UA64067A - Method for using space vacuum for the long-term operation of a high-voltage kenotron - Google Patents

Abstract

The proposed method for using space vacuum for the long-term operation of a high-voltage kenotron consists in that the equipment for generating X-radiation is installed inside of a space vehicle, and the elements of the kenotron are installed outside of the space vehicle. In this case, the need for using a glass bulb enclosing the anode and cathode of the kenotron is excluded. The focused pulse X-radiation can be used for destroying missiles in outer space or on the earth surface.

Description

Description of the invention

The method of obtaining X-ray radiation concentrated in a point. 2 The invention relates to x-ray technology and concerns the concentration of x-ray radiation at a point and can be used to destroy missiles in space and on the ground.

Known author's certificate of the USSR under Mo1368924. This invention relates to a method of obtaining X-ray radiation, where the purpose of the invention is to increase the intensity of radiation in the short-wavelength part of X-ray radiation. 70 The prototype of the invention is the "Scheme of determining the location of damage in a cable by acoustic method" (the book "Reference on the installation of electrical equipment of electrical stations and substations" edited by Z.S. Musazlyan, "Znergiya", Moscow, 1971, p. 367. See the diagram).

The scheme consists of a high-voltage transformer, to the high-voltage terminal of which the cathode of the high-voltage kenotron is connected in series, and its anode is connected to the terminal of the capacitor, the second terminal 72 of which is connected to the second terminal of the high-voltage winding of the transformer. An arrester is connected to the capacitor, the second output of the arrester is connected to the damaged core of the cable.

The scheme works like this - a high voltage alternating current is applied to the kenotron, where it is rectified and charges the capacitor. When the charge and voltage on the capacitor reach a critical value relative to the arrester, it activates and the impulse from the arrester goes to the damaged core of the cable.

The scheme has a significant drawback. If the gap on the arrester is made large, then in order for the arrester to work, it is necessary to raise the voltage on the high-voltage winding of the transformer. As a result, after the discharge of the capacitor, the pulse voltage goes not only through the arrester to the damaged core of the cable, but also to the anode of the high-voltage kenotron. At the same time, a counter current flows from the cathode of the high-voltage kenotron in the form of an electron cloud.

When electrons collide in a vacuum, increased X-ray radiation occurs, which burns the glass of a high-voltage kenotron cylinder with a diameter of approximately mm. At the same time, the glass of the balloon becomes dark to opaque, as after gamma radiation.

The filament of the high-voltage kenotron, the cathode, remains intact.

The concentration of X-ray radiation in a point occurs due to the oncoming collision of electrons from the cathode to the anode, because the filament, the cathode, is made in the form of a broken circle, and the plane of the anode is parallel to the plane of the cathode. At the same time, a hole in the glass of the kenotron cylinder is formed from the side of the gap in the cathode filament. at

After the glass of the cylinder breaks, the kenotron fails, because air enters the kenotron through the hole and the vacuum disappears, without which the kenotron cannot work.

The invention is based on the task of using the harmful phenomenon of powerful X-ray radiation concentrated in a point while preserving the performance of a broken high-voltage kenotron.

The task is solved by placing the scheme on a space vehicle that rotates in an orbit around the earth, where the space vacuum is constant. WITH

The circuit consists of a high-voltage transformer, the cathode of a high-voltage kenotron is connected in series to its high-voltage winding, and its anode is connected to the output of the capacitor. The second terminal of the capacitor is connected to the second terminal of the high-voltage winding of the transformer, a discharger is connected in parallel to the terminals of the capacitor.

The essence of the invention consists in the fact that the circuit is placed in the middle of the spacecraft, and the high-voltage kenotron, without a glass balloon, is fixed on the outer side of the spacecraft, in the space vacuum, while the filament of the cathode filament has the form of a broken circle and is located "outside" parallel to plane of the anode (see diagram).

Since there is a constant cosmic vacuum in space, when the circuit is working and the glass of the balloon is heated by the high-voltage kenotron, the vacuum between the cathode and the anode will be constant. Therefore, the glass cylinder becomes unnecessary at all, and the scheme will be permanently operational.

The proposed scheme can be called an X-ray laser, where: "m 1. cathode and anode, located in parallel, similar to laser mirrors; 2. current from the cathode, the working body of the laser; 3. countercurrent from the anode to the cathode is a source of excitation of the electromagnetic field, which turns into 25 enhanced x-rays concentrated into a point c 4. the discharger acts as a switch for charging and discharging the capacitor 5. the transformer is the source of power supply.

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60 Formula of the invention The method of using the space vacuum for the repeated operation of a high-voltage kKenotron located in the scheme for the generation of X-ray radiation concentrated in a point, which differs in that the scheme is placed in the middle of the space vehicle, and the high-voltage kenotron without a glass balloon is fixed on the outer side of the space vehicle in the space vacuum, at the same time, the filament of the cathode has the form of a broken circle and is located parallel to the plane of the anode, due to which the X-ray radiation is concentrated in a point. 70 « M (se) (av) « (Se) - with . and Ge) s" (av) Fo "and 60 65