Explosive Disruptor Stabilization Plates for Alignment and Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing explosive disruptor containers face challenges in maintaining proper alignment during transport and appropriate placement for deployment, leading to inconsistent performance.
Innovation Solution
A stabilization and deployment system comprising a stabilization plate with ridges and connector rings, along with optional stabilization rods and straps, to secure and align explosive disruptor containers, ensuring stability during transport and deployment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If explosive disruptor containers are transported without stabilization, then device complexity is reduced, but alignment and placement precision deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The stabilization system is divided into separate modular components: a stabilization plate with ridges, connector rings with projections, and straps. These segmented elements can be independently manufactured and assembled, allowing precise alignment features to be optimized without unnecessarily complicating the entire system. Each component performs a specific function in maintaining alignment during transport.
Solution Approach 2:
Connector rings serve as intermediary elements between the stabilization plate and the explosive disruptor containers. These rings with their projections and recesses mediate the connection, providing a simple yet effective mechanism for maintaining alignment without requiring complex direct attachment systems. The intermediary components absorb and distribute alignment forces during transport.
2Stability of the object's composition
If explosive disruptor containers are deployed without stabilization, then ease of operation is improved, but placement stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The stabilization plate with its ridges and the connector rings with projections are pre-configured before deployment. This preliminary arrangement of stabilization elements ensures that when the containers are placed on the plate, they automatically achieve proper alignment and stability without requiring complex adjustment procedures during the actual deployment operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The stabilization plate incorporates localized ridges and contours at specific positions to provide targeted stability where needed. Rather than using a complex overall structure, the stabilization features are locally optimized at critical points (such as around the container placement areas) to maintain placement stability while keeping the rest of the system simple and easy to deploy.
3Power
If water systems use high explosive shock waves, then disruptive power is improved, but performance consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The stabilization and alignment system is prepared in advance to ensure that explosive disruptor containers are properly positioned and aligned before the disruptive action is executed. This preliminary stabilization prevents variability in container placement and orientation, thereby ensuring consistent performance of the water disruption system when the explosive shock wave is generated.
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AI summary
A stabilization and deployment system including at least some of a stabilization plate having a stabilization plate top side, wherein a ridge is formed in or extends from at least a portion of the stabilization plate top side, wherein, the ridge provides a perimeter around at least a portion of the stabilization plate top side to define a stabilization plate recess of the stabilization plate top side, wherein the stabilization plate recess comprises three aligned, at least partially overlapping circular recesses, wherein the circular recesses are arranged such that each circular recess at least partially overlaps each adjacent circular recess, and wherein the circular recesses are arranged so that relative centers of each of the circular recesses are spaced from one another at a distance that is equal to one and one half times a length of a radius of at least one of the circular recesses.