Patents by Inventor Philip A. Parilla

Philip A. Parilla 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: 10490872
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an electrical device, where the device includes a current collector and a porous active layer electrically connected to the current collector to form an electrode. The porous active layer includes MgBx particles, where x?1, mixed with a conductive additive and a binder additive to form empty interstitial spaces between the MgBx particles, the conductive additive, and the binder additive. The MgBx particles include a plurality of boron sheets of boron atoms covalently bound together, with a plurality of magnesium atoms reversibly intercalated between the boron sheets and ionically bound to the boron atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Yufeng Zhao, Chunmei Ban, Daniel Ruddy, Philip A. Parilla, Seoung-Bum Son
  • Patent number: 10203164
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a system that includes a thermal valve having a first position and a second position, a heat transfer fluid, and an energy converter where, when in the first position, the thermal valve prevents the transfer of heat from the heat transfer fluid to the energy converter, and when in the second position, the thermal valve allows the transfer of heat from the heat transfer fluid to the energy converter, such that at least a portion of the heat transferred is converted to electricity by the energy converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Michele L. Olsen, Eric S. Toberer, David Samuel Ginley, Philip A. Parilla, Emily L. Warren, Aaron Daniel Martinez, Jonathan E. Rea, Corey Lee Hardin, Christopher J. Oshman, Nathan P. Siegel
  • Publication number: 20180069284
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an electrical device, where the device includes a current collector and a porous active layer electrically connected to the current collector to form an electrode. The porous active layer includes MgBx particles, where x?1, mixed with a conductive additive and a binder additive to form empty interstitial spaces between the MgBx particles, the conductive additive, and the binder additive. The MgBx particles include a plurality of boron sheets of boron atoms covalently bound together, with a plurality of magnesium atoms reversibly intercalated between the boron sheets and ionically bound to the boron atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Yufeng ZHAO, Chunmei BAN, Daniel RUDDY, Philip A. PARILLA, Seoung-Bum SON
  • Patent number: 9843080
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an electrical device, where the device includes a current collector and a porous active layer electrically connected to the current collector to form an electrode. The porous active layer includes MgBx particles, where x?1, mixed with a conductive additive and a binder additive to form empty interstitial spaces between the MgBx particles, the conductive additive, and the binder additive. The MgBx particles include a plurality of boron sheets of boron atoms covalently bound together, with a plurality of magnesium atoms reversibly intercalated between the boron sheets and ionically bound to the boron atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Yufeng Zhao, Chunmei Ban, Daniel Ruddy, Philip A. Parilla, Seoung-Bum Son
  • Publication number: 20170102192
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a system that includes a thermal valve having a first position and a second position, a heat transfer fluid, and an energy converter where, when in the first position, the thermal valve prevents the transfer of heat from the heat transfer fluid to the energy converter, and when in the second position, the thermal valve allows the transfer of heat from the heat transfer fluid to the energy converter, such that at least a portion of the heat transferred is converted to electricity by the energy converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Michele L. Olsen, Eric S. Toberer, David Samuel Ginley, Philip A. Parilla, Emily L. Warren, Aaron Daniel Martinez, Jonathan E. Rea, Corey Lee Hardin, Christopher J. Oshman, Nathan P. Siegel
  • Publication number: 20150295292
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an electrical device, where the device includes a current collector and a porous active layer electrically connected to the current collector to form an electrode. The porous active layer includes MgBx particles, where x?1, mixed with a conductive additive and a binder additive to form empty interstitial spaces between the MgBx particles, the conductive additive, and the binder additive. The MgBx particles include a plurality of boron sheets of boron atoms covalently bound together, with a plurality of magnesium atoms reversibly intercalated between the boron sheets and ionically bound to the boron atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yufeng ZHAO, Chunmei BAN, Daniel RUDDY, Philip A. PARILLA, Seoung-Bum SON
  • Patent number: 7160530
    Abstract: Metal-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes and production thereof. The metal-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes may be produced according to one embodiment of the invention by combining single-walled carbon nanotube precursor material and metal in a solution, and mixing the solution to incorporate at least a portion of the metal with the single-walled carbon nanotube precursor material. Other embodiments may comprise sputter deposition, evaporation, and other mixing techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Midwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Anne C. Dillon, Michael J. Heben, Thomas Gennett, Philip A. Parilla
  • Publication number: 20040101466
    Abstract: Metal-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes and production thereof. The metal-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes may be produced according to one embodiment of the invention by combining single-walled carbon nanotube precursor material and metal in a solution, and mixing the solution to incorporate at least a portion of the metal with the single-walled carbon nanotube precursor material. Other embodiments may comprise sputter deposition, evaporation, and other mixing techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Anne C Dillon, Michael J Heben, Thomas Gennett, Philip A Parilla
  • Patent number: 5476837
    Abstract: A process for preparing a superconducting film, such as a thallium-barium-calcium-copper oxide superconducting film, having substantially uniform phase development. The process comprises providing an electrodeposition bath having one or more soluble salts of one or more respective potentially superconducting metals in respective amounts adequate to yield a superconducting film upon subsequent appropriate treatment. Should all of the metals required for producing a superconducting film not be made available in the bath, such metals can be a part of the ambient during a subsequent annealing process. A soluble silver salt in an amount between about 0.1% and about 4.0% by weight of the provided other salts is also provided to the bath, and the bath is electrically energized to thereby form a plated film. The film is annealed in ambient conditions suitable to cause formation of a superconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Midwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Raghuthan Bharacharya, Philip A. Parilla, Richard D. Blaugher