Patents by Inventor Klaus-Dietmar Karius

Klaus-Dietmar Karius 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: 5233126
    Abstract: A deceleration device for a submunition unit ejectable from a spin stabilized carrier projectile includes a deployable deceleration element. The deceleration element is packaged in textile package including an essentially circular disc, at least three straps connected and arranged radially to the disc, with each strap having a free end and provided with a loop and a closing line received through the loops for pulling the loops together to close the package about the deceleration element. An activation line is connected to the closing line and held by the textile package for releasing the closing line for allowing the package to open for deployment of the deceleration element after the activation line is released from the package by being stretched in a controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Vogt, Heinz Olmscheid, Klaus-Dietmar Karius
  • Patent number: 5081931
    Abstract: To provide a complete seal in the region of the rifling, particularly in worn-out gun barrels firing spin stabilized carrier projectiles provided with a metal guide or driving band and a thin-walled projectile connected to a projectile base and having a wall thickness less than or equal to 0.05 times the caliber of the gun barrel and to reduce the ramming deceleration and the radial pressure stresses on the projectile shell during passage through the gun barrel, a plastic ram ring is disposed on the outer surface of the projectile shell in front of the metal guide band and in a region of the shell that is not supported radially by the projectile base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Frye, Klaus-Dietmar Karius, Heinz-Josef Kruse, Achim Sippel, Jurgen Meyer, Michael Primus