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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2006
Applicant:
Frederick W. Macdougall, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Frederick W. MacDougall, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An improvement in an electric armor system designed to prevent, among other things, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) from penetrating the hull of a fighting vehicle. The system includes a self-clearing electrode that will make the system less vulnerable to non-plasma objects that might otherwise short out the active armor electrodes. It optionally further allows for the early initiation of current flow at the point of penetration making it even easier to defeat incoming threats by allowing more time to break-up an incoming plasma jet.