Patents by Inventor Gorken Melikian

Gorken Melikian 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: 5030423
    Abstract: A configuration for enhancing the performance of air pollution removal integrated air conditioning systems for airstreams having low level gaseous contaminants. The configuration includes a first filter comprising activated carbon for adsorbing gaseous contaminants, wherein adsorption is degraded by the presence of moisture, a means for increasing the moisture content of the airstream, and a second filter impregnated with chemical reagents for removal of gaseous contaminants, such gaseous contaminants reacting with the reagents to form noncontaminants, wherein the reaction is enhanced by the presence of moisture. The means for increasing the moisture content is positioned downstream of said first filter and upstream of said second filter. Also disclosed is a method for enhancing the performance of air pollution removal integrated air conditioning systems for airstreams having low level gaseous contaminants by utilizing the configuration of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy N. Obee, Gorken Melikian
  • Patent number: 4464908
    Abstract: The turbocompressor comprises a power turbine (14) and a compressor turbine (16) having respective rotors (18) and (20) on a common shaft (22), rotatably supported by bearings (26) and (28). A first working fluid is supplied by a power loop (32) and is expanded in the turbine (14). A second working fluid is compressed in the turbine (16) and is circulated in a heat pump loop (70). A lubricant is mixed with the second working fluid but is excluded from the first working fluid. Bearings (26) and (28) are cooled and lubricated by a system which circulates the second working fluid and the intermixed lubricant through the bearings (26) and (28). Such system includes a pump (126), a thermostatic expansion valve (150) for expanding the working fluid into the space (152) between the bearings (26) and (28), and a return conduit system (154, 156, 158) for withdrawing the expanded working fluid after it passes through the bearings and for returning the working fluid to the evaporator (82).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Abraham M. Landerman, Frank R. Biancardi, Gorken Melikian, Maurice D. Meader, Charles E. Kepler, Torger J. Anderson, James W. Sitler
  • Patent number: 4088865
    Abstract: Welding apparatus featuring a right angle beam handling tube for directing a fixed laser beam from an entrance to the tube to a rotatably supported output reflector in a focus head mounted on an outlet of the tube. The tube has upstream and downstream duct sections which are independently extendible and retractable relative to their juncture, the juncture and a laser beam translating mirror mounted therein being movable only in a linear direction coincident with the incoming beam axis along the upstream duct section to ensure beam alignment with the entrance and outlet of the right angle beam handling tube while permitting the distances therebetween to vary to selectively position the focus head relative to a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: George T. Peters, Gorken Melikian, Frank R. Biancardi