Patents by Inventor Daniel Corey Pines

Daniel Corey Pines 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: 11054230
    Abstract: An anti-personnel mine that is flexible for manipulation in the field to accommodate missions by changing the shape of the C-4. The mine includes M112 seated in and adhered to a flexible housing having a rear involute wall. The involute wall includes a set of projecting folded pair of inclined walls that are about equidistant between a pair of inclined end walls. The inclined walls partitions most, but not all of the thickness of the M112 into segments that are tapered and accommodate the inclined walls. A metal spine, which may be shaped, is adhered to the front surface of the M112. Fragmentation elements and a bottom side of an elastic membrane are adhered to the spine and the front surface of the M112.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Daniel Corey Pines, Alexander Sweeney, Taylor Young, Steven Dunham
  • Patent number: 10508892
    Abstract: A submunition delivery device including a master electronics module; a submunition module operatively connected to the master electronics module and including a plurality of submunition banks separated by bulkheads. Each of the submunition banks includes a plurality of submunitions; a base plug module operatively connected to the submunition module; and a distributed fuze module operatively connected to the master electronics module to limit a detrimental effect of the plurality of submunitions upon a collision by arming the plurality of submunitions before a dispense action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Daniel Corey Pines, Kevin Cochran, John Hendershot, John Frederick Kunstmann, David Reinaldo Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10234248
    Abstract: A micro-electro-pyrotechnic energy-harvesting apparatus to harvest an incidental portion of a propellant energy utilized when a munition is fired freeing a magnet to strike an impact pin that strains a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element generates a collected voltage, which triggers a pyrotechnic initiator that, on activation, produces a straining force on a plurality of stacks of piezoelectric elements. The strained piezoelectric elements, in turn, generate a high voltage output sufficient to ignite the munition's explosive material. The apparatus may be quite small, for example, the cross-sectional size of a pen, which is about one centimeter, yet suitable for generating an electrical ignition of the explosive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Thinh Hoang, Khoa Nguyen, Daniel Corey Pines, Troy Caruso