Patents by Inventor Urs Rhyner

Urs Rhyner 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).

  • ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS, DEVICES, AND STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20130020903
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven R. Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, Timothy E. Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla
  • Electrochemical methods, devices, and structures
    Patent number: 8310130
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven R. Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, Timothy E. Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla
  • ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS, DEVICES, AND STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20120025671
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven R. Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, Timothy E. Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla
  • Electrochemical methods, devices, and structures
    Patent number: 7923895
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven R. Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, Timothy E. Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla
  • ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS, DEVICES, AND STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20100007248
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven R. Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, E. Timothy Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla
  • Electrochemical methods, devices, and structures
    Patent number: 7541715
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven R. Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, E. Timothy Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla
  • Electrochemical methods, devices, and structures
    Publication number: 20060102455
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, Steven Hall, Yukinori Koyama, Kyungyeol Song, E. Chin, Urs Rhyner, Dimitrios Sapnaras, Fernando Tubilla