Patents by Inventor James F. Garvey
James F. Garvey 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).
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Patent number: 8840842Abstract: A system for reducing biological and/or chemical contaminants within a feed fluid stream includes in one embodiment at least one recuperator having a cold pass and a hot pass, wherein a contaminated fluid stream is introduced into the cold pass of the recuperator; optionally heating the feed fluid stream using a heater; and introducing the feed fluid stream into a compressor, and compressing the fluid stream to an elevated pressure, resulting in heating of the fluid stream to an elevated temperature, thereby producing a decontaminated fluid stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Buffalo BioBlower Technologies, LLCInventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, James Wulf
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Patent number: 8142716Abstract: An improved method of purifying a fluid having fluid-borne contaminants I including the steps of: providing a pump (21) having an inlet (22) and an outlet (23); connecting the pump inlet to a source (24) of contaminated fluid; operating the pump at. a pressure ratio of at least 2.0 so as to sufficiently elevate the temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing through the pump, or, alternatively, operating the pump so that the outlet temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing therethrough is at least about 200° C.; and controlling the time during which the temperature of the fluid and contaminants are elevated; thereby to alter or convert substantially all of the contaminants passing through the pump.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Research Foundation of State University of New YorkInventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, Joseph Mollendorf, James D. Felske
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Publication number: 20110061538Abstract: An improved method of purifying a fluid having fluid-borne contaminants I including the steps of: providing a pump (21) having an inlet (22) and an outlet (23); connecting the pump inlet to a source (24) of contaminated fluid; operating the pump at. a pressure ratio of at least 2.0 so as to sufficiently elevate the temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing through the pump, or, alternatively, operating the pump so that the outlet temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing therethrough is at least about 200° C.; and controlling the time during which the temperature of the fluid and contaminants are elevated; thereby to alter or convert substantially all of the contaminants passing through the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: Research Foundation of State University of New YorkInventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, Joseph Mollendorf, James D. Felske
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Publication number: 20100316535Abstract: A system for reducing biological and/or chemical contaminants within a feed fluid stream includes in one embodiment at least one recuperator having a cold pass and a hot pass, wherein a contaminated fluid stream is introduced into the cold pass of the recuperator; optionally heating the feed fluid stream using a heater; and introducing the feed fluid stream into a compressor, and compressing the fluid stream to an elevated pressure, resulting in heating of the fluid stream to an elevated temperature, thereby producing a decontaminated fluid stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, James Wulf
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Patent number: 7799272Abstract: A method for reducing biological and/or chemical contaminants within a feed fluid stream includes in one embodiment the following steps: a) introducing the fluid stream into a cold pass of at least one recuperator; b) optionally heating the feed fluid stream using a heater; and c) introducing the feed fluid stream into a compressor, and compressing the fluid stream to an elevated pressure, resulting in heating of the fluid stream to an elevated temperature, thereby producing a decontaminated fluid stream.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Buffalo BioBlower Technologies LLCInventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, James Wulf
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Publication number: 20080292494Abstract: A method for reducing biological and/or chemical contaminants within a feed fluid stream includes in one embodiment the following steps: a) introducing the fluid stream into a cold pass of at least one recuperator; b) optionally heating the feed fluid stream using a heater; and c) introducing the feed fluid stream into a compressor, and compressing the fluid stream to an elevated pressure, resulting in heating of the fluid stream to an elevated temperature, thereby producing a decontaminated fluid stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, James Wulf
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Publication number: 20080179258Abstract: An improved method of altering a fluid-borne contaminant includes the steps of: providing a pump (21) having an inlet (22) and an outlet (23); connecting the pump inlet to a source (24) of contaminated fluid; operating the pump at a pressure ratio of at least 2.0 so as to sufficiently elevate the temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing through the pump, or, alternatively, operating the pump so that the outlet temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing therethrough is at least about 200° C.; and controlling the time during which the temperature of the fluid and contaminants are elevated; thereby to alter or convert substantially all of the contaminants passing through the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2008Publication date: July 31, 2008Applicant: The Research Foundation of the State University of New YorkInventors: James F. GARVEY, John A. LORDI, Joseph C. MOLLENDORF, James D. FELSKE
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Patent number: 7335333Abstract: An improved method of altering a fluid-borne contaminant includes the steps of: providing a positive-displacement pump (21) having an inlet (22) and an outlet (23); connecting the pump inlet to a source (24) of contaminated fluid; operating the pump at a pressure ratio sufficient to elevate the pressure and temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing through the pump to alter or convert substantially all of the contaminants passing through the pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: The Research Foundation of the State University of New YorkInventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, Joseph C. Mollendorf, James D. Felske
