United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

Mesoscribe Technologies, Inc.

William G Baron

Richard Joseph Gambino

Sanjay Sampath

Sandra J Fries-Carr

Jeffrey A Brogan

Christopher Gouldstone

Richard L C Wu

Paul J Callus

Brian Keyes

John D C De LaHarpe

James M Tuss

David G Kuhl

Sandra Fries-Carr

Huey-Daw Wu

Maxwell Blair

A structural capacitor includes a first carbon fiber material layer, a second carbon fiber material layer, and an interlayer dielectric including a diamond-like-carbon material layer.

Devices having a diamond-like-carbon dielectric

A slotted waveguide antenna stiffened structure for an aircraft having an aircraft skin. The slotted waveguide antenna stiffening structure including a structural stiffening element reinforcing the aircraft skin; the structural element connected to a radio frequency feed source, the source providing energy with electromagnetic bandwidth to a slotted waveguide antenna having a plurality of slots. The antenna conformal to the aircraft skin and the structural stiffening element, the structural stiffening elements functioning as waveguides for the electromagnetic bandwidth. The slots may include a slot sealant enclosing the plurality of slots.

Slotted waveguide antenna stiffened structure

An energy storage arrangement wherein electrical charge is stored in capacitor elements dispersed throughout, for example, surface structural components of an aircraft. The electrical capacitor elements may involve dielectric material-separated electrical plates comprising the aircraft skin or preferably may involve numerous wire-like cylindrical capacitor elements dispersed within the weaving of the hardened fabric materials used to fabricate the aircraft. Other elements of the aircraft including internal structure and divider members may also be included in the energy storage function. Pulsed use of the stored energy in, for example, directed energy weapons devices are a contemplated application of the invention. The invention may be viewed as a combined employment of aircraft components in both structural and energy storing functions thus enabling a reduction in aircraft payload utilization and space consumption.

Airframe structure-integrated capacitor

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William G Baron