Safety and Arming Unit for a Fuze of a Projectile
AssigneeJunghans Microtec GmbH
InventorsRudolf Harbrecht, Boris-Johannes Furst
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Abstract
A safety and arming unit for a fuze of a projectile has a firing means for transferring the firing energy to another firing means and a barrier for interrupting the transfer. The barrier is locked in a locking state by a safety that triggers an unlocking action due to a physical arming parameter. The arming parameter of the novel device is an apogee parameter, effected by the projectile flying through the apogee of its projectile trajectory. A physical arming parameter independent of a launch parameter can be used to unlock the safety means without needing to pull out a safety pin.
Claims17
A safety and arming unit for a fuze of a projectile, comprising:
- a firing means disposed to transfer a firing energy thereof to another firing means;
- a barrier for selectively interrupting the transfer of the firing energy;
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- a safety disposed to lock said barrier in a locking state and to unlock said barrier in dependence on an apogee parameter effected when the projectile flies through an apogee of a projectile trajectory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.