Patents Assigned to Black Hills Ammunition Inc.
  • Projectile having leading surface standoffs
    Patent number: 10866075
    Abstract: A projectile has a base, a tip, and a body axis intersecting the base at a trailing axis point and the tip at a leading axis point. The projectile includes a meplat that is substantially orthogonal to the body axis and a plurality of standoffs that extend away from both the trailing axis point and the leading axis point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: Lehigh Defense, LLC, Black Hills Ammunition Inc.
    Inventor: David B. Fricke
  • Projectile having leading surface standoffs
    Patent number: 10345085
    Abstract: A projectile has a base, a tip, and a body axis intersecting the base at a trailing axis point and the tip at a leading axis point. The projectile includes a meplat that is substantially orthogonal to the body axis and a plurality of standoffs that extend away from both the trailing axis point and the leading axis point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: Lehigh Defense, LLC, Black Hills Ammunition Inc.
    Inventor: David B. Fricke
  • PROJECTILE HAVING LEADING SURFACE STANDOFFS
    Publication number: 20180209770
    Abstract: A projectile has a base, a tip, and a body axis intersecting the base at a trailing axis point and the tip at a leading axis point. The projectile includes a meplat that is substantially orthogonal to the body axis and a plurality of standoffs that extend away from both the trailing axis point and the leading axis point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicants: Lehigh Defense, LLC, Black Hills Ammunition Inc.
    Inventor: David B. Fricke
  • Barrier-blind, limited collateral damage projectile
    Patent number: 9829293
    Abstract: A projectile has a body with three fins which partially define a meplat. Three flutes are alternatingly arranged with the three fins about an axis of the body. Each of the three flutes is at least partially defined by a curved surface having a substantially smooth radius of curvature that is substantially constant from the meplat to a side surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Lehigh Defense, LLC, Black Hills Ammunition Inc.
    Inventors: David B. Fricke, Jeff Hoffman