Patents by Inventor Robert Indech

Robert Indech 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: 20060115389
    Abstract: Demanding chemical reactions typically require a catalyst of three-dimensional form rather than a flat surface. For ethane hydrogenolysis, one example, reaction rates increase by a factor of 20 by inserting into the reactants a 20-angstrom diameter micro-particle of surface nickel over a truncated octahedron base. Advanced nanotechnological processing techniques with ultrahigh cooling rates such as chill block melting will produce a locally atomically flat substrate. Placing this substrate in compressive stress and then depositing a catalytically active metal such as nickel or platinum on the substrate in a conventional atomic layer deposition system will create nano-scale surface ripples. The ripple wavelength and slope in two dimensions can be optimized to mimic the geometry of the bulk catalyst particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Indech
  • Publication number: 20060110525
    Abstract: A method for forming a superconductor material includes the steps of forming a substrate, placing the substrate in compressive stress, forming a hilly region on the substrate, and applying varying layering of copper, copper oxide, and selected interstitial atomic species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Indech
  • Publication number: 20050287059
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for obtaining concentrated U-235 and concentrated U-238 includes the steps of forming a silicon dioxide structure, flowing uranium gas containing U-235 and U-238 isotopes over the silicon dioxide structure, and obtaining the concentrated U-238 in the gas and the concentrated U-235 in the structure by allowing U-235 to be preferentially absorbed in the silicon dioxide structure through an oxidation-reduction reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Indech
  • Publication number: 20050129160
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for facilitating nuclear fusion, wherein micro-scale, controlled hydrogen nuclear fusion is effectuated without the introduction of extreme temperatures and pressures, and wherein the utilization of a geometrically-enhanced reacting surface induces and/or facilities multiple room temperature fusion reactions thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Indech
  • Patent number: 4343301
    Abstract: A method of generating a high energy density at any point in the body, noninvasively, by two high frequency sonic beams creating a low frequency beating pattern at their intersection locus. One method provides for two transducers at different angular positions. Each transducer produces a beam pattern of high frequency. One transducer produces a high frequency which is higher by a predetermined quantity than the other. At their point of intersection, the sonic oscillations add and subtract, producing a low frequency beat equal to the predetermined quantity. This high energy low frequency beat can be used to stimulate neural points in the skull or other parts of the body or for tissue destruction. In a related method, the high frequency beams are set in axial alignment so that the frequency generating output is fixed between the transducers. A master modulator can then be used to electronically vary the position of the intersecting locus along the axial line connecting the transducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Inventor: Robert Indech
  • Patent number: 4211190
    Abstract: A conventional internal combustion engine cylinder is provided with an integral downwardly extending housing formed by spaced wall portions tapering outwardly to an annular bottom end. A piston is reciprocable in the cylinder and the cylinder is provided with conventional intake and exhaust valves and a spark plug. An elongated connecting rod extends from the piston to the lower annular portion of the housing. The drive shaft extends into the center of the annular housing portion through one wall thereof. A crank arm extends at right angles from the end of the drive shaft. The crank arm is slotted from adjacent its outer end to adjacent the drive shaft. The end of the connecting rod is provided with a pin at right angles which extends through the slot in the crank arm. A guide channel or groove is cut in the housing wall through which the drive shaft extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Inventor: Robert Indech