Patents Assigned to Ohio Aerospace Institute
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Patent number: 6812176Abstract: A thermal barrier coating composition comprising a base oxide, a primary stabilizer oxide, and at least one dopant oxide is disclosed. Preferably, a pair of group A and group B defect cluster-promoting oxides is used in conjunction with the base and primary stabilizer oxides. The new thermal barrier coating is found to have significantly lower thermal conductivity and better sintering resistance. The base oxide is selected from the group consisting of zirconia and hafnia and combinations thereof. The primary stabilizing oxide is selected from the group consisting of yttria, dysprosia, erbia and combinations thereof. The dopant or group A and group B cluster-promoting oxide dopants are selected from the group consisting of rare earth metal oxides, transitional metal oxides, alkaline earth metal oxides and combinations thereof. The dopant or dopants preferably have ionic radii different from those of the primary stabilizer and/or the base oxides.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignees: Ohio Aerospace Institute, The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Dongming Zhu, Robert A. Miller
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Patent number: 6805725Abstract: A bond coat composition for use in thermal barrier coatings comprises a NiAl—CoCrAlY matrix containing particles of AlN dispersed therein. The bond coat composition is prepared by croymilling NiAl and CoCrAlY in liquid nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventor: Mohan G. Hebsur
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Patent number: 6793706Abstract: A bond coat composition for use in thermal barrier coatings comprises a NiAl—CoCrAlY matrix containing particles of AlN dispersed therein. The bond coat composition is prepared by croymilling NiAl and CoCrAlY in liquid nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventor: Mohan G. Hebsur
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Patent number: 6469787Abstract: An optical probe for analyzing a sample illuminated by a laser includes an input optical fiber operably connectable to the laser where the input optical fiber has an entrance end and an exit end. The probe also includes a first beam splitter where the first beam splitter is adapted to transmit an alignment portion of a light beam from the input fiber exit end and to reflect a homodyning portion of the light beam from the input fiber. The probe also includes a lens between the input fiber exit end and the first beam splitter and a first and a second output optical fiber, each having an entrance end and an exit end, each exit end being operably connectable to respective optical detectors. The probe also includes a second beam splitter which is adapted to reflect at least a portion of the reflected homodyning portion into the output fiber entrance ends and to transmit light from the laser scattered by the sample into the entrance ends.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignees: Ohio Aerospace Institute, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: William V. Meyer, David S. Cannell, Anthony E. Smart
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Patent number: 6454992Abstract: A bond coat composition for use in thermal barrier coatings comprises a NiAl—CoCrAlY matrix containing particles of AlN dispersed therein. The bond coat composition is prepared by croymilling NiAl and CoCrAlY in liquid nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventor: Mohan G. Hebsur
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Patent number: 6391811Abstract: A MoSi2 pest resistant material includes in-situ grown &bgr;-Si3N4 whiskers. In addition to excellent pest resistance, the material provides a lower coefficient of thermal expansion for better match with continuous reinforcing fibers such as SiC fibers. A two stage heating and pressing production technique enables lower temperature processing with substantially full densification.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventor: Mohan G. Hebsur
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Patent number: 6288000Abstract: A MoSi2 pest resistant material includes in-situ grown &bgr;-Si3N4 whiskers. In addition to excellent pest resistance, the material provides a lower coefficient of thermal expansion for better match with continuous reinforcing fibers such as SiC fibers. A two stage heating and pressing production technique enables lower temperature processing with substantially full densification.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventor: Mohan G. Hebsur
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Patent number: 6181430Abstract: An interferometer having a light beam source that produces a plurality of separate and distinct wavelengths of light. Optic fibers are used to transport the wavelengths of light toward an object surface and to allow light reflected from the object to pass through a polarizer to improve the polarization ratio of the reflected light to determine a characteristic of the object surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventors: William V. Meyer, Anthony E. Smart
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Patent number: 6025460Abstract: The service life of fiber-reinforced polyimide composites in a high temperature oxidative environment is extended by coating with a polyimide coating precursor solution that is synthesized by reacting an aromatic dianhydride with an aromatic diamine in a non-reactive solvent. The reactive solution is heated to a temperature sufficent to reduce its viscosity prior to its use as a coating. Preferably, a mixture of meta-phenylenediamine and para-phenylenediamine is reacted with biphenyldianhydride in n-methyl pyrrolidinone solvent and thereafter heated to between about 50.degree. C. (122.degree. F.) and 150.degree. C. (302.degree. F.) under nitrogen while stirring for a time sufficient to obtain a polyamic acid polyimide precursor coating solution having a Brookfield viscosity of from about 500 to about 5000 cP and a solids content of from about 5 to about 35 weight percent.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventors: Anthony M. Mazany, Stanley G. Prybyla
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Patent number: 5956139Abstract: A method and apparatus for analyzing a fluid containing light scattering components. The apparatus includes a laser adapted to direct abeam of light into the fluid such as a liquid containing particles, and at least two detectors to receive light scattered by the fluid, which received light is used to calculate a physical property of the fluid. A focusing lens may be used to focus the light beam to a focal waist in the fluid to enhance the degree of spatial coherence of the scattered light. The two detectors are aligned onto the focal waist and are adapted to send a signal to a data processor which correlates the signal received from said two detectors. The two detectors are spaced a substantially equal distance from the focal waist and are oriented at substantially the same angle with respect to the direction of propagation of the incident beam. The data processor is adapted to cross-correlate the signals received from the two detectors.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1997Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventors: William V. Meyer, David S. Cannell, Padetha Tin, H. Michael Cheung, J. Adin Mann, Jr., Thomas W. Taylor, James A. Lock, Jixiang Zhu, Anthony E. Smart
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Patent number: 5716677Abstract: The service life of fiber-reinforced polyimide composites in a high temperature oxidative environment is extended by coating with a polyimide coating precursor solution that is synthesized by reacting an aromatic dianhydride with an aromatic diamine in a non-reactive solvent. The reactive solution is heated to a temperature sufficent to reduce its viscosity prior to its use as a coating. Preferably, a mixture of meta-phenylenediamine and para-phenylenediamine is reacted with biphenyldianhydride in n-methyl pyrrolidinone solvent and thereafter heated to between about 50.degree. C. (122.degree. F.) and 150.degree. C. (302.degree. F.) under nitrogen while stirring for a time sufficient to obtain a polyamic acid polyimide precursor coating solution having a Brookfield viscosity of from about 500 to about 5000 cP and a solids content of from about 5 to about 35 weight percent.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventors: Anthony M. Mazany, Stanley G. Prybyla
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Patent number: 5709745Abstract: A method of controlling the amount of impurity incorporation in a crystal grown by a chemical vapor deposition process. Conducted in a growth chamber, the method includes the controlling of the concentration of the crystal growing components in the growth chamber to affect the demand of particular growth sites within the growing crystal thereby controlling impurity incorporation into the growth sites.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1995Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventors: David J. Larkin, Philip G. Neudeck, J. Anthony Powell, Lawrence G. Matus
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Patent number: 5463978Abstract: A method of controlling the amount of impurity incorporation in a crystal grown by a chemical vapor deposition process. Conducted in a growth chamber, the method includes the controlling of the concentration of the crystal growing components in the growth chamber to affect the demand of particular growth sites within the growing crystal thereby controlling impurity incorporation into the growth sites.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1994Date of Patent: November 7, 1995Assignee: Ohio Aerospace InstituteInventors: David J. Larkin, Philip G. Neudeck, J. Anthony Powell, Lawrence G. Matus