41 |
Thermal threshold responsive devices |
US42754065 |
1965-01-15 |
US3323459A |
1967-06-06 |
PAUL BUFFET |
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42 |
Disposable bomb arming device |
US17646162 |
1962-02-28 |
US3101055A |
1963-08-20 |
KUNTZ WILLIAM K; SOUVINER GEORGE E |
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43 |
Helix type delay detent |
US64649557 |
1957-03-15 |
US2925778A |
1960-02-23 |
VON NEMETH JOSEF |
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44 |
Detonators for ammunitions |
US45772354 |
1954-09-22 |
US2857846A |
1958-10-28 |
MALTE LINDNER LARS ANDERS; YNGVE EK STIG |
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45 |
Fuse |
US57771645 |
1945-02-13 |
US2482135A |
1949-09-20 |
WINKLE CHARLES B |
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46 |
Hand grenade with an explosive train initiation indicator |
US15615010 |
2017-06-06 |
US10024641B1 |
2018-07-17 |
Richard Lauch |
The subject invention provides a grenade which comprises a means of indicating, to a user, that the grenade's striker assembly has been activated, and thus provides an indication that the grenade has been initiated. Specifically, the subject invention provides such indication of striker activation, and thus grenade initiation, which is evident to the user by touch and feel, without the need for purposeful inspection of the grenade by said user. More specifically, the subject invention modifies the grenade's striker assembly to create a means to obstruct the safety lever from returning to its original position. |
47 |
Selectively Disabled Ammunition and Remote Ammunition Disabling System and Method of Use |
US15870459 |
2018-01-12 |
US20180156592A1 |
2018-06-07 |
Joseph Dan Palo |
The present invention provides an ammunition disabling system for selectively disabling ammunition that is operatively coupled to a selectively changeable material. In the operative state the material permits transmission of a percussive impact through the material for enabling firing of the ammunition; and in the deactivated state the material inhibits transmission of the percussion wave through the material for preventing firing of the ammunition. The ammunition disabling system includes an energy wave generator with an energy wave source that emits an energy wave at a frequency resonant a natural frequency of the material. When the ammunition with the material are exposed to the energy wave, the energy wave induces a response (physical and/or chemical) in the material that results in a mechanical change in the material from the operative state to the deactivated state by degrading the mechanical structure of the material. |
48 |
Closed, self-contained ballistic apogee detection module and method |
US14547972 |
2014-11-19 |
US09677864B1 |
2017-06-13 |
Michael Jankowski; Anthony Opperman; Gerard Skebe |
A closed, self-contained ballistic apogee detection module for use in a projectile, such as a rocket, mortar round, or artillery round, fuses data from multiple built-in sensors, such as an accelerometer, a magnetometer, and a gyroscope, and processes the data using a microprocessor through a custom quaternion extended Kalman filter to provide accurate state and orientation information about the projectile so as to accurately predict apogee. The module outputs a signal indicating apogee detection or prediction which they projectile uses to initiate fuze arming, targeting control, airbody transformation, maneuvering, flow effector deployment or activation, payload exposure or deployment, and/or other mission activity. Because the system and method of the invention does not rely on external environmental data to detect apogee, it need not use a pressure sensor and can be completely sealed in and closed without requiring access to air from outside the projectile for barometric readings. |
49 |
IGNITION SYSTEM FOR SCALABLE MUNITIONS SYSTEM |
US14661432 |
2015-03-18 |
US20150345915A1 |
2015-12-03 |
Hans-Dieter Ackermann |
An ignition system for a munitions system which is scalable with respect to its power delivery and which includes two different ignition circuits for a sub-detonative and a detonative initiation of an explosive charge of the munitions system, wherein a control mechanism in a sub-detonative ignition circuit monitors function and thus prevents an uncontrolled complete power delivery of the munitions charge. |
50 |
Devices and methods using supervisor chips (integrated circuits) to generate time acceptance windows |
US13753276 |
2013-01-29 |
US09037894B1 |
2015-05-19 |
Deric Keith Mason; Michael David Haddon |
