Translating harness with passive disconnect

    公开(公告)号:US11709035B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-25

    申请号:US17400572

    申请日:2021-08-12

    CPC classification number: F41F3/055

    Abstract: A translating harness includes an umbilical within a translating assembly to define a translation distance. A method for operating the translating harness incudes launching a vehicle from a tube of a host system, the translating harness between a host system and the vehicle; completing a translation length of the translation harness; and disconnecting a vehicle connector of the translating harness from the vehicle while the vehicle is within the tube.

    Programmable wire filaments and devices

    公开(公告)号:US11706908B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-18

    申请号:US17555804

    申请日:2021-12-20

    Inventor: Catherine Trent

    Abstract: A switchable wire includes filaments, each of which includes a heat-activated material layer that may be indirectly heated to change its state between different states having different electrical conductivity. In an example embodiment the indirect heating may be electrically resistance heating by passing electrical current through an electrically-resistive core of the filament. The heat passing through an electrically-insulative coating around the core, and into a heat-activated material layer around the electrically-insulative coating. The heat-activated material may be a chalcogenide material that is shiftable between a crystalline electrically-conducting state and an amorphous electrically-insulating state. The state of the material may be controlled by controlling the heating profile through controlling heating in the core. Many such filaments may be twisted together to form a switchable wire. Such wires may be used in any of a variety of devices where switchable electrical conductivity is desired.

    EFFECTOR HAVING MORPHING AIRFRAME AND METHOD
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230221101A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US17842200

    申请日:2022-06-16

    CPC classification number: F42B10/42 F02K7/10 F42B10/14 F42B5/10

    Abstract: An effector having an extendible range and a method for extending the range of an effector includes using an axially translatable center body that is movable from a stowed position, in which the center body is stowed in an outer body of the effector, to a deployed position in which the center body extends out of the outer body to extend the axial length of the effector. The effector includes a ramjet assembly and the subsystems of the effector are contained in the center body. The movement of the center body exposes radially positioned ramjet fuel in the outer body, such that the air entering the ramjet inlet may be heated by combusting the air with the fuel for additional fuel and propulsion of the effector.

    ENERGY STORAGE POWER SOURCE USING SELF-EXCITATION OF A WOUND-ROTOR INDUCTION MACHINE (WRIM) TO CHARGE AND DISCHARGE ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENTS (ESEs)

    公开(公告)号:US20230216302A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US17567611

    申请日:2022-01-03

    CPC classification number: H02J3/30 H02J15/007 H02K7/025

    Abstract: A stored energy power source uses a wound-rotor induction machine (WRIM) to receive energy from a prime mover via a rotating shaft, provide magnetization reactive energy from a self-excited AC capacitor bank, store the energy in N energy storage elements (ESEs) via tertiary windings, and discharge the ESEs to deliver energy via a secondary winding to a load producing output. Each discharging ESE contributes to a total flux at the secondary winding to sum the individual ESEs voltages. These voltages can be stepped up or down by a transformation ratio between the secondary winding and each of the tertiary windings. A flywheel may be coupled to the shaft to store and delivery kinetic energy. Load factor power control can be used to stabilize the output voltage. The source may be configured to allow for the bi-directional flow of energy between the ESEs, the flywheel and the load. The WRIM provides a safe, reliable and efficient system to provide high-level AC and DC output voltages.

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