Patents Assigned to GT-Device
  • Method of and apparatus for deriving a high pressure, high temperature plasma jet with a dielectric capillary
    Patent number: 5033355
    Abstract: A pulsed high pressure, supersonic plasma jet for accelerating a projectile through an elongated confined bore is derived from a dielectric structure including a capillary passage having an interior wall surface from which plasma forming material is ablated in response to a discharge voltage applied to first and second electrodes respectively forming a nozzle and plug at opposite ends of the passage. The nozzle injects the plasma into the bore behind the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: GT-Device
    Inventors: Yeshayahu S. A. Goldstein, Derek A. Tidman