Timing circuits including supervisor chip(s), capacitors, and latches. The supervisor chip(s) and capacitors cooperate to generate an electrical signal (window signal) having a high logic state when the window is open. The latches are used to determine whether an event of interest occurred while the window was open using the generated window signal and an electrical signal asserted upon occurrence of the event of interest. |
51 |
APPARATUS FOR UNMANNED VEHICLE |
US13996812 |
2011-12-14 |
US20130304282A1 |
2013-11-14 |
Kevin William Beggs; Richard Descond Joseph Axford |
An apparatus and a method are disclosed, such as an apparatus wholly or partially mounted on an unmanned vehicle and arranged to act upon a payload, the payload being mounted on the unmanned vehicle and, under an action of the apparatus, being changeable from being in a first state to being in a second state. The method can include: receiving an instruction that the unmanned vehicle, with the payload mounted thereon, is to travel to a location; determining that the payload is in the first state; and responsive to determining that the payload is in the first state: opposing the payload being changed to being in the second state; and providing, for an entity remote from the unmanned vehicle, an indication that the payload is in the first state. |
52 |
Safety and arming device for high-G munitions |
US11778949 |
2007-07-17 |
US07819062B2 |
2010-10-26 |
Dennis S. Greywall |
A representative embodiment of the invention provides a MEMS-based safety and arming (S&A) device having a shuttle movably connected to a frame by one or more bowed springs. The device has an electrical path adapted to electrically connect the frame and a contact pad. In the initial state, the electrical path has an electrical break. If the inertial force acting upon the shuttle (e.g., during launch) reaches or exceeds a first threshold value, then displacement of the shuttle with respect to the frame causes the electrical break to close. If the inertial force reaches or exceeds a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value, then a latching mechanism employed in the S&A device latches to keep the electrical break irreversibly closed thereafter. |
53 |
METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ELECTRONIC TIME DELAY AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING SAME |
US11553361 |
2006-10-26 |
US20080099204A1 |
2008-05-01 |
John A. Arrell; Ronald S. Borja; William J. Slade; Francois X. Prinz |
Electronic time delay apparatuses and methods of use are disclosed. An explosive or propellant system, which may be configured as a well perforating system includes an electronic time delay assembly comprising an input subassembly, an electronic time delay circuit, and an output subassembly. The input subassembly is activated by an external stimulus, wherein an element is displaced to activate an electronic time delay circuit. The electronic time delay circuit comprises a time delay device coupled with a voltage firing circuit. The electronic time delay circuit counts a time delay, and, upon completion, raises a voltage until a threshold firing voltage is exceeded. Upon exceeding the threshold firing voltage, a voltage trigger switch will break down to transfer energy is to an electric initiator to initiate an explosive booster within the output subassembly. The explosive booster provides the detonation output to initiate the next element explosive or propellant element, such as an array of shaped charges in the well perforating system. |
54 |
Structure of a projectile |
US11432460 |
2006-05-11 |
US07273011B2 |
2007-09-25 |
Josef Bissig |
A projectile casing is designed to insure proper operation of the charges located therein. The charges are spaced by spacer tubes constructed such that the tubes are dispersed radially after the detonation of the preliminary charge without adversely affecting the effect of the following main charge by shock waves and/or vibrations. Solid shock barriers and damping members are provided in addition to a thin-walled projectile casing. Such a construction has proved successful, in particular, for tandem hollow charges, and also for use against active armour plating. |
55 |
Projectile head for a training cartridge |
US10919478 |
2004-08-17 |
US07237489B2 |
2007-07-03 |
Uwe Naderhoff; Jürgen Kolodzev; Martin Berg |
