Patent ID: 11865546
Assignee: SHARP PULSE CORP.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An impactor for kinetically impacting a compound material comprising constituent materials of different mechanical characteristics, the impactor comprising:
a chamber configured to be substantially filled with a liquid, the chamber including a peripheral wall comprising a pair of wall-sections facing each other, wherein an interior surface of each wall-section of the pair of wall-sections has a cylindrical parabolic shape; and
a shockwave generator located within the chamber, the shockwave generator comprising a plurality of pairs of gapped electrodes,
wherein the shockwave generator is configured to generate a shockwave by causing an electrical breakdown of the liquid in an electrode gap, for impacting a preimpact mixture comprising a plurality of compound particles, wherein each compound particle comprises a first constituent material and a second constituent material;
wherein each wall-section of the pair of wall-sections is associated with a corresponding pair of gapped electrodes of the plurality of pairs of gapped electrodes;
wherein, for each wall-section of the pair of wall-sections, the electrode gap between the gapped electrodes of the wall-section's corresponding pair of gapped electrodes coincides with a focus axis of the wall-section's cylindrical parabolic shape, such that a portion of the shockwave reflecting from the wall-section's interior surface presents a flat wavefront;
wherein the shockwave is able to cause the first constituent material to separate from an at least one compound particle of the plurality of compound particles, resulting in a postimpact mixture comprising (i) an at least one first-constituent-material subparticle and (ii) an at least one reduced-compound particle comprising the second constituent material; and
wherein the chamber further comprises (i) an input port for allowing the preimpact mixture suspended in the liquid to enter the chamber, and (ii) an output port for allowing the postimpact mixture suspended in the liquid to exit the chamber.