公开(公告)号：US11577851B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-14

申请号：US16770688

申请日：2018-11-27

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Anthony James Howarth

IPC分类号： B64D33/02 ,  F42B15/10 ,  F02C7/042

摘要： A cover for an intake of an air-breathing engine in a missile is disclosed. The cover comprises a motive arrangement operable to move from a first configuration in which the cover is lockable to a missile, to a second configuration in which the cover is pushed outwardly from the missile. In the first configuration, the surface of the cover is flush with the surface of the missile and the motive arrangement is located inwardly of the cover surface. A missile provided with such a cover is also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20220205768A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-30

申请号：US17602406

申请日：2020-04-09

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： David John Richard HAYES ,  Richard William CRONK

IPC分类号： F42B15/34 ,  H05K7/20 ,  F42B15/10

摘要： There is disclosed a missile comprising an outer skin, an electronics unit, and a thermal link between the electronics unit and the outer skin. The thermal link comprises a jumping drop vapour chamber arranged such that, when the outer skin is at an elevated temperature relative to the electronics unit, the electronics unit is thermally insulated from the outer skin; and such that, when the outer skin is at a lower temperature relative to the electronics unit, the electronics unit is thermally linked to the outer skin.

公开(公告)号：US20220135226A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17430924

申请日：2020-02-14

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Edwin John William BOWDEN-PETERS ,  Ben COOK

IPC分类号： B64D7/08 ,  B64D1/06 ,  G01V3/10 ,  F41F3/06

摘要： The invention relates to a method of determining the relative positions of components of a munitions system, the munitions system comprising a first component (331) and at least one second component (333). The method comprises monitoring the output of a resonant circuit (305) provided on a first component (331), the resonant circuit (305) having a resonant frequency, detecting a change in the output due to a change in the resonant frequency caused by a change in the relative positions of the first component (331) and the at least one second component (333), and using the detected change to determine that the at least one second component (333) has moved relative to the first component (331).

公开(公告)号：US20210396797A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17289510

申请日：2019-10-23

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Andrew Michael CHUGG

IPC分类号： G01R29/08 ,  G01R35/00

摘要： There is disclosed a device for determining a strength of an oscillating electric field. The device comprises an absorber to absorb radiation at the frequency of the oscillating electric field, and a thermal insulator transparent to radiation at the frequency of the oscillating electric field, which thermal insulator is arranged to thermally insulate the absorber. The device also comprises a first temperature sensor arranged to measure the temperature of the absorber, and a second temperature sensor arranged to measure the temperature external to the thermal insulator. Methods of measuring electric field using such a device, and methods of calibrating such a device, are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20200208945A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16614857

申请日：2018-05-17

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Gareth Stanley REES ,  Andrew Philip WALLS ,  Alex Martin ROBINSON ,  Stephen Vincent SARGENT ,  Nathan Rees POTTER ,  Leigh MOODY

IPC分类号： F41G7/00 ,  G06N3/08

摘要： A mission planning method for use with a weapon is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a first training data set describing the performance of the weapon; using the first training data set and a Gaussian Process (GP) or Neural Network to obtain a first surrogate model giving a functional approximation of the performance of the weapon; and providing the first surrogate model to a weapons system for use in calculating a performance characteristic of the weapon during combat operations.

公开(公告)号：US20200086990A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16567955

申请日：2019-09-11

申请人： MBDA UK Limited

发明人： Nigel John Taylor ,  Benjamin James Newby

IPC分类号： B64D1/06 ,  B64D1/08 ,  B64D1/04 ,  B64D7/08 ,  B64D1/10

摘要： An aircraft comprises a weapons bay, the weapons bay comprising a cavity having an opening through which stores may be deployed, and a door assembly for exposing/closing the opening of the cavity. A first store is held in the cavity via a launcher and a first structure is disposed inside the cavity, for controlling the aero-acoustic environment. The first structure for controlling the aero-acoustic environment is removeably mounted in the weapons bay, such that if the first store is exchanged for a second, different, store, the structure for controlling the aero-acoustic environment may be unmounted from the weapons bay and removed, to be exchanged for a second, different, structure for controlling the aero-acoustic environment.

公开(公告)号：US10584075B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15308483

申请日：2015-05-01

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Terence Alan Ackerman ,  David Robert Crofts ,  Kiran Gulia ,  Moataz Mohammad Mahmoud Attallah ,  Jack Robert Harry Mellor

IPC分类号： C06B27/00 ,  F42B12/20 ,  F42B12/22 ,  F42B12/36 ,  F42B12/74 ,  F42B12/32 ,  F42B12/44 ,  C06B45/04

摘要： A composite reactive material for use in a munition is disclosed. The composite reactive material comprises a metal lattice structure having interstitial spaces and a powder in the interstitial spaces. The powder comprises at least one metal powder and/or at least one halogen-containing polymer powder.

公开(公告)号：US10072908B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-11

申请号：US14760546

申请日：2014-01-10

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Nigel Stansfield

IPC分类号： F41G7/28 ,  F41G7/22 ,  G01S7/40 ,  G01S13/87 ,  G01S13/88 ,  G01S13/90 ,  G01S13/06 ,  G01S13/00

CPC分类号： F41G7/28 ,  F41G7/2246 ,  F41G7/2293 ,  G01S7/4004 ,  G01S13/06 ,  G01S13/878 ,  G01S13/883 ,  G01S13/904

摘要： In a method of guiding a missile in flight to a target (FIG. 1), the location of the missile and the range to the target are measured at a plurality of moments during the flight of the missile (step 10). The location of the target is calculated from the measured ranges and the measured missile locations (step 20). A required velocity vector angle is calculated from the calculated location of the target and a guidance law (step 30). A lateral acceleration required to provide the missile with a velocity oriented to the target at the required velocity vector angle is calculated for the missile (step 40). The missile is caused to accelerate with the calculated lateral acceleration, so that the missile to follows a trajectory according to the guidance law (step 50).

公开(公告)号：US20170371067A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-28

申请号：US15542687

申请日：2016-01-11

申请人： MBDA UK Limited

发明人： Lee Douglas MILLER ,  Karen Louise MCKEE

IPC分类号： G01V8/24

CPC分类号： G01V8/24 ,  G08B13/186

摘要： Apparatus for monitoring a building having a plurality of rooms. A plurality of beacons is each arranged to transmit a light output signal. The apparatus also comprises a plurality of waveguides suitable for deployment in the building so that each of the plurality of rooms has at least one of the waveguides arranged to receive the light output signal from one or more of the beacons when said one or more of the beacons is active in that room. There is at least one signal capture unit arranged to receive, via the waveguides, the light output signals resulting from the beacons in the rooms. A signal processor is arranged to distinguish, in use, the light output signal from a first beacon in a first room from the light output signal from a second beacon in a second, different, room.

公开(公告)号：US20170153320A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-01

申请号：US15309494

申请日：2015-05-06

申请人： MBDA UK LIMITED

发明人： Lee Douglas MILLER

IPC分类号： G01S7/481

摘要： A method of detecting light is provided. The method includes the step of providing an integrating container and arranging at least two sensors of a first type such that the sensors receive light from the interior of the integrating container.