Patents by Inventor Curtis Robinson Fincher, Jr.

Curtis Robinson Fincher, Jr. 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).

  • Method of making a color filter with high speed and durable image-transfer characteristics for laser-induced thermal transfer
    Patent number: 6146792
    Abstract: Improved processes for laser thermal imaging and imaged laserable assemblages obtained using the improved processes of this invention are described. These improved processes operate effectively at high speeds and also afford high image densities and good durability of images present on receiver elements upon thermal imaging done in accordance with these improved processes. One application of the improved process provides a color filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Graciela Beatriz Blanchet-Fincher, Curtis Robinson Fincher, Jr.
  • Method for monomer recovery
    Patent number: 5942649
    Abstract: Method for thermally decomposing addition polymers, such as polyolefins, into monomers and monomer fragments. Thermal decomposition occurs by the rapid heating of the addition polymer such that the polymer ceiling temperature is reached in a time period substantially equal to the thermal relaxation time of the polymer itself. Laser ablation, wherein the polymer is heated by very rapid nanosecond or microsecond pulses of ultraviolet or infrared laser beams, and flash pyrolysis are particularly useful techniques for accomplishing such rapid heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Graciela Beatriz Blanchet-Fincher, Curtis Robinson Fincher, Jr.