Patent · US Expired

Fuse with a detonator

US4458594A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Adolf Weber · Neunkirchen, DE
Siegfried Rhau · Neunkirchen, DE
Hans Strauss · Reichenschwand, DE
Utz-Udo Ahlers · Diepersdorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 24, 1981
Grant date	Jul 10, 1984
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 24, 2001

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF42C15/192
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In small-caliber, barreled-weapon ammunition with head or base fuses, detonator safety is achieved in that the inadvertantly ignited detonator which is a secure position within a rotor remains without effect on an intensifying charge. Measures are provided for the gas to expand within the fuse and the energy of the rotor fragments used up so that the gas expanding direction and the flight direction of the fragments face away from the explosives of the intensifying charge. Expansion chambers are formed by recesses in the fuse for safety devices adjacent the rotor, such as different centrifugal force-dependent safety devices for the firing pin which are separated from each other by breaking locations destroyable by the gas.

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