Patents Assigned to Paragon Space Development Corporation
  • Mine Emergency Refuge Systems
    Publication number: 20130199423
    Abstract: An emergency refuge system relating to improved occupant access and air revitalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Paragon Space Development Corporation
  • Gas reconditioning systems
    Patent number: 8424515
    Abstract: Closed system breathable gas regeneration systems comprising temperature swing adsorption (“TSA”) using metabolic regeneration, such systems being useful for EVA in extraterrestrial environments having hostile atmospheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventor: Taber K. MacCallum
  • Cooling systems
    Patent number: 8342454
    Abstract: A portable thermal-control system adapted to support space-related research and exploration. Embodiments of the present invention assist in preventing overheating of small payloads being transported from an orbiting space vehicle to a planetary surface by small atmospheric-entry vehicles. Other embodiments of the present invention provide thermal control within an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suit. Each embodiment utilizes at least one phase-change material, cooled significantly below the freezing temperature, to absorb heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Orville Leimkuehler, Thomas William Morin, Grant A. Anderson
  • Space Humidity Control Systems
    Publication number: 20120183457
    Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing water-vapor-partial-pressure-differential across a chemically-selective membrane to remove water vapor from a habitable spacecraft environment(s). The system preferably utilizes heat from an exothermic CO2 removal process to prevent condensation at the chemically-selective membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taber K. MacCallum
  • Radiator Systems
    Publication number: 20110277959
    Abstract: A system of spacecraft radiators comprising pre-formed thermal-transfer modules joined together by at least one solid-state welding process. Critical failure points are eliminated by forming the thermal-transfer modules as a single unitary piece, preferably by an extrusion process. The thermal-transfer modules allow the formation of larger radiator assemblies, which may comprise a wide range of sizes and physical geometries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas William Morin, Taber K. MacCallum, Norman Jacob Hahn, John Zaniel Maccagnano
  • Hazardous-Environmental Diving Systems
    Publication number: 20090172935
    Abstract: A system designed to increase diver safety in high-risk environments containing one or more hazardous materials. The system comprises one or more retrofittable kits enabling the upgrading of contaminate-vulnerable materials of an existing dive helmet to provide full environment isolation for the diver. The system preferably utilizes fluoroelastomeric replacement materials and components to convert an open circuit dive system to a closed circuit dive system. Methods of system development are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventors: Grant A. Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Sebastian A. Padilla, Chad E. Bower