| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
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| 101 | ROTARY PRESSURE TRANSFER DEVICES | PCT/US2007/071740 | 2007-06-21 | WO2008002819A3 | 2008-01-03 | MARTIN, Jeremy, G.; STOVER, Richard, L. |
A rotary pressure exchange device for transferring the pressure of a high pressure stream of first fluid to a low pressure stream of second fluid having an improved substantially cylindrical rotor (41, 51, 61). The rotor is formed to provide a plurality of longitudinal passageways comprising the lumens (49) of parallel tubes (47, 73) of circular cross-section which are located uniformly throughout an annular region. Certain preferred embodiments include an outer tubular casing (43) of circular cross-section and a coaxial central hub (45). |
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| 102 | WAVE ENERGY ACCUMULATOR | PCT/CA2006/000767 | 2006-05-11 | WO2006122397A1 | 2006-11-23 | SIEBER, Joe |
A fluid pressurization unit compresses a fluid in response to natural wave action on a body of water such as an ocean. The unit comprises a floating component and a piston assembly. The floating component has sufficient buoyancy to float on water waves and has a compression chamber with an inlet valve biased to receive a fluid at an intake pressure. The piston assembly is slidable within the compression chamber and has a piston shaft and a hollow piston head attached to the piston shaft, which defines a piston reservoir therein with an inlet valve in communication with the compression chamber and biased to receive the fluid at an output pressure, and an outlet for discharging fluid pressurized to at least the output pressure from the pressurization unit. The piston assembly is fixable in place relative to the floating component such that relative movement between the floating component and piston assembly compresses fluid from the intake pressure to at least the output pressure. |
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| 103 | PRESSURE EXCHANGER | PCT/US2005/028356 | 2005-08-10 | WO2006020679A3 | 2006-02-23 | HAUGE, Leif |
A pressure exchanger for transferring pressure energy from a relatively high-pressure fluid stream to another relatively low-pressure fluid stream is provided. A ducted rotor is positioned on a central axle between two end covers inside a pressure vessel with a coaxial inlet and outlet pair that is in communication with a pair of low pressure ports having inclination forming an inlet tangential velocity vector in the direction of rotor rotation and an outlet tangential velocity vector in opposite direction imparting a rotational momentum on rotor. A pair of high-pressure ports is adapted for flow without inclination and imparts no momentum to rotor and flow can be varied without impacting the rotor's RPM. The end covers have a sloped surface following a flat sealing area that increases the clearance in the direction of rotation causing increased outflow during depressurization and lower duct pressure before duct is exposed to low pressure port and furthermore causing increased inflow during the pressurization phase before duct is exposed to the high pressure port, which will dissipate pressure energy as opposed to producing cavitation or pressure waves with result wear and noise. |
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| 104 | PHASE MIXING | PCT/US2004014969 | 2004-05-13 | WO2004101160A3 | 2005-06-02 | SADLER DANIEL J; CHANGRANI RAJNISH G; CHOU CHIA FU; ZENHAUSERN FREDERIC |
| An exemplary system and method for providing substantially uniform mixing of fluid phases, wherein the frequency of operation, flow velocities and/or device dimensions generally correspond to otherwise substantially diffusion limited applications, is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a mixing chamber; a plurality of electrodes (150) for generating an electric field; an electromagnet (200) for generating a magnetic field; and a controller for oscillating the electric field and the magnetic field in order to produce a periodic frequency-difference phase cycling of the electric and magnetic fields. Disclosed features and specifications may be variously controlled, adapted or otherwise optionally modified to improve mixing operation in any diffusion limited application. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention representatively provide for efficient mixing of fluid phases at relatively high frequencies and may be readily integrated with existing micro-scale technologies for the improvement of device package form factors, weights and other manufacturing and/or device performance metrics. | ||||||
