RU2750466C1 - Small-size remote electric shock weapon - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: weapons.

SUBSTANCE: small-sized remote electric shock weapon has a body with a pocket for installation of a firing cartridge, an electrical power source, a high-voltage firing pulse generator with a trigger button, a movable mechanical element influencing initiation of the firing cartridge, interacting with the trigger button of the high-voltage firing pulse generator.

EFFECT: creation of a small-sized remote electric shock weapon (RESW) safe for the user with a possibility of demonstrating an electric spark discharge and a contact impact in a firing cartridge charged state and with a possibility of accelerated reloading.

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Description

The technical field to which the invention relates

The invention relates to a remote electroshock weapon (DESHO), with an electric weapon for law enforcement and self-defense of citizens.

State of the art.

As analogs of the alleged invention, the world-famous small-sized models DESHO TASER C2 [1] and TASER PULSE [2], ([3] dimensions and characteristics), previously produced and manufactured today by the world's leading in the field of electroshock weapons by Taser Int . " (currently Axon Enterprise, Inc. ("Axon") USA).

DESHO model TASER C2 made in a form approaching a pistol and model TASER PULSE made in the form of a pistol are intended for temporary disabling (immobilization, defeat, holding in a state of paralysis) biological targets (target, offender, bio-target) by electric current at a distance or in direct contact with the target. The defeat of the target at a distance is carried out using a firing cartridge that shoots at the target two probes with fixing devices on the target (needles with barbs), each of which is connected by means of an insulated wire (current lead) with a corresponding current-carrying electrode on the cartridge. The current-supplying electrodes of the cartridge electrically (or through a gap of 0.1-0.5 mm) when charging the cartridge in the DESHO are connected to the combat (contact) electrodes of the DESHO coming out to the front end of the DESHO, to which, when the DESHO starts, a high-voltage target-damaging electric current from generator of high-voltage damaging impulses contained in the weapon and between which a combat (striking the target) high-voltage spark discharge is formed. Firing cartridges have a propellant charge of a pyrotechnic substance (pyrocharge), initiated from a high-voltage target-striking voltage of an electric current supplied to it when the DESHO is turned on. The charge is initiated and, with the help of a cutting device, depressurizes the container with compressed gas, which throws the probes with current leads into the target. The cartridge is rigidly attached to the DESHO using a mechanical latch-lock located on the cartridge. Target immobilization at a distance is carried out when the electrical circuit of the damaging current through the body of the bio-target is closed by means of conductors connecting the combat electrodes of the DESHO with the probes thrown at the target. Immobilization of the bio target by the contact method (contact) is carried out by direct interaction (pressing the combat electrodes to the body) of the DESHO with the body of the bio target without firing a shot.

The indicated DESHO models have the following disadvantages. To use the DESHO contact, you must first disconnect the cartridge, because when you try to use the DESHO with the attached cartridge contact, the cartridge always fires (since the firing cartridge is initiated by a damaging high-voltage spark discharge), that is, a point-blank shot and mechanical injury to the target. This property is an obstacle to the rapid use of a DESHO with a cartridge loaded in it in situations where the need to immobilize a target arises at a close distance (for example, in a confined space) and a shot from an extremely short distance is undesirable, since it can cause serious mechanical injury to the target. The disadvantages of analogs are also in the impossibility of demonstrating a combat electric spark discharge to the enemy without firing a shot in a state charged with a firing cartridge (for the purpose of psychological influence to reduce aggressiveness before using it by contact or shooting), since when a damaging high-voltage potential is applied to the combat electrodes of the DESHO, which are always adjoined by the current-supplying electrodes cartridge is followed by immediate initiation of the cartridge pyrocharging with the production of a shot. At the same time, it is well known that when the user threatens to use an electroshock weapon with a demonstration of a damaging electric spark discharge accompanied by a characteristic noise and spark discharge, in many cases the offender stops aggressive actions, realizing that he will have to deal with electricity and, accordingly, subsequent pain. It is also known that aggressive animals (for example, dogs, wild animals) almost always stop their aggression when a person demonstrates electric discharges. Thus, DESHO analogs can be used by contact (or a demonstration of a combat electric discharge is made) only with a firing cartridge disconnected from the weapon, which excludes their rapid remote use if it is necessary to influence the target from a distance. To reload the weapon with a firing cartridge, for example, in the event of a miss on the target or in order to immobilize another appeared target, it is necessary to disconnect the spent cartridge and insert a new cartridge into the DESHO. Removing a spent cartridge from a weapon is possible only when using both hands of the user and requires a few seconds for a less trained user to reload the DESHO with a new cartridge and fire a second shot. During this time, the offender can attack a law enforcement officer, try to hide, or use his weapon.

