Patents by Inventor Helmut Peller

Helmut Peller 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: 5275355
    Abstract: A projectile for a surface-to-surface weapon to combat a target from the top. The projectile includes a warhead; a propulsion system for accelerating the projectile directly after the projectile is placed in flight; a stabilizing guide assembly; a sensor for detecting a target in a longitudinal and lateral direction; and a pulse generator for turning the projectile about its center of gravity. The projectile additionally includes electronics for activating the warhead and for controlling the propulsion system and the pulse generator. A control unit rotates independently of the shaped charge warhead and houses the sensor, pulse generator and electronics. The pulse generator is arranged offset with respect to the sensor in the circumferential direction of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Grosswendt, Gerhard Glotz, Helmut Peller
  • Patent number: 5261629
    Abstract: A fin stabilized ballistic projectile comprises a projectile body having a plurality of stabilizing fins and an ejectable projectile tip detachably attached to the front of the projectile body. An ejection mechanism is operatively disposed for ejecting the projectile tip. A sensor is disposed in the projectile tip for scanning a target area. A warhead is disposed at the front of the projectile body behind the projectile tip and includes a curved fragmentation plate for discharging fragments at a target, with the fragmentation plate being openly exposed when the projectile tip is ejected, and an explosive charge disposed behind the fragmentation plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Becker, Gerhard Glotz, Josef Osthues, Hans-Peter Opitz, Heinz-Josef Kruse, Jutta Peters, Helmut Peller
  • Patent number: 5037040
    Abstract: A fin stabilized subammunition body including a target detection device and being ejectable in a target area from a spin stabilized artillery carrier projectile. The target detection device includes a fixed sensor for detecting a target and producing target signals representing characteristics of the detected target, a reference platform for producing inertial reference signals, and a controller connected to the fixed sensor and the reference platform for producing drive control signals for selectively actuating a plurality of microreaction drive mechanisms arranged for producing transverse acceleration forces for aligning the body with a detected target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Goltz, Werner Grosswendt, Helmut Peller, Jens Seidensticker
  • Patent number: 4903917
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with a projectile with a stabilizing device that is depolyable beyond the caliber and that should at least comprise an object rotatable about its axis. The stabilizing device can be telescopically arranged and can have a cover that is shaped to conform to the surface of the projectile when the device is not deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Peller, Hartmut Schilling, Hanjoerg Becker, Gerhard Glotz