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Carl Chartier, Manchester, NH US
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| 20090206233 | SOLIDIFICATION OF CRYSTALLINE SILICON FROM REUSABLE CRUCIBLE MOLDS - A process for making silicon ingots using a multi-part, reusable, graphite crucible of at least two mold pieces configured for assembly into an open top mold having an interior surface functional as a mold cavity for receiving molten silicon; removing or reducing a prior applied release coating from the interior surface until a uniformly smooth finish is achieved; coating the interior surface with a first layer of release coating comprising silicon nitride; coating the interior surface with a second layer of release coat comprising silica suspended in water; coating the interior surface with a third layer of release coat comprising silicon nitride; curing the release coat on said crucible; casting a silicon ingot in the crucible; and then repeating the prior steps multiple times. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20110200496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARRANGING HEATING ELEMENT IN CRYSTAL GROWTH APPARATUS - Systems and methods for arranging a heating element in a crystal growth apparatus include connecting elements such as heater clips used to interconnect one or more heating components of the heating element, and to connect at least one of the heating components with the crystal growth apparatus. The heating components can be electrically and thermally coupled, and can be connected via the same circuit, in order to simplify control of the heating element. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110203101 | CHUCK AND BRIDGE CONNECTION POINTS FOR TUBE FILAMENTS IN A CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION REACTOR - A chemical vapor deposition reactor system includes one or more tube filaments connected to a bridge, each tube filament being connected to a chuck. The chuck-to-filament connection can include a seed formed on an end of the tube filament, the seed being connected to a protrusion of the chuck, or the filament may be formed directly onto the chuck. For the bridge-to-filament connection, a flat cross bridge or a rectangular bridge is connected with corresponding openings in the filament. Use of these connections can maintain electrical connectivity and thus resistive heating of the tube filaments during operation of the reactor system. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110271718 | METHOD OF MAKING LARGE SURFACE AREA FILAMENTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYSILICON IN A CVD REACTOR - A method for making a large surface area silicon filament for production of bulk polysilicon by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) includes melting silicon and growing the filament from the melted silicon by an EFG method using a shaping die. The cross sectional shape of the silicon filament is constant over its axial length to within a tolerance of 10%. In embodiments, a plurality of identical and/or dissimilar filaments are grown simultaneously using a plurality of shaping dies. The filaments can be tubular. Filament cross sections can be annular and/or can include outwardly extending fins, with wall and/or fin thicknesses constant to within 10%. Filaments can be doped with at least one element from groups 3 and 5 of the Periodic Table. The filament can have a length equal to a length of a specified slim rod filament, and a total impedance not greater than the slim rod impedance. | 11-10-2011 |
Claude Chartier, Massy FR
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| 20120024060 | ELEMENT VIBRATING IN TWO UNCOUPLED MODES, AND USE IN VIBRATING RATE GYROSCOPE - The present disclosure relates to a vibrating element which is planar parallelly to an electrical crystallographic axis of a piezoelectric material such as quartz. The element comprises a beam holding electrodes, a stationary portion rigidly connected to one end of the beam, and a solid portion rigidly connected to the other end of the beam. The structure with facets from the chemical machining of the element has an axis of symmetry parallel to the electrical axis, and the solid portion has a center of gravity on the axis of symmetry. The useful vibration modes of the vibrating element, according to which the solid portion is reciprocatingly rotated about the axis of symmetry and reciprocatingly moved parallel to the plane of the element, are uncoupled. The measurement of an angular speed by a rate gyroscope including said vibrating elements is more precise. | 02-02-2012 |
David Chartier, Toulouse FR
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| 20080315033 | Turbojet Engine Mounting Structure For Aircraft - A mount for an aircraft turbojet engine. The mount includes a central box formed by an assembly of two side panels joined via transverse ribs and two side boxes secured to a forward part of the box and arranged either side thereof, each side box including an aft closure frame. One of the ribs forming the box includes two side extensions made in a single piece with the rib and respectively projecting from the two side panels outwardly from the box, the two extensions being fixedly mounted on the frame of each of the two side boxes, respectively. | 12-25-2008 |
Douglas M. Chartier, St. Charles, MO US
