Patents by Inventor Charles Kusuda

Charles Kusuda 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).

  • Louvered elliptical tube micro-lattice heat exchangers
    Patent number: 10502501
    Abstract: A heat exchanger with non-circular tubes arranged in a louvered fashion. In one embodiment the tubes include a first plurality of hollow members extending in a first direction, a second plurality of hollow members extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a third plurality of hollow members extending in a third direction different from the first direction and from the second direction, the hollow members of the first plurality of hollow members, the second plurality of hollow members, and the third plurality of hollow members intersecting at a plurality of hollow nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Roper, Charles Kusuda, Arun Muley, David Page
  • HEAT EXCHANGERS MADE FROM ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED SACRIFICIAL TEMPLATES
    Publication number: 20180238638
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger including a heat exchanger core of a first material, the method including additive manufacturing a sacrificial scaffold of a second material, the sacrificial scaffold corresponding in shape to that of the heat exchanger core, coating the sacrificial scaffold with a layer of the first material, and removing the sacrificial scaffold to leave behind the heat exchanger core with an integrated self-aligned passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher S. Roper, David Page, Randall C. Schubert, Christopher J. Ro, Arun Muley, Charles Kusuda
  • Heat exchangers made from additively manufactured sacrificial templates
    Patent number: 9976815
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger including a heat exchanger core of a first material, the method including additive manufacturing a sacrificial scaffold of a second material, the sacrificial scaffold corresponding in shape to that of the heat exchanger core, coating the sacrificial scaffold with a layer of the first material, and removing the sacrificial scaffold to leave behind the heat exchanger core with an integrated self-aligned passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: HRL Laboratories, LLC, The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Christopher S. Roper, David Page, Randall C. Schubert, Christopher J. Ro, Arun Muley, Charles Kusuda