| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 366177100 | Plural related feeders having separate outlets to mixing chamber | 33 |
| 20110255365 | APPARATUS FOR MIXING A POWDERY MEDIUM WITH A FLUID - An apparatus for mixing a powdery medium with a fluid includes a mixing vessel which can be filled with the fluid and which has a feed for the fluid, an inlet for the powdery medium and an outlet for the fluid mixed with the powdery medium, and at least one mixing screen which divides the mixing vessel into a first section which includes the feed and a second section which includes the inlet. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110310695 | Apparatus and method for particulate confection addition to soft-serve ice cream - A device and method are provided for manually actuated dispensing of a particulate confection from a selected confection hopper into a dispensing stream of soft frozen dessert. The device includes a plurality of confection hoppers with corresponding confection outlets, a manual actuator operatively connected to a dispensing member that cooperates with the confection outlet to dispense only a controlled amount of confection from the corresponding hopper into a confection conduit each time the actuator is actuated, and mixing means for substantially uniformly mixing the controlled amount of confection into a serving amount of the soft frozen dessert as the dessert is dispensed into a serving receptacle. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120170403 | SLURRY DISTRIBUTOR, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME - A slurry distribution system can include a feed conduit and a distribution conduit in fluid communication therewith. The feed conduit can include a first feed inlet and a second feed inlet disposed in spaced relationship thereto. The distribution conduit can extend generally along a longitudinal axis and include an entry portion and a distribution outlet in fluid communication therewith. The entry portion is in fluid communication with the first and second feed inlets of the feed conduit. The distribution outlet extends a predetermined distance along a transverse axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The slurry distribution system can be placed in fluid communication with a gypsum slurry mixer adapted to agitate water and calcined gypsum to form an aqueous calcined gypsum slurry. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20130148465 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MIXING TWO STREAMS OF CATALYST - A process and apparatus for mixing streams of regenerated and carbonized catalyst involves passing a catalyst stream into and out of a chamber in a lower section of a riser. The chamber fosters mixing of the catalyst streams to reduce their temperature differential before contacting hydrocarbon feed. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130250717 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MIXING TWO STREAMS OF CATALYST - A process and apparatus for mixing streams of regenerated and carbonized catalyst utilizes a ramp or bend provided on only one of the catalyst conduits to provide mixing advantages. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130265846 | Double Cartridge, Mixer Therefor and Combination of Double Cartridge and Mixer - The invention relates to a double cartridge ( | 10-10-2013 |
| 20140003187 | APPARATUS FOR MIXING TWO STREAMS OF CATALYST WITH AN INSERT HAVING ALIGNED OPENINGS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140078856 | TUB BLENDER PRESSURE BOOSTER METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for blending liquids and granular materials in which an impeller assembly is mounted for rotation within a housing at a lower end of a particles inlet and circumferentially spaced impeller vanes in outer concentric relation to a series of expeller vanes surrounding the particles inlet and which together propel the solid particles outwardly to intermix with the liquid introduced into the annulus surrounding the impeller assembly, the annulus being tapered or reduced in area in a direction counter to the direction of slurry flow in order to boost the pressure of the slurry discharged through an outlet port. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140198602 | Mixer - The invention relates to a mixer ( | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140219048 | FLUID MIXER AND HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM USING SAME - A fluid mixing device includes a hollow tubular main body ( | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140269156 | COMPACT DEVICE FOR ENHANCING THE MIXING OF GASEOUS SPECIES - Apparatus and system for mixing gas comprising a first valve coupled to a first conduit controlling flow of a first gas, a second valve coupled to a second conduit controlling flow of a second gas, a controller controlling the valves, a base block with a first gas input coupled to the first conduit, a second gas input coupled to the second conduit and an output opening, a mixing chamber formed within the base block, wherein the mixing chamber is coupled to the first gas input and the second gas input to receive input gases, an inner block disposed within the mixing chamber, the inner block including a body with an inner volume and one or more perimeter holes formed through the body coupling the mixing chamber to the inner volume of the inner block; and a gas outlet configured to flow gas through the output opening of the base block. