Patents by Inventor Robert J. Richey

Robert J. Richey 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).

  • Patent number: 8215111
    Abstract: An electrical generator converts the high blast pressures of explosives into useful electricity by capturing the explosive gases and using the high gas pressures to alternately push water hydraulically between two tanks and through water turbines connected to DC electric generators. Water expelled through a water turbine from one tank is used to fill the other tank. Batteries can be used to store the electrical energy generated, and inverters followed by transformers convert the DC electric from the turbine-generators to 110-VAC, 220-VAC, and 440-VAC. A microcomputer controller connected to various sensors and solenoid valves coordinates the timing and routing of the detonation of explosives, tank pressures, venting, valving, and load control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Richey
  • Patent number: 4350728
    Abstract: Interlaminar shear strength of an aircraft wing made of graphite-epoxy laate is significantly increased by embedding thin steel wires in preselected locations of high stress in alternating rows .+-.45.degree. to the plane of the laminate before it is cured. This cross wire reinforcement prevents brittle delamination, arrests propagation of delamination and reduces scatter of interlaminar strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Shih L. Huang, Edward J. McQuillen, Robert J. Richey, Jr.