Patents by Inventor Brian E. Fuchs

Brian E. Fuchs 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).

  • Patent number: 9165721
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Linh Le, De Kong, Matthew Henderson Ervin, James L. Zunino, III, Brian E. Fuchs
  • Patent number: 9025316
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, The United States of America, as Represented by The Secretary of The Army
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Linh Le, De Kong, Matthew Henderson Ervin, James L. Zunino, III, Brian E. Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20140334065
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicants: THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Linh Le, De Kong, Matthew Henderson Ervin, James L. Zunino, III, Brian E. Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20140321028
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicants: THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Linh Le, De Kong, Matthew Henderson Ervin, James L. Zunino, III, Brian E. Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8810996
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Linh Le, De Kong, Matthew Henderson Ervin, James L. Zunino, III, Brian E. Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8636861
    Abstract: Secondary crystalline high explosives are disclosed which are suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms (MEMS), used as safe and arm (S&A) devices. The explosives are prepared by adding the such a high explosive to an aqueous first volatile mobile phase, adding such a high explosive to a non-aqueous second volatile mobile phase, mixing the first and second volatile mobile phases and then loading the combined phases into the MEMS device and allowing the aqueous and non-aqueous solvents to evaporate depositing the high explosive. Enhanced adhesion between the deposited high explosive and enhanced rheological properties can be obtained by adding a polymeric binder to both mobile phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Daniel Stec, III, Amy Wilson, Brian E. Fuchs, Neha Mehta, Paula Cook
  • Patent number: 8573123
    Abstract: A method of forming a conductive ink bridge wire EED on either a flat or curved substrate, wherein a finely detailed bridge wire EED is printed on the substrate using a nano-particle conductive material applied with a commercially available piezoelectric drop-on-demand ink jet printer—which bridge wire is subsequently coated with a first primary explosive layer, an optional second transition explosive layer, and a third secondary explosive layer—such that upon creating a current through the bridge wire EED, the bridge wire is heated and the explosive layers detonate in turn, and in turn initiate the detonation of the device to which the detonator is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Brian E. Fuchs, James L. Zunino, III, Daniel P. Schmidt, Daniel Stec, III, Anne Marie Petrock
  • Publication number: 20120170171
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Linh Le, De Kong, Matthew Henderson Ervin, James L. Zunino, III, Brian E. Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7976654
    Abstract: High explosives suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms, used as safe and arm devices, are prepared from slurries of crystalline energetic materials including organic liquid and applied using various methods. These methods include swipe loading, pressure loading and syringe loading. The organic liquid serves as a volatile mobile phase in the slurry so as to partially dissolve the energetic material so that, upon evaporation of the mobile phase, the energetic material precipitates and adheres to the loading hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Daniel Stec, III, Gartung Cheng, Brian E. Fuchs, Gerard Gillen, Neha Mehta
  • Patent number: 7967929
    Abstract: Secondary crystalline high explosives are disclosed which are suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms (MEMS), used as safe and arm (S&A) devices. The explosives are prepared by adding the such a high explosive to an aqueous first volatile mobile phase, adding such a high explosive to a non-aqueous second volatile mobile phase, mixing the first and second volatile mobile phases and then loading the combined phases into the MEMS device and allowing the aqueous and non-aqueous solvents to evaporate depositing the high explosive. Enhanced adhesion between the deposited high explosive and enhanced rheological properties can be obtained by adding a polymeric binder to both mobile phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Daniel Stec, III, Amy Wilson, Brian E. Fuchs, Neha Mehta, Paula Cook
  • Patent number: 7964045
    Abstract: High explosive coatings and inks suitable for use in micro-electronic initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms used as safe and arm devices, are prepared from coating compositions of crystalline energetic materials and applied using various methods. These methods include wiping and spraying, as well as, pressure applications using a syringe or the like, and application of thick film ink to write specified patterns on a selected surface. A volatile mobile phase may be added to the coating composition to partially dissolve the energetic material so that, upon evaporation of the mobile phase, the energetic material precipitates and adheres to the selected surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Daniel Stec, III, Gartung Cheng, Brian E. Fuchs, Neha Mehta
  • Publication number: 20100024933
    Abstract: High explosives suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms, used as safe and arm devices, are prepared from slurries of crystalline energetic materials including organic liquid and applied using various methods. These methods include swipe loading, pressure loading and syringe loading. The organic liquid serves as a volatile mobile phase in the slurry so as to partially dissolve the energetic material so that, upon evaporation of the mobile phase, the energetic material precipitates and adheres to the loading hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Daniel Stec, III, Gartung Cheng, Brian E. Fuchs, Gerard Gillen, Neha Mehta
  • Patent number: 7052562
    Abstract: High explosives suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms, used as safe and arm devices, are prepared from slurries of crystalline energetic materials and applied using various methods. These methods include swipe loading, pressure loading and syringe loading. A volatile mobile phase may be added to the slurry so as to partially dissolve the energetic material so that, upon evaporation of the mobile phase, the energetic material precipitates and adheres to the loading hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: The United State of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Daniel Stec, III, Gartung Cheng, Brian E. Fuchs, Gerard Gillen, Neha Mehta