As a prototype of the alleged invention, a small-sized DESHO PhaZZer Hornet company "Double Dragon Development & Trading Corporation" (Taiwan) [4], made in the form of a rectangle, consisting of a housing containing an electronic part that generates a shock voltage of electric current, consisting of an inverter converting low-voltage (7.2 V) of the battery or accumulator into an increased voltage of 1.4-2 kV of a high-voltage unit for converting a voltage of 1.4-2 kV into an output high-voltage target-striking voltage of 50 kV. DESHO PhaZZer Hornet is charged with a firing cartridge, through which the high-voltage damaging voltage of the electric current generated by the high-voltage unit and supplied to the combat electrodes of the DSHO through the current conductors fired from the cartridge with devices for fixing them on the target is transmitted to the target.

The disadvantage of the prototype also lies in the fact that the spent cartridge for reloading the weapon has to be removed from the pocket of the DESHO (the front hollow cavity of the DESHO body to accommodate the shooting cartridges), using both user's hands to open the latch-lock on the cartridge. Removing the spent cartridge after firing with one hand of the user holding the weapon is impossible. Thus, to reload the weapon, if necessary, to quickly continue firing, the user loses time to remove the spent cartridge using both hands. Due to the need to use both hands of the user to remove the spent cartridge from the weapon, the time for firing the second shot increases. That is, the unloading of the prototype weapon is carried out in a baggy manner, which affects the time it takes to produce the next shot in the event of a miss on the target or in order to immobilize another target that appears. The device of the prototype firing cartridge does not differ from the device of the cartridge described for analogs.

Disclosure of the invention.

The purpose of the invention is to create a small-sized DESHO with the possibility of demonstrating an electric spark discharge and contact impact in a charged firing cartridge state, with the possibility of accelerated reloading of weapons, safe for the user by parasitic electrical breakdowns and with the possibility of competing in the field of DESHO with the world's leading foreign companies, since the proposed weapons are simplicity of the device, small size and flexibility of use surpasses the best samples of DESHO (analogs and prototype) of the world leader of the DESHO-structure of the company "Axon Enterprise, Inc." and even more so the company Double Dragon Development & Trading Corporation.

This goal is achieved by the fact that a small-sized remote electroshock weapon contains a non-conductive housing with a pocket for a firing cartridge, a source of electrical energy, a generator of high-voltage striking impulses with a trigger button, a movable mechanical fixation element in the firing cartridge body that emerges on the outer surface of the body and acts on the initiation of a firing cartridge by pressing a part of the cartridge or by moving the entire cartridge relative to the body weapons, and the trigger button of the generator of high-voltage damaging impulses interacts with the mechanical element of action during its movement. An additional feature is that the movable mechanical element of action on the initiation of the firing cartridge of the weapon has a device for its forced fixation in certain positions relative to the body of the weapon. An additional feature is that the weapon has a button for releasing the movable mechanical element from the firing cartridge. An additional feature is that a spring-loaded ejector of the firing cartridge is located in the body of the weapon. An additional feature is that the electric power source of the weapon in the form of a battery has a charging socket located in the pocket for the firing cartridge.

Brief Description of drawings

FIG. 1. General view of DESHO with a firing cartridge in the "safety" position and in the "work" position.

FIG. 2. The device of the shooting cartridge.

FIG. 3. Longitudinal section of DESHO (the position of the parts when fired) and the safety engine.

FIG. 4. View of DESHO with half of the case removed and the reverse side of the removed half of the case.

FIG. 5. Experienced DESHO and experienced DESHO with half of the case removed and the reverse side of the removed half of the case and a firing cartridge.

