Patents Assigned to Scorpius Space Launch Company Incorporated
  • Techniques for making pressure vessels as unitary structures of composite materials
    Patent number: 9347610
    Abstract: A method for making large pressure vessels using a composite over-wrap process and a soluble mandrel structure that is scalable to a much larger vessel size than can normally be accommodated by the over-wrap process. The method allows the production of very large, lightweight vessels with no seams and no metal liners. Extensions of the method provide for the fabrication of fully embedded threaded or non-threaded bosses of composite materials, and fully embedded longitudinal and circumferential stringers or stiffeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Scorpius Space Launch Company Incorporated
    Inventors: Markus Rufer, John Wainwright Newman, Colin Fletcher Corey
  • Techniques for making pressure vessels as unitary structures of composite materials
    Patent number: 8449705
    Abstract: A method for making large pressure vessels using a composite over-wrap process and a soluble mandrel structure that is scalable to a much larger vessel size than can normally be accommodated by the over-wrap process. The method allows the production of very large, lightweight vessels with no seams and no metal liners. Extensions of the method provide for the fabrication of fully embedded threaded or non-threaded bosses of composite materials, and fully embedded longitudinal and circumferential stringers or stiffeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Scorpius Space Launch Company Incorporated
    Inventors: Markus Rufer, John Wainwright Newman, Collin Fletcher Corey