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Fmc Corporation

United Defense LP

Bae Systems Land & Armaments L.p.

James Robert Turner

Valent Horvatich

Mark Albert Middione

Ron Eugene Musante

Marco Albert Middione

David Arthur Schade

Ronald E Musante

Daniel J Richard

T James Dorsch

Jeffrey Faul

Kenneth B Groves

Jaime Alforque

John C Turn, Jr

Peter R Ciriscioli

Ronald L Norton

Matthew G Riddle

Thomas C Winant

Brendan P Croom

Christopher Tarantino

Jaspal Singh Dhillon

An improved transparent armor piercing protection system that acts as a vision window in an armor system. The transparent armor piercing protection system comprises ballistic plastic prisms with mirrored external surfaces disposed between armor plates so that the reflection of the image occurs entirely within the prism. The armor sheets are also redesigned with perforations to reduce weight while defeating incoming threats.

Armored window system

A fast acting active protection system for military vehicles defeats RPG (rocket propelled grenade) threats fired from close ranges. The system minimizes the hazard to troops and civilians nearby. The system uses a plurality of passive sensors to locate the threat and initialize the system. A low cost radar or laser tracker is used as the means to determine range, velocity, and (if required) angular position of the threat. The countermunition used may be one of several choices, with the requisites being that the countermunition provides fast response with low inertia, and is able to damage or destroy the detected threat. A multi-barrel recoilless gun is the weapon of choice. A launching device is used to deploy and aim the countermunition and the tracking means. On board software and electronics are used to control the system.

Fast acting active protection system

A low profile lighting system for military or other heavy equipment vehicles that includes a high intensity discharge (HID) headlight, and light emitting diode (LED) turn signals and running light. A microprocessor controller is included to interface to the vehicle lighting control system. An electromechanical actuator lifts and holds the light unit in place. The light unit is mounted on a hidden hinge in an armored and signature managed housing. The unique hinge design allows for electromechanical actuation of the lights from a micro-controller. The special hinge enables the external surfaces of the vehicle to be generally planar, and thereby ready to accept further signature management treatments.

Armored and signature managed headlights

A parallelogram boom device for mounting agricultural implements has a parallelogram arrangement of a first upper beam horizontally and longitudinally aligned with a second upper beam plus a single lower beam longitudinally aligned with the first and second upper beams, but at a lower horizontal level. A first hydraulic piston unit acts via a bridle to raise and lower the parallelogram arrangement relative to the ground. An agricultural implement is attached at one end to a mounting arm supported via the parallelogram arrangement and a second hydraulic piston unit serves to move the implement in an arc about its attached end. The new boom devices also have the capability of retracting the supported implements rearwards from their forward direction of travel in the event the implement encounters a rock, stump or like obstruction.

Parallelogram boom devices for mounting agricultural implements to short

The invention provides clamps for providing a compliant mounting surface which protects the edges of brittle materials, which can be constituent components in armor panels. Thus the invention prevents concentrated loads around the armor. The invention is modular and allows for modular placement of a plurality of spaced apart armor panel layers.

Modular armor mounting system

The invention provides elastomeric clamps for providing a compliant mounting surface which protects the edges of brittle materials, which can be constituent components in armor panels. Thus the invention prevents concentrated loads around the armor. The invention is modular and allows for modular placement of a plurality of spaced apart armor panel layers.

The invention provides modular armor for a vehicle. The modular armor comprises an outer cover with a plurality of mounting racks attached to the vehicle. Armor panels may be added to or removed from the mounting racks as needed.

Modular protection system

A method and apparatus is disclosed as a passive armor system for use on the side walls and sloping front wall of a military vehicle as reactive armor which adds the element of erosion and disruption of the flyplates thereby improves performance especially against kinetic energy threats but also by shaped charge weapons without substantially increasing the weight of the vehicle and without the aid of explosive charges.

Reactive armor system with improved flyplates

A device for attachment to a tractor or similar vehicle for safe spray application of liquid chemicals around trees or like plants basically includes an elongated boom unit and a multinational spray unit pivoted by its inboard end on the boom unit, formed of an inboard section and an outboard section. The outboard section carries a spray nozzle and is pivoted by its inboard end to the outboard end of the inboard section. Spring members normally bias both sections of the spray unit into alignment with the boom unit, but first allow the inboard section followed, in turn, by the outboard section to move out of such alignment so they partially encircle a tree as the spray unit of the device contacts the trunk of the tree while the tractor moves the device forward and past the tree. Proximity switches and a photocell sense the correct positioning of the tree to emit sprayed chemical from the nozzle only when the spray unit is in contact with the tree.

Mobile plant chemical application devices

A trailer connecting guide for use with a boat trailer or the like. The trailer connecting guide is attached to one side of the tongue of the trailer and is operable to guide the trailer sufficiently close to the tow vehicle to complete the connection. The trailer connecting guide assembly includes a pulley, a mounting bolt, and a winch cable guide. The cable guide is mounted between the pulley and trailer tongue and includes at least one elongated slot adjacent to the pulley track which restricts the lateral movement of the winch cable with respect to the pulley track to prevent the winch cable from pumping out of the pulley track. In operation, a length of cable is first let off the winch and the end of the winch cable is attached to the towing vehicle adjacent the vehicle hitch. A portion of the cable is then slipped around the pulley and guide assembly and any excess slack in the cable is taken up by operation of the winch. Then, as the winch continues to be operated, the trailer tongue and vehicle hitch are brought together sufficiently close to permit the connection to be completed.

Trailer connecting guide

Escrow apparatus for coin operated equipment includes a pair of interleaved door panels disposed at an angular orientation with respect to each other and pivotally movable between a pair of fixed walls. The panels with the walls define a coin receiving escrow chamber or bucket. The door panels are selectively pivotable to allow coins disposed in the bucket to move either to a return path for returning the coins to a user of the apparatus, or to a coin box.

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

James Robert Turner