Patents by Inventor David Branston

David Branston 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 and device for influencing combustion processes involving combustibles
    Publication number: 20070026354
    Abstract: A method and device are for influencing combustion processes, and include an electrical device. The electrical device engages with the flame front so that the electrical field thus produced, only penetrates areas of the flame front in which a stabilizing and harmful-substance-reducing effect is produced. The electrodes of the burner are arranged outside the region of the flame in the associated device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: David Branston, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
  • Method and device for influencing combution processes of fuels
    Publication number: 20070020567
    Abstract: An electrical device is used for guiding and/or altering a flame. The flame is subjected to the action of an electric field. Further, an insulating material enclosure made of ion-conducting material prevents charge transfer between the flame and the field-generating electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: David Branston, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
  • Electric flame control using corona discharge enhancement
    Publication number: 20050170301
    Abstract: A method of operating a combustor (10), to provide intimately mixed hot combusted gas (44) for a gas turbine (46), includes feeding gaseous oxidant (12) and gaseous fuel (16) into the combustor (10) near a combustion flame (28) which has a tip end (39) and a root end (29), where corona discharge occurs through adjustment of an electric field (34), and-where the corona discharge causes ionized particles (36) to form and also causes intimate turbulent mixing of the gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Dennis Pavlik, David Branston, Guenter Lins, Thomas Hammer
  • Gas discharge display device
    Patent number: 4419605
    Abstract: In a gas discharge display device with a gas discharge space which is separated by a hole matrix from an electron acceleration space, helium, to which an amount of 0.1 to 10% of at least one of the gases argon, crypton, xenon, nitrogen or carbon dioxide is admixed, is used as the filling gas with an overall pressure of 0.5 to 5 mbar to obtain an enhanced contrast effect on the picture screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: David Branston