Green energy mine defeat system

• US 9,234,725 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kevin Mark Diaz
• Original Assignee: Kevin Mark Diaz
• Inventors: Diaz, Kevin Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin P
• Application Number:
  US13/754,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20140007756A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,077 Days
• Field of Search: 89/11.3, 89/360.1, 89/360.2, 89/360.7, 89/360.8, 89/360.9, 102/402, 86/50
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/00 Defence installations; Defence devices constructional aspects see Section E, e.g. air-raid shelters E04H9/04; protective arrangements for buildings E04B1/92; extinguishing or preventing the spread of fire from, incendiary bombs A62C3/06; dynamic armour F41H5/007; ballistically deployed systems for restraining persons or animals F41H13/0006; electronic countermeasures G01S
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/13 Systems specially adapted for detection of landmines
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/16 Self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles; Mine-clearing devices attachable to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/18 with ground-impacting means for activating mines by the use of mechanical impulses, e.g. flails or stamping elements
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/28 using brushing or sweeping means or dozers to push mines lying on a surface aside; using means for removing mines intact from a surface
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/007 Reactive armour; Dynamic armour
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/06 Shields in ships B63G9/00; in aircraft B64D7/00 ; blasting mats F42D5/05
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/20 Turrets on vehicles F41H7/04
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/005 Unmanned ground vehicles, i.e. robotic, remote controlled or autonomous, mobile platforms carrying equipment for performing a military or police role, e.g. weapon systems or reconnaissance sensors F41H11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/042 Floors or base plates for increased land mine protection
• CPC Class Codes: F42D 5/045 Detonation-wave absorbing or damping means

Abstract

A semi-continuous duty, Green Technology 14, robotic vehicle providing protection and security from underground mines. A deflector blade 11 follows natural existing contours to maintain straight line paths, while simultaneously carrying a mine detector 10, a vertical reciprocating ram set 30, 32 and 33 that preloads soil while also creating forward motion, followed by an energy dissipation, reaction system and containment canopy system 22, 24, 26 & 29.

Claims

1. An apparatus on a vehicle or robot for containing landmine blasts, comprising:

a plurality of energy dissipating struts mounted to said vehicle or robot and at least one blast sandwich assembly, wherein said struts are energy absorbing and connected on one end to said vehicle or robot and on the opposite end to said blast sandwich assembly;

the blast sandwich assembly having two or more blast resistant plates with space between said plates and at least one said plate having multiple openings;

said plate openings having internally aligned ducts suitably fashioned to deflect energy;

and

wherein said plates are connected at edges.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said plates have a distance in space between said plates controlled by electromagnetic forces and are hinge connected at edges.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein energy absorbing material is layered onto one or more of said plate surfaces.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein two or more of said blast sandwich assemblies further comprise forming a larger surface wherein said blast sandwich assemblies are hinge connected to each other.

5. The apparatus of 1 or 2, wherein at least one said blast sandwich assembly is hinged to open as a gate.

6. The apparatus of 1 or 2, further comprising pressure sensitive encased charges positioned to counteract upward forces from said mine blast.

7. The apparatus of 1 or 2, wherein said robot contains a gyroscope.

8. The apparatus of 1 or 2, wherein said robot contains one or more chutes through said robot.

9. The apparatus of 1 or 2, wherein said robot comprises a frame having telescopic cylinders supporting a turret.

10. The apparatus of 1 or 2, wherein said robot comprises an on-board computer for user remote control.

11. The apparatus of 1 or 2, wherein said robot comprises an on-board computer using global positioning satellite positioning for automatic guidance control operation.