Pressure and heat conducted energy device and method
AssigneeConvey Technology, Inc.
InventorJ. Samuel Batchelder
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Abstract
A method of delivering charge to a remote target includes pressurizing a reservoir of metallic conductor initially at a temperature below its melting point. The method includes flowing the metallic conductor through an orifice to form a continuous thread with axial velocity, so that a user might direct the axial velocity of the thread to intercept the remote target. The method further includes applying a potential differential along the thread so that electrical current flows between the reservoir and the remote target.
Claims29
A method of delivering current to a remote target, comprising
- pressurizing a reservoir of metallic conductor initially at a temperature below its melting point;
- flowing the metallic conductor through an orifice to form a continuous thread with axial velocity, so that a user might direct the axial velocity of the thread to intercept the remote target;
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- applying a potential differential along the thread so that electrical current flows between the reservoir and the remote target.
A conductive energy weapon configured to extrude a plurality of conductive metallic threads from a conductive metallic material at an initial temperature below a melting temperature of the conductive metallic material, the weapon comprising:
- a plurality of spaced apart extruders, each extruder comprising:
- a barrel having a first end and a second end and configured to retain a supply of the conductive metallic material;
- an extrusion tip having an extrusion orifice;
- a piston configured to sealingly move with the barrel from the first end;
- a pressurization system configured to engage each piston and configured to move the each piston relative to a respective barrel;
- a power supply configured to activate the pressurization system;
- an electric pulse generator configured to supply non-lethal electrical energy through the extruded conductive metallic threads;
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- a controller configured to cause the pressurization system to move the each piston relative to the respective barrel and raise a pressure on the conductive metallic material such that the conductive metallic material shears and raises a temperature proximate the extrusion tip sufficiently to extrude the conductive metallic threads through the extrusion orifice at velocity and to cause electric pulses to travel along the extruded conductive metallic threads.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.