Patents by Inventor Peter Sundermeyer

Peter Sundermeyer 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: 5050818
    Abstract: A method for the warding-off of flying or airborne objects through the intermediary of guidable defensive airborne bodies. The defensive airborne bodies are launched from the surroundings about the target area which is to be protected; triggered by means of a stationary data transfer device, into a nominal trajectory which, at the latest at a previously specified ideal collision point along the approach trajectory of the target object which is to be intercepted at still a considerable distance, enters approximately tangentially into that particular trajectory. For this purpose, such nominal trajectory is provisionally determined by the ground station pursuant to the constructionally specified dynamics of flight of the defensive airborne body, and the measured or, respectively, extrapolated trajectory of the approaching flying object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Peter Sundermeyer
  • Patent number: 4938142
    Abstract: Droppable or air-delivered ammunition, especially ammunition which is adapted to lie in-wait or in a lurking condition, and which includes a parachute and with a device for clearing away the parachute subsequent to being deposited on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Peter Sundermeyer
  • Patent number: 4883239
    Abstract: A guided artillery projectile with a flight attitude or trajectory regulator in the autopilot of the projectile for the guidance of a transition into a gliding trajectory at the assumption of a predetermined pitch angle after the passage through the apogee of the ballistic firing trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Lachmann, Peter Sundermeyer, Johann Schreier, Albrecht Reindler, Jurgen Leininger
  • Patent number: 4840328
    Abstract: A method for the autonomous determination of an inertial positional reference on board a guided projectile through the ascertaining and evaluating of pressure values in the surroundings of the projectile during the movement thereof along a ballistic trajectory. Moreover, also disclosed is an arrangement for the autonomous determination of an inertial positional reference on board a guided projectile which is launched in a ballistic trajectory through measuring of the pressure in the surroundings about the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Peter Sundermeyer
  • Patent number: 4831935
    Abstract: A method of attacking aboveground armored objects, in particular those which are employed for sheltering aircraft; and moreover, to the utilization of steeply descending final flight phase-corrected submunition. The shelter is attacked in an orientation directed generally horizontally against its gate. Furthermore, in the utilization of steeply descending submunition of the type which is employed for implementing the foregoing method, this includes at least one projectile-forming covering oriented genrally transversely of the longitudinal axis thereof, and with a maneuvering sensor responsive to the center of a typical aircraft apron clutter signature in front of an aircraft shelter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Peter Sundermeyer
  • Patent number: 4606514
    Abstract: A method for homing a projectile onto a target wherein the projectile is self-steering in an extended trajectory in its flying end phase, in particular an artillery projectile, from which there is effected a search and homing onto a target. Also provided is an arrangement for the change of a projectile which is self-steering and program-controlled during its flight end phase and which is equipped with a target searching device, in particular an artillery projectile, which is equipped with control and steering arrangements and with control rudders for transition from a ballistic firing trajectory into an extended forward trajectory and then for homing into a target approach trajectory. An arrangement is also included for the input of the characteristics of a ballistic launch trajectory into the memory of a navigational computer on board of a projectile which is self-steering along an extended flight end phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Assignees: Martin-Marietta Corporation, Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Peter Sundermeyer