Patents by Inventor John W. Andrews

John W. Andrews 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: 8038970
    Abstract: Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: PURETI, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Publication number: 20100239862
    Abstract: Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: PURETI, INC.
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Publication number: 20100239774
    Abstract: Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: PureTi, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Publication number: 20100198414
    Abstract: Structural wall panels and methods and systems for controlling the interior temperature of a building are provided. The structural wall panels advantageously include a fluid conduit disposed within an interior concrete layer of the structural wall panel where the conduit is adapted to convey a thermal transfer fluid through the interior concrete layer. A thermal insulation layer may be provided between the first concrete layer and an exterior surface of the wall. The thermal transfer fluid can be heated and/or cooled to regulate the temperature of the interior concrete layer and thereby control the temperature of the interior of the building. The interior concrete layer may have a high thermal mass to increase the thermal efficiency of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Steven C. Kroll, John W. Andrews
  • Patent number: 7727500
    Abstract: Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: PURETI, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Publication number: 20090001185
    Abstract: Structural wall panels and methods and systems for controlling the interior temperature of a building are provided. The structural wall panels advantageously include a fluid conduit disposed within an interior concrete layer of the structural wall panel where the conduit is adapted to convey a thermal transfer fluid through the interior concrete layer. A thermal insulation layer is provided between the first concrete layer and a second concrete layer, which can be disposed on an exterior surface of the wall. The thermal transfer fluid can be heated and/or cooled to regulate the temperature of the interior concrete layer and thereby control the temperature of the interior of the building. The first concrete layer can have a high thermal mass to increase the efficiency of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: CORVID HOMES
    Inventors: Steven C. Kroll, John W. Andrews
  • Patent number: 7205049
    Abstract: Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: TioxoClean Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Patent number: 6881153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tip section for a cue stick for use in billiards, snooker and pool. The tip section may be connected to either a butt section of a two piece cue, or to the shortened shaft end of an existing cue stick butt section. The tip section is composed of a hollow tube into which stiffening members and weights may be introduced to alter the weight, balance, flex and kick of the tip section. The tip section can be retrofitted to an existing butt section, used to repair a cue stick with a damaged tip segment, or be part of a new cue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Publication number: 20040217337
    Abstract: An aqueous polymeric composition for applying prints or coatings to soft, pliable fabrics and curing them to produce aesthetic prints or coatings which are resistant to removal by abrasion and which also maintain the softness and pliability of the fabric. The present composition comprises a curable water-soluble polymer binder material(s) comprising acrylic ester groups and urethane groups, preferably a plurality of glass microspheres in a weight equal to at least 50% by weight of the polymeric binder materials(s), and a water soluble curing agent. The composition forms an insoluble, abrasion-resistant light-reflective and/or light-refractive print, or coating on the fabric upon evaporation of water and curing of the polymeric binder materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Patent number: 6525111
    Abstract: Paint compositions and coatings having improved overall visual appearance, richness or depth of color and aesthetic properties such as for spraying-painting automobiles, boats, aircraft and home appliances. The present paint compositions are high solids content, heat-curable, transparent or translucent compositions containing embedded light-refractive colorless and/or tinted transparent glass beads preferably between about 10 to 20 microns diameter, and one or more color-enhancing agents such as pigments, dyes, aluminum flakes, mica, opaque glass beads, holographic flakes, and similar conventional light-enhancing agents. The present bead-containing refractive paint compositions may be based upon volatile organic solvents, water or may be solvent-free powder compositions, but in all cases the resinous binder material is cross-linkable at the baking temperature of the paint, or upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation, to cure as a hard, translucent, chip-resistant paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Prizmalite Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew B. Spencer, John W. Andrews, Gary D. Tucker, II
  • Publication number: 20010046903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tip section for a cue stick for use in billiards, snooker and pool. The tip section may be connected to either a butt section of a two piece cue, or to the shortened shaft end of an existing cue stick butt section. The tip section is composed of a hollow tube into which stiffening members and weights may be introduced to alter the weight, balance, flex and kick of the tip section. The tip section can be retrofitted to an existing butt section, used to repair a cue stick with a damaged tip segment, or be part of a new cue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Publication number: 20010036709
    Abstract: A method is provided for planarizing a structure such as a shallow trench isolation region on a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor substrate is provided having raised and lowered regions with substantially vertical and horizontal surfaces. The lowered regions may correspond to trench regions. Filler material such as non-conformal high density plasma oxide may be deposited over the horizontal surfaces to at least a thickness equal to a predetermined height so as to provide raised and lowered regions of the filler material. The raised regions of the filler material may then be selectively removed without removing the filler material in the lowered regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: John W. Andrews, Bao T. Hwang, Howard S. Landis, Shaw-Ning Mei, James M. Tyler, Edward J. Vishnesky
  • Patent number: 6270353
    Abstract: A method is provided for planarizing a structure such as a shallow trench isolation region on a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor substrate is provided having raised and lowered regions with substantially vertical and horizontal surfaces. The lowered regions may correspond to trench regions. Filler material such as non-conformal high density plasma oxide may be deposited over the horizontal surfaces to at least a thickness equal to a predetermined height so as to provide raised and lowered regions of the filler material. The raised regions of the filler material may then be selectively removed without removing the filler material in the lowered regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Andrews, Bao T. Hwang, Howard S. Landis, Shaw-Ning Mei, James M. Tyler, Edward J. Vishnesky
  • Patent number: 6242056
    Abstract: Paint compositions and coatings having improved overall visual appearance, richness or depth of color and aesthetic properties such as for spray-painting automobiles, boats, aircraft and home appliances. The present paint compositions are high solids content, heat-curable, transparent or translucent compositions containing embedded light-refractive colorless and/or tinted transparent glass beads preferably between about 10 to 20 microns diameter, and one or more color-enhancing agents such as pigments, dyes, aluminum flakes, mica, opaque glass beads, holographic flakes, and similar conventional light-enhancing agents. The present bead-containing refractive paint compositions may be based upon volatile organic solvents, water or may be solvent-free powder compositions, but in all cases the resinous binder material is cross-linkable at the baking temperature of the paint, or upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation, to cure as a hard, translucent, chip-resistant paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Innovative Concepts Unlimited, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Spencer, John W. Andrews, Gary D. Tucker, II
  • Patent number: 4390008
    Abstract: A water heater or system which includes a hot water tank having disposed therein a movable baffle to function as a barrier between the incoming volume of cold water entering the tank and the volume of heated water entering the tank which is heated by the circulation of the cold water through a solar collector and/or a desuperheater of a heat pump so as to optimize the manner in which heat is imparted to the water in accordance to the demand on the water heater or system. A supplemental heater is also provided and it is connected so as to supplement the heating of the water in the event that the solar collector and/or desuperheater cannot impart all of the desired heat input into the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: The United Stated of America as represented by the Department of Energy
    Inventor: John W. Andrews
  • Patent number: 4086479
    Abstract: A removable lamp device for use on a vehicle such as a boat trailer. The device includes a base mountable on the vehicle and having a first planar surface having three first substantially planar resilient slide contacts thereon each connected to one conductor from the vehicle lamp circuit. A lamp holder has a lamp mounting assembly thereon and a second planar surface on which three second substantially planar resilient slides contacts are mounted for sliding engagement with the first slide contacts and which are connected to the lamp wires from the lamp assembly. The base and the holder are releasably connected to each other upon engagement of the first and second sliding contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Inventor: John W. Andrew