Patents by Inventor Gene Morris

Gene Morris 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).

  • Electromagnetic device and method to accelerate solid metal slugs to high speeds
    Patent number: 9534863
    Abstract: A device and method to accelerate solid metal slugs to high speeds. In one embodiment, a large electric current is passed through an outer cylindrical metal tube enclosing in part a metal slug, a central electrode, and a conducting tail coupled at opposite ends to the. metal slug and the central electrode. Electromagnetic forces accelerate the metal slug to a point high enough to mechanically separate the conducting tail. On separation, a plasma is generated by the passage of electric current though a gas produced by vaporization of the conducting tail and nearby materials. An insulator enclosed within the tube prevents the plasma from shorting to the outer tube until the current flow has produced a sufficient magnetic field to contain the plasma. The metal slug is then accelerated to high speed by a combination of electromagnetic forces and mechanical pressure from the hot gas through which the electric current is passing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: William Bryan Maier, Eugene Ellis Nolting, Gene Morris, Donald D. Snyder, George Ralph Caramico
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICE AND METHOD TO ACCELERATE SOLID METAL SLUGS TO HIGH SPEEDS
    Publication number: 20160054093
    Abstract: A device and method to accelerate solid metal slugs to high speeds. In one embodiment, a large electric current is passed through an outer cylindrical metal tube enclosing in part a metal slug, a central electrode, and a conducting tail coupled at opposite ends to the. metal slug and the central electrode. Electromagnetic forces accelerate the metal slug to a point high enough to mechanically separate the conducting tail. On separation, a plasma is generated by the passage of electric current though a gas produced by vaporization of the conducting tail and nearby materials. An insulator enclosed within the tube prevents the plasma from shorting to the outer tube until the current flow has produced a sufficient magnetic field to contain the plasma. The metal slug is then accelerated to high speed by a combination of electromagnetic forces and mechanical pressure from the hot gas through which the electric current is passing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: William Bryan MAIER, II, Eugene Ellis NOLTING, Gene MORRIS, Donald D. SNYDER, George Ralph CARAMICO
  • Boosted electromagnetic device and method to accelerate solid metal slugs to high speeds
    Patent number: 8746120
    Abstract: A device and method which combine electromagnetic acceleration with acceleration by high-pressure gases derived from chemical energy to achieve high slug speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Eugene Ellis Nolting, William Bryan Maier, II, Gene Morris