Projectile-generating explosive access tool
| Patent Number: | 8,037,828 |
| Issued: | 10/18/2011 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | An explosive device that can generate a projectile from the opposite side of a wall from the side where the explosive device is detonated. The projectile can be generated without breaching the wall of the structure or container. The device can optionally open an aperture in a solid wall of a structure or a container and form a high-kinetic-energy projectile from the portion of the wall removed to create the aperture. |
| Filed: | 12/17/2008 |
| Application Number: | 12/337,259 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |