288677 - Carbon film laminate and method for production thereof, and voc removing device: A carbon film laminate 1 having a porous substrate 6 formed of a plurality of particles and a carbon film 2 provided on a surface of the porous substrate 6, wherein the porous substrate 6 includes a surface layer 3 which is in contact with the carbon film 2 and... Agent: Burr & Brown

20060288678 - Exhaust gas purifying apparatus and method of regenerating the same: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus is provided which includes a honeycomb structure used as a filter to capture particulates in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine such as diesel engine and as a carrier of a catalyst to convert the exhaust gas. The honeycomb structure is formed from a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060283157 - Rotating filter screen with baffle: A rotating filter screen assembly is provided for filtering debris from cooling and combustion air provided to an engine system having an engine fan adapted to draw air through the filter screen assembly. The filter screen assembly includes a rotating filter screen having an upstream side and a downstream side.... Agent: Deere & Company

20060283158 - Shaker mechanism for vacuum cleaner filter bag: A manually moveable filter shaker for a drum-style vacuum cleaner with a drum lid and a filter bag mounted below the drum lid. The filter shaker includes a shaker handle operable from outside of the drum lid and extending through an elastically deformable pressure-tight through-hole in the drum lid and... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20060283159 - Gas-liquid impingement separators: A gas liquid separator adapted to be inserted into a conduit is disclosed. The gas-liquid separator includes downward sloping vanes and optionally, one or more return channels. The vanes may have an opening along the length thereof, and a bottom lip to channel accumulated liquid to the conduit wall or... Agent: Dennis V. Carmen Eastman Chemical Company

20060283160 - Multi-element filter arrangement and methods: A filter element includes a first, outer tubular construction of filter media defining a first open filter interior; a second, inner tuber construction of filter media defining a second open filter interior; the second construction of filter media being located within the first open filter interior and being radially spaced... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20060283161 - Filter element: An air filter insert including at least one filter element (2; 4; 11) and a seal (3; 7) extending along outer edges of one side of the filter insert (2; 4; 11) and via which the filter insert is sealingly seated against housing sections (5, 6) of a surrounding filter... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060283162 - Fabricating a self-supporting filter element: A self-supporting pleated filter, and an apparatus and method for fabricating such a filter, are provided, through use of a conveyor having a plurality of spaced apart flites operatively joined to one another in such a manner that spacing between the flights is selectively adjustable. The conveyor is incorporated into... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20060277871 - Multistage air cleaner including pulse cleaning system: A V-pack filter includes a frame construction having a first frame structure and a second frame structure. The V-pack filter also includes first and second panel sections mounted in extension between the first and second frame structures. The first panel section has first and second ends. The second panel section... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20060277872 - Vacuum cleaner: A vacuum cleaner is disclosed, by which dust collecting performance can be enhanced while a flow resistance of air is reduced. The present invention includes a cleaner body having a body inlet and a body outlet wherein an air sucked by an intake nozzle is introduced via the body inlet... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060277873 - Air filtration system having a removable diffuser: An air filtration system includes a support structure, an enclosure coupled to the support structure and including an air outlet, a filter and a fan operatively coupled to the enclosure, and a diffusion screen configured to cover the air outlet. The diffusion screen includes a screen frame configured to be... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20060277874 - Vacuum cleaner: A vacuum cleaner is disclosed, by which a dust collecting device is facilitated to use. The present invention includes a cleaner body, a cyclone chamber having a primary cyclone separating particles from an introduced air and at least one secondary cyclone provided outside the primary cyclone to re-separate particles contained... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060277876 - 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 the frame interior space. Airflow can... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20060277875 - Stackable air purifier system with expandable housing: An air purifier includes a base, one or more filter units and a cover unit. The base has a housing, a blower, vents in the housing for the egress of air from the blower, a first channel providing ingress of air to the blower and a connector on the housing.... Agent: Paul G. Juettner Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060277877 - High efficiency fuel filter: Provided is a composite fuel filter material which comprises (A) a support layer made of wet laid cellulose and/or synthetic fibers, (B) a barrier layer having wet laid glass fibers for providing increased efficiency to the filter material, (C) a thermosetting bonding agent dispersed through the composite and in an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060277878 - Very thin profile filter with large filter media area: An extremely thin profile filter is sized and configured to be installed between tubing couplers of an automotive air conditioning system in regions of an engine compartment that are cramped or otherwise will not accommodate a longer in-line filter. The filter comprises a thin flat filter housing formed from first... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20060277879 - Extended surface pleat air filter: A high efficiency air filter for use in a standard return air grille is provided. Standard return air grilles possess filter receptacles for accepting air filters, a closeable cover with a cover flange for engaging air filters and a duct interface that leads away from the air grille to the... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P.

20060277880 - Filter assembly using adhesive center tube: A cylindrical shaped pleated media includes adhesive beads arranged on a periphery to bridge pleats and provide structural support for the pleated media. The pleated media is used in a fluid filter.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060277881 - Diesel soot particulate filter medium: A diesel soot particulate filter medium, as subject of the invention comprises fibers, preferably metal fibers. The diesel soot particulate filter medium has a thickness T between its inflow side and its outflow side being equal or more than 5 cm. The S/V at the inflow side is preferably more... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060272299 - Cyclone dust collecting apparatus: A cyclone dust collecting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises a housing centrifugally separating and collecting dust from drawn-in air and discharging cleaned air, a housing cover connected to an upper part of the housing, a discharge cover openably connected to a lower part of the... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060272300 - Dust receptacle fixing/separating apparatus and a cyclone dust collecting device having the same: Disclosed are a dust receptacle fixing/separating apparatus that fixes and separates a dust receptacle with respect to a cyclone unit, and a cyclone dust collecting device having the same. The dust receptacle fixing/separating apparatus comprises a fixing/separating handle, a locking/unlocking part, and a fixing part. The fixing/separating handle pivots between... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060272301 - Exhaust filter module with mechanically positionable scan probe: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a filter module having a mechanically positionable test probe disposed therein and a method for testing a filter. In one embodiment, a filter module includes a housing adapted to receive a filter element. A sample probe suitable for leak testing the filter element is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20060272302 - Air intake filter assembly: An air intake filter assembly for filtering air flowing from a front end to a rear end includes a housing, a first filter stage, and a second filter stage. The filter stages are insertable in and removable from the housing. A latch is movable between a latched position in which... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20060272303 - Nonwoven fabric air filter for internal combustion engine: A thin and uniform nonwoven fabric air filter for an internal combustion engine with a pleated form which comprises an air-laid nonwoven fabric obtained by forming a plurality of layers mainly composed of polyester-based binder fibers having a fiber length of 1 to 10 mm by an air-laid nonwoven fabric... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060272304 - Air treatment apparatus and method of use thereof: An air treatment apparatus that affords the ability to treat air according to aroma preference and applicable air space with scented support structures being adaptably exposable to release variable portions of fragrance into an airflow, and a corresponding method of treating air through the use of the air treatment apparatus.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20060272305 - Channel filter: A channel filter is provided by corrugated fluted flow channels folded back and forth transversely to the pleats.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20060272306 - Ceramic wall flow filter manufacture: Porous ceramic wall flow filter bodies of unitary or segmented construction wherein the honeycomb channels are alternately plugged with plugging cements incorporating low expansion refractory fillers and permanent inorganic bonding agents, the latter imparting improved plug integrity and plug bonding to the porous ceramic honeycomb channel walls.... Agent: Corning Incorporated