Patents by Inventor Christopher Conlon
Christopher Conlon 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).
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Patent number: 11919913Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having the structure: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently H, halogen, CF3 or C1-C4 alkyl; R4 is H, OH, or halogen; B is a substituted or unsubstituted heterobicycle, pyridazine, pyrazole, pyrazine, thiadiazole, or triazole, wherein the heterobicycle is other than chloro substituted indole; and the pyrazole, when substituted, is substituted with other than trifluoromethyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKInventors: Konstantin Petrukhin, Christopher Cioffi, Graham Johnson, Nicoleta Dobri, Emily Freeman, Ping Chen, Michael Conlon, Lei Zhu
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Patent number: 10615427Abstract: A method of producing a flow field plate for a fuel cell comprises over-profiling relief features in a die set to more accurately reproduce the intended flow channel features in the pressed plate. The process includes determining a target relief profile of features extending across the plate along at least a first dimension of the plate, modulating the relief profile with an over-profiling parameter, as a function of the first dimension; forming a die with the modulated relief profile; and pressing a flow field plate using the die with modulated relief profile to thereby produce the unmodulated, target relief profile in the flow field plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: INTELLIGENT ENERGY LIMITEDInventor: Christopher Conlon
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Patent number: 10174882Abstract: A gas filling apparatus for filling a plurality of gas storage vessels with a gas, the apparatus comprising a plurality of gas filling ports, each port configured to introduce gas into one of the gas storage vessels, and a controller configured to supply gas to the gas filling ports for filling the vessels and to control the supply of gas to all of the gas filling ports based on a property of any one of the vessels.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: INTELLIGENT ENERGY LIMITEDInventors: Colin Cort, Colin Bennett, Christopher Conlon, Simon Payne, Monjur Choudhury, Hiten Mistry
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Patent number: 10145511Abstract: A gas filling apparatus for filling a plurality of gas storage vessels with a gas, the apparatus comprising a plurality of gas filling ports, each port configured to introduce gas into one of the gas storage vessels, and a controller configured to supply gas to the gas filling ports for filling the vessels and to control the supply of gas to all of the gas filling ports based on a property of any one of the vessels.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: INTELLIGENT ENERGY LIMITEDInventors: Colin Cort, Colin Bennett, Christopher Conlon, Simon Payne, Monjur Choudhury, Hiten Mistry
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Patent number: 10038203Abstract: A separator plate in an air-cooled fuel cell comprises a series of airflow channels, each channel extending longitudinally between first and second opposing edges of the separator plate. Each channel has a cross-sectional profile defining an airflow cross-section at points along the length of the channel, and at least selected ones of the channels each have a thermally conductive structure extending into the channel cross-section at selected intermediate longitudinal positions of the channel. The positions are disposed over an active area of the fuel cell, to locally enhance heat transfer from the active area via the plate to airflow moving through the channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Intelligent Energy LimitedInventors: Christopher James Gurney, Paul Leonard Adcock, Carl Christie, Lydia Jowsey, Simon Stevenson, Christopher Conlon
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Patent number: 9985301Abstract: The invention relates to fuel cell assemblies, and in particular to improvements relating to sealing of such assemblies, embodiments of which include a fuel cell assembly (200) comprising a membrane electrode assembly (104), a cathode separator plate (208) having a series of corrugations extending, and providing air flow paths, between first and second opposing edges of the plate, a gasket (105) providing a fluid seal around a peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly (104) between the separator plate (208) and the membrane electrode assembly (104) and a metal shim (107) disposed between the gasket (105) and the separator plate (208) over the peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly (104).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Intelligent Energy LimitedInventors: Jonathan Cole, Christopher James Kirk, Christopher Conlon, Peter David Hood
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Publication number: 20180097241Abstract: A method of producing a flow field plate for a fuel cell comprises over-profiling relief features in a die set to more accurately reproduce the intended flow channel features in the pressed plate. The process includes determining a target relief profile of features extending across the plate along at least a first dimension of the plate, modulating the relief profile with an over-profiling parameter, as a function of the first dimension; forming a die with the modulated relief profile; and pressing a flow field plate using the die with modulated relief profile to thereby produce the unmodulated, target relief profile in the flow field plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: INTELLIGENT ENERGY LIMITEDInventor: Christopher CONLON
