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US 10,322,307 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for firefighting
OwnerDaniel Leighinventor
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Abstract
A method of laser (30) based fire fighting, the method comprising: delivering energy from an emitted energy beam source to an active fire affected area (10) so as to process combustible material by one of cutting, ablating, charring and total oxidation so as to reduce the quantity of combustible material. Preferably the provided energy exhibits a total fluence of at least 50 micro-joule per square centimeter measured over a window of no more than 0.1 milliseconds. Preferably the provided energy is from a laser.
Claims14
A method of fire fighting, the method comprising:
- providing energy via an emitted pulsed energy beam to an active fire affected area;
- directing said emitted pulsed energy beam to combustible fine fuel within the active fire affected area, wherein said emitted pulsed energy beam ablates the combustible fine fuel within the active fire affected area, said provided energy sufficient to rapidly process the combustible fine fuel by said ablation such that the active fire is starved of the combustible fine fuel,
- wherein said provided energy exhibits a power of at least 1.67 mega-watts per square centimeter at the combustible fine fuel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.