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US 5343795Tier 3 — General Defense

SETTABLE ELECTRONIC FUZING SYSTEM FOR CANNON AMMUNITION

Assignee

General Electric

Filed as: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY A CORP. OF NEW YORK

Filed

Nov 7, 1991

Granted

Sep 6, 1994

Location

BURLINGTON VT US

Abstract

In an ammunition fuzing system, a fuze setter is inductively coupled with an electronic fuze incorporated in the projectile of an ammunition round being fed to a rapid-fire cannon to transmit power supply charging energy and fuze-setting data thereto. A detonation counter is incremented at a high counting rate to accumulate a projectile flight time count indicative of the fuze-setting data. A conformation signal is transmitted to the fuze setter for determination that the flight time count acceptably corresponds to the setting data. Upon projectile launch, the detonation counter is decremented at a low counting rate and functions the projectile warhead when decremented to zero.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Apr 28, 1992

Rescinded

Dec 17, 1993

Duration

1 year, 7 months

Inventor

  • 1RICHARD T. ZIEMBA'

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Record Details

Patent number
US 5343795
Application
07788911
Aerospace match
Yes
Dataset source
35 USC §181 SO records

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