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Boeing patents "Force Field Technology" to protect against explosion shock waves.
One has to imagine this technology is a little ways off, but has the potential to save many lives. What do RallyPoint members think?
http://www.cnet.com/news/boeing-patents-star-wars-style-force-fields/#ftag=YHF65cbda0
One has to imagine this technology is a little ways off, but has the potential to save many lives. What do RallyPoint members think?
http://www.cnet.com/news/boeing-patents-star-wars-style-force-fields/#ftag=YHF65cbda0
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I remember taking a College Physics Class in High School (1981)... we were studying wave theory and sound waves in particular. I remember one student asking if fluid waves can cancel each other out, why can't sound waves cancel each other out. The Teacher responded, that though that should work in theory, it would be necessary to have "enormous" computing power to measure the frequency of the sound waves coming in, and to attenuate the counter-waves at the right time to cancel them out... impossible at the time.... now we have noise cancelling headphones that do just that!
One can easily imagine the potential for this Boeing system, particularly with some future refinements.
One can easily imagine the potential for this Boeing system, particularly with some future refinements.
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Are you able to patent something that does not even have a feasible prototype yet?
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SSG Gerhard S.
There is a patent page linked in the article... I looked at a few of the patents.... and it looks like they're patenting the technology and the various linked suite of devices necessary to the technology.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8981261.PN.&OS=PN/8981261&RS=PN/8981261
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8981261.PN.&OS=PN/8981261&RS=PN/8981261
A method and system for attenuating a shockwave propagating through a first medium by heating a selected region of the first fluid medium rapidly to create a second, transient medium that intercepts the shockwave and attenuates its energy density before it reaches a protected asset. The second medium may attenuate the shockwave by one or more of reflection, refraction, dispersion, absorption and momentum transfer. The method and system may...
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