Abstract: A plasmon filter may include an element supportive of plasmon energy and having a plurality of openings through which a material may pass. A system includes a fluid filter supportive of evanescent energy, an evanescent field generator, a sensor, and/or other components. A corresponding method may include generating plasmons on the filter and exposing a material to the plasmon energy.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 1, 2011
Date of Patent:
February 26, 2013
Inventors:
Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K. Y. Jung, William Henry Mangione-Smith, Nathan P. Myhrvold, John Brian Pendry, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
Abstract: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product directed to controlling corrosion, particularly space weather induced corrosion, of a conductive structure in contact with a corrosive environment and coated with a semiconductive coating, where the corrosion is controlled by a controllable filter and a corresponding electronic control unit configured to process and adjust the controllable filter in response to at least one measured parameter associated with space weather effects on the conductive structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 18, 2008
Date of Patent:
March 1, 2011
Assignee:
Applied Semiconductor International Ltd.
Inventors:
David B. Dowling, Farshad Khorrami, Joseph G. Michels, Mikhail Panasyuk
Abstract: A corrosion inhibitor dispensing apparatus has a housing with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A first body within the housing comprises a cathodic corrosion inhibitor. A second body within the housing comprises an anodic corrosion inhibitor.
Abstract: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product directed to controlling corrosion of a conductive structure in contact with a corrosive environment and electrically connected to one or more anodes, wherein the anodes are less noble than the conductive structure, where the corrosion is controlled by a controllable filter and a corresponding electronic control unit configured to process at least one stored or measured parameter, and wherein the apparatus, system and method serve to prolong the lifetime of the one or more anodes by reducing, minimizing or substantially eliminating their sacrificial character.
Abstract: An apparatus and method for cathodic protection in an environment where thin film corrosive fluids are formed is provided. The apparatus which protects from corrosion an object exposed to the thin film corrosive fluids, by artificially adjusting a potential of the object, comprises a DC power supply of which cathode is electrically connected to the object to be corrosion-protected, and an anodic assembly of which anode is electrically connected to the DC power supply.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 12, 2003
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2007
Assignee:
Korea Power Engineering Co. Inc.
Inventors:
Hyun Young Chang, Gon Hwangbo, Tae Eun Jin, Min Yu Shin
Abstract: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product directed to controlling corrosion of a conductive structure in contact with a corrosive environment and coated with a semiconductive coating, where the corrosion is controlled by a controllable filter and a corresponding electronic control unit configured to process at least one stored or measured parameter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 2, 2004
Date of Patent:
April 18, 2006
Assignee:
Applied Semiconductor International Ltd.
Abstract: A semiconductor system is provided that uses semiconductive organic polymers, electronics and semiconductor technology to provide a wide array of semiconductor components and a system of preventing corrosion of a surface of a metal structure in contact with a corrosive environment involving: (a) a semiconductive organic polymer coating in conductive contact with at least part of the surface; and (b) an electronic filter for filtering corrosive noise and a method of preventing corrosion using the system.
Abstract: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product directed to controlling corrosion of a conductive structure in contact with a corrosive environment and coated with a semiconductive coating, where the corrosion is controlled by a controllable filter and a corresponding electronic control unit configured to process at least one stored or measured parameter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2002
Date of Patent:
November 2, 2004
Assignee:
Applied Semiconductor International Ltd.
Abstract: A semiconductor system is provided that uses semiconductive organic polymers, electronics and semiconductor technology to provide a wide array of semiconductor components and a system of preventing corrosion of a surface of a metal structure in contact with a corrosive environment involving:
(a) a semiconductive organic polymer coating in conductive contact with at least part of the surface; and
(b) an electronic filter for filtering corrosive noise
and a method of preventing corrosion using the system.
Abstract: A system for preventing corrosion and/or fouling of a surface of a biomedical device in contact with a corrosive environment comprising:
(a) a semiconductive coating in conductive contact with at least part of the surface; and
(b) an electronic filter for filtering corrosive noise and a method of preventing corrosion and/or fouling using the system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 18, 2000
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2003
Assignee:
Applied Semiconductor, Inc.
Inventors:
Joseph Bonaventura, Louis Ignarro, David B. Dowling, Arthur J. Spivack
Abstract: A system for preventing corrosion of a surface of a metal structure in contact with a corrosive environment comprising:
(a) a semiconductive organic polymer coating in conductive contact with at least part of the surface; and
(b) an electronic filter for filtering corrosive noise
and a method of preventing corrosion using the system.
Abstract: A system for preventing corrosion of a surface of a metal structure in contact with a corrosive environment comprising:
(a) a semiconductive coating in conductive contact with at least part of the surface; and
(b) an electronic filter for filtering corrosive noise
and a method of preventing corrosion using the system.
Abstract: A cathodic protection system utilizes dynamic control of an output from a power supply to vary an impressed current applied to a structure to be protected proportional to a measurement of stray electrical current. The current is also supplied to an anode bed in an amount sufficient to maintain the structure more negatively charged than the anode bed such that the stray electrical currents are directed away from the structure, thus avoiding electrolytic attack.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 1999
Date of Patent:
July 17, 2001
Inventors:
Robert J. Schwabe, Alexey V. Poliakov, Earle C. Bascom, III, Oleg Zuev, Igor Chernienko, Yuri Ya. Iossel, John F. Troisi, Shalom Zelingher, Vladimir Fedorov, Vladimir Leonov