Patents by Inventor Ulrich Rieger

Ulrich Rieger 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: 5703321
    Abstract: A device for locating artillery and sniper fire with a sensor and acoustically triggered marking means. An igniter is provided with the acoustic sensor and is adjustable in terms of frequency and/or pulse pattern. A remover preventer is provided and the components are provided in a shell-proof housing whereby removal triggers the marking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG
    Inventors: Johannes Feierlein, Ulrich Rieger
  • Patent number: 5678788
    Abstract: A load glider has, between the parachute surface and the load, a device in which a reversible transfer of mechanical energy from the main lines to the steering lines takes place, so that essentially only frictional forces are to be overcome during the operation of the steering lines. The device includes two differential gears, which are arranged in parallel and are accommodated in housings in which a steering line is wound up on a roller with a larger diameter and a main line is wound up on the other roller with a small diameter. Gears, which can be driven by pinions driven by electric motors, are flanged onto the larger rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG
    Inventors: Walter Hetzer, Ulrich Rieger
  • Patent number: 5583311
    Abstract: An intercept device for flying objects is formed of a lightweight, small-volume, packable structure made of a tear-resistant, pliable material, which can be stretched to a large, two-dimensional or three-dimensional expansion by means of a deployment device. To reduce the velocity of the intercepted flying objects, activatable, aerodynamic resistance bodies are incorporated into the structure. To end the intercept procedure, elements are integrated into the structure, which consist of material that can be destroyed from outside by means of high-energy beams and/or chemical reagents, or that destroys itself, or the structure as a whole consists of such material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG
    Inventor: Ulrich Rieger
  • Patent number: 5301614
    Abstract: Submunition is transported by a carrier to a target area and launched there, whereupon it covers a preset distance at a constant altitude at an angle to the flight axis of the carrier. The submunition has a target sensor and a payload, and is equipped with an altimeter as well as a circuit to evaluate the altimeter readings, and with at least one altitude/roll rudder controllable by this circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm AG
    Inventor: Ulrich Rieger
  • Patent number: 5206453
    Abstract: An injection module for a subammunition container, of the type in which subammunitions, ejected transversely to the flight direction of the subammunition container, are situated in front of driving devices which are actuated by gas-generator-driven ejecting pistons. The ejecting pistons are arranged transversely with respect to the flight direction, and may extend along half the width or the full width of the ejecting module. The gas generator may be arranged transversely or longitudinally of the flight direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Rieger
  • Patent number: 5020437
    Abstract: A plurality of separate projectiles is held together in a multiple shell or cluster shell, in the form of a stack. At least two parallel springy flat bands (7) extend lengthwise around the stack. The flat bands (7) are looped around the front end and the free band ends engage the rare end of the stack with hooks (9). A tensioning element engages and holds the hooks (9) and thus the bands (7) tightly to the stack. After the shell is fired the tensioning element is served, e.g. by a cutter (19) so that the flat bands (7) spring or flare open to release and distribute the separate projectiles. The release means is equipped to either cause release immediately after the shell has left the firing tube (4) or with a delay. A front end plate (16) and a rear end plate (17) may be arranged at the ends of the stack. Intermediate plates (26) may be arranged between adjacent projectiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rieger, Dieter Kalus
  • Patent number: 4296894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drone-type missile for combatting ground targets from the ground, particularly for the use against targets which emit electromagnetic rays, such as radar stations; with built-in target-seeking head, guidance system, self-propulsion and take-off assist, preferably a booster rocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Schnabele, Jack Buckley, Ulrich Rieger
  • Patent number: 4143836
    Abstract: The spread bombing is effected by a plurality of guided bombs transported by a carrier aircraft near to a target area. The guided bombs are provided with respective programmable storage devices and a freely selectable target coverage pattern is provided by supplying the storage devices with selected different respective guide programs which can be adjusted, both on the ground, prior to an attack on a target area, and in the carrier aircraft, during the attack, as a function of the locating of the target and the preselected target coverage pattern. The different guide programs are transformed into respective different guide commands which are stored in the respective storage devices of the individually guided bombs. The bombs are simultaneously released from the carrier aircraft and the stored guide commands guide the respective bombs into different respective trajectories so that the bombs strike the target area in a predetermined coverage density corresponding to the selected target coverage pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Rieger