Patents by Inventor Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo 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: 20140174126
    Abstract: The invention provides a glass ceramic glaze composition manufactured using conventional raw material and one or more waste materials, wherein the waste materials are capable of producing glass forming oxides and glass modifying oxides. The waste materials are selected from a group that includes cullet, pozzolanic waste and fly ash. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing the glass ceramic glaze composition. Further, the invention provides different methods of glazing a glass ceramic substrate using the glass ceramic glaze composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicants: UNIVERSITÀ DI PADOVA, KING ABDUL AZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mohammed A Binhussain, Paolo Colombo, Enrico Bernardo, Majed A Binmajed, Mauro Marangoni, Hamad H Atalasi, Amer M Alajmi, Abdulaziz Altamimi
  • Patent number: 8585795
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention there are devices and processes for making ceramic nanofiber mats and ceramic filters for use in high temperature and in corrosive environments. The process for forming a ceramic filter can include electrospinning a preceramic polymer solution into a preceramic polymer fiber having a diameter from about 10 nm to about 1 micron and forming a preceramic polymer fiber web from the preceramic polymer fiber onto a collector. The process can also include pyrolyzing the preceramic polymer fiber web to form a ceramic nanofiber mat having a diameter less than the diameter of the preceramic polymer fiber, the ceramic nanofiber mat comprising one or more of an oxide ceramic and a non-oxide ceramic such that the ceramic fiber mat can withstand temperature greater than about 1000 ° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Univesity of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang M. Sigmund, Vasana Maneeratana, Paolo Colombo, Chang-Yu Wu, Hyoungjun Park, Qi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130274209
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition is described comprising sucralfate gel, PVA and optionally a vegetable product comprising tocotrienols and tocopherols. In particular, this composition proved to be suitable for being sprayed, and is advantageously used in the treatment of skin lesions, even deep lesions, such as second-degree burns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Laboratoria Italiano Biochimico Farmaceutico Lisapharma S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gaia Colombo, Paolo Colombo, Laura Gallina, Alessandra Scagliarini, Fabio Sonvico
  • Patent number: 8545883
    Abstract: An innovative pharmaceutical form for controlled drug release relates to systems obtained by the assembly of individual release modules, of which the capacity to release the drug in time and in space depends on the way in which the modules have been assembled. The modular structure offers high reproducibility of manufacture and flexibility of release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Universita' Degli Studi di Parma
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Ruggero Bettini, Patrizia Santi, Pier Luigi Catellani
  • Patent number: 8535680
    Abstract: The present invention falls within the field of molecular biology, and in particular it refers to peptides, polypeptides, protein molecules, uses, methods, processes, systems and compositions for minimizing the presence of molecules in a material and/or interfering with effects associated to such molecules. In particular, the present invention can appear in the form of anti-septic shock pharmacological composition and systems of purification from bacterial endotoxins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Angela Bonura, Francesco Di Blasi
  • Patent number: 8505386
    Abstract: A pressure sensor device comprises a casing (2a, 3 a) defining a chamber (20) and an inlet passage (14a, 14b) of the chamber. Accommodated in the chamber (20) is a pressure sensor (17) having a sensor body with a cavity and a membrane capable of deformation under pressure action of a fluid present in the inlet passage (14a, 14b). The device further comprises a circuit arrangement (26, 27, 30) to which the pressure sensor (17) is electrically connected, the circuit arrangement including a circuit support at least partially accommodated in the chamber (20). The sensor body is not rigidly associated to the casing (2a, 3 a) and/or to other parts of the device (26, 27, 30, 35), i.e. it is mounted elastically or in a moveable manner with respect to the casing (2a, 3 a) and/or to said other parts (26, 27, 30, 35) inside the chamber (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Eltek S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Domenico Cantarelli, Marco Bigliati, Mauro Zorzetto, Fabio Nebbia, Giorgio Martinengo
  • Patent number: 8468895
    Abstract: A pressure sensor device comprises: —a casing (2a, 3a) defining a cavity (7) with an inlet passage (8a, 8b), —a pressure sensor (30) having a body accommodated in the cavity (7), for detecting the pressure of a fluid present in the inlet passage (8a, 8b), —a circuit arrangement including a circuit support (20) at least partially accommodated in the cavity (7) according to a respective laying plane, the pressure sensor (30) being mounted on the circuit support (20). Associated to the circuit support (20) is a protection body (31) surrounding the pressure sensor (30), the protection body (31) externally defining a seat for positioning a respective seal member (35), in particular a radial seal gasket, intended to cooperate with an internal surface of the casing (2a, 3 a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: ELTEK S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Domenico Cantarelli, Marco Bigliati, Mauro Zorzetto, Fabio Nebbia, Giorgio Martinengo
