A filter element including a filter media, an end cap, and a baffle. The filter media is configured to be secured within a housing. The housing includes an inlet configured to accept a fluid for filtering and the filter media including a circumferential outer surface. The end cap is positioned at and coupled to one end of the filter media. The baffle is positioned relative to the filter media at a position such that, when the filter element is correctly installed within the housing, the baffle is proximate the inlet of the housing. The baffle extends around only a portion of the circumferential outer surface of the filter media in a radial direction.

This disclosure relates to aggregating, neutralizing, and filtering ultra-fine particles in fluids such as air and water. Fluid may be drawn from an ambient environment into a neutralization chamber. Within the neutralization chamber, particles in the fluid may be agglomerated. An acoustic field may be applied to the fluid to agglomerate the particles. The agglomerated particles may be exposed to light. The light may denature or deactivate the agglomerated particles. The agglomerated and inert particles maybe passed through a filter. After agglomeration and neutralization, the fluid may be released back into the ambient environment.

An oil-separating device for crankcase ventilation of an internal combustion engine may include a hollow member that extends axially in a longitudinal axis and through which a gas flow charged with oil can flow. The gas flow may flow against an oil separation ring disposed within or formed in the hollow member. The hollow member may contain a substantially rotationally symmetrical flow guiding member that has a flow projection located in the longitudinal axis and that has a flow contour that radially increases in a downstream direction so that gas can flow around the flow guiding member and so that the gas flow between the flow contour and the inner side of the hollow member can strike the oil separation ring in an accelerated manner.

An inertial particle separator includes a body with an outer wall, an inlet, an outlet, an inner nozzle, a settling chamber, a serpentine channel, and a filter element. The inlet is disposed on an upstream end of the body. The outlet is disposed on a downstream end of the body. The inner nozzle is disposed radially inward from the outer wall and forms a primary flow passage. The settling chamber is disposed in the body and extends between the outer wall and the inner nozzle. The settling chamber forms a secondary flow passage and is fluidly connected to the inlet and the outlet. The serpentine channel fluidly connects fluidly connects the inlet and the settling chamber and is disposed radially between the outer wall of the body and the inner nozzle. The filter element is disposed in the settling chamber.

The disclosure is directed toward presses which may comprise planar or curved press plates that can be driven toward and away from each other such as via linear reciprocating movement to press filter media sheets as opposed to using rolls. The press plates can create such features as embossments that may have the ridges and grooves, brands, creases or other such features. The press can create pleated packs or individual panels for non-pleated packs. Additionally, a variety of embossed pleat packs, unique shapes, structural components and other pleat packs that may be formed by presses or other methodology are disclosed as well as filter cartridges using such pleat packs.

The present teachings relate to various embodiments of a gas enclosure system that can have a particle control system that can include a multi-zone gas circulation and filtration system, a low-particle-generating X-axis linear bearing system for moving a printhead assembly relative to a substrate, a service bundle housing exhaust system, and a printhead assembly exhaust system. Various components of a particle control system can include a tunnel circulation and filtration system that can be in flow communication with bridge circulation and filtration system. Various embodiments of a tunnel circulation and filtration system can provide cross-flow circulation and filtration of gas about a floatation table of a printing system. Various embodiments of a gas enclosure system can have a bridge circulation and filtration system that can provide circulation and filtration of gas about a printing system bridge and related apparatuses and devices. Accordingly, various embodiments of a gas circulation and filtration system as disclosed herein can effectively remove both airborne particulate matter, as well as particulate matter generated proximal to a substrate during a printing process. As such, various embodiments of a gas circulation and filtration system in conjunction with various embodiments of a gas purification system of the present teachings can provide for a controlled manufacturing environment resulting in a high-yield of OLED various devices.

A filter (10) has a port block (13) provided with: an inflow port (11) to which compressed air is supplied; and an outflow port (12) from which purified compressed air flows out. A filter container (14) is attached to the port block (13), and an element assembly (30) is disposed inside the filter element (31). The element assembly (30) has: a filter element (31); and an air guide member (41) provided inside the filter element (31). The compressed air filtered through the filter element (31) is guided to an inner surface of the air guide member (41) through a slit (46).

[Object] To obtain a filter element having a simple configuration that is capable of reliably preventing a liquid collected by a filter member from being mixed once more into compressed air that has been purified.

[Solution] An upper end cap 23 including an inner filter member 7 that surrounds a middle space portion 6, an outer filter member 8 that surrounds the inner filter member 7, and an introduction port 31 for introducing compressed air into the middle space portion 6, and a lower end cap 24 that closes a lower end portion of the middle space portion 6, an outer periphery of a lower end portion of the inner filter member 7 being surrounded by an inner wall 37, an outer periphery of a lower end portion of the outer filter member 8 being surrounded by an outer wall 38, an upper end surface 38a of the outer wall 38 being positioned higher than an upper end surface 37a of the inner wall 37, a liquid discharge passage 25 being formed between the outer wall 38 and the inner wall 37, the liquid discharge passage 25 being in communication with a liquid discharge hole 25a that open to an underside of the lower end cap 24.

A robotic surface cleaning device is disclosed. The robotic surface cleaning device may be configured to traverse over a floor surface in a room area to disinfect various surface as well as disinfect the air in the room. The robotic surface cleaning device may include a maneuvering base. The robotic surface cleaning device may also include a support tower coupled to the maneuvering base and at least one deployable structure attached to the support tower, wherein the at least one deployable structure is capable of extending and retracting to pass over surfaces in the room area. The at least one deployable structure may include one or more ultraviolet (UV) light source configured to disinfect the surfaces in the room area. The support tower may include at least one air inflow vent configured to draw in room air, at least one air sanitizing unit configured with at least one array of UV light emitting diodes (LEDs), and at least one discharge vent configured to emit sanitized air.

An air conditioner includes a main body, a fan configured to form an airflow inside the main body, a motor including a shaft to which the fan is coupled, and a motor cover to which the motor is fixed. The motor cover includes a body including a rear surface formed in a truncated cone shape, and a vortex breaker which protrudes toward the fan from the rear surface body along an outer periphery of the body, so as to prevent air, which is discharged from the fan, from forming a vortex.