US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on May 5 for "Smooth automatic device and method for reservoir sediment flushing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,213, issued on May 5, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou City, China).

"Smooth automatic device and method for reservoir sediment flushing" was invented by Yizhi Sun (Hangzhou City, China), Zhilin Sun (Hangzhou City, China) and Hehe Zhu (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention reveals a smooth automatic device and method for efficiently flushing sediment from a reservoir. It includes a sediment flushing funnel located at the reservoir dam's bottom, connected to a sediment flushing pipe. This pipe extends from the funnel's bottom through a smooth connecting pipe, horizontally through the dam, and th...