EP3788317A1 - Waffenrohr für ein unterseeboot - Google Patents
Waffenrohr für ein unterseebootInfo
- Publication number
- EP3788317A1 EP3788317A1 EP19719871.6A EP19719871A EP3788317A1 EP 3788317 A1 EP3788317 A1 EP 3788317A1 EP 19719871 A EP19719871 A EP 19719871A EP 3788317 A1 EP3788317 A1 EP 3788317A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- pressure accumulator
- working cylinder
- weapon
- bar
- weapon barrel
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Classifications
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F41—WEAPONS
- F41F—APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS; LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS
- F41F3/00—Rocket or torpedo launchers
- F41F3/08—Rocket or torpedo launchers for marine torpedoes
- F41F3/10—Rocket or torpedo launchers for marine torpedoes from below the surface of the water
Definitions
- the invention relates to a gun barrel for a submarine with an ejector with a compact design and the ability to silently eject a weapon.
- weapon tubes are used to pick up and eject objects. Under a gun barrel, a tube is understood in a first approximate round cross-section.
- Typical weapon tubes are, for example, torpedo tubes or ejectors for decoys or sonar devices.
- Objects include according to the invention weapons such as torpedoes, missiles, mines and decoys but also storage containers.
- Storage containers for the purposes of this invention are storage containers such as these used, for example, in submarines for application by torpedo tubes use. These storage containers are used to transport equipment for example for divers and deploy in case of application, especially under water from a submarine.
- a weapon in the sense of the invention is in particular a torpedo, a missile, a decoy or a mine.
- Such weapons are regularly carried by warships, such as corvettes, frigates, destroyers, cruisers or submarines. These weapons are regularly ejected through a gun barrel, although other types of emissions are common.
- the pressure hull thus the outside of the environment of the submarine.
- an inner part of the pressure body obvious to understand to understand an outer part of the pressure body lying away and arranged in the direction of the environment.
- a gun barrel of a submarine differs from other gun barrels in that the barrel connects the interior, within the pressure hull, to the environment, outside the hull.
- the gun barrel In order to reload a gun barrel of a submarine, the gun barrel must be designed so that this is then part of the pressure hull and thus can fully support the ambient pressure.
- a gun barrel for ejecting the weapon must be brought to ambient pressure.
- the interior of the gun barrel must be pressure-tight against the interior of the submarine.
- the space available in a submarine is usually very low, as unnecessary space creates additional buoyancy and thus leads to a significant increase in other components of the submarine, in particular the ballast devices.
- a weapon is often ejected by compressed air.
- a weapon for example a torpedo
- a weapon can be ejected comparatively quickly and easily.
- a high acceleration is possible, which is needed to accelerate a comparatively heavy torpedo on the short distance of the gun barrel to its ejection speed.
- This method is relatively loud. When firing a torpedo this can be accepted in the normal combat situation, since the ejected torpedo already reveals the position of the launch by the comparatively high speed of the screw.
- weapons tubes that have no system for actively ejecting a weapon.
- the weapon runs out of such weapons tubes, that is, the weapon leaves the barrel of its own accord and with its own strength.
- a torpedo can run out of a gun barrel.
- the object of the invention is to provide a weapon barrel, which is very space-saving together with the ejection device and allows a quiet and fast ejection of a weapon.
- the gun barrel according to the invention for a submarine with an ejection device has at least a first working cylinder and at least one first pressure accumulator.
- the at least one first working cylinder is arranged in the interior of the weapon barrel.
- the at least one first working cylinder has at least one first side of the working cylinder.
- the first side of the working cylinder is filled with gas, for example with air, nitrogen, helium, argon or a mixture thereof, preferably with nitrogen.
- the at least one first working cylinder has at least one second side of the working cylinder.
- the second side of the working cylinder is filled with a liquid.
- a liquid for example, water or oil, in particular mineral oil or silicone oil, can be used.
- the at least one pressure accumulator has at least one first side of the pressure accumulator.
- the first side of the pressure accumulator is filled with gas, for example with air, nitrogen, helium, argon or a mixture thereof, preferably with nitrogen.
- the gas of the first side of the pressure accumulator and the first side of the working cylinder is identical.
- the at least one first pressure accumulator has at least one second side of the pressure accumulator. The second side of the accumulator is filled with a liquid.