A projectile head is provided for a training cartridge having a propulsion unit, with an integrated projectile tail section, which can be used equally for training cartridges as well as combat cartridges of the same caliber size, wherein the projectile tail section is connectable to the projectile head with the aid of an extension on the projectile tail section, the extension is insertable into a receptacle in the projectile head, and the extension contains a recessed area, open on the front, for receiving a warhead detonator. The projectile head has a receptacle in the projectile head for receiving the extension of the projectile tail section, and an end stop which extends into the receptacle. The end stop is for contacting a warhead detonator present on the projectile tail section during assembly of the propulsion unit and the projectile head to prevent the extension from reaching a fully assembled position in the receptacle. |
56 |
Projectile head for a training cartridge |
US10919478 |
2004-08-17 |
US20050183614A1 |
2005-08-25 |
Uwe Naderhoff; Jurgen Kolodzev; Martin Berg |
A projectile head is provided for a training cartridge having a propulsion unit, with an integrated projectile tail section, which can be used equally for training cartridges as well as combat cartridges of the same caliber size, wherein the projectile tail section is connectable to the projectile head with the aid of an extension on the projectile tail section, the extension is insertable into a receptacle in the projectile head, and the extension contains a recessed area, open on the front, for receiving a warhead detonator. The projectile head has a receptacle in the projectile head for receiving the extension of the projectile tail section, and an end stop which extends into the receptacle. The end stop is for contacting a warhead detonator present on the projectile tail section during assembly of the propulsion unit and the projectile head to prevent the extension from reaching a fully assembled position in the receptacle. |
57 |
Logic module |
US479936 |
1974-06-17 |
US3938443A |
1976-02-17 |
Raymond A. Wolski |
A logic module system comprising a plurality of cams adapted to be moved byxternal forces, such as ram air pistons, rate controlled springs, or the like. The cams are in contact with a spring loaded control member or plunger. Each individual cam is profiled to present a control surface to the plunger at specified time intervals or "windows." Dependent on the combined control surfaces present at any instant in time, the spring loaded plunger will respond in a prescribed manner to activate a series of mechanical elements, for example, as desired. |
58 |
Thermal arming system |
US22212451 |
1951-04-20 |
US3858516A |
1975-01-07 |
RABINOW JACOB |
1. An improved arming mechanism for use in a missile comprising: a nose member affixed to a cylindrical housing member, a spring loaded striker slidably mounted in said nose member, the first end of said striker protruding from the outermost surface of said nose member, the second end of said striker extending into said housing, a battery positioned in that end of said cylindrical housing member adjacent said nose member, a switch positioned between said second end of said striker and said battery and affixed to one end of said battery, said switch being so arranged as to be contacted and closed by said second end of said striker when said first end of said striker is pressed against said spring, a booster charge in the opposite end of said housing, a barrier adjacent the booster charge, a flash port in said barrier, an arming rotor having an arm extending therefrom, said rotor positioned intermediate said barrier and said battery, a detonator in said arm provided with leads connecting it to a pair of contacts on one surface of said arm, a pair of contacts connected to said switch, the pair of contacts on the arm surface being in circular alignment with the pair of switch contacts, a spiral bimetallic heat-responsive member having one end anchored to said battery and the other end anchored to said rotor, said spiral member unwinding in response to heat and causing said rotor to rotate, the rotation of said rotor arming said fuze by aligning said detonator with said flash port and pressing the pair of contacts on said arm into engagement with the switch contacts, said spiral member winding upon subsequent cooling and causing rotation of said rotor back to the position where the detonator is out of alignment with said flash port, said fuze thereby being disarmed.
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59 |
Control apparatus |
US3570280D |
1968-11-06 |
US3570280A |
1971-03-16 |
ASKE ROBERT L |
A COMPOSITE MATERIAL COMPRISING AN ELASTIC MATERIAL IN CONTIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH A MATERIAL HAVING THE PROPERTY OF CREEP UNDER STRESS. THE MATERIAL IS CONTEMPLACED FOR USE IN VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS TO SERVE A TIME DELAY FUNCTION.
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60 |
Safety and arming mechanism for fuze |
US3511183D |
1968-03-06 |
US3511183A |
1970-05-12 |
GEFFNER TED |
|