Mobile IED Detonation Equipment with Decoy Mechanisms

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mine clearing devices are not adapted for processing traffic roads and are ineffective against small, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that use various activation modes, such as pressure, wire, and infrared sensors, posing a vulnerability to vehicles.

Innovation Solution

A mobile equipment with a transverse beam structure equipped with mass, mechanical, and thermal decoy devices, including wheels, vertical spring members with claws, and heating plates, respectively, to activate IEDs, and controllable clearing means to manage obstacles, allowing for efficient detection and detonation of IEDs across different actuation modes while maintaining road integrity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional mine clearing devices are used to clear roads, then they can destroy buried mines, but they break up the ground and are very slow

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to destroy minesVSAvoidclearing speed

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical mine clearing devices with a mobile equipment that uses multiple sensor types (pressure, wire, antenna, infrared) to detect and detonate IEDs remotely, eliminating the need for slow mechanical ground-breaking while maintaining road integrity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a mobile equipment as an intermediary between the vehicle and the IEDs, using various sensor-mediated detection methods to activate explosives before vehicle passage, thereby avoiding direct mechanical interaction with the ground and IEDs

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional mine clearing devices are used, then they can clear paths, but they are not adapted for activating small IEDs with different actuation modes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to handle different IED typesVSAvoidprotection against IEDs

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent designs a mobile equipment with multiple types of decoy devices (mass decoy with wheels, mechanical decoy with claws, electrical thermal decoy with heating plates) that can detect and activate various types of IEDs using different sensor modes (pressure, wire, antenna, infrared), making the system universally applicable against diverse threats

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the protection system into separate functional modules: mass decoy device for pressure sensors, mechanical decoy device for wire/antenna sensors, and electrical thermal decoy device for infrared sensors, allowing each segment to specialize in detecting specific IED actuation modes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Device complexity

If a transverse beam structure is used to mount activation means, then the structure is simple and remote from the vehicle, but the devices must be compactly installed on the beam

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural complexityVSAvoidinstallation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple activation means (mass decoy, mechanical decoy, electrical thermal decoy) onto a single transverse beam structure, integrating various functions into one unified platform that is simple to manufacture and install while maintaining adequate spacing between components

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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

The mobile equipment effectively reduces vehicle vulnerability by detecting and detonating IEDs using multiple sensor types and clearing obstacles, ensuring safe passage on roads without damaging the infrastructure.

Implementation Method 1

a mass decoy device... intended for activating, at the front of the vehicle, said explosives detonated respectively by pressure sensors

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectPressure sensor activation:

Implementation Method 2

a mechanical decoy device... intended for activating, at the front of the vehicle, said explosives detonated respectively by... wire and antenna sensors

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectWire sensor activation:

Implementation Method 3

an electrical thermal decoy device... intended for activating, at the front of the vehicle, said explosives detonated respectively by... infrared sensors

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectInfrared sensor activation: Infrared Radiation

Implementation Method 4

said resilient means are defined by combined spring-shock absorber devices connecting the transverse beam to said respective oscillating arms bearing said wheels

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectSpring-shock absorber: Spring

Data Source

PatentUS8522661B2Mobile equipment for detonating explosives and a motorized unit for securing roads, tracks or similar

Publication Date: 2013.09.03 SERA INGIE

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to mobile equipment for detonating explosives and a motorized unit for securing roads, tracks or similar. According to the present disclosure, the mobile equipment includes a supporting structure with a transverse beam having explosive-activation means mounted thereon, said means comprising at least a mass decoy device, a mechanical decoy device, a thermal electrical decoy device and controllable clearing means.