From: Axil Axil
Doesn't LeClair's cavatation patent take the Quantum
Potential Corporation out of the fusion from cavitation business?
LeClair's IP is a joke. Below is the important prior art in sonofusion, all
of them building on the original Flynn patent from 1978.
Table may not show up in plain text. Flynn:
http://www.google.com/patents/US4333796
In effect - there is only one player in the field based on current IP
coverage: Impulse Devices
Citing Patent Filing date Issue date Original Assignee
Title
US5659173
http://www.google.com/patents/US5659173?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgFeb 23, 1994Aug 19, 1997The Regents of the
University of CaliforniaConverting acoustic energy into useful other
energy forms
US5858104
http://www.google.com/patents/US5858104?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgDec 21, 1995Jan 12, 1999The United States of
America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy System for focused
generation of pressure by bubble formation and collapse
US5968323
http://www.google.com/patents/US5968323?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgJul 15, 1997Oct 19, 1999Method and
apparatus for generating large velocity, high pressure, and high temperature
conditions
US6361747
http://www.google.com/patents/US6361747?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgNov 21, 2000Mar 26, 2002Sonertec Inc.
Reactor with acoustic cavitation
US6460415
http://www.google.com/patents/US6460415?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMar 7, 2000 Oct 8, 2002 Vibratory
system utilizing shock wave vibratory force
US6956316
http://www.google.com/patents/US6956316?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgSep 17, 2004Oct 18, 2005Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
US6958568
http://www.google.com/patents/US6958568?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgSep 17, 2004Oct 25, 2005Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
US6958569
http://www.google.com/patents/US6958569?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgSep 1, 2004 Oct 25, 2005Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
US6960869
http://www.google.com/patents/US6960869?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgSep 17, 2004Nov 1, 2005 Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
US7040804
http://www.google.com/patents/US7040804?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgJun 30, 2003May 9, 2006 The Institute of
Space and Astronautical Science Method for measuring diffusion coefficient
in conductive melts, and apparatus for measuring the same
US7049730
http://www.google.com/patents/US7049730?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMar 11, 2005May 23, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
US7057328
http://www.google.com/patents/US7057328?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMar 21, 2005Jun 6, 2006 Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly for a spherical cavitation chamber
US7073258
http://www.google.com/patents/US7073258?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgSep 7, 2004 Jul 11, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Method of constructing a port assembly in a spherical cavitation
chamber
US7103956
http://www.google.com/patents/US7103956?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgAug 23, 2004Sep 12, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Method of fabricating a spherical cavitation chamber
US7122941
http://www.google.com/patents/US7122941?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMay 5, 2005 Oct 17, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly with recessed head mass contact surface
US7122943
http://www.google.com/patents/US7122943?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMay 6, 2005 Oct 17, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly with restricted contact area
US7126256
http://www.google.com/patents/US7126256?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMay 5, 2005 Oct 24, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly with recessed head mass contact surface
US7126258
http://www.google.com/patents/US7126258?dq=cavitation-induced+fusionei=AYB
QUNvZJ8mTiAKluYGgDgMay 5, 2005 Oct 24, 2006Impulse Devices,
Inc.Acoustic driver assembly with recessed head mass contact surface