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| 20090324820 | Systems, Methods, and Compositions for the Inhibition of Corrosion of Metallic Surfaces - A chemical and associated systems and methods for creating a gas barrier and microbiologically resistant coating consisting of a quaternary ammonium salt, nano-clay and oxygen scavenger to protect metallic surfaces from microbiologically influenced corrosion, oxygen and acid gas (hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide) corrosive processes. | 12-31-2009 |
Douglas Maurice Chartier, Saint Charles, MO US
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| 20110303025 | Apparatus and methods for obtaining 3-phase (liquid, gas and solid) microbiological samples from pipes, pipelines, tanks and other vessels - The present invention hereby describes an apparatus and/or apparatuses to collect aqueous solutions, gas compounds, solid compounds and/or hydrocarbon liquid samples from a pipe, pipeline, tank or vessel for microbiological analysis; to determine if that environment contains microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) bacterium, which may contribute to the internal wall corrosion of the pipe's, pipeline's, tank's or vessel's metallic composition. The present invention also includes sterile absorbent materials within the apparatus(es); which have different absorbency rates and coatings, which are hydrocarbon and/or aqueous soluble at differing time periods, to represent adequate sampling of the fluids; as it travels through and within a pipe, pipeline, tank or vessel system. Solids are trapped within, and included within, a coated or non-coated sterile matrix which may contain sessilic MIC bacterium. Gas permeates the sterile matrix withholding contained planktonic bacterium thus providing a heterogeneous sampling of the contained contents. | 12-15-2011 |
Eric Chartier, Colombelles FR
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| 20110068736 | POWER CHARGING OF MOBILE DEVICES - A method is provided of charging a mobile device by a charger device, comprising transmitting and receiving a charging current via the Hot Plug Detect (HPD) pin of an HDMI cable connected between the mobile device and the charging device. The HDMI source device (the mobile device) and the HDMI sink device (the charger device) are also provided. | 03-24-2011 |
Glen R. Chartier, Avon Lake, OH US
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| 20080256809 | Cutting tool having replaceable blade - A cutting tool is described that enables quick and simple blade replacement. The cutting tool utilizes a pair of handles configured in a scissor-like arrangement. A cutting blade is releasably engaged with one of the handles. A spring or other biasing member urges the handles apart from one another. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20110078905 | PLASTIC PIPE CUTTER - A hand-held cutting tool is described which is used to readily cut or sever flexible pipe or tubing. The tool features one or more openings in the body of the tool sized to accommodate pipe or tubing to be cut. The tool is used to cut tubing by inserting the tubing into one of the apertures. A retractable blade is urged against the tubing and the tool then orbited about the tubing and/or the tubing rotated until the blade severs the tubing. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120039679 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING POWERED THREADING OPERATIONS - A device and associated system for threading, cutting, and reaming pipe ends are described. The device and system utilizes a brushless DC electric motor. The devices also include on-board electronics and operator interface(s) to provide sophisticated control and information as to the various operations. Also described are methods of operating the devices and several different modes for performing various operations. | 02-16-2012 |
Isabelle Chartier, Grenoble FR
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| 20090025774 | THERMOELECTRIC MEANS AND FABRIC-TYPE STRUCTURE INCORPORATING SUCH A MEANS - The invention relates to a thermoelectric means ( | 01-29-2009 |
Joanne Chartier, White Lake CA
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| 20090123976 | Compositions and Method for Storage of Nucleic Acid From Bodily Fluids - An aqueous composition comprising a denaturing agent, a chelator, a buffering agent and a protease for the extraction of nucleic acid from a sample of bodily fluid, such as saliva, such that the extracted nucleic acid is stable for at least fourteen days at room temperature and can be directly utilised in an amplification reaction without further processing. In particular, said composition comprises SDS, Cyclohexanediamine tetraacetate, Tris-HCl and proteinase K. A method and kit for the amplification of DNA directly from a bodily fluid, comprising said composition, is further provided. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100273218 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OF NUCLEIC ACID FROM BODILY FLUIDS - The present invention provides an aqueous composition comprising SDS, Cyclohexanediamine tetraacetate, Tris-HCl and proteinase K for the extraction of nucleic acid from a sample of bodily fluid, such a saliva, wherein the extracted nucleic acid is stable for at least fourteen days at room temperature The composition permits direct use of the extracted and stored DNA in an amplification reaction without further processing. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110014658 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OF NUCLEIC ACID FROM BODILY FLUIDS - The present invention provides an aqueous composition and method for extracting nucleic acid from a sample of bodily fluid, such as saliva, such that the nucleic acid within said sample remains stable for at least fourteen days at room temperature. The composition permits direct use of the extracted and stored DNA in an amplification reaction without further processing. | 01-20-2011 |
