Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Stevick
Joseph W. Stevick 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: 11802583Abstract: A family of rivets including both blind and bucked-type rivets made at least partially from an amorphous metal alloy. A blind rivet includes a head portion and a tail portion. At least one of the head portion and the tail portion is configured to elastically deform to secure a first member in position relative to a second member. The head portion and the tail portion may include one or more deformable legs having an interface feature configured to engage with one of the first member and the second member. A bucked-type rivet assembly includes a formable member and an anvil. The anvil is configured to thermoplastically deform the formable member proximate to the second member by passing current through an electrical circuit that includes at least one of the formable member and anvil.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Publication number: 20230181915Abstract: An enclosure for an implantable cardiac or neurostimulation device includes a bulk metallic glass alloy. In some arrangements, the enclosure is configured to house one or more components of an implantable pacemaker. In some arrangements, the enclosure is configured to house one or more components of an implantable defibrillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Publication number: 20220364588Abstract: A family of rivets including both blind and bucked-type rivets made at least partially from an amorphous metal alloy. A blind rivet includes a head portion and a tail portion. At least one of the head portion and the tail portion is configured to elastically deform to secure a first member in position relative to a second member. The head portion and the tail portion may include one or more deformable legs having an interface feature configured to engage with one of the first member and the second member. A bucked-type rivet assembly includes a formable member and an anvil. The anvil is configured to thermoplastically deform the formable member proximate to the second member by passing current through an electrical circuit that includes at least one of the formable member and anvil.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Patent number: 11428257Abstract: A family of rivets including both blind and bucked-type rivets made at least partially from an amorphous metal alloy. A blind rivet includes a head portion and a tail portion. At least one of the head portion and the tail portion is configured to elastically deform to secure a first member in position relative to a second member. The head portion and the tail portion may include one or more deformable legs having an interface feature configured to engage with one of the first member and the second member. A bucked-type rivet assembly includes a formable member and an anvil. The anvil is configured to thermoplastically deform the formable member proximate to the second member by passing current through an electrical circuit that includes at least one of the formable member and anvil.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Patent number: 10968547Abstract: Bulk metallic glass sheets and parts fabricated from individual bulk metallic glass fibers and tows are provided. Bulk metallic glass fibers and tows are used to prepare complex weave designs having desired thickness and fiber orientation for a particular use of a BMG feedstock. Appropriately designed bulk metallic glass weaves can be thermoplastically heated to form sheets and feedstock for parts having desired wall thickness and area coverage.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Patent number: 10870904Abstract: BMG parts having an uniform and consistently thick metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer, also known as an interference layer, exhibits a consistent color and durability over the entire surface of the part. Methods and devices involved in forming the BMG parts with uniformly thick interference layers are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventors: Joseph W. Stevick, Adrian Lopez
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Patent number: 10857592Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a temperature regulated vessel and a fluid delivery device, and methods of use thereof. The vessel can be used in an injection molding apparatus and include one or more temperature regulating lines configured to flow a fluid or liquid within the body (e.g., to heat a cold device). The fluid delivery device is mounted in the apparatus and has a collar with an opening extending therethrough to sealingly mate with the vessel. A delivery channel is provided within the collar for directing an input flow of fluid into the vessel. An exit channel can also be provided within the collar for directing an output flow of the fluid from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: CRUCIBLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC.Inventors: Adam A. Verreault, Sean T. O'Keeffe, Joseph W. Stevick
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Publication number: 20200282222Abstract: An enclosure for an implantable cardiac or neurostimulation device includes a bulk metallic glass alloy. In some arrangements, the enclosure is configured to house one or more components of an implantable pacemaker. In some arrangements, the enclosure is configured to house one or more components of an implantable defibrillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Publication number: 20200096031Abstract: A family of rivets including both blind and bucked-type rivets made at least partially from an amorphous metal alloy. A blind rivet includes a head portion and a tail portion. At least one of the head portion and the tail portion is configured to elastically deform to secure a first member in position relative to a second member. The head portion and the tail portion may include one or more deformable legs having an interface feature configured to engage with one of the first member and the second member. A bucked-type rivet assembly includes a formable member and an anvil. The anvil is configured to thermoplastically deform the formable member proximate to the second member by passing current through an electrical circuit that includes at least one of the formable member and anvil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventor: Joseph W. STEVICK
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Patent number: 10433463Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a heat sink having nano- and/or micro-replication directly embossed in a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy comprising a metal alloy, wherein the heat sink is configured to transfer heat out of the heat sink by natural convection by air or forced convection by air, or by fluid phase change of a fluid and/or liquid cooling by a liquid. Other embodiments relate apparatus having the heat sink. Yet other embodiments relate to methods of manufacturing the heat sink and apparatus having the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignees: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC, Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Prest, Joseph Poole, Joseph W. Stevick, Quoc Tran Pham, Theodore Andrew Waniuk
