Patents Assigned to Trident Engineering Assoc., Inc.
  • Depth controlled naval mine
    Patent number: 4055121
    Abstract: A tethered naval mine adapted automatically to maintain a predetermined depth below the surface of a body of water despite changes in water level. Provision is made for safeguarding operating personnel prior to deployment of the mine and to cause self-destruction thereof upon expiration of a predetermined period. The mine arrangement is such as to effect detonation either upon contact with a craft or by disturbances produced by the wake of a vessel or by mine-sweeping apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1968
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1977
    Assignee: Trident Engineering Assoc., Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Jasperson, Charles G. Erb, Donald F. Haber, Andrew A. Pouring