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US 3,943,855 AGranted
Computer for missile
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorKenneth E. Woodward
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Abstract
1. A fluid fuze comprising: A. a fluid detector, B. a pure fluid computer, said computer having an input connected to said uid detector and an output, C. said pure fluid computer including a bi-stable fluid amplifier and at least one pulse converter, and D. a fluid utilization device connected to an output of said pure fluid computer.
Claims5
A fluid fuze comprising:
- a. a fluid detector,
- b. a pure fluid computer, said computer having an input connected to said fluid detector and an output,
- c. said pure fluid computer including a bi-stable fluid amplifier and at least one pulse converter, and
- d. a fluid utilization device connected to an output of said pure fluid computer.
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A fluid fuze comprising:
- a. a fluid shock wave detector probe,
- b. a fluid computer, said computer having a fluid input signal means and a fluid output signal means, said input signal means connected to said shock wave detector,
- c. said fluid computer including a bi-stable fluid amplifier, and
- d. a fluid operated detonator connected to an output of said fluid amplifier.
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A fluid shock wave detector comprising:
- a. a bi-stable, pure fluid amplifier having a power jet nozzle, a plurality of fluid receiving channels with means to bias jet flow from said nozzle into a first one of said channels, and fluid signal control means adapted to direct said jet flow into a second one of said channels upon receipt of a shock wave, and
- b. a detector probe, an input to said probe in an ambient fluid, and an output of said probe connected to said signal control means.
A fluid shock wave detector comprising:
- a. a bi-stable fluid amplifier having a power jet nozzle, a first and a second fluid receiving channel, and a first control nozzle adapted to direct a flow from said jet nozzle into said first channel and a second control nozzle adapted to direct a flow from said jet nozzle into said second channel, and
- b. a detector probe, an input to said probe in an ambient fluid and an output of said probe connected to said first and second control nozzles by separate channels, one of said channels having a low resistance and a high inertance, and the other of said channels having a high resistance and low inertance.
A fluid fuze comprising:
- a. a fluid probe, said probe oriented with respect to a missile carrying said probe that the amount of fluid entering said probe is proportional to the velocity of said probe through a fluid,
- b. a pure fluid integrator, said integrator producing a fluid pulse output,
- c. means to count said output pulses, said counting means producing an output after a predetermined number of counts, and
- d. said counter output connected to a fluid operated detonator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.