A CARTRIDGE CASE AND A ROUND COMPRISING SUCH A CARTRIDGE CASE

• US 20110192312A1
• Filed: 10/10/2008
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saab AB
• Original Assignee: Saab AB
• Inventors: Karisson, Geron, Prytz, Alf, Toreheim, Jon
• Granted Patent: US 8,322,286 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 102/469
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 39/20 Packages or ammunition having valves for pressure-equalising; Packages or ammunition having plugs for pressure release, e.g. meltable ; Blow-out panels; Venting arrangements ventilating arrangements on packages formed from foldable or erectable blanks B65D5/4295; packages with pressure-relief valves incorporated in a container wall B65D77/225
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 5/285 formed by assembling several elements
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 5/307 formed by assembling several elements

Abstract

A cartridge case intended for explosive materials. A releasable base plate is provided in a bottom section of the cartridge case. A base plate locking device includes a temperature dependent shape memory material. A space is provided partly in the bottom section of the cartridge case and partly in the base plate of the cartridge case defining a motion path inclined backwards for the shape memory material to follow when its passes a temperature such that the shape memory struggles to resume a former shape, resulting in that the base plate is unlocked from the bottom section of the cartridge case and released. A round of ammunition including the cartridge case.

Claims

1. A cartridge case intended for explosive materials, comprising:

a releasable base plate provided in a bottom section of the cartridge case, and

a base plate locking device comprising a temperature dependent shape memory material,

wherein a space is provided partly in the bottom section of the cartridge case and partly in the base plate of the cartridge case defining a motion path inclined backwards for the shape memory material to follow when an increasing temperature of the shape memory material passes a temperature such that the shape memory struggles to resume a former shape, resulting in that the base plate is unlocked from the bottom section of the cartridge case and released.

2. The cartridge case according to claim 1, wherein the motion path has an inclination backwards within an angular range of 30 to 60 degrees relative to the symmetry axis of the cartridge case.

3. The cartridge case according to claim 1, wherein the space defining a motion path is delimited in the bottom section by an outer support ring and an inner support ring.

4. The cartridge case according to claim 1, wherein the shape memory material is designed as a circular ring.

5. The cartridge case according to claim 4, wherein the shape memory material has an essentially circular cross section.

6. The cartridge case according to claim 1, wherein the length of the motion path is designed to be about a doubled measure of a cross section of the shape memory material.

8. The cartridge case according to claim 2, wherein the angular range of the inclination backwards of the motion path is about 45 degrees relative to the symmetry axis of the cartridge case.

7. A round of ammunition, comprising:

a cartridge case comprising a releasable base plate provided in a bottom section of the cartridge case, and a base plate locking device comprising a temperature dependent shape memory material, wherein a space is provided partly in the bottom section of the cartridge case and partly in the base plate of the cartridge case defining a motion path inclined backwards for the shape memory material to follow when a temperature increase passes a temperature such that the shape memory struggles to resume a former shape, resulting in that the base plate is unlocked from the bottom section of the cartridge case and released.