Mobile assault logistic kinetmatic engagement device

• US 5,020,411 A
• Filed: 03/06/1989
• Issued: 06/04/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Larry Rowan
• Original Assignee: Larry Rowan
• Inventors: Rowan, Larry
• Primary Examiner(s): Jordan, Charles T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Carone, Michael
• Application Number:
  US07/277,122
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 89/1.11, 89/1.1, 89/36.15, 244/159, 244/172, 244/62, 244/63, 60/202, 60/203.1, 376/319
• US Class Current: 89/1.11
• CPC Class Codes: F02G 1/043 the engine being operated by expansion and contraction of a mass of working gas which is heated and cooled in one of a plurality of constantly communicating expansible chambers, e.g. Stirling cycle type engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02G 2243/52 acoustic
• CPC Class Codes: F03H 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 23/00 Gun mountings, e.g. on vehicles; Disposition of guns on vehicles F41A25/00, F41A27/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 6/00 Electromagnetic launchers ; Plasma-actuated launchers projectiles for electromagnetic or plasma guns F42B6/006
• 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

Abstract

A portable-mobile-self propelled weapons plateform. Said plateform being propelled by an automated array of plasma engines coupled to a plasma source, energy source and further being coupled to energy weapon systems.

Claims

1. An automated, independently targetable extra-vehicular platform including:

a plurality of propulsion engines carried by said platform, each of said engines including an array of plasma induction motors, each of said plasma induction motors being coupled to a silicon nitride sintered turbine;

energy weapons carried by said platform;

programmed control means coupled to said propulsion engines and to said energy weapons for controlling the direction and magnitude of the thrust from said propulsion engines and for firing said energy weapons, all in accordance with an operational program in said programmed control means; and

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a source of electrical power carried by said platform and electricity coupled to said propulsion engines, to said energy weapons and to said programmed control means for operating the same.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1 which includes, in addition, mass-action driver elements carried by said platform and coupled electrically to said programmed control means for control thereof and to said source of electrical power for the powering thereof.

3. Apparatus according to claim 1 in which said electrical power source is nuclear in nature.

4. Apparatus according to claim 1 in which each of said plasma induction motors includes, in addition, at least one primary plasma reservoir, at least one secondary plasma reservoir, a plasma injection unit coupled to said plasma reservoirs, and plasma control means electrically coupled to said injection unit and controlling operation of said injection unit and for providing electronic ignition sequencing of said injection unit.

5. Apparatus according to claim 4 in which each of said plasma induction motors includes in addition, substrate material coupled to said plasma reservoir in each of said induction motors which substrate charges said plasma reservoir from the medium in which said platform exists.

6. Apparatus according to claim 4 which includes, in addition, secondary plasma reservoir coupled to said sintered turbine, and excitation means coupled to said secondary plasma reservoir for generating plasma.

7. Apparatus according to claim 6 in which said excitation means includes an excismer source.

8. Apparatus according to claim 6 in which said excitation means includes an excismer and microwave source.

9. Apparatus according to claim 8 which includes, in addition, tube means coupling said secondary plasma reservoir to said sintered turbine.

10. Apparatus according to claim 9 which includes, in addition, radio-frequency means coupled to said tube means for further exciting the plasma from said secondary plasma reservoir.

11. Apparatus according to claim 9 which includes, in addition, electrical arc-discharge means coupled sintered turbine.

12. Apparatus according to claim 6 which includes, in addition, shaft means coupled to said sintered turbine which is coupled to a drive train which is coupled to a piezoelectric motor means.