Patents by Inventor David Charles Sauer

David Charles Sauer 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: 10684265
    Abstract: A method for measuring volatile organic compounds includes loading glass containers into an oven, heating the oven, purging the oven with dry clean air, collecting a volumetric portion of an oven exhaust, trapping volatile organic compounds from the volumetric portion, and measuring the volatile organic compounds trapped in the trap. The one or more glass containers are in-tact while measuring the VOCs of the coated glass container. An apparatus includes an oven having an interior volume that is capable of holding one or more in-tact glass containers, a flow meter fluidly connected to the first trap, and a pump fluidly connected to the flow meter. The first trap collects volatile organic compounds from a volumetric portion of the oven exhaust gas. The pump controls a flow rate of the volumetric portion of the oven exhaust gas across the first trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Scott Burkhalter, Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, John Stephen Peanasky, David Charles Sauer
  • Publication number: 20180067091
    Abstract: A method for measuring volatile organic compounds includes loading glass containers into an oven, heating the oven, purging the oven with dry clean air, collecting a volumetric portion of an oven exhaust, trapping volatile organic compounds from the volumetric portion, and measuring the volatile organic compounds trapped in the trap. The one or more glass containers are in-tact while measuring the VOCs of the coated glass container. An apparatus includes an oven having an interior volume that is capable of holding one or more in-tact glass containers, a flow meter fluidly connected to the first trap, and a pump fluidly connected to the flow meter. The first trap collects volatile organic compounds from a volumetric portion of the oven exhaust gas. The pump controls a flow rate of the volumetric portion of the oven exhaust gas across the first trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Scott Burkhalter, Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, John Stephen Peanasky, David Charles Sauer