Patents by Inventor Sheng-Guo Lu

Sheng-Guo Lu 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).

  • Polymer-based electrocaloric cooling devices
    Patent number: 8869542
    Abstract: Cooling devices (i.e., refrigerators or heat pumps) based on polymers which exhibit a temperature change upon application or removal of an electrical field or voltage, (e.g., fluoropolymers or crosslinked fluoropolymers that exhibit electrocaloric effect).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Qiming Zhang, Sheng-Guo Lu, Xinyu Li, Lee Gorny, Jiping Cheng, Bret P. Neese, Baojin Chu
  • REFRIGERATION DEVICES BASED ON POLAR-POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20110016885
    Abstract: Cooling devices (i.e., a heat exchanger) based on polymers which exhibits a temperature change upon application or removal of an electrical field or voltage are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for cooling using such polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Qiming Zhang, Sheng-Guo Lu, Xinyu Li, Lee Gorny, Jiping Cheng