US 12,466,745 B2
Electrolytic biocide-generating unit integrated with strainer
Louis Ciro Cosentino, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US); Daniel L. Cosentino, Wayzata, MN (US); Brian Alan Golden, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Peter Samuel Broen Finzell, Shoreview, MN (US)
Assigned to ElectroSea, LLC, Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed by ElectroSea, LLC, Wayzata, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/816,230.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/308,262, filed on Feb. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/281,469, filed on Nov. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/227,485, filed on Jul. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0031923 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. C02F 1/461 (2023.01); B01D 35/28 (2006.01); C02F 1/467 (2023.01); C02F 103/02 (2006.01)
CPC C02F 1/46104 (2013.01) [B01D 35/28 (2013.01); C02F 1/467 (2013.01); B01D 2201/4053 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46157 (2013.01); C02F 1/4674 (2013.01); C02F 2103/023 (2013.01); C02F 2201/001 (2013.01); C02F 2201/008 (2013.01); C02F 2201/4611 (2013.01); C02F 2303/20 (2013.01); C02F 2303/24 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biocide-generating device comprising:
a housing having an inlet and an outlet, the housing defining an interior;
a strainer basket that removably mounts within the interior of the housing, the strainer basket defining an inlet opening;
a plurality of electrode plates positioned at least partially within the strainer basket, each of the plurality of electrode plates separated from one another by an interstitial space, each of the plurality of electrode plates having an upstream end facing the inlet, a downstream end facing the outlet, a first end, and a second end, wherein the first end and the second end extend in a direction that is orthogonal relative to a direction that the upstream end and the downstream end extend, wherein the plurality of electrode plates include a first set of electrode plates coupled to a first terminal block and a second set of electrode plates coupled to a second terminal block, the first set of electrode plates and the second set of electrode plates having outside plates and inside plates within the sets, and wherein the outside plates of both the first and second sets of electrode plates define at least one cross-flow opening allowing flow to pass through the respective electrode plate, and wherein one or more of the inside plates of both the first and second sets of electrode plates do not include at least one cross-flow opening; and
one or more flow diverters disposed within the interstitial space between two of the plurality of electrode plates, the one or more flow diverters positioned between the upstream and downstream ends and substantially elongated in the direction between the first end and the second end, wherein the one or more flow diverters have a length that is more than a quarter of a length of the plurality of electrode plates between the first and second ends.