US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Creare, Incorporated

William R Baschnagel

Mark C Bagley

Jerry M Dickson

Lawrence C Freudinger

Matthew J Miller

Ian A Brown

An ultra precision net shape forming process is disclosed which can satisfy the requirements of MMW and sub-MMW components and sabots for small caliber armor piercing ammunition. The process is well suited to both moderate and high volume applications, and offers the potential for dramatically reducing piece part fabrication costs. The process involves closely controlled high temperature compression forming of metals with cycle times of the order of one minute or less, precise replication of all die features, and very low residual stresses. The ultra precision net shape forming cycle starts following insertion of the billet/blank into an open die. In the preheat phase the press is closed to preheat position where the billet/blank is enclosed in both halves of the die but no force is applied. Following preheat the part is formed employing displacement and force control to insure a fully formed part. After holding for a preset time at the peak force, the press is then commanded back to the loading position. The process has many of the attributes of conventional compression molding of plastics and is well suited to high volume, automated production of complex precision parts.

Ultra precision net forming process employing controlled plastic deformation of metals at elevated temperatures

A data management system (,) for managing and distributing high-speed, real-time and archived data between diverse local and remote data sources (,) and data sinks (,). The system includes a server (,) having cache memory (,) and archive memory (,) and one or more ring buffered network bus (RBNB) modules (,). Each RBNB module features a highly modular, object-oriented design, with the RBNB module being the highest level object in the system. The RBNB modules include a plurality of ring buffer objects (,) that handles data streams from data sources, a plurality of network bus objects (,) that handle data streams to a data sinks, and RBNB control objects (,) the handle connections for the ring buffer objects and network bus objects. Data is handled by the RBNB module in data frame (,) increments based on the combination of identified channels (,) and time stamps (,).

Ring buffered network bus data management system

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William R Baschnagel