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US 12,009,568 B1Granted
Thermal protection system including high temperature radio frequency aperture
AssigneeHRL Laboratories, LLC
InventorsRyan Quarfoth, Walter Wall, Shanying Cui, Christopher Roper, Jonathan Lynch
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Abstract
A thermal protection system includes: an outer skin; a thermally insulating material under the outer skin; and a high temperature radio frequency (RF) aperture. The RF aperture includes a plurality of waveguides separated from each other and extending through the outer skin and the thermally insulating material.
Claims19
A thermal protection system comprising:
- an outer skin;
- a thermally insulating material under the outer skin;
- a high temperature radio frequency (RF) aperture, the RF aperture comprising a plurality of waveguides separated from each other and extending through the outer skin and the thermally insulating material;
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- a capping layer on the waveguides and on the outer skin, the capping layer and the outer skin being the same material.
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A method of manufacturing a thermal protection system comprising a high temperature radio frequency (RF) aperture, the method comprising:
- forming a plurality of openings in an outer skin;
- forming a plurality of openings in a thermally insulating material;
- forming waveguides in the openings in the outer skin and in the openings in the thermally insulating material, the waveguides continually extending through the outer skin and the thermally insulating material;
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- forming a capping layer on the waveguides and on the outer skin, the capping layer and the outer skin being the same material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.