Patents by Inventor Riccardo Rigato

Riccardo Rigato 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).

  • Large deployable reflector for a satellite antenna
    Patent number: 9496621
    Abstract: A large deployable reflector for an antenna suitable for being installed on board a satellite and provided with a support structure, a parabolic mirror carried by the support structure and a connection arm for mounting the support structure on the satellite; the support structure being a jointed reticulate structure that is able to assume a compact inoperative stowed configuration and an operative deployed configuration and is composed of ‘n’ elements articulated to form tetrahedrons having respective triangular bases, which are connected to each other at the axial ends of respective first sides and have respective external vertices, which are opposite to said respective first sides and, when the reflector is arranged in the deployed configuration, ideally lie on a cone tangent to the parabolic mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Alberto Meschini, Riccardo Rigato, Davide Scarozza
  • Large Deployable Reflector For A Satellite Antenna
    Publication number: 20150303582
    Abstract: A large deployable reflector for an antenna suitable for being installed on board a satellite and provided with a support structure, a parabolic mirror carried by the support structure and a connection arm for mounting the support structure on the satellite; the support structure being a jointed reticulate structure that is able to assume a compact inoperative stowed configuration and an operative deployed configuration and is composed of ‘n’ elements articulated to form tetrahedrons having respective triangular bases, which are connected to each other at the axial ends of respective first sides and have respective external vertices, which are opposite to said respective first sides and, when the reflector is arranged in the deployed configuration, ideally lie on a cone tangent to the parabolic mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Alberto Meschini, Riccardo Rigato, Davide Scarozza