US Patent:
20200049105, Feb 13, 2020
Inventors:
John Jerome Kusnierek - Springfield OH, US
Jeffrey Richard DeWispelaere - Elk River MN, US
International Classification:
F02K 9/95
Abstract:
One embodiment of an application of micro-electronic socket pin connectors to model rocketry for the purpose of ignition of single or clustered solid model rocket motors. A socket based model rocket ignition connector is created by utilizing an appropriately sized low insertion force machine pin socket connector with electrical leads and potting such that model rocket igniter wires are simply placed into the sockets by hand pressure and sufficiently retained place by the functionality of the machine pin socket. The advantages of this embodiment include elimination of shorting failure modes, long service life, high success rate in clustered model rocket engines and being particularly helpful in educational settings with first time users. Other embodiments are described and shown.