Patents by Inventor Alan C. Kirchoff

Alan C. Kirchoff 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: 5273583
    Abstract: Apparatus for the continuous coating of charge transport solutions onto a substrate to form an electrophotographic imaging member, including a pump to a flow of a first highly doped charge transport solution and a pump to a flow of a second undoped or lowly doped charge transport solution at predetermined rates to a common junction at which the flows intermix into a common flow upon contacting each other; piping connecting the pumping means to the common junction; and mixing device associated with the junction for continuously mixing the common flow during its movement through the mixing device, the mixing device having a short spiral flow path of less than about 200 cm for the solutions sufficient to substantially complete mix the common flow during its movement through the mixing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Edouard E. Langlois, Kathryn T. Kehoe, Warren R. Smith, Mark Muscato, Barbara D. Ceglinski, Alan C. Kirchoff, Robert F. Dunham, Michael D. Stair
  • Patent number: 5149612
    Abstract: Processes and apparatus for fabricating an electrophotographic imaging member in which a web coated with a charge generation layer is coated with a charge transport layer comprising a dopant, the improvement comprising detecting the change in dopant concentration required, determining the amount of highly doped charge transport composition and amount of undoped or lowly doped charge transport composition required to achieve the change in dopant concentration, feeding the determined amounts of highly doped charge transport composition and undoped or lowly doped charge transport composition into a mixing zone, rapidly mixing the amounts of highly doped charge transport composition and undoped or lowly doped charge transport composition to form a uniformly doped charge transport composition, and applying the uniformly doped charge transport composition to the charge generation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Edouard E. Langlois, Kathryn T. Kehoe, Warren R. Smith, Mark Muscato, Barbara D. Ceglinski, Alan C. Kirchoff, Robert F. Dunham, Michael D. Stair