Implementation of the invention

FIG. 1. DESHO consists of a polymer body 1 assembled from the lower and upper halves, in the pocket (cavity) of the body there is a firing cartridge fixed in the body 1 during loading 2. On the upper half of the body there is a movable rod 3 with a safety slider rotatable relative to it and body 1 4, as well as the button 5 for releasing the cartridge 2 from the body 1. On the upper half of the body there is a protrusion 6, in the recess 7 of the body there is a button 8 for turning on a high-voltage generator, damaging electric current pulses located inside the body. The cartridge 2 on its outer side surfaces has a recess 9 and two-sided outputs of the movable pusher 10. On the lower half of the body 1 there are contact (combat) electrodes 11, to which, when charging, the cartridges 2 are adjacent with their electrical contact leads. corresponds to the position of the slider 4 along the body, and in the "work" state, the slider 4 is located perpendicular to the length of the body (top location in the figure).

FIG. 2. DESHO uses a type of firing cartridge with a built-in source of energy for initiating a propellant pyrotechnic charge of probes with current leads.

The firing cartridge 2 consists of an actual non-conductive body 12 with a cover 13 of a pusher 10, barrel channels 14 with split plugs for projectile probes 15 and contact leads 16 of current leads. In the barrel channels 14, probes 15 are placed with a device 17 for holding onto the target (needles with barbs) and laying the current lead in the inner cavity of the probes with the leads 18 of the ends of the current lead to the contact leads 16. In the cavity 19 of the housing 12 there is an electricity generator in the form of an electric piezoelectric generator 20 of a shock type, one electrode 21 of which is in contact with one initiating electrode of the pyrotechnic source 22 of throwing energy with electric spark initiation, and the second electrode, which 23 is located near (with
small spark gap) or directly touches another initiating electrode of the pyrotechnic source 22 of throwing energy. The movable pusher 10 interacts with the pressing element of the electric piezoelectric generator 20, actuating it when the pusher moves backward relative to the barrel channel exits. Channel 24 hydraulically connects the barrel channels 14 and the throwing energy source 22. Between the probes 15 and the ends of the barrel channels there are non-conductive wads 25 sealing the barrel channels. As a shock-type electric piezoelectric generator, the cartridge under consideration uses a standard readily available "piezoelectric element" for gas lighters, produced in many countries of the world, and the cost of such a piezoelectric generator, for example, made in China, is not more than 0.10-0.30 US $ [5].

FIG. 3. Body 1, cartridge 2, thrust 3 with tooth 26, engine-fuse 4, pusher 10, electric piezo generator 20, pyrotechnic source 22 of throwing energy, button 8, ejector (extractor) 27, ejector spring 28, generator of high-voltage damaging pulses 29.

DESHO is loaded in the position of the safety slider 4 "on the safety" by inserting the cartridge 2 into the housing pocket 1 from the front, while the ejector spring 28 is compressed through the ejector 27, which ensures the extraction of the cartridge from the housing pocket when the DESHO is unloaded. When the cartridge is fully inserted into the pocket, the tooth 26 of the thrust 3 jumps into the recess 9 of the cartridge, fixing it in the housing 1 by the pusher 10.

The weapon is unloaded by pressing the button 5 to release the cartridge 2 from the case 1 with the thumb holding the DESHO. In this case, the button 5 pushes the rod 3 with the tooth 26 out of the recess 9 and from the cartridge pusher 10. The spring 28 compressed during loading by means of the ejector 27 ejects the cartridge from the pocket of the weapon body. Thus, the discharge of the DESHO or the extraction of the spent cartridge to load a new cartridge in order to produce a quick re-shot is carried out faster than in analogs and the prototype, since the user does not need to use a second hand to remove the spent cartridge from the weapon.

If it is necessary to demonstrate a spark electric discharge to the offender to remove aggression from him or to use it by a contact method (without shots), the user turns the safety slider 4 to the "work" position (this opens access to the button 8 in the recess 7 of the body) and presses with his thumb, holding the weapon on the button 8. At the same time, the generator of high-voltage damaging pulses is turned on and the high-voltage damaging voltage of the electric current is supplied to the contact electrodes 11, forming a demonstration high-voltage spark discharge between them, or when pressing the DESHO to the target body, it is applied to the target body, producing an immobilizing effect on the target.

