Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi channel electronic acceleration switch
- Patent Title (中): 多通道电子加速开关
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Application No.: US12630007Application Date: 2009-12-03
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Publication No.: US08412482B2Publication Date: 2013-04-02
- Inventor: David C. Robillard , Gregory E. Longerich
- Applicant: David C. Robillard , Gregory E. Longerich
- Applicant Address: US MA Waltham
- Assignee: Raytheon Company
- Current Assignee: Raytheon Company
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Waltham
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Main IPC: G01P15/00
- IPC: G01P15/00 ; G06F15/00

Abstract:
An electronic acceleration switch, such as for arming and firing a squib, for instance used in arming a warhead, safe missile air, ground and sea launch separation arming, includes multiple redundancies to provide a fail-safe system that does not have a single-point failure. The switch includes different channels, each of which includes a power subsystem, multiple accelerometers, a pair of controllers, and a switching circuit. The power subsystems of the two channels provide power to multiple accelerometers of each channel. The accelerometers of each channel may include a mix of digital and analog accelerometers. The acceleration sensors can be either one-axis or three-axis sensors. The accelerometers are connected to the controllers of both channels. The controllers provide redundancy for each channel. In addition, the controllers include voting logic that receives inputs from the accelerometers, and determines whether to send arm and enable signals to the multiple squib drivers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110313715A1 MULTI CHANNEL ELECTRONIC ACCELERATION SWITCH Public/Granted day:2011-12-22
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