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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110192308 | MISSILE HEAD AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING A SHROUD FROM A FUSELAGE OF A MISSILE A missile head has a shroud which forms its tip and which can be detached in its totality during flight from the fuselage of the missile. The missile head further has a rear part, which is connected to the fuselage, and a front nose, which can be disconnected from the r... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20100206195 | ACTUATORS FOR GUN-FIRED PROJECTILES AND MORTARS Projectiles are provided having a shell and; one or more actuators for providing thrust disposed inside of a wall of the shell; one or more ring portions forming at least a portion of the shell, the one or more ring portions having one or more actuators formed therein f... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100050897 | MISSILE SEPARATION DEVICE Disclosed is a device for separating a propulsion system from a missile, the device including a locking unit configured to fix a propulsion system to a missile, a string disposed to cross a rear portion of the propulsion system to be broken by heat of the propulsion sys... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090308273 | ACTIVE VORTEX CONTROL SYSTEM (AVOCS) METHOD FOR ISOLATION OF SENSITIVE COMPONENTS FROM EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS An active vortex control system (AVOCS) includes a set of primary injectors that inject gas into a cavity to generate a vortex in front of and possibly around components inside the cavity. The vortex interferes with an external flow field in an opening to the cavity to ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090078145 | System and method for integrated stage separation A multi-stage vehicle separation system and method that facilitates an active separation on the booster by igniting a small quantity of propellant in the dead volume between the second stage rocket motor nozzle and the booster dome. In the most general embodiment, the i... | 03/26/2009 |
| 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 gat... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080011180 | Methods and Apparatus for Multiple Part Missile Methods and apparatus for a multiple part missile according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a first missile part having a first groove formed in a surface of the first missile part and a second missile part having a second gro... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20050000383 | Missile with multiple nosecones A missile includes a payload assembly that has a pair of nosecones. The nosecones may be optimized for different environments and/or phases of flight, for example, having different shapes, different shell materials, different types of seals, and/or different separation ... | 01/06/2005 |
