Patents by Inventor Thomas Stratton Bustard

Thomas Stratton Bustard 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).

  • Novel getter and process
    Patent number: 3977813
    Abstract: Process for activating a getter composed of a porous barium pellet comprising maintaining a barium pellet in an inert atmosphere, placing the pellet in an enclosed chamber, evacuating the chamber and heating the evacuated chamber containing the pellet to about 800.degree.F for about two hours to activate same by removing gases from the surfaces of the pellet and an activated barium getter comprising a perforated metal or alloy can preferably composed of tantalum containing a barium pellet which has been heated in a vacuum to about 800.degree.F for about two hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Assignee: Nuclear Battery Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Stratton Bustard, David Earl Goslee
  • Implantable thermoelectric generator having thermopile compression wires
    Patent number: 3957541
    Abstract: Thermopile mounting comprising elongated thermoelectric elements with insulation therebetween arrayed into a thermopile block, electrical interconnections for said elements, a hot plate and a cold plate at each end of the thermopile and a plurality of tensioned wires extending from the hot plate to the cold plate in a manner to transfer the stress of the wires to the thermopile to place same under compression, said wires having a strength to thermal conductivity ratio of greater than 250,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Assignee: Nuclear Battery Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Stratton Bustard, David Earl Goslee