Gas separation inventions 07/07

20070169445 - Filter flow turbine: A filter includes a housing providing an interior. The housing includes an outlet and an inlet arranged radially outwardly from the outlet. A filter element assembly is arranged within the interior and includes a filter media for filtering fluid within the filter. A turbine includes fins arranged axially beneath the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070169446 - In-line filter with quick-change coupling and a filter: An in-line filter provided with a substantially elongated filter housing (1; 51) in which filtering material (A) is included, the filter housing being provided on a first end with an inflow opening (2) and, on a second, opposite end with an outflow opening (3), while at the inflow opening (2)... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070169447 - Filter cassette rack: A filter cassette rack and tracks wherein the rack is a three dimensional rectangular rack having at least two opposing open sides, sealing and non-sealing support tracks span the rack providing filter cassette guides and sealing means for a plurality of filter cassettes.... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070169448 - Filter cassette: A filter cassette having opposing rectangular side panels with at least one pair of filter media containers there between wherein each filter media container has a pair of opposing rectangular end plates and a pair of opposing rectangular media screens, each pair of containers are in a “V” configuration with... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070169449 - Method and apparatus for precluding telescoping in a fluted filter device: A fluted filter element may include one or more bridging elements to provide resistance to telescoping of the layers of the fluted filter element. The bridging elements are attached to one or both of the filter faces via adhesives, and/or mechanical means, and may also take the form of one... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070169450 - Low resistance air filter device: A low resistance air filter device comprises a tubular case (2) for at least a filtering element (3) fixed to a lower opening (9) of the case (2). This latter case is provided, at its opposite upper opening (10), of outlet means (8) provided with an outflow opening (7) for... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070169451 - Block for filtering particles contained in exchaust gases of an internal combustion engine: A block, particularly for filtering particulates present in the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, includes a plurality of flow channels for the gases (14e,14s), each of the channels (14e,14s) being bounded by a side wall (22), a plug (15e,15s) and an opening (19e,19s) terminating outwardly. The block according... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070169453 - Honeycomb filter: A honeycomb filter includes at least one pillar-shape honeycomb structured body including a plurality of cells partitioned by partitions, and plugs for sealing upstream openings of a plurality of first cells selected from the plurality of cells and for sealing downstream openings of a plurality of second cells selected from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070169452 - Serviceable aligned exhaust aftertreatment assembly: An exhaust aftertreatment system and method enables servicing by a single technician and provides singular location mounting and alignment.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070169454 - Filtering member and method of manufacturing the same: A filter (15) has a cylindrical body (15a). The cylindrical body (15a) is formed by laminating a plurality of pattern layers formed into a mesh form by a wire (16) in the radial direction. By repeating the traverse of the wire (16) and the reversal of the traverse direction in... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070163215 - Centrifugal separator for cleaning gases: A centrifugal separator device (10) for separating solid and/or liquid particles which are suspended in gas media, which device comprises a rotor (12) which is provided sedimentation members (14), which is rotatably mounted in a surrounding stationary housing (20) and which has a central inlet for the gas medium which... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070163216 - Baffle filter: Various embodiments of a filter are described herein. In one embodiment, a filter includes a first side and a second side both of which have openings therein. A plurality of baffle members are positioned between the first side and the second side. The plurality of baffle members may be provided... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20070163218 - Composite dual layer hepa filter: The invention provides a composite, dual layer filtration material (1) having a gradient structure, comprising a dust layer (2) of wet laid dust fibers (5), a HEPA layer (3) of wet laid HEPA fibers (6) laid on top of the dust layer (2), and a transition zone (4) between dust... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070163219 - Honeycomb filter for clarifying exhaust gas and method for manufacture thereof: A honeycomb filter for removing solid particles containing carbon as the main component in an exhaust gas, characterized in that the material for the honeycomb filter is an aluminum titanate sintered product obtained by firing at from 1,250 to 1,700° C. a raw material mixture comprising 100 parts by mass... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070157585 - Automatic air purifying windows: An automatic air-purifying window automatically purifies polluted indoor air while exhibiting general inherent functions of the window. The automatic air-purifying window comprises a window and a window stile for fixing the window. The window stile comprises a discharge part, an induction part, and an indoor air circulation passageway. The discharge... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070157587 - Vents for fluid systems: A vent for a fluid system includes a chamber through which fluid can flow along either a first flow path or a second flow path, in which the resistance to fluid flow is relatively high when the fluid follows the first flow path and relatively low when the fluid follows... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20070157588 - Reduced fiber disk/shroud filter construction for removing contaminants from an enclosure: The invention relates to a device for filtering contaminants, such as particulates and vapor phase contaminants, from a confined environment such as electronic or optical devices susceptible to contamination (e.g. computer disk drives) by providing an improved reduced fiber filter.... Agent: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

20070157589 - Filter with variable pleat depth: A filter is provided by pleated filter media having a plurality of pleats defined by wall segments extending axially along an axial direction along an axis and extending transversely along a transverse direction between first and second sets of pleat tips at first and second sets of axially extending bend... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070151214 - Engine air filter and sealing system: An air induction system for an engine to remove contaminants from intake air prior to delivery to the engine. The system includes an assembly for filtering air which is mounted in advance of the engine, and a duct for delivering air from the assembly to the engine. A sealing system... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070151215 - Oil separator: In order to provide an oil separator for separating oil from a blowby gas of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, which oil separator is manufactured separately from a basic body of a cylinder head cover but may nevertheless be easily integrated into the cylinder head cover, it... Agent: Edward J. Timmer

20070151216 - Gas filter for oven: The invention is a filter or filter assembly for use in reducing contaminants of powder finishes and preventing buildup of contaminants in powder-curing ovens. The use of such a filter reduces “down-time” and costs incurred for regular cleaning and maintenance of such ovens.... Agent: Bell & Associates

20070151217 - Exhaust gas particle filter made of sintered metal: The invention relates to an exhaust gas particulate filter made of sintered metal for removing particulates contained in the exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, particularly of a diesel internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas particulate filter is made of a filter material having at least one metal... Agent: Rick Martin Patent Law Offices Of Rick Martin, PC

20070151218 - Method for producing metal fibers, method for producing filter material, device for performing the method, fiber, filter material, particle filter, and motor vehicle having the filter material: A method for producing metal fibers includes a machining production method using at least one rotating tool. A device for producing metal fibers, a filter material having such fibers, a method for producing the material, a particle filter using such material, a motor vehicle equipped with the filter, and a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP