Harbinger Wave Detection for Shock Source Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for detecting and locating explosive detonations, projectile impacts, or weapon launches are delayed and rely on electrical connections, making it difficult to deploy protective measures in real time and accurately determine the source location.
Innovation Solution
A magnetic capture device intercepts the Harbinger wave and Main shock wave, converting their kinetic energy into electrical energy for signal processing, allowing for real-time detection and location of the event epicenter using a signal processing algorithm.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If electrical sensing devices are used to detect shock waves, then detection capability is provided, but detection time is delayed until after the shock wave has already caused damage
Solution Approach 1:
The system detects the H wave precursor that precedes the main shock wave, enabling preliminary detection and warning before the destructive M wave arrives. This allows protective measures to be activated in advance, resolving the contradiction by detecting the event earlier without sacrificing reliability through the use of specialized H wave sensors
2Device complexity
If manual analysis methods are used to locate event sources, then source location can be determined, but system complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual analysis methods with automated signal processing algorithms that analyze H wave characteristics to automatically determine source location. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with electronic signal processing reduces system complexity and cost while maintaining or improving location precision
3Object-affected harmful factors
If robust protective deflectors are deployed to prevent shock wave damage, then protection capability is improved, but response time requirements become extremely tight (microseconds)
Solution Approach 1:
By detecting the H wave precursor before the main shock wave arrives, the system provides advance warning that allows protective measures to be activated in advance rather than requiring microsecond-response passive deflectors. This preliminary detection enables active protection systems to deploy in time, resolving the contradiction between protection capability and response time requirements
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables immediate deployment of protective measures and accurate location of the event source within seconds, reducing the need for complex electrical connections and improving response times for military and civilian forces.
Implementation Method 1
The wave masses will interact with magnetically stored electromagnetic energy and their kinetic energy will transform to electrical energy
Implementation Method 2
an emerging shock M wave from an explosive blast, projectile impact or launch event emits a DC ionized mass slug upon formation, that is ionization is broadcast from shock formation
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, algorithm and signal processing means utilizing an explosively formed Harbinger (H) wave to forecast an imminent shock wave and in conjunction with the this trailing Main (M) shock wave determination of H wave velocity and M shock wave velocities, overpressure, dynamic pressure, and density and further the M shock wave epicenter location co-ordinates. These parameter determinations are based on the discovery of a Harbinger wave launched upon formation of the M shock wave which annunciates the incoming M shock wave before its arrival. These variables are further used to devise methods and systems to simultaneously detonate an array of munitions, deploy just in time personnel and/or equipment protection, determine the wave epicenter for identifying enemy combatants and terrorist positions, alert response teams to a deleterious event and its magnitude, signal the location of these deleterious events and determine if a munition has functioned.