Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 273: Exoskeleton protective clothing

Returning to the refuge, Chen Xin was busy miniaturizing the isotope thermoelectric battery, and at the same time, he was seriously thinking about how to make exoskeleton protective clothing.

The manufacture of exoskeleton is a very simple task for Chen Xin. In fact, even for the current Yan Country, it is not difficult to make an exoskeleton.

Before the disaster, various exoskeletons that entered the practical stage were already in use, not only in the military, but even the delivery courier brothers had experimental exoskeletons.

However, this kind of exoskeleton is a passive exoskeleton. In short, it is a load-bearing bracket without a power source. Through scientific ergonomic design, it can effectively support heavy objects and reduce the physical consumption of users. It belongs to a kind of power-assisted equipment. .

However, this kind of exoskeleton obviously cannot meet Chen Xin's requirements, and he does not need to work hard to develop this kind of thing. The country has already had things ready to use.

The exoskeleton that Chen Xin wants to develop should be called a mechanical exoskeleton or a power exoskeleton. It is a mechanical device made of a steel frame and can be donned by a person. This equipment can provide additional energy for the limbs. sports.

This kind of equipment is common in various sci-fi works, such as the Fifty Brothers armor in "StarCraft", the Mark series iron suit in "Iron Man", and the soup in "Edge of Tomorrow" The equipment on my brother, the ugly and cute T series in the "Radiation" series, the Thor's hammer of the Spartan warriors in the "Halo" series, etc...

These are the exoskeleton devices that people think of, or more simply called power armor.

In fact, strictly speaking, there is not much difference between the two in essence, or the exoskeleton is just a power armor that lacks more solid protection, and power armor is an exoskeleton with more comprehensive protection.

The concept of this kind of equipment was proposed in the Federation in 1960. After many years of research, various related technologies and research and development ideas about exoskeletons have already been proven. What is really left is that modern technology cannot Solved the hard bones.

There are two key issues in this. The first is how to control the exoskeleton in the human-computer interaction mode, and the second is the power source of the exoskeleton.

The choice of the way of human-computer interaction is not a problem in the development of exoskeleton, but it is not so easy to solve.

The source of power is even more of a stumbling block for exoskeleton to enter the practical and promotion stage. It can be said that one of the biggest difficulties in the development of exoskeleton is the problem of power source.

In order to solve the power problem, some people have even proposed to make a wired version of the power exoskeleton that drags a cable like EVA.

However, these problems are not difficult for Chen Xin. Take a few steel pipes to weld a movable shelf, arrange a mechanical transmission, and then connect a battery. It does not even need hydraulic power. A set of the most primitive power outside Even if the bones are made, the rest of the work can be completely handed over to the system, and Chen Xin only needs to upgrade it.

But this is not what Chen Xin wants, or this time Chen Xin needs to consider more issues and factors.

Because this exoskeleton protective suit is designed for civilian use, it is mainly provided to construction workers and those who need to leave the shelter to work, to provide them with warmth and protection in severe cold and harsh environments, as well as a certain degree of assistance enhanced.

So this set of exoskeleton protective clothing mainly focuses on protection and warmth. It does not need to be too strong for boosting, and because it is to be mass-produced and put into use, the cost of production and maintenance and the convenience of use is to be considered in the first place.

It is very simple for Chen Xin to make a set by himself. He can just pile up survival points regardless of the cost. Even if he finally piles up a nano-armor like Mark85, it is not a problem, but this is only limited to his own use or small It is provided to people in the shelter in batches.

The mass production of exoskeleton protective clothing is not a matter of a few or dozens of sets, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of things. There are still hundreds of millions of people across the country, even if only one in ten people need to use external protective clothing. There are also tens of millions of sets of skeletal protective clothing. If cost and maintenance are not considered, even a country like Yan Country cannot afford such a huge expenditure.

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This is also the reason why Chen Xin gave up the idea of ​​developing a power armor with full body protection. It's not that he can't come up with it, nor that it is too dangerous for civilian use, but that there is no basis for widespread popularization at all.

In fact, in Chen Xin's vision, such a set of exoskeleton protective suits can't even use a miniaturized isotope thermoelectric battery, and a rechargeable battery that can run it for dozens of hours is not enough. Enough, after all, its main function is to keep warm and protect.

Keeping warm is very easy to achieve. There is ready-made technology in the pilot's anti-G suit. It is enough to add resistance wires like an electric blanket, so that the protective suit has an electric heating function. The only problem is whether the battery can withstand it. That's it.

And according to Chen Xin's judgment, in the future, this method of electric heating will become the main thermal clothing for human beings together with synthetic fiber clothing, because traditional natural fabrics, cotton, linen and wool have lost most of their raw materials. The source, even if part of the production capacity can be preserved, is not something that ordinary shelter residents can care about.

So in terms of protective clothing for such a set of exoskeleton protective clothing, Chen Xin intends to use one-piece synthetic fiber clothing with electric heating wires for heating to ensure the protective clothing's resistance to cold.

After all, this is a relatively lower cost, more convenient way to obtain raw materials, and more convenient for production.

In the past, it has become difficult to obtain raw materials for duck down and cotton padding to keep warm. Therefore, instead of using padding to keep warm in the past, it is better to put an electric blanket on your body.

As long as the thermal insulation performance of the outer structure is good enough and the electric heating method is effective enough, even if it is a low temperature of minus tens of degrees, such a set of exoskeleton protective clothing is enough to ensure that the wearer will not be frostbitten.

Plus a full-cover helmet connected to oxygen supply equipment, it is more than enough to resist damage to the wearer from various harmful environments.

As for the part of the exoskeleton, it can be relatively simple. It can completely use the existing unrelated exoskeleton with relatively mature technology as the basis, or even directly use the unrelated exoskeleton as the ordinary civilian version, and add the booster system as an upgraded version. Provided to construction workers and other people who need heavy physical labor.

Chen Xin, the battery part, intends to develop a high-capacity high-performance battery that can be repeatedly charged as the power source for this exoskeleton protective suit after completing the miniaturized isotope thermoelectric battery.

On the one hand, exoskeleton protective clothing is ordinary civilian equipment, and it does not require long-term power supply. In addition, isotope thermoelectric batteries are radioactive elements anyway, and there will be certain safety problems when used for civilian use.

On the other hand, it is also due to cost considerations. Although the production cost of high-performance batteries is also not low~IndoMTL.com~, it is still much cheaper than the production of isotope thermoelectric batteries.

Therefore, after comprehensively considering various factors, Chen Xin also had an idea of ​​how to design this exoskeleton protective suit.

Find out a set of old work clothes that I got from my father when I was still working. I dug out the electric blanket that was no longer useful after installing the ground source heat pump, and went to the warehouse to get it. For the metal materials needed for the bones, Chen Xin sat in front of the workbench, preparing to make a prototype first.

Using old work clothes as the main body, adding electric blankets as materials, a set of protective clothing with electric heating function was freshly released after the update was confirmed.

After that, the battery, exoskeleton and helmet need to be installed.

Among the three, Chen Xin still uses storage batteries, but this time he upgraded the storage batteries in a direction that can be quickly and repeatedly charged instead of making them into high-durability nuclear batteries.

As for the helmet, Chen Xin only intends to make a short version of the cover for the time being. As for whether to add other functions in the future, it is a matter of follow-up research and development. As a prototype, it can seal, provide oxygen and block the cold outside. It is enough.