| 105 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING A STORAGE VESSEL WITH COMPRESSED GAS | PCT/US2002/026879 | 2002-08-23 | WO2003019016A1 | 2003-03-06 | KRASNOV, Igor |
A storage vessel (63) is filled with compressed gas (20) by filling a first tank (11) with gas from a low pressure gas source (54). Hydraulic fluid (24) is drawn from a reservoir (47) and pumped into the first tank (11) in contact with the gas (20). This causes the gas (20) in the first tank (11) to flow into the storage vessel (63) as it fills with hydraulic fluid (24). At the same time, gas (20) is supplied from the gas source (54) to a second tank (13). Hydraulic fluid (24) previously introduced into the second tank (13) flows out to the reservoir (47) as the second tank (13) fills with gas (20). When the first tank (11) is full of hydraulic fluid (24), a valve (33) switches the cycle so that the hydraulic pump (39) begins pumping hydraulic fluid (24) back into the second tank (13) while the first tank (11) drains. The cycle is repeated until the storage vessel (63) is filled with gas (20) to a desired pressure. |
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| 106 | LIQUID SPRAY COMPRESSOR | PCT/US1997000203 | 1997-01-17 | WO1997026458A1 | 1997-07-24 | |
| A liquid spray compressor is provided in which cooling liquid is sprayed into a vessel (10) containing gases or vapors to be compressed, thereby displacing the gas and simultaneously absorbing a significant amount of the heat of compression. The volume of the vessel is alternately filled with the gas and the liquid. A liquid drain valve (V4) is connected to the vessel and is closed during compression and open during drain/recharge. A cooler (20) is disposed downstream from the liquid drain valve. | ||||||
| 107 | Hydraulic air compressor and generator system | US11555758 | 2006-11-02 | US07696632B1 | 2010-04-13 | Steve Fuller |
| A hydraulic air compressor and generator system may comprise: a hydraulic air compressor comprising a compressed air pipe for conveying the compressed air from the separator chamber; and an electrical power generator positioned in line with the compressed air pipe so that compressed air will directly power the generator. A method for operating an electrical power generator may comprise: positioning the electrical power generator in line with a compressed air pipe of a hydraulic air compressor; and using compressed air output from the HAC to directly power the electrical power generator. | ||||||
| 108 | Castable three-dimensional stationary phase for electric field-driven applications | US10969134 | 2004-10-19 | US07488407B2 | 2009-02-10 | Timothy J. Shepodd; Leroy Whinnery, Jr.; William R. Even, Jr. |
| A polymer material useful as the porous dielectric medium for microfluidic devices generally and electrokinetic pumps in particular. The polymer material is produced from an inverse (water-in-oil) emulsion that creates a 3-dimensional network characterized by small pores and high internal volume, characteristics that are particularly desirable for the dielectric medium for electrokinetic pumps. Further, the material can be cast-to-shape inside a microchannel. The use of bifunctional monomers provides for charge density within the polymer structure sufficient to support electroosmotic flow. The 3-dimensional polymeric material can also be covalently bound to the channel walls thereby making it suitable for high-pressure applications. | ||||||
| 109 | Beverage Maker, And Pump Unit And Cartridge For Use In A Beverage Maker | US12094194 | 2006-11-29 | US20080295699A1 | 2008-12-04 | Paulus Cornelis Duineveld; Fred Fraij; Marinus Christiaan Hansen; Joeke Noordhuis |
| A pump unit (4) comprises a reservoir (20) for containing a liquid, a duct system (30) for conveying the liquid and a pumping section (50) for subjecting the liquid to a pumping force. Initially, in a pump unit according to the state of the art, the duct system is filled with air. This causes problems at the start of the operation of the pump unit, or, in case the applied pumping force is high enough to prevent such problems, this leads to a flow rate of the liquid that is too high. This problem is solved by bringing about an initial filling of at least a portion of a duct (31) for conveying the liquid from the reservoir (20) to the pumping section (50), under the influence of another force than a pumping force, for example under the influence of gravity. | ||||||
