F42C 13/006
Proximity fuzes: for non-guided, spinning, braked or gravity-driven weapons
Official title: {for non-guided, spinning, braked or gravity-driven weapons, e.g. parachute-braked sub-munitions}
F42C13/006 (Proximity fuzes: for non-guided, spinning, braked or gravity-driven weapons) appears on 27 US grants and 14 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 4 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Terminal guidance method and a guided missile operating according to this method42US 4,568,040 AThomson-Brandt · 1986
- Low density indirect fire munition system (U)33US 4,050,381 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 1977
- Ammunition incorporating searching fuse with trajectory correctable during its final flight phase and method for combating armored target objects17US 4,711,178 ADiehl GmbH & Co. · 1987
- Submunitions16US 4,858,532 AAktiebolaget Bofors · 1989
- Process to control the initiation of an attack module and initiation control device implementing said process13US 7,989,742 B2Nexter Munitions · 2011