公开(公告)号：US20190054413A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-21

申请号：US16074903

申请日：2016-02-02

申请人： UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK ,  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ,  ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY

发明人： Huabin XING ,  Xili CUI ,  Michael ZAWOROTKO ,  Kai Jie CHEN ,  Banglin CHEN

IPC分类号： B01D53/04 ,  B01J20/22 ,  B01J20/28

摘要： A method of separating acetylene from a gas mixture comprising acetylene is provided. The method involves the use of a hybrid porous material with an affinity for acetylene adsorption. The hybrid porous material comprises a three-dimensional structure of metal species (M) and first and second linker groups (L1 and L2), wherein the metal species (M) are linked together in a first and second direction by first linker groups (L1) and are linked together in a third direction by second linker groups (L2) to form the three-dimensional structure. The hybrid porous materials may have a high selectivity for acetylene and/or a high capacity for acetylene adsorption. The method may be particularly useful for the purification of ethylene gas contaminated with acetylene during an ethylene production/purification process. The method may be particularly useful for the large scale separation of acetylene from other gases such as ethylene and carbon dioxide, during an acetylene production/purification process.

公开(公告)号：US20180148557A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-31

申请号：US15568256

申请日：2016-04-21

申请人： UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

发明人： Patrick Terence McGrath ,  Dipa Roy ,  Ananda Roy ,  Richard Hanly ,  Walter Stanley

IPC分类号： B29C71/02 ,  C08L67/03

CPC分类号： C08J7/08 ,  C08J5/046 ,  C08J2367/02 ,  C08J2427/16 ,  C08J2475/04 ,  C08J2479/08 ,  C08K3/04 ,  C08L27/06 ,  C08L67/02 ,  C08L67/03 ,  C08L101/00 ,  C08L101/12

摘要： A material susceptible to dielectric heating has a base polymeric thermoplastic material (1) and a dielectric heating susceptor (2, 3) which increases susceptibility to heating by irradiation with electromagnetic, for example RF or microwave, radiation. The dielectric heating susceptor has a polymeric material (2) such as PVDF which is different from the base polymeric material and has a higher dielectric loss factor than the base polymeric material. The dielectric heating susceptor also comprises electrically polarisable entities such as carbon black dispersed within the base polymeric material without forming a conductive network. The two susceptor materials in combination with the base polymer are particularly effective together at improving susceptibility to electromagnetic radiation heating of the whole material.

公开(公告)号：US09897536B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-20

申请号：US14758898

申请日：2014-01-06

申请人： University of Limerick ,  Laserspec

发明人： Christophe Silien ,  Ning Liu ,  Andre Peremans ,  David Symens ,  Syed A. M. Tofail

IPC分类号： G01N21/00 ,  G01N21/25 ,  G02B21/00 ,  G02B27/58

CPC分类号： G01N21/255 ,  G02B21/0072 ,  G02B21/0076 ,  G02B27/58

摘要： The invention provides a method and system to record the absorption of a sample, said method comprising the steps of providing first and second pulsed beam of light on said sample using one or more light beams, said first and second pulsed beam having different spatial definition; measuring the difference in intensity transmitted through and/or reflected by a sample; and generating an image by scanning the sample while making such measurements. The system and method of the invention can work down to resolution of several 100 of nm, affording thus a large improvement in comparison to synchrotron IR imaging that is the closest technique existing today. The advantage versus scanning probe approach is the absence of physical probe, thus suppressing confinement to surface information and removing uncertainty regarding the working behavior of the probe.

公开(公告)号：US09762258B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-12

申请号：US15221028

申请日：2016-07-27

申请人： University of Limerick

发明人： Vincent O'Brien ,  Brendan Mullane ,  Tony Scanlan

IPC分类号： H03M3/00

CPC分类号： H03M3/422 ,  H03M1/368 ,  H03M3/338 ,  H03M3/458 ,  H03M3/502

摘要： The invention to mismatch and ISI shaping in a data converter. The invention provides a dynamic element matching technique that incorporates both mismatch and inter symbol interference shaping. A digital decoder is provided that controls the number of ‘on’ and ‘off’ transitions so that the resulting signal does not contain noise or distortion. The element selection technique of the invention is suitable for high resolution multi-bit continuous time oversampling data converters.

