Patents by Inventor Harold E. Temple

Harold E. Temple 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).

  • Silicon melting crucible
    Patent number: 4356152
    Abstract: An improved liner for crucibles and dies used to melt silicon comprising one or more sheets of graphite each of which has on at least the surface facing the silicon melt a layer of silicon nitride or silicon oxynitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Berkman, Michael T. Duffy, Harold E. Temple
  • Apparatus for use in the production of ribbon-shaped crystals from a silicon melt
    Patent number: 4242553
    Abstract: An improved apparatus characterized by an R-F coil, a crucible for confining a silicon melt, and a susceptor for supporting the crucible facilitating an electrical coupling of the coil with the melt. The susceptor comprises a pair of susceptor halves of a thickness less than two skin depths, each being the mirror image of the other, disposed in mutually opposed, electrically insulated relation, while the crucible comprises a quartz body supported by the graphite susceptor, whereby the R-F coil is electrically coupled with the melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Inventors: Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, Samuel Berkman, Harold E. Temple
  • Means for growing ribbon crystals without subjecting the crystals to thermal shock-induced strains
    Patent number: 4216186
    Abstract: In combination with a susceptor particularly suited for use in growing a ribbon crystal employing edge-defined film-fed growth techniques and characterized by a susceptor including a die through which a melt is drawn for forming a crystal ribbon, a pair of jets for directing a stream of fluid coolant along a path extended to impinge on the susceptor in close proximity with the die in non-incident relation with the crystal being grown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Inventors: Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, Samuel Berkman, Kyong-Min Kim, Harold E. Temple
  • Apparatus for the production of ribbon shaped crystals
    Patent number: 4157373
    Abstract: Apparatus for pulling a ribbon shaped crystal from a melt of the same downwardly through a shaping guide having a "V" shaped longitudinal trough for containing the melt. The inner wall of the trough is a die set having a longitudinal slit at the apex of the "V".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Berkman, Kyong-Min Kim, Harold E. Temple