Patents by Inventor Lin X. Jia

Lin X. Jia 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).

  • Contracting/expanding self-sealing cryogenic tube seals
    Patent number: 5628517
    Abstract: Contracting/expanding self-sealing cryogenic tube seals are disclosed which use the different properties of thermal contraction and expansion of selected dissimilar materials in accord with certain design criteria to yield self-tightening seals via sloped-surface sealing. The seals of the subject invention are reusable, simple to assemble, and adaptable to a wide variety of cryogenic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Florida Atlantic University
    Inventor: Lin X. Jia
  • Contracting/expanding self-sealing cryogenic tube seals
    Patent number: 5620187
    Abstract: Contracting/expanding self-sealing cryogenic tube seals are disclosed which use the different properties of thermal contraction and expansion of selected dissimilar materials in accord with certain design criteria to yield self-tightening seals via sloped-surface sealing. The seals of the subject invention are reusable, simple to assemble, adaptable to a wide variety of cryogenic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Florida Atlantic University
    Inventor: Lin X. Jia