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140369156 | MIXING UNIT FOR USE IN A MIXING APPARATUS AND A MIXING APPARATUS - A mixing unit ( | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140369157 | VESSEL FOR PROCESSING A BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT INCLUDING PROTECTION MEANS - A processing receptacle for a biopharmaceutical product includes a pocket configured to accommodate the biopharmaceutical product that can assume a flat-folded state, an expanded state, or any intermediate state in between, a processing element having an active inner portion, a rigid protective chamber to protect the processing element, and at least one opening for introducing the product into the receptacle and/or for draining the contents from the receptacle. A portion of the protective chamber is rigidly attached to a portion of the pocket and movement of the pocket up or down brings about movement of the protective chamber; the processing element and the protective chamber are arranged to be independent from one another relative to their movements. The protective chamber has a variable height that automatically adapts to accommodate the flat-folded, expanded, or intermediate state of the pocket, and in each state of the pocket, the processing element is offset from the side walls and the upper end portion of the pocket, while being adjacent to the lower end portion. A device having such a processing receptacle and a method for processing a biopharmaceutical product utilizing such a device are also presented. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20160001240 | FLUID MIXER AND SYSTEM USING THE FLUID MIXER - The present invention relates to a fluid mixer having a fluid inlet ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160089647 | RE-FILLABLE SYRUP BIN FOR BEVERAGE MACHINE - A beverage dispenser includes a mixing portion to mix a plurality of beverage ingredients and a dispensing portion to dispense the mixed beverage. The dispenser further includes a product input portion having a plurality of refillable ingredient bins operably connectible to the mixing portion. Each refillable ingredient bin includes a self-closing seal located at a bin outlet to prevent leakage of the beverage ingredients from the bin outlet when the refillable ingredient bin is disconnected from the mixing portion. An ingredient bin assembly for a beverage dispensing machine includes a refillable ingredient bin having a bin outlet and a self-closing seal positioned at the bin outlet to prevent leakage of beverage ingredients from the bin outlet when the refillable ingredient bin is disconnected from a beverage dispensing machine. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160101391 | Infrared Aided Fuel Emulsion - This invention relates to a system and a method for generating emulsified fuels for improved fuel efficiency of combustion devices with reduced specific fuel consumption rate and emissions, comprising at least a continuous phase fuel, a dispersed phase component, and an infrared radiation source whose infrared radiation spans at least a portion of 3-16 micrometers wavelength spectrum. In said system the continuous phase fuel and/or dispersed phase component are exposed to said infrared before or during emulsification. The continuous phase fuel may be selected from fossil fuels, biofuels, alcohol fuels, vegetable oils, or any combustible liquid fuels, while the dispersed phase component may be oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, methane, propane, butane, any petroleum gas, hydrogen peroxide, or water. The emulsified fuels can be used in combustion devices such as internal combustion engines, boilers, burners, or gas turbines. | 04-14-2016 |
| 366178100 | Concentric | 5 |
| 20130176814 | REACTIVE FLOW STATIC MIXER WITH CROSS FLOW OBSTRUCTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mixing apparatus. Particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a mixing apparatus for mixing fluid components such as phosgene and amine during a highly reactive chemical reaction. One embodiment provides a mixing conduit ( | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130208559 | HYDROCARBON/OXYGEN INDUSTRIAL GAS MIXER WITH WATER MIST - A hydrocarbon-containing gas is mixed with an oxygen-containing gas in a gas mixer in the presence of a water mist. The water mist surrounds and contacts entrained particles in either the oxygen-containing gas stream or the hydrocarbon-containing gas stream. The water acts to suppress and prevent ignition of the hydrocarbon gas in the mixer by serving as a sink for heat created by energetic collisions between such particles and structures within the gas mixer. The water mist also acts to quench ignition caused by such collisions. The water mist can be introduced into the gas mixer in a number of different configurations, including via nozzles injecting a mist into a hydrocarbon gas manifold or an oxygen gas manifold, nozzles placed within the gas mixer adjacent to ends of the oxygen supply pipes, and nozzles placed coaxially within the oxygen supply pipes in the gas mixer. | 08-15-2013 |
| 366178200 | Feed means has plural identical outlets | 1 |
