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20090101490 | Water Purification System - Devices and methods for water purification are provided. An improved demister ( | 04-23-2009 |
20090218210 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT DISTILLATION SYSTEM - Methods and devices are provided for an energy-efficient distillation system ( | 09-03-2009 |
20090308820 | Contaminant Prevention - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for water purification. Embodiments can generally be applied to demister cyclones ( | 12-17-2009 |
20100163472 | WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for water purification. The system can include devices and methods for reducing scale accumulation in a water distillation system. | 07-01-2010 |
20110226605 | LARGE-SCALE WATER PURIFICATION AND DESALINATION - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for water purification and desalination. The systems have a preheater, a degasser, multiple evaporation chambers with demisters, heat pipes, and a control system, wherein the control system permits continuous operation of the purification and desalination system without requiring user intervention or cleaning. The system is capable of recovering heat from each distillation stage, while removing, from a contaminated water sample, a plurality of contaminant types including: microbiological contaminants, radiological contaminants, metals, salts, volatile organics, and non-volatile organics. | 09-22-2011 |
20120125861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF SCALING IN PURIFICATION OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS - A method for removing hydrocarbons and scale forming compounds from tap water, contaminated aqueous solutions, seawater, and saline brines, such as produce water, comprising the addition of carbonate ions by CO | 05-24-2012 |
20130056193 | HEAT TRANSFER INTERFACE - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for heat management systems at temperatures in the range of 120° C. to 1,300° C. The systems consist of various heat transfer chambers configured such that they contain heat transfer devices that are spherical, cylindrical or have other shapes, and that absorb heat within a broad range of temperatures, and return such heat at constant temperature over long periods of time. | 03-07-2013 |
20140263081 | INDUSTRIAL WATER PURIFICATION AND DESALINATION - This invention relates to the field of water purification and desalination. In particular, embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods of removing essentially all of a broad spectrum of impurities from water in an automated industrial process that requires minimal cleaning or maintenance during the course of several months to several years, with relatively high yields of product water per unit of input water, flexibility with respect to energy sources, compact design with a low industrial foot-print, the ability to recover valuable by-products, and ultra-low energy requirements. | 09-18-2014 |
20140299462 | LARGE-SCALE WATER PURIFICATION AND DESALINATION - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for water purification and desalination. The systems have a preheater, a degasser, multiple evaporation chambers with demisters, heat pipes, and a control system, wherein the control system permits continuous operation of the purification and desalination system without requiring user intervention or cleaning. The system is capable of recovering heat from each distillation stage, while removing, from a contaminated water sample, a plurality of contaminant types including: microbiological contaminants, radiological contaminants, metals, salts, volatile organics, and non-volatile organics. | 10-09-2014 |
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20130151275 | DYNAMIC GEOGRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF RESEARCH CAPACITY - The invention provides systems and methods that allow a trial planner to visualize clinical capacity available in different geographic locations in the form of icons arranged according to geography. In certain aspects, the invention provides a display including icons depicting research capacity in a plurality of geographical areas. Each icon has an aspect that depicts an aggregate capacity of a plurality of research centers that are located in the geographical region. The capacity can relate to available patient population, clinical capabilities, or local environment, and is queryable by disease. Preferably, only anonymous, aggregate statistical patient population data is included. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151276 | PROFILE RENDERING FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH ENTITIES - The invention uses a database of clinical research centers to allow a trial planner to view profiles of those centers to pre-qualify centers for inclusion in a prospective clinical trial. Systems and methods of the invention operate to display clinical research capacity by using a computer system for receiving, from a trial planner, a subject disease and a selection of a research center and retrieving a plurality of clinical capacities that are associated with the subject disease for the research center. A profile of the research center that includes the plurality of clinical capacities associated with the subject disease is rendered. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151277 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AND MARKETING CLNIICAL RESEARCH CENTERS - The invention generally relates to computer-based systems for evaluating and marketing clinical trial research centers. In certain aspects, the invention provides computer-based systems for collecting information about clinical research centers. Systems include a tangible, non-transitory memory coupled to a processor operable to retrieve, based on a user's input, an identity of a clinical research center and prompt the user for information relating generally to the center. The system can collect disease-specific information by prompting the user for a selection of a disease and then collecting from the user information identifying an ability of the center to perform one or more tests relating to the disease. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER ANALYTICS - The invention generally relates to computer-based systems for evaluating and marketing clinical trial research centers. In certain aspects, the invention provides computer-based systems for collecting information about clinical research centers. Systems include a tangible, non-transitory memory coupled to a processor operable to retrieve, based on a user's input, an identity of a clinical research center and prompt the user for information relating generally to the center. The system can collect disease-specific information by prompting the user for a selection of a disease and then collecting from the user information identifying an ability of the center to perform one or more tests relating to the disease. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER LOCATION PROFILING - The invention generally relates to computer-based systems for evaluating and marketing clinical trial research centers. In certain aspects, the invention provides computer-based systems for collecting information about clinical research centers. Systems include a tangible, non-transitory memory coupled to a processor operable to retrieve, based on a user's input, an identity of a clinical research center and prompt the user for information relating generally to the center. The system can collect disease-specific information by prompting the user for a selection of a disease and then collecting from the user information identifying an ability of the center to perform one or more tests relating to the disease. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151280 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER NETWORK BUILDING AND USE - The invention generally relates to computer-based systems for evaluating and marketing clinical trial research centers. In certain aspects, the invention provides computer-based systems for collecting information about clinical research centers. Systems include a tangible, non-transitory memory coupled to a processor operable to retrieve information identifying global networks of clinical trial capacity. | 06-13-2013 |
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20100077564 | HINGE APPARATUS TO FACILITATE POSITION ADJUSTMENT OF EQUIPMENT - A hinge apparatus to facilitate equipment position adjustment is disclosed. One embodiment of a system includes, a hinge apparatus having a through-hole, a rotate-able portion and a body portion. The system further includes, equipment having a first portion coupled to the rotate-able portion of the hinge apparatus, a second portion coupled to the body portion of the hinge apparatus, and an electrical wire that facilitates function of the equipment. The electrical wire is disposed in the hinge extending through the through-hole. The hinge apparatus is operatively configured such that the electrical wire remains intact during when the rotate-able portion of the hinge rotates. | 04-01-2010 |
20140027998 | MOTORCYCLE STEERING WITH FOUR-BAR LINKAGE - A steering mechanism may include a four-bar linkage having a ground link, a coupler link, and a pair of follower links. The ground link may be connected to a vehicle having a wheel defining a wheel centerline. The coupler link may be connected to the wheel and may be located aft of the ground link. The pair of follower links may pivotally connect the ground link to the coupler link. The follower links may extend aftwardly from the ground link at converging angles and may define a steering axis located aft of the wheel centerline | 01-30-2014 |
20140355200 | MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A mounting system for an electronic device may include a dock interface assembly and a case assembly. The dock interface assembly may include a dock housing having one or more contacts. The case assembly may include an alignment feature and a case printed circuit board having one or more conductive traces corresponding to the contacts. The dock interface assembly and/or the case assembly may have a metallic element configured complementary to one or more magnets provided with a remaining one of the dock interface assembly and the case assembly for magnetic coupling of the case assembly to the dock interface assembly. The dock housing may be configured to be received by the alignment feature such that at least one of the contacts is electrically coupled to a corresponding one of the conductive traces. | 12-04-2014 |
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20110068303 | SUBMICRONIC BARIUM AND MAGNESIUM ALUMINATE PHOSPHORS - Submicronic barium and magnesium aluminates, useful as phosphors, are in the form of a liquid-phase suspension of substantially monocrystalline particles having an average particle size ranging from 80 to 400 nm; such aluminates are prepared by a process that includes: providing a liquid mixture containing compounds of aluminum and of other elements that are part of the aluminate composition; drying the mixture by atomization; calcining the dried product in a reducing atmosphere and wet-grinding this product. | 03-24-2011 |
20110133124 | SUSPENSIONS OF PHOSPHATES OF AT LEAST ONE RARE EARTH ELEMENT SELECTED FROM AMONG CERIUM AND TERBIUM AND OPTIONALLY LANTHANUM AND LUMINOPHORES PRODUCED THEREFROM - Phosphate particulates of at least one rare-earth metal (Ln), with Ln being at least one rare-earth metal selected from among cerium and terbium and optionally lanthanum are in the form of a suspension in a liquid phase of primary isotropic monocrystalline monazite particles having an average size of at least 25 nm and agglomerated into secondary particles having an average size of at most 400 nm; useful luminophores are produced from such phosphate particulates. | 06-09-2011 |
20110225897 | LIQUID SUSPENSIONS AND POWDERS OF CERIUM OXIDE PARTICLES AND PREPARATION AND POLISHING APPLICATIONS THEREOF - Suspensions of cerium oxide particles, well suited for polishing applications, the particles (secondary particles) of which have an average size of at most 200 nm, these secondary particles are formed from primary particles whose average size measured by TEM is at most 150 nm with a standard deviation of at most 30% of the value of this average size, and for which the ratio of the average size measured by TEM to the average size measured by BET is at least 1.5. Such suspensions are prepared from solutions of a cerium III salt, comprising a colloidal dispersion of cerium IV, which are contacted, in the presence of nitrate ions and under an inert atmosphere, with a base, and the medium obtained is subjected to a thermal treatment under an inert atmosphere and then acidified and washed. | 09-22-2011 |
20150030650 | LIQUID SUSPENSIONS AND POWDERS OF CERIUM OXIDE PARTICLES AND PREPARATION AND POLISHING APPLICATIONS THEREOF - The invention relates to a suspension of cerium oxide particles, of which the particles (secondary particles) have an average size of at most 200 nm, these secondary particles consisting of primary particles whose average size measured by TEM is of at most 150 nm with a standard deviation of at most 30% of the value of said average size, and for which the ratio of the average size measured by TEM to the average size measured by BET is at least 1.5. This suspension is prepared from a solution of a cerium III salt, comprising a colloidal dispersion of cerium IV, which is brought into contact, in the presence of nitrate ions and under an inert atmosphere, with a base; the medium obtained is subjected to a thermal treatment under an inert atmosphere and then acidified and washed. The suspension can be used for polishing. | 01-29-2015 |