  • Patent number: 8453513
    Abstract: A pressure-sensor device (1) comprises: —a pressure-sensitive component (9) having a body, defined in which is a blind cavity, and having a membrane portion (9a), operatively associated to which is a detection element (R); and —a connection structure (2), which has a duct in communication with the cavity of the pressure-sensitive component (9) and is to receive a fluid, a pressure of which is to be detected. The connection structure (2) comprises a supporting body (2a) of the pressure-sensitive component (9), which defines a respective passage (2b), and a compressible element (12, 18) that is designed to be in contact with the fluid and is configured for compensating possible variations of volume thereof. The compressible element (12, 18) is positioned at least in part within the cavity (11) of the pressure-sensitive component (9) and/or in a stretch of the passage (2b) of the supporting body (2a) that is close to the cavity (11) of the pressure-sensitive component (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Eltek S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Bigliati, Paolo Colombo, Giorgio Martinengo, Daniel Verner Mueller, Mauro Zorzetto
  • Publication number: 20120274461
    Abstract: A device for monitoring a vehicle wheel (1) is provided for:—detecting a value indicating the tyre inflating pressure of a wheel;—converting the value detected into a bit sequence;—associating to each bit sequence, via an encoding, a respective symbol of a pulse-code modulation, where the encoding is such that in the passage between two consecutive symbols of the modulation there is always the variation of just one bit; and—transmitting the symbols of the pulse-code modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Domenico Cantarelli
  • Publication number: 20120235809
    Abstract: A monitoring device (20) of a vehicle wheel (11) is configured for detecting and transmitting, by a wireless connection, information relating to at least one characteristic quantity of the status of the wheel (11), such as the inflating pressure of a tyre thereof. The device (20) has a casing (21-22) housing a circuit (30) adapted to transmit said information, the casing (21-22) being designed for coupling to an end portion (3a) of electrically conductive body (3) of a tyre valve (2) of the wheel (11). The casing (21-22) includes a casing body (21) integrating interconnection means (28, 29, 40) prearranged to obtain both an electric connection of the circuit (30) to the end portion (3a) of the electrically conductive body (3) of the valve (2; 2; 2?), and a mechanical coupling of the casing (21-22) to the end portion (3a) of the electrically conductive body (3) of the valve (2; 2?; 2?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Domenico Cantarelli, Paolo Colombo
  • Publication number: 20120237402
    Abstract: A detection device for internal combustion engines exhaust gases post-treatment systems has a casing (2, 3) housing a circuit arrangement (21, 31) including humidity sensor means (32), for measuring the humidity of the gas. The circuit arrangement further comprises temperature sensor means (33) and pressure sensor means (22), for detecting a gas temperature value and a gas pressure value, respectively. The gas temperature value can be used for compensating the humidity value obtained through the humidity sensor means (32) and the pressure value can be used for deducing the clogging degree of a filter of the post-treatment system. Preferably the pressure sensor means (22) are housed in a first chamber (8) of the casing (2-3) while the humidity sensor means (32) and the temperature sensor means (33) are housed in a second chamber (10b) of the casing (2, 3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Domenico Cantarelli, Enrico Chiesa, Paolo Colombo
  • Publication number: 20120224839
    Abstract: An electric heater for fuel of endothermal engines, in particular for fuel systems called “common rail” and the like, includes a heating part and a terminal adapted to be associated with one end of the hollow body of a fuel feeding duct; advantageously, the terminal is at least partly made of plastic material. A fuel feeding duct to which the heater is applied, as well as to a fuel warm-up device, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: ELTEK S.P.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Zorzetto, Alberto Barbano, Paolo Colombo, Mirco Arata
  • Publication number: 20120188069
    Abstract: A device for monitoring the tire of a wheel of a vehicle is configured for detecting and transmitting to a receiver, through a wireless connection, information regarding at least one characteristic quantity of a state of the tire, in particular its inflating pressure. The monitoring device has a body for housing a circuit designed to transmit the information to the receiver. The body includes a first body part, made of a first material, and a second body part made of a second material, the first and second body parts defining between them a housing for the circuit. At least the second material is a synthetic material having an electrical permittivity that is substantially constant at the at least one predetermined frequency. Preferably the first and second body parts are rigid and are fixed together by clinching or local mechanical deformation of the first body part on the second body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: ELTEK, S.P.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Domenico Cantarelli
  • Publication number: 20120183618
    Abstract: An innovative pharmaceutical form for controlled drug release relates to systems obtained by the assembly of individual release modules, of which the capacity to release the drug in time and in space depends on the way in which the modules have been assembled. The modular structure offers high reproducibility of manufacture and flexibility of release.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
