Patents by Inventor Peter Dwight Spohn
Peter Dwight Spohn 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: 7745355Abstract: Aspects of the invention are found in a heating component having a composite material coated on a support. The composite material includes a fluorinated or silicone polymer and inductively-heatable particles. Additional aspects of the invention are found in a heating belt having a flexible support coated with a composite material. The composite material includes a polymer material and inductively-heatable particles. Further aspects of the invention are found in a system for heating an article. The system includes a heating belt and a field generator. The heating belt includes a flexible support coated in a composite material. The composite material includes a polymeric matrix and inductively-heatable particles. The field generator induces a field about the heating belt. The inductively-heatable particles heat in the presence of the field.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics CorporationInventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Richard George Hoeck, Satish S. Sharma
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Publication number: 20080124994Abstract: Aspects of the invention are found in a heating component having a composite material coated on a support. The composite material includes a fluorinated or silicone polymer and inductively-heatable particles. Additional aspects of the invention are found in a heating belt having a flexible support coated with a composite material. The composite material includes a polymer material and inductively-heatable particles. Further aspects of the invention are found in a system for heating an article. The system includes a heating belt and a field generator. The heating belt includes a flexible support coated in a composite material. The composite material includes a polymeric matrix and inductively-heatable particles. The field generator induces a field about the heating belt. The inductively-heatable particles heat in the presence of the field.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Richard George Hoeck, Satish S. Sharma
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Patent number: 7323666Abstract: Aspects of the invention are found in a heating component having a composite material coated on a support. The composite material includes a fluorinated or silicone polymer and inductively-heatable particles. Additional aspects of the invention are found in a heating belt having a flexible support coated with a composite material. The composite material includes a polymer material and inductively-heatable particles. Further aspects of the invention are found in a system for heating an article. The system includes a heating belt and a field generator. The heating belt includes a flexible support coated in a composite material. The composite material includes a polymeric matrix and inductively-heatable particles. The field generator induces a field about the heating belt. The inductively-heatable particles heat in the presence of the field.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics CorporationInventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Richard George Hoeck, Satish S. Sharma
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Patent number: 7098271Abstract: Melt-fabricable thermoplastic fluoropolymer having pendant functional groups is thermally cross-linked in the presence of polyfunctional nucleophile.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Paul Douglas Brothers, Patrick Edward Lindner, Peter Dwight Spohn
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Publication number: 20050121437Abstract: Aspects of the invention are found in a heating component having a composite material coated on a support. The composite material includes a fluorinated or silicone polymer and inductively-heatable particles. Additional aspects of the invention are found in a heating belt having a flexible support coated with a composite material. The composite material includes a polymer material and inductively-heatable particles. Further aspects of the invention are found in a system for heating an article. The system includes a heating belt and a field generator. The heating belt includes a flexible support coated in a composite material. The composite material includes a polymeric matrix and inductively-heatable particles. The field generator induces a field about the heating belt. The inductively-heatable particles heat in the presence of the field.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2003Publication date: June 9, 2005Inventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Richard Hoeck, Satish Sharma
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Publication number: 20040082913Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical introducer devices which incorporate a single or multi-layer PTFE peelable sheath. Devices of the present invention are suitable for use in inserting an ancilliary medical device, e.g., a catheter, guide wire and the like, into a patient. Methods of the present invention also are disclosed which employ a precision sintering process in order to produce sheaths having excellent tear properties and optimal peelability.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Dean David Dinsmore
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Patent number: 6663595Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical introducer devices which incorporate a single or multi-layer PTFE peelable sheath. Devices of the present invention are suitable for use in inserting an ancilliary medical device, e.g., a catheter, guide wire and the like, into a patient. Methods of the present invention also are disclosed which employ a precision sintering process in order to produce sheaths having excellent tear properties and optimal peelability.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: TFX Medical, Inc.Inventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Dean David Dinsmore
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Patent number: 6645590Abstract: Articles such as tubing and wire insulation made from fluoropolymer having functional groups exhibit improved mechanical properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1999Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Peter Dwight Spohn
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Publication number: 20030139534Abstract: Melt-fabricable thermoplastic fluoropolymer having pendant functional groups is thermally cross-linked in the presence of polyfunctional nucleophile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Paul Douglas Brothers, Patrick Edward Lindner, Peter Dwight Spohn
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Publication number: 20030088264Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical introducer devices which incorporate a single or multi-layer PTFE peelable sheath. Devices of the present invention are suitable for use in inserting an ancilliary medical device, e.g., a catheter, guide wire and the like, into a patient. Methods of the present invention also are disclosed which employ a precision sintering process in order to produce sheaths having excellent tear properties and optimal peelability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Dean David Dinsmore
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Patent number: 6559238Abstract: Melt-fabricable thermoplastic fluoropolymer having pendant functional groups is thermally cross-linked in the presence of polyfunctional nucleophile.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1999Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Paul Douglas Brothers, Patrick Edward Lindner, Peter Dwight Spohn
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Patent number: 6524671Abstract: Coextruded layers of polyamide and fluoropolymer adhere to one another without an intervening tie layer by adhesive activation of polyamide of the polyamide layer, e.g. by incorporating into the polyamide layer a dispersed phase of maleic anhydride-grafted ethylene/propylene/diene copolymer. The fluoropolymer is a copolymer of ethylene with perhalogenated comonomer or a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene with perfluorinated comonomer.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Peter Dwight Spohn
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Patent number: 6482482Abstract: Structures for transport and containment of hydrocarbon fluids for motorized transportation vehicles are made from a blend of polar-grafted fluoropolymer dispersed in a matrix of polar polymer. The blend can be in a component element of a composite structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1998Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Peter Dwight Spohn
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Patent number: 6454744Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical introducer devices which incorporate a single or multi-layer PTFE peelable sheath. Devices of the present invention are suitable for use in inserting an ancilliary medical device, e.g., a catheter, guide wire and the like, into a patient. Methods of the present invention also are disclosed which employ a precision sintering process in order to produce sheaths having excellent tear properties and optimal peelability.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: TFX Medical, Inc.Inventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Dean David Dinsmore
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Patent number: 6284335Abstract: A melt-mixed blend of polyamide and grafted fluoropolymer having polar functionality exhibits surprisingly low permeability and can bond to fluoropolymer or polyamide without an intervening adhesive layer. The blend is useful as a component of laminates, such as fuel hose.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Peter Dwight Spohn
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Patent number: 6127478Abstract: A melt-mixed blend of polyamide and grafted fluoropolymer having polar functionality exhibits surprisingly low permeability and can bond to fluoropolymer or polyamide without an intervening adhesive layer. The blend is useful as a component of laminates, such as fuel hose.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Peter Dwight Spohn
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Patent number: 6114441Abstract: A melt-mixed blend of thermoplastic polyester and grafted fluoropolymer having polar functionality exhibits good mechanical properties and is useful in articles for transport and containment of fuels and as a component of laminates, such as fuel hose.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Peter Dwight Spohn, Pallatheri Manackal Subramanian
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Patent number: 5885494Abstract: Fluoropolymer is advantageously foamed by first forming a composite structure of a layer of the fluoropolymer to be foamed and a layer of different material such as a different fluoropolymer not to be foamed, followed by heating the composite structure to the foamable state for the layer of fluoropolymer to be foamed, pressurizing the heated composite structure with supercritical carbon dioxide, rapidly depressurizing the heated composite structure, whereby the foamable layer foams and the other layer foams less or not at all, and cooling the foamed composite structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Sundar Kilnagar Venkataraman, Stuart Karl Randa, Peter Dwight Spohn
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Patent number: 5789466Abstract: Laser marking of pigmented fluoropolymer substrates is enhanced by using titanium dioxide pigment coated with organo silane.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: John Nicholas Birmingham, Jr., Dwight Alan Holtzen, James Francis Hunt, Robert Sterrett Jenkins, Peter Dwight Spohn, James Thomas Walnock