Patents by Inventor Charles E. Treanor

Charles E. Treanor 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).

  • Thermal-radiation excited vibrational-exchange pumped laser generator
    Patent number: 4163199
    Abstract: Thermal radiation, or any incoherent radiation at the desired wavelenths, is converted into laser energy by using radiant absorption from a radiation source by a cold gas. The cold gas absorbs vibrational energy while remaining otherwise cold, and exchange of vibrational energy between molecules at this low temperature causes population inversions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1979
    Assignee: Calspan Corporation
    Inventor: Charles E. Treanor
  • Method for the initiation of chemical reactions by low pressure optical pumping
    Patent number: 4142955
    Abstract: When using CO as the absorbing and lasing species for vibration-vibration energy transfer and subsequent vibration-vibration pumping, CO can be made to dissociate and subsequently form C.sub.2 with isotope separation, or CO may be made to chemically react with N.sub.2 to produce CN with isotope separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Calspan Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph W. Rich, Richard C. Bergman, Charles E. Treanor