Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Grobelny

Thomas J. Grobelny 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).

  • Publication number: 20150174881
    Abstract: A method of bonding a first corrugated sheet and a second corrugated sheet to provide a honeycomb core assembly. The first corrugated sheet includes a plurality of lower node regions and the second corrugated sheet includes a plurality of upper node regions. The method includes applying a radio frequency activatable adhesive to one or both of a first lower node region of the first corrugated sheet and a first upper node region of the second corrugated sheet, positioning the first corrugated sheet adjacent to or in contact with the second corrugated sheet at the first upper node region and the first lower node region, and exposing the radio frequency activatable adhesives to a radio frequency to activate the radio frequency activatable adhesive, such that the first corrugated sheet is bonded to the second corrugated sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Michael O. Stoll, Thomas J. Grobelny, Matthew S. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7307775
    Abstract: A projection system, a spatial light modulator, and a method for forming a MEMS device is disclosed. The spatial light modulator can have two substrates bonded together with one of the substrates comprising a micromirror array. The two substrates can be bonded at the wafer level after depositing a getter material andlor solid or liquid lubricant on one or both of the wafers. The wafers can be bonded together hermetically if desired, and the pressure between the two substrates can be below atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Satayadev R. Patel, Andrew G. Huibers, Steve Chiang, Robert M. Duboc, Thomas J. Grobelny, Hung Nan Chen, Dietrich Dehlinger, Peter W. Richards, Hongqin Shi, Anthony Sun