Patents by Inventor Douglas Bastian

Douglas Bastian 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: 9091168
    Abstract: This rotary internal combustion engine has two rotatable vane type pistons mounted for axial rotation in a sealed casing. In an exemplary cycle, one piston is released to rotate at or prior to initiating combustion in the combustion space between the two pistons, while the other remains fixed. As the free piston rotates around to the position where the fixed piston is located, it drives exhaust from a prior cycle out of an exhaust outlet and then compresses air towards the combustion space. The roles of the pistons are reversed on the next cycle. Two units may be operated in tandem so that the power stroke of one unit provides power to help finalize the cycle of the other. Hydrogen is used as a preferred fuel, and water preferably serves as a lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Inventor: Douglas Bastian
  • Patent number: 7790670
    Abstract: A nutritional supplement composition having therapeutically effective amounts of milk minerals including calcium, a protein source including ?-casein fragment 106-169, and enzyme-inhibiting peptides is provided for the treatment of body weight conditions. The nutritional supplement composition is administered in amounts effective for limiting weight gain and/or enhancing weight loss, as well as promoting overall good health, in the treatment of body weight conditions, including overweight and obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Glanbia Nutritionals (Ireland) Ltd.
    Inventors: Loren Spencer Ward, Eric Douglas Bastian, Starla Joyce Paulsen
  • Publication number: 20090145397
    Abstract: This rotary internal combustion engine has two rotatable vane type pistons mounted for axial rotation in a sealed casing. In an exemplary cycle, one piston is released to rotate at or prior to initiating combustion in the combustion space between the two pistons, while the other remains fixed. As the free piston rotates around to the position where the fixed piston is located, it drives exhaust from a prior cycle out of an exhaust outlet and then compresses air towards the combustion space. The roles of the pistons are reversed on the next cycle. Two units may be operated in tandem so that the power stroke of one unit provides power to help finalize the cycle of the other. Hydrogen is used as a preferred fuel, and water preferably serves as a lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Douglas Bastian
  • Patent number: 7441534
    Abstract: This rotary internal combustion engine has two rotatable vane type pistons mounted for axial rotation in a sealed casing. In an exemplary cycle, one piston is released to rotate at or prior to initiating combustion in the combustion space between the two pistons, while the other remains fixed. As the free piston rotates around to the position where the fixed piston is located, it drives exhaust from a prior cycle out of an exhaust outlet and then compresses air towards the combustion space. The roles of the pistons are reversed on the next cycle. Two units may be operated in tandem so that the power stroke of one unit provides power to help finalize the cycle of the other. Hydrogen is used as a preferred fuel, and water preferably serves as a lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Inventor: Douglas Bastian
  • Patent number: 7399496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to whey protein compositions that can be incorporated into solid foodstuffs and liquid compositions to provide supplemental amounts of protein. The foodstuffs and liquid compositions are stable when subject to conditions of heat and/or time and can include increased amounts of whey proteins. Methods of making the compositions include providing a protein solution including an enzyme for providing a predetermined degree of hydrolysis of the protein solution, maintaining the temperature and pH of the solution to hydrolyze the protein solution and providing an essentially neutral whey protein hydrolysate, and separating the protein solution using a membrane filtration process to obtain a retentate of whey protein hydrolysate having an essentially neutral pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Glanbia Nutritionals (Ireland) Limited
    Inventors: Starla Paulsen, Loren Spencer Ward, Eric Douglas Bastian, Brent Petersen, Bonney Oommen
  • Publication number: 20060124102
    Abstract: This rotary internal combustion engine has two rotatable vane type pistons (A1, A2) mounted for axial rotation in a sealed casing (1). Engageable locking mechanisms (5, 6) can lock the two pistons (A1, A2) in position proximate to each other so as to form a combustion space (7) between the two pistons (A1, A2). In an exemplary cycle, one piston (A2) is released to rotate at or prior to initiating combustion in the combustion space (7), while the other (A1) remains fixed. As the free piston (A2) rotates around to the position where the fixed piston (A1) is located, it drives exhaust from a prior cycle out of an exhaust outlet (8) and then compresses air towards the combustion space (7). The roles of the pistons (A1, A2) are reversed on the next cycle with the piston (A1) that was fixed before becoming the moving piston (A1) and the piston (A2) that was moving before becoming the fixed piston (A2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventor: Douglas Bastian
  • Publication number: 20040156969
    Abstract: The present invention relates to whey protein compositions that can be incorporated into solid foodstuffs and liquid compositions to provide supplemental amounts of protein. The foodstuffs and liquid compositions are stable when subject to conditions of heat and/or time and can include increased amounts of whey proteins. Methods of making the compositions include providing a protein solution including an enzyme for providing a predetermined degree of hydrolysis of the protein solution, maintaining the temperature and pH of the solution to hydrolyze the protein solution and providing an essentially neutral whey protein hydrolysate, and separating the protein solution using a membrane filtration process to obtain a retentate of whey protein hydrolysate having an essentially neutral pH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Starla Paulsen, Loren Spencer Ward, Eric Douglas Bastian, Brent Petersen, Bonney Oommen
  • Publication number: 20030165574
    Abstract: A nutritional supplement composition having therapeutically effective amounts of milk minerals including calcium, a protein source including &kgr;-casein fragment 106-169, and enzyme-inhibiting peptides is provided for the treatment of body weight conditions. The nutritional supplement composition is administered in amounts effective for limiting weight gain and/or enhancing weight loss, as well as promoting overall good health, in the treatment of body weight conditions, including overweight and obesity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Loren Spencer Ward, Eric Douglas Bastian, Starla Joyce Paulsen
  • Publication number: 20030118662
    Abstract: Food products fortified with a therapeutically effective amount of milk mineral are administered for the treatment of high blood pressure, stroke, obesity, kidney stones, colon cancer, breast cancer, head and neck tumors, premenstrual syndrome, postpartum depression, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, Type-2 diabetes, depression, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, attention deficit disorder, migraine headaches, kidney disease, hypercholesterolaemia, congestive heart failure, or immune deficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Glanbia Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Douglas Bastian, Loren Spencer Ward