- the at least one second side of the pressure accumulator and the at least one second side of the working cylinder are connected to one another via at least one first connection, wherein the first connection has a first valve.
- the at least one first working cylinder has a working piston, wherein the working piston separates the at least one first side of the working cylinder and the at least one second side of the working cylinder.
- the working piston is with a coupling device connected, wherein the coupling device is designed for ejecting a weapon from the gun barrel.
- the ejection device leads to a silent ejection of the weapon.
- a typical problem with the mechanical ejection of the weapon is usually the stop of the working piston at the end of the working cylinder, which generates a loud noise and thus makes the submarine locatable.
- the gas in the first side of the working cylinder is compressed during ejection.
- the rapid ejection is, to a first approximation, the adiabatic compression of an ideal gas, the pressure varying with the remaining volume of the first side of the working cylinder:
- the pressure initially increases very slowly. Shortly before reaching the end of the working cylinder, the volume of the first side of the working cylinder is very small and the pressure rises very quickly. Thus, it comes just before reaching the stop to a deceleration to a stop without the working piston strikes. There is thus no noise.
- the system is driven by the pressurized gas on the first side of the pressure accumulator.
- the first side of the pressure accumulator and the first side of the working cylinder have the same pressure.
- the at least one first pressure accumulator is arranged in the interior of the weapon barrel.
- This embodiment is advantageous since all relevant components are arranged in the weapon barrel. If insbesodnere the accumulator outside the gun barrel arranged, as this is common today, so must lead a comparatively large implementation in the barrel. Since the weapon barrel is also part of the pressure hull, large feedthroughs are problematic. However, the smaller the implementation, the greater the pressure losses, the lower the maximum achievable ejection speed of the weapon. Also can be dispensed with an accumulator outside the barrel. In particular, in comparison to the ejection of the weapon with water (by introducing water into the barrel behind the weapon) is only a small Volume in the accumulator needed because only the volume in the cylinder must be filled by the pressurized fluid.
- the volume of the at least one pressure accumulator is 1.5 to four times as large as the volume of the working cylinder. If the volume is a little more than 1.5 times, in a first approximation, the pressure of the first region of the pressure accumulator is reduced to about 20%; if the volume is about 4 times greater, the pressure is reduced to about 70% of the initial pressure. As a result, the energy used is set from the compressed gas for the ejection.
- the at least one second side of the pressure accumulator and the at least one second side of the working cylinder are connected to each other via a second connection, wherein the second connection comprises means for actively conveying the liquid.
- the second connection comprises means for actively conveying the liquid.
- the means for active promotion are preferably arranged outside the weapon barrel. Since time is not particularly critical here, the diameter of the second connection can be kept small, so that only very small openings through the weapon barrel must be provided in order to be able to arrange the means for active promotion outside.
- the working piston is connected to a piston rod.
- the piston rod has at the opposite end of the working piston a first deflection roller, wherein a first pulling device is deflected around the first deflection roller.
- the first pulling device is connected to a coupling device.
- the at least one first working cylinder and the at least one first pressure accumulator are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the weapon barrel.
- the first connection has a first smallest cross section, wherein the first smallest cross section has at least 50% of the cross section of the working cylinder.
- the at least one second side of the pressure accumulator and the at least one second side of the working cylinder are interconnected via a third connection, the third connection having means for flow control. While the first link is intended to allow rapid ejection, for example to eject a torpedo at maximum speed, the third link serves to eject low speed objects, such as mines or jam containers.
- the third connection may have a small cross section. Thus, the third connection may be located inside or outside the gun barrel.
- the first side of the pressure accumulator has at least one first compression spring.
- the first compression spring may be designed as a single, one-piece compression spring.
- the first compression spring may also be designed in several parts, wherein the part springs are then preferably arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the pressure accumulator. It is also possible for two or more compression springs to be arranged inside one another.
- the first side of the pressure accumulator in the ready-to-use state has a pressure of 150 bar to 1000 bar, preferably from 200 bar to 600 bar, more preferably from 250 bar to 400 bar.
- the first side of the working cylinder, in the ready-to-use state has a pressure of from 1 bar to 10 bar, preferably from 1 bar to 5 bar, more preferably from 2 bar to 4 bar.
- an inventive weapon barrel 10 with a running in the longitudinal direction of the barrel 10 working cylinder 20 and a longitudinal direction of the gun barrel 10 pressure accumulator 30.
