4010 results about "Gas chamber" patented technology

Apparatus suitable for atomizing and vaporizing at least a first liquid by colliding at least one gas with the first liquid. The apparatus includes a gas inlet through which the gas enters the apparatus and a first liquid inlet through which the first liquid enters the apparatus. A discharge end of the apparatus includes at least one first liquid discharge outlet through which at least one stream of the first liquid is discharged from the apparatus. The discharge end also includes at least one gas discharge outlet through which at least one stream of gas is discharged from the apparatus to collide with and thereby atomize the discharged stream of the first liquid. A first liquid passageway interconnects the first liquid inlet with the first liquid discharge outlet. A gas passageway interconnects the gas inlet with the at least one gas discharge outlet. In one embodiment, the gas passageway comprises at least one gas chamber in thermal contact with an initial portion of the first liquid passageway such that a heated quantity of the gas in the chamber preheats the first liquid in the initial portion of the first liquid passageway. In alternative embodiments, the gas passageway includes a pressure dampening chamber allowing gas to be continuously discharged without pulsating.

An electronic nose system for detecting quality of agricultural products mainly comprises a gas enrichment module mainly for collecting the low-concentration smell, a gas chamber and gas circuit module and a sensor array mainly for converting the smell signal into the electric signal, a sensor conditioning circuit and a data preprocessing module mainly for filtering, analog-to-digital converting and feature extracting of the output signal of the sensor array, an embedded system with data storage for identifying and judging the signal and a display and result output module, wherein the gas enrichment module consists of an adsorption tube filled with adsorbent, an electric heating wire and a temperature control device. The electronic nose system has the characteristics of small size, convenient carrying, high sensitivity of the system and wide application range of the system.

The invention relates to systems and methods for rapidly and isothermally expanding gas in a cylinder. The cylinder is used in a staged hydraulic-pneumatic energy conversion system and includes a gas chamber (pneumatic side) and a fluid chamber (hydraulic side) and a piston or other mechanism that separates the gas chamber and fluid chamber while allowing the transfer of force/pressure between each opposing chamber. The gas chamber of the cylinder includes ports that are coupled to a heat transfer subassembly that circulates gas from the pneumatic side and exchanges its heat with a counter flow of ambient temperature fluid from a reservoir or other source.

Intermittent gas flow and membrane separation apparatus and methods of use including an internal gas chamber including an upper wall; at least one inlet for supplying gas to the internal gas chamber; a column pipe that extends above the upper wall of the internal gas chamber, the column pipe including a lower end portion including a lower end portion opening in the internal gas chamber, the column pipe linking the internal gas chamber to an area external to the internal gas chamber for fluid flow between the internal gas chamber and the external area; an auxiliary pipe including one end portion connected to the column pipe for fluid flow between the auxiliary pipe and the column pipe, and another end portion branched off from the column pipe, the another end portion including an opening located in the internal gas chamber at a position higher than the lower end portion opening of the column pipe by a predetermined height; and an auxiliary pipe external tubular member including a closed end, the auxiliary pipe external tubular member surrounding the another end portion of the auxiliary pipe with the closed end being positioned below the opening in the another end portion of the auxiliary pipe, and spaced from the another end portion by a predetermined distance permitting fluid flow into the space between the wall of the tubular member and the auxiliary pipe.

A system and method for cooling back to back electronic displays. Transparent first and second gas chambers are co-existive with the front display surfaces of the first and second electronic displays. A closed loop of isolated gas enters the first and second gas chambers and contacts the front surfaces of the electronic displays, where it may extract heat from the front display surfaces. The isolated gas is then directed into a cooling chamber where it is cooled and re-introduced into the first and second gas chambers. Fans may be used to propel the isolated gas through the cooling chamber and the first and second gas chambers. The circulating gas removes heat directly from the electronic display surfaces. The isolated gas is transparent or at least semi-transparent to ensure that the image quality of the electronic displays is minimally impacted.

A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes: a supply-use tank that is sectioned by an elastic film into a liquid chamber and a gas chamber; a supply-use flow path that interconnects the supply-use tank and a recording head; and a pump that pumps the liquid stored in the liquid chamber to the recording head via the supply-use flow path by supplying the liquid from an external tank to the liquid chamber of the supply-use tank. The flow path is controlled to supply the liquid to the liquid chamber in a state where the supply-use flow path is closed, cause the elastic film to press against an inner wall of the gas chamber, thereafter open the supply-use flow path, release the elastic film from the pressing state, and supply, with the pump, the liquid from the external tank to the recording head via the supply-use tank and the supply-use flow path.

A bicycle can include a suspension system with a shock absorber. The shock absorber can have a sag position which can be adjustable. Sag refers to the amount of movement experienced by the suspension under a static load, such as that of the weight of a rider. Methods and systems to set sag can include at least one valve in fluid communication with a gas chamber of the shock absorber. In some embodiments, the at least one valve can be used to automatically set the sag position based on an individual's weight and riding position.

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for reducing kinetic energy of a plunger within a plunger lift system. In one aspect, a lubricator is provided at a surface of a wellbore, the lubricator having a sealed, pressurized chamber therein to cushion the plunger upon impact. In another aspect, a method is provided for reducing the kinetic energy of the plunger by providing a compressed gas chamber within a lubricator, moving a kinetic energy-reducing surface which is partially bounding the chamber, and compressing the gas within the chamber to reduce kinetic energy of the plunger and cushion the impact force of the plunger.

The invention provides a low power consumption hand-held electric nose system for on-site check, which comprises an electric nose box provided with a gas flow control system which gas chamber is at least provided with a mixture sensor array composed of low power consumption gas sensitive sensors, wherein the electric nose box is further provided with a necessary electric checking circuit, a wireless communication module and/or a USB module, a single chip and a DSP system for data processing and mode recognition, the electric checking circuit is provided with a CPLD circuit for checking QCM gas-sensitive sensor signal and a circuit for regulating electrochemical gas-sensitive sensor signal check and temperature humidity senor signal check. The invention can independently work without computer and automatically realize gas flow control, smell check, signal pretreatment and character extraction, mode recognition and display alarm or the like in an independent instrument, to meet the real-time, low power consumption and hand-held demands of on-site check.

A tank contains both Zeolite and a hydrate in a gas chamber formed beneath a piston in the sample tank. Out of safety considerations, we avoid using source cylinders of nitrogen whose pressures exceed 4000 psi. Thus, the gas chamber of the sample tank is initially pressurized by the source cylinder to no more than 4000 psi of nitrogen at room temperature at the surface. Nitrogen gas is sorbed onto the zeolite at room temperature. As the tank is heated by being lowered downhole, nitrogen desorbs from the zeolite and the gas pressure increases. However, once this tank reaches a temperature high enough to release the hydrate's water of hydration, the released water is preferentially sorbed by zeolite, displacing sorbed nitrogen, and causing the pressure in the gas volume to increase even further. Because well temperatures are not high enough to desorb water from zeolite, any water sorbed onto a Zeolite sorption site will permanently block released nitrogen from resorbing at that site. The process of lowering the tank downhole provides the necessary heating to make the entire process occur. Thus, if returned to the surface at room temperature with the original gas-chamber volume, the tank's pressure would not fall back to the original pressure (e.g., 4000 psi) but would be at a substantially higher pressure (e.g., 6000 psi or more depending on the amount of Zeolite used and gaseous nitrogen gas released).