Patents by Inventor Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski 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).
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Patent number: 7544222Abstract: An ablation resistant, monolithic, activated, carbon foam produced by the activation of a coal-based carbon foam through the action of carbon dioxide, ozone or some similar oxidative agent that pits and/or partially oxidizes the carbon foam skeleton, thereby significantly increasing its overall surface area and concurrently increasing its filtering ability. Such activated carbon foams are suitable for application in virtually all areas where particulate or gel form activated carbon materials have been used. Such an activated carbon foam can be fabricated, i.e. sawed, machined and otherwise shaped to fit virtually any required filtering location by simple insertion and without the need for handling the “dirty” and friable particulate activated carbon foam materials of the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 7481855Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 7452389Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 7449035Abstract: Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of: starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and/or mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold and/or the use of fibrous carbonaceous layers to obtain selected reinforcement to enhance bending and/or impact resistance. Carbon foams of a homogeneous composition comprising at least fibrous carbonaceous mat as a reinforcing element are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 7435494Abstract: Coal based carbon foams that are produced by the controlled heating of coal particulate in a mold and under a non-oxidizing atmosphere and subsequently graphitized have been found to provide excellent electrode materials for electrochemical cell applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren K. Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 7338542Abstract: Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 7306635Abstract: Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6899970Abstract: Coal based carbon foams that are produced by the controlled beating of coal particulate in a mold and under a non-oxidizing atmosphere and subsequently graphitized have been found to provide excellent electrode materials for electrochemical cell applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren K. Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6869455Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6860910Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratories, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6861151Abstract: Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of: starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and/or mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold and/or the use of fibrous carbonaceous layers to obtain selected reinforcement to enhance bending and/or impact resistance. Carbon foams of a homogeneous composition comprising at least fibrous carbonaceous mat as a reinforcing element are also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6833011Abstract: An ablation resistant, monolithic, activated, carbon foam produced by the activation of a coal-based carbon foam through the action of carbon dioxide, ozone or some similar oxidative agent that pits and/or partially oxidizes the carbon foam skeleton, thereby significantly increasing its overall surface area and concurrently increasing its filtering ability. Such activated carbon foams are suitable for application in virtually all areas where particulate or gel form activated carbon materials have been used. Such an activated carbon foam can be fabricated, i.e. sawed, machined and otherwise shaped to fit virtually any required filtering location by simple insertion and without the need for handling the “dirty” and friable particulate activated carbon foam materials of the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Publication number: 20040247514Abstract: Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Darren Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Publication number: 20040247850Abstract: Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of: starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and/or mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold and/or the use of fibrous carbonaceous layers to obtain selected reinforcement to enhance bending and/or impact resistance. Carbon foams of a homogeneous composition comprising at least fibrous carbonaceous mat as a reinforcing element are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Publication number: 20040177564Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Publication number: 20040177550Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Publication number: 20040178143Abstract: An ablation resistant, monolithic, activated, carbon foam produced by the activation of a coal-based carbon foam through the action of carbon dioxide, ozone or some similar oxidative agent that pits and/or partially oxidizes the carbon foam skeleton, thereby significantly increasing its overall surface area and concurrently increasing its filtering ability. Such activated carbon foams are suitable for application in virtually all areas where particulate or gel form activated carbon materials have been used. Such an activated carbon foam can be fabricated, i.e. sawed, machined and otherwise shaped to fit virtually any required filtering location by simple insertion and without the need for handling the “dirty” and friable particulate activated carbon foam materials of the prior art.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6656238Abstract: A method for the manufacture of coal-based carbon foams from a coal particulate starting material that comprises blending from 1 to about 10% by weight of pitch with the coal particulate before foaming. Blends of coal-based particulate with 1 to about 10% by weight of pitch as well as coal-based carbon foams manufactured from such blends are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Touchstone Research Lab.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Patent number: 6656239Abstract: According to the present invention, carbon foams are produced largely in accordance with the methods described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/902,828, but with starting materials that comprise from about 10 to about 90% by weight of ground petroleum pitch and from about 90 to about 10% by weight of bituminous coal particulate exhibiting a free swell index of from about 3.5 to about 5.0.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Touchstone Research Lab.Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski
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Publication number: 20030101657Abstract: The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Darren Kenneth Rogers, Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski