Ordnance – Accelerating
Patent
1985-08-21
1989-01-10
Bentley, Stephen C.
Ordnance
Accelerating
124 3, 310 12, F41F 102
Patent
active
047965118
ABSTRACT:
An electromagnetic projectile launcher has a barrel (10) formed with parallel firing rails (13, 14) and separate supply conductors (18, 19) which are connected to the firing rails to supply firing current to one and receive the firing current from the other. The supply conductors (18, 19) are formed about the bore (11) of the barrel as sectors of a cylinder and are coaxial with one another such that current in adjacent portions of the two supply conductors flow in opposite directions. Very little time varying magnetic field is produced within the bore of the barrel (11) or outside of the supply conductors (18, 19) as a result of firing currents flowing in the supply conductors and in the firing rails. The magnetic field which accelerates a projectile through the bore is provided from a persistent magnet (26), which may be superconducting, formed about the bore in a dipole configuration to provide a constant magnetic field substantially transverse to the path of the projectile through the barrel.
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Bentley Stephen C.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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