If necessary, remote impact (shot) on the offender, the user turns the safety slider 4 to the "work" position and presses the slider 4 with his thumb, moving it back relative to the body of the weapon. In this case, the thrust 3 with its tooth 26 moves the pusher 10 in the cavity 19 of the cartridge 2, compressing the pressure element of the electric piezoelectric generator 20 to its mainspring, which at the end of the stroke of the thrust 3 back breaks off the internal sear of the electric piezoelectric generator, expands and strikes the piezoelectric element with a striking force, which generates a high impulse voltage transmitted through electrodes 21 and 23 to the pyrotechnic source 22 of the energy of the throwing of the probes. The source 20 is initiated and the combustion gases of the pyrocomposition accelerate in the barrel channels 14 of the cartridge 2 the probes 15 with the conductor, which fly to the target, fall into it, are fixed on it by devices 17. At the same time, when the thrust 3 moves back relative to the DESHO body, the bevel 30 of the rear end of the thrust 3 presses to the button 8, which turns on the generator of high-voltage damaging pulses, and the high-voltage damaging voltage of the electric current is fed to the contact electrodes 11 and then to the adjacent contact terminals 16 of the cartridge current leads, after which a high-voltage discharge is fed to the target body through the probes with current leads that have hit the target, immobilizing her. By first pressing the button 8, and then the slider 4 backward relative to the DESHO body, the user can instantly switch from the contact action mode or the discharge demonstration to the remote impact mode, firing a shot at the offender. The independence of the initiation of the firing cartridge from the operation of the generator of high-voltage damaging pulses is achieved because the electrical initiation of the firing cartridge is not produced from the high-voltage damaging voltage of the electric current generated by the generator of high-voltage damaging pulses, as in analogs and the prototype, but only by a separate generator located in the firing cartridge itself and generating electric current to initiate the propellant pyro-charge of the cartridge only from mechanical action on it. The mode of contact action or demonstration of an electric discharge with a firing cartridge charged in the DESHO is fundamentally impossible for analogs and a prototype.

The engine 4 has two recesses on the surface adjacent to the upper part of the housing 1. The recess 31, advancing on the ledge 6 of the housing 1, when turning the slider 4 fixes the slider and, accordingly, the thrust 3 in the "on safety" position. Sliding the recess 32 onto the protrusion 6 of the housing 1 when turning the slider 4 fixes the slider and, accordingly, the thrust 3 in the "arrest" position (see below).

If it is necessary to arrest the offender before using DESHO, the user removes the weapon from the position of the rotary safety slide 4 "on safety" presses the slide 4 with the thumb back relative to the weapon body, firing a shot at the target. When the target is immobilized with its fall to the ground, the user by turning the safety slider 4 puts the weapon in the "arrest" position, fixing the engine 4 with a recess 32 on its rear part on the protrusion 6 of the body, puts the weapon with a working generator of high-voltage damaging impulses on the ground and arrests the offender handcuffing him. After making the arrest, the user must turn the slider 4 to remove the weapon from the “arrest” position, move the slider 4 forward relative to the weapon body and turn the slider 4 to put it in the “fuse” position, thus turning off the generator of high-voltage damaging pulses. DESHO can be equipped with a timer for the duration of the generator of high-voltage damaging impulses. For example: 3 s of impact on the offender - 2 s of rest of the offender (to restore the work of the respiratory and cardiac apparatus). After that, the cycle can be repeated until the user sets the DESHO "on fuse".

The extraction of the spent cartridge is carried out by pressing the thumb on the extraction button 5 of the disconnection of the tooth 26 of the thrust 3 from the recess 9 of the cartridge and from the pusher 10. In this case, the ejector 27 extracts the cartridge from the body of the weapon, after which the user can reload the DESHO with a new cartridge.

