Patents by Inventor Mireca Badescu

Mireca Badescu 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).

  • Portable rapid and quiet drill
    Patent number: 7824247
    Abstract: A hand-held drilling device, and method for drilling using the device, has a housing, a transducer within the housing, with the transducer effectively operating at ultrasonic frequencies, a rotating motor component within the housing and rigid cutting end-effector rotationally connected to the rotating motor component and vibrationally connected to the transducer. The hand-held drilling device of the present invention operates at a noise level of from about 50 decibels or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Mireca Badescu, Xiaoqi Bao, Zenshea Chang, Stewart Sherrit