Particle Filtration System
AssigneeAiko.AI, Inc.
InventorSiddharth Sandipan Kar
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Abstract
An air-based particle filtration system (10) having at least one fan (26) to filter particles (especially coffee grinds) based on weight. The particle filtration system (10) includes a chamber (44) and a hopper (12) for dispersing particles to be sorted into the chamber. The particle filtration system (10) has a controller driving the one or more fans (26) and a collector (36) for conforming particles and optionally a discard collector (38) for non-conforming particles.
Claims19
A particle filter apparatus, comprising a chamber defining a first zone and a second zone adjacent to the first zone;
- a first fan operably connected to a first lateral side of the chamber and adjacent to the first zone to provide a flow of air into the filtration chamber;
- a second fan operably connected to a second lateral side of the chamber opposite the first lateral side and adjacent to the second zone to exhaust air from the chamber;
- a first collector operably connected to bottom surface of the chamber, the first collector mounted under the first zone of the chamber to collect particles introduced into the chamber from the hopper;
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- a controller configured to drive the first and second fans to expel non-conforming particles introduced into the chamber from the hopper from the first zone before arriving in the first collector, wherein the non-conforming particles have less than a threshold weight.
A particle filter apparatus, comprising
- a chamber defining a first zone and a second zone adjacent to the first zone;
- a hopper connected to a top surface of the chamber;
- a first fan operably connected to a first lateral side of the chamber and adjacent to the second zone to exhaust air from the chamber;
- a first collector operably connected to bottom surface of the chamber, the first collector mounted under the first zone of the chamber to collect particles introduced into the chamber from the hopper;
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- a controller configured to drive the first fan to expel non-conforming particles introduced into the chamber from the hopper from the first zone before arriving in the first collector, wherein the non-conforming particles have less than a threshold weight.
A particle filter apparatus, comprising
- a filtration chamber;
- a hopper connected to a top surface of the chamber;
- one or more fans operably connected to the chamber;
- an air filter/collimator element disposed between the one or more fans and the chamber to cause substantially laminar or pseudo-laminar flow of air across the filtration chamber;
- a collector in fluid communication with a bottom of the chamber;
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- a control system to drive the one or more fans to expel non-conforming particles introduced into the chamber from the hopper before arriving in the collector, wherein the non-conforming particles have less than a threshold weight or density.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.