Patents by Inventor Richard H. Lugg

Richard H. Lugg has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230272761
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine which includes an outer casing; a central longitudinal hollow shaft with a forward air inlet; a three stage rotating superconducting electric bypass fan with front and rear fan blades and a diffuser blade interposed between said front and rear fan blades wherein the diffuser blade rotates in an opposite direction to the front and rear fan blades; a multiple stage superconducting axial compressor positioned aft of the three stage rotating superconducting electric bypass fan; a multiple stage superconducting electric turbine core positioned aft of the multiple stage variable speed superconducting axial compressor, whereby the electric power from the multiple stage superconducting electric turbine core powers the three stage superconducting electric bypass fan and the multiple stage superconducting axial compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 11466643
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine which includes an outer casing; a central longitudinal hollow shaft with a forward air inlet; a three stage rotating superconducting electric bypass fan with front and rear fan blades and a diffuser blade interposed between said front and rear fan blades wherein the diffuser blade rotates in an opposite direction to the front and rear fan blades; a multiple stage superconducting axial compressor positioned aft of the three stage rotating superconducting electric bypass fan; a multiple stage superconducting electric turbine core positioned aft of the multiple stage variable speed superconducting axial compressor, whereby the electric power from the multiple stage superconducting electric turbine core powers the three stage superconducting electric bypass fan and the multiple stage superconducting axial compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20220090560
    Abstract: HYPERDRIVE receives continuous air breathing assistance from compressed atmospheric air through a high speed magnetically core driven turbine accelerator which resolves around a common flow path tunnel. The tunnel runs from the front to the back of the engine. It is assisted by a series of radial geometric ramjet engines that share the common flow path tunnel for hypersonic exhaust but has separate inlet air from a linear aerospike which governs mass flow of air, velocity of inlet air and pressure to the turbine and/or ramjets, as well as the positioning of the shock wave at the inlet to reduce aerodynamic drag. The ramjet is of hybrid engine design where it can also function as a scramjet, thus a ram-scramjet structure for combustion in a radial configuration about the engine (aft of an electrical compressor), where the common flow path tunnel also serves as a compression tunnel to compress air through a the constantly occurring series of compression shocks entering from and around the aerospike.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 10954792
    Abstract: A gas turbine rotor having a combination of proximal embedded permanent magnets in the blended turbine(s) trunnion structure to which blades are integral to and through these distal trunnion channels attach to which turbine blades are integral to as a single component is provided. Permanent magnets or warm conducting coils or cold superconducting coils can be used. The structure rotates around a superconducting power shaft core (SPSC), running axially in relation to the turbine blade permanent magnets, for example, and embedded distal trunnion rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20200284224
    Abstract: An aerospace hybrid hypersonic propulsion system which has a common core airflow path through the engine combining subsonic, transonic, supersonics and hypersonic propulsion system and architecture in such a way that five known engine cycles known in the art are configured and connected to operate seamlessly with a hybrid electric and thermal cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20200040846
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine which includes an outer casing; a central longitudinal hollow shaft with a forward air inlet; a three stage rotating superconducting electric bypass fan with front and rear fan blades and a diffuser blade interposed between said front and rear fan blades wherein the diffuser blade rotates in an opposite direction to the front and rear fan blades; a multiple stage superconducting axial compressor positioned aft of the three stage rotating superconducting electric bypass fan; a multiple stage superconducting electric turbine core positioned aft of the multiple stage variable speed superconducting axial compressor, whereby the electric power from the multiple stage superconducting electric turbine core powers the three stage superconducting electric bypass fan and the multiple stage superconducting axial compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 10344613
    Abstract: A turbine assembly system and apparatus for a Hyperjet™ and method for making same is provided. Specifically, the turbine assembly provides a power generation system for a turbine engine and includes a plurality of stages. Each stage of the turbine assembly includes a stator having a wire distributed winding; and a rotatable blisk that encircle the stator with an air gap disposed therebetween. The rotatable blisk includes a rotor disk and a plurality of blades that extend radially outward from the rotor disk. The rotor disk includes six superconducting magnets positioned in a circular arrangement within the rotor disk to encircle the stator. An electromagnetic field providing high power and power density is generated between the superconducting magnets and the stator with the blisk rotates about the stator during engine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 10232937
    Abstract: A supersonic aircraft having unique structural, geometrical, electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal and aerodynamic configuration is described. Its design characteristics maximize aerodynamic performance, speed, efficiency, comfort and range in the operational affect of carrying passengers over long distances at very high flight speeds and Mach numbers, generally above Mach 4.0+. It has fully integrated-mated fuselage twin engine nacelle structures which reduce and stabilize wave drag, wherein engines sit forward of the sonic boom electrode swept aerospace but are integrated right through the sub-wing, the aero-spike and inlet just above the top surface of the central wing, and above and the major wing mating join, attached via a massive composite titanium keel structure, through the central wing box and fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hypermach Aerospace Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20160377029
    Abstract: HYPERDRIVE receives continuous air breathing assistance from compressed atmospheric air through a high speed magnetically core driven turbine accelerator which resolves around a common flow path tunnel. The tunnel runs from the front to the back of the engine. It is assisted by a series of radial geometric ramjet engines that share the common flow path tunnel for hypersonic exhaust but has separate inlet air from a linear aerospike which governs mass flow of air, velocity of inlet air and pressure to the turbine and/or ramjets, as well as the positioning of the shock wave at the inlet to reduce aerodynamic drag. The ramjet is of hybrid engine design where it can also function as a scramjet, thus a ram-scramjet structure for combustion in a radial configuration about the engine (aft of an electrical compressor), where the common flow path tunnel also serves as a compression tunnel to compress air through a the constantly occurring series of compression shocks entering from and around the aerospike.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20160298538
