Patents by Inventor Ryan Bieniek

Ryan Bieniek 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).

  • MODULAR SOLAR ARRAY
    Publication number: 20240059431
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Maxar Space LLC
    Inventors: Harry A. Yates, Tom Hsieh, Ryan Bieniek, Ben Kwong, Robert Szombathy, Martinus Meerman, Frederick Oey, Peter Amnuaypayoat, Alan J. Szeto, Richard B. Warnock
  • Modular solar array
    Patent number: 11845571
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Maxar Space LLC
    Inventors: Harry A. Yates, Tom Hsieh, Ryan Bieniek, Ben Kwong, Robert Szombathy, Martinus Meerman, Frederick Oey, Peter Amnuaypayoat, Alan J. Szeto, Richard B. Warnock
  • MODULAR SOLAR ARRAY
    Publication number: 20230115933
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Maxar Space LLC
    Inventors: Harry A. Yates, Tom Hsieh, Ryan Bieniek, Ben Kwong, Robert Szombathy, Martinus Meerman, Frederick Oey, Peter Amnuaypayoat, Alan J. Szeto, Richard B. Warnock