Patents by Inventor Baburaj G. Eranezhuth

Baburaj G. Eranezhuth 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).

  • Process for making carbides through mechanochemical processing
    Publication number: 20020197200
    Abstract: Forming metal and metalloid carbides by mechanically inducing a reduction reaction between a metal chloride (or a metalloid chloride) and a metal carbide. The reduction reactions are induced mechanically by milling the reactants. Alloy carbides may also be produced by mechanically inducing the co-reduction of metal chlorides or metalloid chlorides and a metal carbide according to the equation: M1chloride+M2chloride+M3carbide→M1M2carbide, where M1 is a metal or metalloid, M2 is a metal or metalloid and M3 is a suitable carbide reducing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Francis H. Froes, Baburaj G. Eranezhuth
  • Process for making carbides through mechanochemical processing
    Patent number: 6451279
    Abstract: Forming metal and metalloid carbides by mechanically inducing a reduction reaction between a metal chloride (or a metalloid chloride) and a metal carbide. The reduction reactions are induced mechanically by milling the reactants. Alloy carbides may also be produced by mechanically inducing the co-reduction of metal chlorides or metalloid chlorides and a metal carbide according to the equation: M1chloride+M2chloride+M3carbide→M1M2carbide, where M1 is a metal or metalloid, M2 is a metal or metalloid and M3 is a suitable carbide reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Idaho Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis H. Froes, Baburaj G. Eranezhuth
  • Mechanochemical processing for metals and metal alloys
    Patent number: 6231636
    Abstract: A set of processes for preparing metal powders, including metal alloy powders, by ambient temperature reduction of a reducible metal compound by a reactive metal or metal hydride through mechanochemical processing. The reduction process includes milling reactants to induce and complete the reduction reaction. The preferred reducing agents include magnesium and calcium hydride powders. A process of pre-milling magnesium as a reducing agent to increase the activity of the magnesium has been established as one part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Idaho Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis H. Froes, Baburaj G. Eranezhuth, Keith Prisbrey
  • Reduction of metal oxides through mechanochemical processing
    Patent number: 6152982
    Abstract: The low temperature reduction of a metal oxide using mechanochemical processing techniques. The reduction reactions are induced mechanically by milling the reactants. In one embodiment of the invention, titanium oxide TiO.sub.2 is milled with CaH.sub.2 to produce TiH.sub.2. Low temperature heat treating, in the range of 400.degree. C. to 700.degree. C., can be used to remove the hydrogen in the titanium hydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Idaho Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis H. Froes, Baburaj G. Eranezhuth, Oleg N. Senkov