Patent Publication Number: US-2011068690-A1

Title: Plasma jet guard

Description:
RELATED APPLICATION 
     Patent Ser. No. 11/416,600, filed May 4, 2006, and then titled as “Challenger to . . . twisters”; amendments A, B, C, D, E, F to said above Ser. No. 11/416,600, which was abandoned by Office Action (OA) of Jul. 23, 2009 in view of failure to timely file a proper reply to the OA of Apr. 27, 2009. 
     FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH 
     Not applicable. 
     SEQUENCE LISTING OR PROGRAM 
     Not applicable. 
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     This proposal relates to the methods and means of technological defense against severe atmospheric cyclonic forms such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and others all named here as cyclones. 
     The proposal deals with:
         gas—dynamic ionized electro-conductive plasma jets,   electro-magnetic inductive ionizing converters for hot gas jets,   atmospheric electricity and its discharges,   controlled meteorological missiles (further—CMM),   rocket motors (further RM) and their exhausts, and   electro-mechanical and navigation infrastructures.       

     More then 550 tornadoes and hurricanes attack America every year. The usual monitoring, predictions, and warnings are definitely deficient. 
     Numerous reports, references, books, articles, and experiments—including enacted myself with mini-twisters, so called “smerches”, —clearly indicate:
     a) Sky cyclones shaped up in saturated electro-static fields of high intensity about E=100 kw/m, i.e. in very powerful zones;   b) Most of sky cyclones are naturally formed and self-tuned combined rotary electrical machines like enormous specific motor-generators working in common volumes of involved atmospheric charges; being in united structure, cyclone—motor and cyclone—generator substructures power, drive, and boost each other, rotating and amplifying together;   c) This electric phenomenon is uniquely combined with thermodynamic, electro-magnetic, inductive, heat—convection, and ionization phenomena, also with affections of water-evaporations, solar radiation, and winds;   d) The sky cyclones accumulate their energy with electrostatic charging of huge masses of air and vapor particles at large areas of tense friction and mutual induction in natural magnetic and electro-magnetic fields.   

     Said electro-static, magnetic, thermal, and other interactions are clearly described in the book “The Electrical Nature of Storms” (Oxford University Press, NY; QC 961 M18. 1998) by D. R. Mac Gorman and W. D. Rust (both present the National Severe Storms Laboratory; Norman, Okla., USA). 
     My proposal suggests a method and means for technological and ecologically pure defense against sky cyclones, disordering and de-energizing their self-tuned power structures with electro-shorting dischargers between opposite-charged atmospheric zones through ionized electro-conductive plasma jets inside and near the formed or forming up cyclones. Said jets are prepared aboard CMM for operating the multiple triple actions which force the sky cyclones to loose their power and self-disperse out. 
     Any Prior Arts directly connected to present proposal were not found. 
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The substance and key objects of this proposal are:
     1. A method and means for disordering power structures and self-tuned mechanisms of electrification of the sky cyclones, de-energizing their driving electric fields, to strike onto thermodynamic and electro-magnetic state and mechanical momentum of cyclones&#39; rotating masses.   2. Usage of hot gas exhausts of servo rocket motors as technological instruments which are delivered to the cyclones by equipped CMMs.   3. Magneto-gas-dynamic inductive converting of running out exhausts of said RM into ionized electro-conductive plasma jets aboard said CMMs by magneto-gas-dynamic jet (further—MJ) ionizers.   4. Triggering multiple electro-shorting dischargers between contrary-charged cyclonic flows and cyclones&#39; anvils through said plasma jets as artificial lightning bolts, each operating triple actions: electro-shorting discharges, thermal and electro-magnetic strikes, and mechanical shock-waves.   5. Usage of CMMs equipped with thrust rocket motors, electro-generators, electrometers, other devices, —for proper navigation and protected flights near and inside cyclones, and also at different altitudes—for two CMMs.   6. Usage of seeded rocket fuels in order to obtain better electro-conductivity for ionized plasma jets converted from running out rocket exhausts.   7. To have a possibility of preventing severe cyclones and lightning storms by preemptive operating to monitored zones of over-saturated sky electricity.   

    
    
     
       DRAWING FIGURES 
       In the drawings, closely related units and elements have the same numbers, but different alphabetic suffixes. The numbers of views, sections, and fragments correspond to the numbers of figures where they are shown. 
         FIGS. 6 and 6A , fragment  7  of  FIG. 5  and  FIG. 7A  are related respectively. 
         FIG. 1  shows a sectional plan view of a basic Plasma Jet Guard in operative flight. 
         FIG. 2  illustrates a sectional plan view of a boosted embodiment of the Plasma Jet Guard in its operative flight. 
         FIG. 3  shows the cross-section view taken in  FIG. 1 . 
         FIG. 4  is a basic general scheme of MJ ionizers developed in present proposal. 
         FIG. 5  is a typical scanned tech-electrical scheme of the Guard including the MJ ionizer shown in  FIG. 4 , and illustrating all the functional process. 
         FIG. 6  shows both sections  6 - 6  taken in  FIG. 5  for closed electric circuits. 
         FIG. 6A  shows said sections of  FIG. 6 , but for disconnected electric circuits. 
         FIG. 7A  is a fragment  7  of  FIG. 5 , but shown for  FIG. 6A  where current I=0. 
         FIG. 8  is a partial section taken in  FIG. 2 . 
         FIG. 9  shows graph-curves of electro-conductivities for ionized jet plasmas obtained in MJ ionizer from seeded and unseeded rocket fuel exhausts. 
         FIG. 10  is a space scheme of two GUARDs guided to different altitudes of an example tornado in coordinated functional cooperation. 
     
    
    
     REFERENCE NUMERALS, CHARACTERS, SYMBOLS in DRAWINGS 
     Guard numerals. A. Controlled Meteorological Missiles (CMM):  20 A—Basic CMM  20 B—Plasma-boosted CMM  21 —Electric block  22 A, 22 B—Electro-meters  23 —Electro-insulation  24 —Flapped winglet  25 A—Rudder, Fin  25 B,  25 C—Servomechanisms  26 A,  26 B—Self-detachable lightning rods  27 —Control block  28 A,  28 B—Nose, tail protectors. B. Rocket motors (RM):  30 —Thrust RM  31 —Plasma jet servo-RM  32 —Combined RM  33 —Thermo-insulation  34 —Turbine  35 —Electro-generator  36 —Exhaust branch  37 —Damper  38 —Adjuster  39 —Turbine outlet. C. Magneto-gas-dynamic jet (MJ) ionizer:  40 —Basic MJ ionizer  40 A—Casing  41 —Thrust MJ ionizer  42 A,  42 B—Electro-magnet legs  43 —Anode electrode  44 —Cathode electrode  45 —Contactor  46 —Rotor&#39;s meter  47 —Drive adjuster  48 —Fixer  49 A—Static tie  49 B—Rotor  49 C—Stator  49 D—Rotor&#39;s tie  49 E,  49 M—Electrodes&#39; and Magnets&#39; Cams, respectively. D. Universal units, devices, and structures:  50 A, B—Electric motors  51 —Battery  52 A,B,C—Electric transformers  53 —Rectifier  54 —Electro-charger  55 —Navigation block  56 —Sensor block  57 —Electric RLC-oscillator  58 —Wiring. 
     Jets&#39; numerals, characters, and symbols.  60 ; T—Thrust jet  61 —Dashed plasma jet  62 —Combined jet  63 —Exhaust jet  64 ; PS—Plasma segment  65 ; EI—Exhaust jet interval 
     Cyclonic and operative numerals, and symbols:  70 —Tornado funnel  71 —Tornado collar  72 —Upper cloud  73 N—Negatively charged spin-flow  73 P—Positively charged spin-flow  73 S—Static round-up charged anvil  73 R—Round-up charged spin-flow  74 A, E, S—Intra-flow, Inter-flow, and Static anvil Dischargers, respectively A  1 , A 2 —Operative altitudes R—Rotation Tp—Exhaust portion 
     Most of regular conventional units. structures, and elements have their particularities connected with function operations of the Guards&#39; systems. 
     Those, mentioned above, are not considered in present proposal as New Matter and are not subjects of following detailed description. 
     Well known subunits, communications, infrastructures, guidance, general service structures and devices like parachute-unit, other controls are not shown in drawings for better clarity and reasonable shortness. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION, GENERAL OPERATION 
     The Plasma Jet Guard is a technological instrument for defense against severe atmospheric cyclones like tornadoes, hurricanes, others. The Guard includes a controlled meteorological missile [CMM] with a trust and plasma-jet servo rocket motors [RM], guidance electrometers, magneto-gas-dynamic jet [MJ] ionizers, and interacting devices, all shown in their operations on drawing figures. 
       FIG. 1  illustrates a typical embodiment of the Guard which includes a basic CMM  20 A, thrust RM  30 , plasma-jet servo-RMs  31 , basic MPJ ionizers  40 , and other mentioned in reference list elements. The operative thrust jet  60 , and dashed plasma jets  61  are shown. 
       FIG. 2  shows another, more boosted embodiment of the Guard which includes plasma-boosted CMM  20 B, combined RM  32 , trust MJ ionizer  41 . The inlet of exhaust branch  36  for board electro-generator  35  driving, thrust MJ ionizer  41 , and dashed thrust-plasma combined jet  62  are shown. 
       FIG. 3  shows a preferable symmetrical and balanced arrangements of plasma-jet servo-RMs  31  with connected to them MJ ionizers  40  what is important for stable controlled flights in severe storm conditions. 
       FIG. 4  illustrates a general scheme of a Basic MJ ionizer  40 . Are shown electromagnet legs  42 A,  42 B; electrodes  43 ,  44 ; transformers  52 B,  52 C, contactor  45 , coming exhaust jet  63 , converted with said magnets  42 A,  42 B into ionized dashed plasma jet  61 , other indicated elements. 
       FIG. 5  displays the general scheme of the Guard in operation. All the elements are indicated in reference numerals section. The state of the basic ionizer  40 , shown in fragment  7 , corresponds to the closed electric chain provided by rotating contactor  45  for obtaining plasma jet segment  64  in shown here instant, as a step of said above dashed plasma jet  61 . 
       FIGS. 6 and 6A  show how the contactor  45  closes and disconnects electrical feeding of ionizer  40 , providing current I or not, respectively. The common metered and adjusted rotation R of cams  49 M and  49 E coordinates the order of ionizer&#39;s  40  units work, as well as adjusting of shown on  FIG. 5  transformers  52  A,B,C and RLC-oscillator  57 . 
       FIG. 7A  shows the fragment  7 , but operatively corresponds to  FIG. 6A , when ionizer&#39;s  40  electromagnet legs  42 A,  42 B and electrodes  43  and  44  are disconnected for exhaust non-ionized interval  65  or thrust jet  63 . 
       FIG. 8  illustrates how the portion Tp of running out exhausts  63  of the combined RM  32  is taken off for turbine  34  driving. All the previously mentioned elements are shown in operation. 
       FIG. 9  shows the ionizing benefits of seeded rocket fuels for plasma jet RM  31 , 32 . The electro-conductivity Ec of obtained plasmas for the same exhaust temperatures Tj is much higher for seeded fuels SF, than for unseeded rocket fuels UF; the electro-shorting dischargers  74  become much stronger. Seed materials: alkali-metallic powder. cesium, and potassium, depending on rocket propellant and MJ ionizers&#39;  40 ,  41  arrangements, which are inductively similar to the known MHD-generators.
         A. Said MHD-generators produce electricity by electro-magnetic induction of circularly moving hot gases; their electrodes deliver electric power from induced in magnetic field plasma to the electrical loads;   B. MJ ionizers  40 ,  41  inductively convert the hot rocket exhausts  63  into electro-conductive plasmas  62  for external electro-shorting. Ionizers&#39; electrodes  43 , 44  start and boost the exhausts&#39; conversion into electro-conductive plasmas, consuming energy from transformers  52  B,C.       

