Patents by Inventor Dale E. Hall

Dale E. Hall 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).

  • Articles comprising metal-coated polymeric substrates and process
    Patent number: 4783243
    Abstract: Improved articles are disclosed having a polymeric substrate containing a polymer, such as polyamide, and a metallic sulfide, such as copper sulfide, and a thin, uniform, and firmly adherent overlayer of an eletrodepositable metal, such as nickel. The metal overlayer may be continuous or selectively patterned over the polymeric substrate. The metal layer provides the articles with decorative, protective and electrically conductive characteristics without significantly diminishing polymeric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventors: Hiei Ando, Dale E. Hall
  • Electrolytic production of hydrogen
    Patent number: 4737249
    Abstract: A process for the electrochemical production of hydrogen from an aqueous alkaline electrolyte characterized by the use as a cathode of a material having the general formula AB.sub.5 H.sub.x wherein A is one or more of rare earth metals and calcium, B is nickel or cobalt and x is a number, generally from 4 to 8 characteristic of saturation of the AB.sub.5 -compound with hydrogen. The hydrogen is generated at a relatively low overpotential and thus at high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: Inco Alloys International, Inc.
    Inventors: Vance R. Shepard, Jr., Dale E. Hall, John T. Arms, William D. K. Clark
  • Process for preparing H.sub.2 evolution cathodes
    Patent number: 4555413
    Abstract: A process for preparing hydrogen evolution cathodes comprises plasma spraying or flame spraying AB.sub.5 intermetallic compound powder alone or in association with nickel, nickel alloy or iron powder onto a steel or nickel substrate and thereafter reducing the sprayed substrate at a temperature of up to about 650.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: Inco Alloys International, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall
  • Cathode for hydrogen evolution
    Patent number: 4547278
    Abstract: A cathode for hydrogen evolution comprising a substrate stable in aqueous alkaline media having on the surface thereof a coating of particles of an AB.sub.N intermetallic, and optionally particles of a metal inert in the electrolyte, e.g., nickel, adhered to the substrate by sintered polytetrafluoroethylene or similar polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Inco Alloys International, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Hall, Douglas S. Brown
  • Cathode for electrolytic production of hydrogen
    Patent number: 4410413
    Abstract: A cathode for use in the electrochemical production of hydrogen and process for making it which involves direct electrochemical cathodic action on a thermally produced adherent oxide on a nickel cathode surface. Examples include a nickel sheet thermally oxidized in air at 600.degree. C. for one hour and used directly in the production of electrolytic hydrogen and an iron sheet plasma sprayed with nickel to provide a surface containing thermal oxidation product of nickel and again used directly in the electrolytic production of hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall
  • Anode for oxygen evolution
    Patent number: 4384928
    Abstract: An anode for oxygen evolution in alkaline electrolyte is provided. The electrode comprises an electrically conductive support surface having a porous metal layer adhered to at least part of it and having Ni(OH).sub.2 molecules deposited upon the surface and within the pores of the porous metal layer. A process for producing this anode is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: MPD Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall
  • Nickel-zinc alloy deposition from a sulfamate bath
    Patent number: 4268364
    Abstract: An electroplating bath and process for producing a nickel-zinc alloy electrodeposit containing about 8% to 35% nickel characterized in that the bath is essentially a boric acid-containing sulfamate bath maintained at a pH of 2.5 to 4.0 and operated at a cathode current density of about 10 to 25 mA cm.sup.-2 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to 70.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Assignee: Inco Research & Development Center Inc.
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall
  • Electrodeposition of cadmium-selenium semiconducting photoelectrodes from an acid citrate bath
    Patent number: 4253919
    Abstract: A process for electrodepositing cadmium and selenium onto a material suitable for use as a photoelectrode in a photovoltaic cell. The plating electrolyte, in one embodiment, consists essentially of an acid citrate bath including hydrated citric acid, hydrated sodium citrate, hydrated cadmium chloride and selenious acid. The deposit may be subsequently heat treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Hall, William D. K. Clark
  • Process of water electrolyis
    Patent number: 4240887
    Abstract: Discloses a process of water electrolysis of concentrated alkaline aqueous solutions at temperatures above 60.degree. C. and at anode current densities of at least about 125 mA/cm.sup.2 in which the anode comprises an iron-nickel alloy containing 30% to about 45% nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Assignee: The International Nickel Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall
  • Sintered metal powder-coated electrodes for water electrolysis prepared with polysilicate-based paints
    Patent number: 4200515
    Abstract: An electrode for water electrolyzers comprising a steel base having a sintered porous layer of nickel, nickel-iron or iron on the steel base and having an electrochemically formed oxidic layer or hydrogen saturation associated with the sintered layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1980
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Hall, Ernest L. Huston
  • Combined fish hook set and fish line snubber
    Patent number: D274080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Inventor: Dale E. Hall