Patents Examined by Samir Abdosh
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Patent number: 11965717Abstract: The Electromagnetic Grenade is a destructive device used to disable Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV). The Electromagnetic Grenade is a purpose-built shell/round that utilizes an explosively pumped flux compression generator to create an electromagnetic pulse destructive enough to disable or destroy UGVs and similar military equipment which employ electricity as energy for onboard systems. The electromagnetic grenade includes a standard shell casing, a power source, capacitor bank, a solenoid, and a standard fuse. The casing and size of the shell can be changed to suit the weapon system that will employ the Electromagnetic Grenade. The design can be scaled to work with smaller and larger ordinance which will include small arms, artillery shells, bombs, missiles, rockets, sub-munitions, loitering munitions and similar.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventor: Patrick Murray
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Patent number: 11965725Abstract: The application relates to a charging system for charging at least one charging hole. The system comprises a charging boom, sensors of the boom, a movement mechanism of the boom, a charging head of the boom for charging the at least one hole, and a controller for controlling the boom. The sensors obtain location information relating to the boom. The controller defines locations of the charging head in a co-ordinate system of the boom on the grounds of at least the obtained location information. The controller also operates the movement mechanism to move the charging head between the defined locations in accordance with precalculated movements.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Normet OyInventors: Anssi Mykkänen, Harri Puumalainen, Kalle Määttä, Samu Kukkonen
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Patent number: 11965718Abstract: A bulletproof protection elementary component of the tile type comprises a prism-shaped body having a first face and a second face of greater extension, which are opposite each other, and a side surface having a first height, at least one raised section from the first face by a second height, wherein the raised section is prism-shaped and has a base area which is less than an area of the first face. A ballistic panel and a bulletproof protection structure and a bulletproof vest, comprising a plurality of the elementary components, are also herein described.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ELET.CA S.R.L. CON SOCIO UNICOInventor: Alberto Contri
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Patent number: 11953279Abstract: A muzzle brake apparatus comprises a main body having a central bore and a plurality of peripheral bores about the central bore, the central bore extending a flow path for a projectile from a barrel of a firearm and an exit for the projectile and a brake backing plate coupled to the main body, the brake backing plate constructed and arranged for coupling to a distal end of the barrel of the firearm, the brake backing plate including an air chamber that provides an interior volume for receiving a flow of gas in the flow path of the barrel, wherein the peripheral bores output a first portion of gas from the firearm, and wherein a second portion of the gas is returned to the barrel from the air chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Matt Risley
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Patent number: 11951931Abstract: A gas generator includes, a housing having a first container including a first bottom surface portion and a second container including a second bottom surface portion, the housing being formed by joining the first container and the second container, and an igniter attached to a mounting hole formed in the second bottom surface portion of the second container, the mounting hole including a passing region in the mounting hole, through which the igniter is passing, and a tip region around the passing region, the tip region being located, in a radial direction of the housing, outside an imaginary outer contour line when the igniter is projected onto the second bottom surface portion, in which paired edge portions intersect with each other to form a tip portion having a convex shape protruding outward in the radial direction of the housing on the outermost side of the region.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Masato Hirooka
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Patent number: 11946728Abstract: An initiator head may include a housing extending in an axial direction, a circuit board provided in an interior space of the housing, a line-in terminal provided on a first side of the housing in the axial direction and accessible from an exterior of the housing, and a fuse displaced from the circuit board in the axial direction. A thickness direction of the circuit board may be substantially parallel with the axial direction. The line-in terminal may be in electrical communication with the circuit board. The fuse may be in electrical communication with the circuit board. The circuit board may be configured to activate the fuse in response to a control signal received at the line-in terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbHInventors: Christian Eitschberger, Sascha Thieltges, Dimitri Riesen
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Patent number: 11933148Abstract: A shaped charge having a liner with three frustoconical segments and a bottom portion configured to provide consistent perforating holes over a range of distances from the shaped charge.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventor: Shane Matthew Wilson
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Patent number: 11933595Abstract: A method and apparatus for igniting a power charge in downhole wellbore using an ignition propellant mixed with a main propellant.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.Inventors: Ty Edgar Stovall, Jeffrey Wayne Smith, Johnny Covalt, Zachary James Taylor
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Patent number: 11920418Abstract: Provided is a casing washout perforating gun assembly for use in a wellbore. The casing washout perforating gun assembly, in one example, includes a carrier gun body, an uphole plurality of charges supported within the carrier gun body, and a downhole plurality of charges supported within the carrier gun body. According to this example, the uphole plurality of charges have an uphole size or uphole explosive design to perforate uphole openings having uphole opening areas within a wellbore casing, and the downhole plurality of charges have a different downhole size or different downhole explosive design to perforate downhole openings having downhole opening areas within the wellbore casing, and furthermore the downhole opening areas are at least 20 percent less than the uphole opening areas.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Earl Burky, Christopher C. Hoelscher, James Marshall Barker
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Patent number: 11920900Abstract: An ejecting system for dispensing countermeasure boxes includes a container arranged to hold a multiple of stacked boxes. A pushing actuator is arranged to push at one end of the stack of boxes in a first direction. The system further includes an ejecting mechanism including a driving actuator connected to a rotating member. The rotating member is arranged to engage with a box and on the side of the box most distant from the pushing actuator such that said box is moved in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction, and ejected.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SAAB ABInventor: Jörgen Båth