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Patent number: 10300528Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for loading one or more alloy ingots into a molding machine. The apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a plurality of the alloy ingots and dispense one or more of the alloy ingots into a melt zone of the molding machine through an opening in a mold of the machine. The holder is moved in a perpendicular direction with respect to an axis along a center of the opening in the mold between a first position in line with the opening in the mold to dispense one or more of the alloy ingots and a second position away from the opening in the mold. The apparatus can carry ingots of amorphous alloy material so that when the machine melts and molds the material, it forms a bulk amorphous alloy containing part.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: CRUCIBLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLCInventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Publication number: 20180207717Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a temperature regulated vessel and a fluid delivery device, and methods of use thereof. The vessel can be used in an injection molding apparatus and include one or more temperature regulating lines configured to flow a fluid or liquid within the body (e.g., to heat a cold device). The fluid delivery device is mounted in the apparatus and has a collar with an opening extending therethrough to sealingly mate with the vessel. A delivery channel is provided within the collar for directing an input flow of fluid into the vessel. An exit channel can also be provided within the collar for directing an output flow of the fluid from the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Adam A. Verreault, Sean T. O'Keeffe, Joseph W. Stevick
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Patent number: 9925583Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a temperature regulated vessel and a fluid delivery device, and methods of use thereof. The vessel can be used in an injection molding apparatus and include one or more temperature regulating lines configured to flow a fluid or liquid within the body (e.g., to heat a cold device). The fluid delivery device is mounted in the apparatus and has a collar with an opening extending therethrough to sealingly mate with the vessel. A delivery channel is provided within the collar for directing an input flow of fluid into the vessel. An exit channel can also be provided within the collar for directing an output flow of the fluid from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventors: Adam A Verreault, Sean T. O'Keeffe, Joseph W Stevick
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Publication number: 20180050388Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for loading one or more alloy ingots into a molding machine. The apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a plurality of the alloy ingots and dispense one or more of the alloy ingots into a melt zone of the molding machine through an opening in a mold of the machine. The holder is moved in a perpendicular direction with respect to an axis along a center of the opening in the mold between a first position in line with the opening in the mold to dispense one or more of the alloy ingots and a second position away from the opening in the mold. The apparatus can carry ingots of amorphous alloy material so that when the machine melts and molds the material, it forms a bulk amorphous alloy containing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Publication number: 20180016661Abstract: BMG parts having an uniform and consistently thick metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer, also known as an interference layer, exhibits a consistent color and durability over the entire surface of the part. Methods and devices involved in forming the BMG parts with uniformly thick interference layers are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Joseph W. Stevick, Adrian Lopez
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Patent number: 9841237Abstract: Various embodiments provide an apparatus and methods for containing the molten materials within a melt zone during melting. The apparatus may include a vessel configured to receive a material for melting therein and an induction coil with unevenly spaced turns along its length. Induction coil can have a series of turns acting as a first (e.g., load) induction coil and a series of turns acting as a second (e.g., containment) induction coil. The material in the vessel can be heated and contained by the separated turns of the induction coil. A plunger can also assist in containing material during melting. Once the desired temperature is achieved and maintained for the molten material, operation of the induction coil can be stopped and the molten material can be ejected from the vessel into a mold using the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventors: Adam A. Verreault, Sean T. O'Keeffe, Joseph W. Stevick, Brennan D. Yahata
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Publication number: 20170087804Abstract: Laminate BMG-fiber feedstock and parts made from one or more fiber layers and two or more bulk metallic glass (BMG) layers are described herein. The hot formed BMG-fiber laminates have vastly superior strength, ductility and use parameters as compared to the fiber or BMG alone as well as to conventional metal-fiber weaves. Methods of formation for both the BMG-fiber laminate and for near-to-net parts made therefrom are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Stephanie O'Keeffe, Joseph W. STEVICK
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Publication number: 20170090515Abstract: Bulk metallic glass sheets and parts fabricated from individual bulk metallic glass fibers and tows are provided. Bulk metallic glass fibers and tows are used to prepare complex weave designs having desired thickness and fiber orientation for a particular use of a BMG feedstock. Appropriately designed bulk metallic glass weaves can be thermoplastically heated to form sheets and feedstock for parts having desired wall thickness and area coverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Patent number: 9586259Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for loading one or more alloy ingots into a molding machine. The apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a plurality of the alloy ingots and dispense one or more of the alloy ingots into a melt zone of the molding machine through an opening in a mold of the machine. The holder is moved in a perpendicular direction with respect to an axis along a center of the opening in the mold between a first position in line with the opening in the mold to dispense one or more of the alloy ingots and a second position away from the opening in the mold. The apparatus can carry ingots of amorphous alloy material so that when the machine melts and molds the material, it forms a bulk amorphous alloy containing part.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventor: Joseph W. Stevick
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Patent number: 9445459Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a vessel configured to contain a secondary magnetic induction field therein for melting materials, and methods of use thereof. The vessel can be used in an injection molding apparatus having an induction coil positioned along a horizontal axis and adjacent to the vessel. The vessel can have a tubular body configured to substantially surround and receive a plunger tip. At least one longitudinal slot extends through the thickness of the body to allow and/or direct eddy currents into the vessel during application of an RF induction field from the coil. The body also includes temperature regulating lines configured to flow a liquid within. The temperature regulating lines can be provided to run longitudinally within the wall(s) of the body between its inner bore and outer surface(s). A flange may be provided at one end of the body to secure the body within an injection molding apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventors: Adam A Verreault, Sean T. O'Keeffe, Joseph W Stevick