Patents by Inventor Serafin G. Menocal

Serafin G. Menocal 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: 5607451
    Abstract: A flat tweezer formed of a folded plastic material which can be opened to lay flat within the case. The tweezer may be formed from a plastic card with score lines defining the tweezer arms and a hinge coupling the arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Mind Mechanics, Inc.
    Inventor: Serafin G. Menocal, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4662180
    Abstract: A means of refrigeration is provided for a diffusion cloud chamber, which effects the temperatures required for operation of the cloud chamber by heatsinking a Peltier thermoelectric element with a two-phase saturated substance at equilibrium and constant pressure. Use is made of the fact that a two phase saturated substance at equilibrium and constant pressure is thermodynamically fixed in temperature. By sinking a Peltier thermoelectric element to this substance, the entire temperature difference across the Peltier thermoelectric element is offset below the saturation temperature of the two-phase substance. A diffusion cloud chamber incorporating this refrigerator could utilize ice-water cooling rather than dry ice, and therefore be easily set up in any classroom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Inventor: Serafin G. Menocal