Patents by Inventor Bruce Edward Snyder

Bruce Edward Snyder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and method for machining with cryogenically cooled oxide-containing ceramic cutting tools
    Patent number: 7252024
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus or machining a workpiece include the use of a cryogenically cooled oxide containing ceramic cutting tool. The method involves cryogenic cooling of the cutting tool during a cutting operation, which cooling results in enhanced wear resistance and fracture resistance of the cutting tool. A preferred embodiment involves jetting a cryogenic fluid directly at the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Bruce Swan, Bruce Edward Snyder, John Herbert Frey, Philip Burton Jewell, Jr., Ranajit Ghosh, James Bryan Taylor
  • Apparatus and method for machining with cryogenically cooled oxide-containing ceramic cutting tools
    Publication number: 20040154443
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus or machining a workpiece include the use of a cryogenically cooled oxide containing ceramic cutting tool. The method involves cryogenic cooling of the cutting tool during a cutting operation, which cooling results in enhanced wear resistance and fracture resistance of the cutting tool. A preferred embodiment involves jetting a cryogenic fluid directly at the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Bruce Swan, Bruce Edward Snyder, John Herbert Frey, Philip Burton Jewell Jr, Ranajit Ghosh, James Bryan Taylor
  • Method and system for optimization of environmental compliance
    Publication number: 20040143467
    Abstract: A method for enabling an entity of a group of entities in a region to comply with a regulation regarding a pollutant to be discharged in the region from a point source operated by an entity includes: establishing an administrator in communication with the entities; establishing an amount of discharge of the pollutant from a point source operated by a first entity within the region during a period; comparing the amount of discharge of the pollutant from the point source and an amount of allowance allocated to the first entity during the period to assess compliance of the first entity with the regulation; establishing a value for the amount of allowance to be allocated by the first entity to discharge the pollutant from the point source; communicating that value to the administrator or a second entity; and defining a solution enabling the first entity to comply with the regulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Richard Eugene McAllister, Beth Brandes Jenkins, Bruce Edward Snyder, David Joseph Ashworth
  • Apparatus and method for machining with cryogenically cooled oxide-containing ceramic cutting tools
    Publication number: 20020189413
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for machining a workpiece include the use of a cryogenically cooled oxide-containing ceramic cutting tool. The method involves cryogenic cooling of the cutting tool during a cutting operation, which cooling results in enhanced wear resistance and fracture resistance of the cutting tool. A preferred embodiment involves jetting a cryogenic fluid directly at the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Bruce Swan, Bruce Edward Snyder, John Herbert Frey, Philip Burton Jewell, Ranajit Ghosh, James Bryan Taylor