Patents by Inventor Roger E. Lo

Roger E. Lo 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: 8147628
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing (cryogenic) solid monopropellants which are cooled to below room temperature and are used for rocket drives, especially using heterogeneous liquid-solid propellants wherein at least one of the reactants in the form of an oxidizer or a fuel contains a phase which is liquid or gaseous at normal temperature, for example emulsions of liquid constituents which do not dissolve in each other, suspensions of solid in liquid constituents or liquid-impregnated feed materials. The invention also relates to a cryogenic solid propellant for rocket drives, especially heterogeneous quasi-monopropellant fuel-oxidizer combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventors: Roger E. Lo, Harry Adirim
  • Patent number: 6421999
    Abstract: A modular solid-fuel rocket propellent charge has a combustion-chamber wall, a plurality of separate elements including frozen fuel or oxidizer, and respective rigid casings completely surrounding and enclosing the elements. Respective formations on the casing and on the casings directly engage each other for supporting the elements via the respective casings directly an the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Inventor: Roger E. Lo
  • Patent number: 6311479
    Abstract: Modular, cryogenic, solid rocket propellants of different fuel components, such as fuels, oxidizers, energy-increasing admixtures, binders, additives, etc., for all applications of solid rockets produce a uniform, stable and complete combustion, This objective is accomplished since one of the fuel elements, due to the special selection of its composition, is provided as a permanent igniter generator of the modular propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Inventor: Roger E. Lo
  • Patent number: 4211072
    Abstract: Device for the thermal decomposition of liquid fuel in which the fuel is roduced into a recess in a porous body of metallic foam material contained in a closed housing. The latter may be a combined reaction chamber and propulsive nozzle of a rocket propulsion unit or be used as a gas generator, for example, as a carburettor device leading to an internal combustion engine. The porous body of metallic foam material may be heated by an electrical heating coil wound around the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Harald Twardy, Roger E. Lo