Smart ammunition
AssigneeIntellishot Holdings Inc.
InventorSteven Wayne Goldstein
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Abstract
A smart round of ammunition includes a casing, a primer disposed at a bottom portion of the casing, a projectile mounted at a top portion of the casing and a propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and primer. The primer includes a piezo generator transducing a mechanical force received at a firing pin portion of the primer into a stored charge, a switch coupling and decoupling a spark gap between the stored charge and the propellant, and a wireless sensor activating the switch responsive to a digital signal received from a component external to the casing. The activation permits a discharge of the stored charge into the spark gap and therefore detonates the propellant.
Claims13
A smart round of ammunition comprising:
- a casing;
- a primer disposed at a bottom portion of the casing;
- a projectile mounted at a top portion of the casing;
- and,
- a propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and primer;
- the primer further comprising a piezo generator transducing a mechanical force received at a firing pin portion of the primer into a stored charge, a switch coupling and decoupling a spark gap between the stored charge and the propellant, and a wireless sensor activating the switch responsive to a digital signal received from a component external to the casing, the activation permitting a discharge of the stored charge into the spark gap and therefore detonating the propellant.
The smart round of ammunition of claim 4, further comprising a wireless communications transmitter co-located on the projectile with the accelerometer, the wireless communications transmitter wirelessly transmitting to a remote computing device the inertial measurements stored in the memory.
A magazine comprising:
- a multiplicity of smart rounds of ammunition, each of the smart rounds comprising:
- a casing;
- a primer disposed at a bottom portion of the casing;
- a projectile mounted at a top portion of the casing;
- and,
- a propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and primer;
- the primer further comprising a piezo generator transducing a mechanical force received at a firing pin portion of the primer into a stored charge, a switch coupling and decoupling a spark gap between the stored charge and the propellant, and a wireless sensor activating the switch responsive to a digital signal received from a component external to the casing, the activation permitting a discharge of the stored charge into the spark gap and therefore detonating the propellant.
A smart primer adapted for attachment to a bottom portion of a casing of a round of ammunition comprising a casing, a projectile mounted at a top portion of the casing and propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and smart primer, the primer comprising:
- a piezo generator transducing a mechanical force received at a firing pin portion of the primer into a stored charge, a switch coupling and decoupling a spark gap between the stored charge and the propellant, and a wireless sensor activating the switch responsive to a digital signal received from a component external to the casing, the activation permitting a discharge of the stored charge into the spark gap and therefore detonating the propellant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.