USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Goodrich Corporation

James Michael Schaff

Amos J Diede

Wesley Keith Stegmiller

Mark Lyle Olson

Stephen F Lyda

Charles L Maples

Steven L Ball

David W Brewton

Stephen R Ritchie

A ball panel for use in a load handling system such as an aircraft cargo hold comprises a top skin having at least one raised support. The ball panel also comprises a corrugation and a bottom skin. The top skin is supported by the corrugation, which has a plurality of side walls, flanges and folded ends. The raised support can be an annular ring, having a ramp between the top skin and a ball transfer unit.

Ball panel

An emergency passive radar locating device for use by missing persons or craft to enhance their survivability in a search and rescue operation. The emergency passive radar locating device comprises an array of eight radar corner reflectors. Each corner reflector of the emergency passive radar locating device has three radar signal reflective surfaces which are mutually perpendicular. When fully inflated the emergency passive radar locating device is spherical in shape with three mutually perpendicular toroidal flotation rings.

Emergency passive radar locating device

A solar powered air drying system which maintains a dry atmosphere inside a sealed volume. The system uses electricity produced by a solar panel to regenerate daily a desiccant. The desiccant drys the air in a sealed volume which includes the waveguide run and antenna for a Radio Frequency target. The system comprises a solar powered air dryer which operates in conjunction with the natural diurnal temperature cycle. During morning hours, the air volume in the sealed volume is heated by naturally increasing daytime temperatures and the sun and expands, forcing air out of the sealed volume into the solar powered air dryer. The forced air then travels through a desiccant column which includes the desiccant prior to being vented into the environment. Simultaneously, the solar panel provides electrical current to an electric heater which heats the desiccant driving off its stored water. The forced air from the sealed volume then carries the desiccant's moisture with it into the environment. During the afternoon hours, a sun shade begins reducing the solar panel's electrical output, allowing the desiccant to cool to near ambient temperatures. The sealed volume container also cools, drawing in cooler, moister air from the environment through the desiccant column. Since the air first travels through the desiccant, the air is dried before it enters the sealed volume. This regeneration process repeats itself daily.

Solar powered air drying system

An electrically controllable pyrofuze pin device for ordnance device actiion which functionally replaces the mechanical barrier and arming wire or other rigid and removable means used to provide ordnance device activation. The device includes a pyrofuze pin, a connecting ignitor transfer charge, and ignitor, and electrical terminals to provide power from an external power supply, and a weatherproof housing. When electrically activated the pyrofuze pin is reduced to molten by-products which functionally eliminate the mechanical barrier and permits the activation of the ordnance device.

Pyrofuze pin for ordnance activation

A pyrofuze ordnance arming system, for air delivered ordnance, which provs a removable physical barrier to prevent the premature operation of ordnance device arming activation systems. An electrothermally initiated, alloyably removable pyrofuze pin extending from a pyrofuze device is employed as a physical barrier in an arming system to replace the conventional arming wires. The system increases safety and reliability for ordnance arming while decreasing the complexity and labor involved in preparing and loading ordnance on aircraft.

Pyrofuze aircraft ordnance arming system

An electrically controllable 'Pyrofuze' pin device for ordnance device acation which functionally replaces the mechanical barrier and arming wire or other rigid and removable means used to provide ordnance device activation. The device includes a 'Pyrofuze' pin, a connecting ignitor transfer charge, and ignitor, and electrical terminals to provide power from an external power supply, and a weatherproof housing. When electrically activated the 'Pyrofuze' pin is reduced to molten by-products which functionally eliminate the mechanical barrier and permits the activation of the ordnance device.

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Jamestown, ND, United States of America

James Michael Schaff