John Fitzgerald Costa

US Patent:

8251685, Aug 28, 2012

Filed:

Sep 3, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/553968

Inventors:

David B. Jalbert - Coventry RI, US
John V. Costa - Somerset MA, US

Assignee:

Exceptional IP Holdings, LLC - Cary NC

International Classification:

E01C 19/12

US Classification:

425 12, 425 87, 425 97, 425458, 152357, 222385, 222389

Abstract:

The present invention is directed generally to building tools that are high quality, durable, and in some case lightweight and may include an output port assembly that has multiple sections that may be made separately and uniquely so as reduce tool weight, corrosion, and cost without degrading strength and durability.

US Patent:

20140017482, Jan 16, 2014

Filed:

Jul 15, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/942340

Inventors:

Charles D. TUFFILE - Dighton MA, US
Tyler F. WEZNER - Riverside RI, US
Patrick E. MACK - Milford MA, US
John V. COSTA - Somerset MA, US

International Classification:

B32B 17/10

US Classification:

4283011, 156305, 156285

Abstract:

A laminate and a method of forming the laminate, including a fiber reinforced polymer layer and a glassy metal foil layer. The fiber reinforced polymer layer comprises fibers present in a polymer matrix. The glassy metal foil layer comprises an iron based glass forming alloy including nickel, boron, silicon and optionally chromium and exhibits spinodal glass matrix microconstituents including a glass matrix and a semicrystalline/crystalline phase.

US Patent:

20140082807, Mar 27, 2014

Filed:

Sep 4, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/603198

Inventors:

Charles D. TUFFILE - Dighton MA, US
John Vincent COSTA - Somerset MA, US
Daniel James BRANAGAN - Idaho Falls ID, US

International Classification:

F41H 1/02

US Classification:

2 25

Abstract:

A stab resistant body armor and method of forming such component, wherein the component includes plurality of iron based glassy metal sheets, wherein the iron based glassy metal sheets comprise an iron based glass metal alloy including iron present in the range of 45 atomic percent to 71 atomic percent, nickel present in the range of 4 atomic percent to 17.5 atomic percent, boron present in the range of 11 atomic percent to 16 atomic percent, silicon present in the range of 0.3 atomic percent to 4.0 atomic percent and optionally chromium present in the range of 0.1 atomic percent to 19 atomic percent, and the alloy includes spinodal glass matrix microconstituent structures including one or both of a) semicrystalline phases and b) crystalline phases in a glass matrix.