Patents Examined by Theresa Wesson
  • Variable target transition detection capability and method therefor
    Patent number: 6378435
    Abstract: A projectile fuze detects transitions between target layers by an electronic antenna radiating laterally into the target material and coupled to a pullable oscillator whose frequency shifts as the target material changes while the projectile penetrates. A frequency shift threshold detector relates the observed frequency shifts to a stored target profile to detonate the projectile after the desired layer penetration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: General Dynamics Decision Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Monty W. Bai, Gerald James Moore, Ralph Eugene Foresman