US 12,359,967 B2
Deployable micro-spectrometer bullets
Sang H. Choi, Poquoson, VA (US); and Robert W. Moses, Poquoson, VA (US)
Assigned to SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC., Poquoson, VA (US)
Filed by Space Age Technologies, LLC, Poquoson, VA (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/299,601.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/330,000, filed on Apr. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0324224 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G01J 3/10 (2006.01); F41B 11/80 (2013.01); G01J 3/02 (2006.01); G01J 3/28 (2006.01); G01J 3/44 (2006.01)
CPC G01J 3/0291 (2013.01) [F41B 11/80 (2013.01); G01J 3/0208 (2013.01); G01J 3/0229 (2013.01); G01J 3/0256 (2013.01); G01J 3/0283 (2013.01); G01J 3/10 (2013.01); G01J 3/2823 (2013.01); G01J 3/4406 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bullet micro-spectrometer comprising:
a super capacitor configured to be chargeable and dischargeable for supplying power;
a charging/discharging mode selection circuit configured to charge and discharge the super capacitor;
a burst-mode light emitting diode (LED) ultraviolet (UV) light source or a laser diode light source that produce ultraviolet light;
driving control electronics configured to control the ultraviolet light emitted by the burst-mode LED UV light source or the laser diode light source for burst mode emission of deep or vacuum ultraviolet light;
telemetry electronics configured to collect and transmit digitized spectral data; and
a stretchable wire antenna through which the digitized spectral data are transmitted,
configured to be deployed as a projectile from a gun, as a mortar shell, as a self-propelled rocket, as a projectile from a rover vehicle, as a projectile from a satellite, from a bottom of a shoe, or from an axial end of a stick.