Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Huddle

Thomas A. Huddle 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).

  • Patent number: 10722860
    Abstract: A mixing reactor for precipitating nanoparticles by mixing a precursor fluid with a second fluid at a higher temperature than the precursor fluid. The reactor comprises: a first fluid conduit with an inlet region configured to receive a flow of the precursor fluid, and an outlet region configured to output a mixed flow; and a second fluid conduit configured to receive a flow of the second fluid. The second fluid conduit extends into the first fluid conduit in a direction substantially perpendicular to the flow within the first fluid conduit, and has an opening for introducing the second fluid into the first fluid conduit. Related processes for producing nanoparticles are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: The University of Nottingham
    Inventors: Edward Lester, Thomas Huddle
  • Publication number: 20190275493
    Abstract: A mixing reactor for precipitating nanoparticles by mixing a precursor fluid with a second fluid at a higher temperature than the precursor fluid. The reactor comprises: a first fluid conduit with an inlet region configured to receive a flow of the precursor fluid, and an outlet region configured to output a mixed flow; and a second fluid conduit configured to receive a flow of the second fluid. The second fluid conduit extends into the first fluid conduit in a direction substantially perpendicular to the flow within the first fluid conduit, and has an opening for introducing the second fluid into the first fluid conduit. Related processes for producing nanoparticles are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Edward Lester, Thomas Huddle
  • Patent number: 10406499
    Abstract: A mixing reactor (1), the reactor comprising a body (2) having a first inlet (3), a second inlet (5) and an outlet (4), in which there is an inner passage (6) through the body (2) from the first inlet (3) at a first end (12) of the body (2) to the outlet (4) at a second end of the body (2) along a length of the body (2), the inner passage (6) having a side wall (17) along the length, and an outer passage (7) closer to a surface (14) of the body (2) than the inner passage (6), the outer passage (7) running from the second inlet (5) at the second end, travelling through the body (2) along the length and meeting the inner passage (6) at a junction (11) at the first end, the outer passage (7) joining the inner passage (6) through the side wall (17) at the junction (11). Such a mixing reactor can be used for producing particles such as nanoparticles or Metal-Organic frameworks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: The University of Nottingham
    Inventors: Edward Lester, Thomas Huddle
  • Publication number: 20160279589
    Abstract: A mixing reactor (1), the reactor comprising a body (2) having a first inlet (3), a second inlet (5) and an outlet (4), in which there is an inner passage (6) through the body (2) from the first inlet (3) at a first end (12) of the body (2) to the outlet (4) at a second end of the body (2) along a length of the body (2), the inner passage (6) having a side wall (17) along the length, and an outer passage (7) closer to a surface (14) of the body (2) than the inner passage (6), the outer passage (7) running from the second inlet (5) at the second end, travelling through the body (2) along the length and meeting the inner passage (6) at a junction (11) at the first end, the outer passage (7) joining the inner passage (6) through the side wall (17) at the junction (11). Such a mixing reactor can be used for producing particles such as nanoparticles or Metal-Organic frameworks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
    Inventors: EDWARD LESTER, THOMAS HUDDLE
  • Publication number: 20150367318
    Abstract: A mixing reactor (10) for precipitating nanoparticles by mixing a precursor fluid with a second fluid at a higher temperature than the precursor fluid. The reactor comprises: a first fluid conduit (1) with an inlet region (3) configured to receive a flow of the precursor fluid, and an outlet region (4) configured to output a mixed flow; and a second fluid conduit (2) configured to receive a flow of the second fluid. The second fluid conduit (2) extends into the first fluid conduit (1) in a direction substantially perpendicular to the flow within the first fluid conduit, and has an opening (5) for introducing the second fluid into the first fluid conduit. Related processes for producing nanoparticles are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Edward Lester, Thomas Huddle
  • Patent number: 7422270
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Great Dane Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Publication number: 20070290522
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Patent number: 7258391
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Publication number: 20060071507
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Patent number: 7011358
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Great Dane Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Publication number: 20040217625
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Patent number: 6652010
    Abstract: A rear impact guard assembly for trailers for absorbing the energy of a rear impact from another vehicle including a pair of tubular vertical guards having a lower tubular horizontal tube mounted at their lower ends. The upper ends of the vertical guards are attached to a horizontal beam, which in turn is affixed to longitudinally extending side rails. The vertical guards are removably affixed to the horizontal beam and respectively removable affixed to the slide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Great Dane Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Thomas Huddle, Timothy C. Gossett, Raymond D. Fox
  • Patent number: 6607237
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Great Dane Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Publication number: 20030071486
    Abstract: Several embodiments of sidewall assemblies having side posts and plastic liners affixed to an outer side sheet of a van or trailer. The liners have edges extending in contacting relationship with the edge portions of the side posts in connected relationship. Protuberances and foam material extend between the plastic liners and the side sheet for added strength. Slots may be provided in the posts for securement purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Wolfgang Graaff, Thomas Huddle
  • Patent number: 5392858
    Abstract: A well penetrator consists of a number of hydraulic fluid control components and a carriage carrying a hydraulic motor and a mill bit supported in a housing which is moveable down a well casing. The control components cause the carriage carrying the mill bit to be indexed up a predetermined distance relative to the well casing and then extended gradually into contact with the well casing while being rotated by the hydraulic motor. After the mill bit completes a hole through the well casing, the hydraulic components index the mill bit back down to its starting position and align a nozzle on the outer end of a high pressure lance with the opening in the casing to direct fluid from the nozzle as the lance is moved outwardly through the hole in the casing drilled by the mill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Penetrators, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan D. Peters, Randolph A. Busch, Robert W. McQueen, Thomas A. Huddle, Ronald E. Cherry
  • Patent number: 5327970
    Abstract: A well penetrator has a housing moveable down a well casing with a radially moveable punch being supported in the housing for movement between retracted and extended positions; a fluid jet is discharged from the outer end of the punch with liquid for the jet coming from a tube fixedly positioned at one end in the housing and held in slightly bowed condition when the punch is retracted to permit movement of the punch to its extended position from its retracted condition without the creation of excessive force on this metal tube. The jet creates a bulbous drumstick shaped cavity in the earth which is packed with a gravel slurry which hardens and cannot move into the casing due to the bulbous shape of the hardened slurry mass. Similar procedures are employed using a hose or lance with a nozzle at its outer end; one nozzle embodiment includes radial jets activated to transversely enlarge the cavity at a location spaced from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Penetrator's, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. McQueen, Alan D. Peters, Charles D. Ebinger, Thomas A. Huddle
  • Patent number: 5107943
    Abstract: A well penetrator has a housing moveable down a well casing with a radially moveable punch being supported in the housing for movement between retracted and extended positions; a fluid jet is discharged from the outer end of the punch with liquid for the jet coming from a tube fixedly positioned at one end in the housing and held in slightly bowed condition when the punch is retracted to permit movement of the punch to its extended position from its retracted condition without the creation of excessive force on this metal tube. The jet creates a bulbous drumstick shaped cavity in the earth which is packed with a gravel slurry which hardens and cannot move into the casing due to the bulbous shape of the hardened slurry mass. Similar procedures are employed using a hose or lance with a nozzle at its outer end; one nozzle embodiment includes radial jets activated to transversely enlarge the cavity at a location spaced from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Penetrators, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. McQueen, Alan D. Peters, Charles D. Ebinger, Thomas A. Huddle