Patents by Inventor Ayme Cornu

Ayme Cornu 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).

  • Bitumen combustion process
    Patent number: 4631384
    Abstract: Process for the combustion of bitumen, wherein the bitumen is softened by preheating and is then introduced into a combustion chamber, traversed by oxygen in excess subject to ionization by an intense ultra-high frequency field, so as to raise the surface of the bitumen to a temperature above 1000.degree. C., thereby ensuring its vaporization and rapid combustion in the thus produced oxygen plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Ayme Cornu