Patents by Inventor Roger L. Blaine

Roger L. Blaine 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 and apparatus of modulated-temperature thermogravimetry
    Patent number: 6336741
    Abstract: A method for controlling a thermogravimetry experiment and for quantitatively determining kinetic constants for decomposition or volatilization reactions using periodic forcing (modulated) temperature functions. A temperature program having a linear part and a periodically varying part superimposed thereon is applied to a sample in a thermogravimetric analyzer. The resulting mass signal is deonvoluted, or separated, into one or more deconvoluted signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: TA Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger L. Blaine
  • Method and apparatus of modulated-temperature thermogravimetry
    Patent number: 6113261
    Abstract: A method for controlling a thermogravimetry experiment and for quantitatively determining kinetic constants for decomposition or volatilization reactions using periodic forcing (modulated) temperature functions. A temperature program having a linear part and a periodically varying part superimposed thereon is applied to a sample in a thermogravimetric analyzer. The resulting mass signal is deconvoluted, or separated, into one or more deconvoluted signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: TA Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger L. Blaine