公开(公告)号：US12123832B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US16323053

申请日：2017-08-01

申请人： Gunther Krieg

发明人： Gunther Krieg ,  Dirk Fey ,  Juergen Bohleber ,  Thomas Bohe ,  Bob Ansay ,  Christian Klaus Stein

IPC分类号： G01N21/64 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B29B17/02 ,  G01N21/85

CPC分类号： G01N21/6408 ,  B07C5/3427 ,  B29B17/02 ,  G01N21/85 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  G01N2021/6419 ,  G01N2021/6421 ,  G01N2021/8592 ,  G01N2201/0697

摘要： Apparatus and methods for identifying substances in a material include at least one light source configured to irradiate a sample of the material with light of at least one wavelength. A detector is configured to detect light re-emitted or transmitted by the sample. An analysis device analyzes the detected light by UV/VIS spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, or absorption spectroscopy, and generates a first identification result for at least one substance of the sample. Further, the analysis device generates a second identification result in response to the first identification result being an ambiguous identification result. The second identification result may be generated by fluorescence light decay time analysis (FLZA). At least one substance is at least partially identified based on the first identification result or based on the first and second identification results.

公开(公告)号：US20240264078A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18569746

申请日：2022-06-17

申请人： REPSOL, S.A.

发明人： MIGUEL RUBIO MORENO ,  FRANCISCO JAVIER CARVAJAL GONZÁLEZ ,  SONIA SEGURA FERNÁNDEZ ,  ENRIQUE DOMÍNGUEZ RAMOS

IPC分类号： G01N21/3563 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B29K75/00 ,  B29K105/04 ,  B29K105/06

CPC分类号： G01N21/3563 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29K2075/00 ,  B29K2105/04 ,  B29K2105/065 ,  G01N2201/127 ,  G01N2201/129

摘要： A method for sorting flexible polyurethane foams including: a) providing two or more calibration samples of conventional flexible polyurethane foams, two or more calibration samples of high resilience (HR) flexible polyurethane foams, and two or more calibration samples of viscoelastic flexible polyurethane foams, and obtaining a mid-infrared (MIR) spectrum of each calibration sample; b) carrying out a spectral pre-processing of the spectra of all the calibration samples and, then a first PCA to define a first library; c) carrying out a spectral pre-processing of the infrared spectra of conventional and HR calibration samples and, then a second PCA to define a second library; d) obtaining the MIR spectrum of a sample of polyurethane foam and, based on the first and second libraries, classifying the sample of polyurethane foam as a conventional, HR or viscoelastic polyurethane foam, or as a foam that is neither a conventional, a HR or a viscoelastic polyurethane foam.

公开(公告)号：US20240262973A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18567000

申请日：2022-06-02

申请人： ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG

发明人： Michael Heyde ,  Christiane Horn ,  Bryan-Cody Borchers

IPC分类号： C08J11/06 ,  B29B13/06 ,  B29B17/00 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B29B17/04 ,  B29K23/00 ,  B29K67/00

CPC分类号： C08J11/06 ,  B29B13/06 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B29B17/0412 ,  B29B2017/0015 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29K2023/00 ,  B29K2067/003 ,  C08J2323/00 ,  C08J2367/02

摘要： A method for recycling packaging wastes, referred to as first articles, made of PET or polyolefins (PO), that can be decolored in accordance with the “key-locker” principle, and second articles made of PET or PO, comprising the steps: (a) pre-sorting the first and second articles, (b) pre-washing the articles, (c) comminuting the articles to form flakes, (d) washing the articles, (e) dewatering and drying the flakes, (f) flake sorting, (g) extrusion, (h) solid-state polycondensation (SSP) in the case of PET wastes, or (i) decontamination in the case of PO wastes. The first articles are separated from the second articles by optical sorting and are decolored separate from the second articles in a decoloring step (j) by a reagent referred to as a “key.” The first decolored articles are temporarily stored (m) after step (j). After being stored, the first articles are fed to separate steps (g) and (h) or (i).

