Patents by Inventor Joachim Heberlein

Joachim Heberlein 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 and method for synthesizing films and coatings by focused particle beam deposition
    Patent number: 6924004
    Abstract: A particle beam deposition apparatus includes a particle source for generating a plurality of particles in suspended form, an expansion chamber, and a deposition chamber connected to the expansion chamber by an aerodynamic focusing stage, and containing a substrate. The aerodynamic focusing stage may be comprised of a plurality of aerodynamic focusing elements, or lenses. Particles, including nanoparticles, may be deposited on the substrate by generating an aerosol cloud of particles, accelerating the particles into the expansion chamber, creating a collimated beam out of the particles by passing them through the aerodynamic focusing lenses and into a deposition chamber, and impacting the particles into the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Nagaraja P. Rao, Joachim Heberlein, William Gerberich, Steven L. Girshick, Peter H. McMurry
  • Apparatus and method for synthesizing films and coatings by focused particle beam deposition
    Publication number: 20040046130
    Abstract: A particle beam deposition apparatus includes a particle source for generating a plurality of particles in suspended form, an expansion chamber, and a deposition chamber connected to the expansion chamber by an aerodynamic focusing stage, and containing a substrate. The aerodynamic focusing stage may be comprised of a plurality of aerodynamic focusing elements, or lenses. Particles, including nanoparticles, may be deposited on the substrate by generating an aerosol cloud of particles, accelerating the particles into the expansion chamber, creating a collimated beam out of the particles by passing them through the aerodynamic focusing lenses and into a deposition chamber, and impacting the particles into the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Nagaraja P Rao, Joachim Heberlein, William Gerberich, Steven L. Girshick, Peter H. McMurry