Patent · US Expired

Safe and arm device for a secondary-explosive detonator

US4727810A · kind A · utility

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9Claims

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Assignee

Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Wilhelm Furst · Meyenburg, DE
Anton Brunner · Starnberg, DE
Manfred Klare · Simmelsdorf, DE
Hartmut Gessler · Achern, DE
Dietmar Kugler · Ottensoos, DE
Werner Rudenauer · Roth, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 27, 1987
Grant date	Mar 1, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 27, 2007

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF42C15/40
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A safe and arm device including a sensor-controlled switch arrangement in an electrical series-circuit, which is arranged ahead of a secondary-explosive detonator, especially for a submunition-projectile. The safe and arm device possesses a first switch which is actuatable at the presence of a surrounding air onflow against the submunition carrier in dependence upon a submunition ejecting command; and wherein a second switch is actuatable by the first switch when the submunition-projectile has released itself from its carrier and has implemented a transition into a gliding flight phase searching for a target.

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