Patents by Inventor Benjamin J. Emley

Benjamin J. Emley 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 producing tubular ceramic structures
    Patent number: 9840025
    Abstract: Tubular ceramic structures, e.g., anode components of tubular fuel cells, are manufactured by applying ceramic-forming composition to the external surface of the heat shrinkable polymeric tubular mandrel component of a rotating mandrel-spindle assembly, removing the spindle from the assembly after a predetermined thickness of tubular ceramic structure has been built up on the mandrel and thereafter heat shrinking the mandrel to cause the mandrel to separate from the tubular ceramic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: WATT FUEL CELL CORP.
    Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Benjamin J. Emley
  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TUBULAR CERAMIC STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20160368164
    Abstract: Tubular ceramic structures, e.g., anode components of tubular fuel cells, are manufactured by applying ceramic-forming composition to the external surface of the heat shrinkable polymeric tubular mandrel component of a rotating mandrel-spindle assembly, removing the spindle from the assembly after a predetermined thickness of tubular ceramic structure has been built up on the mandrel and thereafter heat shrinking the mandrel to cause the mandrel to separate from the tubular ceramic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Benjamin J. Emley
  • Process for producing tubular ceramic structures
    Patent number: 9452548
    Abstract: Tubular ceramic structures, e.g., anode components of tubular fuel cells, are manufactured by applying ceramic-forming composition to the external surface of the heat shrinkable polymeric tubular mandrel component of a rotating mandrel-spindle assembly, removing the spindle from the assembly after a predetermined thickness of tubular ceramic structure has been built up on the mandrel and thereafter heat shrinking the mandrel to cause the mandrel to separate from the tubular ceramic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Watt Fuel Cell Corp.
    Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Benjamin J. Emley
  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TUBULAR CERAMIC STRUCTURES OF NON-CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION
    Publication number: 20130059223
    Abstract: Tubular ceramic structures of non-circular cross section, e.g., anode components of tubular fuel cells of non-circular cross section, are manufactured by applying ceramic-forming composition to the external non-circular surface of the heat shrinkable polymeric tubular mandrel component of a rotating mandrel-spindle assembly, removing the spindle from said assembly after a predetermined thickness of tubular ceramic structure of non-circular cross section has been built up on the mandrel and thereafter heat shrinking the mandrel to cause the mandrel to separate from the tubular ceramic structure of non-circular cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: WATT Fuel Cell Corp.
    Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Benjamin J. Emley
  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TUBULAR CERAMIC STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20130056911
    Abstract: Tubular ceramic structures, e.g., anode components of tubular fuel cells, are manufactured by applying ceramic-forming composition to the external surface of the heat shrinkable polymeric tubular mandrel component of a rotating mandrel-spindle assembly, removing the spindle from said assembly after a predetermined thickness of tubular ceramic structure has been built up on the mandrel and thereafter heat shrinking the mandrel to cause the mandrel to separate from the tubular ceramic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: WATT Fuel Cell Corp.
    Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Benjamin J. Emley
  • ELECTRODE FOR A SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL AND METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20120251922
    Abstract: An electrode is provided containing spherical voids which improve its gas diffusion properties and improving thermal stability of materials with different properties including the coefficient of thermal expansion. The electrode is especially useful as a component, i.e., cathode and/or anode, of solid oxide fuel cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: WATT Fuel Cell Corp
    Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Rebecca L. Sharp, Benjamin J. Emley