Patents by Inventor Christine Lucas

Christine Lucas 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).

  • Cobalt encapsulated nickel hydroxides and basic carbonates for battery electrodes
    Patent number: 7267874
    Abstract: A process for producing a cobalt III encapsulated nickel hydroxide or basic nickel carbonate product including the steps of: (i) providing an ammoniacal solution including cobalt ammine complexes and nickel II ammine complexes; (ii) progressively lowering the ammonia content to sequentially precipate the nickel as an hydroxide or basic carbonate; and (iii) further lowering the ammonia content to precipitate the majority of the cobalt as cobalt III oxide hydroxide; wherein the majority of cobalt III oxide hydroxide coats on the surface of the precipitate nickel hydroxide or basic nickel carbonate to form a coated particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: QNI Technology Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Ernest Fittock, Cheryl Christine Lucas, Katherine Fiona Howison
  • Cobalt encapseated nickel hydroxides and basic carbonates for battery electrodes
    Publication number: 20040091414
    Abstract: A process for producing a cobalt III encapsulated nickel hydroxide or basic nickel carbonate product including the steps of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: John Ernest Fittock, Cheryl Christine Lucas, Katherine Fiona Howison
  • Portable pencil pocket
    Patent number: 6000103
    Abstract: A portable pencil pocket 10 has one or more compartments for holding pencils 40,42. The pocket is made of plastic webbing that is folded at one end to form a pocket 20 and at the other end to form a loop 22. A shower clip 50 holds the pocket 10 to an article of clothing, such as a belt loop or button hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Inventors: Bette Paice, Kristy M. Goodman, Tiera Boyd, Brandon Smith, Jillian Kay Sherwin, Rosanne May Milem, David K. Van Fleet, Jr., Daniel Timothy Nau, Justin James Bousquin, Ronald Eugene Parisi, Miranda L. Ludwig, Rebecca L. Goodman, Jared S. Putman, Evan James Parkison, Christine Lucas, Chris La Patra, Jason Walter Burgess, Thomas Humbert, Jeff Wren, Shane T. S. Frey, Shawna Lewis, Benjamin Immerman, Danielle French, Laura Castor, Andrew Coleman, Wendy Mottler, Will Lott, Nicole Ferguson, Cindy Spencer, Joshua Norton, James Penta, James McIntyre, Wesley King
  • Process for the selective hydrogenation of compounds comprising endo and exocyclic unsaturations
    Patent number: 5475174
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the selective hydrogenation of polyunsaturated cyclic compounds comprising at least one endocyclic carbon-carbon double bond and at least one terminal exocyclic carbon-carbon double bond, said double bonds not being conjugated, to form a mixture essentially containing the saturated ring compound and comprising at least one terminal exocyclic double bond, the process being carried out in the presence of hydrogen under a pressure of from 1 to 10 MPa and at a temperature of from 0.degree. to 200.degree. C., and in the presence of a catalyst including a support and (a) from 0.1 to 5% by weight of at least one metal from group VIII (iridium, osmium, nickel, palladium, platinum and rhodium) and (b) from 0.01 to 15% by weight of at least one metal from group IVa (tin, germanium and lead), the molar ratio between metals of group VIII and group IVa being between 0.3 and 3. The process is used for the hydrogenation of 4-vinylcylcohexene to vinylcyclohexane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Christine Lucas, Jean-Pierre Candy, Jean-Marie Basset, Blaise Didillon, Jean-Paul Boitiaux