Patents by Inventor Anastasia Conlon

Anastasia Conlon 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).

  • Production of valve metal powders with improved physical and electrical properties
    Publication number: 20070180952
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process that involves (1) feeding (a) a first valve metal powder component containing valve metal particles and (b) reducing component into a reactor having a hot zone; and (2) subjecting the first valve metal powder component and the reducing component to non-static conditions sufficient to simultaneously (i) agglomerate the first valve metal powder component particles, and (ii) reduce oxygen content in the valve metal powder component particles, and thereby form a second valve metal powder component containing oxygen-reduced valve metal particles, in which the reducing component is selected from the group consisting of magnesium reducing components, calcium reducing components, aluminum reducing components, lithium reducing components, barium reducing components, strontium, reducing components, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Leonid Lanin, Anastasia Conlon, Michael Albarelli
  • Metalothermic reduction of refractory metal oxides
    Publication number: 20070107549
    Abstract: High purity refractory metals, valve metals, refractory metal oxides, valve metal oxides, or alloys thereof suitable for a variety of electrical, optical and mill product/fabricated parts usages are produced from their respective oxides by metalothermic reduction of a solid or liquid form of such oxide using a reducing agent that establishes (after ignition) a highly exothermic reaction, the reaction preferably taking place in a continuously or step-wise moving oxide such as gravity fall with metal retrievable at the bottom and an oxide of the reducing agent being removable as a gas or in other convenient form and unreacted reducing agent derivatives being removable by leaching or like process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Leonid Shekhter, Terrance Tripp, Leonid Lanin, Anastasia Conlon, Howard Goldberg
  • Tantalum-silicon and niobium-silicon substrates for capacitor anodes
    Patent number: 6802884
    Abstract: The allows: Ta—Si, Nb—Si, TaN—Si, NbN—Si and variants are used as enhanced powder anode substrates for electrolytic capacitor anodes (sintered powder masses) with dielectric oxide formation at walls of the internal pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: H.C. Starck, Inc.
    Inventors: Leah Simkins, Anastasia Conlon
  • Tantalum-silicon and niobium-silicon substrates for capacitor anodes
    Publication number: 20030217619
    Abstract: The allows: Ta—Si, Nb—Si, TaN—Si, NbN—Si and variants are used as enhanced powder anode substrates for electrolytic capacitor anodes (sintered powder masses) with dielectric oxide formation at walls of the internal pores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Applicant: H.C. Starck, Inc.
    Inventors: Leah Simkins, Anastasia Conlon