Intellectual Property Office
Patents Issued
Electrical & Mechanical Devices
The following patents were issued recently to Penn State faculty or staff members and are now available for licensing. Click on the patent number for a link to the patent document, including an abstract.
1999
- US 5,858,666 Apparatus and Method of Detection Employing an AC Frequency Sensor Array
- US 5,867,978 System for Generating Hydrogen
- US 5,955,820 Ultrasonic Motor
- US 5,962,792 Beam Strain Gauge
- US 5,972,661 Mixing Systems
- US 5,975,996 Abrasive Blast Cleaning Nozzle
- US 5,977,554 Container for Transporting Antiprotons
- US 6,003,382 Computer Control Shear Cell Tester
- US 6,007,762 Apparatus and Method for Precision Gear Finishing by Controlled Deformation
2000
- US 6,020,674 Torsional Electrostrictive Actuators
- US 6,040,910 Optical Phase-Shift Triangulation Technique (PST) For Non-Contact Surface Profiling
- US 6,073,499 Chemical Trace Detection Portal Based On The Natural Airflow And Heat Transfer Of The Human Body
- US 6,077,470 Method And Apparatus For Balancing The Filling Of Injection Molds
- US 6,089,100 Real-Time Spatial Particulate Mass Deposition Tester
- US 6,108,275 Phased Beam Transducer
- US 6,112,589 Fiber Tester
- US 6,122,601 Compacted Material Density Measurement And Compaction Tracking System
- US 6,126,892 Apparatus And Method For Precision Gear Finishing By Controlled Deformation
- US 6,158,346 Electronic Printing Of Non-Planar Macro And Micro Devices
- US 6,160,263 Container For Transporting Antiprotons
2001
- US 6,171,656 Overspray Collector
- US 6,175,182 A New Type of Pseudo-Shear Mode Piezoceramic Actuator
- US 6,183,578 High Frequency Monolithic Transducer Array for Ultrasound Imaging
- US 6,193,032 A Capacitively-Shunted Semi-Actively Tuned Piezoceramic Vibration Absorber
- US 6,199,382 Low-Pressure Water Circuit Method and Apparatus for Rankine-Like Engine
- US 6,230,571 Semiconductor Strain Gauge Using a Shear Beam Element Etched from a Silicon Chip
- US 6,277,714 Metal Printing Technology for Semiconductor Devices
- US 6,298,733 Semiconductor Strain Gauge Using a Shear Beam Element Etched from a Silicon Chip
- US 6,299,776 Novel High Purity Oxygen Biochemical Oxidation Process for Removal of Insoluble Metal Sulfides from Various Metal Containing Ores
- US 6,307,287 High Efficiency Moving Magnet Loudspeaker
- US 6,307,378 Method and Apparatus for Impedance of Electrochemical Cells
- US 6,318,184 Beam Strain Gauge
- US 6,329,959 Tunable Dual-Band Ferroelectric Antenna
- US 6,333,719 Tunable Electromagnetic Coupled Antenna
2002
- US 6,429,573 Smart Material Motor Using Mechanical Diodes
- US 6,493,420 Compact X-Ray Diffractometerfor In-Situ Measurement of Surface Residual Stress
- US 6,464,384 Novel Design Upflow Draft Tube Aeration System for High Viscosity Solutions
- US 6,414,331 Portable Antiproton Radioisotone Generator (PARG)
- US 6,348,021 Variable Speed Power Transmission
- US 6,441,572 Detection of Rotor Angle in a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor at Zero Speed
- US 6,482,054 An Electric Tunnel Thruster with Two Axially Mounted Counterrotating Skewed Propeller
- US 6,375,416 Method of Reducing Blade Passage Frequency Tones in Turbomachinery
2003
- US 6,614,143 A Miniaturized Directional Flextensional Transducer
- US 6,576,916 Portable Antiproton Radioisotone Generator (PARG)
- US 6,563,985 Single Resonant Band, Turnable Optical Fiber Wavelength Filter Based on Long-Period Fiber Grating
- US 6,598,717 An Active-Passive Hybrid Constrained Layer Actuator for Vibration Suppression and Damping Enhancement
- US 6,525,691 Miniaturized Conformal Octave-bandwidth Fractal Antennas on High Dielectric Substrates and Chiral Layers
- US 6,581,237 Propulsion of Underwater Vehicles Using Internal Pumps, Flush Inlets and Jet Ejectors with Thrust Reversing and Vectoring
- US 6,566,172 Fully Self-Aligned Tri-layer a-Si:H Thin Film Transistors with Deposited Doped Contact Layer
- US 6,568,646 Wheelchair Swiveling Device
- US 6,528,816 a-Si:H TFT/Organic TFT Complementary Circuits
- US 6,627,842 Controlled-Height Nano-and Micro-Structures on Glass and Coated Glass Materials
- US 6,516,665 Wireless and/or Built-in Electronic RF MEMS-IDT Based Gyroscopes
- US 6,536,106 Self-assembly of Nano, Micro, and Macro Structures for Microelectronic and Microelectromechanical Systems
2004
- US 6,779,270 Portable Antiproton Radioisotone Generator (PARG)
- US 6,717,681 Portable Real-Time High-Resolution Digital Phase-Stepping Shearography with Integral Excitation Mechanisms
- US 6,740,845 Concept for Laser Welding with Beam Oscillation
- US 6,731,210 Security Fence Acoustic Waveguide Sensor System for Detecting, Localizing, and Classifying Intrusion
- US 6,692,318 Co-Axial Mixed Flow Pump for Marine Propulsion and Hydraulic Applications
- US 6,792,764 Bellows Bounce Thermoacoustic Device
- US 6,725,670 Improvements to the Bellows Bounce Thermoacoustic Refrigerator
- US 6,755,027 Cylindrical Spring with Integral Gas Seal
- US 6,709,862 Low Capital Investment Aseptic Bioreactor System
- US 6,687,987An Approach for Heterogenous Integration of Devices onto a Substrate Using Field Assisted Fluidic Self-Alignment
- US 6,703,300 Improved Contacts for Molecular Devices
- US 6,826,452 AutoLog (Automated Logistics) Large Array Robot
2005
- US 6,883,333 Sensorless Control of a Harmonically Driven Linear Reciprocating Electrodynamic Machine
- US 6,919,119 Electronic and Opto-Electronic Devices from an Interpenetrating Network Configuration of Nanostructured High Surface to Volume Ratio Thin Films and Organic Semiconductors or Insulators
- US 6,942,901 Fabrication of Multi-component Particulate Tapes by Electrophoretic Deposition
- US 6,860,631 Novel Design Upflow Draft Tube Aeration System for High Viscosity Solutions
- US 6,885,345 Actively Reconfiguarable Pixelized Antenna
- US 6,874,748 Active Floor Vibration Control System
- US RE38,760 Controlled Etching of Oxides via Gas Phase Reactions
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