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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2004
Andrew F. Knight, Vienna, VA (US);
Andrew F. Knight, Vienna, VA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A rocket includes: 1) an air-breathing external combustion rocket engine including: a fuel tank configured to contain a fuel combustible with air; a working medium tank configured to contain a working medium; a combustor connected to the fuel tank and configured to combust the fuel with air to form a hot product gas; a heat exchanger connected to the combustor and configured to heat the working medium with the hot product gas via heat conducting walls of the heat exchanger so as to generate a high-energy working medium having a high pressure; and a nozzle connected to at least one of the working medium tank and the heat exchanger and configured to expand the high-energy working medium so as to generate thrust; and 2) accommodations for a human passenger sufficient to allow the human passenger to fly on the rocket.
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