| 110 | Microfluidics and small volume mixing based on redox magnetohydrodynamics methods | US10317777 | 2002-12-12 | US07147441B2 | 2006-12-12 | Ingrid Fritsch; Christopher S. Carter; Zoraida P. Aguilar |
| Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls of the channel and a current carrying species within the solution carries the current through the solution. The electric field generated by the use of the current carrying species is perpendicular to a magnetic field applied to the channel. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel. | ||||||
| 111 | Micro-fabricated electrokinetic pump with on-frit electrode | US10669495 | 2003-09-23 | US07086839B2 | 2006-08-08 | Thomas W. Kenny; James Gill Shook; Shulin Zeng; Daniel J. Lenehan; Juan Santiago; James Lovette |
| An electroosmotic pump and method of manufacturing thereof. The pump having a porous structure adapted to pump fluid therethrough, the porous structure comprising a first side and a second side, the porous structure having a plurality of fluid channels therethrough, the first side having a first continuous layer of electrically conductive porous material deposited thereon and the second side having a second continuous layer of electrically conductive porous material deposited thereon, the first second layers coupled to a power source, wherein the power source supplies a voltage differential between the first layer and the second layer to drive fluid through the porous structure at a desired flow rate. The continuous layer of electrically conductive porous material is preferably a thin film electrode, although a multi-layered electrode, screen mesh electrode and beaded electrode are alternatively contemplated. The thickness of the continuous layer is in range between and including 200 Angstroms and 10,000 Angstroms. | ||||||
| 112 | Corbino disc electroosmotic flow pump | US10491415 | 2002-10-02 | US07037082B2 | 2006-05-02 | Rafael Taboryski; Jonatan Kutchinsky; Morten Bech |
| The present invention provides a pump for generating an Electroosmotic Flow (EOF) in a solution in a canal, guide, pipe or equivalent. Electroosmotic flow is generated by application of an electric field through a solution in a canal defined by insulating walls. The phenomenon depends on ionisation of sites on the surface so that for electroneutrality there is an excess mobile charge in the solution. The electric field acts on the excess charge in the solution causing the fluid to flow. The quantity and distribution of excess charge in the solution depends on the solution and the surface materials and is related to a parameter, the zeta (z) potential characterising material/solution combinations. | ||||||
| 113 | Micro liquid handling device and methods for using it | US10524753 | 2003-08-14 | US20060051214A1 | 2006-03-09 | Tomas Ussing |
| The invention makes available methods and devices for handling liquids in micro channel systems by means of bubbles generated by a movable light beam. In particular the devices relate to pumps, valves, mixers and thermal reactors in micro channel systems and the combination of these devices into larger systems. The methods relate the preparation and operation of the devices. | ||||||
| 114 | Gas injection device | US11214112 | 2005-08-29 | US20060045756A1 | 2006-03-02 | Huei-Tarng Liou |
| The subject invention is related to a gas injection device with back-flow leaking liquid discharge, comprising a chamber, a gas inlet conduit, a gas outlet conduit, and a liquid discharging conduit, wherein the gas outlet conduit and the liquid discharging conduit are provided with a check valve, respectively. When a gas is passed to the chamber through the gas inlet conduit, the check valve of the gas outlet conduit is open for the gas to be passed into a liquid and the check valve of the liquid discharging conduit is closed. While the gas has stopped injecting into the liquid, the check valve of the gas outlet is closed to prevent the liquid from back flow. The small amount of back-flow leaking liquid accumulated in the chamber can open the check valve of the liquid discharging conduit to discharge the leaking liquid from the chamber. | ||||||
| 115 | Liquid ring compressor | US10511753 | 2003-04-16 | US20050271520A1 | 2005-12-08 | Hilberg Karoliussen |
