Pyrotechnic smoke composition for camouflage purposes

US5656794A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Uwe Krone · Schwarzenbek, DE
• Klaus Moller · Mutterstadt, DE
• Ernest Shulz · Seevetal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 1995
• Grant date: Aug 12, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S149/117
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a continuously burning pyrotechnic composition, compounds of graphite serve as additional components that are capable of thermal expansion in the C-axis perpendicular to the lattice plane and expand in the reaction zone of the pyrotechnic composition, being released with the reaction products of the burning pyrotechnic composition. This permits production of camouflage smokes that are effective in the optically visible range, the IR range and the MMW-RADAR range of electromagnetic radiation.