Patents by Inventor John Louis Vossen, Jr.

John Louis Vossen, Jr. 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).

  • Adherence of metal films to polymeric materials
    Patent number: 4101402
    Abstract: The addition of copper, either as a thin film or as an alloy constituent, to nickel-chromium alloys improves the adhesion of such alloys to polymeric substrates and coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: John Louis Vossen, Jr., Frederick Russell Nyman, George Frederick Nichols
  • Video disc capacitive recording means with a conductive bilayer
    Patent number: 4077052
    Abstract: This invention relates to a capacitive recording means comprising a video disc with a thin conductive bilayer on the surface of the disc wherein the bilayer is a first layer of copper and a second layer of an alloy of nickel, chromium and iron which contains oxygen. An inorganic dielectric layer is disposed on the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: John Louis Vossen, Jr.
  • Video disc with a conductive layer having an oxygen content gradient
    Patent number: 4077051
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a video disc having a conductive bilayer thereon of a copper layer and a nickel/chromium/iron alloy layer wherein the alloy layer contains oxygen which decreases in content from the copper-alloy interface to an alloy-dielectric interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: John Louis Vossen, Jr.
  • Method of depositing low stress hafnium thin films
    Patent number: 4056457
    Abstract: By radio frequency sputtering hafnium films on an alumina or sapphire substrate at high deposition rates and minimum substrate target bias, improved adhesion of the hafnium films to the substrate is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: John Louis Vossen, Jr.
  • Adherence of metal films to polymeric materials
    Patent number: 3984907
    Abstract: The addition of copper, either as a thin film or as an alloy constituent, to nickel-chromium alloys improves the adhesion of such alloys to polymeric substrates and coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: John Louis Vossen, Jr., Frederick Russell Nyman, George Frederick Nichols
  • Metal coating for video discs
    Patent number: 3982066
    Abstract: An improved metal coating for a video disc of a grooved polymer disc, a conductive metal coating thereon and a dielectric coating on said metal coating comprising a trilayer film of a first layer of copper about 25-50 angstroms thick, a second layer about 200 angstroms thick of an alloy of nickel, and chromium and, optionally, iron, containing from about 20 to about 30 atomic percent of oxygen, and a third layer, of copper, about 25-50 angstroms thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick Russell Nyman, John Louis Vossen, Jr., Dennis Glendon Fisher, George Frederick Nichols
  • Metallized lithium niobate and method of making
    Patent number: 3959747
    Abstract: A body of lithium niobate coated with a first thin layer of magnesium and a second conductive metal layer on the magnesium layer permits subsequent ultrasonic bonding of a wire to the second layer without problems of delamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Zygmond Turski, John Louis Vossen, Jr.