Patents by Inventor Gerald W. Young

Gerald W. Young 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).

  • Patent number: 8453665
    Abstract: The invention includes a method for continually circulating a fluid in a system, in the absence of an external pumping mechanism, by providing a fluid, an active space capable of generating a higher pressure zone and causing a contiguous lower pressure zone, a passive space, and a porous medium disposed between the active space and the passive space, and generating a pressure differential relationship between the active space and the passive space causing the fluid to circulate freely in both directions between the active space and the passive space, across the porous medium, without the aid of an external pumping system, such that the fluid circulation defines a self-acting self-circulating fluid system, and to the system created thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Minel J. Braun, Ana M. Balasoiu, Stefan I. Moldovan, Gerald W. Young, Joshua D. Johnston
  • Publication number: 20100212744
    Abstract: The invention includes a method for continually circulating a fluid in a system, in the absence of an external pumping mechanism, by providing a fluid, an active space capable of generating a higher pressure zone and causing a contiguous lower pressure zone, a passive space, and a porous medium disposed between the active space and the passive space, and generating a pressure differential relationship between the active space and the passive space causing the fluid to circulate freely in both directions between the active space and the passive space, across the porous medium, without the aid of an external pumping system, such that the fluid circulation defines a self-acting self-circulating fluid system, and to the system created thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
    Inventors: Minel J. Braun, Ana M. Balasoiu, Stefan I. Moldovan, Gerald W. Young, Joshua D. Johnston
  • Patent number: 5116265
    Abstract: This separable electrical connector module, which is movable through an operating stroke and is adapted to couple with a mating module, comprises: (a) a connector member including a copper portion containing a hole having a central longitudinal axis and internal threads surrounding the axis, and (b) a copper contact rod having one end that is externally threaded to provide external threads that mate with said internal threads and an opposite end adapted to engage a contact within the mating module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas W. Brown, Gerald W. Young
  • Patent number: D409933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Gerald W Young