Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Hsu

Thomas C. Hsu 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: 4731636
    Abstract: An apparatus in which a developing liquid used in an electrophotographic printing machine to develop an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductive surface is reclaimed. The developing liquid is vaporized to dry the wet copy sheet. The developing liquid vapor enters the chamber of a housing and condenses on the surface of a cooling fluid as it passes therethrough. The developer liquid is immiscible in the cooling fluid and floats on the surface thereof so as to exit from the outlet port of the chamber of the housing for recirculation to the development system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Howe, Thomas C. Hsu
  • Patent number: 4055462
    Abstract: The fiber orientation of fourdrinier laid machine made paper is simulated with a bench top handsheet mold by means of a two-axis flow convergent nozzle asymmetrically positioned in the slurry reservoir box of the mold. When a pulp slurry is drained of water, a strong flow stream vector component parallel with the forming wire plane is generated within the flow stream as the slurry flows inductively over the nozzle surfaces and from the nozzle throat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1977
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Hsu, John L. Miller
  • Patent number: 3997300
    Abstract: Gas-liquid contact reaction efficiency in a two stage heavy black liquor oxidation process is improved by co-current contact in the first stage and countercurrent contact in the second stage or vice versa. Such improved efficiency is sustained by preventing the obstruction of gas discharge nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventors: William H. Boatwright, Thomas C. Hsu