Patents by Inventor Rodrigue Thibodeau

Rodrigue Thibodeau 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).

  • Sealing members for alumina arc tubes and method of making same
    Patent number: 5725827
    Abstract: Alumina arc tube sealing members including a highly pure, fine alumina doped with yttrium oxide, and magnesium oxide. The sealing members are used in the formation of sintered hermetic seals to a green, prefired, or fully sintered translucent alumina arc tube and niobium electrical feedthrough assemblies with or without the use of sealing frits or brazing alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Rhodes, Alfred E. Feuersanger, Rodrigue Thibodeau
  • Sealing members for alumina arc tubes and method of making the same
    Patent number: 5426343
    Abstract: Alumina arc tube sealing members including a highly pure, fine alumina doped with yttrium oxide, and magnesium oxide. The sealing members are used in the formation of sintered hermetic seals to a green, prefired, or fully sintered translucent alumina arc tube and niobium electrical feedthrough assemblies with or without the use of sealing frits or brazing alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: William H. Rhodes, Alfred E. Feuersanger, Rodrigue Thibodeau