Patents by Inventor Robert Yunk

Robert Yunk 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 for making a reservoir
    Patent number: 8980161
    Abstract: A process for making a reservoir including steps of positioning a hollow extrudate at an elevated temperature in a mold cavity, inserting a fitting into an end of the extrudate, sealing an outer surface of the fitting with an interior surface of the extrudate using latent heat within the extrudate, and forming at least a portion of the extrudate against the mold cavity forming a reservoir with the fitting sealed into the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mercury Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Rowley, Grandin A. Rushlander, Robert Yunk, Earl Christian, Jr.
  • METHOD FOR MAKING A RESERVOIR
    Publication number: 20130256955
    Abstract: A process for making a reservoir including steps of positioning a hollow extrudate at an elevated temperature in a mold cavity, inserting a fitting into an end of the extrudate, sealing an outer surface of the fitting with an interior surface of the extrudate using latent heat within the extrudate, and forming at least a portion of the extrudate against the mold cavity forming a reservoir with the fitting sealed into the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Mercury Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Rowley, Grandin A. Rushlander, Robert Yunk, Earl Christian, JR.
  • Method for making a reservoir
    Patent number: 8431067
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method by which a reservoir having desired end connection profiles may be made using shape memory characteristics of crosslinking to compressively seal the connection profiles into the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mercury Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Rowley, Grandin A. Rushlander, Robert Yunk, Earl Christian, Jr.
  • Barbed metal insert overmolding using crosslinked polymers
    Patent number: 8220126
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to method by which a leak-proof connection may be made to a refrigeration device using shape memory characteristics of crosslinking and overmolding to affect the leak-proof connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignees: Mercury Plastics, Inc., Masco Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Yunk, Earl Christian, Jr.
  • METHOD FOR MAKING A RESERVOIR
    Publication number: 20120068386
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method by which a reservoir having desired end connection profiles may be made using shape memory characteristics of crosslinking to compressively seal the connection profiles into the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: MERCURY PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Grandin A. Rushlander, William W. Rowley, Robert Yunk, Earl Christian, JR.