Patents by Inventor Dietmar Kugler

Dietmar Kugler 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: 7197983
    Abstract: A mechano-electrical fuse (10) for a hand grenade (76), which has a spring element for the storage of mechanical energy and which has a drive device connected to the spring element for driving an electrical generator (28) through mechanical energy which is stored in the spring element. The electrical generator (28) is connected through an electronic delay circuit (56) with a detonator (46), with which a booster charge (48) is associated. A barrier (40) is provided between the detonator (46) and the booster charge (48). The spring element is formed by a tensioning spring (24) associated with the handle lever (18) of the hand grenade (76). The drive device has a taut cable line (68) which is fixed at one end (70) to the generator shaft (30) and wound with a number of turns (72) around the generator shaft (30). The second end (74) of the cable line (68) is mounted to the handle lever (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Diehl Munitionssysteme GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Norbert Barth, Michael Hahn, Dietmar Kugler, Wolfgang von Entress-Fürsteneck, Thomas Arm, Erwin Wrobel
  • Publication number: 20050150414
    Abstract: Described is a mechano-electrical fuse (10) for a hand grenade (76), which has a spring element for the storage of mechanical energy and which has a drive device connected to the spring element for driving an electrical generator (28) by means of the mechanical energy stored in the spring element. The electrical generator (28) is connected together by way of an electronic delay circuit (56) with a detonator (46), with which a booster charge (48) is associated. A barrier (40) is provided between the detonator (46) and the booster charge (48). The spring element is formed by the tensioning spring (24) associated with the handle lever (18) of the hand grenade (76). The drive device has a taut cable line (68) which is fixed with its one end (70) to the generator shaft (30) and wound with a number of turns (72) around the generator shaft (30). The second end (74) of the cable line (68) is mounted to the handle lever (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Norbert Barth, Michael Hahn, Dietmar Kugler, Wolfgang von Entress-Fursteneck, Thomas Arm, Erwin Wrobel
  • Patent number: 4727810
    Abstract: A safe and arm device including a sensor-controlled switch arrangement in an electrical series-circuit, which is arranged ahead of a secondary-explosive detonator, especially for a submunition-projectile. The safe and arm device possesses a first switch which is actuatable at the presence of a surrounding air onflow against the submunition carrier in dependence upon a submunition ejecting command; and wherein a second switch is actuatable by the first switch when the submunition-projectile has released itself from its carrier and has implemented a transition into a gliding flight phase searching for a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Furst, Anton Brunner, Manfred Klare, Hartmut Gessler, Dietmar Kugler, Werner Rudenauer