Safety and arming unit for a spinning projectile fuze
AssigneeJunghans Microtec GmbH
InventorsAlexander Zinell, Frank Kienzler, Martin Leonhardt, Ronald Ketterer, Günter Westphal
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AssigneeJunghans Microtec GmbH
InventorsAlexander Zinell, Frank Kienzler, Martin Leonhardt, Ronald Ketterer, Günter Westphal
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A safety and arming unit (10) for a spinning projectile fuze, which has a fuze body (12) and a bearing body (14), which define a spherical cavity (16) between them, in which a spherical rotor (18) is mounted such that it can rotate, in which rotor (18) a detonator (20) is provided. In order to make the safety and arming unit suitable for fuzes in weapon systems with extremely fast munition feed units, the rotor (18) can be surrounded by a rotor locking ring (28) in the safe position, prevents the rotor (18) from rotating through an acceleration ring (30) and a spring element (32) which connects the acceleration ring (30) to the rotor locking ring (28) in an interlocking manner, with the rotor locking ring (28) being formed with a slot (36) in order that it can be spread open by rotation and centrifugal forces into an open space (34).
A safety and arming unit for a spinning projectile fuze, said fuze including a fuze body (12) and a bearing body which define a hemi-spherical contact therebetween, a spherical rotor (18) being rotatably mounted in said cutout, a detonator (20) being arranged in said rotor (18), said rotor (18) possessing a recess (22) into which a bushing (24) projects in the safe position of the safety and arming unit (10) prevents the rotor (18) from rotating, the rotor (18) having at least one recess (62) into which a radially oriented transverse bolt (64) projects in an interlocking manner in the safe position of the safety and arming unit, at least one transverse bolt (64) being held in the recess (62) in the safe position by an acceleration bolt (70) and a first spring element (72), which are axially oriented, and a second spring element (76) being connected to the at least one transverse bolt (64), said rotor (18) being prevented from rotation into an axial armed position thereof until release of said bushing (24) into movement away from said rotor (18) by a second arming system.
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