Patents by Inventor Dixon Brockbank

Dixon Brockbank 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).

  • Stun grenades and methods of assembling stun grenades
    Patent number: 9989341
    Abstract: Stun grenades may include a fuze configured to ignite a delay material secured to a housing including a delay chamber in which the delay material is located. A handle of the fuze may be located over a final payload chamber of the series of payload chambers, payload material in the final payload chamber being configured to ignite after ignition of payload material in each other payload chamber of a series of payload chambers. Methods of assembling stun grenades may involve positioning an obstruction in a port extending between a delay chamber and a payload chamber of a series of payload chambers surrounding the delay chamber in a housing. A delay material may be packed in the delay chamber. The obstruction may be removed, and a payload material may be positioned in the payload chamber and the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Orbital ATK, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Robbins, Royce C. Duke, Reed J. Blau, James R. Hodgson, Dixon Brockbank
  • STUN GRENADES AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING STUN GRENADES
    Publication number: 20150345921
    Abstract: Stun grenades may include a fuze configured to ignite a delay material secured to a housing including a delay chamber in which the delay material is located. A handle of the fuze may be located over a final payload chamber of the series of payload chambers, payload material in the final payload chamber being configured to ignite after ignition of payload material in each other payload chamber of a series of payload chambers. Methods of assembling stun grenades may involve positioning an obstruction in a port extending between a delay chamber and a payload chamber of a series of payload chambers surrounding the delay chamber in a housing. A delay material may be packed in the delay chamber. The obstruction may be removed, and a payload material may be positioned in the payload chamber and the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Steven M. Robbins, Royce C. Duke, Reed J. Blau, James R. Hodgson, Dixon Brockbank