Patents by Inventor Martin E. Riley

Martin E. Riley 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).

  • Gas laser construction
    Patent number: 4685109
    Abstract: A plasma tube for a gas laser includes a series of heat webs and insulative spacers between the heat webs, with tungsten bore insert members supported by the heat webs and having aligned apertures defining a laser discharge path. To produce the plasma tube, the heat webs, spacers and other connected components are assembled in a vertical stack outside the ceramic tube of the laser, with a stacking gauge which helps assure that the heat webs are correctly spaced apart within close tolerances. The heat webs lie adjacent to annular metallized areas on the inside surface of the ceramic tube when the assembly is inserted into the tube, which is precision-formed ceramic tubing. The tube assembly is heated in vertical orientation to expand the heat webs diametrically so that they engage outwardly against and are brazed to the metallized areas of the ceramic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Spectra-Physics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee R. Carlson, Denes A. Hegedus, Steven M. Jarrett, Michael F. Miller, Martin E. Riley, David L. Wright
  • Gas fill system for a laser tube
    Patent number: 4683575
    Abstract: A plasma tube for a gas laser includes a series of heat webs and insulative spacers between the heat webs, with tungsten bore insert members supported by the heat webs and having aligned apertures defining a laser discharge path. To produce the plasma tube, the heat webs, spacers and other connected components are assembled in a vertical stack outside the ceramic tube of the laser, with a stacking gauge which helps assure that the heat webs are correctly spaced apart within close tolerances. The heat webs lie adjacent to annular metallized areas on the inside surface of the ceramic tube when the assembly is inserted into the tube, which is precision-formed ceramic tubing. The tube assembly is heated in vertical orientation to expand the heat webs diametrically so that they engage outwardly against and are brazed to the metallized areas of the ceramic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: Spectra-Physics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee R. Carlson, Denes A. Hegedus, Steven M. Jarrett, Michael F. Miller, Martin E. Riley, David L. Wright
  • Gas laser construction
    Patent number: 4649547
    Abstract: A plasma tube for a gas laser includes a series of heat webs and insulative spacers between the heat webs, with tungsten bore insert members supported by the heat webs and having aligned apertures defining a laser discharge path. To produce the plasma tube, the heat webs, spacers and other connected components are assembled in a vertical stack outside the ceramic tube of the laser, with a stacking gauge which helps assure that the heat webs are correctly spaced apart within close tolerances. The heat webs lie adjacent to annular metallized areas on the inside surface of the ceramic tube when the assembly is inserted into the tube, which is precision-formed ceramic tubing. The tube assembly is heated in vertical orientation to expand the heat webs diametrically so that they engage outwardly against and are brazed to the metallized areas of the ceramic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Spectra-Physics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee R. Carlson, Denes A. Hegedus, Steven M. Jarrett, Michael F. Miller, Martin E. Riley, David L. Wright