Patents by Inventor Bruce B. Anderson

Bruce B. Anderson 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).

  • Heat transfer initiator
    Patent number: 6539869
    Abstract: A non-detonating heat transfer initiator. A representative heat transfer initiator is in the form of a heat transfer control medium, having a heat input portion and a heat output portion, and a non-detonating autoignition material, having an autoignition temperature, in thermal contact with the heat output portion. When heat is applied to the heat input portion, a transfer of heat through the heat transfer control medium to the heat output portion results, heating the heat output portion, such that, upon application of a sufficient amount of heat to the heat input portion, the heat output portion is heated to the autoignition temperature of the non-detonating autoignition material, igniting the non-detonating autoignition material ignites, thus producing a non-detonating thermal output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Talley Defense Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Knowlton, Christian Salafia, Bruce B. Anderson, Theodore B. Gortemoller
  • Heat transfer initiator
    Publication number: 20020035945
    Abstract: A non-detonating heat transfer initiator. A representative heat transfer initiator is in the form of a heat transfer control medium, having a heat input portion and a heat output portion, and a non-detonating autoignition material, having an autoignition temperature, in thermal contact with the heat output portion. When heat is applied to the heat input portion, a transfer of heat through the heat transfer control medium to the heat output portion results, heating the heat output portion, such that, upon application of a sufficient amount of heat to the heat input portion, the heat output portion is heated to the autoignition temperature of the non-detonating autoignition material, igniting the non-detonating autoignition material ignites, thus producing a non-detonating thermal output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Gregory D. Knowlton, Christian Salafia, Bruce B. Anderson, Theodore B. Gortemoller
  • Heat transfer delay
    Patent number: 6298784
    Abstract: A heat transfer delay for providing a delay time in propellant, pyrotechnic, and explosive devices, and a method of delaying production of a non-detonating thermal output with the heat transfer delay. A representative delay is in the form of a housing having a first heat source cavity, a second heat source cavity, and a heat transfer cavity connecting the first and second heat source cavities. A pyrotechnic heat source is placed in thermal contact with the first heat source cavity, and a non-detonating autoignition material is placed in thermal contact with the second heat source cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Talley Defense Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Knowlton, Bruce B. Anderson, Theodore B. Gortemoller