Patents by Inventor Thomas Devan

Thomas Devan 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: 7147910
    Abstract: A method of forming a pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) article and an article having layers of PBN separated by layers of PBN having a dopant of sufficient concentration to induce peeling, the steps of introducing vapors of ammonia and a gaseous boron halide in a suitable ratio into a heated furnace reactor to cause boron nitride to be deposited in layers on a substrate, with at least one gaseous dopant injected into furnace at controlled periodic interval(s) such that at least two selected layers of boron nitride are doped with said gaseous dopant(s) at a minimum average concentration of 0.1 atomic wt % at a depth ranging from 1000 to 2000 angstroms in each selected layer, and with the selected layers spaced apart about 0.1 micron to 100 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ajit Y. Sane, Jeffrey Lennartz, Arthur Moore, Thomas Devan
  • Publication number: 20050064247
    Abstract: A composite coating for use on semi-conductor processing components, comprising a refractory metal carbide coating with its surface modified by at least one of: a) a carbon donor source for a stabilized stoichiometry, and b) a layer of nitride, carbonitride or oxynitride of elements selected from a group B, Al, Si, refractory metals, transition metals, rare earth metals which may or may not contain electrically conducting pattern, and wherein the metal carbide is selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide, tantalum carbide, titanium carbide, tungsten carbide, silicon oxycarbide, zirconium carbide, hafnium carbide, lanthanum carbide, vanadium carbide, niobium carbide, magnesium carbide, chromium carbide, molybdenum carbide, beryllium carbide and mixtures thereof. The composite coating is characterized as having an improved corrosion resistance property and little emissivity sensitivity to wavelengths used in optical pyrometry under the normal semi-conductor processing environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Ajit Sane, Jeffrey Lennartz, Jon Leist, Daniel Kotabish, John Mariner, Andrew Macey, Douglas Longworth, Timothy Hejl, Thomas Devan
  • Publication number: 20040142212
    Abstract: A method of forming a pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) article and an article having layers of PBN separated by layers of PBN having a dopant of sufficient concentration to induce peeling, the steps of introducing vapors of ammonia and a gaseous boron halide in a suitable ratio into a heated furnace reactor to cause boron nitride to be deposited in layers on a substrate, with at least one gaseous dopant injected into furnace at controlled periodic interval(s) such that at least two selected layers of boron nitride are doped with said gaseous dopant(s) at a minimum average concentration of 0.1 atomic wt % at a depth ranging from 1000 to 2000 angstroms in each selected layer, and with the selected layers spaced apart about 0.1 micron to 100 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Ajit Y. Sane, Jeffrey Lennartz, Arthur Moore, Thomas Devan
  • Patent number: 6670025
    Abstract: A method of forming a pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) article and an article having layers of PBN separated by layers of PBN having a dopant of sufficient concentration to induce peeling, the steps of introducing vapors of ammonia and a gaseous boron halide in a suitable ratio into a heated furnace reactor to cause boron nitride to be deposited in layers on a substrate, with at least one gaseous dopant injected into furnace at controlled periodic interval(s) such that at least two selected layers of boron nitride are doped with said gaseous dopant(s) at a minimum average concentration of 2 atomic wt % at a depth ranging from 1000 to 2000 angstroms in each selected layer, and with the selected layers spaced apart about 0.1 micron to 100 microns apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ajit Y. Sane, Jeffrey Lennartz, Arthur Moore, Thomas Devan
  • Publication number: 20020182394
    Abstract: A method of forming a pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) article and an article having layers of PBN separated by layers of PBN having a dopant of sufficient concentration to induce peeling, the steps of introducing vapors of ammonia and a gaseous boron halide in a suitable ratio into a heated furnace reactor to cause boron nitride to be deposited in layers on a substrate, with at least one gaseous dopant injected into furnace at controlled periodic interval(s) such that at least two selected layers of boron nitride are doped with said gaseous dopant(s) at a minimum average concentration of 2 atomic wt % at a depth ranging from 1000 to 2000 angstroms in each selected layer, and with the selected layers spaced apart about 0.1 micron to 100 microns apart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: ADVANCED CERAMICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ajit Y. Sane, Jeffrey Lennartz, Arthur Moore, Thomas Devan