    Inventors: Paolo COLOMBO, Ruggero BETTINI, Patrizia SANTI, Pier Luigi CATELLANI
  • Publication number: 20120183609
    Abstract: An innovative pharmaceutical form for controlled drug release relates to systems obtained by the assembly of individual release modules, of which the capacity to release the drug in time and in space depends on the way in which the modules have been assembled. The modular structure offers high reproducibility of manufacture and flexibility of release.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
    Inventors: Paolo COLOMBO, Ruggero BETTINI, Patrizia SANTI, Pier Luigi CATELLANI
  • Publication number: 20120115096
    Abstract: A gas supply control device for an apparatus, particularly a coking apparatus, includes timing means (20) and a first command means (12) for manually setting a an opening time interval of a safety valve of a gas tap (1), equipped with a second command means (6). In an installed condition of the control device (10), the command means (6, 12) are operable from outside the structure (7) of the apparatus, with the first command means (12) and the second command means (6) substantially rotating around one same axis, one independent from the other. The timing means (20) of the control device (10) belong to a functional unit (10a) which is coupled or configured for coupling with a portion of the body of the tap (2) which portion, in the above mentioned installed conditions, is located inside the structure (7) of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Costanzo Gadini, Paolo Colombo
  • Publication number: 20120073366
    Abstract: A sensing device includes at least one electrode pair (2, 3, 4) and one sensing circuit (140) connected to the electrode pair (2, 3, 4). The sensing circuit (140) switches the value of its own output voltage when a substance establishes contact across the electrodes (2, 3, 4). The device further includes one output circuit (180) connected to the output of the sensing circuit (140) and adapted to provide an output signal (s7) representative of the presence of a substance across the electrode pair (2, 3, 4). The device also allows the output signal to take different voltage and/or current and/or frequency values, in particular such that values can be discerned which are representative of the presence or level of substances and/or representative of faults of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ELTEK S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco Molinaro, Mauro Zorzetto, Paolo Colombo
  • Publication number: 20120011937
    Abstract: A pressure-sensor device (1) comprises: —a pressure-sensitive component (9) having a body, defined in which is a blind cavity, and having a membrane portion (9a), operatively associated to which is a detection element (R); and —a connection structure (2), which has a duct in communication with the cavity of the pressure-sensitive component (9) and is to receive a fluid, a pressure of which is to be detected. The connection structure (2) comprises a supporting body (2a) of the pressure-sensitive component (9), which defines a respective passage (2b), and a compressible element (12, 18) that is designed to be in contact with the fluid and is configured for compensating possible variations of volume thereof. The compressible element (12, 18) is positioned at least in part within the cavity (11) of the pressure-sensitive component (9) and/or in a stretch of the passage (2b) of the supporting body (2a) that is close to the cavity (11) of the pressure-sensitive component (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: ELTEK S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Bigliati, Paolo Colombo, Giorgio Martinengo, Daniel Verner Mueller, Mauro Zorzetto
  • Patent number: 8051719
    Abstract: A pressure-sensor device (1) comprises: —a pressure-sensitive component (9) having a body, defined in which is a blind cavity, and having a membrane portion (9a), operatively associated to which is a detection element (R); and —a connection structure (2), which has a duct in communication with the cavity of the pressure-sensitive component (9) and is to receive a fluid, a pressure of which is to be detected. The connection structure (2) comprises a supporting body (2a) of the pressure-sensitive component (9), which defines a respective passage (2b), and a compressible element (12, 18) that is designed to be in contact with the fluid and is configured for compensating possible variations of volume thereof. The compressible element (12, 18) is positioned at least in part within the cavity (11) of the pressure-sensitive component (9) and/or in a stretch of the passage (2b) of the supporting body (2a) that is close to the cavity (11) of the pressure-sensitive component (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Eltek S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Bigliati, Paolo Colombo, Giorgio Martinengo, Daniel Verner Mueller, Mauro Zorzetto
  • Publication number: 20110138921
    Abstract: A pressure sensor device comprises: —a casing (2a, 3a) defining a cavity (7) with an inlet passage (8a, 8b), —a pressure sensor (30) having a body accommodated in the cavity (7), for detecting the pressure of a fluid present in the inlet passage (8a, 8b), —a circuit arrangement including a circuit support (20) at least partially accommodated in the cavity (7) according to a respective laying plane, the pressure sensor (30) being mounted on the circuit support (20). Associated to the circuit support (20) is a protection body (31) surrounding the pressure sensor (30), the protection body (31) externally defining a seat for positioning a respective seal member (35), in particular a radial seal gasket, intended to cooperate with an internal surface of the casing (2a, 3 a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Paolo Colombo, Domenico Cantarelli, Marco Bigliati, Mauro Zorzetto, Fabio Nebbia, Giorgio Martinengo