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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
David P Bauer, Xenia, OH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89-8 ; 124-3 ;
Abstract
An electromagnetically energized railgun system in which nesting and segmenting of the primary rails is combined with augmenting rails and crossover bar conductors and an inductorless single power supply arrangement to provide a high efficiency hypervelocity capable railgun improvement over prior railgun arrangements. The disclosed railgun apparatus uses a single power supply or energy source and achieves the desired near zero muzzle energy storage through a combination of inductive and resistive primary rail commutation, power supply pulsing, and augmenting rail inductive energy storage.