| 20160038890 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MIXING TUBE ASSEMBLY - A mixing section adapted for use in a burner assembly comprising a plurality of mixing tube assemblies each comprising a substantially cylindrical outer wall which defines an interior open space and a plurality of holes which are disposed adjacent to the inlet end of each of the mixing tube assemblies. Preferably, air is conveyed from the inlet end to the outlet end of the mixing tube assemblies, fuel is conveyed to the interior open space defined by the substantially cylindrical outer wall through the plurality of holes, each of the mixing tube assemblies separately mixes an amount of fuel and air, and the mixing section is adapted to produce a mixture of fuel and air. A method comprising conveying fuel and air from the inlet end of the mixing tube assembly to the outlet end of the mixing tube assembly and mixing gaseous fuel and air in the assembly. | 02-11-2016 |
| 366178300 | Inner feeder passes through wall of outer feeder and extends along common axis at the wall | 2 |
| 20080298168 | Mixing vessels system and related methods - A system and methods for maintaining separation between substances such that the substances can be mixed as needed. The substances may be a liquid or a solid and may be edible or non-edible. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a system and methods that include an apparatus including at least two vessels, an additive vessel and a receiving vessel, for maintaining the separation of the substances and facilitating the mixing of the substances as needed. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20100046322 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING AN HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE OF CHROMATOGRAPHY MEDIA IN A VESSEL - The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming an homogeneous mixture of chromatography media in a vessel. The invention also relates to methods and apparatus for transferring the homogeneous media from the vessel into a second vessel in preparation for packing a chromatography column. The invention can also be used directly to pack the column with homogeneous media. | 02-25-2010 |
| 366181500 | Stationary deflecting element in flow-through mixing chamber | 4 |
| 20100142312 | INLINE MIXER STRUCTURE - An inline mixer structure that is compact and has a high mixing efficiency is provided. In an inline mixer structure that forms a fluid mixture by evenly mixing and diffusing different types of fluid, a cylindrical mixer body ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110188338 | STEPPED DOWN GAS MIXING DEVICE - An apparatus and method for mixing gas streams of different temperatures and/or compositions contemplates that at least one of the streams contains particle. The apparatus includes a main duct for the first gas stream and a plurality of duct assemblies extending in the main duct generally transversely to the first gas stream. Each assembly has plural inlets and outlets for receiving and discharging separate parts of the second gas stream, moving initially generally transverse to the first stream. The assemblies each have plural secondary ducts of mutually different lengths from inlet to outlet, the outlets being spaced from each other across the main duct for distributing the parts of the second gas stream into the first gas stream. A gas flow deflector is connected to each duct assembly for temporarily deflecting the first gas stream before it is combined with the parts of the second gas stream. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20140071786 | MICRO-CHANNELS, MICRO-MIXERS AND MICRO-REACTORS - A fluid micro-mixer apparatus includes a plurality of first microchannels for receiving a first fluid and a plurality of second microchannels for receiving a second fluid. A mixing chamber flow path is disposed to receive the first and second fluids after the first and second fluids exit their respective output ports. The mixing chamber flow path can include a first mixing chamber in the vicinity of the respective output ports, and the mixing chamber flow path can separate into at least two different flow paths downstream from the first mixing chamber. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20160184786 | FLUID MIXER ASSEMBLY - Disclosed is an assembly for mixing fluids (i.e., gases or liquids), and more particularly an assembly that accurately mixes two or more high-pressure fluid sources and is adapted for use in applications, such as for example, chromatography. The mixer assembly ( | 06-30-2016 |
| 366181600 | Feed means has plural identical outlets | 6 |
| 20090034362 | MICRODEVICE AND METHOD FOR JOINING FLUIDS - There is provided a microdevice which supplies two or more kinds of fluids flowed into itself independently toward a joining region respectively, and which discharges those fluids from the joining region. The microdevice is constituted by a supply channel which supplies each fluid flowed into the microdevice toward the joining region and a discharge channel which discharges the joined fluid from the joining region toward outside of the microdevice, in a manner that a supply channel which supplies at least one kind of the fluid has a plurality of subchannels which supply the fluid supplied into the microdevice toward the joining region, and those subchannels and supply channels are formed so that at least one central axis of the plurality of subchannels and at least one central axis of the supply channel which supplies at least one kind of fluid other than the kind that the subchannel supplies or of the subchannel intersect at one point. