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US 4,862,021 AGranted
Explosively driven power supply
OwnerEdward W. LaRoccainventor
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Abstract
A permanent magnet made of a pulverizable magnetic material is positioned immediately adjacent to a quantity of an explosive. An electrically conductive coil surrounds the permanent magnet and the explosive. A detonator is provided for detonating the explosive. The explosive is capable, upon detonation, of rapidly removing the magnet from inside the coil by disintegration, by collapsing the magnet or by causing high velocity omni-directional dispersal of a plurality of minute fractional parts of the permanent magnet. A single-pulse high voltage electrical signal is thereby induced in the coil.
Claims18
A power supply comprising:
- a permanent magnet made of a pulverizable magnetic material;
- a quantity of an explosive, concentric with or coaxial to the permanent magnet;
- an electrically conductive coil surrounding the permanent magnet and the explosive;
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- a detonator for detonating the explosive to remove the magnet from inside the coil by causing disintegration of the permanent magnet;
- whereby a single-pulse electrical signal will be induced in the coil.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.