Patents by Inventor Joseph V. Vininski
Joseph V. Vininski 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: 8182589Abstract: Methods and systems of purifying an acetylene process gas are described. The methods may include the steps of providing an acetylene vessel containing source acetylene mixed with a solvent impurity, and flowing the source acetylene through a purification container that holds a cooled purifying medium, where at least a portion of the solvent impurity in the source acetylene separates as a liquid impurity on the purifying medium. The method may also include removing the liquid from the purification container and flowing a purified acetylene gas from the purification container. The purified acetylene gas has a concentration of the solvent impurity of about 5 vol. % or less, and the separated liquid impurity is removed without interrupting the flow of the acetylene while the purified acetylene gas flows from the purification container to keep the concentration of the solvent impurity substantially constant in the purified acetylene gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Praveen Jha, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 8142549Abstract: A method of reducing moisture in a fluorine-containing gas is described. The method may include the steps of providing a purifier material that includes elemental carbon, and flowing the unpurified fluorine-containing gas having an unpurified moisture concentration over or through the carbon-based purifier material. At least a portion of the moisture is captured in the purifier material so that a purified fluorine-containing gas that emerges downstream of the purifier material has a reduced moisture concentration that is about 50% or less of the unpurified moisture concentration.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Millward, Joseph V. Vininski, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Wantanbe, Carrie L. Wyse, Mark Raynor, Dan Davia, Praveen Jha
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Patent number: 8137438Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic device which may include an interior compartment housing at least one electronic component that may be reactive to target impurities. The electronic component may include at least a cathode and an anode. A purifier material may be interspersed within a conducting polymer layer between the cathode and the anode. The purifier material may decrease target impurities within the interior compartment of the electronic device from a first level to a second level.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 8083945Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20110127660Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic device which may include an interior compartment housing at least one electronic component that may be reactive to target impurities. The electronic component may include at least a cathode and an anode. A purifier material may be interspersed within a conducting polymer layer between the cathode and the anode. The purifier material may decrease target impurities within the interior compartment of the electronic device from a first level to a second level.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Robert Torres, JR., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7947111Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7938968Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Matheson Tri GasInventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7896954Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. A solvent mixture comprising an ionic liquid and a cosolvent is provided within the vessel. The fluid is contacted with the solvent mixture for take-up of the fluid by the solvent mixture. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20100223208Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, JR., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20100154630Abstract: Methods and systems of purifying an acetylene process gas are described. The methods may include the steps of providing an acetylene vessel containing source acetylene mixed with a solvent impurity, and flowing the source acetylene through a purification container that holds a cooled purifying medium, where at least a portion of the solvent impurity in the source acetylene separates as a liquid impurity on the purifying medium. The method may also include removing the liquid from the purification container and flowing a purified acetylene gas from the purification container. The purified acetylene gas has a concentration of the solvent impurity of about 5 vol. % or less, and the separated liquid impurity is removed without interrupting the flow of the acetylene while the purified acetylene gas flows from the purification container to keep the concentration of the solvent impurity substantially constant in the purified acetylene gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Praveen Jha, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7670490Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2005Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7638058Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20090317317Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. A solvent mixture comprising an ionic liquid and a cosolvent is provided within the vessel. The fluid is contacted with the solvent mixture for take-up of the fluid by the solvent mixture. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, JR., Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20090278455Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Robert Torres, JR., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20090249953Abstract: A method of reducing moisture in a fluorine-containing gas is described. The method may include the steps of providing a purifier material that includes elemental carbon, and flowing the unpurified fluorine-containing gas having an unpurified moisture concentration over or through the carbon-based purifier material. At least a portion of the moisture is captured in the purifier material so that a purified fluorine-containing gas that emerges downstream of the purifier material has a reduced moisture concentration that is about 50% or less of the unpurified moisture concentration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Andrew Millward, Joseph V. Vininski, Robert Torres, JR., Tadaharu Wantanbe, Carrie L. Wyse, Mark Raynor, Dan Davia, Praveen Jha
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Patent number: 7585415Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. A solvent mixture comprising an ionic liquid and a cosolvent is provided within the vessel. The fluid is contacted with the solvent mixture for take-up of the fluid by the solvent mixture. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2005Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7553355Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Matheson Tri-GasInventors: Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20080211118Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Publication number: 20080210633Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
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Patent number: 7314506Abstract: A system and method for processing a matrix fluid to remove one or more impurities (such as moisture from a process gas). The purifier includes a pre-cooler that receives the matrix fluid and cools the matrix fluid to a second, lower temperature. A container is provided to contain a purifier element made up of a high surface area material. The container includes an inlet for receiving the matrix fluid from the pre-cooler and an outlet for outputting the matrix fluid after it is forced to flow through the purifier element. The purifier includes a cooler in thermal contact with an outer surface of the container to cool the outer surface of the container to a purifying temperature, which is selected to be below the ambient temperature and above a phase change point of the matrix fluid and is typically in the range of about 0 to ?200° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2005Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.Inventors: Joseph V. Vininski, Robert Torres, Jr., Virginia H. Houlding, Harold Spicer