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Patent number: 9853297Abstract: A method of producing a flow field plate for a fuel cell comprises over-profiling relief features in a die set to more accurately reproduce the intended flow channel features in the pressed plate. The process includes determining a target relief profile of features extending across the plate along at least a first dimension of the plate, modulating the relief profile with an over-profiling parameter, as a function of the first dimension; forming a die with the modulated relief profile; and pressing a flow field plate using the die with modulated relief profile to thereby produce the unmodulated, target relief profile in the flow field plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Intelligent Energy LimitedInventor: Christopher Conlon
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Publication number: 20170110740Abstract: A separator plate in an air-cooled fuel cell comprises a series of airflow channels, each channel extending longitudinally between first and second opposing edges of the separator plate. Each channel has a cross-sectional profile defining an airflow cross-section at points along the length of the channel, and at least selected ones of the channels each have a thermally conductive structure extending into the channel cross-section at selected intermediate longitudinal positions of the channel. The positions are disposed over an active area of the fuel cell, to locally enhance heat transfer from the active area via the plate to airflow moving through the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: Intelligent Energy LimitedInventors: Christopher James Gurney, Paul Leonard Adcock, Carl Christie, Lydia Jowsey, Simon Stevenson, Christopher Conlon
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Publication number: 20160195219Abstract: A gas filling apparatus for filling a plurality of gas storage vessels with a gas, the apparatus comprising a plurality of gas filling ports, each port configured to introduce gas into one of the gas storage vessels, and a controller configured to supply gas to the gas filling ports for filling the vessels and to control the supply of gas to all of the gas filling ports based on a property of any one of the vessels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Applicant: INTELLIGENT ENERGY LIMITEDInventors: Colin Cort, Colin Bennett, Christopher Conlon, Simon Payne, Monjur Choudhury, Hiten Mistry
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Publication number: 20150340711Abstract: A method of producing a flow field plate for a fuel cell comprises over-profiling relief features in a die set to more accurately reproduce the intended flow channel features in the pressed plate. The process includes determining a target relief profile of features extending across the plate along at least a first dimension of the plate, modulating the relief profile with an over-profiling parameter, as a function of the first dimension; forming a die with the modulated relief profile; and pressing a flow field plate using the die with modulated relief profile to thereby produce the unmodulated, target relief profile in the flow field plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventor: Christopher CONLON
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Publication number: 20140220473Abstract: The invention relates to fuel cell assemblies, and in particular to improvements relating to sealing of such assemblies, embodiments of which include a fuel cell assembly (200) comprising a membrane electrode assembly (104), a cathode separator plate (208) having a series of corrugations extending, and providing air flow paths, between first and second opposing edges of the plate, a gasket (105) providing a fluid seal around a peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly (104) between the separator plate (208) and the membrane electrode assembly (104) and a metal shim (107) disposed between the gasket (105) and the separator plate (208) over the peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly (104).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Intelligent Energy LimitedInventors: Jonathan Cole, Christopher James Kirk, Christopher Conlon, Peter David Hood
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Publication number: 20050084831Abstract: A training system uses a mechanical mock-up with electrically conductive probe points connected to electronically readable memories, and a simulated diagnostic tool to interface with a system or machine simulation for the purpose of operation, maintenance or procedure training. When a probe of a simulated diagnostic tool comes into contact with a probe point of the mechanical mock-up, the electronically readable memory supplies a unique identifier code that is communicated by the simulated diagnostic tool to the simulation to indicate the contact of the probe with the corresponding probe point. Complex wiring connections between the mechanical mock-up and a computer that runs the simulation are eliminated and construction of the training system is significantly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: April 21, 2005Inventors: Robert Ison, Christopher Conlon, Douglas Howell, David Allen, Mark Reeve-Fowkes, Laurence Norman, Stephen Taylor