Patents by Inventor Menachem Rotkopf

Menachem Rotkopf 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: 8794154
    Abstract: An artillery projectile for firing from an artillery gun, mortar or artillery rocket launcher. The artillery projectile includes a body, a payload with a number of inert fragments located within the body, a booster motor associated with the body for accelerating the body with the payload to a penetration velocity, and an opening arrangement associated with the body and deployed for initiating release of the fragments. The artillery projectile further includes a control system causally associated with the booster motor and the opening arrangement. The control system is configured to generate a first command to actuate the booster motor and a second command to actuate the opening arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Menachem Rotkopf
  • Patent number: 8091482
    Abstract: A warhead system for a projectile-intercepting munition, the warhead system includes a fuselage having an axis and one or more explosively-formed-projectile charge. The explosively-formed-projectile is with a length and configured to generate one or more explosively formed blade projectile propagating substantially perpendicular to the length, the explosively-formed-projectile charge assuming a deployed state wherein the length of the explosively-formed-projectile charge is non-parallel to the axis, the deployed state and the explosively-formed-projectile charge configured such that, when the explosively-formed-projectile charge is detonated in the deployed state, the explosively formed blade projectile propagates in a direction non-coplanar with the length of the explosively-formed-projectile charge and the axis of the fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Menachem Rotkopf
  • Publication number: 20110120337
    Abstract: An artillery projectile for firing from an artillery gun, mortar or artillery rocket launcher. The artillery projectile includes a body, a payload with a number of inert fragments located within the body, a booster motor associated with the body for accelerating the body with the payload to a penetration velocity, and an opening arrangement associated with the body and deployed for initiating release of the fragments. The artillery projectile further includes a control system causally associated with the booster motor and the opening arrangement. The control system is configured to generate a first command to actuate the booster motor and a second command to actuate the opening arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Menachem Rotkopf
  • Publication number: 20090288573
    Abstract: A warhead system for a projectile-intercepting munition, the warhead system includes a fuselage having an axis and one or more explosively-formed-projectile charge. The explosively-formed-projectile is with a length and configured to generate one or more explosively formed blade projectile propagating substantially perpendicular to the length, the explosively-formed-projectile charge assuming a deployed state wherein the length of the explosively-formed-projectile charge is non-parallel to the axis, the deployed state and the explosively-formed-projectile charge configured such that, when the explosively-formed-projectile charge is detonated in the deployed state, the explosively formed blade projectile propagates in a direction non-coplanar with the length of the explosively-formed-projectile charge and the axis of the fuselage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Menachem Rotkopf
  • Patent number: 6745696
    Abstract: A projectile (100) for piercing armor including a cruise propellant (116) for maintaining a cruise velocity of the projectile. The projectile (100) also includes an acceleration rocket motor (109) activated after launch for accelerating the projectile (100) from the cruise velocity to a penetration velocity, in a final stage of flight of the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Rafael-Armament Development Authority Ltd.
    Inventor: Menachem Rotkopf