    Abstract: A turbine assembly system and apparatus for a Hyperjet™ and method for making same is provided. Specifically, the turbine assembly provides a power generation system for a turbine engine and includes a plurality of stages. Each stage of the turbine assembly includes a stator having a wire distributed winding; and a rotatable blisk that encircle the stator with an air gap disposed therebetween. The rotatable blisk includes a rotor disk and a plurality of blades that extend radially outward from the rotor disk. The rotor disk includes six superconducting magnets positioned in a circular arrangement within the rotor disk to encircle the stator. An electromagnetic field providing high power and power density is generated between the superconducting magnets and the stator with the blisk rotates about the stator during engine operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20160186570
    Abstract: A gas turbine turbine rotor(s) having a combination there of proximal embedded permanent magnets in the blended turbine(s) trunion structure to which blades are integral to and through these distal trunion channels attach, to which turbine blades are integral to as a single component, thereof exist permanent magnet) or in another embodiment warm conducting coils, or cold superconducting coils) levitating fields, rotating around a superconducting power shaft core (SPSC), running axially in relation to said turbine blade magnets and embedded distal trunion rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 9181900
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-power, fully-superconducting electric machine and major subcomponents including a dual (twin) superconducting, counter rotating, sub-scale bypass fan machine, 13-stage switched reluctance turbo-motor, electric compressor, annular ion-plasma combustor with electromagnetic electrodes, and a five stage superconducting counter-rotating turbine power generation machine which is capable of developing 2.5 MW per stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 9180770
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hybrid electric, turbine-powered, all wheel drive automotive platform or truck/military platform design that utilizes a hybrid electromagnetic segmented gas turboshaft engine, whereby all rotating turbomachinery components are segmented from one another electromagnetically. In some embodiments, the components may be levitated in magnetic bearings. In this way, the turbine stages have superconducting ring generators circumferentially surrounding the turbine core generating multi-megawatts of electric power for the land automotive platform. The hybrid turbine acts as an integrated superconducting generator. A plurality of electromagnetic transmission(s) connect to all-wheel drive wheel armatures that are adjacent to the superconducting stators in each wheel, which drive the wheels. Each wheel may be an electric powered-magnetic powered hybrid drive-energy storage unit architecture itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20150108269
    Abstract: A supersonic aircraft having unique structural, geometrical, electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal and aerodynamic configuration is described. Its design characteristics maximize aerodynamic performance, speed, efficiency, comfort and range in the operational affect of carrying passengers over long distances at very high flight speeds and Mach numbers, generally above Mach 4.0+. It has fully integrated-mated fuselage twin engine nacelle structures which reduce and stabilize wave drag, wherein engines sit forward of the sonic boom electrode swept aerospace but are integrated right through the sub-wing, the aero-spike and inlet just above the top surface of the central wing, and above and the major wing mating join, attached via a massive composite titanium keel structure, through the central wing box and fuselage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20150050123
    Abstract: A superconducting integrated ring turbine motor generator gas turbine engine stage of the present invention includes a combination of turbine vanes, rotors and blisk assemblies that prevent temperatures during operation from interfering with the extraction or control of power generation processes. The engine stage includes a ring having an evenly spaced array of aerodynamic vanes affixed on the inside or outside of the ring. The vanes are spaced apart by a nonmagnetic armature assembly spacer ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 8851415
    Abstract: An integrated hybrid electric power generation system for producing jet thrust, a superconducting direct drive turbine ring motor for vertical lift, multi-megawatt electric current generation and a pulse-phased high power directed energy weapon (DEW). The system is managed electrically, and may be mated directly to a magnetic aerodynamic generation of rotorhead optimized control as a direct drive electric lift-jet thrust rotorcraft system (DDELJTRS) manifesting an all flight managed controls and weaponized electric system in rotorcraft, vertical lift, aerodynamic flight control, directed energy weapon and jet propulsion for forward flight high speed cruise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 8845290
    Abstract: A rotorcraft having an operational range and a plurality of rotor blades, each rotor blade capable of assuming an angular pitch, utilizes a control apparatus a mechanism for independently controlling an angular pitch value of each of the plurality of rotor blades wherein a collective sum of the angular pitch values of the plurality of rotor blades is not constant over the operational range of the rotorcraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 8720205
    Abstract: With turbine segments controlled electrically in a shaftless design, the turbine of the present invention creates high propulsion efficiencies over a broader range of operating conditions through the integration of gas turbine, electric and magnetic power systems, advanced materials and alternative petroleum-based combustion cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 8674538
    Abstract: A wind generator is disclosed in which superconducting ring generators are utilized without the need for a load bearing drive shaft and other mechanical components, decreasing overall weight and enabling the use of variable geometry blades for increased overall efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Publication number: 20140060005
    Abstract: Supersonic Magnetic Advanced Generation Jet Electric Turbine (S-MAGJET) described herein, and a subsonic derivative, MAGJET, integrate a gas power turbine, superconducting electric power and propulsion generation, and magnetic power flux field systems along with an ion plasma annular injection combustor which utilizes alternative petroleum-based fuel and combustion cycles to create a hybrid turbine turbomachine for aerospace propulsion. The propulsion unit is able to achieve a dramatic increase in horsepower, combustion and propulsion efficiency, and weight reduction. In addition, the turbomachinery structures may be disposed within an exoskeleton architecture that achieves an increase in thrust to weight ratio with a concomitant increase in fuel efficiency and power generation. The engine continuously adjusts the temperature, pressure and mass airflow requirements using an electromagnetic power management system architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg