Patents by Inventor Robert Alan Newman

Robert Alan Newman 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).

  • Composite material and method of making the composite material
    Patent number: 8101283
    Abstract: A composite is formed by inserting a ceramic powder into a channel of a preform to form a ceramic powder filled preform. The ceramic powder has at least one reactive ceramic powder. The preform is a ceramic, ceramic-metal composite, metal or combination thereof that has walls that define a plurality of channels each channel having an opening at a surface of the preform. The ceramic powder filled preform is infiltrated with a molten metal to form the ceramic-metal body, which has at least one ceramic phase that is a reaction product of the reactive ceramic and molten infiltrated metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Inventors: Aleksander Jozef Pyzik, Robert Alan Newman, Alveda J. Williams, Shaofu Wu
  • Composite material and method of making the composite material
    Publication number: 20080014455
    Abstract: A composite is formed by inserting a ceramic powder into a channel of a preform to form a ceramic powder filled preform. The ceramic powder has at least one reactive ceramic powder. The preform is a ceramic, ceramic-metal composite, metal or combination thereof that has walls that define a plurality of channels each channel having an opening at a surface of the preform. The ceramic powder filled preform is infiltrated with a molten metal to form the ceramic-metal body, which has at least one ceramic phase that is a reaction product of the reactive ceramic and molten infiltrated metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Aleksander Jozef Pyzik, Robert Alan Newman, Alveda J. Williams, Shaofu Wu