Patents by Inventor Gerald Lee Bauer

Gerald Lee Bauer 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).

  • Treatment of fluorocarbon feedstocks
    Patent number: 7166198
    Abstract: A method of treating a fluorocarbon feedstock includes generating, in a high temperature zone, an electrical arc between at least one cathode and at least one anode, generating in the high temperature zone and by means of the electrical arc and a plasma gas, a thermal plasma having a tail flame, allowing a fluorocarbon feedstock comprising at least one fluorocarbon compound to form a reactive thermal mixture with the thermal plasma tail flame, with the fluorocarbon compound dissociating into at least one fluorocarbon precursor or reactive species having fewer carbon atoms than the fluorocarbon compound, and cooling the reactive thermal mixture to form, from the fluorocarbon precursor or reactive species, a fluorocarbon product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignees: South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Limited, 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Izak Jacobus Van Der Walt, Klaus Hintzer, Werner Schwertfeger, Gerald Lee Bauer
  • Treatment of fluorocarbon feedstocks
    Publication number: 20040094399
    Abstract: A method of treating a fluorocarbon feedstock includes generating, in a high temperature zone, an electrical arc between at least one cathode and at least one anode, generating in the high temperature zone and by means of the electrical arc and a plasma gas, a thermal plasma having a tail flame, allowing a fluorocarbon feedstock comprising at least one fluorocarbon compound to form a reactive thermal mixture with the thermal plasma tail flame, with the fluorocarbon compound dissociating into at least one fluorocarbon precursor or reactive species having fewer carbon atoms than the fluorocarbon compound, and cooling the reactive thermal mixture to form, from the fluorocarbon precursor or reactive species, a fluorocarbon product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Izak Jacobus Van Der Walt, Klaus Hintzer, Werner Schwertfeger, Gerald Lee Bauer
  • Anodic electrode for electrochemical fluorine cell
    Patent number: 6063255
    Abstract: Carbon electrodes for use as an anode in electrochemical cells for the generation of fluorine by electrolysis of molten KF.multidot.2HF electrolyte. Also included is a process for the operation of an electrochemical fluorine cell in combination with a direct fluorination reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gerald Lee Bauer, William Ves Childs, Charles Frederick Kolpin, Dean Thomas Rutten