Valve timing system for liquid fuel rockets

    公开(公告)号:US12031506B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-09

    申请号:US17770156

    申请日:2019-12-10

    发明人: Larry Coady

    IPC分类号: F02K9/58

    摘要: A liquid fuel rocket engine according to one example includes a combustor, a liquid fuel repository connected to the combustor via a fuel line and a first valve, an oxidizer repository connected to the combustor via an oxidizer line and a second valve, a valve controller configured to output a valve control current to the first valve, the valve controller storing instructions for determining at least one actual minimum impulse bit of a valve based on a current profile and a voltage profile of a single operation of the first valve, and to adjust valve controls to account for the at least one actual minimum impulse bit.

    SATELLITE INCLUDING CROSSOVER POWER PROCESSING UNITS FOR ELECTRIC THRUSTERS

    公开(公告)号:US20230294846A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US18014404

    申请日:2020-07-10

    发明人: Brian A. Koch

    IPC分类号: B64G1/40 B64G1/42

    CPC分类号: B64G1/405 B64G1/428

    摘要: A spacecraft propulsion system including a first thruster system including a first power processing unit connected to a first thruster string via a crossover switching unit and connected to a second thruster string via the crossover switching unit. A second thruster system including a second power processing unit connected to the second thruster string via the crossover switching unit and to the first thruster string via the crossover switching unit. A controller is connected to each of the first power processing unit, the second power processing unit, and the crossover switching unit.

    VALVE DEVICE WITH BALL LOCKS
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230265955A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-24

    申请号:US17920456

    申请日:2020-04-24

    IPC分类号: F16L37/14 F16K15/03 F16K27/02

    摘要: A valve device (20) includes male and female housings (22, 24) that together define a fluid through-passage (28). The male and female housings have, respectively, exterior and interior annular channels (22a, 24a). The male housing is receivable into the female housing such that the exterior and interior annular channels together define a toroidal tube. First and second valve elements (30,32) are disposed, respectively, in the male and female housings. Ball locks (36) are receivable into the toroidal tube and axially lock the male and female housings together. A lock (40) engageable when the first and second valve elements are in functional alignment and which when engaged rotationally locks the male and female housings.

    Electric propulsion power circuit
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10859068B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-08

    申请号:US15305176

    申请日:2014-06-02

    IPC分类号: F03H1/00 B64G1/42 B64G1/40

    摘要: A circuit (400, 700, 800) comprising: a first power source (402) supplying first current to a load (470) during a first Period of Time (“PoT”); a second power source (416) supplying a second current to the load during a second POT; a Unidirectional Current Valve (“UCV”) in series with the first power source; a current detector (420, 702, 802) in series with the UCV (422); and a switch (424) in parallel with a series combination of the current detector and UCV to bypass the UCV during the second PoT. The current detector determines whether the second period of time has commenced and whether the switch has closed.