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Patent number: 11920881Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for identifying gun events. A gun event may include a nominal event, such as the discharging of a projectile or the ejecting of a cartridge shell, or an anomalous event, such as a misfire or a failure to feed. An apparatus may include a sensor that measures motion of a gun along multiple axes. The apparatus may identify a gun event based on the measured motion of the gun satisfying a motion condition. The motion condition may include an acceleration threshold value, and the measured motion of the gun may satisfy the motion condition based on a measured acceleration value exceeding the threshold acceleration value. The apparatus may transmit an electrical signal based on the measured motion of the gun satisfying the motion condition. The electrical signal may reset a charging circuit, increment a shot count, or decrement a round count.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Benjamin William Dwyer, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Christopher James Owens
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Patent number: 11920905Abstract: Laminates and their process of manufacture, with the laminates made with anti-ballistic materials, such as woven and unwoven fabrics. The laminates are provided with different structures, materials, bondings, and other features, and example methods of manufacturing those laminates efficiently and in mass quantities. The method of production is a process of laminating individual flexible sheets including anti-ballistic material (which may be of woven or unwoven cloth or thin solid sheets or foils comprised of one or more light-weight anti-ballistic materials) into a flexible laminate for use to protect people or spaces from ballistic objects such as bullets and shrapnel from weapons and other moderate to high-kinetic energy objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Disruptive Resources, LLCInventors: John B. Adrain, Robert F. Bodi
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Patent number: 11906274Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reconnaissance and communication assembly, adapted to be launched from a gun barrel into the air. The assembly comprises a carrier (with a cavity) and a payload (within the cavity). The payload is arranged to be controllably expelled from the carrier and once expelled from the carrier, the payload transmits a signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLCInventors: Andrew Michael Carr, Timothy Keith Girling, Murray Thomson
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Patent number: 11906275Abstract: The present invention relates to a bullet, in particular precision bullet, comprising a bullet core with a bow-side section, a tail-side section with a bullet base and a guide band located therebetween, and a bullet jacket completely surrounding the bullet core, wherein in the region of the bullet core tail axially offset from the guide band and/or in the region of a tail-side end face of the bullet core base and/or in the region of the bullet core bow axially offset from the guide band a profiling is placed, in accordance with the bullet jacket, adapts complementary in shape in in such a way that an anti-rotation structure is formed between the bullet jacket and the bullet core.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: RUAG Ammotec AGInventors: Michael Muster, Markus Bucher, Donald Meyer
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Patent number: 11906273Abstract: Armor plate having a thickness of at least 3 mm and an edge length of at least 20 mm, wherein the armor plate (10) consists of a material made largely of a component selected from the group hard metal, cermet and/or combinations thereof. An armor plate composite comprising at least two layers of armor plates and an armor are provided as well.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Werner Parlow, Manfred Wolf, Thomas Theuerkauf
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Patent number: 11901893Abstract: A sequencer for use with a countermeasure defense system includes an input signal indicative of firing an expendable, a circuit card that receives the input signal indicative of firing the expendable and an output analog signal from the circuit card that fires the expendable. The parameters of the output analog signal correspond to parameters of a digital waveform.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Jason H. Branch, Karl P. Herb, Danny L. Plemons
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Patent number: 11892470Abstract: A chronograph system with a frame, at least two sensors, an accelerometer, and a processor module. The frame is configured to removably couple to a barrel of a firearm. The sensors are attached to the frame and are configured to detect a projectile as the projectile passes each sensor. A first of the sensors may be separated from a second of the sensors by at least three inches. The accelerometer is attached to the frame and configured to track an orientation of the barrel. The processor module is communicatively coupled to the sensors and to the accelerometer and may be configured to receive timestamps from the sensors and the orientation of the barrel from the accelerometer, use the timestamps to determine a velocity of each projectile, and analyze the velocity data and the orientation of the barrel to aid a user in adjusting a scope of the firearm.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventor: Manuel Salinas
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Patent number: 11879716Abstract: A detonator which is responsive to a shock tube event which is validated if a link is fused at a predetermined time interval after a light signal produced by the event is detected and if, at the end of a subsequent time interval, the link is still fused and the light signal is absent.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Christopher Malcolm Birkin, Richard Joseph Michna, Daniel Auguste Maurissens, Andre Louis Koekemoer
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Patent number: 11879699Abstract: A barrel for a firearm having a bore axis, a cartridge chamber, and an integrally formed locking sleeve with a locking space, with locking lugs, the locking sleeve has recesses for bolt head lugs of a bolt head to be inserted. The barrel has, in the direction towards the cartridge chamber, at least two centering ramps in the transition area between the recess for the lugs and the locking space in an oblique manner with respect to the bore axis. Further the recesses forming the bayonet-type groove, viewed in the direction of the bore axis, each have a profile which comprises an elliptical segment. The disclosure additionally provides a production process for such a barrel.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Siegfried Sereinig
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Patent number: 11874098Abstract: A wireless detonator assembly which includes a detonator, a receiver, a printed circuit board with a stored key which is hardwired onto the board during manufacture of the detonator assembly and control logic which allows the detonator to be fired only if the control logic extracts from a signal, received by the receiver, a reference key which is identical to the stored key.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Elmar Lennox Muller, Christiaan Tielman Meyer, Abraham Johannes Liebenberg