Patents by Inventor Piers Newbery

Piers Newbery 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).

  • Method of making a CIG target by spray forming
    Patent number: 8709548
    Abstract: A method of making a sputtering target includes providing a backing structure, and forming a copper indium gallium sputtering target material on the backing structure by spray forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hanergy Holding Group Ltd.
    Inventors: A. Piers Newbery, Timothy Kueper, Daniel R. Juliano
  • Thermally insulative smoking article filter components
    Patent number: 8066010
    Abstract: A filter component includes a catalyst surrounded by a thermally insulative carbon fiber composite. The catalyst can catalyze the chemical reaction of selected gaseous constituents of a gas stream. During catalysis, the catalyst can reach high temperatures. The carbon fiber composite can contain heat generated during the catalysis within the filter component and thereby reduce heat transfer to the surroundings. The filter component can be used in smoking articles. Methods of making and using the filter-component and methods for treating mainstream tobacco smoke are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Newbery, Antonis Tsakotellis, Susan E. Plunkett, Kenneth H. Shafer
  • THERMALLY INSULATIVE SMOKING ARTICLE FILTER COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20110100384
    Abstract: A filter component includes a catalyst surrounded by a thermally insulative carbon fiber composite. The catalyst can catalyze the chemical reaction of selected gaseous constituents of a gas stream. During catalysis, the catalyst can reach high temperatures. The carbon fiber composite can contain heat generated during the catalysis within the filter component and thereby reduce heat transfer to the surroundings. The filter component can be used in smoking articles. Methods of making and using the filter-component and methods for treating mainstream tobacco smoke are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Newbery, Antonis Tsakotellis, Susan E. Plunkett, Kenneth H. Shafer
  • CIG sputtering target and methods of making and using thereof
    Publication number: 20110089030
    Abstract: A sputtering target includes a copper indium gallium sputtering target material on a backing structure. The sputtering target material has a density of at least 100% or more as defined by the rule of mixtures applied to densities of component elements of the sputtering target material. The sputtering target material has an overall uniform composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Daniel R. Juliano, Bao Nguyen, A. Piers Newbery, Asit Rairkar, Johannes Vlcek, Abdelouahab Ziani
  • Thermally insulative smoking article filter components
    Patent number: 7878209
    Abstract: A filter component includes a catalyst surrounded by a thermally insulative carbon fiber composite. The catalyst can catalyze the chemical reaction of selected gaseous constituents of a gas stream. During catalysis, the catalyst can reach high temperatures. The carbon fiber composite can contain heat generated during the catalysis within the filter component and thereby reduce heat transfer to the surroundings. The filter component can be used in smoking articles. Methods of making and using the filter-component and methods for treating mainstream tobacco smoke are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Newbery, Antonis Tsakotellis, Susan E. Plunkett, Kenneth H. Shafer
  • Thermally insulative smoking article filter components
    Publication number: 20060231113
    Abstract: A filter component includes a catalyst surrounded by a thermally insulative carbon fiber composite. The catalyst can catalyze the chemical reaction of selected gaseous constituents of a gas stream. During catalysis, the catalyst can reach high temperatures. The carbon fiber composite can contain heat generated during the catalysis within the filter component and thereby reduce heat transfer to the surroundings. The filter component can be used in smoking articles. Methods of making and using the filter-component and methods for treating mainstream tobacco smoke are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Piers Newbery, Antonis Tsakotellis, Susan Plunkett, Kenneth Shafer
  • Spray deposition process
    Patent number: 6623808
    Abstract: A process for producing a metallic tool, mould, die or other body of significant thickness or a coating, the process comprising directing a spray (3, 4) comprising molten metallic droplets carried by a propelling gas toward an object surface (7) of a substrate or pattern (5) so as to build up a metallic deposit or coating comprising the mould, tool, die, body or coating on the object surface (7) of the substrate or pattern (5), wherein at one or more predetermined stages during spraying droplets of a relatively large mean size are sprayed and at one or more other stages droplets or a relatively smaller mean size are sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Sprayform Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Richard Michael Jordan, Jonathan Betts, Patrick Grant, Allen Dennis Roche, Piers Newbery