| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6145439 |
RC time delay self-destruct fuze |
November 14, 2000 |
| Apparatus mountable in a projectile for utilization with a rotor-type safing and arming mechanism for post-launch self-neutralization of a projectile having a fused warhead and a stab detonator, including a launch-activated battery, an electric detonator positioned sufficiently close |
| 6142080 |
Spin-decay self-destruct fuze |
November 7, 2000 |
| Apparatus mountable in a projectile for utilization with a rotor-type safing and arming mechanism for post-launch self-neutralization of a spinning projectile having a fused warhead and a stab detonator, including a launch-activated battery, an electric detonator positioned sufficiently |
| 5343795 |
Settable electronic fuzing system for cannon ammunition |
September 6, 1994 |
| In an ammunition fuzing system, a fuze setter is inductively coupled with an electronic fuze incorporated in the projectile of an ammunition round being fed to a rapid-fire cannon to transmit power supply charging energy and fuze-setting data thereto. A detonation counter is incremented |
| 5243912 |
Arming delay, dual environment safe, fuze |
September 14, 1993 |
| This invention provides a safing and arming mechanism for a fuze for a spinning projectile including a ball rotor journaled for rotation within a cavity in the fuze. A firing pin, said cavity and a booster charge lie along the longitudinal axis of the fuze. The rotor carries a stab s |
| 5147973 |
Multi-option fuze system |
September 15, 1992 |
| A launchable a fin-stabilized round having an HE warhead that is fully telescoped in a cartridge case. The round has a forward, cone-shaped nose section, a base section with a booster cavity and a high-explosive (HE) cavity located therebetween. An HE charge is positioned in the HE cavit |
| 4991508 |
Electric field enabled proximity fuzing system |
February 12, 1991 |
| A proximity fuzing system includes a passive proximity detection section including an electrostatic probe for detecting initial missile entry into the electric field inherently associated with an airborne target. Probe signals are processed to determine that the intercepted electric fiel |
| 4972775 |
Electrostatic passive proximity fuzing system |
November 27, 1990 |
| A proximity fuzing system for missile warhead utilizes an electrostatic probe to detect the electric field inherently associated with an airborne target. The probe plates are oriented perpendicular to the missile longitudinal axis and are short circuit loaded to develop a probe current |
| 4700608 |
Machine gun |
October 20, 1987 |
| This invention provides the provision of a machine gun having a pair of gun barrels fixed to the receiver with a pair of operating mechanism driven by a rocking lever and each operating mechanism including a reciprocating slider which drives a reciprocating gun bolt assembly and a forwar |
| 4567829 |
Shaped charge projectile system |
February 4, 1986 |
| This invention provides a subcaliber projectile which is launched from a full bore projectile having a shaped charge warhead prior to impact with the target. The subcaliber projectile is tethered to the full bore projectile by means of a fine electrical cable of fixed length which se |
| 4494459 |
Explosive projectile |
January 22, 1985 |
| A feature of this invention is the provision of a forward, armor piercing, high explosive charge and an aft anti-personnel high explosive charge in a shrapnel providing casing, both charges being functioned by a single, deceleration sensitive, detonator assembly. |
| 4386568 |
Detonator assembly |
June 7, 1983 |
| A feature of this invention is the provision of detonator assembly comprising a pair of face to face opposed, longitudinally aligned and spaced apart detonators, and an initiator disposed therebetween. |
| 4291627 |
Electrical fuze with a plurality of modes of operation |
September 29, 1981 |
| A feature of this invention is the provision of a fuze having a plate which serves both as a full frontal area impact switch and an electrostatic sensor to provide detonation signals. |
| 4242963 |
Delayed arming fuze for a spinning projectile |
January 6, 1981 |
| The provision of a delayed arming fuze utilizing a ball rotor, and a firing pin which is captured to the ball rotor by an unwinding ribbon, and which pin precludes the rotor from swinging into alignment for arming until the ribbon has unwound under the sequential presence of setback and |
| 4147109 |
Controlled range fuze |
April 3, 1979 |
| The object of this invention is to provide an additional order of decimal magnitude to a single, continuous tape type decimal to binary converter for a counter in a controlled range fuze, utilizing the setting ring for the tape to set in the additional order as a vernier to the tape supp |
| 4044680 |
Remotely controlled electronic fuze |
August 30, 1977 |
| A weapon system comprises a fuze and a transmitter, said transmitter transmitting an RF coded pulse signal whose pulse repetition frequency presets the time base of the fuze and whose pulse combination code presets the mode of operation of the fuze, the fuze having an RF detector for |
| 4033266 |
Electrical fuze with selectable modes of operation |
July 5, 1977 |
| A fuze for a round of ammunition is provided wherein the gun voltage used for initiating the primer is also used to contemporaneously charge the power supply capacitor. |
| 4026215 |
Controlled range, multi-mode fuze |
May 31, 1977 |
| A weapon system comprises a fuze and a transmitter, said transmitter transmitting an RF coded pulse signal whose pulse repetition frequency presets the time base of the fuze and whose pulse combination code presets the mode of operation of the fuze, the fuze having an RF detector for |
| 3981245 |
Electrical setback generator |
September 21, 1976 |
| An electrical setback generator for ammunition fuses is provided which has a core which extracts energy from a magnetic field through a reverse saturation cycle. |
| 3955507 |
Proximity fuse |
May 11, 1976 |
| 1. A method of detonating a high explosive (HE) projectile before it contacts a target comprising:1. firing a first high explosive incendiary (HEI) projectile at a target, said first projectile containing a first explosive which produces an electromagnetic radiation of predetermined freq |
| 3955069 |
Presettable counter |
May 4, 1976 |
| An electronic, digital, time fuze is disclosed having a counter which may be initially preset mechanically before flight, and which may subsequently be changed during a predetermined interval during flight, by a radar command link. Several mechanical presetting mechanisms for the counter |
| 3951040 |
Ammunition projectile |
April 20, 1976 |
| A projectile for a round of ammunition is provided comprising a frangible stack of serrated metal discs with an integral rotating band. The rifled barrel of the gun imparts a high spin rate to the discs which gives them dynamic stability in flight. Acceleration along the gun barrel separ |
