Patents by Inventor Antonio Filipe Falcao Montalvao

Antonio Filipe Falcao Montalvao 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).

  • Cavitation method and apparatus for deaeration
    Publication number: 20030111429
    Abstract: Liquid, especially water, flowing at a first velocity and at a first pressure in a line having a first cross-sectional area, is deaerated by flowing said stream into and through a region in said line having a second cross-sectional area less than said first cross-sectional area, whereupon in said region the velocity of said stream increases, the pressure of said stream decreases, and gas dissolved in said stream evolves from said stream, and recovering said evolved gas separately from said liquid before it redissolves into said liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Antonio Filipe Falcao Montalvao, William Robert Williams, Henrique Armando Langaro Pareja