Patents by Inventor Richard A. Milroy

Richard A. Milroy 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).

  • Apparatus and Methods for Generating a Pulsating, High-Strength Magnetic Field
    Publication number: 20240107652
    Abstract: A magnetic field system is configured to generate intense, dynamically-varying magnetic fields to confine and control particles, objects, or plasmas. The magnetic fields may pulsate to impart and directly extract energy from a plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Helion Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: David Kirtley, Richard Milroy, Anthony Pancotti, Christopher James Pihl, George Votroubek
  • Rolling-gate, quiet-throttling, flow-control valve
    Patent number: 3951377
    Abstract: The invention is an automatic flow control valve. The rolling cluster of a olamite is biased by the constant force due to the vertical component of gravity on the mass of the rolling cluster. The band of the rolling cluster progressively covers or exposes a porous passage which is integral with one of the rolling planes of the rollamite. Fluid flows through the porous passage and past the rollamite band.The rolamite valve of this invention may be selectively modified to become, alternately, a remotely operated fluidic control valve, an automatic self-regulating volumetric flow control valve, an automatic self-regulating flow control valve for maintaining a constant output pressure, a vapor trap valve, and an automatic self-regulating flow control valve for maintaining a constant input pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Richard A. Milroy