公开(公告)号：US11962876B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US17393227

申请日：2021-08-03

申请人： Digimarc Corporation

发明人： Ravi K. Sharma ,  Tomas Filler ,  Vojtech Holub ,  Osama M. Alattar ,  Hugh L. Brunk ,  John D. Lord ,  Matthew M. Weaver ,  William Y. Conwell

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  B29B17/02 ,  G06F21/16 ,  G06Q10/30 ,  G06V10/141 ,  G06V10/143 ,  G06V10/60 ,  G06V20/64 ,  G09C5/00 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N23/00 ,  B29K23/00 ,  B29K67/00 ,  B29L31/00

CPC分类号： H04N23/00 ,  B29B17/02 ,  G06F21/16 ,  G06Q10/30 ,  G06V10/141 ,  G06V10/143 ,  G06V10/60 ,  G06V20/653 ,  G09C5/00 ,  H04N21/23892 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29B2017/0282 ,  B29K2023/065 ,  B29K2067/003 ,  B29L2031/7158 ,  H04L2209/34 ,  H04L2209/608 ,  Y02W30/62 ,  Y02W30/82 ,  Y02W90/00

摘要： A plastic item, such as a beverage bottle, conveys two distinct digital watermarks, encoded using two distinct signaling protocols. A first, printed label watermark conveys a retailing payload, including a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) used by a point-of-sale scanner in a retail store to identify and price the item when presented for checkout. A second, plastic texture watermark conveys a recycling payload, including data identifying the composition of the plastic. The use of two different signaling protocols assures that a point-of-sale scanner will not spend its limited time and computational resources working to decode the recycling watermark, which lacks the data needed for retail checkout. In some embodiments, a recycling apparatus makes advantageous use of both types of watermarks to identify the plastic composition of the item (e.g., relating GTIN to plastic type using an associated database), thereby increasing the fraction of items that are correctly identified for sorting and recycling. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

公开(公告)号：US11794378B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US17266983

申请日：2019-08-06

申请人： ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG

发明人： Robert Siegl

IPC分类号： B29B17/02 ,  B29K67/00 ,  B29K105/26 ,  B29B17/00

CPC分类号： B29B17/02 ,  B29B2017/001 ,  B29B2017/0015 ,  B29B2017/0224 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29K2067/003 ,  B29K2105/26

摘要： Presented and described is a method for reclaiming thermoplastic materials intended for recycling, such as, for example, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), in the form of flakes. According to the invention, in a first step, the flakes are exposed to an oxidative fluid and heat until contaminated flakes are modified such that, in a second step, they are separated from the remaining flakes as a result of this modification.

公开(公告)号：US20170336264A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-23

申请号：US15597259

申请日：2017-05-17

申请人： UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

发明人： Debashis CHANDA ,  Abraham VAZQUEZ-GUARDADO

IPC分类号： G01J3/457 ,  B29B17/02 ,  G01N21/27 ,  G01N21/17

CPC分类号： B29B17/02 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  G01N21/3563 ,  G01N21/359 ,  G01N33/442 ,  G01N2021/1748 ,  G01N2021/3595 ,  Y02W30/622

摘要： An electronic device is for identifying the plastic composition of an unknown plastic object. The electronic device may include a spectrometer configured to receive the unknown plastic object and generate a MIR reflectance spectra characteristic of the unknown plastic object, a memory configured to store a multi-spectral fingerprint library for plastic types, and a processor coupled to the spectrometer and the memory. The processor is configured to analyze in real-time the MIR reflectance spectra characteristic of the unknown plastic object, and identify the plastic composition based upon at least comparing the MIR reflectance spectra characteristic of the unknown plastic object to the multi-spectral fingerprint library. The processor may be configured to expand the fingerprint library upon initial baseline characterization.

公开(公告)号：US09296127B2

公开(公告)日：2016-03-29

申请号：US14183760

申请日：2014-02-19

申请人： MBA Polymers, Inc.

