Invention Application
- Patent Title: ELECTRO-DISCHARGE SYSTEM FOR NEUTRALIZING LANDMINES
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Application No.: US15144160Application Date: 2016-05-02
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Publication No.: US20170241750A1Publication Date: 2017-08-24
- Inventor: Mohan Vijay , Emilio Panarella , Meisheng Xu , Wenzhuo Yan , Bruce Daniels , Andrew Tieu
- Applicant: VLN Advanced Technologies Inc.
- Priority: CA2921675 20160224
- Main IPC: F41H11/16
- IPC: F41H11/16 ; B05B17/06 ; F41H11/13

Abstract:
A landmine-neutralization system has a vehicle including a water supply tank and an electrical power supply and an electro-discharge apparatus. The electro-discharge apparatus includes one or more electro-discharge nozzles each having a discharge chamber that has an inlet for receiving water from the water supply tank and an outlet, a first electrode extending into the discharge chamber and being electrically connected to one or more high-voltage capacitors that are connected to, and chargeable by, the electrical power supply, a second electrode proximate to the first electrode to define a gap between the first and second electrodes and a switch to cause the one or more capacitors to discharge across the gap between the electrodes to create a plasma bubble which expands to form a shockwave that escapes through one or more exit orifices of the one or more nozzles ahead of the plasma bubble to thereby neutralize a landmine.
Public/Granted literature
- US09739574B1 Electro-discharge system for neutralizing landmines Public/Granted day:2017-08-22
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