Boardwalk and Sidewalk System with Dual Use as Flood Control Barrier

    公开(公告)号:US20200340198A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-29

    申请号:US16927656

    申请日:2020-07-13

    IPC分类号: E02B3/10 E02B3/06

    摘要: A walkway for use between a shoreline of a body of water and at least a portion of a building exposed to the body of water, the walkway including: a base adjacent to the building; a plank having a surface for use by pedestrians to walk upon when the plank is in a first position at least indirectly disposed on the base, the plank having a first end rotatably connected to the base and having a second end extending from the first end away from the building along a length of the plank, the surface being exposed for use by the pedestrians to walk upon when the plank is in the first position; and a lifting mechanism operatively connected to the plank to rotate the plank from the first position to a second position where the length of the plank is oriented adjacent to a wall of the building to impede a rising height of the body of water.

    Very low power actuation devices
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10794673B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-06

    申请号:US15482737

    申请日:2017-04-08

    IPC分类号: F42B10/64 F42B10/18

    摘要: A munition including: a control surface actuation device including: an actuator comprising two or more pistons, each of the pistons being movable between an extended and retracted position, the retracted position resulting from an activation of each of the two or more pistons; and a rotatable plate having a pocket corresponding to each of the two or more pistons, each pocket being engageable with a corresponding portion of each of the two or more pistons, a distance between the pockets being different than a distance between the portions of the two or more pistons, such that activation of the portion into the corresponding pocket sequentially rotates the plate; and a control surface operatively connected to the plate such that rotation of the plate rotates the control surface.

    Method for assembling and activating lithium-ion based reserve batteries

    公开(公告)号:US10461379B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-29

    申请号:US15791276

    申请日:2017-10-23

    摘要: A method for assembling a lithium-ion reserve battery. The method including: charging an assembled lithium-ion reserve battery, the assembled lithium-ion battery including electrodes forming a battery cell, electrolyte and a membrane separating the battery cell and the electrolyte, the electrodes being charged into a charged state; disassembling the charged lithium-ion reserve battery; rinsing and drying at least the electrodes of the disassembled lithium-ion reserve battery; and reassembling the lithium-ion reserve battery with the rinsed and dried electrodes in the charged state and without the electrolyte; wherein the reassembling includes hermetically sealing a housing containing the battery cell. A method for activating such lithium-ion battery further includes, subsequent to the reassembly, introducing the electrolyte into the battery cell to activate the lithium-ion battery.

    Mechanical high spin-shock testing machines

    公开(公告)号:US10352838B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15256674

    申请日:2016-09-05

    摘要: A rotary shock testing machine including: a base; a shaft rotatable relative to the base; a test disc for holding one or more specimens to be tested, the test disc being rotatable with the shaft; an actuator for applying a rotation to the shaft and test disc; and a brake for applying a braking force to the test disc to subject the one or more specimens to a rotary shock.

    Spin acceleration armed inertia igniters and electrical switches for munitions and the like

    公开(公告)号:US10337848B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15844614

    申请日:2017-12-17

    摘要: An apparatus actuatable under a rotary acceleration having a predetermined duration and magnitude. The apparatus including: a body having a first channel and a second channel, the second channel being disposed radially offset from the first channel; a mass disposed in the first channel, the mass having an arm disposed at a first end of the mass and the arm being rotatable from a first position in which the arm cannot move within the second channel to a second position in which the arm can move inside the second channel; a first biasing spring member having a first end connected to the body and a second end connected to the arm such that when the arm is subjected to the rotary acceleration greater than the predetermined duration and magnitude, the arm is biased to rotate from the first position to the second position; wherein the mass is connected to the arm such that the mass moves in the first channel and the arm moves in the second channel when the arm is biased into the second position.

    Mechanical inertial igniters for reserve batteries and the like for munitions

    公开(公告)号:US10234254B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US15130987

    申请日:2016-04-17

    IPC分类号: F42C19/06 F42C1/04 F42C15/24

    摘要: A device including: an impact mass movably restrained relative to a base; and a release mechanism configured to be movable between a restrained position for preventing movement of the impact mass and a released position for permitting movement of the impact mass when the release mechanism is subjected to an acceleration greater than a predetermined magnitude and duration; wherein the release mechanism having a release mass movable when subjected to the acceleration, the movement of the release mass not being influenced by movement of the impact mass.

    Integrated Event Detection and Electrical Generator Devices For A Gravity Dropped or Ejected Weapons

    公开(公告)号:US20180340760A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-29

    申请号:US15985648

    申请日:2018-05-21

    摘要: A method for generating power in a gravity dropped munition, the method including: winding a cable around a drum of a generator associated with the munition; attaching the cable from the generator to a portion of an aircraft; separating the munition from the aircraft to unwind the cable from the drum to release the cable from the drum after a predetermined amount of rotation of the drum; converting the rotation of the drum to energy in a spring as the cable is unwound from the drum; restricting movement of an intermediate member connecting the drum to the generator while the cable is being unwound from the drum; and ending the restricting when the cable is released from the drum allowing the intermediate member to engage the drum with the generator to produce power from the generator.

    High Explosive Fragmentation Mortars
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180252508A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-06

    申请号:US15912537

    申请日:2018-03-05

    IPC分类号: F42B12/32 F42B10/38 F42B12/24

    摘要: A mortar shell including: a metallic inner layer; a polymer outer layer having reinforcing fibers dispersed therein; and at least one layer of metallic fragments disposed between the inner and outer layers, the layer of metallic fragments including a plurality of individual metallic fragments unconnected to each other. In a variation, the mortar shell including: a metallic inner layer, the metallic inner layer having a grid formed on an outer surface to define a plurality of metallic fragments separated by grooves; a polymer having first reinforcing fibers disposed within the grooves; and a polymer outer layer having second reinforcing fibers dispersed therein. In another variation, the mortar shell including a polymer outer layer having reinforcing fibers dispersed therein; and a metallic inner layer having a plurality of metallic fragments with a shape to interlock to each of the other and assembled together into the metallic inner layer.