Patents Represented by Attorney Raymond J. Kenny

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  • Corrosion resistant stainless steel covered electrode
    Patent number: 4439498
    Abstract: A covered electrode for welding chloride resistant stainless steel of the type containing about 0.04% carbon, 20% chromium, 24% nickel, 5% molybdenum, and balance iron. The covered electrode provides the capability for producing substantially defect-free stainless steel weld deposits that offer excellent resistance to crevice corrosion, as well as general corrosion in chloride containing environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward P. Sadowski
  • Modular hydride container
    Patent number: 4436537
    Abstract: Discloses a means for enhancing the transfer of hydrogen to and from solid hydridable material in a container and enhancing heat transfer to and from said hydridable material. The means whereby these enhancements are accomplished comprises a series of metallic trays arranged in non-nesting configuration in the hydrogen container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Pierre P. Turillon
  • Apparatus and method for fabricating tubes from powder
    Patent number: 4435359
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) and method for fabricating tubes (26) from powders (32). A retractable, rotating mandrel (18) is disposed within a powder hopper (12) and circumscribed by a plurality of swaging dies (20). A flexible iris (14), disposed between the hopper (12) and the dies (20), reduces powder (32) loss.As the mandrel (18) is withdrawn from the hopper (12), the dies (20) alternatingly expand and contract compacting the powder (32) in a compaction zone (48) about the mandrel (18) to form a tube (26). The resultant continuous tube (26) is withdrawn along with the mandrel (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Huntington Alloys, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert L. Eiselstein, Darrell F. Smith, Jr., Edward F. Clatworthy
  • Hydrogen sorbent composition
    Patent number: 4433063
    Abstract: A hydrogen sorbent composition is provided which is comprised of a hydridable material such as LaNi.sub.5 encradled throughout a porous, fiber-containing polymeric composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Bernstein, James P. Coffey, Alan E. Varker, John T. Arms, William D. K. Clark, Paul D. Goodell
  • Process for producing porous nickel bodies
    Patent number: 4430294
    Abstract: Porous bodies are produced by sintering a body of nickel powder incorporating from 0.35 to 2.0% by weight of carbon under a reducing gas at a temperature above 750.degree. C. but below 1050.degree. C. At least part of the carbon may be mixed with the powder as finely divided graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: Inco Europe Limited
    Inventor: Victor A. Tracey
  • Nickel-base welding alloy
    Patent number: 4415530
    Abstract: A welding alloy particularly directed to use as a wrought filler metal and contains selected percentages of chromium, molybdenum, manganese, columbium, magnesium, a number of trace elements and the balance essentially nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Huntington Alloys, Inc.
    Inventor: James P. Hunt
  • Process for autogenous oxygen smelting of sulfide materials containing base metals
    Patent number: 4415356
    Abstract: An autogeneous smelting process for suldie materials using a roasted portion blended with unroasted material in the presence of a flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Inco Limited
    Inventors: Grigori S. Victorovich, Malcolm C. Bell
  • Cathode for electrolytic production of hydrogen
    Patent number: 4410413
    Abstract: A cathode for use in the electrochemical production of hydrogen and process for making it which involves direct electrochemical cathodic action on a thermally produced adherent oxide on a nickel cathode surface. Examples include a nickel sheet thermally oxidized in air at 600.degree. C. for one hour and used directly in the production of electrolytic hydrogen and an iron sheet plasma sprayed with nickel to provide a surface containing thermal oxidation product of nickel and again used directly in the electrolytic production of hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall
  • Process for manufacturing rare earth intermetallic hydridable compounds
    Patent number: 4409180
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing intermetallic compounds of the RB.sub.5 type where R is a mixture of two or more rare earth metals and B is nickel wherein the composition is determined, with respect to the desired desorption plateau pressure at 25.degree. C. in atmospheres absolute by means of the relationshipP.sub.25 =exp(10.60-5.70 X.sub.Ce -10.03 X.sub.La -8.46 X.sub.Pr -7.84 X.sub.Nd)wherein X is the weight fraction of the indicated element and X.sub.La +X.sub.Ce +X.sub.Pr +X.sub.Nd =1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Gary D. Sandrock, Ernest L. Huston, James Liu
  • Method of producing Al-Li alloys with improved properties and product
    Patent number: 4409038
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing dispersion-strengthened mechanically alloyed Al-Li alloys with improved mechanical properties. The method comprises subjecting mechanically alloyed, degassed, consolidated Al-Li powders consisting essentially of from above 1.5% up to about 3.5% lithium from about 0.4% up to about 1.5% oxygen, from about 0.2% up to about 1.2% carbon and the balance essentially aluminum, to a heat treatment which will produce an aging response in the alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Novamet Inc.
