Patents by Inventor Michael E. Hanson

Michael E. Hanson 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).

  • Publication number: 20170301418
    Abstract: A salt composition for use as a fuel in a nuclear reactor is provided. The salt composition can include carrier salts having mixtures of one or more chloride salts or one or more chloride salts and one or more fluoride salts and fuel salts including one or more chloride salts. The carrier salts can include alkali and/or alkaline earth cations, while the fuel salts can include actinide cations. The salt composition has a lower melting temperature, less corrosive redox properties, and allows proliferation-safe retention of actinides and concurrent removal of some fission products, as compared to other salts employed in molten salt reactors. Optionally, the salt composition can include one or more metal halides for further decreasing the melting point and/or increasing the boiling point of the composition, thereby increasing the range of the liquid phase of the salt composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Mccall Dodson, Michael Forrest Simpson, Edward Pheil, Michael E. Hanson
  • Patent number: 5402038
    Abstract: Electric lamps having molybdenum metal parts exposed to an oxidizing environment can withstand exposure to higher operating temperature if the molybdenum metal parts are coated with silicon nitride (Si.sub.3 N.sub.4). Tungsten-halogen lamps having molybdenum outer leads coated with silicon nitride have operated for over 1500 hours at about 450.degree. C. without oxidation failure of the leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas G. Parham, Michael E. Hanson
  • Patent number: 5328975
    Abstract: An organoalkoxysilane/metal oxide sol-gel composition and method for its production are disclosed whereby an organoalkoxysilane of the general formulaR.sub.x Si(OR').sub.4-xwherein R is an organic radical, R' is a low molecular weight alkyl radical, and x is less than 4 and may be zero, is partially hydrolyzed in organic solution and reacted with a titanium alkoxide of the general formula Ti(OR'').sub.4 wherein R'' is a lower alkyl radical. The composition is hydrolyzed, dried and heat treated to form a silicon oxide/titanium oxide abrasion-resistant coating on a substrate with high ultraviolet radiation absorbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Hanson, Robert M. Hunia, Chia-Cheng Lin