Patents by Inventor Jonathan Betts

Jonathan Betts 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).

  • Spray deposition process
    Patent number: 6623808
    Abstract: A process for producing a metallic tool, mould, die or other body of significant thickness or a coating, the process comprising directing a spray (3, 4) comprising molten metallic droplets carried by a propelling gas toward an object surface (7) of a substrate or pattern (5) so as to build up a metallic deposit or coating comprising the mould, tool, die, body or coating on the object surface (7) of the substrate or pattern (5), wherein at one or more predetermined stages during spraying droplets of a relatively large mean size are sprayed and at one or more other stages droplets or a relatively smaller mean size are sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Sprayform Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Richard Michael Jordan, Jonathan Betts, Patrick Grant, Allen Dennis Roche, Piers Newbery