Ming Lu

US Patent:

6922704, Jul 26, 2005

Filed:

May 18, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/861217

Inventors:

Peter Frölich - Mannheim, DE
Manfred Schoelzke - Mannheim, DE
Ming Lu - Sharon MA, US

Assignee:

ABB Inc. - Norwalk CT

International Classification:

G06F017/00
G06F007/00

US Classification:

7071041, 707102, 707 3, 707101, 707103 R

Abstract:

A method for generating application-specific input files for applications that require input files in varying file formats, where data for specifying industrial equipment are stored in a database of a computer system as XML-formatted files, which are based on a class model, and a modular transformation into at least one application-specific input file takes place. One or more of the XML files are loaded into a memory, decoded, interpreted and verified—particularly with regard to semantics and consistency. In the absence of an error specifications of objects of the industrial equipment are generated in XML format based on the verified XML files by using an interface containing descriptions of the functionality of the respective applications. The at least one application-specific file is generated via canonical transformation from the generated object specifications in XML presentation.

US Patent:

20040202603, Oct 14, 2004

Filed:

Apr 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/837125

Inventors:

Alan Fischer - Cambridge MA, US
Robert Hoch - Hensonville NY, US
David Moy - Winchester MA, US
Ming Lu - Lanham MD, US
Mark Martin - N. Bethesda MD, US
Chun Niu - Somerville MA, US
Naoya Ogata - Tokyo, JP
Howard Tennent - Kennett Square PA, US
Liwen Dong - Rockville MD, US
Ji Sun - Potomac MD, US
Larry Helms - Germantown MD, US
Fabian Jameison - Gaithersburg MD, US
Pam Liang - Alhambra CA, US
David Simpson - N. Bethesda MD, US

Assignee:

Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.

International Classification:

D01F009/12
C07C063/333

US Classification:

423/447200, 562/492000, 564/426000

Abstract:

Graphitic nanotubes, which includes tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”) and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution or by adsorption of functional moieties. More specifically the invention relates to graphitic nanotubes which are uniformly or non-uniformly substituted with chemical moieties or upon which certain cyclic compounds are adsorbed and to complex structures comprised of such functionalized nanotubes linked to one another. The invention also relates to methods for introducing functional groups onto the surface of such nanotubes. The invention further relates to uses for functionalized nanotubes.