Joel Chartier, Bradenton, FL US
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| 20110215285 | GAS POWERED SELF CONTAINED PORTABLE WINCH - The invention is directed to a gas powered self-contained winch comprising an external casing including a first side wall, a second side wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and a stabilizing bar. The invention includes a combustion engine; a transmission assembly, a gear assembly and a clutch assembly that connect to a spool capable of winding and unwinding a cable wire. A hand controller can communicate with the clutch assembly through a cable wire sufficient to control the winding and unwinding of the cable. | 09-08-2011 |
Mark A. Chartier, Gladwin, MI US
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| 20100104843 | ALUMINUM BORON CARBIDE COMPOSITE AND METHOD TO FORM SAID COMPOSITE - An improved aluminum-boron carbide (ABC) composite has been discovered that is comprised of a continuous network of AlB | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110312484 | ALUMINUM BORON CARBIDE COMPOSITE AND METHOD TO FORM SAID COMPOSITE - An improved aluminum-boron carbide (ABC) composite has been discovered that is comprised of a continuous network of AlB | 12-22-2011 |
Martine Chartier, Marseille FR
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| 20090202979 | Production of antibody formats and immunological applications of said formats - The invention concerns an in-vitro method for introducing a targeted genome modification into an oocyte or an egg and a method for performing a random insertion in the genome of a host cell. | 08-13-2009 |
Michael John Chartier, Liberty Lake, WA US
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| 20100098086 | Preventing Forwarding of a Packet to a Control Plane - This invention includes tools that prevent forwarding of a packet to a control plane of a packet switch. The tools receive a packet comprising indicia suggesting that the packet be forwarded to a control plane of a packet switch. After receiving the packet, the tools may modify the packet to prevent the packet from being forwarded to the control plane, intercept the packet before it is received by the control plane, or otherwise prevent the packet from being forwarded to the control plane. The tools may also forward the packet from a source port of a packet switch to a destination port of the packet switch without forwarding the packet to the control plane of the packet switch. | 04-22-2010 |
Myriam Chartier, Quebec CA
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| 20090095686 | Process And System For Treating Waste From Aluminum Production Containing PAH And Fluoride Ions By Flotation And Stabilization - A process for treating a waste material coming from aluminum production, the waste material containing contaminants polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and inorganic fluoride compounds containing fluoride ions, involves flotation of a waste mixture of the waste material in the presence of a surfactant capable of producing PAH-rich micelles that are floated to produce froth containing the PAH-rich micelles; and stabilization of the waste mixture by adding a fluoride ion stabilizer to form stabilized fluoride compounds with reduced solubility in the waste mixture and in a toxicity characteristics leaching procedure test, to produce decontaminated solids containing the stabilized fluoride compounds and a leachate solution. | 04-16-2009 |
Thierry Chartier, Faytiet FR
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| 20110100843 | GAS VESSEL PACKING STRUCTURE HAVING A CRYSTALLINE PHASE - The present invention relates to a container packing structure, characterized in that it comprises a crystalline phase containing 55 to 97% by weight of xonotlite crystallites and 3 to 45% by weight of tobermorite crystallites. It also relates to a method for fabricating such a packing structure, and the container containing same, and its use for storing fluids such as gases. | 05-05-2011 |
Timothy P. Chartier, Davidson, NC US
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| 20120102113 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR RANKING CONTENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKS SUCH AS TWITTER - A system and process for ranking at least one of the quality and importance of content on a social network is disclosed. The system and process include monitoring one of actions and information of social network users, determining whether the actions or information of the social network users fits a predefined definition of a game between at least two social network users, determining the results of the game between the at least two social network users, applying a sports ranking algorithm to the results between the at least two social network users, and determining a rank of at least one of the quality and importance of content of the social network users based on an outcome of the sports ranking algorithm. | 04-26-2012 |