Samuel C. Sutton - Redondo Beach CA, US Michael W. Mills - Torrance CA, US Craig R. Wilkinson - Torrance CA, US
Assignee:
Northrop Grumman Corporation - Los Angeles CA
International Classification:
C23C 14/34
US Classification:
20419214, 20419212, 20419215, 20429824
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for sputter coating an insulated wire with a silicon and metal alloy, to provide the wire with sufficient surface conductivity to protect against build-up of electrostatic charge. A sputtering target of silicon has a metal plate positioned close enough to the sputtering site on the target to permit metal atoms to be dislodged by sputtered silicon, and deposited with the silicon to form an alloy. In the disclosed form of the invention, the wire is insulated with a polyimide material and the metal alloyed with silicon in the sputtered coating is stainless steel.
2013 to 2000 System Engineering LeadMission Assurance
2005 to 2000Mission Assurance
2010 to 2013 Bus System Engineering LeadMission Assurance
2007 to 2010 Spacecraft System Engineer, Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyMission Assurance
2005 to 2007 Electrical Power Subsystem EngineerNorthrop Grumman Redondo Beach, CA 2003 to 2005 Solar Array Electrical Design Engineer, Advanced Space ProgramsScience Applications International Corporation (SAIC) McLean, VA 1998 to 2003 Electrical Engineering Internship
Education:
Stevens Institute of Technology 2011 Masters of Science in Space Systems EngineeringUniversity of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 2006 Certificate in Project ManagementUniversity of Denver 2003 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Samuel Sutton (1760 June 1832) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He entered the service shortly after the start of the American War of Independence, and spent