Patents by Inventor Joseph Erik Banning

Joseph Erik Banning 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).

  • Melt-castable nitramine binders for high energy compositions
    Patent number: 9890090
    Abstract: Provided is a melt-castable binder useful for stabilizing high energy explosive materials. A melt-castable nitramine binder has high energy in its own right yet is very insensitive to accidental detonation such as by shock or friction. The melt-castable nitramine binder is optionally combined with one or more high energy materials in the formation of an explosive composition with improved energy yield and safety and handling parameters relative to the high energy material alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Joseph Erik Banning, William Matthew Sherrill
  • Process for the production of speherical tetranitroglycouril
    Patent number: 9512127
    Abstract: A spherical morphology of the high explosive tetranitroglycoluril (TNGU) has been discovered. This new morphology exhibits approximately a twofold improvement in the response of the material to impact, more than a one and a half fold improvement in friction and the same high resistance to electrostatic discharge over non-spherical TNGU produced by other methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: William Matthew Sherrill, Joseph Erik Banning
  • PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPEHERICAL TETRANITROGLYCOURIL
    Publication number: 20160090388
    Abstract: A spherical morphology of the high explosive tetranitroglycoluril (TNGU) has been discovered. This new morphology exhibits approximately a twofold improvement in the response of the material to impact, more than a one and a half fold improvement in friction and the same high resistance to electrostatic discharge over non-spherical TNGU produced by other methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: William Matthew Sherrill, Joseph Erik Banning