Patents by Inventor Robin L. Binder

Robin L. Binder 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: 6862535
    Abstract: An FT-IR toxic gas monitoring system and method for detection of one or more toxic gas species in a fluid environment containing or susceptible to presence of toxic gases. Such gas monitoring system includes: (1) a spectroscopic monitoring assembly for transmitting modulated infrared radiation through a spectroscopic cell that contains a gas sample from such fluid environment and generating a corresponding digitized spectrum characteristics of such gas sample for analysis; (2) a gas sampling and delivery subsystem for sampling the fluid environment and delivering the gas sample to the spectroscopic cell; and (3) a computational assembly (i) including a stored signal-to-noise ratio reference, and a stored background spectrum for the fluid environment when the toxic gas species is not present, and (ii) arranged to analyze the digitized spectrum and responsively produce an output indicative of quantitative presence of the toxic gas species in the fluid environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventor: Robin L. Binder
  • Publication number: 20040034480
    Abstract: An FT-IR toxic gas monitoring system and method for detection of one or more toxic gas species in a fluid environment containing or susceptible to presence of same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventor: Robin L. Binder
  • Patent number: 5711816
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for delivering an involatile reagent in gaseous form, wherein an involatile reagent source liquid is flash vaporized on a vaporization matrix structure at elevated temperature. A carrier gas may be flowed past the flash vaporization matrix structure to yield a carrier gas mixture containing the flash vaporized source reagent. The matrix structure preferably has a high surface-to-volume ratio, and may suitably comprise a foraminous matrix element such as screen mesh onto which the reagent source liquid is distributed for flash vaporization. The invention is particularly useful for delivery of Group II reagents and compounds and complexes of early transition metals such as zirconium and hafnium, and may be usefully employed with Group II beta-diketonate source layers, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Advanced Technolgy Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter S. Kirlin, Robin L. Binder, Robin A. Gardiner, Peter Van Buskirk, Gregory Stauf, Jiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 5536323
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for delivering an involatile reagent in gaseous form, wherein an involatile reagent source liquid is flash vaporized on a vaporization matrix structure at elevated temperature. A carrier gas may be flowed past the flash vaporzation matrix structure to yield a carrier gas mixture containing the flash vaporized source reagent. The matrix structure preferably has a high surface-to-volume ratio, and may sutiably comprise a foraminous matrix element such as screen mesh onto which the reagent source liquid is distributed for flash vaporization. The invention is particularly useful for delivery of Group II reagents and compounds and complexes of early transition metals such as zirconium and hafnium, and may be usefully employed with Group II beta-diketonate source layers, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter S. Kirlin, Robin L. Binder, Robin A. Gardiner, Peter V. Buskirk, Jiming Zhang, Gregory Stauf
  • Patent number: 5204314
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for delivering an involatile reagent in gaseous form, wherein an involatile reagent source liquid is flash vaporized on a vaporization matrix structure at elevated temperature. A carrier gas may be flowed past the flash vaporization matrix structure to yield a carrier gas mixture containing the flash vaporized source reagent. The matrix structure preferably has a high surface-to-volume ratio, and may suitably comGOVERNMENT RIGHTS IN INVENTIONThis invention was made with Government support under Contract No. N00014 88-0531 awarded by the Defense Advanced Projects Research Administration (DARPA). The Government has certain rights in this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter S. Kirlin, Robin L. Binder, Robin A. Gardiner
  • Patent number: 4752448
    Abstract: A diagnostic test paper detects abuse-type drugs in a test specimen of a biological fluid. A particular method of making the diagnostic test paper includes impregnating a bibulous carrier material with the dry residue of a reagent reactive to abuse-type drugs. A particular method is used for screening a biological fluid to determine the presence of abuse-type drugs therein. A test specimen applying area is located on the bibulous carrier material adjacent one side of a concentrated reagent zone having a first color. A particular method of application and a specific syringe device is used to apply a test specimen that has been prepared under very precise conditions. The test specimen moves from the particular applying area into the concentrated reagent zone to produce the specific results of detecting the presence of abuse-type drugs therein. A novel solvent composition is used to prepare the test specimen applied to the bibulous carrier material of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Keystone Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry J. Wells, Robin L. Binder