- the working cylinder 20 and the pressure accumulator 30 are connected to each other via a first connection 40.
- the working cylinder 20 and the pressure accumulator 30 are connected to one another via a second connection 90 and a third connection 120, wherein the second connection 90 and a third connection 120 extend partially outside the weapon barrel 10 and are therefore not completely visible.
- Fig. 2 shows the ejection device in the ejection ready state (ground state).
- the barrel 10 is omitted for simplicity.
- the perspective is simplified, since the weapon 80 for reasons of space above the working cylinder 20 and the printing cylinder 30, that is rotated by 90 °, is arranged.
- the weapon 80 in reality significantly larger diameter compared to the working cylinder 20 and the accumulator 30, as shown in Fig. 1 is partially recognizable.
- FIG. 3 shows the ejection device at the end of the ejection process (relaxed state), just before the weapon 80 leaves the barrel 10.
- the first side of the pressure accumulator 32 occupies a comparatively small part of the pressure accumulator 30 and is under high pressure, in the relaxed state, the volume of the first side of the pressure accumulator 32 is correspondingly greater, the pressure lower. Accordingly, the second side of the pressure accumulator 34 is larger in the ground state, smaller in the relaxed state.
- the liquid has flowed between these states through the first connection 40 and the first valve 42 into the second side of the working cylinder 24. Since liquids are only slightly compressible, the sum of the volumes of the second side of the working cylinder 24 and the second side of the pressure accumulator 34 is constant in a first approximation. Accordingly, the first side of the working cylinder 22 (not visible in FIG.
- the weapon 80 thus puts back twice the distance of the working piston 50.
- the ejection device has a second deflection roller 102, whereby at the same time the coupling device 60 is moved back when the working piston 50 is moved back.
- the device has a second connection 90, which has means for active delivery 92, for example a pump.
- the means for active promotion 92 are arranged outside the weapon barrel 10 in the example shown. In Fig. 1 it can be seen that for this purpose only a very small passage through the pressure hull of the weapon barrel 10 is required.
- the ejection device has a third connection 120.
- the third connection has means for flow control 122.
- the means for flow control 122 are arranged as well as the means for active promotion 92 in the example shown outside of the gun barrel 10.
- compression springs 130 are arranged inside the first side of the pressure accumulator 32 .
- four individual compression springs 130 are separated by three pistons, the pistons being permeable to the gas in the example shown.
- the ejection device In order to fill the first side of the pressure accumulator 32 with gas, the ejection device has a gas feed.
- the ejection device may have a triggering device 140.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE102018206764.3A DE102018206764B3 (de) | 2018-05-02 | 2018-05-02 | Waffenrohr für ein Unterseeboot |
PCT/EP2019/060612 WO2019211160A1 (de) | 2018-05-02 | 2019-04-25 | Waffenrohr für ein unterseeboot |
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EP3788317A1 true EP3788317A1 (de) | 2021-03-10 |
EP3788317B1 EP3788317B1 (de) | 2022-03-02 |
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EP (1) | EP3788317B1 (de) |
DE (1) | DE102018206764B3 (de) |
ES (1) | ES2908991T3 (de) |
WO (1) | WO2019211160A1 (de) |
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US3631760A (en) * | 1969-12-05 | 1972-01-04 | Us Navy | Pneumatic torpedo launcher with hydraulic operated snubber |
DE3402619A1 (de) | 1984-01-26 | 1985-08-08 | Krupp Mak Maschinenbau Gmbh, 2300 Kiel | Ausstossvorrichtung fuer bewaffnungen aus u-boot-torpedorohren |
DE3720401A1 (de) | 1987-06-19 | 1989-01-05 | Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft | Transportvorrichtung in einem torpedorohr |
DE102014217747A1 (de) | 2014-09-04 | 2016-03-10 | Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems Gmbh | Unterseeboot |
DE102015202553A1 (de) | 2015-02-12 | 2016-08-18 | Thyssenkrupp Ag | Vorrichtung zum Transport und zur Lagerung einer Waffe |
DE102015205203A1 (de) | 2015-03-23 | 2016-09-29 | Thyssenkrupp Ag | Waffenausstoßvorrichtung mit Schubkette |
DE102016201101B4 (de) | 2016-01-26 | 2018-02-08 | Thyssenkrupp Ag | Geräuschfreies Waffenausstoßsystem |
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