Patents by Inventor Grant Allen Sweer

Grant Allen Sweer 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).

  • Publication number: 20240339847
    Abstract: A power management unit architecture including a set of batteries connected to a load via a bus; a controller in operative communication with the batteries; a telemetry unit in operative communication with the controller and the batteries; at least one power switch in operative communication with the controller, the batteries and the bus; a squib unit operatively connected to the batteries; wherein the controller is configured to pull a battery current from a first battery and drive the first battery current into a second battery responsive to a predetermined current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen John Fedigan, Mahitha Velagapudi, Grant Allen Sweer, Derek L. Budisalich, Eric C. Maugans, Andrew Thompson
  • Patent number: 7431237
    Abstract: A projectile has the ability to generate and provide power to components located in two sections of the projectile which have relative rotation to each other. The projectile has a pair of generators allowing the powering of components in two sections. The projectile has a force-producing device for altering the direction of the projectile as the projectile moves along the longitudinal axis of the projectile and the relative rotational position of the force-producing device on the projectile is controlled by a generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: HR Textron, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Robert Mock, John Adams Marshall, Grant Allen Sweer