Patents by Inventor Paul T. Furuta

Paul T. Furuta 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: 20200343045
    Abstract: A composite polymeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a hydrocarbon chain linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite polymeric material may be used to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Yan LI, Pavel Ivan LAZAREV, Paul T. FURUTA, Barry K. SHARP, Samuel HEIN
  • Patent number: 10755857
    Abstract: A composite polymeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a hydrocarbon chain linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite polymeric material may be used to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yan Li, Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Samuel Hein
  • Patent number: 10707019
    Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: where Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, which is tetrapirolic macro-cyclic fragment, R1 is an dopant group connected to Core1, m is number of R1 which is equal to 1, 2, 3 or 4, R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups, p is number of R2 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE containing the Core1 with at least one R1 has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, n is number of Core2 which is equal to 2, or 4, R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups, s is number of R3 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. R4 is a non-polar resistive substituent, k is a number of R4 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 10672560
    Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound having the following formula (I): where Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule comprising one or more rylene fragments, R1 is an electron donor group connected to Core1 and R1? is an electron acceptor group connected to the Core1, m is number of acceptor group R1, m? is a number of donor group R?, m and m? are equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, wherein m and m? are not both equal to 0, R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups from a class of ionic compounds that form ionic liquids connected to the Core1-directly or via a connecting group, p is a number of ionic groups R2 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; wherein the fragment marked NLE containing the Core1 with at least one group R1 and/or R1? has a nonlinear effect of polarization, wherein Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer, n is a number equal to 0, 2, or 4, R3 is a substituent comprising on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li, Ian S.G. Kelly-Morgan
  • Patent number: 10636575
    Abstract: An organic polymeric compound called a Furuta or para-Furuta polymer is characterized by polarizability and resistivity has repeating units of a general structural formula: P1 may be acrylate, methacrylate, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyamide, polyaramid, polyester, siloxane, or polyethylene terephthalate. Tail is a resistive substitute. L is a linker group attached to an ionic functional group Q; j, a number of ionic functional groups Q, ranges from 1 to 5; n and m independently range from 3 to about 1000. Q is an ionic liquid ion, zwitterion, or polymeric acid. The number t ranges from 6 to 200,000. B is a counter ion, that can supply an opposite charge to balance a charge of the organic polymeric compound; s is a number of counter ions B. A plasticizer increases mobility of the polymers within the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Paul T. Furuta, Pavel I. Lazarev, Barry K. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20190348221
    Abstract: A composite polymeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a hydrocarbon chain linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite polymeric material may be used to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Yan LI, Pavel Ivan LAZAREV, Paul T. FURUTA, Barry K. SHARP, Samuel HEIN
  • Patent number: 10395841
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multilayered electrode comprising an electro-conductive layer and at least one protective layer located on one side of the electro-conductive layer and selected from the list comprising a field-planarization layer, a tunneling injection blocking layer and a coulomb blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 10319523
    Abstract: A composite polymeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a hydrocarbon chain linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite polymeric material may be used to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yan Li, Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Samuel Hein
  • Publication number: 20190139705
    Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: where Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, which is tetrapirolic macro-cyclic fragment, R1 is an dopant group connected to Core1, m is number of R1 which is equal to 1, 2, 3 or 4, R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups, p is number of R2 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE containing the Core1 with at least one R1 has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, n is number of Core2 which is equal to 2, or 4, R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups, s is number of R3 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. R4 is a non-polar resistive substituent, k is a number of R4 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li
  • Publication number: 20190108944
    Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having a structural formula: Core1 is of two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule. R1 and R1? are, electron donor and acceptor groups, respectively, m and m? are the numbers of donor and acceptor groups, respectively and are equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 but are not both equal to 0. R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups from a class of ionic compounds that form ionic liquids connected to Core1, p is a number of ionic groups R2 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer and n is a number of the electro-conductive oligomers equal to 0, 2, or 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li, Ian S.G. Kelly-Morgan
  • Patent number: 10153087
    Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule. R1 are electron donor groups connected to Core1 and R1? are electron acceptor groups connected to Core1, m is number of acceptor groups R1, m? is a number of donor groups R?. The numbers m and m? are equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, but both m and m? are not both equal to 0. R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core1 directly or via a connecting group; a number p of ionic groups R2 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is a self-assembling electro-conductive oligomer, a number n of the such oligomers is 0, 2, or 4. R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core2; a number s of the ionic groups R3 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li, Ian S. G. Kelly-Morgan
  • Publication number: 20180158616
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multilayered electrode comprising an electro-conductive layer and at least one protective layer located on one side of the electro-conductive layer and selected from the list comprising a field-planarization layer, a tunneling injection blocking layer and a coulomb blocking layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 9978517
    Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, R1 is a dopant group connected to Core1; a number m of R1 groups is 1, 2, 3 or 4. R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core1; a number p of ionic groups R2 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE has a nonlinear polarization effect. Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, a number n of such oligomers is 0, 2, or 4. R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core2; a number s of the ionic groups R3 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. R4 is a resistive substituent providing solubility of the compound in a solvent and electrically insulating the column-like supramolecules from each other. A number k of substituents R4 is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CAPACITOR SCIENCES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li
  • Publication number: 20180137984
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a solid state energy storage device, comprising: a first electrically conductive electrode, a second electrically conductive electrode; and at least one metadielectric layer located between the first and second conductive electrodes. The metadielectric layer comprises at least one type of mesogen. The mesogen consists of an organic compound with at least one electrically resistive substituent and at least one polarizable unit. The polarizable unit may be independently selected from intramolecular and intermolecular polarizable units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Paul T. Furuta, Yan Li, Barry K. Sharp, Pavel Ivan Lazarev
  • Patent number: 9969844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to silicone polymer ligands for binding to quantum dots. The silicone polymer ligands contain a multiplicity of amine, carboxy, and/or phosphine binding groups suitable for attachment to quantum dots. The present invention also describes a process for the preparation of quantum dot binding ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Nanosys, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul T. Furuta
  • Publication number: 20180061582
    Abstract: An organic polymeric compound called a Furuta or para-Furuta polymer is characterized by polarizability and resistivity has repeating units of a general structural formula: P1 may be acrylate, methacrylate, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyamide, polyaramid, polyester, siloxane, or polyethylene terephthalate. Tail is a resistive substitute. L is a linker group attached to an ionic functional group Q; j, a number of ionic functional groups Q, ranges from 1 to 5; n and m independently range from 3 to about 1000. Q is an ionic liquid ion, zwitterion, or polymeric acid. The number t ranges from 6 to 200,000. B is a counter ion, that can supply an opposite charge to balance a charge of the organic polymeric compound; s is a number of counter ions B. A plasticizer increases mobility of the polymers within the compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Paul T. Furuta, Pavel I. Lazarev, Barry K. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20180033554
    Abstract: A composite polymeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a hydrocarbon chain linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite polymeric material may be used to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yan Li, Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Samuel Hein
  • Publication number: 20170372842
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electro-polarizable complex compound having the following general formula: [M4+(L)m]xKn,??(I) where complexing agent M is a four-valence metal; ligand L comprises one or more heteroatomic fragments comprising one or more neutral or anionic metal-coordinating heteroatoms and one or more electrically resistive fragments, m represents the number of ligands; x represents the oxidative state of the metal-ligand complex; K is a counter-ion or zwitterionic polymers which provides an electro-neutrality of the complex compound, n represents the number of counter-ions. The metal-coordinating heteroatoms form a first coordination sphere, and the number of heteroatoms in this first coordination sphere does not exceed 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20170301477
    Abstract: A composite oligomeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a handle linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite oligomer material may be polymerized to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Capacitor Sciences Incorporated
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li
  • Publication number: 20170283618
    Abstract: A composite organic compound characterized by polarizability and resistivity that has a general structural formula: where C is a chromophore fragment, P is an optionally connected rylene fragment, D and A are electron donating and accepting groups respectively, and R represents resistive substituents optionally connected directly or via dopant connecting groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Pavel Ivan Lazarev, Paul T. Furuta, Barry K. Sharp, Yan Li