Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Alan Hopkins

Jeffrey Alan Hopkins 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: 10317136
    Abstract: An onsite purification plant/system to delivery high and ultra high purity product, such as, process chemicals, industrial and specialty gases to manufacturing processes within the onsite plant turndown ratio from 0% to 100% while preserving the predetermined purity of the supplied substances within a predefined specification range is provided. Preserving liquid/vapor ratio in at least one of the purification means/units ensuring that product purity range stays unchanged is achieved by redirecting the product back into the onsite purification plant/system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Edward Conway, Vladimir Yliy Gershtein, Jeffrey Alan Hopkins, Brian M. Lindenmuth, Thomas M. Booth
  • Publication number: 20160069612
    Abstract: An onsite purification plant/system to delivery high and ultra high purity product, such as, process chemicals, industrial and specialty gases to manufacturing processes within the onsite plant turndown ratio from 0% to 100% while preserving the predetermined purity of the supplied substances within a predefined specification range is provided. Preserving liquid/vapor ratio in at least one of the purification means/units ensuring that product purity range stays unchanged is achieved by redirecting the product back into the onsite purification plant/system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Edward Conway, Vladimir Yliy Gershtein, Jeffrey Alan Hopkins, Brian M. Lindenmuth, Thomas M. Booth
  • Patent number: 9216364
    Abstract: An onsite purification plant/system to delivery high and ultra high purity product, such as, process chemicals, industrial and specialty gases to manufacturing processes within the onsite plant turndown ratio from 0% to 100% while preserving the predetermined purity of the supplied substances within a predefined specification range is provided. Preserving liquid/vapor ratio in at least one of the purification means/units ensuring that product purity range stays unchanged is achieved by redirecting the product back into the onsite purification plant/system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Edward Conway, Vladimir Yliy Gershtein, Jeffrey Alan Hopkins, Brian M. Lindenmuth, Thomas M. Booth
  • Publication number: 20140262732
    Abstract: An onsite purification plant/system to delivery high and ultra high purity product, such as, process chemicals, industrial and specialty gases to manufacturing processes within the onsite plant turndown ratio from 0% to 100% while preserving the predetermined purity of the supplied substances within a predefined specification range is provided. Preserving liquid/vapor ratio in at least one of the purification means/units ensuring that product purity range stays unchanged is achieved by redirecting the product back into the onsite purification plant/system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Edward Conway, Vladimir Yliy Gershtein, Jeffrey Alan Hopkins, Brian M. Lindenmuth, Thomas M. Booth
  • Patent number: 5934104
    Abstract: The present invention is an improvement to a nitrogen generator enabling the process to efficiently coproduce oxygen with low recovery, typically less than 70% and preferably less than 55%, in addition to the primary product, nitrogen. In the nitrogen generator process, air is distilled in a distillation column system having a higher pressure column and a lower pressure column. The feed air is compressed, treated to remove water and carbon dioxide, cooled to near its dew point and fed to the higher pressure column of the distillation column system. The nitrogen product is produced by removing an overhead vapor stream from at least one of the columns of the distillation column system. At least one oxygen-enriched stream is removed from the lower pressure column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Tadeusz Fidkowski, Donn Michael Herron, Jeffrey Alan Hopkins