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Patent number: 6797336Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for the synthesis of multi-component substances, comprising entities of at least two elements, molecules, grains, crystals, structural units, or phases of matter, in which the scale of the distribution of the elements, molecules, or phases of matter may range from on the order of nanometers or less, to about one millimeter, depending upon the specific materials and process conditions that are chosen. The method and apparatus of the present invention further provides processes for preparing these compositions of matter as thin films or particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: AMBP Tech CorporationInventors: James F. Garvey, Gary S. Tompa, Stuart G. MacDonald, Robert L. DeLeon
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Publication number: 20040184907Abstract: An improved method of altering a fluid-borne contaminant includes the steps of: providing a pump (21) having an inlet (22) and an outlet (23); connecting the pump inlet to a source (24) of contaminated fluid; operating the pump at a pressure ratio of at least 2.0 so as to sufficiently elevate the temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing through the pump, or, alternatively, operating the pump so that the outlet temperature of the fluid and contaminants passing therethrough is at least about 200° C.; and controlling the time during which the temperature of the fluid and contaminants are elevated; thereby to alter or convert substantially all of the contaminants passing through the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Applicant: The Research Foundation of the State University of New YorkInventors: James F. Garvey, John A. Lordi, Joseph C. Mollendorf, James D. Felske
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Patent number: 6702934Abstract: Deposition of thin films or powders by reactive pulsed arc molecular beam deposition. To produce these films and powders, a reactive or non-reactive gas is pulsed between a pair of electrodes situated within a vacuum chamber. The gas can be either chemically inert, to produce pure cathode material films, or chemically reactive, to produce chemical compounds of the cathode material. A storage capacitor is discharged between the electrode pair during the gas pulse. The gas serves as a carrier to direct and transport the ablated material to a substrate which is placed inline with the gas pulse, on which a film or powder of the electrode material or a chemical compound of the electrode material is then coated.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: AMBP Tech. Corp.Inventors: Robert L. DeLeon, James F. Garvey, Eric F. Rexer, Gary S. Tompa
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Patent number: 6613198Abstract: A process for preparing a material in which a gas mixture is subjected to a a temperature of at least 1,000 degrees Celsius while its pressure increased to at least 1,000 Torr. The pressurized hot gas mixture, which contains inert gas and fullerene ions, is then quenched by decreasing its temperature to a temperature of less than 500 degrees Celsius in a period of less than about 1 millisecond, and by decreasing its pressure of to a pressure of less than about 1 Torr in a period of less than about 10 milliseconds.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventors: James F. Garvey, Gary S. Tompa, Stuart G. MacDonald
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Publication number: 20030121887Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for the synthesis of multi-component substances, comprising entities of at least two elements, molecules, grains, crystals, structural units, or phases of matter, in which the scale of the distribution of the elements, molecules, or phases of matter may range from on the order of nanometers or less, to about one millimeter, depending upon the specific materials and process conditions that are chosen. The method and apparatus of the present invention further provides processes for preparing these compositions of matter as thin films or particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: James F. Garvey, Gary S. Tompa, Stuart G. MacDonald, Robert L. DeLeon
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Publication number: 20030029735Abstract: A process for preparing a material in which a gas mixture is subjected to a a temperature of at least 1,000 degrees Celsius while its pressure increased to at least 1,000 Torr. The pressurized hot gas mixture, which contains inert gas and fullerene ions, is then quenched by decreasing its temperature to a temperature of less than 500 degrees Celsius in a period of less than about 1 millisecond, and by decreasing its pressure of to a pressure of less than about 1 Torr in a period of less than about 10 milliseconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: James F. Garvey, Gary S. Tompa, Stuart G. MacDonald
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Patent number: 4966887Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of directly forming a thin, oriented layer, or film, of superconducting materials, or compositions suitably mixtures of Perovskite-type superconducting oxides, on a support base, or substrate, by the use of a laser assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The method steps generally comprise forming at least one target comprised of metallic precursors of a superconducting oxide composition and vaporizing at least a portion of the target using a vaporization laser beam to produce a vaporized precursor of an appropriate or desired entrained in a pulsed, rapidly flowing, gaseous atmosphere containing at least one gas reactive with said vaporized precursor composition to form a reacted precursor of a superconducting composition. The reacted precursor composition is then formed into a substantially singular, uniform molecular beam, and deposited on a substrate in the form of a thin layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1988Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of NYInventor: James F. Garvey