Patents by Inventor Richard B. Warnock
Richard B. Warnock 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).
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Patent number: 11970292Abstract: To facilitate on-orbit servicing, such as for a refueling operation, techniques are presented for a servicing satellite to cut through the multi-layer insulation blanket of a client satellite to provide access to the client satellite without releasing unacceptable quantities of foreign object debris from the multi-layer insulation. The serving satellite includes a sealing tool, such as a pair of heater rollers, that apply pressure and heat to the insulating blanket to melt the inner layers and seal the outer layers together. The servicing satellite can then use a cutting tool to cut the sealed region and access the client satellite.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Maxar Space LLCInventors: Richard B. Warnock, Jeanine M. W. Olson, Eric V. Werner
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Publication number: 20240059431Abstract: A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a “bay” of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays are then placed into frame structures made of tubes connected by nodes to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Maxar Space LLCInventors: Harry A. Yates, Tom Hsieh, Ryan Bieniek, Ben Kwong, Robert Szombathy, Martinus Meerman, Frederick Oey, Peter Amnuaypayoat, Alan J. Szeto, Richard B. Warnock
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Patent number: 11845571Abstract: A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a “bay” of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays are then placed into frame structures made of tubes connected by nodes to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Maxar Space LLCInventors: Harry A. Yates, Tom Hsieh, Ryan Bieniek, Ben Kwong, Robert Szombathy, Martinus Meerman, Frederick Oey, Peter Amnuaypayoat, Alan J. Szeto, Richard B. Warnock
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Publication number: 20230286678Abstract: To facilitate on-orbit servicing, such as for a refueling operation, techniques are presented for a servicing satellite to cut through the multi-layer insulation blanket of a client satellite to provide access to the client satellite without releasing unacceptable quantities of foreign object debris from the multi-layer insulation. The serving satellite includes a sealing tool, such as a pair of heater rollers, that apply pressure and heat to the insulating blanket to melt the inner layers and seal the outer layers together. The servicing satellite can then use a cutting tool to cut the sealed region and access the client satellite.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Maxar Space LLCInventors: Richard B. Warnock, Jeanine M.W. Olson, Eric V. Werner
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Publication number: 20230115933Abstract: A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a “bay” of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays are then placed into frame structures made of tubes connected by nodes to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Maxar Space LLCInventors: Harry A. Yates, Tom Hsieh, Ryan Bieniek, Ben Kwong, Robert Szombathy, Martinus Meerman, Frederick Oey, Peter Amnuaypayoat, Alan J. Szeto, Richard B. Warnock
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Patent number: 4399454Abstract: A method and apparatus for comb filtering a PAL type television signal is described. Preferably, the television signal is digitized by sampling it at an even multiple of its chroma subcarrier frequency, thereby to convert the television signal to a series of digital signals representative of discrete picture elements. The value of each such digital signal is indicative of the value of the luminance component and the value of the amplitude and phase of the chroma component of its associated picture element. The phase of the chroma component of a reference picture element is changed by combining and averaging stored digital signals associated with selected picture elements whose chroma component is of the desired phase and which, in combination, cancel out luminance components.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1980Date of Patent: August 16, 1983Assignee: Fernseh Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Warnock, Leonard J. Brugger
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Patent number: 4291333Abstract: A recursive digital filter is disclosed for removing noise from an incoming television signal. The filter couples the incoming television signal to a subtracter without substantial attenuation of the television signal. The subtracter also receives at an input an attenuated difference signal comprising a selected amplitude of the difference between the incoming signal and an earlier received signal which has been delayed for an interval corresponding to one television frame. The subtracter subtracts the attenuated difference signal from the incoming signal and develops an output in which noise is substantially reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1980Date of Patent: September 22, 1981Assignee: Fernseh Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Warnock, John A. Briggs