Patents by Inventor Raimund Germershausen

Raimund Germershausen 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).

  • Method of actuating a proximity fuze and device for implementing the method
    Patent number: 4773328
    Abstract: A firing circuit for a projectile 10 includes a proximity fuze 11 which can be set to different target distances H1, H2. For the purpose of optimally combating different types of targets 13, 14, 15, a target sensor 17 is associated with the proximity fuze 11 so as to detect characteristic target properties and take care that proximity fuze 11 responds either at a height H1 or at a lower height H2, and causes an explosive charge 10a to detonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Raimund Germershausen, Rudolf Romer, Hans-Egon Schepp
  • Method of and assembly for firing projectiles with controlled gasification of a liquid propellant
    Patent number: 4602553
    Abstract: A projectile seated in a gun barrel is fired by vaporizing a liquid propellant in a loading chamber communicating with the gun barrel through a rising duct. A cluster of filling bodies occupies the entire cross-section of the duct and dips into the liquid propellant within the loading chamber, these bodies forming a multiplicity of passages in which the ignited liquid gasifies upon being driven by its own vapor pressure toward the gun barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Rheinmetall GmbH
    Inventors: Raimund Germershausen, Jochen Schmitt, Karlheinz Reinelt
  • Drive cage sub-caliber projectile
    Patent number: 3951071
    Abstract: A cap and a bottom part of a drive cage of a projectile are held together by a circularly-shaped metal jacket up to the disintegration of the cap by a centrifugal force or ramming pressure in flight. The jacket is made of longitudinal segments and surrounds the projectile along part of its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Rheinmetall G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Raimund Germershausen