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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2007
Applicant:
David Steven Moore, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Inventor:
David Steven Moore, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Assignee:
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for detecting explosives by thermal imaging. The explosive material is subjected to a high energy wave which can be either a sound wave or an electromagnetic wave which will initiate a chemical reaction in the explosive material which chemical reaction will produce heat. The heat is then sensed by a thermal imaging device which will provide a signal to a computing device which will alert a user of the apparatus to the possibility of an explosive device being present.