       FIG. 10  shows a scheme of action for two CMMs  20 A,  20 B near an exemplary tornado  70 ,  71 . The missiles work at their altitudes A 2  and A 1 , respectively. Multiple electro-shorting dischargers  74  A,E,S are triggered off between contrary charged zones in the spin-flows  73  N,P,R and in the anvil  73 S through ionized electro-conductive plasma jets  62  and  64 . 
     The exhaust jet intervals  65 , being non-electro-conductive, protect both missiles  20 A and  20 B against possible back electro-strokes. 
     Operative Interactions 
     The blocks  21 ,  27  with meters  22 A,B provide needed guidance and maneuvers in order to reach atmospheric electricity saturated zones and start plasma jet RMs  31 , 32  and MRJ ionizers  40 ,  41  to work. 
     Said ionizers convert the hot running out exhaust gases of said RMs into ionized plasma jets  61 , 62  with correct adjusted electro-conductivity Ec to initiate and trigger multiple electro-shorting dischargers  74  between the contrary charged zones of atmospheric electricity through plasma segments. 
     The temperature of the air along the dischargers  74  lightning paths is suddenly risen up to about 54,000 F. This causes air pressure around stroke to rise instantly up to many hundred PSI, and air rapidly expands. The dynamic expansion of air creates multiple powerful thunder-shock waves around any of dischargers  74 A,  74 E,  74 S, thus also mechanically disordering cyclones&#39; rotating structures. 
     Each of dischargers  74 , consisting of a leader and several return strokes, operates multiple triple actions onto sky cyclones:
     a) electro-shorting between contrary charged zones of atmospheric electricity through plasma jet segments for effective discharging and disordering the cyclones&#39; self-tuned powerful electrical structures;   b) thermal and electromagnetic strikes generated by instant conversions for messing and destroying the thermo-electric states of the cyclones;   c) dynamic mechanical shocks for rotating and moving zones affection.   

     Said multiple triple actions of many dischargers  74  lead to disordering, disorganizing, and de-energizing the self-tuned powerful structures of saturated electric fields, which drove sky cyclones. Step by step, the sky cyclones self-disperse, mostly by the winds which moved them. 
     The missiles  20 A,  20 B return back with gentle parachute landings for recovery and preparing to the next missions. 
     The Plasma Jet Guard and the method can be used for preventing violent sky cyclones and severe lightning storms by operating said prepared missiles into monitored zones of measured voltage over-accumulation for discharging and de-energizing the high-saturated atmospheric electricity.