Apparatus for producing EMP

• US 8,785,840 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2004
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David Joseph Schulte
• Original Assignee: David Joseph Schulte
• Inventors: Schulte, David Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Vanore, David A
• Application Number:
  US10/804,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20130015260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,575 Days
• Field of Search: 250/492.1, 250/493.1, 250/505.1, 250/251
• US Class Current: 250/251
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 15/00 Devices or methods for influencing weather conditions
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0043 Directed energy weapons, i.e. devices that direct a beam of high energy content toward a target for incapacitating or destroying the target
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0068 the high-energy beam being of microwave type, e.g. for causing a heating effect in the target
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0075 the high-energy beam being a radiofrequency beam
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0081 the high-energy beam being acoustic, e.g. sonic, infrasonic or ultrasonic
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/22 for communication related to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/24 for communication related to weapons
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/34 involving multiple cooperating jammers
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/62 by exposing communication, processing or storing systems to electromagnetic wave radiation, e.g. causing disturbance, disruption or damage of electronic circuits, or causing external injection of faults in the information

Abstract

An apparatus which includes a plurality of sub-atmospheric vehicular devices; a substantially high power microwave transmitter located on each of the vehicular devices; and a waveguide for directing microwave energy from the high power microwave transmitter to a point in free space. The microwave energy from the microwave transmitters is directed from each of the plurality of vehicular devices to the point in free space.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of sub-atmospheric vehicular devices;

a substantially high power microwave transmitter located on each of the vehicular devices, each of the high power microwave transmitters configured to operate in synchronized frequency, amplitude, and phase with each other;

a waveguide for directing microwave energy from the high power microwave transmitter to a point in free space; and

wherein microwave energy is directed from each of the plurality of vehicular devices to the point in free space.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each microwave transmitter is synchronized by communicating with one another.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein each microwave transmitter is synchronized using an external synchronization station.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the output is aimable and confined toward the point in free space where it will collide.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the vehicular devices include at least one from the group of a tank, naval ship or aircraft, ground/planet based vehicle, or other platform or device attached to or set upon the ground to facilitate aiming and firing of the system.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of the high power microwave transmitters are operated in phase for creating standing wave resonance at the point in free space.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the high power microwave transmitters are operated at the same frequency and amplitude for creating standing wave resonance at the point in free space.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a sub-atmospheric vehicular device;

at least a pair of substantially high power microwave transmitters located on the vehicular device, each of the high power microwave transmitters configured to operate in synchronized frequency, amplitude, and phase with each other;

a waveguide being associated with each microwave transmitter for directing microwave energy from the high power microwave transmitter to a point in free space; and

wherein microwave energy is directed from the vehicular device to the point in free space.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein each microwave transmitter is synchronized by communicating with one another.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein each microwave transmitter is synchronized using an external synchronization station.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the output is aimable and confined toward the point in free space where it will collide.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the vehicular device is chosen from the group consisting of a tank, a naval ship, and an aircraft.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein each of the high power microwave transmitters are operated in phase for creating standing wave resonance at the point in free space.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the high power microwave transmitters are operated at the same frequency and amplitude for creating standing wave resonance at the point in free space.