公开(公告)号：US20170156920A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-08

申请号：US15319702

申请日：2015-06-17

申请人： University of Limerick

发明人： Rhona Hunt ,  Kevin KELLEHER ,  Leon Michael CAVANAGH

IPC分类号： A61F5/448 ,  A61F5/44 ,  A61F5/445

CPC分类号： A61F5/448 ,  A61F5/4404 ,  A61F5/4408 ,  A61F5/445

摘要： An ostomy pouching system comprises a fixing plate and a bag having an opening, the fixing plate comprising a central hole for receipt of a stoma, a base layer bearing a first major surface and formed of a flexible tacky material and an upper layer bearing the second major surface and formed of a material that is harder than the base layer. The central hole has a perimeter that is smaller than a perimeter of a stoma, in which at least a portion of the first major surface that surrounds the central hole comprises a resiliently deformable region capable of stretching to form a neck region that in use conforms to a sidewall of the stoma when the stoma protrudes through the central hole. The system comprises a belt for attaching the fixing plate to the patient's body, the belt having a central hole configured to receive a stoma and a surrounding surface configured to abut the fixing plate with the base layer disposed against one face of the belt and the upper layer disposed against an opposite face of the belt.

公开(公告)号：US20170080417A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-23

申请号：US15310600

申请日：2015-05-14

申请人： University of Limerick

发明人： Mark Davies

IPC分类号： B01L3/00 ,  B01F3/08 ,  C12M3/06 ,  B01F13/00 ,  B01L7/00 ,  C12M1/32

CPC分类号： B01L3/50857 ,  B01F3/0807 ,  B01F13/0071 ,  B01F13/0076 ,  B01F13/0083 ,  B01F2003/0834 ,  B01F2003/0842 ,  B01F2215/0037 ,  B01L3/5025 ,  B01L3/502738 ,  B01L3/502784 ,  B01L7/525 ,  B01L2200/027 ,  B01L2200/0647 ,  B01L2200/0668 ,  B01L2200/0673 ,  B01L2200/12 ,  B01L2300/021 ,  B01L2300/0627 ,  B01L2300/0654 ,  B01L2300/0663 ,  B01L2300/0829 ,  B01L2300/0864 ,  B01L2300/0874 ,  B01L2300/088 ,  B01L2300/16 ,  B01L2300/165 ,  B01L2300/18 ,  B01L2300/1822 ,  B01L2300/1827 ,  B01L2400/022 ,  B01L2400/0406 ,  B01L2400/0415 ,  B01L2400/043 ,  B01L2400/0457 ,  B01L2400/0487 ,  B01L2400/065 ,  B01L2400/0688 ,  C12M23/12 ,  C12M23/16 ,  C12Q1/18 ,  G01N33/5011 ,  G01N33/5044

摘要： The invention generally relates to microfluidic devices that include channels that are slidable relative to each other and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a microfluidic device that includes a first channel having an open end, and a second channel having an open end. The first and second channels are slidable relative to each other such that when the open end of the first channel and the open end of the second channel are aligned with each other, fluid flows from the first channel into the second channel.

公开(公告)号：US20160372777A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-22

申请号：US15101092

申请日：2014-12-02

申请人： UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

发明人： Denis Noel BUCKLEY ,  Xin GAO ,  Robert Patrick LYNCH ,  Martin J. LEAHY ,  Andrea BOURKE ,  Grace FLYNN

IPC分类号： H01M8/18 ,  G01R31/36 ,  H01M8/0444 ,  G01N21/31 ,  H01M8/20 ,  H01M8/04537

摘要： The invention relates to a method for determining VIV or VV concentration in mixtures of VIV and VV solutions, the method comprising the steps of determining the absorbance of the solution at at least one wavelength; and calculating the concentration of the VIV and VV solution based on the absorbance. In one embodiment the VIV, VV and/or total vanadium concentration in a solution is calculated based on the fact that the absorbance at a specific wavelength can be predicted by taking into account the formation of vanadium complexes.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于确定VIV和VV溶液混合物中的VIV或VV浓度的方法，该方法包括以下步骤：确定溶液在至少一个波长处的吸光度; 并根据吸光度计算VIV和VV溶液的浓度。 在一个实施方案中，溶液中的VIV，VV和/或总钒浓度基于以下事实计算：可以通过考虑钒络合物的形成来预测特定波长处的吸光度。

公开(公告)号：US09422541B2

公开(公告)日：2016-08-23

申请号：US14314387

申请日：2014-06-25

申请人： University of Limerick

发明人： Jakki Cooney ,  Todd Fumio Kagawa ,  Edmond Magner

IPC分类号： A61M1/36 ,  C12N9/52 ,  C12N11/14 ,  A61L33/00 ,  A61M1/34

CPC分类号： A61M1/3687 ,  A61L33/0047 ,  A61M1/3496 ,  A61M1/3689 ,  C12N9/52 ,  C12N11/14 ,  C12Y304/2111

摘要： An apparatus for the extracorporeal treatment of blood comprising an extracorporeal blood circuit (2), a pump (6) configured to provide fluid displacement within the extracorporeal blood circuit, and a reaction chamber (8) connected to the extracorporeal blood circuit and configured to receive blood or plasma from the circuit and treat the blood or plasma. The reaction chamber comprises an protease enzyme immobilized to a support, in which the protease enzyme is specific for, and capable of irreversibly cleaving, a human C5a present in the blood or plasma, wherein the abundance of the human C5a in the treated blood or plasma is less than that in the untreated blood or plasma. The apparatus finds utility in the extracorporeal treatment of blood from patients with inflammatory conditions, especially auto-immune disease and sepsis.

摘要翻译： 一种用于血液体外处理的装置，包括体外血液回路（2），构造成在体外血液回路内提供流体置换的泵（6）以及连接到体外血液回路并被配置为接收 来自电路的血液或血浆，治疗血液或血浆。 反应室包含固定在载体上的蛋白酶，其中蛋白酶对血液或血浆中存在的人C5a具有特异性，并能够不可逆地裂解，其中处理的血液或血浆中的人C5a的丰度 比未经处理的血液或血浆中的少。 该装置可用于体外治疗患有炎症状况的患者的血液，特别是自身免疫疾病和败血症。

公开(公告)号：US09212409B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-15

申请号：US13744950

申请日：2013-01-18

申请人： University of Limerick ,  Medical Engineering and Development Institute, Inc.

发明人： Syed A. M. Tofail ,  James Butler ,  James M. Carlson ,  Garry Warren ,  Abbasi A. Gandhi ,  Peter Tiernan

IPC分类号： C22C19/03 ,  C22C1/04 ,  C22C30/00 ,  B22F3/12 ,  B22F3/14 ,  B22F3/24 ,  B22F3/10

CPC分类号： C22C30/00 ,  B22F3/10 ,  B22F3/12 ,  B22F3/14 ,  B22F3/24 ,  B22F2301/155 ,  C22C1/04 ,  C22C1/045 ,  C22C19/03

摘要： A mixture of powders for preparing a sintered nickel-titanium-rare earth (Ni—Ti—RE) alloy includes Ni—Ti alloy powders comprising from about 55 wt. % Ni to about 61 wt. % Ni and from about 39 wt. % Ti to about 45 wt. % Ti, and RE alloy powders comprising a RE element.

摘要翻译： 用于制备镍 - 钛 - 稀土（Ni-Ti-RE）烧结合金的粉末混合物包括Ni-Ti合金粉末，其包含约55wt。 ％Ni至约61wt。 ％Ni和约39wt。 ％Ti至约45wt。 ％Ti和包含RE元素的RE合金粉末。

公开(公告)号：US09074274B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-07

申请号：US13863760

申请日：2013-04-16

申请人： University of Limerick ,  Cook Medical Technologies LLC

发明人： Syed A. M. Tofail ,  James M. Carlson ,  Abbasi A. Gandhi ,  James Butler ,  Peter Tiernan ,  Lisa O'Donoghue

IPC分类号： C22F1/10 ,  C22C14/00 ,  C22C19/03 ,  C22F1/18

CPC分类号： C22F1/10 ,  C22C14/00 ,  C22C19/03 ,  C22F1/183

摘要： A nickel-titanium-rare earth (Ni—Ti-RE) alloy comprises nickel at a concentration of from about 35 at. % to about 65 at. %, a rare earth element at a concentration of from about 1.5 at. % to about 15 at. %, boron at a concentration of up to about 0.1 at. %, with the balance of the alloy being titanium. In addition to enhanced radiopacity compared to binary Ni—Ti alloys and improved workability, the Ni—Ti-RE alloy preferably exhibits superelastic behavior. A method of processing a Ni—Ti-RE alloy includes providing a nickel-titanium-rare earth alloy comprising nickel at a concentration of from about 35 at. % to about 65 at. %, a rare earth element at a concentration of from about 1.5 at. % to about 15 at. %, the balance being titanium; heating the alloy in a homogenization temperature range below a critical temperature; and forming spheroids of a rare earth-rich second phase in the alloy while in the homogenization temperature range.

摘要翻译： 镍 - 钛 - 稀土（Ni-Ti-RE）合金包含浓度为约35英寸的镍。 ％至约65英寸 ％，浓度为约1.5at。的稀土元素。 ％至约15英寸 ％，硼浓度高达约0.1at。 ％，合金的余量为钛。 除了与二元Ni-Ti合金相比增强的不透射线性和改进的可加工性之外，Ni-Ti-RE合金优选表现出超弹性行为。 一种加工Ni-Ti-RE合金的方法包括提供镍 - 稀土合金，其包含浓度为约35at％的镍。 ％至约65英寸 ％，浓度为约1.5at。的稀土元素。 ％至约15英寸 ％，余量为钛; 在低于临界温度的均质化温度范围内加热合金; 并且在均质化温度范围内在合金中形成稀土富二烯的球体。