Patents Represented by Attorney Donald J. Voss
  • Patent number: 4098253
    Abstract: A cubic boron nitride, diamond or similar grinding wheel is dressed by applying a dresser comprising a multiplicity of abrasive particles dispersed in a normally rigid but friction-meltable organic polymeric matrix against the rotating wheel and causing the dresser to melt and form a dressing slurry on the surface of the wheel and then pinching the slurry between the wheel and a workpiece until dressing is substantially complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Phillip E. Bonnice
  • Patent number: 4088591
    Abstract: There is provided by the present invention, a silicone fluid useful as a hydraulic fluid and more particularly useful as a brake fluid for vehicles.This silicone fluid comprises generally a linear diorganopolysiloxane having a viscosity at 25.degree. C. of 20 to 500 centistokes. Various materials and additives can be added to such a silicone fluid so as to improve its properties as a hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edgar D. Brown, Jr., Frank J. Traver
  • Patent number: 4075115
    Abstract: There is provided by the present invention, a silicone fluid useful as a hydraulic fluid and more particularly useful as a brake fluid for vehicles.This silicone fluid comprises generally a linear diorganopolysiloxane having a viscosity at 25.degree. C of 20 to 500 centistokes. Various materials and additives can be added to such a silicone fluid so as to improve its properties as a hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1973
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edgar D. Brown, Jr., Frank J. Traver
  • Patent number: 4072635
    Abstract: An organosiloxane gel is made by reacting (1) an organosiloxane having a viscosity of from 10 to 10,000 centistokes at 25.degree. C. and being a copolymer consisting essentially of units of the formula R.sub.2 ViSiO.sub.0.5, RViSiO, R.sub.2 SiO and MeR.sub.2 SiO.sub.0.5, where each R is individually selected from the group consisting of methyl and phenyl radicals, Vi represents a vinyl radical and Me represents a methyl radical, at least 0.50 molar percent of the units in said copolymer being R.sub.2 ViSiO.sub.0.5 units and RViSiO units where the terminal groups are at least 50 mole percent of R.sub.2 ViSiO.sub.0.5 units and may have as the rest of the total terminal units MeR.sub.2 SiO.sub.0.5 units, (2) a liquid hydrogen siloxane of the average general formula XRMeSIO(R.sub. 2 SiO).sub.n (RHSiO).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Edward M. Jeram
  • Patent number: 4068416
    Abstract: A cubic boron nitride, diamond or similar grinding wheel is dressed by applying a dresser comprising a multiplicity of abrasive particles dispersed in a normally rigid but friction-meltable organic polymeric matrix against the rotating wheel and causing the dresser to melt and form a dressing slurry on the surface of the wheel and then pinching the slurry between the wheel and a workpiece until dressing is substantially complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Phillip E. Bonnice
  • Patent number: 4065482
    Abstract: Siloxanediolate/p-dioxane complexes and processes for preparing the complexes. Sodium or an amalgam thereof is reacted with arylsilicondiola in the presence of p-dioxane to form the complexes. Complexes are useful in preparing the corresponding aryl polysiloxanediols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Terry G. Selin
  • Patent number: 4056546
    Abstract: A silicone polymer fluid useful as a brake fluid comprising a polymer or monomer having 0 to 100 mole percent of polymeric or monomeric units selected from R.sub.2 Si(OM).sub.2 units, ##STR1## AND R.sub.2 SiO units, 0 to 100 mole percent of polymeric and monomeric units selected from RSi(OM).sub.3 units, ##STR2## AND RSiO.sub.3/2 units, 0 to 10 mole percent of units selected from the class consisting of (MO).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 units, (MO).sub.2 SiO units, (MO)SiO.sub.3/2 units and SiO.sub.2 units and 0 to 5 mole percent of units selected from R.sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 units wherein the viscosity of the polymer may vary from 2 to 400 centistokes at 25.degree. R is a monovalent hydrocarbon radical, M is selected from alkyl, alkoxy, alkylene, alkoxyalkyleneoxyalkylene and alkyl polyether substituent radicals, wherein the preferred substituent for M is 2-methoxy-2-ethoxy-ethylene or higher and R is preferably methyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Edgar D. Brown, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4056660
    Abstract: A rechargeable nickel-cadmium cell including a plurality of alternately arranged positive and negative electrodes. An oxygen sensing electrode is provided between one of the positive and one of the negative electrodes and connected to the negative terminal of the cell through an external resistor. The sensing electrode includes a suitable substrate on which cadmium is caused to be deposited, the cadmium, in the preferred form of the invention, being deposited in an amount approximately 20% of that employed in making the negative electrodes of the cell. Thereafter, the electrode is treated with silver and also, in one form of the invention, with a hydrophobic fluorocarbon polymer, such as polytetrafluoroethylene, these materials being dispersed in intimate contact with the relatively porous cadmium deposit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Guy G. Rampel, Jon R. Young
  • Patent number: 4045186
    Abstract: Soft hexagonal boron nitride crystals of 200-600 microns platelet size are produced from crystals of less than fifty microns particle size by mixing the small crystals with Li.sub.3 N, simultaneously heating and pressurizing said mixture to a temperature and pressure in a restricted region of the graphitic (hexagonal) boron nitride (GBN) stable region of the pressure-temperature (P-T) phase diagram of boron nitride, cooling and depressurizing said mixture, and separating off the water soluble material present in the mixture to leave a residue of large crystals of boron nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Francis R. Corrigan
  • Patent number: 4042673
    Abstract: Diamond crystals of controlled impurity content and/or impurity distribution and reaction vessel configurations for the production thereof are described. Combinations of "dopant," "getter" and "compensator" materials are employed to produce gem stones of unusual color patterns, or zoned coloration, using specific reaction vessel configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1973
