| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7178443 |
Wedge-type breechblock |
February 20, 2007 |
| A wedge-type breechblock is provided for a weapon having a barrel that recoils relative to a cradle, the barrel having a bore with an axis, and a breech plate. The breechblock includes a closing wedge for arranging in the breech plate such that the closing wedge can be displaced transver |
| 7171886 |
Pipe mortar |
February 6, 2007 |
| To seal a pipe mortar, a sealing element (3, 6) is inserted between the pipe (1) and the base (2), with the element elastically balancing out the axial relative movements between the pipe (1) and the base (2). The sealing element (3) is preferably prestressed, with the gas pressure s |
| 7150228 |
Gas pressure switch |
December 19, 2006 |
| A gas pressure switch is provided for an ignition and safety system for ammunition. The switch includes a housing; a piston actuator within the housing, the piston actuator being displaceable from an idle position to a contacting position by propellant gases of the ammunition during use; |
| 7114449 |
Method for producing a large-caliber, high-explosive projectile, and high-explosive projectile p |
October 3, 2006 |
| A method for producing a large-caliber, high-explosive projectile (1, 1'), and a projectile formed according the method, having a projectile casing (2, 2') that surrounds a chamber (6, 6') filled with an explosive charge (9, 9'), and that has a mouth (5, 5') at its tip that can be sealed |
| 7082708 |
Method for removing coating damages and/or erosion damages |
August 1, 2006 |
| The invention relates to a method for repairing coating damage and/or erosion damage on the internal surface of a weapon barrel by overlaying the respectively damaged barrel region with a suitable coating material and, if necessary, reworking it mechanically.To ensure that coating da |
| 6931776 |
Apparatus for the section-wise autofrettage of gun barrels |
August 23, 2005 |
| An apparatus for the section-wise autofrettage of gun barrels (22) by a hydraulic pressure generated inside the barrel. The apparatus (1, 1', 1") comprises a mandrel-shaped insert (2, 2', 2") inserted into the barrel (22) from the breech opening. A first sealing device (3) is disposed at |
| 6899008 |
Gun barrel having a muzzle brake |
May 31, 2005 |
| A gun barrel having a muzzle brake (2), especially for large-caliber guns, in which the muzzle brake (2) includes a tubular piece that has openings (16) around its circumference, and a jacket tube (4), which surrounds the tubular piece and has diametrically opposite gas-exit openings (17 |
| 6874268 |
Gun |
April 5, 2005 |
| A gun in which the gun barrel (2) is seated to be axially displaced in a cradle barrel. To avoid a lifting effect of the gun barrel (2) upon firing, and omit the necessity of complicated guide grooves in the cradle barrel (3) and tabs on the gun barrel (2), an elastically deformable, |
| 6849140 |
Incendiary composition for a fin-stabilized kinetic energy projectile |
February 1, 2005 |
| An incendiary composition (14) for a fin-stabilized kinetic energy projectile (1), which can be arranged in the tail region of the projectile (1) and, upon impact with a target (13), penetrates the target (13) as a separate unit behind the penetrator (2) of the kinetic energy projectile |
| 6827206 |
Packaging container for a large-caliber cartridge |
December 7, 2004 |
| A packaging container is provided for a large-caliber cartridge having a thin-walled cartridge case and a projectile, whose projectile head projects out of the front of and is connected to the cartridge case. The packaging container has an outer container and an inner container, which |
| 6827020 |
Spin-stabilized projectile having a multi-part guide band and method of making the projectile |
December 7, 2004 |
| A spin-stabilized projectile has a projectile body and a guide band being circumferentially mounted on an outer face of the projectile body. The guide band includes a plurality of axially adjoining partial guide bands. One of the partial guide bands is a first partial guide band made of |
| 6820558 |
Disk-shaped propellant module |
November 23, 2004 |
| A disk-shaped propellant module (6) for a propellant charge (2), which can be composed of several modules of this type. To ensure a uniform and symmetrical ignition of the propellant charge (2) for a cartridge with increased charge density (>1.2 g/cm.sup.3), the propellant module (6) |
| 6819298 |
High-power microwave antenna system |
November 16, 2004 |
| A high-power microwave antenna in which, in order to radiate a pulse (8), the antennas (4) of the high power microwave are actuated by a pulse-generating source (3) and are embodied normally as wire antennas, horn antennas or the like. In particular for HPM active systems (1) to be c |
| 6815701 |
Method and device for measuring wear on internal barrel surfaces |
November 9, 2004 |
| A method and a device for measuring wear on the internal surfaces (12) of barrels (1), in particular weapon barrels. For a very precise determination of the wear on the internal surfaces (12) of barrels (1), a non-contacting scanning of the internal surface (12) of the respective bar |
| 6796243 |
Cartridge |
September 28, 2004 |
| A cartridge having a propellant-charge casing (2) and an electrothermal ignition device (4), in which the propellant-charge casing (2) is connected to a metal casing base (3) and a contact piece (5) that is connected to a contact disk (9) is provided for the connection to a gun-side |
| 6776102 |
Projectile body |
August 17, 2004 |
| A projectile body having a groove-shaped recess (2), in which a guide band (3) is disposed. To permit use of a relatively wide guide band (3), while preventing the band from being destroyed as the projectile body (1) passes through the gun barrel, and preventing significant copper-platin |
| 6769364 |
Full-caliber projectile |
August 3, 2004 |
| A full-caliber projectile having a cylindrical guide region (5) and an ogival projectile tip (7). To improve the stabilization of the projectile (1) inside a gun barrel (2) in a simple manner, and therefore improve the intermediate ballistics and hit accuracy over those of comparable |
| 6758435 |
Guide assembly for a missile |
July 6, 2004 |
| A missile includes a missile body and a guide assembly mounted on the missile body. The guide assembly has a plurality of pivots and a plurality of vanes mounted on respective pivots for a swinging motion between a folded position of rest and a deployed flight position. The vanes are |
| 6752061 |
Gun |
June 22, 2004 |
| A gun whose barrel (2') is connected to a breech ring (16), and is seated to be displaced in a cradle barrel (3). To prevent a lifting effect of the barrel (2') inside the cradle barrel (3) upon firing, a slide-bushing bearing is disposed on at least the muzzle side of the barrel (2'). T |
| 6745697 |
Cartridge |
June 8, 2004 |
| A cartridge with a propellant case (4) that contains a propellant charge (3) and an electrothermal ignition device, wherein several ignition channels (9) are provided in the charge (3), and extend axial-symmetrical in the direction of longitudinal axis (8) of cartridge (1), with each |
| 6725781 |
Cartridge |
April 27, 2004 |
| A cartridge, comprising a cartridge case (3), a projectile (4), a propellant charge igniter (8) extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis of cartridge (1) and arranged inside the cartridge case (3), and an electrically programmable projectile fuse arranged in the projectile |
| 6712005 |
Projectile |
March 30, 2004 |
| A projectile to be fired from a gun having a chamber (2) with a conical transition region (4) to a caliber barrel (3) that adjoins the front of the gun. The projectile (5) has a sub-caliber penetrator (6), a jettisonable propelling cage sabot (7) connected to the penetrator (6), and |
| 6701656 |
Weapon barrel having a hard chromium inner layer |
March 9, 2004 |
| A weapon barrel includes a hard chromium layer provided on an inner barrel surface. The hard chromium layer contains at least 500 fissures/cm in a cross-sectional plane. |
| 6698329 |
Method for replacing a fuse casing |
March 2, 2004 |
| A method for replacing a fuse casing (4), which is riveted to the casing (2) of an active component (1) containing an explosive charge (3). The new fuse casing (4) laser-welded to the remaining rivet parts (5) of the active component casing (2). Welding filler materials are used to attac |
| 6652680 |
Method for producing tubes for heavy guns |
November 25, 2003 |
| The method for producing tubes for heavy guns employs a heat-treatable steel, consisting in wt.-% of 0.20 to 0.50% carbon, max. 1.0% silicon, max. 1.0% manganese, max. 0.03% phosphorus, max. 0.03% sulfur, max. 0.1% aluminum, max. 4% nickel, max. 2% chromium, max. 1% molybdenum, max. 0.5% |
| 6595100 |
Weapon |
July 22, 2003 |
| A weapon having a barrel (3) supported in a cradle (2) for axial recoil movement, and having a breech block wedge (7) displaceable, transversely to the barrel axis (6) by a control unit (11) connected to the cradle and acting on a piston rod (8). The control unit (11) includes a spring-l |
| 6589374 |
Pourable, plastic-bound explosive charges and method of making the same |
July 8, 2003 |
| A pourable, plastic-bound explosive charge has a crystalline explosive substance embedded in a polymer matrix which includes a binder, a softener and a metal powder. The metal powder which is added in a proportion of 0.1 to 10 weight % has substantially spherical grains and is one or mor |
| 6578493 |
Electrothermal ignition device and method for producing the device |
June 17, 2003 |
| The invention relates to an electrothermal ignition device for igniting a powder propellant charge (4), which comprises at least one electrically-conductive wire (11; 15; 19; 22), that extends, at least partially, through the propellant charge, and can be connected to a current sourc |
| 6573618 |
Compact pulse-current supply |
June 3, 2003 |
| Energy-supply systems that supply energy in the power range of a few Megawatts (MW) to Gigawatts (GW) within a pulse duration of a few milliseconds (ms) are referred to as pulse-current supplies. Such known energy supply system primarily comprises a charging device for charging an en |
| 6562216 |
Method of coating an internal surface of a weapon barrel |
May 13, 2003 |
| A method of coating a metal surface, particularly an inner surface of a gun barrel, with a chromium layer, includes the following steps: electrolytically precipitating on the metal surface a plurality of partial chromium layers in a superposed relationship by electric current pulses |
| 6558488 |
Method of making pourable plastic-bound explosive charges or rocket propellant |
May 6, 2003 |
| The invention relates to a method of making pourable, plastic-bound explosive charges or rocket propellants, to which a metal powder having essentially spherically shaped grains is added.To avoid an increase in the viscosity of the explosive charge or the rocket propellant through polar |
| 6548125 |
Method of internally coating a weapon barrel by means of a laser beam |
April 15, 2003 |
| A method of coating an inner surface of a weapon barrel includes the following steps: directing a laser beam against the inner barrel surface to cause melting of regions thereof; introducing a coating material in one of powder, wire and ribbon form into the laser beam for melting the |
| 6543330 |
Gun for firing electrically-ignitable cartridges containing electronic components |
April 8, 2003 |
| A gun having a wedge-type breech block and a barrel seated in a cradle for firing electrically-ignitable cartridges containing electronic components, and an ignition contact (4) for connection to an external current source, and a signal contact (5) for connecting the electronic component |
| 6536353 |
Spin-stabilized projectile having a multi-part guide band and method of making the projectile |
March 25, 2003 |
| A spin-stabilized projectile has a projectile body and a guide band being circumferentially mounted on an outer face of the projectile body. The guide band includes a plurality of axially adjoining partial guide bands. One of the partial guide bands is a first partial guide band made of |
| 6536351 |
Warhead |
March 25, 2003 |
| A warhead (1) having a warhead casing (2) that encloses an explosive charge (5). To ensure that, during the detonation of the explosive charge (5), the warhead (1) effects a rapid acceleration of the fragments flying in the flight direction, and a lesser acceleration of the fragments fly |
| 6526892 |
Artillery cartridge having an internal conductor arrangement |
March 4, 2003 |
| A cartridge includes a cartridge case having a cartridge base; a projectile having a rearward portion received by the cartridge case; a propellant primer disposed in the cartridge case and extending along the longitudinal cartridge axis; an electrically programmable projectile fuze dispo |
| 6511710 |
Method of internally coating a weapon barrel by a plasma flame |
January 28, 2003 |
| A method of coating an inner surface of a weapon barrel includes the following steps: introducing a plasma burner into the weapon barrel; producing a plasma flame by the plasma burner; directing the plasma flame against the inner barrel surface to cause impingement thereon; introducing |
| 6502515 |
Method of making a high-explosive projectile |
January 7, 2003 |
| A method of providing a high-explosive projectile with desired areas of fragmentation includes the following steps: securing a steel plate component in a circumferentially extending recess in the outer surface of a projectile body; directing an energy beam to outer surface portions of |
| 6500326 |
Method of internally coating a weapon barrel |
December 31, 2002 |
| A method of coating an internal surface of a weapon barrel includes the steps of applying an intermediate layer to the internal barrel surface by explosion plating and applying a cover layer at least indirectly to the intermediate layer by electroplating. The intermediate layer has a hea |
| 6481355 |
Bomblet fuze with self-destruct mechanism |
November 19, 2002 |
| A priming unit, consisting of a combination of rested casings 5, 6, 7, a firing pin 3 with assembly aid 12, as well as a priming spring 8 and a propulsion spring 9, are arranged to provide a secure detonation of a fuze or bomblet fuze. The priming unit ensures a secure detonation upon im |
| 6477932 |
Explosive-triggered RF beam source |
November 12, 2002 |
| RF beam sources (HPM sources) serve in the non-lethal destruction, interference or screening of targets. An explosive-triggered RF beam source (2) constructed solely from a pulse-generation device (4), whose generated pulses are radiated directly at a target is provided. The pulse ge |
| 6467213 |
Method of providing a weapon barrel with an internal hard chromium layer |
October 22, 2002 |
| A method of providing an inner surface of a weapon barrel with a hard chromium layer includes the steps of forming the hard chromium layer on the inner surface by galvanic separation; and thereafter heating the hard chromium layer beyond the re-crystallization temperature thereof for |
| 6454205 |
Fin-stabilized projectile |
September 24, 2002 |
| A fin-stabilized projectile includes a projectile body having a rear portion defining a rearwardly open cavity and a stabilizing assembly which has an axially slidable fin support in the cavity. The fin support has a retracted position in which the fin support is withdrawn into the cavit |
| 6412419 |
Spin-stabilized artillery projectile |
July 2, 2002 |
| A spin-stabilized projectile includes a projectile body having a longitudinal axis; a metal driving band mounted on the projectile body and having a circumferential groove surrounding the axis; and a plastic sealing ring seated in the groove and affixed to the projectile body. |
| 6408764 |
Case base for large-caliber ammunition |
June 25, 2002 |
| A case base (1; 1') for large-caliber ammunition, in which the case jacket (2) comprises a combustible material, with the case base (1; 1') comprising a metallic base plate (3) and a support ring (4; 4') that projects axially beyond the surface of the base plate (3) at its edge, and |
| 6408557 |
Apparatus for producing rifling grooves in a weapon barrel |
June 25, 2002 |
| An apparatus for producing rifling grooves in a weapon barrel, in which a drawing head (1) that rotates about its longitudinal axis (5) is drawn through the respective weapon barrel by a drawing rod (2), and the rifling grooves are cut into the inside surface of the weapon barrel with |
| 6405652 |
Projectile fuze operated by a stabilization band of the projectile |
June 18, 2002 |
| A projectile includes a stabilizing band mounted on a rear projectile portion and having a folded state and a deployed state and a fuze assembly accommodated in the projectile. The fuze assembly includes a firing pin carrier supported for motion parallel to the longitudinal axis of the |
| 6401622 |
Spin-stabilized artillery projectile having a metal sealing ring |
June 11, 2002 |
| A spin-stabilized projectile includes a projectile body having a longitudinal axis, a forward and a rearward direction; a metal driving band mounted on the projectile body for transferring spinning forces to the projectile body; a circumferential groove provided in the outer surface |
| 6381893 |
Weapon barrel having a hard chromium inner layer |
May 7, 2002 |
| A weapon barrel includes a hard chromium layer provided on an inner barrel surface. The hard chromium layer contains at least 500 fissures/cm in a cross-sectional plane. |
| 6380889 |
Reconnaissance sonde |
April 30, 2002 |
| A reconnaissance sonde to be dropped and erected in an area for wirelessly transmitting data to a data processing apparatus. The sonde includes a housing having top and bottom portions; a parachute disposed at the top housing portion; a plurality of support legs peripherally mounted on t |