    Inventor: John H. Weber
  • Hydrogen compressor
    Patent number: 4402187
    Abstract: Discloses a hydrogen compressor having two series of chambers or hydride containers specifically located in a pair of jackets adapted to contain flowing heat exchange liquid, e.g. water. The series of chambers are connected through a check valve arrangement and flow of hot and cold water through said jackets is controlled by a timing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Peter M. Golben, Matthew J. Rosso, Jr.
  • Treatment of lithium anodes
    Patent number: 4402995
    Abstract: A method for reducing passivation of a lithium anode used in a cell having a liquid thionyl chloride cathode is disclosed, characterized in that the anode is coated before the assembly of the cell with a solution of an alkyl 2-cyanoacrylate, a solvent, and lithium perchlorate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Ray-O-Vac Corporation
    Inventor: Niles A. Fleischer
  • Process for cobalt recovery from mixed sulfides
    Patent number: 4401630
    Abstract: The metal content of nickel-cobalt mixed sulfide slurries is recovered by atmospheric oxidation leaching, thereafter removing dissolved copper by metathesis with further mixed sulfide feed, treating the filtrate after liquid-solids separation with ammonia to selectively precipitate cobalt, separating the cobalt precipitate and working up the resulting filtrate to recover nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: INCO Ltd.
    Inventors: Victor A. Ettell, Juraj Babjak
  • Nickel-chromium-iron alloy
    Patent number: 4401622
    Abstract: A nickel-chromium-iron alloy intended principally for automotive turbocharger applications, the alloy being characterized by good stress - rupture strength, ductility, tensile strength, etc. and containing, generally speaking, 10-15% Cr, 18-30% Fe, 3-4.25% Ti, 2.25-3.5% Al, Ti+Al from 6 to 7.25%, ratio of Ti to Al of at least 0.9 and up to 1.6, 4-6% Mo, 0.01-0.2% B, 0.03-0.3% C, balance essentially nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignees: The International Nickel Co., Inc., Howmet Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond C. Benn, John R. Mihalisin, Leroy R. Curwick, Howard F. Merrick
  • Protective active nitrides as additives to nonaqueous cathode materials
    Patent number: 4401737
    Abstract: A method for preparing stable non-stoichiometric cathode material to provide cathodes useful in non-aqueous electrochemical cells having an active metal (e.g. lithium) anode. The method comprises reducing the non-stoichiometric cathode material (e.g. manganese dioxide) with the active metal or a precursor compound of said active metal to form a compound of the active metal and stoichiometric active cathode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Rayovac Corporation
    Inventor: Ashok V. Joshi
  • Corrosion of type 304 stainless steel by laser surface treatment
    Patent number: 4398966
    Abstract: Surface treatment of stainless steel with pulsed beam from laser benefits resistance to corrosion in acid chloride media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Huntington Alloys, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kelly, Joseph L. Nelson
  • Alkaline battery with reducing agents in the electrolyte
    Patent number: 4397925
    Abstract: An alkaline cell containing an effective amount of an electrolyte soluble reducing agent of alkali metal borohydrides, quaternary ammonium borohydrides, complex aluminum hydrides or hydrazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Ray-O-Vac Corporation
    Inventor: El-Sayed A. Magahed
  • Process for the extraction of precious metals from concentrates thereof
    Patent number: 4397689
    Abstract: The process comprises the steps of leaching the concentrate with hot hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas to dissolve most of the gold, platinum and palladium, treating the residue from the leaching step with an excess of an alkaline oxidizing agent to solubilize the ruthenium, slurrying the resulting solids in water, combining the precious metal values from the slurry with the liquor from the leaching step and releaching the resulting slurry with hot hydrochloric acid and chlorine. The leach liquor which is then separated from the remaining solids is a chloride solution which contains substantially all the platinum group metals and gold present in the concentrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Inco Limited
    Inventors: Richard K. Lea, Julian D. Edwards, D. Frederick Colton
  • Production of a cell electrode system
    Patent number: 4396693
    Abstract: An improvement in the production of polymer-bonded cell electrodes comprises forming a particulate material which can be developed into a shaped polymeric system comprising an electrode active material encradled in a porous, fiber-containing, polymeric composition. In a preferred embodiment, the polymeric system is developed as a thin, flexible electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Bernstein, James P. Coffey, Alan E. Varker, John T. Arms, William D. K. Clark
  • Portable lantern
    Patent number: D271140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Ray-O-Vac Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Thom