Patents by Inventor Richard P. Buck

Richard P. Buck 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: 6123820
    Abstract: Sensor cartridges include a fluid constituent-selective sensor membrane in direct sealing contact with a face of a flow-through sample cell in surrounding relationship to a sensor port. The sensor membrane has sufficiently large surface area so as to entirely cover the sensor port and establish an annular region in surrounding relationship thereto. It is this annular region which is in direct contact with a corresponding region of the sample cell face so as to provide self-sealing capabilities. The sensor cartridge most preferably includes a flow-through sample cell having a zig-zag or serpentine flow channel so as to provide a series of sensor ports on both of the opposed cell faces. The faces of the sample cell are most preferably provided with recessed regions which define a series of land surfaces each of which surrounds a respective one of the sensor ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignees: Grupo Ch-Werfen, S.A., Duke University, The University of North Carolina, Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: Carolyn Bergkuist, Richard P. Buck, Vasile V. Cosofret, Chung-Chuin Liu, Richard A. Lucic, John P. Moriarty, Michael R. Neuman, Richard M. Bucchianeri
  • Patent number: 5403895
    Abstract: Disclosed are a copolymer composition comprising a substituted halo-polymer wherein from about 0.01% to about by weight of the halo moieties therein are replaced with piperazine, and a flexible plastic film made from the copolymer. The copolymer is inherently conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Robert P. Kusy, Vasile V. Cosofret, John Q. Whitley, Erno Lindner, Richard P. Buck