Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Thruster and spacecraft
- Patent Title (中): 推进器和航天器
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Application No.: US13834493Application Date: 2013-03-15
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Publication No.: US09376987B2Publication Date: 2016-06-28
- Inventor: Toru Nagao , Naoki Morita
- Applicant: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
- Priority: JP2012-113428 20120517
- Main IPC: F02K9/00
- IPC: F02K9/00 ; F02K9/34 ; F02K9/52 ; F02K9/60 ; F02K9/62 ; F02K9/68 ; F02K9/97 ; B64G1/22 ; B64G1/24 ; B64G1/26 ; B64G1/40 ; F02K9/94

Abstract:
A thruster designed to produce thrust by introducing a propellant to a catalyst layer from a propellant valve via a propellant introduction member and spurting out a gas resulting from decomposition of the propellant occurring on the catalyst layer, wherein the thruster comprises a chamber of an Ni alloy for holding the catalyst layer inside, the propellant introduction member is made of an Ni alloy and connects the propellant valve and the chamber, and a propellant valve flange of a Ti alloy with a plurality of columns of a Ti alloy is arranged between the chamber and the propellant valve to support the chamber by the columns.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130305687A1 Thruster and Spacecraft Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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