Patents by Inventor Hong-Been Chang

Hong-Been Chang 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).

  • Patent number: 7628006
    Abstract: Disclosed is an abrupt opening apparatus of a pressurized chamber in an intended procedure to accomplish thrust termination for a stage separation of the solid rocket motor. It can open trust termination ports with simple mechanical structure to thereby terminate the normal thrust of a nozzle reliably, if it is intended to terminate the normal thrust produced from the nozzle of the rocket motor to thereby impede the forward movement of the rocket motor by producing the reverse thrust. The thrust termination device for the rocket motor comprises a closure 210 for closing the thrust termination ports in an air-tight structure; a snap ring 220 for supporting the closure 210; a wedge 230 arranged between both free ends of the snap ring; a wedge fixing plate 240 for fixing the wedge; and, a pulling wire 250 linked to the wedge at one end thereof for extracting the wedge by being drawn when the thrust termination is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Agency For Defense Development
    Inventors: Hwan-Gyu Lee, Shin-Hoe Kim, Hong-Been Chang, Moon-Joong Kang
  • Patent number: 7578121
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thrust termination device for a solid rocket motor, which terminates the net thrust by the reverse thrust of the rocket motor produced from the emission of the combustion gas in the reverse direction, when the stage separation signal is transferred at the normal thrust state of the rocket motor. An object of the present invention is to provide a thrust termination device for a rocket motor, which can contrive to accomplish the structural safety and mechanical sealing performance at the combustion chamber condition of the high temperature and high pressure, and easily remove the thrust termination device even at the low pressure state and open the trust termination ports successively with very small impacts when the thrust termination is commanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Agency For Defense Development
    Inventors: Hong-Been Chang, Moon-Joong Kang
  • Publication number: 20070137176
    Abstract: Disclosed is an abrupt opening apparatus of a pressurized chamber in an intended procedure to accomplish thrust termination for a stage separation of the solid rocket motor. It can open trust termination ports with simple mechanical structure to thereby terminate the normal thrust of a nozzle reliably, if it is intended to terminate the normal thrust produced from the nozzle of the rocket motor to thereby impede the forward movement of the rocket motor by producing the reverse thrust. The thrust termination device for the rocket motor comprises a closure 210 for closing the thrust termination ports in an air-tight structure; a snap ring 220 for supporting the closure 210; a wedge 230 arranged between both free ends of the snap ring; a wedge fixing plate 240 for fixing the wedge; and, a pulling wire 250 linked to the wedge at one end thereof for extracting the wedge by being drawn when the thrust termination is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: Agency For Defense Development
    Inventors: Hwan-Gyu Lee, Shin-Hoe Kim, Hong-Been Chang, Moon-Joong Kang
  • Publication number: 20070113537
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thrust termination device for a solid rocket motor, which terminates the net thrust by the reverse thrust of the rocket motor produced from the emission of the combustion gas in the reverse direction, when the stage separation signal is transferred at the normal thrust state of the rocket motor. An object of the present invention is to provide a thrust termination device for a rocket motor, which can contrive to accomplish the structural safety and mechanical sealing performance at the combustion chamber condition of the high temperature and high pressure, and easily remove the thrust termination device even at the low pressure state and open the trust termination ports successively with very small impacts when the thrust termination is commanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Agency For Defense Development
    Inventors: Hong-Been Chang, Moon-Joong Kang