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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7234153 | Vibration damper for dampening vibrations at low frequencies Electronics are fitted in vehicles, such as boats, ships, trains, buses, lorries, normal cars etc. The electronic items are exposed to jolts and other non-uniform actions. Particularly with regard to jolts, electronic items or apparatuses in which there are also mec... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7047887 | Hand grenade An airburst hand grenade constructed so as to jump 1–2 m above the ground before detonating. The hand grenade includes a detonator, a warhead, and support legs for raising the hand grenade from a horizontal position to an upright position once it has landed after ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6606951 | Bounding anti-tank/anti-vehicle weapon A bounding anti-armor/anti-vehicle mine attacks and destroys multiple targets simultaneously at the targets" closest point of approach. This is accomplished by utilizing multiple asymmetric explosively forged penetrators (EFPs) on a warhead that is capabl... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6539872 | Fuze sterilization using sacrificial anodic component A method of fuze sterilization is provided for a fuze that includes a first component and a second component with a prescribed relationship being defined therebetween. The prescribed relationship is one that is required for proper detonation operation of ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6202559 | Air-safed mechanical water actuator A mechanical device for generating actuating movement has a housing defining a first bore and a second bore contiguous therewith. The housing also defines radial ports that allow an environment about the housing to communicate with the first bore. A first... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6131516 | Air-safed underwater fuze system for launched munitions An air-safed underwater fuze system is provided for munitions that are to launch-deployed and water-detonated. A housing defines a first bore contiguous with a second bore. Radial ports in the housing communicate with the first bore. A first piston is sl... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5146045 | Underwater mine The invention relates to an underwater mine or decoy which should lie on the ocean bottom or which has buoyancy characteristics. The mine or decoy is made up of at least an expandable material and a foldable, preferably webbed shell which determines the e... | 09/08/1992 |
| 4658726 | Fuze for setting off jacketed explosive charges A fuze for setting off jacketed explosive charges, particularly underwater charges, comprises a breaking wall aimed at the explosive charge, and an initiating charge aimed at the breaking wall. Between the initiating charge and the breaking wall, an inter... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4635554 | Demolition device and method of preparing same An underwater demolition device has magnets for holding the device on a ferrous structure and a plunger which, once the device has been planted, is held in a retracted position by the structure on which the device is held. If the device is moved from the ... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4487126 | Safety fuse with automatic underwater self-disarming A pressure-actuated fuse has a housing formed with an inner chamber and with a passage having an outer end opening to the exterior and an inner end opening into the chamber. A plug in the passage has a porosity sufficient to allow slow liquid flow through... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4395951 | Water-armed/air-safed release apparatus An improved release apparatus, including an actuator device, a release dee and a firing device, releases the firing device in a water environment and not in an air environment when the actuator device is remotely actuated. When in a water environment, a ... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4389940 | Antipersonnel mine An antipersonnel mine is shown, a plurality of such mines being adapted to be loaded into a round of ammunition for dispersal and subsequent detonation at random instants. The timing for detonation of each mine is determined by the discharge of a capacito... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4311097 | Dual underwater safety fuse A fuse apparatus for a depth charge or the like has a primary fuse that operates at a relatively shallow depth to position a detonator in line with a firing pin, and a secondary fuse that operates to release the firing pin to explose the detonator. A safe... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4193346 | Electrolytic pressure mechanism 1. A vessel detecting apparatus comprising means responsive to the time ving negative pressure signal produced by the passage of a vessel in proximity to the detecting apparatus for producing an electrical signal having a time varying amplitude correlati... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4186768 | Pressure sensitive hydraulic valve 1. A sensitive blocking valve device comprising a casing, said casing comsing a pair of half-shell members each including a mating surface at the outer periphery and each having an axial valve seat portion projecting into the interior of said casing and ... | 02/05/1980 |
