Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Propellant tank with on-off control system for the flow of propellant gas and spacecraft incorporating such a control system
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Application No.: US17428739Application Date: 2020-02-04
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Publication No.: US12031528B2Publication Date: 2024-07-09
- Inventor: Dmytro Rafalskyi , Javier Martinez Martinez
- Applicant: THRUSTME
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: THRUSTME
- Current Assignee: THRUSTME
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: NIXON & VANDERHYE
- Priority: FR 01159 2019.02.06
- International Application: PCT/FR2020/050186 2020.02.04
- International Announcement: WO2020/161434A 2020.08.13
- Date entered country: 2021-08-05
- Main IPC: F03H1/00
- IPC: F03H1/00 ; B64G1/40

Abstract:
The invention relates to a solid or liquid propellant (2) tank (1) for a thruster, the tank (1) comprising means for forming a gas (9) in the tank, the tank (1) having an opening (4) of surface area S for the extraction of a flow (20) of the propellant gas from the tank (1). According to the invention, the tank (1) comprises a propellant gas flow on-off control system comprising a grid (6) arranged opposite the opening (4) of the tank (1), a first thermal regulation system (11, 21) for heating the gas (9) in the tank and a second thermal regulation system (12, 22) for heating the grid (6), said grid (6) including holes of total surface area greater than the surface area S of the opening of the tank (1).
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