Patents by Inventor Robert Quinn

Robert Quinn 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).

  • Frame piece joining apparatus and jig therefor
    Patent number: 4828239
    Abstract: A multi-element clamp is used in association with a frame corner welding apparatus. The clamp or jig consists of a base element, a floating element and a clamp element. The floating element is bias coupled to the base element and when driven to clamp position serves as a clamp, with respect to the base element and is converted to a base element with respect to the clamp element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Inventors: John Grandy, Paul Barbero, Robert Quinn, Louis Sparacino
  • Metallic porphyrin complexes as catalysts in epoxidation reactions
    Patent number: 4822899
    Abstract: Metallic porphyrin complexes are useful as catalysts for the epoxidation of olefins at ambient temperature and pressure using oxygen, which preferably is supplied either as air or pure oxygen, without need for a coreductant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: The University of Michigan
    Inventors: John T. Groves, Robert Quinn
  • Molten salt hydrate membranes for the separation of gases
    Patent number: 4780114
    Abstract: The present invention is a membrane and a process for separating at least one component from at least one other component in a gas mixture. A gaseous mixture is passed over a membrane having a thin film of a molten salt hydrate which is selectively permeable to at least one component in the gaseous mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Quinn, Guido P. Pez, John B. Appleby