Patents by Inventor Phillip R. Sturgill

Phillip R. Sturgill 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).

  • Non-lethal flash grenade
    Patent number: 6767108
    Abstract: A non-lethal flash grenade includes a transparent, generally cylindrical housing; a layer of flash lamps disposed in the housing; an ignition circuit connected to a first centrally located flash lamp in the layer of flash lamps; a battery connected to the ignition circuit; and a variable time delay switch connected to the ignition circuit; whereby the first centrally located flash lamp is activated by the ignition circuit and remaining flash lamps are sympathetically activated by a flash of the first centrally located flash lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Thomas J. Blachowski, Phillip R. Sturgill, David A. Culhane, Peter P. Ostrowski
  • Remote controlled payload delivery
    Patent number: 6289817
    Abstract: A radio frequency receiver, in response to input command signals from some remote source, initiates electrical powering of an electronic firing circuit through which electric pulses are generated and fed through a power cable to impulse cartridges at the upper ends of storage tubes within a payload dispenser. The impulse cartridges in response to such pulses ignites the payloads stored therebelow within the storage tubes closed by retention caps that are ejected with the payload from the dispenser during ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Anthony P. Quebral, Phillip R. Sturgill, Mindy W. Morack, David A. Culhane, Chris Batchelor