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.
Claims18
A round of ammunition comprising:
- a casing;
- a primer cap;
- a projectile;
- and
- a propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and primer cap;
- the primer cap comprising:
- a piezo generator configured to generate an electrical charge in response to a mechanical force received at the primer cap;
- a switch configured to couple or decouple a spark gap or hot wire;
- and
- a wireless sensor configured to communicate with the switch, the communication instructing the switch to activate or deactivate flow of the electrical charge to the spark gap or the hot wire, wherein
- the switch and the wireless sensor are powered by the electrical charge.
A magazine comprising:
- a plurality of rounds of ammunition, each of the rounds of ammunition comprising:
- a casing;
- a primer cap;
- a projectile;
- and
- a propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and the primer cap;
- the primer cap comprising:
- a piezo generator configured to generate an electrical charge in response to a mechanical force received at the primer cap;
- a switch configured to couple or decouple a spark gap or hot wire;
- and
- a wireless sensor configured to communicate with the switch, the communication instructing the switch to activate or deactivate flow of the electrical charge to the spark gap or the hot wire, wherein
- the switch and the wireless sensor are powered by the electrical charge.
A round of ammunition comprising:
- a casing;
- a primer cap;
- a projectile;
- and
- a propellant disposed within an interior portion of the casing between the projectile and primer cap;
- the primer cap comprising:
- a piezo generator configured to generate an electrical charge in response to a mechanical force received at the primer cap;
- a switch configured to couple or decouple a spark gap or hot wire;
- and
- a wireless receiver configured to communicate with the switch, the communication instructing the switch to activate or deactivate flow of the electrical charge to the spark gap or the hot wire, wherein
- the switch and the wireless receiver are powered by harvesting energy from a wireless signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.