F42C 9/00
Time fuzes
Official title: Time fuzes; Combined time and percussion or pressure-actuated fuzes; Fuzes for timed self-destruction of ammunition
F42C9/00 (Time fuzes) appears on 247 US grants and 138 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42C- Granted patents
- 247
- Published applications
- 138
- Assignees
- 110
- Inventors
- 395
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 20 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 6 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 0 |
| 2003 | 2 | 5 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 | 12 |
| 2011 | 8 | 4 |
| 2012 | 7 | 12 |
| 2013 | 8 | 4 |
| 2014 | 9 | 7 |
| 2015 | 9 | 8 |
| 2016 | 9 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 | 5 |
| 2018 | 4 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6 | 6 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12 |
| 2021 | 7 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 11 |
| 2023 | 11 | 6 |
| 2024 | 12 | 11 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hand-throwable effect-producing body with a manually graspable housing body and method for operating a hand-throwable effect-producing body12 May 2026US 12,624,934 B2Rheinmetall Waffe Munition ARGES GmbH
- Short-range projectile5 May 2026US 12,618,651 B2Bae Systems Bofors AB
- Projectile construction, launcher, and launcher accessory24 Mar 2026US 12,584,720 B2NL Enterprises, LLC
- Inertial igniters for low-g and long-duration firing acceleration munitions and the like30 Dec 2025US 12,510,340 B2Omnitek Partners LLC
- Non-lethal projectile construction and launcher9 Dec 2025US 12,492,886 B2NL Enterprises, LLC
- Remotely controllable fuzing arrangements23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110527 A1Orion Advanced Systems Ltd
- Dual-safe fuze for uas drone applications9 Apr 2026US 2026/0098716 A1Argus Industrial, LLC.
- Drone Defense Projectile and Ammunition5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036404 A1RWS GmbH
- System and method for autonomous actuation of safety control system components21 Aug 2025US 2025/0264315 A1Aeronix, Inc.
- Hand-throwable effect-producing body with a manually graspable housing body and method for operating a hand-throwable effect-producing body1 May 2025US 2025/0137765 A1Rheinmetall Waffe Munition ARGES GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Grenade-type projectile28US 4,969,397 ARheinmetall GmbH · 1990
- Electronic turns-counting fuze and method therefor28US 5,705,766 AMotorola, Inc. · 1998
- Method and apparatus for autonomous detonation delay in munitions25US 7,124,689 B2Alliant Techsystems Inc. · 2006
- Self-destruct delay fuze22US 3,998,164 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 1976