发明人： Brian L. Riise ,  Arthur Schwesig

IPC分类号： B02C23/00 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B02C19/00 ,  B03B9/06 ,  B07C5/346 ,  B29B17/04 ,  B29K21/00 ,  B29K23/00 ,  B29K25/00 ,  B29K27/06 ,  B29K55/02 ,  B29K67/00 ,  B29K69/00 ,  B29K77/00 ,  B29K105/00 ,  B29B17/00 ,  B29K705/00 ,  B29L31/30

CPC分类号： B29B17/02 ,  B02C19/00 ,  B02C19/0056 ,  B02C23/00 ,  B03B9/061 ,  B03B2009/068 ,  B07C5/346 ,  B29B17/04 ,  B29B17/0412 ,  B29B2017/0015 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0244 ,  B29B2017/0248 ,  B29B2017/0265 ,  B29B2017/0272 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29K2021/00 ,  B29K2023/06 ,  B29K2023/12 ,  B29K2025/06 ,  B29K2027/06 ,  B29K2055/02 ,  B29K2067/00 ,  B29K2069/00 ,  B29K2077/00 ,  B29K2105/0026 ,  B29K2705/00 ,  B29L2031/3055 ,  Y02W30/521 ,  Y02W30/524 ,  Y02W30/526 ,  Y02W30/527 ,  Y02W30/622 ,  Y02W30/625 ,  Y02W30/68

摘要： A process for the recovery of a plastic product from ASR or ESR mixtures can include five or more process steps selected from DEXRT; XRF; size reduction; density separation; NIR sorting; Electrostatic separation; LD sorting; Wood removal; rubber removal; metal removal; and glass removal.

摘要翻译： 从ASR或ESR混合物回收塑料制品的方法可以包括从DEXRT中选出的五个或更多个工艺步骤; XRF; 尺寸缩小; 密度分离; NIR分类 静电分离; LD排序 木材去除 橡胶去除 金属去除 和玻璃去除。

公开(公告)号：US20150076744A1

公开(公告)日：2015-03-19

申请号：US14546796

申请日：2014-11-18

申请人： Mohawk Industries, Inc.

发明人： Thomas R. Clark

IPC分类号： B29C47/00 ,  B29C47/08 ,  B29C47/92

CPC分类号： B29C47/0014 ,  B29B13/06 ,  B29B17/0026 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B29B17/0412 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29B2017/0289 ,  B29C47/0004 ,  B29C47/008 ,  B29C47/0869 ,  B29C47/366 ,  B29C47/42 ,  B29C47/50 ,  B29C47/92 ,  B29C2947/922 ,  B29C2947/92514 ,  B29D99/0078 ,  B29K2067/003 ,  B29K2105/26 ,  B29L2031/731 ,  C08J11/04 ,  C08J2367/02 ,  D01D1/103 ,  D01D1/106 ,  D01D5/08 ,  D01F6/62 ,  Y02P20/143 ,  Y02W30/62 ,  Y02W30/622 ,  Y02W30/70

摘要： A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) grinding recycled PET bottles into a group of flakes; (B) washing the flakes; (C) identifying and removing impurities, including impure flakes, from the group of flakes; (D) passing the flakes through a PET crystallizer; (E) passing the group of flakes through an MRS extruder while maintaining the pressure within the MRS portion of the MRS extruder below about 18 millibars; (F) passing the resulting polymer melt through at least one filter having a micron rating of less than about 50 microns; and (G) forming the recycled polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament that consists essentially of recycled PET.

