Patents by Inventor Scott Carson Rethorst

Scott Carson Rethorst 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: 4008866
    Abstract: A supersonic wing in turning the airstream downward to generate increased pressure on its underside also increases the air density. The energy of this compression field is normally diverted away from the wing downward towards the ground in the supersonic wave system, coalescing into a strong shock wave which dissipates most of this energy into heat, with a small residual reaching the ground and causing the sonic boom. My copending application No. 342,151, filed Mar. 16, 1973, disclosed the use of an expanding jet under a concave downward wing to transform this compression energy into vorticity. The present continuation-in-part application provides a wing section which concentrates most of the concave downward curvature of the wing underside in a short interaction region to generate the compression near its leading edge, corresponding to the short expansion region of the underexpanded jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: Vehicle Research Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Carson Rethorst