Patents by Inventor Dieter Kufner

Dieter Kufner 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: 4901643
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic fuze for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines, which is basically a pyrotechnic self-destruct device, in which a triggering device for a pyrotechnic delay arrangement is arranged within a housing. The triggering device consists of an igniting composition and a delay composition, a detonator for the triggering of an explosive charge and a striker for the detonator, whereby the detonator is arranged in a transversely movable slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Werner Rudenauer, Fritz Muller, Norbert Liebl, Dieter Kufner, Joachim Furtmeyr
  • Patent number: 4762066
    Abstract: A fuze for a parachute-stabilized or band-stabilized small bomb which rotates during flight, including a detonator arranged in a transversely movable slider; a detonator pin for blocking the slider in a secured position thereof through engagement into a bore, and wherein the detonator pin can be turned out of the bore by the rotating parachute or band through the intermediary of a screw-coupling in a housing. A pyrotechnic charge or composition is arranged within the slider and which serves as a timing element, which charge is ignited by a destructor pin supported in the slider, whereby the pyrotechnic charge will trigger the detonator at its exit side, and in the secured position, the detonator pin will block the resiliently pretensioned destructor pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Werner Rudenauer, Fritz Muller, Dieter Kufner, Joachim Furtmayr