Ammunition and explosives inventions 04/08

20080092764 - Ignition device for explosive charge or pyrotechnic composition: The invention relates to an ignition device for an explosive charge or pyrotechnic composition. This device comprises at least two ignition means connected to a power source. It is characterized in that it comprises a single insulating support carrying the ignition means as well as the conductors ensuring their connection... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080092765 - Scalable electronics architecture: A multi-stage missile with plural stages adapted to be physically coupled to and decoupled from adjacent stages and a processor disposed on a single stage for controlling each stage thereof. In the illustrative embodiment, the processor includes a field programmable gate array. In the illustrative embodiment, the processor is disposed... Agent: Thomas J. Finn, Esq. Raytheon Company

20080092766 - Trainer grenades: A training grenade having reversed threading connecting the fuze assembly and the housing. A tubular interior of the fuze assembly contains a two part fuze charge being five times the size of the fuze charge in a live grenade. The two part fuze charge consists of a delay charge and... Agent: Alphonso A. Collins, Esq. Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080092767 - Advanced armor-piercing projectile construction and method: A firearm projectile includes a precision-machined outer component having a generally cylindrical body, a tip at the forward end of the body, a base at the rear end of the body, and a precision-machined cavity machined into the outer component. A precision-machined inner component is pressed into the cavity. The... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20080092768 - Special purpose small arms ammunition: A multi-piece projectile for a small arms cartridge includes a metal cup that has a bore, a plastic sheath having a through hole and a high-density core. The cup is a cylindrical metal structure having a bore. The sheath is a cylindrical end and a conical end and a through... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080087185 - Blast and collision protection structures: Apparatus for suppressing the effects of an explosion or collision, the apparatus comprising or including a pair of inflatable spaced-apart walled containers (1, 2) connected or connectable at respective upper ends to each other by webs (3), and connected or connectable at their respective lower ends to each other by... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080087186 - Method for the destruction of a localized mine: A method for the destruction of a localized mine, wherein an unmanned underwater vessel cooperates as a primary vessel (11) withy another unmanned remote-controlled underwater vessel acting as a secondary vessel (12) and which is provided with an explosive charge for explosion purposes. To reduce clearing costs compared to a... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20080083342 - Protector for detonator, and method of use: Detonators comprising a base charge of explosive material present a safety hazard for transportation and storage, especially when a plurality of detonators are packaged together. Disclosed herein are detonator protectors for the explosive ends of detonators that, at least in preferred forms, prevent ejection of shrapnel and/or explosive energy upon... Agent: Kirby Eades Gale Baker

20080083343 - Semiconductor bridge device and igniter including semiconductor bridge circuit device: There is provided a semiconductor bridge device wherein a reaction time for generating sparks is short and a spark generating amount is large. This semiconductor bridge device comprises a substrate, a pair of land portions, a bridge portion electrically connecting between the pair of the land portions, and an electrode... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080083344 - Safe and arm system for a robot: A safe and arm system includes an operator subsystem including a first arm switch, a second arm switch, and a fire switch. A fire control subsystem is responsive to the control subsystem and includes at least a pair of terminals for connection to a munition. The terminals are initially shorted... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080078299 - Projectile fuze: A projectile fuze (12) having fuze electronics in which the time of flight (T) can be programmed, having a timer/counter which counts up to the programmed time of flight (T)—minus a defined time value (Δt)—and then charges an electrical firing circuit, and having a mechanical safety and arming unit (16)... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC