Patents Represented by Attorney Stephen J. Church

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  • Depression gun pod
    Patent number: 4587881
    Abstract: A depression gun pod for detachable connection to an aircraft stores suspension rack, the pod having a gun and having a gun mount providing for depression of the gun in elevation and for limited azimuth movement; the mount utilizing a plurality of planar frame-like members which are disposed in a compact configuration within the pod when the gun is in a forward firing position and which rigidly support the gun as it moves in depression and azimuth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Arthur E. Clayson, Jack Bates, Richard D. Fulmer
  • Fin attachment
    Patent number: 4568041
    Abstract: An improved fin attachment having a socket for reception of a tang mounted n a missile fin, an element for drawing the tang into the socket, and frusto-conical concentric rings which engage the tang and the socket to connect them rigidly in a predetermined angular relation. All elements of the attachment are retained so as not to be lost when the fin is detached, and the attachment provides effective connection without the use of complex shapes or precise manufacturing tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Kent G. Whitham
  • Inside collet for coaxial placement of diode
    Patent number: 4503406
    Abstract: An inside collet assembly for positioning an IMPATT diode precisely axially long and coaxially of a cylindrical cavity. The assembly serves for convenient removal and repositioning of the diode within the cavity and provides effective electrical and thermal connection to the diode. The assembly is not significantly larger in diameter than the cavity and does not require surfaces producing undesired reflections of microwaves within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Donald R. Bowling, Charles F. Smith
  • Fail safe rocket motor
    Patent number: 4494373
    Abstract: In a rocket motor having an insulative coating on selected portions of the xterior casing, one or more ribs are used to structurally strengthen portions of the casing and to reinforce thermal stress patterns which will cause failure venting at a predetermined point of the rocket motor as a cook-off safety feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Ronald F. Vetter, Theodore A. Hicks, Warren R. Compton
  • Riser
    Patent number: 4493466
    Abstract: A seat-mounted parachute employs two-way stretch material to prevent the ease cord for canopy glide control from bunching or binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Bruce W. Trenholm, James G. Woolley
  • Parachute riser assembly
    Patent number: 4479624
    Abstract: A seat-mounted parachute has control lines positioned on seat-held risers enclose the lines to permit deployment through the seat rollers without entanglement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Michael A. Martin, Bruce W. Trenholm, James G. Woolley
  • Environmentally energized arm-fire device actuator
    Patent number: H68
    Abstract: A fluid oscillator having a tube provided with a slit which is pivotable o a boundary layer of air flowing over a missile for arming and is pivotable from the missile exterior. The tube is configured so that the boundary layer excites oscillations within the tube at a predetermined velocity at which the missile is to arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by te Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: John H. France