Patents by Inventor Nicholas P. De Luca

Nicholas P. De Luca 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).

  • Patent number: 11602916
    Abstract: A method and system for forming domes or protruded structures in a flat material such as paper is disclosed. The method includes cutting one or more sheets; applying an adhesive between the one or more sheets, joining the one or more sheets together in a registered manner to form a substrate, encapsulating the one or more sheets in a container to prevent curing of the adhesive, opening the container, and pressing the adhesive under pressure to shape the substrate into a desired shape may include the domes or protruded structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LITTLE FEET PACKAGING, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Publication number: 20220363027
    Abstract: A method and system for forming domes or protruded structures in a flat material such as paper is disclosed. The method includes cutting one or more sheets; applying an adhesive between the one or more sheets, joining the one or more sheets together in a registered manner to form a substrate, encapsulating the one or more sheets in a container to prevent curing of the adhesive, opening the container, and pressing the adhesive under pressure to shape the substrate into a desired shape may include the domes or protruded structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: OAS Design Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 11470690
    Abstract: The present teachings disclose a wire mesh heater including: a wire mesh element having a surface area comprising a non-contact area and a contact area; a primary conductor having a hollow and a contact surface; and a secondary conductor including a configured to expand outwards. The contact area contacts the contact surface to provide an electrical connection between the wire mesh element and the primary conductor, and the primary conductor is disposed about the secondary conductor and secured to the secondary conductor when expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Nicholas P De Luca
  • Patent number: 11414222
    Abstract: A system and method for continuously forming an envelope. The method includes providing a substrate including a liner, where the substrate has a side edge; plunging the substrate into a cartridge with a pusher to a desired depth to form a U having two opposing walls, two side openings and a flap opening; squeezing the two opposing walls along the two side openings, while keeping the flap opening open; sealing the two opposing walls along the two side openings to form the envelope; retracting the pusher; and filling the envelope disposed in the cartridge via the flap opening, where the substrate is disposed on a roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Create Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Publication number: 20220202021
    Abstract: An oven system to heat a moving item includes a conveyor capable of moving at more than one speed along a path of movement; a heat source positioned along the path of movement; a baseline heating profile for heating the moving item at a constant velocity; a sensor to detect energy available for the heat source at a particular moment or over a period of time; and a system to dynamically modify, based on the energy available, the baseline heating profile into a modified heating profile including a variable conveyance speed, where, when the moving item exits the oven system, the energy supplied by the heat source to the moving item equals the energy to be supplied per the baseline heating profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Publication number: 20220074596
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a multi-planar heater element for use in a high-speed oven with a new tensioning system. Disclosed subject matter includes a radiative heater for use in a high-speed oven formed from two or more planar heater elements stacked closely to form an effective single element and allowing for extended life through the minimization of concentrated eddy currents in both elements. The disclosure further includes structures to install and remove various planar heating elements without any external tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas P. DE LUCA, Andrew PERKINS, James J. MINARD, Nathan MATZ
  • Publication number: 20220053612
    Abstract: A heater element including: a primary conductor formed from a single sheet of metal, wherein the primary conductor is capable of radiating heat within 5 seconds and has a DeLuca Element Ratio of less than 2 ohms/m2; and primary conductor bars that are not welded to the primary conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas P. DE LUCA, Andrew PERKINS, James MINARD
  • Publication number: 20210122504
    Abstract: A system and method for continuously forming an envelope. The method includes providing a substrate including a liner, where the substrate has a side edge; plunging the substrate into a cartridge with a pusher to a desired depth to form a U having two opposing walls, two side openings and a flap opening; squeezing the two opposing walls along the two side openings, while keeping the flap opening open; sealing the two opposing walls along the two side openings to form the envelope; retracting the pusher; and filling the envelope disposed in the cartridge via the flap opening, where the substrate is disposed on a roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Create Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 10912306
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mesh heating system including: two or more electrodes configured to supply a current to the wire mesh heating element; a mesh heating element comprising filaments disposed between the two or more electrodes; and a tensioner to maintain the wire mesh heating element at tension along an axis of tension as the wire mesh heating element is heated, wherein some of the filaments of the mesh heating element are disposed to intersect the axis of tension at a non-orthogonal angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: De Luca Oven Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. De Luca, Andrew Perkins
  • Patent number: 10870949
    Abstract: The present teachings disclose s a process for forming paper domes including: indexing two or more sheets of cut material intended to form a dome when pressed where at least one of the sheets has a cured or dried glue already adhered thereto, applying a glue activator solvent such as water on an exterior top or exterior bottom surface of at least one of the sheets, pressing the sheets together with heat and pressure to form a completed combined sheet with multiple domes, and moving the completed combined sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Create Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 10798784
    Abstract: The present teachings disclose a wire mesh heater including: a wire mesh element having a surface area including a non-contact area and a contact area along at least 50% of a wire mesh element length; a primary conductor including a slit having a contact surface, wherein the contact area contacts the contact surface to provide an electrical connection between the wire mesh element and the primary conductor. In some embodiments, the primary conductor is welded to the wire mesh element, wherein the contact area contacts the contact surface to provide an electrical connection between the wire mesh element and the primary conductor. In some embodiments, an elastic is stretched and secured tautly under tension prior to operation of the wire mesh heater, and the elastic keeps the wire mesh element tautly under tension during operation of the wire mesh heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: De Luca Oven Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. De Luca, Andrew Perkins
  • Publication number: 20200208349
    Abstract: The present teachings disclose s a process for forming paper domes including: indexing two or more sheets of cut material intended to form a dome when pressed where at least one of the sheets has a cured or dried glue already adhered thereto, applying a glue activator solvent such as water on an exterior top or exterior bottom surface of at least one of the sheets, pressing the sheets together with heat and pressure to form a completed combined sheet with multiple domes, and moving the completed combined sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Create Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 10390415
    Abstract: A device for controlling lights that are placed in a random fashion on an object or surface and easily synchronized to form a pattern of illumination is disclosed. The device includes a combination of lights, each with the separate ability to be turned on or off in a timed fashion and further may include the ability to change color or intensity. The process for synchronizing the lights including the steps of recognizing the order of lights on the object via a camera, overlaying a pattern desired upon the image captured by the actuation of each of the lights, determining the color, intensity, and frequency of lighting of each of the lights required based on the overlayed image so as to create a lighting actuation algorithm, transmitting part or all of the information of the control algorithm to each of the lights, and further operating the complete system through a common time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Create Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 10359214
    Abstract: A novel method of concentrating solar energy using wave generators is disclosed. The systems and methods enable the collection of energy over large area at high efficiencies and the concentrating of energy at a target for use and transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Publication number: 20190208600
    Abstract: A device for controlling lights that are placed in a random fashion on an object or surface and easily synchronized to form a pattern of illumination is disclosed. The device includes a combination of lights, each with the separate ability to be turned on or off in a timed fashion and further may include the ability to change color or intensity. The process for synchronizing the lights including the steps of recognizing the order of lights on the object via a camera, overlaying a pattern desired upon the image captured by the actuation of each of the lights, determining the color, intensity, and frequency of lighting of each of the lights required based on the overlayed image so as to create a lighting actuation algorithm, transmitting part or all of the information of the control algorithm to each of the lights, and further operating the complete system through a common time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: Create Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Publication number: 20190191492
    Abstract: The present teachings disclose a wire mesh heater including: a wire mesh element having a surface area comprising a non-contact area and a contact area; a primary conductor having a hollow and a contact surface; and a secondary conductor including a configured to expand outwards. The contact area contacts the contact surface to provide an electrical connection between the wire mesh element and the primary conductor, and the primary conductor is disposed about the secondary conductor and secured to the secondary conductor when expanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: De Luca Oven Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas P De Luca
  • Patent number: 10203108
    Abstract: There is provided a vapor generator including: a circuit to carry a DC current from an energy device; a wire mesh heating element to receive the DC current; and a sprayer to direct a fine spray of a liquid at the wire mesh heating element to vaporize the liquid, wherein a ratio of a resistance of the wire mesh heating element to a radiative black body area of the wire mesh heating element is less than 2 ohms/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: De Luca Oven Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 10046983
    Abstract: A plastic debris collection system intended for marine use is disclosed. The system includes: a buoyant ring structure; various surface sheathings of plastic disposed on the buoyant ring structure and configured to be joined to a plastic debris; and a heating device disposed on the buoyant ring structure and configured to heat and join the plastic debris to one of the various surface sheathings of plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Publication number: 20180180323
    Abstract: A system and process for cooking a consumable food product for an accelerated time period is described. The a system and process for cooking a food product comprising selectively heating primarily the interior of a food product, and searing the exterior of the food product using a radiative oven, wherein the radiative oven operates at greater than 900° Fahrenheit and reaches the operating temperature from an ambient temperature in a duration that is less than 30 seconds. A vending machine including the system and process of cooking is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Nicholas P. De Luca, Andrew Perkins, William Rudwall
  • Publication number: 20180142925
    Abstract: A high power appliance system to supply outlet electrical wattage is disclosed. The high power appliance system includes: a primary electrical power source to provide a primary electrical wattage; a secondary electrical power source configured to deliver a stored electrical wattage upon demand and configured to store the primary electrical wattage as the stored electrical wattage when not in demand; an outlet configured to provide the outlet electrical wattage. In the high power appliance system, the outlet electrical wattage is greater than the primary electrical wattage and includes the stored electrical wattage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Nicholas P. De Luca, Andrew Perkins