DEVICE FOR REMOTELY DETONATING EXPLOSIVES

• US 20110233188A1
• Filed: 12/08/2009
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mbda France (MBDA)
• Original Assignee: Mbda France (MBDA)
• Inventors: Hembise, Dominique
• Granted Patent: US 8,541,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/482
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/12 Means for clearing land minefields; Systems specially adapted for detection of landmines
• CPC Class Codes: F42D 5/04 Rendering explosive charges harmless, e.g. destroying ammunition F42B39/14 and F42B39/20 take precedence ; extracting primers, dismantling ammunition F42B33/04, F42B33/06 ; chemical deactivating of explosives C06B21/0091; Rendering detonation of explosive charges harmless

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a device for remotely detonating explosives. According to the present disclosure, the device includes: a heat source in the form of an electric generator for generating a thermal infrared signal, capable of producing two heating zones and mounted in a casing; and a mobile supporting structure bearing the casing at the front and connected to a vehicle at the rear.

Claims

1. A detonating infrared sensor device for detonating explosives, including more specifically mines or improvised explosive devices, of the type comprising:

a heat source for remotely activating said infrared sensor and detonating said explosive, said heat source being a controllable thermal infrared signal electric generator being able to produce at least two heating zones (26, 27) having different modulable operating temperatures; and

a mobile supporting structure bearing, at the front thereof, said electric generator and able to be connected, at the rear, to a motorised vehicle.

characterized in that wherein said electric generator is mounted in a casing ensuring, through at least one of its walls, the thermal radiation of said heating zones, and in that said two distinct heating zones are thermally separated apart by openings arranged in said wall of the casing, between said two zones.

2. The device according to claim 1,

further comprising a protective grid externally fastened on the wall of said casing, before the high temperature heating zone.

3. The device according claim 1,

wherein said modulable temperature heating zones are produced by electric resistor networks arranged on said wall of the casing.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein said casing has a flattened substantially parallelepipedic shape, having the two large opposite walls forming said radiating heating zones and being arranged in substantially vertical planes oriented respectively on either sides of the shifting direction of said supporting structure.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein each large wall of said casing comprises said two distinct heating zones.

6. The device according to claim 1,

wherein said supporting structure has the shape of a beam on the front end of which said thermal casing is mounted and being able to be connected, at its rear end, to fastening points of said vehicle.

7. The device according to claim 1 to 6, wherein mounting said casing on the front end of the structure is of the hinging suspension type around a substantially horizontal hinging axis according to the shifting direction of said structure.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the front end of said supporting structure is bent upwards so as to approximately form a reversed C wherein said casing is arranged.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein said supporting structure can be lifted with respect to the vehicle and able to be locked in a lifted position.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein said heating zones are connected to a command/control device ensuring their operation and their thermal regulation and monitoring.