摘要翻译： 在各种实施方案中制造膨胀连续地毯长丝的方法，其包括：（A）将再循环的PET瓶研磨成一组薄片; （B）清洗薄片; （C）鉴别和除去来自该片薄片的杂质，包括不纯的薄片; （D）使薄片通过PET结晶器; （E）将片剂组通过MRS挤出机，同时将MRS挤出机的MRS部分内的压力保持在约18毫巴以下; （F）使得到的聚合物熔体通过至少一个微米级别小于约50微米的过滤器; 和（G）将再循环聚合物形成为基本上由再循环PET组成的膨胀的连续地毯长丝。

公开(公告)号：US08556201B2

公开(公告)日：2013-10-15

申请号：US13428514

申请日：2012-03-23

申请人： Michael Knust ,  Bram den Dunnen ,  Heiner Guschall ,  Daniel Goldman

发明人： Michael Knust ,  Bram den Dunnen ,  Heiner Guschall ,  Daniel Goldman

IPC分类号： B02C13/00

CPC分类号： B03B9/061 ,  B03B2009/068 ,  B29B17/02 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0224 ,  B29B2017/0237 ,  B29B2017/0265 ,  B29B2017/0268 ,  B29B2017/0272 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29B2017/0289 ,  B29K2021/00 ,  B29K2023/00 ,  B29K2027/06 ,  B29K2711/14 ,  C22B7/005 ,  Y02P10/212 ,  Y02W30/521 ,  Y02W30/523 ,  Y02W30/524 ,  Y02W30/525 ,  Y02W30/526 ,  Y02W30/527 ,  Y02W30/622

摘要： In a method and equipment for conditioning a heavy fraction high in plastics, which is obtained by conditioning low-metal scrap high in plastics, which originate at least in part from shredder processes of scrap vehicles, the method includes: isolating metal parts from the heavy fraction high in plastics; reducing the size of the metal-reduced heavy fraction high in plastics that remains after the isolation of the metal parts; splitting up of the metal-reduced heavy fraction high in plastics, that remains after the isolation of the metal parts, into fractions high in plastics having different grain sizes; conditioning the separated fractions high in plastics at least partially in separate processes. The equipment includes appropriate devices for carrying out the foregoing processes. A highly pure granulate fraction may be obtained, which may be fed to material utilization.

摘要翻译： 在通过调节至少部分地由废料车辆的粉碎过程产生的塑料中的低金属废料获得的用于调节塑料重质部分的重质部分的方法和设备中，所述方法包括：将金属部件与重的 分数高的塑料; 减少在金属部件分离后残留的塑料中金属重量级高的重量级的尺寸; 在金属部件分离后保留的塑料中的金属重量级分高分散成具有不同晶粒尺寸的塑料的高分数; 至少部分地在分离的工艺中调节塑料中高分离的部分。 该设备包括用于执行上述过程的适当装置。 可以获得高纯度的颗粒部分，其可以进料到材料利用。

公开(公告)号：US20130105365A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-02

申请号：US13662881

申请日：2012-10-29

申请人： MBA Polymers, Inc.

发明人： Brian L. Riise ,  John Gysbers ,  Michael B. Biddle

IPC分类号： B07C5/00 ,  B07C5/34 ,  B03D1/02 ,  B07C5/04 ,  B03C7/00

CPC分类号： B29B17/02 ,  B29B2017/0203 ,  B29B2017/0279 ,  B29K2021/00 ,  Y02W30/622

摘要： A process for purifying plastic from a waste stream can include separating a waste stream into two or more mixtures of flakes with each mixture containing one or more plastic types and performing an automated sorting process on the first mixture to increase the weight percentage of a plastic family in the first mixture. The separation process can include at least one process selected from the group consisting of density separation, electrostatic sorting, froth flotation, and density differential alteration. Prior to the automated sorting process, the first mixture can include at least 80% by weight of one or more plastics from the plastic family.

摘要翻译： 从废物流中净化塑料的方法可以包括将废物流分成两种或更多种薄片混合物，每种混合物含有一种或多种塑料类型，并对第一混合物进行自动分选，以增加塑料系列的重量百分比 在第一个混合物。 分离过程可以包括选自密度分离，静电分选，泡沫浮选和密度差异改变中的至少一种方法。 在自动分选过程之前，第一混合物可以包括至少80重量％的来自塑料系列的一种或多种塑料。