Patents by Inventor Frederick U. Meier

Frederick U. Meier 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).

  • Source material delivery system
    Patent number: 5098229
    Abstract: A system for repeatedly supplying a predetermined quantity of solid particulate material, e.g. solid, spherical silicon particles, to a location remote from the area where the particulate material is stored. The system includes a container for storing solid particulate material, a receiving chamber coupled with the container and sized and configured to admit only a predetermined quantity of particulate material from the container, and means for applying at least one stream of a pressurized fluid so as to entrain and transport said predetermined quantity of particulate material from the receiving chamber to the remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Mobil Solar Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick U. Meier, Mark F. Larrousse, David S. Harvey