Explosives screening on a vehicle surface
Abstract
A system for detecting particles on the outer surface of a vehicle has a housing capable of being placed in a test position adjacent to, but not in contact with, a portion of the outer surface of the vehicle. An elongate sealing member is fastened to the housing along a perimeter surrounding the wall, and the elongate sealing member has a contact surface facing away from the wall to contact the outer surface of the vehicle to define a test volume when the wall is in the test position. A gas flow system has at least one gas inlet extending through the wall for providing a gas stream against the surface of the vehicle within the test volume. This gas stream, which preferably is air, dislodges particles from the surface of the vehicle covered by the housing. The gas stream exits the test volume through a gas outlet and particles in the stream are detected.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1175224
- Patent Number(s):
- 6848325
- Application Number:
- 09/826,502
- Assignee:
- Sandia Corporation
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
Citation Formats
Parmeter, John E., Brusseau, Charles A., Davis, Jerry D., Linker, Kevin L., and Hannum, David W. Explosives screening on a vehicle surface. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web.
Parmeter, John E., Brusseau, Charles A., Davis, Jerry D., Linker, Kevin L., & Hannum, David W. Explosives screening on a vehicle surface. United States.
Parmeter, John E., Brusseau, Charles A., Davis, Jerry D., Linker, Kevin L., and Hannum, David W. Tue .
"Explosives screening on a vehicle surface". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1175224.
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title = {Explosives screening on a vehicle surface},
author = {Parmeter, John E. and Brusseau, Charles A. and Davis, Jerry D. and Linker, Kevin L. and Hannum, David W.},
abstractNote = {A system for detecting particles on the outer surface of a vehicle has a housing capable of being placed in a test position adjacent to, but not in contact with, a portion of the outer surface of the vehicle. An elongate sealing member is fastened to the housing along a perimeter surrounding the wall, and the elongate sealing member has a contact surface facing away from the wall to contact the outer surface of the vehicle to define a test volume when the wall is in the test position. A gas flow system has at least one gas inlet extending through the wall for providing a gas stream against the surface of the vehicle within the test volume. This gas stream, which preferably is air, dislodges particles from the surface of the vehicle covered by the housing. The gas stream exits the test volume through a gas outlet and particles in the stream are detected.},
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