Patents & Technical Articles
Patent Activity:

- US Patent # 07/362,366 on silicon carbide ceramic core body
- US Patent # 5,394,930 on Infiltration of ceramic preforms to make composite parts
- US App. # 08/369,658 and CIP 08/032,859, 07/976,381 & CIP 07/519,077 on VSS
- US Patent 5,387,280 & 5,468,285 on soluble ceramic core for investment casting
- US Application 08/655,867 on Aluminum-Beryllium non-reactive ceramic core body
- US Provisional patent Application # 60/169,619 - Automatic surface finishing techniques
- Cdn. Application filed Sept/2000 - Shaped Metal Panels and Forming Same by Shot Peening

Technical Articles Authored:
- Advanced Casting Technology - Premium Quality Aerospace Castings
NATO - Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
April1982
- Metal Matrix Composite Structures via the Investment casting Process
Feasibility study for NASA Johnson Space Center & Albany Research
Jan 1990
- Investment cast Metal Matrix Composites SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers - Anaheim CA Nov 1990
- Investment casting Applications in A201 Alloy NATO - AGARD Handbook on Advanced Casting March 1991
- Investment Cast F3K Composite for High Temperature Applications American Society for Metals - ASM Materials Week - Cincinnati Ohio Oct 1991
- Solidification Modeling of an A201 Investment Casting via FEA Co Authored with Mark Samonds of Universal Energy Systems Oct 1992
- Stereo lithography Based Rapid Prototype Castings Incast magazine - Investment Casting Institute Publication March 1993
- Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing of Investment Castings Society of Manufacturing Engineers - SME - Dearborn Michigan May 1993
- Fundamentals of Rapid Prototyping in Casting Society of manufacturing Engineers - SME - Toronto Ontario Nov 1993
- Fatigue Testing of D357 Alloy Investment Castings Co authored with J.C Ehrstrom of Pechiney Aluminum July 1994
- Design & Specification of Aluminum Airframe Structural Castings American Society for Metals - ASM - Aeromat >95 - Anaheim CA June 1995
- Development of Large Aircraft Doors as Investment Cast Prototype Proposal to Northrop Grumman and Boeing Commercial January 1996
- Rapid prototyping of Structural Aerospace Castings SME Rapid Prototyping Association April 1996
- Development of D357 Investment Cast Aircraft Door Substructures American Society for Metals - ASM - Aeromat >96 - Dayton Ohio June 1996
- Commercial Development of D357 Alloy Investment Cast Airframes ASM Heat Treating Society - St. Louis Missouri March 1997
- Effect of Casting & Heat Treat Parameters on Fatigue of D357 Castings ASM Aeromat >97 - Williamsburg VA - Reprinted in JOM Nov 1997 May 1997
- Development Pieces Structurales Moulees en Fonderie D=Aluminium Revue Materiaux & Techniques Nov 1997
- Minimizing Gas Porosity During Weld Rework of D357 Castings American Society for Metals - ASM Aeromat >98 - Williamsburg VA June 1998
- Single Piece Wing Skin Development via Peen Forming Technologies International Shot Peening Conference - Warsaw Poland Sept 1999
- Dev. of Tier II Vertically Integrated Suppliers in the Aerospace Industry American Society for Metals - ASM - Aeromat 2000 - Bellevue WA June 2000
- Static & Dynamic Properties of 7050 and 7475 Peen Formed Wing Skins Joint Technology Study - NMF Canada Inc. & Embraer ERJ170 Team Sept 2000
- Structural aluminum Investment Castings – 10 Year Evolution
ASM Aeromat Conference

June 2001
- Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Techniques in Jobshop
Canadian Quality Conference – Montreal
June 2001
- Investment Casting Design & Applications – Lessons learned
Engineered Casting Solutions Magazine
March 2002
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