| Liquid ring compressor, characterized by an eccentric inner rotor (6) is supported in axles (8, 9) to an outer co-rotor (3) for the liquid ring, where the bearing of the co-rotors (11) is outside the same axles on each side is enclosed in an enclousure where it on each sides of the bearing (11) is arranged a rotating lip seal (82) which lip (83) abut the axles (8, 9) at low speed, and which at high speed is projected due to centrifugal forces out and lifts itself from the axles, where through holes (81) through the co-rotor's sidewalls and bearing enclosure, its volume within the liquid ring is aired to the surrounding enclosure (1), and ensures that it is not created a differential pressure across the bearings and the seals of the bearings. | ||||||
| 116 | Vacuum pump | US11092898 | 2005-03-29 | US20050249618A1 | 2005-11-10 | Manabu Nonaka; Akihiko Wada |
| An object of the present invention is to provide a vacuum pump in which the corrosion resistance to a corrosive gas and the heat releasing property of a heated component are improved. In a rotor 11 incorporated in a pump case 1 of a vacuum pump P, there is provided a surface treatment layer 42 in which a nickel alloy layer 43 is formed by applying nickel with high corrosion resistance onto a base material 41 made of an aluminum alloy and a nickel oxide 44 with high emissivity is formed on the surface of the nickel alloy layer 43 by oxidizing nickel. | ||||||
| 117 | Apparatus for fluid storage and delivery at a substantially constant pressure | US10922015 | 2004-08-19 | US20050238512A1 | 2005-10-27 | Rajesh Luharuka; Chi-Fu Wu; Peter Hesketh |
| Microfluidic pumps, methods of fabrication thereof, and methods of use thereof, as well as method of pumping a fluid, are disclosed. | ||||||
| 118 | Fluid transfer using devices with rotatable housings | US11168239 | 2005-06-28 | US20050238499A1 | 2005-10-27 | Jason Demers; Scott Leonard; Kingston Owens |
| A liquid ring pump includes an external housing enclosing a volume including a lower fluid reservoir. A rotatable inner housing is within the volume of the external housing, the inner housing enclosing an inner fluid chamber. A pitot tube provides fluid communication between the lower fluid reservoir and the inner fluid chamber. The housings and pitot tube are adapted so that when the inner housing rotates, fluid flows from the lower fluid reservoir through the pitot tube into the inner fluid chamber to develop a liquid ring within the inner fluid chamber such that an inner radial wall of the liquid ring is just radially outward from a point where the pitot tube enters the inner fluid chamber. | ||||||
| 119 | Devices Employing Colloidal-Sized Particles | US10711767 | 2004-10-04 | US20050175478A1 | 2005-08-11 | David Marr; Tieying Gong; John Oakey; Alexander Terray |
| The present invention relates to the use colloidal particles to realize photonic and microfluidic devices. In particular embodiments, colloidal particles are used to realize microfluidic a two-way valve, three-way valve, check valve, three-dimensional valve, peristalsis pump, rotary pump, vane pump, and two-lobe gear pump. In certain embodiments, actuation of an active element in the microfluidic structure is accomplished by electrophoresis, the use of an optical trap or “tweezer”, or the application of an electric field or magnetic field. In other embodiments, the application of an electrical field to colloidal particles that are substantially constrained to two dimensional movement is used to realize wave guides, filters and switches for optical signals. | ||||||
| 120 | Plasma-based gas treatment system integrated in a vacuum pump | US10998915 | 2004-11-30 | US20050142000A1 | 2005-06-30 | Philippe Maquin; Thierry Neel; Roland Bernard |
| According to the invention, a pumping system comprises at least one pump unit (2) with a vacuum pump casing in which there are multiple pumping stages (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) that includes at least one pumped gas treatment system, characterised by the fact that the pumped gas treatment compromises at least one plasma source (15, 16, 26, 27), located inside the vacuum pump casing of the pump unit (2), to generate a plasma that at least partially decomposes certain gases passing through the pump unit (2). This considerably reduces the size of the pumped gas treatment system and improves its efficiency so that a gas pumping and treatment system can be created that is sufficiently small as to allow it to be placed in close proximity to the process chambers. | ||||||