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090086572 | MICRODEVICE AND FLUID MIXING METHOD - In a microdevice in which a plurality of fluids respectively passing through a separate introduction channel are merged in a merging section in a micro space to mix the fluids and the mixed fluids are discharged from the merging section via a discharge channel, a tip section of each of the introduction channels comprises a tapered contraction section so as to contract a flow of fluid, the introduction channels are disposed so that central axes of the introduction channels do not intersect at one point each other, and the merging section is formed of a space surrounded with edges of the contraction sections of respective introduction channels. Thereby, reacting fluids can be mixed rapidly each other, and contamination of air bubbles into the whole fluid can be suppressed by narrowing a dead space of a discharge channel immediately after the merging section. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20140233348 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND FLUID MIXER - A fluid control device for mixing liquids, includes at least: a monolithic base body; and a plurality of micro holes disposed in the base body. Also, the micro holes in a flow channel group α that configures a specific group have opening portions in a region A and a region B on surfaces being outer surfaces of the base body, the micro holes in a flow channel group β (n) that configures the other specific group have opening portions in the region A and a region C (n) on the surfaces being outer surfaces of the base body, and in the base body, the micro holes are disposed apart from the micro holes belonging to the different flow channel group throughout entire lengths. Here, the n refers to a natural number. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140269157 | APPARATUS USING MULTIPLE JETS FOR GAS DELIVERY AND METHODS OF FLUIDIZING - The present invention relates to apparatuses for fluidized bed using multiple jets to introduce gas into a fluidized bed region and methods of fluidizing. The apparatus for introducing fluidizing medium to a fluidized bed reactor comprises a vessel defining a fluidized bed region and in which solid feed stock is fed, a gas distribution grid housed in the lower portion of the vessel through which a first fluidizing medium is introduced to fluidize the solid feed stock, a plurality of jets positioned through the gas distribution grid through which a second fluidizing medium is introduced into the fluidized bed region for fluidization of the solid feed stock. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140313849 | FLUID MIXER AND FLUID MIXING METHOD - A cylindrical mixer having an opening portion on both ends forms an axial flow path and a first fluid introduced into the axial flow path through the opening portion at one end flows therethrough in the axial direction and the first fluid exits from the opening portion at the other end; and a spiral flow path and a second fluid introduced into the spiral flow path through a hole formed in a peripheral wall of the mixer is made to flow along an inner peripheral surface of the mixer while being swirled in a spiral manner about an axis of the axial flow path so that the first fluid and the second fluid are mixed and a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid exits from an opening portion at the end to refine and homogenize a dispersion phase on a micro level to a sub-micro level. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20150078117 | DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A MIXTURE, PREFERABLY FOAM - The present invention is a device ( | 03-19-2015 |
| 366181800 | Fluid pump | 2 |
| 20120275259 | MICROFLOW ANALYTICAL SYSTEM - A microflow analytical system includes a laminate pump assembly connectable with one or more sources of fluid, one or more pneumatic control pumps, a mixer, and a sensor. The laminate pump assembly is adapted to deliver predetermined volumes of the fluid(s) through a plurality of flow paths which are formed within layers of the assembly. Each flow path can include an inlet valve, a pump valve, and an outlet valve each of which are controllable by the pneumatic control pumps. A series of manifolds can be formed within the layers of the pump assembly to provide for simultaneous activation of selected flow paths. Delivered fluid volumes can be mixed in the mixer which, in some embodiments, may be integral with the laminate pump assembly. The sensor can measure one or more characteristics of the mixed fluids to determine one or more properties of the fluids. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20160107128 | SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DIALYSIS CONCENTRATE - A dialysis concentrate production system includes a container and a stationary production system. The container comprises a discharge port and a combined port. The stationary production system comprises a storage container comprising a mixing inlet and an outlet, a delivery pump arranged downstream of the outlet, a first water jet pump arranged downstream of the delivery pump, and a second water jet pump arranged downstream of the delivery pump and parallel to the first water jet pump. The first water jet pump comprises a driving inlet in fluid communication with the delivery pump, a suction port in fluid communication with the combined port, and an outlet. The second water jet pump comprises a driving inlet in fluid communication with the delivery pump, a suction port in fluid communication with the discharge port, and an outlet in fluid communication with the mixing inlet. | 04-21-2016 |
