William Z Kalms

8534177, Sep 17, 2013

Mar 1, 2010

12/715063

William Kalms - Parkville MD, US
Tejbir Arora - Bel Air MD, US
John Snediker - Felton PA, US

Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD

F41F 3/04

89 1816, 89 1817, 102293, 248560, 248603, 248618

A system and method for providing a munitions launching system with dynamic shock isolation in which a spring plate skirt having an integral spring arrangement is provided between a munitions frame and a munitions extension, the spring plate skirt defining an opening that provides for the uninterrupted flow of expelled rocket gases, as well as underside access to the munitions frame.

8582330, Nov 12, 2013

Jan 23, 2009

12/358382

William Kalms - Baltimore MD, US
John Morber - Taneytown MD, US
Robert Asbell - Bel Air MD, US

Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD

H02J 3/00

363 34, 363 39

A switching power supply transmits power between a single front end including electromagnetic interference filtering and power factor correction circuits to an output end at a high voltage and high frequency from which any desired DC voltage or waveform may be readily and directly derived with high efficiency in order to reduce size and weight of components including transformers at the output end and allow greater variety of connection wiring of reduced weight and volume to be used. The high frequency is limited at the low frequency end by the frequency at which significant power can be transferred through, for example, a ferrite core or other transformer of sufficiently low volume to accommodate closely spaced loads or power converters and at the high frequency end by the wavelength in the connection wiring such that 1/10 wavelength is greater than one thousand feet. Branches of the power distribution system which are not desired to be in use can be operated at zero power and be brought back on line within milliseconds, when needed. Power distribution among respective branches of the power distribution system can be controlled by varying the high frequency of power transmission and appropriate filtering.

20120152092, Jun 21, 2012

Dec 16, 2010

12/969697

Daniel A. Skurdal - Joppa MD, US
John Snediker - Felton PA, US
William Kalms - Baltimore MD, US

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION - Bethesda MD

F41F 3/00

89 1819

A system and method for launching non-vertical launch munitions with a non-vertical launch trajectory from a launcher that is operationally coupled to a vertical launching system (VLS). The inventors of the present invention recognized that munitions that are unsuitable for vertical launches were unavailable for use with vertical launching systems, thus foreclosing important defense, attack, and cost-savings opportunities for VLS-equipped platforms. A VLS could be substantially more versatile if it accommodated munitions such as torpedoes, counter-measures, direct-fire munitions, point-and-shoot munitions, and a variety of other missiles and equipment. The launcher according to the present invention is also stowable in an upward orientation within a cell of the host vertical launching system.

57554005, May 26, 1998

Oct 2, 1980

6/194328

William Kalms - Acton MA

Raytheon Company - Lexington MA

F41G 734

244 317

A technique for deriving correction signals for inertial instruments on a missile, such as an intercontinental ballistic or a cruise missile, is shown to include: a radar operative in a synthetic aperture mode when the missile approaches a predetermined area containing at least three separate fixed terrain features whose radar signatures (as observed from a preselected position) have been predetermined and stored on the missile; successively illuminating each one of such features and comparing the actual radar signals with the stored radar signatures; and deriving correction signals for the inertial instruments in accordance with the difference between the actual and stored radar signals.