Patents by Inventor Bernd Gundel

Bernd Gundel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7741588
    Abstract: A method for varying the flight path of a missile, in particular of a spin-stabilized projectile, which has an outer wall and which is provided with at least one impulse device. The impulse device can be activated deliberately at a defined time during the flight of the missile. The impulse device is arranged with respect to the longitudinal axis of the missile such that, when it is activated, it generates an impulse that initiates a tumbling movement which causes the flight-path of the missile to be shortened or varied. A spin-stabilized projectile is provided with such an impulse device and it is configured so that the impulse device may be triggered during flight so as to initiate the flight-altering tumbling movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Bernd Gundel, Hans-Rainer Graf, Helmut Hammer, Günther Thurner
  • Publication number: 20090145996
    Abstract: A method for varying the flight path of a missile, in particular of a spin-stabilized projectile, which has an outer wall and which is provided with at least one impulse device. The impulse device can be activated deliberately at a defined time during the flight of the missile. The impulse device is arranged with respect to the longitudinal axis of the missile such that, when it is activated, it generates an impulse that initiates a tumbling movement which causes the flight-path of the missile to be shortened or varied. A spin-stabilized projectile is provided with such an impulse device and it is configured so that the impulse device may be triggered during flight so as to initiate the flight-altering tumbling movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: DIEHL BGT DEFENCE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Gundel, Hans-Rainer Graf, Helmut Hammer, Gunther Thurner
  • Patent number: 5142986
    Abstract: A mine, particularly an anti-tank mine, including a warhead which is arranged in a launching installation, and the latter of which is equipped with an aiming device. The mine is equipped with a range-finding device for the determination of the direction and for the measurement of the at least approximately horizontal distance between the mine which is in a lurking position and the target which is to be attacked, especially such as a tank or armored vehicle, and wherein the range-finding device is operatively connected with the aiming device for the setting of a specified launch angle or elevation for the launching installation for the warhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Bernd Gundel
  • Patent number: 4974515
    Abstract: A warhead which is deliverable through the intermediary of a carrier, and which incorporates aerodynamic guiding and braking media and forwardly oriented striking pins for initiating a detonating information for an explosive which is contained or dammed by a hollow-cylindrical wall structure with shallow-concavely curved coverings. The coverings are designed for a fragmentation angle which increases upwardly from below along their projectile directions of flight or trajectories, and in which a firing and pin is imparted a responding threshold which leads to the initiation of the detonating information only under a relatively hard impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Jurgen-Michael Busch, Georg Stammel, Bernd Gundel
  • Patent number: 4922826
    Abstract: An active component of submunition for utilization from a carrier against different target objects, especially against semi-hard and hard or heavily armored target objects; as well as warheads for this purpose and flechettes which are preferably deployed over the targets through the intermediary of such warheads. The active component incorporates at least one warhead having flechettes, which is equipped with a propellant or propulsion mechanism for the acceleration of the warhead in the direction of effect for the flechettes, and with an ejector piston for additional acceleration of the flechettes through the ejection from the precedingly accelerated warhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Jurgen-Michael Busch, Georg Stammel, Siegfried Rhau, Bernd Gundel, Karl Rudolf