Materials, Fabrication, and Assembly Technologies for Advanced MEMS- Based Safety and Arming Mechanisms for Projectile Munitions; Conference paper

摘要

This paper outlines the U. S. Army's technical progress toward realizing a miniature, inexpensive, mass-producible micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)- based mechanical safety and arming (S&A) device with embedded compatible micro-scale firetrain for projectile munition fuzes. It illustrates the significant advances in MEMS S&A design simplification, MEMS metal fabrication, and automated micro-assembly technology. These advances have taken place since a June 2005 feasibility demonstration of MEMS S&A in a 20-mm high- explosive air-burst (HEAB) munition for the developmental Objective Individual Combat Weapon (OICW).