Guide assembly for a missile

US6758435B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall W & M GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Torsten Niemeyer · Celle, DE
• Manfred Schwies · Hermannsburg, DE
• Uwe Naderhoff · Faßberg, DE
• Thomas Heitman · Unterlüß, DE
• Michael Imdahl · Baven, DE
• Rudolf Rombach · Rheydt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 2002
• Grant date: Jul 6, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 23, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B10/14
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A missile includes a missile body and a guide assembly mounted on the missile body. The guide assembly has a plurality of pivots and a plurality of vanes mounted on respective pivots for a swinging motion between a folded position of rest and a deployed flight position. The vanes are arranged for free pivotal motion during flight in response to forces acting thereon to determine the flight position. In the folded position of each vane, its center of gravity is situated at a greater distance from the longitudinal axis of the missile body than the pivotal axis of the respective vanes. Abutments limit the flight position of the vanes to a maximum angle between the length dimension of the vanes and the longitudinal axis of the missile body. The maximum angle is greater than 90°.