Patents by Inventor Terrence R. O'Toole
Terrence R. O'Toole 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).
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Publication number: 20230050827Abstract: A lithium-ion battery may include a cathode, an anode, and a polymer electrolyte. The anode may include a current collector. The current collector may include a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying a metal layer. The anode may also include a patterned lithium storage structure. The patterned lithium storage structure may include a continuous porous lithium storage layer overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. These and other lithium-ion batteries are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer, Paul D. Garman, Robert G. Anstey
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Publication number: 20230022169Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector. The current collector includes: i) an electrically conductive substrate including a first electrically conductive material; ii) a plurality of electrically conductive structures in electrical communication with the electrically conductive substrate, wherein each electrically conductive structure includes a second electrically conductive material; and iii) a metal oxide coating. The metal oxide coating includes one or both of: a) a first metal oxide material in contact with the electrically conductive substrate; or b) a second metal oxide material in contact with the electrically conductive structures; or both (a) and (b). The anode further includes lithium storage coating overlaying the metal oxide coating, the lithium storage layer including a total content of silicon, germanium, or a combination thereof. The electrically conductive structures are at least partially embedded within the lithium storage coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: John C. Brewer, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Publication number: 20230015866Abstract: An anode for use in an energy storage device is provided. The anode includes a current collector having an electrically conductive substrate and a surface layer overlaying a first side of the electrically conductive substrate. The surface layer may include a metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide. The anode may also include a lithium storage layer overlaying the surface layer. The lithium storage layer may have a total content of silicon, germanium, or a combination thereof of at least 40 atomic %. The lithium storage layer may include less than 10 atomic % carbon. The anode may also include a plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures in contact with a second side of the electrically conductive substrate. The second side is opposite the first side. The plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures may include silicon, germanium, tin, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer
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Patent number: 11508969Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector. The current collector includes: i) an electrically conductive substrate including a first electrically conductive material; ii) a plurality of electrically conductive structures in electrical communication with the electrically conductive substrate, wherein each electrically conductive structure includes a second electrically conductive material; and iii) a metal oxide coating. The metal oxide coating includes one or both of: a) a first metal oxide material in contact with the electrically conductive substrate; or b) a second metal oxide material in contact with the electrically conductive structures; or both (a) and (b). The anode further includes lithium storage coating overlaying the metal oxide coating, the lithium storage layer including a total content of silicon, germanium, or a combination thereof, of at least 40 atomic %. The electrically conductive structures are at least partially embedded within the lithium storage coating.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: John C. Brewer, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Patent number: 11495782Abstract: A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device is provided. The method includes providing a current collector having an electrically conductive substrate and a surface layer overlaying a first side of the electrically conductive substrate. A second side of the electrically conductive substrate includes a filament growth catalyst, wherein the second side is opposite the first. The method further includes depositing a lithium storage layer onto the surface layer using a first CVD process forming a plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures on the second side of the electrically conductive substrate using second CVD process.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer
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Patent number: 11489155Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector having a metal layer; and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. The anode further includes a patterned lithium storage structure having a continuous porous lithium storage layer selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device includes providing a current collector having a metal layer and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. A continuous porous lithium storage layer is selectively formed by chemical vapor deposition by exposing the current collector to at least one lithium storage material precursor gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer, Paul D. Garman, Robert G. Anstey
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Publication number: 20210242456Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector having a metal layer; and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. The anode further includes a patterned lithium storage structure having a continuous porous lithium storage layer selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device includes providing a current collector having a metal layer and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. A continuous porous lithium storage layer is selectively formed by chemical vapor deposition by exposing the current collector to at least one lithium storage material precursor gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer, Paul D. Garman, Robert G. Anstey
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Patent number: 11024842Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector having a metal layer; and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. The anode further includes a patterned lithium storage structure having a continuous porous lithium storage layer selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device includes providing a current collector having a metal layer and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. A continuous porous lithium storage layer is selectively formed by chemical vapor deposition by exposing the current collector to at least one lithium storage material precursor gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer, Paul D. Garman, Robert G. Anstey
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Publication number: 20210066702Abstract: A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device is provided. The method includes providing a current collector having an electrically conductive substrate and a surface layer overlaying a first side of the electrically conductive substrate. A second side of the electrically conductive substrate includes a filament growth catalyst, wherein the second side is opposite the first. The method further includes depositing a lithium storage layer onto the surface layer using a first CVD process forming a plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures on the second side of the electrically conductive substrate using second CVD process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer
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Publication number: 20210057757Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector. The current collector includes: i) an electrically conductive substrate including a first electrically conductive material; ii) a plurality of electrically conductive structures in electrical communication with the electrically conductive substrate, wherein each electrically conductive structure includes a second electrically conductive material; and iii) a metal oxide coating. The metal oxide coating includes one or both of: a) a first metal oxide material in contact with the electrically conductive substrate; or b) a second metal oxide material in contact with the electrically conductive structures; or both (a) and (b). The anode further includes lithium storage coating overlaying the metal oxide coating, the lithium storage layer including a total content of silicon, germanium, or a combination thereof, of at least 40 atomic %. The electrically conductive structures are at least partially embedded within the lithium storage coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: John C. Brewer, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Publication number: 20200411851Abstract: An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector having a metal layer; and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. The anode further includes a patterned lithium storage structure having a continuous porous lithium storage layer selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. A method of making an anode for use in an energy storage device includes providing a current collector having a metal layer and a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying the metal layer. A continuous porous lithium storage layer is selectively formed by chemical vapor deposition by exposing the current collector to at least one lithium storage material precursor gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Graphenix Development, Inc.Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, John C. Brewer, Paul D. Garman, Robert G. Anstey
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Patent number: 6998227Abstract: An aqueous, homogeneous, single-part color developing concentrate comprises a color developing agent in free base form and an organic antioxidant. The concentrate also includes a water-miscible or water-soluble organic co-solvent and a quaternary ammonium salt to enhance its stability. The concentrate can be used to make a working strength processing solution, or it can be used as a replenishing composition with proper dilution, and is particularly useful for processing color negative or color reversal photographic silver halide films.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael P. Youngblood, Thomas E. Lowe, Terrence R. O'Toole, Charles M. Darmon
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Patent number: 6835953Abstract: This invention provides a top-emitting OLED display device that includes a substrate; an array of OLED elements disposed on one side of the substrate; and a desiccant material provided in a patterned arrangement over the array of OLED elements on the same side of the substrate such that the desiccant material does not interfere with the light emitted by the OLED elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael L. Boroson, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Patent number: 6770502Abstract: This invention provides a top-emitting OLED display device that includes a substrate; an array of OLED elements disposed on one side of the substrate; and a desiccant material provided in a patterned arrangement over the array of OLED elements on the same side of the substrate such that the desiccant material does not interfere with the light emitted by the OLED elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael L. Boroson, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Patent number: 6664036Abstract: An aqueous, homogeneous, single-part color developing concentrate comprises a color developing agent in free base form and an N,N-dialkyl- or N,N-diarylhydroxylamine antioxidant that has at least one solubilizing substituent.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas E. Lowe, Terrence R. O'Toole, Charles M. Darmon, Michael P. Youngblood
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Publication number: 20030203551Abstract: This invention provides a top-emitting OLED display device that includes a substrate; an array of OLED elements disposed on one side of the substrate; and a desiccant material provided in a patterned arrangement over the array of OLED elements on the same side of the substrate such that the desiccant material does not interfere with the light emitted by the OLED elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2003Publication date: October 30, 2003Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael L. Boroson, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Publication number: 20030190763Abstract: This invention provides a top-emitting OLED display device that includes a substrate; an array of OLED elements disposed on one side of the substrate; and a desiccant material provided in a patterned arrangement over the array of OLED elements on the same side of the substrate such that the desiccant material does not interfere with the light emitted by the OLED elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2002Publication date: October 9, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael L. Boroson, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Patent number: 5763151Abstract: A process is disclosed of preparing a photographic emulsion comprised of high bromide silver halide tabular grains accounting for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area. The grains exhibit a low level of size dispersity by reason of forming in the presence of a dispersing medium containing a polyalkylene oxide block copolymer surfactant a population of silver halide grain nuclei containing twin planes, the halide content of the grain nuclei consisting essentially of silver bromide, and growing the silver halide grain nuclei containing twin planes to form the tabular silver halide grains. Inadvertent variation in tabular grain sizes and thicknesses from one precipitation to the next are minimized by growing the silver halide grain nuclei at a pH in the range of from 3.0 to 8.0 and in the presence of at least a 0.01M concentration of a partially dissociated acid having a pKa that is within 2.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1997Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas B. Brust, Philip J. Dale, Philip J. Zola, Terrence R. O'Toole
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Patent number: 5633047Abstract: Silicon and germanium containing materials are used at surface of conductors in electronic devices. Solder can be fluxlessly bonded and wires can be wire bonded to these surfaces. These material are used as a surface coating for lead frames for packaging integrated circuit chips. These materials can be decal transferred onto conductor surfaces or electrolessly or electrolytically disposed thereon.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1995Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael J. Brady, Curtis E. Farrell, Sung K. Kang, Jeffrey R. Marino, Donald J. Mikalsen, Paul A. Moskowitz, Eugene J. O'Sullivan, Terrence R. O'Toole, Sampath Purushothaman, Sheldon C. Rieley, George F. Walker
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Patent number: 5599582Abstract: The disclosure describes a multilayer article of manufacture comprising a substrate having adhered to it a terminally unsaturated adhesive polyimide, where the surface of the adhesive opposite the substrate is adhered to a polyimide, the article further characterized in having one set or a plurality of alternating layers of the terminally unsaturated adhesive polyimide and the polyimide. In another embodiment, the article has at least one adhesive polyimide layer adhered to a metal substrate or an electrical circuit component such as an integrated circuit, or means for forming electrical connections in an electrical circuit such as metal conduits on the circuit or a wiring network embedded within a ceramic and/or polymer substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: February 4, 1997Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eleftherios Adamopoulos, Jungihl Kim, Kang-Wook Lee, Tae S. Oh, Terrence R. O'Toole, Sampath Purushothaman, John J. Ritsko, Jane M. Shaw, Alfred Viehbeck, George F. Walker