Patents by Inventor Samuel A. Humphrey

Samuel A. Humphrey 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: 4966079
    Abstract: The invention disclosed is an anti-submarine moored mine for penetrating . The moored mine has an elongated streamline body with a heavy, strong forward hull structure that constitutes a forward penetrating means and a rearward chamber for housing an air braking means such as a parachute. The intermediate sections of the moored mine contain on specific chamber for housing an explosive means such as a warhead and a separate and distinct chamber for housing an inflatable buoyancy means used to fix the position of the moored mine in the water in the proximity of the target submarine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Samuel A. Humphrey
  • Patent number: 4478148
    Abstract: An underwater communication system capable of being delivered by a missile or detonating a plurality of charges in a timed sequence. The system includes a main power supply, decelerometer means, separation switch means for electrically interconnecting and energizing the decelerometer means and said main power supply upon receipt of an arming signal from the missile, thermal battery means, means coupled to said decelerometer means for deploying a parachute and for energizing the thermal battery means, timer means for releasing the explosive charges in a predetermined sequence and means couples to the thermal battery means for energizing the timer means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1963
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Albert Applebaum, Albert S. Will, Samuel A. Humphrey, Frank C. McLean, Sylvan Wolf, Carl R. Peterson, Harry J. Gauzza, John C. Hetzler