| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| H1240 |
Low profile chemical biological air filter |
October 5, 1993 |
| A low profile chemical biological air filter, comprising a frame having a rst end for attachment to a mask and having an upwardly facing surface defining an inlet for the filter. The frame has a length sufficient to space first and second filters from the inlet to the attachment first en |
| H124 |
Initiator assembly |
September 2, 1986 |
| There is disclosed an initiator assembly for a ballistic missile system to ffect fluid flow of a gas from a source thereof to user equipment disposed in a housing therefor including gas inlet and outlet conduits and comprised of a rotor member journalled for rotation in the housing and |
| H1236 |
Polarity sensitive grenade firing system |
October 5, 1993 |
| An electrical system for launching separate salvos, comprised of squibs, jectile bombs or the like, at different times but at the same launch location from a remote position using a single electrical control wire for carrying the current. The system is comprised of a negative polarity r |
| H1230 |
Microstrip frequency-scan antenna |
September 7, 1993 |
| An antenna comprises a microstrip transmission line which includes a strip conductor and a ground plane conductor separated by a dielectric substrate; a portion of the substrate being adapted to enable energy within the substrate to radiate away from the microstrip transmission line. |
| H123 |
Self-switching electromagnetic launcher for repetitive operation |
September 2, 1986 |
| The invention concerns an EM Launcher wherein each projectile has an insuor which, when subjected to a breakdown voltage, allows current conduction through the EM rails and the projectile for acceleration thereof. The insulator thus provides a disposable switch for a rapid fire EM l |
| H1226 |
Quick disconnect coupling |
September 7, 1993 |
| A quick disconnect coupling device formed from a female coupling portion a male portion for mating therewith. The outside diameter of the male portion is equal to the inside diameter of the female portion from the axial outer end of the male coupling to a point less than the total |
| H1224 |
Electric coupling |
September 7, 1993 |
| The present invention is directed to an apparatus intended to allow detonon of munitions by the occurrence of a triggering event at a location remote from the actual munition. This apparatus contains a piezoelectric crystal which is deformed by the firing of a conventional blasting |
| H1216 |
Linear shaped charge |
August 3, 1993 |
| A lightweight linear shaped charge for explosive cutting and penetration of target, which includes a plastic linear housing in the form of a concave channel with an inverted "V" shaped metallic liner mounted within the concave channel. An explosive charge is shaped and held between the |
| H1215 |
Double shot grenade launcher |
August 3, 1993 |
| A NBC hardened double shot grenade launcher utilizes a latching relay and delays to sequentially activate two secondary relays. The delays keep the latching relay from operating until a relay switch transfers supply voltage to enable firing of double the number of salvos without mod |
| H1214 |
Multiple point laser detonation system for explosive charges |
August 3, 1993 |
| Apparatus for igniting a charge of propellant/explosive material comprising source of laser light coupled by an optical fiber to ends of a plurality of optical fibers within the charge having their other ends coupled to a primer charge in an ignitor tube that is proximate an ignitor char |
| H1212 |
Generic detection with a receptor-based fiber optic sensor |
July 6, 1993 |
| The detection of toxins through the use of an optical sensor having a fiber upon which is coupled one or more physiological receptors. |
| H1208 |
Mobile smoke screening system |
July 6, 1993 |
| A minimum hazard visual screening cloud is formed by vaporizing diesel fuel nside a vehicle exhaust manifold pipe which, upon entering the ambient atmosphere, condenses into an aerosol comprised of small droplets, thereby producing a large sustaining cloud which obscures both the vehicle |
| H1205 |
Obscurant apparatus |
July 6, 1993 |
| An obscurant apparatus for use in forming a smoke screen. This apparatus ludes a hopper having a space for fluidizing a selective powder, an inlet jet nozzle extending through the hopper into the space, an outlet passage extending through the hopper and surrounding the inlet jet nozzle, |
| H1200 |
Method or creating x-rays from a pulsed laser source using a gaseous medium |
June 1, 1993 |
| X-rays are created from a pulsed laser using a gaseous medium by focusing a aser pulse to a focal point in a gaseous medium causing a laser induced plasma in the gas which plasma emits x-rays. |
| H1197 |
System for and method of decontaminating toxic agents from interior contaminated surfaces of com |
June 1, 1993 |
| Heat is used to decontaminate toxic agents from the interior contaminated rfaces of combat vehicles and like enclosures. The heat vaporizes the toxic agents, but does not cause heat damage to the interior contaminated surfaces themselves. Hoses are used to convey the heat to the toxic ag |
| H1194 |
Riot control agent |
June 1, 1993 |
| A mixture containing 3,3-bis(aziodomethyloxetane) and o-chlorobenzyl maloitrile for use as a riot-control gas. |
| H1193 |
Method of producing copper alloys with manganese and selenium to improve thermal stability |
June 1, 1993 |
| This invention describes a process for producing copper alloys by rapid sdification in order to improve their strength and thermal stability after being exposed to elevated temperatures. The method used to rapidly solidify the molten alloy is either by use of a high pressure non-oxi |
| H1184 |
Precipitation strengthened uranium tungsten alloy |
May 4, 1993 |
| A method for making uranium-tungsten alloy of high strength comprising raly chilling a molten solution of tungsten in uranium to form a ribbon. Subsequent to pulverizing and consolidation, heating effects a precipitation of tungsten in the uranium to effect significant strengthening |
| H1179 |
Vader plasma arc casting |
May 4, 1993 |
| A method of casting high melting point metal such as refractory metals into ngots to provide substantially improved strength and density. A quantity of high melting point metal is placed in an arc area of a furnace having a "T" shaped vacuum chamber with a pair of opposing electrodes whic |
| H1178 |
Electric coupling |
May 4, 1993 |
| The present invention is directed to an apparatus intended to allow detonon of munitions by the occurrence of a triggering event at a location remote from the actual munition. This apparatus contains a piezoelectric crystal which is deformed by the firing of a conventional blasting |
| H1164 |
Method of treating the surface of commercially available polymer films |
April 6, 1993 |
| The surface of commercially available polymer films are treated with a low emperature gas plasma to improve the subsequent bonding of aluminum to the polymer surface without the need for adhesives. |
| H1154 |
Covert lighting adapter |
March 2, 1993 |
| A Blue-Green spectral Filter and two polaroid filters are assembled within rotating barrel assembly to both limit light source emissions to a selected light spectrum and control light intensity in order to prevent enemy night vision device detection. The rotating barrel assembly can be |
| H1150 |
Parachute recovery system for projectiles |
March 2, 1993 |
| An improved parachute recovery system for a gun fired projectile is discld. The projectile has a nose, a payload and a base section. The base section has a hollow cylindrical parachute cannister which is separated from the base section by rearward motion of an internal piston which is |
| H1146 |
Plasma spraying tungsten heavy alloys |
March 2, 1993 |
| Tungsten heavy alloys comprising by weight from about 80 to about 100% tuten and from about 0 to about 20% of one or more heavy alloying metals are produced by introducing powders of tungsten and the alloying metals into a thermal spray plasma gun, melting the powders in the hot zone of |
| H114 |
Practice projectile assembly |
August 5, 1986 |
| There is disclosed a practice projectile assembly comprised of a body mem, a windshield member formed of a frangible material mounted to the body member thereby forming a chamber, a signal powder disposed in a portion of the chamber proximate the windshield member, and a piston memb |
| H1131 |
Integrated safe and arm apparatus |
January 5, 1993 |
| An integrated Safe-Arm Device is an electrically activated, dual environm sensing mechanism which aligns a ball valve from a vented safe mode to a connected gas mode by sensing minimum sustained missile launch acceleration and minimum missile arming altitude prior to removing and se |
| H1130 |
Tool and method for blousing a propellant containment bag in cartridge ammunition |
January 5, 1993 |
| A tool and corresponding method for removing folds and buckles in the matal of a propellant containment bag, in a round of ammunition, prior to the addition of explosive propellant. The tool includes a plurality of flexible fingers that are inserted into the propellant containment bag |
| H1124 |
Particle smoke generator and method |
January 5, 1993 |
| A particle smoke generator having a gas turbine for combusting air and fu and for discharging heated exhaust combustion gases. A venturi tube conveys the heated exhaust gases into a low-pressure region away from the combustion means. A supply of particulate smoke material is joined to a |
| H1123 |
Off-route non-contact system for detecting vehicles |
December 1, 1992 |
| A system for detecting the approach of a vehicle toward the line of sight an antenna comprises an alerter for receiving an acoustic noise signal from the vehicle and determining whether the signal is increasing or decreasing. The increase of a noise signal indicates the approach of a |
| H1121 |
Primer feed mechanism |
December 1, 1992 |
| A primer feed mechanism device for use with a carrier assembly of a large liber cannon. The device includes a body for mounting the device to the carrier assembly so as to interface with the carrier assembly to position the device on one side of the breech of the cannon. It further inclu |
| H112 |
Projectile stabilizer |
August 5, 1986 |
| A projectile comprises a nose ogive tapering outwardly to a cylindrical or onical body portion of caliber diameter. A reversely tapering stabilizer is connected to the rear of the body portion and is terminated at a tail stabilizer which tapers outwardly in the same direction as the nose |
| H1108 |
Air purification system |
October 6, 1992 |
| A fluid purification system is provided for contaminated fluids such as air ontaminated with a wide spectrum of chemical warfare agents which includes two adsorption chambers with adsorption medium suitable for effectively removing chemical warfare agents from a stream of air; a valve sel |
| H110 |
Tracking of air mass movement |
August 5, 1986 |
| The movement of an air mass is monitored by releasing a tracer entity at a iven location, collecting a sample of air at a different location and analyzing the collected sample of air for the presence of the tracer entity by using Bacillus thurengiensis as the tracer entity and by anal |
| H1099 |
Liquid-drop generator |
September 1, 1992 |
| A liquid-drop generator providing discrete stringerless drops of simulants or use in testing chemical warfare detectors. The generator system is provided with two syringes in which one contains a highly viscous, non-newtonian liquid and the other contains water. The two syringes commu |
| H1097 |
Method for validating radiographic inspection of projectile |
August 4, 1992 |
| This invention provides a method used for radiographic inspection of matel within a container, where the container is a dense material and the contents to be radiographically inspected are of a less dense material. |
| H109 |
Smoke generator |
August 5, 1986 |
| A smoke generator having an air-powder mixing container with vacuum line achment to a mechanical smoke dispersing apparatus. The container has funnel shaped side walls to direct powder to a reduced container bottom. A pressurized input line extends to a point on the container bottom as |
| H1086 |
Collision centrifugal atomization unit |
August 4, 1992 |
| Apparatus and a method for producing submicron and smaller metal alloy pacles using a main chamber having a longitudinal axis and a feeder for introducing a quantity of molten alloy under pulsed gas pressure in a direction generally radial to the axis. The feeder has a gas stream for |
| H1081 |
Monolithic millimeter-wave image guide balanced mixer |
July 7, 1992 |
| A monolithic millimeter wave balanced mixer in which two Schottky barrier odes receive combined power from. Two Schottky barrier diodes receive combined power from an RF source and local oscillator in a gallium arsenide image guide. The diodes produce an intermediate frequency which |
| H1080 |
Electronic light beam switch |
July 7, 1992 |
| The invention disclosed herein is a fiber optic switch which utilizes Kerr ells to change the polarization of light passing through a pair of polarizers when an electric field is applied to the Kerr cell. The fiber optic switch is comprised of a pair of transparent polarized panels which |
| H1076 |
Lithium ion rechargeable intercallation cell |
July 7, 1992 |
| A lithium ion rechargeable intercallation cell is provided including a liated graphite anode, a lithiated oxide cathode, and a solution of a lithium salt in a solvent that cycles both the lithiated graphite anode and the lithiated oxide cathode as the electrolyte. |
| H1075 |
Tungsten heavy alloys |
July 7, 1992 |
| Tungsten heavy alloys comprising by weight from about 80 to about 100% tuten and from about 0 to about 20% of one or more heavy alloying metals are produced by introducing powders of tungsten and the alloying metals into a thermal spray plasma gun, melting the powders in the hot zone of |
| H1072 |
One-man gas particulate filter unit |
July 7, 1992 |
| A gas particulate filter system is provided for supplying clean heated air o an operator subjected to ambient environments containing nuclear, biological or chemical contaminants. The filter unit includes replaceable radial flow canister means, centrifugal blower/heater means, continuousl |
| H107 |
Trigger mechanism |
August 5, 1986 |
| A trigger mechanism for an automatic weapon which has a bolt carrier recicatably mounted in a receiver and biased to slide from a recoiled position to a firing position. The mechanism has a hammer positioned alongside the bolt carrier and pivotally mounted on the receiver for recipr |
| H1069 |
Self sealing seal |
July 7, 1992 |
| A spring tension retained, gas pressure actuated annular piston is mounted n a centered gas tube disposed within an outer gas tube connected to a gas flow tube. The annular piston which is positioned around the centered gas tube and within the outer gas tube is connected to a retractable |
| H1068 |
CMOS capacitive charging circuit for electrical detonators |
July 7, 1992 |
| In an electrical detonator, an electrical circuit includes a network for rging the fire pulse capacitor. After battery activation and gun launch, but before arming, the circuit (via an n channel MOS transistor within the CMOS) operates to ground the fire pulse capacitor. At "arm minus 5 |
| H106 |
Novel energetic sulfate salts and a process for their preparation |
August 5, 1986 |
| Novel energetic sulfate salts which form a eutectic with ammonium nitrate ntaining explosive formulations are disclosed. The eutectic quality of such formulations facilitates melt loading thereof. Two typical novel sulfate salts of the invention are 1-(2-ammonium sulfatoethyl)-2,4,6- |
| H1059 |
Fiber optic RF signal channelizer |
May 5, 1992 |
| An array of fiber optic RF filters each responsive to a predetermined wavngth forms a channelizer for a wide bandwidth receiver used in a dense signal environment having complex modulations. Each fiber optic RF filter comprises a resonant cavity formed from a section of multimode optic |
| H1054 |
Electrochemical cell that delivers high power pulses |
May 5, 1992 |
| An electrochemical cell is provided that delivers high power pulses, the l including poly 3-methylthiophene as the cathode, a member of the group consisting of Li(SO.sub.2).sub.3 AlCl.sub.4, 1.0M LiAlCl.sub.4 --SOCl.sub.2 and 1.0M LiAlCl.sub.4 --SO.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 as the electrolyte, |
| H1045 |
Air bubble leak detection test device |
May 5, 1992 |
| Improved measurement of leakage in fuze seals is obtained by employing an r bubble leak indicator. The fuze to be tested is connected to an air supply line coming from an air bubble leak indicator. The air bubble leak indicator has a narrow orifice submerged in a liquid, which in turn is |
| H1041 |
Method of reducing the surface leakage on a III-V semiconductor |
April 7, 1992 |
| The surface leakage on a III-V semiconductor is reduced by selectively grng a mixed oxide on the surface of the semiconductor to passivate the semiconductor and reduce the surface leakage. |
