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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110290101 | SEQUENTIAL INJECTION GAS GUNS FOR ACCELERATING PROJECTILES Gas guns and methods for accelerating projectiles through such gas guns are described. More particularly, gas guns having a first injection port located proximate a breech end of a barrel and a second injection port located longitudinally between the first injection por... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20080053299 | Electromagnetic launcher with augmenting breech In an exemplary electromagnetic launcher, a housing with breech and muzzle is slidably supported in a carriage supported on a trunnion. First and second electrical contacts are mounted in the carriage toward an axis of the trunnion. The first and second contacts are ele... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080006144 | Unitary Electro Magnetic Coil Launch Tube An electromagnetic missile launcher is disclosed that provides greater flexibility for use with a variety of missile types and also provides potentially higher performance and efficiency as compared to prior-art electromagnetic missile launchers.... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070277797 | Apparatus and method to pulverize rock using a superconducting electromagnetic linear motor A rock pulverizer device based on a superconducting linear motor. The superconducting electromagnetic rock pulverizer accelerates a projectile via a superconducting linear motor and directs the projectile at high speed toward a rock structure that is to be pulverized by... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070277668 | Two Rail Electromagnetic Gun Electromagnetic gun with a cavity extending through its barrel, two power rails with cavity surface their length, a plurality of wall (conductor) coils circumscribing and orthogonal the cavity, distributed its length with contact means at the cavity on one end a bus com... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070261543 | Electromagnetic railgun projectile An electromagnetic railgun projectile is disclosed which includes an aeroshell having a substantially flat surface extending along the length thereof. The substantially flat surface is configured to increase the lift-to-drag ratio of the projectile during reentry. The p... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070234893 | Augmented EM Propulsion System An electromagnetic missile launcher is disclosed that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages of missile launchers in the prior art. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention uses a pilot accelerator that comprises an electromagnetic booster coil to impro... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070056572 | Electromagnetic Propulsion Devices Utilizing Wall Conductors Electromagnetic propulsion devices having a barrel with a cavity its length, armatures for said cavity with a propulsion bus in and circumscribing said armature's body, orthogonal the axis thereof with power rail continuity on one end and propulsion bus-aft shunt circui... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20060288853 | Collateral Cavity Electromagnetic Propulsion Guns Narrow collateral cavity electromagnetic guns with two wall conductor assemblies with a divide plane proximal barrel bus and array of wall conductors extending therefrom to contact means proximal the half cavity's narrow wall in each collateral cavity half, like potenti... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060162536 | Electromagnetic Gun With Parallel Wall Conductor Assembles Narrow cavity rail guns with: a power rail proximal each edge, a wall conductor assembly in each cavity wall there between with barrel bus at one rail and extending therefrom to distal contact means at the cavity, an array of parallel, spaced, cavity orthogonal wall con... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060144214 | Chemically driven hydrogen gun An electrothermal gun uses an apparatus for generating high gas pressure. The apparatus includes a receiver having a combustion chamber for holding a propellant which produces a gas component and a particle component when the propellant undergoes an exothermic chemical ... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060096450 | ELECTRO-THERMAL CHEMICAL IGNITER AND CONNECTOR An ETC igniter and compatible electrical connector for enabling an ETC gun to be used in a battlefield setting in close proximity with personnel and sensitive electronic equipment. This is accomplished by providing a current path to and from the igniter that is electric... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060048636 | Breech assembly for an electrothermal gun This invention relates to a breech assembly of a gun adapted to fire caseless charges, ignited and enhanced with electrothermal chemical (ETC) charges. The gun utilises charges as propellant and a plasma generator cartridge (PGC) for generating plasma when an electrical... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060027085 | Acceleration of large projectiles with electrostatic forces Once one has taken into account basic shooting/launching issues like breach, barrel, and projectile, work on electrostatic forces can begin. Firstly, safety is a must, the static generator is not lethal but the capacitors are very lethal. Secondly, select material for t... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060027084 | MAGNETIC FIELD PROTECTION FOR THE PROJECTILE OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC COIL GUN SYSTEM An electromagnetic coil gun system includes a launcher having a barrel with a longitudinal bore therethrough, and a plurality of longitudinally extending electrical excitation coils arranged circumferentially around the bore of the barrel so that a magnetic field produc... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050155487 | Improvements to Electromagnetic Propulsion Devices Electromagnetic propulsion device as a gun or reversible electric motor having a barrel with a cavity extending its length, an armature in said cavity with a permanent magnetic or energized propulsion bus coil, a plurality of wall conductors orthogonal and circumscribin... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050126381 | ROTATING PULSE FORMING NETWORK FOR SHIPBOARD OPERATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN AND CAPACITOR MODULE An electromagnetic gun and rotating pulsed network system that includes a gun barrel coupled to a gun mount coupled on a rotating platform on one deck of a naval ship. A pulse forming network which is generally cylindrical in shape provides pulsed energy to the electrom... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050016373 | METHOD FOR SHIPBOARD OPERATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN AND ROTATING PULSE FORMING NETWORK An electromagnetic gun and rotating pulsed network system that includes a gun barrel coupled to a gun mount coupled on a rotating platform on one deck of a naval ship. A pulse forming network which is cylindrical in shape provides pulsed energy to the electromagnetic gu... | 01/27/2005 |
