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Ammunition and explosives May archived by USPTO category 05/11

20110120335 - System and method for generating and directing very loud sounds: An improved system and method for controlling and directing sound waves is provided. A fuel-oxidant mixture is supplied to at least one detonator having at least one spark initiator. The fuel-oxidant mixture flows through the at least one detonator and into the closed end of at least one detonation tube... Agent: Soundblast Technologies LLC

20110120336 - Sabot projectile: A sabot projectile with a subcaliber penetrator and a sabot, which has a propulsion element that acts on the rear end of the penetrator, a segmented, essentially cylindrical guide cage, which is connected to the front end of the propulsion element, and a segmented, disk-shaped metal guide element that extends... Agent: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh

20110120337 - Artillery projectile with seperately controlled booster actuation and fragment dispersion: An artillery projectile for firing from an artillery gun, mortar or artillery rocket launcher. The artillery projectile includes a body, a payload with a number of inert fragments located within the body, a booster motor associated with the body for accelerating the body with the payload to a penetration velocity,... Agent: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.

20110120338 - Drag stabilized low lethality impact munitions and methods: A drag stabilized low lethality impact munition includes a sub-munition packaged in shell case. The sub-munition includes a main body having a trailing feature that is folded to extend at least partway around at least one of the sides of the main body toward the top of the main body.... Agent:

20110113979 - Kinetic munition or projectile with controlled, non-lethal effects: The invention relates to a ballistic ammunition or projectile that is non-lethal or has controlled effects, of small or medium caliber. An internal structure is provided, made of a low-density cellular material with an elongation at break of less than 10%. An external casing encases the structure. The casing is... Agent:

20110107934 - Electronic component deactivation device: An electronic component deactivation device including an electric match having a pair of electrical leads with a bridge wire coupled therebetween and a pyrotechnic layer of material contacting the bridge wire. A destructive charge is positioned in overlying relationship to the pyrotechnic layer, adjacent the bridge wire with at least... Agent:

20110107935 - Photo-luminescent shotgun projectiles: Disclosed and claimed are pellets for a shotgun shell which are covered with a light transmissive coating that contains pigments which photo-luminesce visible light, of selectable wavelength (color), in response to excitation by long wave ultra-violent light (“black light”). The trajectory of such pellets during flight is able to be... Agent:

20110107936 - Action device for graduated explosive effect and a process for the same: The invention relates to an action device (1) designed for graduated explosive effect, especially intended to form part of a shell body (2) for firing from a gun barrel, which action device comprises at least two action parts (4, 5, 6) comprising fuel (10) and oxidizer (14), and an activation... Agent:

20110107937 - 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:

20110100244 - Blasting system and method: The invention provides a blasting system which includes a plurality of electronic detonators which are configured in a blast array which has at least one row and a plurality of detonators in the row, each detonator including a memory in which is stored at least a respective identity code which... Agent: Detnet South Africa (pty) Limited

20110100245 - Method and apparatus for a projectile incorporating a metastable interstitial composite material: A method and apparatus for incorporating nanophase elemental materials and metastable interstitial composite materials into projectiles, projectile fragments, ordnance casings, warheads and structural components. The projectile, fragments and casings include an elemental material capable of oxidizing. A coating material that is capable of preventing oxidation of the elemental material and... Agent: Newtec Services Group, Inc.

20110100246 - Percussion primers comprising a primer composition and ordnance including the same: A primer composition that includes stabilized, encapsulated red phosphorus, at least one oxidizer, at least one secondary explosive composition, at least one light metal, and at least one acid resistant binder. The stabilized, encapsulated red phosphorus may include particles of red phosphorus, a metal oxide coating, and a polymer layer.... Agent: Alliant Techsystems Inc.

20110100247 - Inflator: An inflator (1) comprised of an inner case (19) and an outer case (28). The inflator (1) includes a combustion chamber located inside the inner case (19), a plurality of gas discharge ports (16) formed on the outer case (28), a gas outlet port (11) formed on an outer surface... Agent: