Ilc Dover, Inc.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

The Aerospace Corporation

Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC

Ilc Dover IP, Inc.

Stephen Emerson Scarborough

David Phillip Cadogan

Jonathan Michael Hinkle

John K H Lin

Edward J Simburger

Suraj Prakash Rawal

Thomas W Giants

James H Matsumoto

John Kun Hung Lin

Alan R Perry

Alec Garcia, Iii

Craig H Marshall

Jonathan Robert Day

Craig Lasseter

Joanne M Ware

Thomas W Kerslake

George H Sapna, Iii

Timothy Joseph Haggerty

Anshu Dixit

Chester Lloyd Benham

Donald George Sticovy

A design and construction method for a Collapsible Cryogenic Storage Vessel can be used for storing cryogenic liquids. The vessel provides the ability to be packed for transport in a compact state and erected at the point of use. The vessel can be used multiple times. The vessel's volume can also be adjusted during use to minimize or eliminate head space in the vessel.

Collapsible cryogenic storage vessel

This invention describes novel design and construction method for inflatable, pressure intensifier equipment that can be used for processing composites structures. The equipment can be used as a manufacturing and processing platform wherever low pressure and high temperature inputs are required in an enclosed volume.

Inflatable pressure intensifier

A flexible inflatable hinge includes curable resin for rigidly positioning panels of solar cells about the hinge in which wrap around contacts and flex circuits are disposed for routing power from the solar cells to the power bus further used for grounding the hinge. An indium tin oxide and magnesium fluoride coating is used to prevent static discharge while being transparent to ultraviolet light that cures the embedded resin after deployment for rigidizing the inflatable hinge.

Thin film solar cell inflatable ultraviolet rigidizable deployment hinge

A boom structure deployed by inflating the structure to a desired shape and rigidizing the structure via an external influence. The structure frame has a series of frame members which are made of a fibrous material and a resin material. This frame is encased in between a pair of membrane layers, an inner membrane inflatable to move the frame into its desired shape and an outer membrane that allows for folding the structure. Following inflation of the inner layer, an external influence acts on the resin material to solidify it, and render the structure rigid. The external influence may also act on the resin material to soften it when it is already rigid, to allow for collapsing and folding of the structure.

Inflatable rigidizable boom

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Seaford, DE, United States of America

Stephen Emerson Scarborough