Patent ID: 9449721
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G21B,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for providing an impact on a target comprising: an accelerator configured to launch a multiplicity of positively charged pellets; a target; an interval of vacuum separating the accelerator from the target; wherein the accelerator is configured to launch pellets at times and with velocities such that at least some pellets catch up into close proximity with earlier launched pellets during transit of the vacuum interval to strike the target as a group; at least one measurement station configured and adapted to measure the positions of individual pellets at one or more points along the interval of vacuum after leaving the accelerator, the measurement station comprising a computerized system configured to assign a coordinate value to each pellet, the assigned coordinates usable to determine any course adjustment required for each of the plurality of pellets; at least one adjusting station positioned downstream from at least one measurement station, the adjusting station configured to individually adjust the courses of pellets after measurement at the measurement station.