公开(公告)号：US10508892B1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-17

申请号：US15330140

申请日：2016-08-15

Applicant: Department of the Navy

Inventor： Daniel Corey Pines ,  Kevin Cochran ,  John Hendershot ,  John Frederick Kunstmann ,  David Reinaldo Gonzalez

IPC: F42C15/40 ,  F42B12/58 ,  F42B10/56

Abstract: A submunition delivery device including a master electronics module; a submunition module operatively connected to the master electronics module and including a plurality of submunition banks separated by bulkheads. Each of the submunition banks includes a plurality of submunitions; a base plug module operatively connected to the submunition module; and a distributed fuze module operatively connected to the master electronics module to limit a detrimental effect of the plurality of submunitions upon a collision by arming the plurality of submunitions before a dispense action.

公开(公告)号：US10234248B1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-19

申请号：US15731440

申请日：2017-06-12

Applicant: Department of the Navy

Inventor： Thinh Hoang ,  Khoa Nguyen ,  Daniel Corey Pines ,  Troy Caruso

IPC: F42C11/02 ,  F42B3/12 ,  H01L41/083 ,  H02N2/18

Abstract: A micro-electro-pyrotechnic energy-harvesting apparatus to harvest an incidental portion of a propellant energy utilized when a munition is fired freeing a magnet to strike an impact pin that strains a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element generates a collected voltage, which triggers a pyrotechnic initiator that, on activation, produces a straining force on a plurality of stacks of piezoelectric elements. The strained piezoelectric elements, in turn, generate a high voltage output sufficient to ignite the munition's explosive material. The apparatus may be quite small, for example, the cross-sectional size of a pen, which is about one centimeter, yet suitable for generating an electrical ignition of the explosive material.