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Detonator triggering device

US4648320A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Wilhelm Furst · Meyenburg, DE
Werner Rudenauer · Roth, DE
Rainer Siebert · Villepreux, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 26, 1985
Grant date	Mar 10, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 26, 2005

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF42C11/02
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A detonator triggering device which is located in the head of an underwater projectile, and wherein a pressure receiver which is positioned within an opening in the projectile head is exposed to a dynamic pressure or velocity head. A piezo-ceramic disc which is equipped with electrical contacts is rigidly supported on one side thereof in the head of the projectile, and with its other side contacts against a pressure transmitting member which is supported within the opening in the head. As a result, the dynamic pressure will act against the piezo-ceramic disc. Every change in the dynamic pressure consequently provides for a corresponding change in the charge or change in the voltage of the piezo-ceramic disc. This permits itself to be processed in an electronic evaluating or gating circuit, such that the applicable voltage change is employed as the actuating criteria.

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