Missile adaptation kit assembly
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsAlbert S. Will, Robert R. Wilson, Samuel J. Black
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Abstract
A high density component assembly package for a missile including a pluray of circular bulkheads axially supported by rigid spacing members to form a cylindrical adaption kit. Electronic components are mounted on and/or between the bulkheads with the electrical interconnections therebetween accomplished by the use of flat printed cables wrapped around the periphery of the assembly.
Claims7
A cylindrical mechanical package for electrical equipment, comprising:
- a plurality of circular supporting plates having a prescribed number of aligned holes therein;
- spacer means for supporting said plates in spaced relation;
- electrical components supported between said plates either by a direct mounting on a single one of said supporting plates and/or by a mounting between two adjacent supporting plates;
- a projecting boss on one end of each of said electrical components fitting slideably in one of said holes in one of said plates;
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- a projecting threaded shaft on the other end of each of said electrical components projecting through an aligned hole in the other plate;
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- a nut engaged with said threaded shaft to secure each component rigidly with respect to said other plate;
- whereby displacements of said plates away from and toward each other due to shock loadings do not impose any strains on the electrical components;
- each of said electrical components having a terminal board thereon, said components being mounted so as to dispose said terminal boards adjacent the cylindrical periphery of the package;
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- electrical interconnecting means coupling said terminal boards, said interconnecting means consisting of flat tape cables extending around the cylindrical periphery of said package.
A leakproof structure for a missile having a cylindrical hull, electrical equipment within said hull, and a battery power supply readily removable from said missile, comprising
- a battery well having side walls and a bottom wall, said battery well extending from the wall of said hull toward the axis thereof, said side walls being integrally secured to said hull, and said bottom wall being integrally secured to said side walls,
- an electrical connector in said bottom wall adapted to receive a mating connector on said battery power supply when inserted into said well, said electrical connector being leakproof and connected in leakproof relation to said bottom wall,
- an annular flange on the inner surface of said hull,
- a cylindrical package for said electrical equipment adapted to be assembled within said hull by sliding it past said battery well into contact with said flange, the diameter of said package substantially equalling the inner diameter of said hull, said package being provided with a recessed portion extending from one end thereof to permit the sliding of said package past said battery well,
- whereby maximum use of the volume of said hull is made concomitantly with the retention of a leakproof hull and a readily removable battery power supply, the hull being leakproof even when said battery power supply is removed to allow storage of said missile with a pressurized inert atmosphere therewithin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.