Patents Assigned to Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
  • Publication number: 20190107356
    Abstract: A weapon which has a completely modular design. For this purpose, the weapon is subdivided into weapon-specific assemblies which are designed as carrier units of the components and/or of the modular assemblies of the weapon. A first assembly can be a modular weapon housing. Said weapon housing has a carrier unit into which a breech system of the weapon and its components are built. Another modular assembly is a weapon cradle. Into this modular assembly the weapon housing module with breech system is integrated. The weapon housing module can be complemented with the weapon barrel module. The components are connected to the modular assemblies and the modular assemblies to each other by means of rails and guides and complementary rails and guides for the assemblies, by binders and holders, by pins, bolts and quick release fasteners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 10254079
    Abstract: A weapon having a barrel cluster, having at least one, preferably multiple, weapon barrel(s) and having a bolt, and only one of the weapon barrels is oriented in alignment with the single bolt and interacts therewith for the purposes of firing. The barrel cluster has a front, muzzle-side barrel holder and has a rear, bolt-side barrel holder, and has, in a partial region, a control body with a control cam which is incorporated on the circumference. By way of said control cam, the barrel cluster can be adjusted as a whole and independently of the firing of the weapon. The control body is preferably electronically rotated, for which purpose a pin of the actuator engages into the control cam of the control body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventor: Hubert Schneider
  • Publication number: 20190093972
    Abstract: A cocking device for a firing pin spring of a firing pin of a weapon, the firing pin being integrated into a breech. This firing pin spring is cocked during the pre-run of the control slide, by means of a cocking slide on the weapon, said cocking slide having a cocking curve, in which a pin of a cocking rocker is engaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventors: Andy MUELLER, Hubert SCHNEIDER, Markus SCHWEIZER
  • Patent number: 10228203
    Abstract: A case discharge device having a case ejector for ejecting a case or a misfire for a weapon having a bolt with a bolt head, wherein a munition is supplied to a weapon barrel of the weapon by the bolt and the case or the misfire is pulled out of the weapon barrel. The case discharge device is characterized in that, now, in the bolt head, there is situated a groove into which a case ejector which is static with respect to a weapon housing engages. During the return of the bolt, the case ejector which is static with respect to the weapon housing slides within the groove and engages on the bottom of the case in order to release the latter from the bolt and, after the release, discharge said case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventor: Hubert Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180334413
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic delayed-action composition and primer charge made of REACh-compliant components that are safe for humans and the environment. The delayed-action composition comprises at least one oxidant, at least one reducing agent, at least one filler and at least one mineral binder. The performance parameters thereof, in particular the burning time, can be set variably within a wide range. The composition clinkers on its own, thus preventing extinction at the front of the burning material even in dynamic conditions. The primer charge comprises at least one oxidant, at least one reducing agent, at least one filler and at least one mineral binder. It is easy to ignite and, due to its clinker structure, transfers its energy well to the compositions to be ignited. The delayed-action composition and the primer charge have the same structure and can easily be combined and adapted to each other in delayed-action units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk CEGIEL, Ernest Schulz, Julia STRENGER
  • Publication number: 20180299216
    Abstract: An ammunition feed device of a belted ammunition in a weapon system for delivery before a closure or before a closure head, wherein the ammunition must be drawn from the ammunition belt by a cartridge hook and delivered to the closure. To prevent a misfire, etc., the cartridge hook is integrated in the weapon system separately from the closure. The cartridge hook is carried or placed by the closure, when the closure has covered a distance to the rear or must still cover a distance forward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert SCHNEIDER, Andy MUELLER, Markus SCHWEIZER
  • Publication number: 20180292158
    Abstract: A cocking device for a firing pin spring of a firing pin of a weapon, the firing pin being integrated into a breech. This firing pin spring is cocked during the pre-run of the control slide, by means of a cocking slide on the weapon, said cocking slide having a cocking curve, in which a pin of a cocking rocker is engaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventors: Andy MUELLER, Hubert SCHNEIDER, Markus SCHWEIZER
  • Patent number: 10088271
    Abstract: A firing device for firing cartridge ammunition comprising a case head, which has on its outer circumference at least one peripheral, groove-shaped depression. In order to achieve secure arrestment of the ammunition in the firing device when the firing device is loaded from the muzzle end, a head piece and a tubular ammunition receiving-device is provided, wherein the ammunition receiving-device is arranged such that it can be moved axially in the direction of the head piece against the pressure of a restoring element. In this case, the head piece includes an annular guiding element, which extends axially into the ammunition receiving-device and has multiple guiding openings, which extend through the wall of the guiding element and are in each case of a form that is angled from the outer side of the guiding element in the direction of the opening of the ammunition receiving-device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Maltan, Wolfgang Kittl, Michael Krebs, Florian Huber
  • Publication number: 20180238661
    Abstract: A protection and defence system for an infrastructure against a threat approaching the infrastructure, comprising at least one effector. When a threat is determined, the at least one effector dispenses a non-lethal countermeasure which damages the threat and thus causes its crash. Vision and target tracker, such as at least a camera and tracker, and at least one directing/actuating drive are allocated to the effector or effectors. The effector and the vision and target tracker thereof are supported by a modular platform which can be fixedly installed to/on various infrastructures, can be removed therefrom and be used in a mobile mode. In addition, the platforms comprise a sensor that detects the spatial position of the effectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas BLACHE, Steffen SPEER, Frank HEYMANN, Christian KNIEP, Heiko SAND, Hubert SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20180231343
    Abstract: For an externally powered weapon, in particular a machine weapon and a machine gun, having at least one barrel, a recoil intensifier at the front end of the barrel is proposed to intensify a weapon return of the returning masses of the weapon and to generate and intensify a signal for monitoring, in particular functionally monitoring, the weapon. The recoil intensifier is of a flared form. The signal intensified by the intensification is used for example for counting the number of shots fired, initiating an emergency stop function, etc. Depending on the further use, the mechanically intensified signal may be converted into an electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180231338
    Abstract: A drive for a weapon having a drive cam and a connecting rod unit guided in the drive cam. The drive cam includes the firing cycle of the weapon. A connecting rod unit has a front pin and a rear pin, a strut pin. With its front pin, the connecting rod unit engages in the drive cam. The front pin is also connected to a crank, which is driven by an external drive. The strut pin is connected to an overall control slider of a breech block of the weapon. An emergency stop device, which when a shot is fired makes a pin extend and ensures that the overall control slider is taken along. If, on the other hand, no shot is fired, the pin is not made to extend and the overall control slider not moved. Parts of the drive may in this case continue to run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20180231344
    Abstract: A weapon which has a completely modular design. For this purpose, the weapon is subdivided into weapon-specific assemblies which are designed as carrier units of the components and/or of the modular assemblies of the weapon. A first assembly can be a modular weapon housing. Said weapon housing has a carrier unit into which a breech system of the weapon and its components are built. Another modular assembly is a weapon cradle. Into this modular assembly the weapon housing module with breech system is integrated. The weapon housing module can be complemented with the weapon barrel module. The components are connected to the modular assemblies and the modular assemblies to each other by means of rails and guides and complementary rails and guides for the assemblies, by binders and holders, by pins, bolts and quick release fasteners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20180224251
    Abstract: A penetrator and a sub-caliber ammunition or projectile accommodating said penetrator. The penetrator according to the invention is characterized by the fact that the penetrator has an interface in the front area. Via said geometric interface, a basic penetrator devised in according to the invention can be provided having different penetrator tips and completed to form an individual KE penetrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Berg
  • Publication number: 20180224250
    Abstract: A projectile with a projectile casing and at least one pyrotechnic charge incorporated in the projectile casing is proposed, wherein the projectile has an open projectile base with a destructible membrane and the pyrotechnic charge burns away at a defined rate during the flight of the projectile, and so the projectile loses mass in such a way that a predetermined effective range is not exceeded. As a result, safety and a nonlethal effect are achieved, in particular outside the effective range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GmbH