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Herbert M. Strong
  • Patent number: 4034066
    Abstract: Improvements are provided in reaction vessel construction used in the growth of diamond by the process disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,297,407 -- Wentorf, Jr. In assembly of the reaction vessel of this invention, the plug of catalyst-solvent material is disposed between the source of carbon and the diamond seed material as in the Wentorf, Jr. patent and, in addition, the diamond seed material is separated from the catalyst-solvent plug by means for isolating the diamond seed material from the catalyst-solvent material until after the latter has become saturated with carbon from the source of carbon. In addition, preferably the under surface of the plug of catalyst-solvent metal is covered with means for suppressing diamond nucleation. The nucleation suppressing means is usually in the form of a disc and may completely cover the underside of the catalyst-solvent plug or may have a hole therethrough in juxtaposition to the diamond seed/isolating means combination(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1973
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Herbert M. Strong, Roy E. Tuft
  • Patent number: 4029635
    Abstract: A process for forming a silicone resin useful for making mica laminates comprising adding a mixture of organotrihalosilanes and dimethyldihalosilanes dissolved in a water immiscible organic solvent to a heterogeneous hydrolysis mixture composed of a water immiscible organic solvent and an alcohol and separating the solvent resin layer where the organic groups on said trihalosilane are methyl and phenyl with the mole percent concentration of the methyl groups to phenyl groups varying from 30 to 70 mole percent. The hydrolysis addition is generally carried out at a temperature of 25.degree. C to 80.degree. C. The resin produced by this process has an organo and methyl to Si ratio varying from 1.01 to 1 to 1.1 to 1. The alkoxy content is less than 6% by weight and, preferably, varies from 2 to 4% by weight and the silanol content is generally less than 6% by weight and preferably varies from 2 to 4% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Duane F. Merrill
  • Patent number: 4027648
    Abstract: A cubic boron nitride, diamond or similar grinding wheel is dressed by applying a dressing slurry comprising a multiplicity of inorganic crystals dispersed in a normally fluid carrier medium against the rotating wheel to form a layer of dressing slurry on the surface of the wheel and then pinching the slurry between the wheel and a metal piece until dressing is substantially complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Phillip E. Bonnice
  • Patent number: 4026880
    Abstract: A silicone compound of the formula, ##STR1## where R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.6 are hydrocarbon radicals, B is selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, D is selected from a divalent hydrocarbon radical or oxygen, G is selected from various nitrogen radicals, and a, n, t, c and v are whole numbers. The above compound is eminently useful as a flocculent for colloidal biological wastes, as well as being useful as a glass sizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1971
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Tyrone D. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 4016736
    Abstract: Wire drawing dies having improved life, relatively lower drawing force requirements and producing smooth surface on wires drawn therethrough comprise compacts of polycrystalline diamond, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride and mixtures thereof, which include a centrally-located double tapered hole having micro-rough walls, the micro-rough walls being densely packed with a lubricant for wire drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lynn Cloyd Carrison, Robert George Wetzel
  • Patent number: 4003917
    Abstract: Siloxanediolate/p-dioxane complexes and processes for preparing the complexes. Sodium or an amalgam thereof is reacted with arylsilicondiols in the presence of p-dioxane to form the complexes. Complexes are useful in preparing the corresponding aryl polysiloxanediols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Terry G. Selin
  • Patent number: 3998643
    Abstract: Water and soil repellent compositions comprising the product of the admixture of an alkylpolysiloxane, a mineral acid selected from the group consisting of sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, aromatic sulfonic acids, aliphatic sulfonic acids and hydrochloric acid, and hydrofluoric acid are provided. Methods for preparing the same and for protecting and rendering non-porous surfaces water and soil repellent employing the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Raymond Liddle
  • Patent number: 3998865
    Abstract: A process for stabilizing hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane is provided, said process involving the intimate admiture of hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane and an alkaline earth oxide, such as magnesium oxide (MgO). The resultant stabilized compositions are also encompassed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: George R. Siciliano, Verne G. Simpson, James J. Finigan
  • Patent number: 3990192
    Abstract: The surface finishes of workpieces ground with cubic boron nitride, diamond or similar grinding wheels is improved by applying a lapping composition comprising a multiplicity of fine grit abrasive particles dispersed in a normally solid but friction-meltable organic polymeric matrix against the rotating wheel, during spark out, and causing the lapping composition to melt and form a layer on the surface of the wheel and applying the lapping layer against the workpiece until the desired surface finish is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Phillip E. Bonnice
  • Patent number: 3987670
    Abstract: A displacement transducer is manually applied to the cutting surface of a diamond wheel to measure the fixed reference distance and thus degree of wheel wear. The output of the transducer is amplified and directed to visual or print out devices, and archival systems. The transducer signal may be transmitted to provide central processing of field measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James J. Tuzzeo, Donald F. Aitken, Jr.