Patents by Inventor Mingming Guo Kellogg

Mingming Guo Kellogg 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).

  • Modular power generator
    Patent number: 10352307
    Abstract: A modular power generator is provided. In some embodiments, the modular power generator can utilize or otherwise leverage one or more harvesting modules, each consisting of one or more nitinol elements, to harvest low grade thermal energy, converting it into high grade mechanical energy. The mechanical energy can be decoupled from the power generator by a mechanical energy storage mechanism, an energy transfer mechanism, and a control mechanism. Stored mechanical energy can be utilized on demand or asynchronously with respect to the generation of the mechanical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Kellogg, Mingming Guo Kellogg
  • Modular Power Generator
    Publication number: 20160195073
    Abstract: A modular power generator is provided. In some embodiments, the modular power generator can utilize or otherwise leverage one or more harvesting modules, each consisting of one or more nitinol elements, to harvest low grade thermal energy, converting it into high grade mechanical energy. The mechanical energy can be decoupled from the power generator by a mechanical energy storage mechanism, an energy transfer mechanism, and a control mechanism. Stored mechanical energy can be utilized on demand or asynchronously with respect to the generation of the mechanical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Kellogg, Mingming Guo Kellogg
  • Nitinol Heat Engine with Mechanical Storage Mechanism
    Publication number: 20160069331
    Abstract: A generator which uses one or more harvesting modules, each consisting of one or more nitinol elements, to harvest low grade thermal energy, converting it into high grade mechanical energy. The mechanical energy decoupled from the power generator by means of a mechanical energy storage mechanism, a mechanism capable of summing successive cycles, and a control mechanism. Stored mechanical energy is then utilized when needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Kellogg, Mingming Guo Kellogg
  • Thermoelastic Beverage Qualifier
    Publication number: 20150276496
    Abstract: A field expedient instrument to be used in the process of qualifying the temperature of hot and cold drinks using thermoelastic materials is presented. The shape recovery properties of thermoelastic materials are used to qualify the temperature of a drink as desirable or undesirable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Kellogg, Mingming Guo Kellogg
  • Storage Container for Emergency Fuel
    Publication number: 20140197047
    Abstract: A container constructed for the purpose of containing an emergency reserve quantity of fuel which is hermetically sealed against hydrocarbon vapors and coated with a fire resistant coating which can be opened and emptied into the fuel tank of an automobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Kellogg, Mingming Guo Kellogg