Patents by Inventor Claude Joyner

Claude Joyner 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).

  • Booster rocket engine using gaseous hydrocarbon in catalytically enhanced gas generator cycle
    Publication number: 20070006568
    Abstract: A process and a system for delivering a propellant combination to a rocket engine is described. The process comprises the steps of providing a flow of a hydrocarbon propellant fuel, raising the pressure of the hydrocarbon propellant fuel, cracking the hydrocarbon propellant fuel in a cracker, introducing the cracked hydrocarbon propellant fuel into a combustion chamber of the rocket engine and introducing an oxidizer into the combustion chamber. A system for performing the process is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Robert Fowler, Claude Joyner