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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7417582 | System and method for triggering an explosive device A proximity fuze (proximity fuse) comprising an ultra wideband (UWB) radar transmitter, a UWB radar receiver, an antenna, a timing system, and a signal processor. One embodiment includes an antenna with an annular conical radiation pattern. In another embodiment, a ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7370583 | Detonator system and method in connection with the same A method for wirelessly transmitting data to a control unit, such as a blasting machine, selected from a plurality of control units from an operating device selected from a plurality of operating devices, and a system intended for the method. The control unit is con... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352319 | Methods and systems utilizing Doppler prediction to enable fusing A method for controlling a detonation altitude of a radar equipped munition is described. The method includes calculating a velocity of the munition while the munition is at an altitude greater than the desired detonation altitude, determining when the munition is a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7331290 | Fuze explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) circuit The present invention comprises an electronic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) circuit which is desirably used with fuzed explosive weapons, such as projectiles having a nominal mission time. After expiration of the mission time, if the explosive has not detonated,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327550 | Frequency diversity remote controlled initiation system A blasting system includes a wireless link between a blast controller and a plurality of electronic detonators. Each detonator includes a respective electronic initiator and an explosive charge. Charge storage devices of the initiators are chargeable by a carrier of... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7296520 | External telemetry unit An external telemetry unit for a projectile. The external telemetry unit comprises a shell adapted to be inserted between the front of the projectile body and the fuze, a flexible battery and flexible electronic circuitry encircling the front of the shell, and a plu... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7267303 | Method and system for providing cruciform steered, bent biconic and plasma suppression for maximum accuracy A system for reducing plasma induced communication disruption is disclosed. The system utilizes an electrophilic gas injectant, bent reentry vehicle nose shaping and a number of flaps configured to provide 3-axis steering capability. Injecting electrophilic gas inje... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266446 | Helmet mounted tracking system and method A helmet mounted tracking system for target designation includes an airplane azimuth sensor, a helmet mounted azimuth sensor, an airplane pitch sensor, a helmet mounted pitch sensor, and a processor. The airplane azimuth sensor determines an azimuth heading for an a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261035 | Method and system for operation of a safe and arm device A method and a system controlling the operation of a safe and arm device. The embodiments include continually utilizing a rule based computation to generate an output signal to be sent to a controller affecting the operation of the safe and arm (S&A) device towards ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7242789 | Moving-body detecting image sensor Two photodetectors output electric signals based on the detection of light at light receiving sections mutually spaced apart. The output signal of one of the photodetectors is delayed and a first pulse signal is generated, and second pulse signal having no delay is ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7225740 | Electromagnetic pulse transmitting system and method A plasma antenna generator includes an ionizable material, an explosive charge capable of projecting the ionizable material upon detonation, and a detonator coupled with the explosive charge. An electromagnetic pulse transmitting system includes an electromagnetic p... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7216047 | Time-delay discriminator A method of determining the delay between two corresponding noise-like signals comprises determining events at which the level of a first of the signal crosses a predetermined threshold, using each event to sample a second signal, combining the samples to produce an... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7197981 | Projectile A projectile, having a casing, a projectile base, which closes off the casing at the rear, a receiver coil for receiving electromagnetic signals, an energy source, brought into contact with the receiver coil, and a logic module. The casing is made of a plastic mater... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7129900 | Meter antenna The antenna configuration presented is an integral component of a retrofit module designed to incorporate a data telemetry transceiver within the confines of a utility meter. ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121210 | Accuracy fuze for airburst cargo delivery projectiles In one aspect, an artillery projectile apparatus is provided that includes a carrier projectile containing a payload, and a fuze disposed at an ogive of the projectile and which is configured to eject the payload when the fuze is detonated. The fuze includes a recei... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7100511 | Dual redundancy system for electronic detonators A detonator assembly (10) comprising a housing (12) disclosed and claimed. The assembly comprises an main circuit (11) comprising an electrically operable fuse (16) located in the housing. The assembly further comprises at least a first r... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098841 | Methods and systems for controlling a height of munition detonation A unit is described that is configured to control detonation of a munition such that the munition is detonated at a desired altitude. The unit includes a radar transmitter, a radar receiver that includes a radar range gate, and a sequencer. The sequencer is configur... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079071 | Radar apparatus A radar apparatus includes: a modulation signal generating circuit that generates a modulation signal; a carrier wave generating circuit that generates a carrier wave; a modulation circuit that outputs a high frequency signal generated by modulating the carrier wave... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7057567 | Projectile comprising a reception antenna for a satellite navigation receiver A projectile (12) carries a combination antenna (21), whose tuning corresponds to both the fundamental frequency of the radar (17) of a proximity fuse and the third harmonic of the carrier frequency of a satellite navigation receiver (20)... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6970133 | Antenna system and method of using same An antenna system includes a plurality of transmit elements spaced apart by a first dimension and a plurality of receive elements spaced apart by a second dimension, such that the first dimension is a non-integer multiple of the second dimension and the second dimen... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966261 | Fuze explosive ordnance disposal circuit The present invention comprises an electronic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) circuit which is desirably used with fused explosive weapons, such as projectiles having a nominal mission time. After expiration of the mission time, if the explosive has not detonated,... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964514 | Temperature measuring apparatus An improved apparatus for measuring the temperature of an object such as a food object. Also, a related method, container, transportation member and production line which utilizes this apparatus. The apparatus includes a coupling device for coupling radiation emanat... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6930631 | Sensor front-end with phase coding capability A sensor front end for an electronic radar sensor is disclosed that provides for a lower parts count while providing technical functionality by using multifunction parts, i.e., parts that are used both in transmitting and receiving. The sensor front end includes a c... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6919846 | Slot antenna for artillery ammunition A slot antenna for the fuse of artillery ammunition, is provided through a sandwich structure in which an axially divided resonator ring chamber axially enclosed between upper and lower metallic cover discs profiled to be stable in respect of shape, is provided with... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6919840 | Integration of a semi-active laser seeker into the DSU-33 proximity sensor A proximity sensor for use with a guidance system of a smart bomb including a ranging radar proximity sensor configured for mounting on a smart bomb and a radome connected to the ranging radar proximity sensor. A laser radiation sensor system is attached to the prox... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6874402 | Projectile and method for producing it A projectile, having a casing, a projectile base, which closes the casing off at the rear, a receiver coil for receiving electromagnetic signals, an energy source which is put into contact with the receiver coil, and a logic module. The casing is made from a plastic... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6851369 | Access control for electronic blasting machines Blasting apparatuses and methods control actuation of a plurality of detonators, and involve the use of one or more authorization keys each associated with a blasting machine. The authorization key(s) are transferable from the blasting machine(s) to a central comman... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6843178 | Electromagnetic pulse transmitting system and method A plasma antenna generator includes an ionizable material, an explosive charge capable of projecting the ionizable material upon detonation, and a detonator coupled with the explosive charge. An electromagnetic pulse transmitting system includes an electromagnetic p... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6834591 | Proximity fuze A proximity fuze for use in a tube launched projectile carrying a payload, comprising an oscillator for generating a radio frequency signal which has a varying frequency, a single antenna for transmitting the radio frequency signal and for receiving an echo of the r... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6817296 | Imaging-infrared skewed cone fuze A fuzing system for non-spinning or substantially non-spinning weapons is implemented by means of wide angle optics providing at least forward-hemisphere coverage, an array of infrared detectors and a microprocessor for image and data processing, aim-point selection... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6707417 | Accurate range calibration architecture A radar system having a tactical mode and a calibration mode includes a transmitter section for providing high-power amplification of an RF pulsed waveform from an exciter during the tactical mode and the calibration mode. A circulator system has an input port conne... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6615734 | Munition article with antenna for satellite navigation A munition article is to be provided with an antenna which, by virtue of a characteristic which is uniform all around, permits interference-free reception of items of satellite navigation information, even if in the manner of an artillery projectile it is... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6518912 | Signal processing circuit A signal processing circuit is disclosed for providing fuze-on-jam capability in a target detecting device, while in the presence of continuous wave or continuous wave noise jammer signals. A target detection system will protect the target detecting devic... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6480140 | Apparatus and method for providing a deception response system The present invention is to a method and system for providing protection from an EMS-targeted weapon by providing an appropriate spoofed EMS signal to cause an EMS-targeted weapon to determine an apparent object distance sufficiently close to the EMS-base... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6473041 | Munition article with antenna for satellite navigation A munition article (11) is to be provided with an antenna (18) which, by virtue of a characteristic which is uniform all around, permits interference-free reception of items of satellite navigation information, even if in the manner of an artillery projec... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6389974 | Passive doppler fuze A passive proximity fuze. The inventive fuze (10) is adapted to be mounted on a munition (11) and includes a receiver (16) adapted to lock on to a signal transmitted by a target transmitter (12). The receiver (16) detects a Doppler shift in the signal as ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6279478 | Imaging-infrared skewed-cone fuze A fuzing system for non-spinning or substantially non-spinning weapons is implemented by means of wide angle optics providing at least forward-hemisphere coverage, an array of infrared detectors and a microprocessor for image and data processing, aim-poin... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6271464 | Electronic magnetic interference and radio frequency interference protection of airborne missile electronics using conductive plastics A detector assembly which includes an electrically conductive, two-piece, molded plastic housing including a relatively rigid bulkhead portion having a groove and a second dome portion having a sidewall extending over an adjacent bulkhead portion. The dom... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6260483 | Remote radio controlled plasma firing system In a radio remote blasting system, a radio receiver triggers a blocking oscillator which generates a high voltage output. A rectifier rectifies the high voltage output and charges a capacitor, which is coupled to a plasma arc generator to apply the capaci... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6198425 | Pulse doppler target detecting device A target detection device of the electromagnetic transmitter-receiver reaction type comprising a radio frequency oscillator which is integral with its radiating system and detector. It incorporates a pulse modulator which drives the oscillator to periods ... | 03/06/2001 |
