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Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC

Ilc Cover LP

Ilc Dover Lpp

David Phillip Cadogan

Jonathan Michael Hinkle

Stephen Emerson Scarborough

Jeffrey Lewis Roushey

John Kun Hung Lin

Tony Ray McKee

Charles Ralph Sandy

Robert L Pauly

Donald R Cohee

Matthew Murray Botke

Craig R Scheir

David Allen Graziosi

John K Folke

Carl Frank Knoll, Jr

John K H Lin

Scott Lester Davidson

Daniel James Gleeson

George H Sapna, Iii

Joanne M Ware

John K Lin

Timothy Joseph Haggerty

Steven Michael Lloyd

Thomas Joseph Edwards

Chester Lloyd Benham

Ralph Olav Elgesem

Donald George Sticovy

Anshu Dixit

Craig Lasseter

Janet G Ferl

Greg Jason Muller

Tony Ray Mckee

Carl Frank Knoll

A design and construction method for a Collapsible Cryogenic Storage Vessel can be used for storing cryogenic liquids. The vessel provides the ability to be packed for transport in a compact state and erected at the point of use. The vessel can be used multiple times. The vessel's volume can also be adjusted during use to minimize or eliminate head space in the vessel.

Collapsible cryogenic storage vessel

An Adjustable Pressure Suit Torso, which is a combination of a flexible pressure suit attached to rigid rings, in an assembly of rigid rings and brackets. The rigid rings form openings configured to receive the head, limbs and entry way of a wearer. These rigid rings are attached to one another by brackets, thereby forming an assembly of rigid rings and brackets. The flexible pressure suit is attached to the rigid rings, and otherwise constrained upon pressurization by the rigid ring and bracket assembly. The brackets can be offered in different sizes or made adjustable so as to vary the overall size of the rigid ring and bracket assembly. The flexible pressure suit can be provided in the largest possible wearer size (99percentile male) and any excess in the flexible suit when donned by a smaller wearer can be folded up while still constrained by the ring and bracket assembly.

Adjustable pressure suit torso

This invention describes novel design and construction method for inflatable, pressure intensifier equipment that can be used for processing composites structures. The equipment can be used as a manufacturing and processing platform wherever low pressure and high temperature inputs are required in an enclosed volume.

Inflatable pressure intensifier

A lightweight watertight cover that is easily installed and positively secured in place, which provides a reliable seal to prevent flood water from entering openings such as subway ventilation shaft gratings and other porous openings that serve as entry point for flood water.

Portable flexible sealing device for grated openings

A novel design and construction method for the creation of a deployable flexible flood mitigation wall manufactured from textile and membrane materials. The flexible flood mitigation wall system comprises a textile/membrane wall and support posts configured to be movable between a stowed position and a deployed position and wherein, in the deployed position, the wall forms a leak-free barrier against flood water or other fluids. A series of posts that are manually deployed is used to support the fabric wall when hydrostatically challenged, and transfer loads to the ground. The wall is stored at the point of use in a surface box or trench box and keeps the loading from the flood water off the building, structure or equipment being protected. The flexible flood mitigation wall can be configured for use in many applications including entire buildings, building entrances, transit system passages such as ventilation shafts or elevator shafts, windows, stairwells, and other openings that can be threatened by flooding. It can be continuous such that it surrounds structures such as buildings and power substations, homes, or segmented, such that it can be used to seal openings of all kinds including human or vehicle doorways. It can be tailored to fit any opening and water height.

Deployable flexible flood mitigation wall

A novel extendible flexible flood barrier manufactured from textile and membrane materials has been developed which comprises a textile/membrane wall and support posts configured to be movable between a stowed position and a deployed position and wherein, in the deployed position, forms a leak-free barrier against flood water or other fluids. The flexible wall is stored in a container on one side of the opening to be protected and extended to the receiver on the opposite of the opening to deploy the barrier. Structural members, such as posts or a building itself will react to the load from the flood water impinging on the wall. Intermediate posts or bollards can be added to lengthen the wall so larger spans can be closed-off with the flexible wall. The flexible wall can be configured for use in many applications including entire buildings, building entrances, transit system passages, such as ventilation shafts or elevator shafts, stairwells, and other openings that can be threatened by flooding.

Extendible flexible flood barrier

A novel design and construction method for the creation of a Deployable Flexible Flood Mitigation Device manufactured from textile and membrane materials. The Flexible Flood Mitigation Device comprises a textile/membrane panel configured to be movable between an opened position and a closed position, wherein in the closed position, the panel forms a barrier against flood water; and a spool that is manually or electrically operated is used to move the panel from the closed position to the opened position. The spool can also be eliminated and the panel can be manually folded for storage. The Flexible Flood Mitigation Device can be configured for use in many applications including subway tunnels, vehicular tunnels, stairwells, ventilation shafts, and other openings that can be threatened by flooding. It can be used in any orientation (vertical, horizontal or at an angle with respect to gravity), and can stop fluids approaching from either side. It can also be shaped to fit any opening. Although its primary use is flood mitigation, the device is also applicable to containment of smoke from fire, chemical or biological agents, or other transient media.

Deployable flexible flood mitigation device

A boom structure deployed by inflating the structure to a desired shape and rigidizing the structure via an external influence. The structure frame has a series of frame members which are made of a fibrous material and a resin material. This frame is encased in between a pair of membrane layers, an inner membrane inflatable to move the frame into its desired shape and an outer membrane that allows for folding the structure. Following inflation of the inner layer, an external influence acts on the resin material to solidify it, and render the structure rigid. The external influence may also act on the resin material to soften it when it is already rigid, to allow for collapsing and folding of the structure.

Inflatable rigidizable boom

A bioprocess container consists of a flexible container, placed inside a heat exchanger. By providing a disposable agitation device inside the sealed container, a filled container can be stirred without having to open the container. Possible agitation elements include traditional stirrers, rotating magnetic rods, bladder devices integral with the structure of the container, as well as different devices for manipulating the shape of the sealed container. Finally, a containment disk is used to ensure that the magnetic rod is maintained in the magnetic field.

Bioprocess container, bioprocess container mixing device and method of use thereof

A space frame ( ) capable of facilitating the deployment, and subsequent support, of a space structure includes a packageable, deployable, and rigidizable frame assembly ( ), a packageable, deployable, and inflatable frame assembly shell ( ) disposed around the frame assembly ( ); means for attaching the frame assembly shell ( ) to the frame assembly ( ); and a shell inflator. The method of packaging and deploying the space frame ( ) includes (a) collapsing the frame assembly ( ) by packaging the shell ( ) to provide a packaged frame assembly/shell; (b) controllably deploying the frame assembly ( ) and the shell ( ) from the packaged frame assembly/shell by employing the shell inflator to inflate the shell ( ) while imparting a resistance to the shell ( ) to resist deployment such that the internal gas pressure required to continue deployment is sufficient to fully inflate that portion of the shell ( ) to which gas has been introduced; (c) continuing to resist deployment until the frame assembly ( ) and the shell ( ) are deployed; (d) terminating the introduction of gas into the shell ( ); (e) rigidizing the frame assembly ( ); (f) depressurizing the shell ( ).

Deployable space frame and method of deployment therefor

An inflatable structure, such as a fabric confining a gas, can be regulated as to its shape by the provision of auxiliary tubes, integral or adjacent to the fabric which can be separately pressurized. The separate pressurization will create local tensile forces to change the shape of the structure. Alternatively, a mechanical system, such as tensioned cables can be used to control the shape of the structure.

Space erected inflatable structure

A method and lightweight apparatus ( ) that provide linear actuation effected by the controlled inflation of a deployable tube ( ) permits the deploying end ( ) of the tube ( ) to be guided out in a linear motion by a yoke ( ) that constrains the inflated portion of the tube ( ) immediately behind it A means for imparting resistance to deployment facilitates a smooth actuation by controlling both the rate and the directionality of deployment, and by maintaining a uniform internal pressure in the tube being deployed. A frame assembly ( ) at the deploying end ( ) of the tube ( ) can be configured to interface with a variety of components to be linearly deployed.

Method of linear actuation by inflation and apparatus therefor

A braking apparatus for imparting constant mechanical torque to effect a braking action is capable of operating in a constant, smooth, and adjustable manner, yet operates essentially independent of friction and temperature, as well as independent of rotational speed. The braking apparatus includes a hub assembly having a hub, a collar, a plurality of torsional springs, a spring cap, a spring bushing, and damping means, and a sprocket assembly having a sprocket, a hub bearing, a retaining ring, and a plurality of roller assemblies each of which has a roller. The sprocket assembly is rotatably connected to the hub assembly by a hub assembly spring, a sprocket assembly spring, an adjustment cap, and an adjustment means. The apparatus provides braking by releasably contacting at least one of each of the rollers with at least one of each of the torsional springs so as to deflect and then release the torsional spring as the sprocket assembly rotates about the hub assembly. The braking action is effected by transferring the energy of the rotating sprocket assembly into the oscillation of the torsional springs, and then from spring oscillation into heat by means of damping. The braking apparatus accomplishes a consistent braking torque essentially independent of friction by first loading the torsional spring, then decoupling the loaded spring from the braking torque. The decoupled spring is then allowed to dissipate its stored energy by self-damped oscillation at a rate that does not affect the braking torque. A specific degree of braking is provided by employing the adjustment means to adjust the separation distance between the sprocket assembly and the hub assembly, and thus the separation distance between the rollers and the torsional springs, thereby adjusting the amount of engagement between the rollers and the torsional springs. Applications of the braking apparatus include any service in which a compact, lightweight, mechanically reliable, smoothly-operating, and adjustable braking apparatus is required.

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Middletown, DE, United States of America

David Phillip Cadogan