Patents by Inventor Eric M. Schlienger

Eric M. Schlienger 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 for jet application of molten metal droplets for manufacture of metal parts
    Patent number: 6202734
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a device for supplying molten metal, a device for heating molten metal such that it remains fluid while within the apparatus, a device for applying a magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the device for supplying molten metal, a device for transmitting electric current directly through molten metal to exert a force in a first direction on molten metal, where the device for transmitting can reverse the direction of the current to a second direction, opposite of the first direction, to form a droplet of molten metal, and a receiver for the droplet where the accumulation of a multitude of droplets upon the receiver results in the formation of the desired metal part. The mixing chamber can include a rotary electrode arrangement which mixes the molten metal by movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Philip A. Sackinger, Marcelino Essien, Henry C. Peebles, Eric M. Schlienger