Tunable and aimable artificial lightening producing device
US7400487B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 30, 2005 |
| Grant date | Jul 15, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 16, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF41H13/0012
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A tunable and aimable artificial lightning producing device for tetanizing human voluntary muscle, disabling vehicular electronic ignition systems, and for pre-detonating wired explosives. A spark gap shaping apparatus controls a spark generated by a Tesla coil. A first stage directionalizer warps a normally spherical plasma field from the Tesla coil into an oval plasma field for confining the spark to within that shape. A second stage directionalizer converges multiple beams to successive points just ahead of a plasma field created by the first stage directionalizer without ionizing the beams, thereby maintaining ionization of a path of the spark. The spark is progressively arced to these points, thereby maintaining the path of the spark.
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