More than 25 patents and numerous patents pending on various products point to the innovation and technical acumen of the CTD team. This IP provides a strong position for future commercialization and establishes a competitive position from which to operate in a variety of markets
Granted Patents
All-composite Linerless Pressure Vessels
- US Patent No. 8074826, Damage and leakage barrier in all-composite pressure vessels and storage tanks
Shape Memory Polymer Devices
- US Patent No. 9664211, Shape memory polymer devices
Electrical Insulation
- US Patent No. 6407339, Ceramic electrical insulation for electrical coils, transformers, and magnets
- US Patent No. 7892597, In situ processing of high-temperature electrical insulation
Deployables
Tubes, Umbilicals, Booms
- US Patent No. 9404256, Stowage and deployment of slit tube booms
- US Patent No. 8925627, Coiled umbilical tubing
- US Patent No. 8863369, Slit tube locking longeron
- US Patent No. 10160555, Multiple boom deployment
- US Patent No. 10071823, Extendible boom
- US Patent No. 10266368, Wedge and mandrel assembly for slit-tube longerons
- US Patent No. 10196817, Locking mechanism for deployable booms
- US Patent No. 10544900, Slit tube Locking longeron
Reflectors
- US Patent No. 7710348, Furlable shape-memory reflector
- US Patent No. 8259033, Furlable shape-memory spacecraft reflector with offset feed and a method for packaging and managing the deployment of same
- US Patent No. 9281569, Deployable Reflector
- China Patent No. ZL201080006163.0, Furlable shape-memory spacecraft reflector with offset feed and a method for packaging and managing the deployment of same
- Israel Patent, Allowed, Furlable shape-memory reflector
Collapsible Structures
- US Patent No. 8066227, Deployable structures having collapsible structural members
- US Patent No. 8109472, Collapsible structures with adjustable forms
- US Patent No. 8376282, Collapsible structures
- US Patent No. 8393581, Collapsible structures
- US Patent No. 7897225, Deformable sandwich panel
Solar Arrays and Panels
- US Patent No. 7806370, Large-scale deployable solar array
- US Patent No. 8061660, Large-scale deployable solar array
- US Patent No. 8387921, Self deploying solar array
- US Patent No. 751498, Trifold Solar Panel
- US Patent No. 754598, Trifold Solar Panel
- US Patent No. 755118, Trifold Solar Panel
- US Patent No. 755119, Trifold Solar Panel
- US Patent No. 10790778, Solar array with elastic memory hinges
Specialty Composite for the Prevention of Thermal Hydrates
- US Patent No. 8522881, Thermal hydrate preventer