    Inventors: Frank HEYMANN, Gerhard BILGER
  • Publication number: 20180209762
    Abstract: A weapon having a barrel cluster, having at least one, preferably multiple, weapon barrel(s) and comprising a bolt, wherein only one of the weapon barrels is oriented in alignment with the single bolt and interacts therewith for the purposes of firing. The barrel cluster has a front, muzzle-side barrel holder and has a rear, bolt-side barrel holder, and has, in a partial region, a control body with a control cam which is incorporated on the circumference. By way of said control cam, the barrel cluster can be adjusted as a whole and independently of the firing of the weapon. The control body is preferably electronically rotated, for which purpose a pin of the actuaor engages into the control cam of the control body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180209771
    Abstract: In order to obtain an explosive smoke grenade, which can be fired from a portable anti-tank weapon, in particular a recoilless infantry weapon, and permits an enemy position or a vehicle to be fogged as quickly as possible, so that the enemy has only a very limited radius of action, a explosive smoke grenade is provided with a time fuse that can be programmed such that the burst charge detonates in the direct vicinity of the enemy position but before the grenade has reached the ground, and releases the smoke-generating active material. In addition, the pyrotechnic active substance arranged between the burst charge and the grenade casing is formed of a plurality of film strips, which are coated with a red-phosphorus-containing incendiary composition (flares). For this purpose, the dimensions of the flares are selected such that they generate a visibility barrier in both the visible and the infrared wavelength regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Sven GUTH
  • Publication number: 20180172382
    Abstract: A mount part for a weapon barrel in a weapon barrel holder having a tubular inner diameter which comprises a first section and an encircling ring-shaped second section which is of greater outer diameter than the first section and than a following third section. The third section has at least one slot. The at least one slot runs substantially perpendicular to the second section. In a particular usage situation, the ring-shaped section has circumferential bevels. This permits usage in a barrel mounting of a multi-barrelled weapon having multiple weapon barrels mounted in a common barrel mounting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 9995563
    Abstract: A cartridge with a drive system and a projectile which is connected to the drive system, wherein the drive system has a propellant case filled with a propellant and has a case bottom containing a substantially axially extending case bottom opening with a T-shaped edge contour. The case bottom opening is closed by a plug which is of T-shaped configuration, receives an ignition cap and is held in position by a safety fuse ring of a rupture disc. The safety fuse ring is arranged between the front side of the head part of the plug and the rear side of an adjoining inner-side projection of the case bottom, with the result that the propellant chamber is delimited by the front surface of the plug neck. An inner edge of the safety fuse ring engages in a positively locking and/or non-positive manner into an outer groove-shaped recess of the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventors: Hendrik Redeker, Willi Luebbers
  • Publication number: 20180149439
    Abstract: A case discharge device having a case ejector for ejecting a case or a misfire for a weapon having a bolt with a bolt head, wherein a munition is supplied to a weapon barrel of the weapon by the bolt and the case or the misfire is pulled out of the weapon barrel. The case discharge device is characterized in that, now, in the bolt head, there is situated a groove into which a case ejector which is static with respect to a weapon housing engages. During the return of the bolt, the case ejector which is static with respect to the weapon housing slides within the groove and engages on the bottom of the case in order to release the latter from the bolt and, after the release, discharge said case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20180128564
    Abstract: An emergency stop device for a weapon with a drive for transporting a breech block of the weapon. At least one guide, at least one connecting rod guided in the guide, and at least one lever are provided. When a shot is not being fired, the kinematic system is deactivated. When a shot is being fired, the at least one guide is moved rearwards, and the at least one connecting rod is guided upwards along the guide such that the lever exerts a lever movement, by means of which the transport of the breech block is made possible. The weapon drive has a complete control slide for transporting the breech block of the weapon. A bolt is laterally embedded in the transverse slide, said bolt being integrated below the complete control slide of the drive in a movable manner in the slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert SCHNEIDER