Separating arrangement including an expansion chamber for a pyrotechnic charge

US4646642A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Josef Nagler · Westerburg, DE
• Utz-Udo Ahlers · Diepersdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 1985
• Grant date: Mar 3, 1987
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B15/36
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A separating arrangement between multipart constructional elements, including an expansion chamber for at least one pyrotechnic charge which is bounded by the piston surface of a displacement or sliding piston. The separating arrangement has at least one gas passageway which communicates with the expansion chamber, through the intermediary of which a separating piston can be subjected to pressure. The combustion gas pressure of the pyrotechnic charges acts within the expansion chamber against different piston surfaces and thereby, in a constructively predeterminable manner, effects different successive piston movements, as a result of which the sequence of the individual separating operations which can be carried out in different directions predeterminably in a definite manner and functionally-dependent.