Integrated event detection and electrical generator devices for gravity dropped or ejected weapons
AssigneeOmnitek Partners LLC
InventorsJahangir S Rastegar, Jacques Fischer
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Abstract
A device for generating power in a gravity dropped munition. The device including: a drum; a cable wound around a drum; a generator for producing electrical energy; a spring configured to convert rotation of the drum to energy as the cable is unwound from the drum; and an intermediate member selectively engaging the drum to the generator; wherein the intermediate member is disengaged from the drum when the cable is being unwound from the drum and the intermediate member is engaged with the generator when the cable is released from the drum to produce power from the generator.
Claims7
A device for generating power in a gravity dropped munition, the device comprising:
- a drum;
- a cable wound around a drum;
- a generator for producing electrical energy;
- a spring configured to convert rotation of the drum to energy as the cable is unwound from the drum;
- an intermediate member selectively engaging the drum to the generator;
- wherein the intermediate member is disengaged from the drum when the cable is being unwound from the drum and the intermediate member is engaged with the generator when the cable is released from the drum to produce power from the generator;
- restricting means for restricting movement of the intermediate member connecting the drum to the generator while the cable is being unwound from the drum;
- and
- ending means for ending the restricting when the cable is released from the drum allowing the intermediate member to engage the drum with the generator to produce power from the generator.
A device for generating power in a gravity dropped munition, the device comprising:
- a drum;
- a cable wound around a drum;
- a generator for producing electrical energy;
- a spring configured to convert rotation of the drum to energy as the cable is unwound from the drum;
- an intermediate member selectively engaging the drum to the generator;
- wherein the intermediate member is disengaged from the drum when the cable is being unwound from the drum and the intermediate member is engaged with the generator when the cable is released from the drum to produce power from the generator;
- and
- means for restricting a movement of the drum in a direction opposite to an unwinding direction as the cable is unwound from the drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.