FIG. 4. DESHO with the upper half of the case removed. The button 5 has a protrusion 33 located in the groove of the upper half of the body, the bevel of which interacts with the bevel 34 of the rod 3 when the button 5 is pressed to extract the cartridge from the DESHO. In the lower half of the body there is a generator of high-voltage damaging impulses 29, a storage battery 35 and a charging socket 36 of the battery. The charging socket 36 is located inside the housing 1 in the pocket for installing the cartridge in order to prevent the occurrence of "capacitive breakdown" [6] on the user and the corresponding "fear of his own weapon" by the user. Due to the smallest design of the proposed DESHO among those available in the world today, the DESHO body of the proposed DESHO in serial production must be made of two halves welded with ultrasound, in order to prevent the discharge of "capacitive breakdown" through the gap between the halves of the case, the electrically conductive parts of the button 8 are separated from the user's finger a sufficient distance, which is greater than the length of the electrospark discharge developed during "capacitive breakdown", therefore the only weak point for the development of "capacitive breakdown" is the battery charger socket, which is used as a micro-USB connector. In the proposed design, the connector is removed inside the housing, which completely excludes the development of "capacitive breakdown" for the user. The battery is charged by a network charger in the form of a cartridge inserted into the DESHO pocket.

The weapon according to the proposed invention has a simplified design and insignificant precision in the manufacture of weapon parts, which, even with backward domestic technologies, makes it possible to organize the production of a small-sized DESHO in Russia and export it to other countries.

The above description discusses preferred embodiments of the present invention, which may be altered or modified without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined in the claims.

Comparison of the proposed technical solution with the identified analogues and the prior art prototype did not reveal an identical coincidence of the set of essential features of the invention. The proposed differences of the claimed electroshock weapon, which directly follow from the formulation of the purpose of the invention, are not obvious to a specialist in electroshock devices.

The proposed DESHO has the minimum overall dimensions in the world at the date of filing an application for an invention (120 × 18 × 53 mm) for a DESHO as a remote action with the possibility of contact use in a discharged state, and even more so with the possibility of contact action in a charged state. Such dimensions, which are not much (only in thickness) surpassing the dimensions of modern smartphones, make it possible to constantly carry it in pockets or women's handbags, without creating inconvenience and without protruding from under clothes. A further reduction in the length of the invention is fundamentally impossible, since in the case of such a reduction, the safe holding of the weapon by the user's hand becomes dangerous. This is a consequence of the fact that the length of the high-voltage electric spark breakdown by a sliding discharge (along the body) can reach the user's fingers even under normal atmospheric conditions, and in conditions of high humidity, fog, atmospheric precipitation, the user will be unambiguously hit in the hand by the electric action of his own weapon. The extreme simplicity of the design of the proposed DESHO and, accordingly, its low cost theoretically makes it possible to carry out the function of self-defense of citizens by leaving the DESHO in the "arrest" mode at the place of application and with subsequent compensation for the cost of the DESO by the manufacturer (Safe Escape program) [7]. This program, launched since the founding of Taser Int., Has been in effect for 26 years now. In Russia, due to poverty, such programs do not exist.

Implementation example

FIG. 5 Appearance of an experienced DESHO made by 3D prototyping, half of the body and a firing cartridge. The experimental DESHO used a Turnigy nano-tech Lipo Pack 300 mah 7.4V 90 C battery, a pre-ionization damaging pulse generator, and a small-sized coreless transformer [8]. The output electrical power of the experimental DESHO can be adjusted from 3.0 W to 10.0 W, which allows the production of DESHO both for use by citizens and law enforcement agencies.

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Claims (5)

1. Small-sized remote electroshock weapon, containing a non-conductive housing with a pocket for a firing cartridge, a source of electrical energy, a generator of high-voltage striking impulses with a trigger button, characterized in that it has a movable mechanical fixation element in the firing cartridge body that protrudes onto the outer surface of the body and acts on the initiation of the firing cartridge by pressing a part of the cartridge or by moving the entire cartridge relative to the body of the weapon, and the trigger button of the generator of high-voltage damaging pulses interacts with the mechanical element of action during its movement. 2. The weapon according to claim. 1, characterized in that the movable mechanical element of action on the initiation of the firing cartridge has a device for its forced fixation in certain positions relative to the body of the weapon. 3. The weapon according to claim 1, characterized in that it has a button to release the movable mechanical element from the firing cartridge. 4. The weapon according to claim 1, characterized in that a spring-loaded ejector of the firing cartridge is located in the body of the weapon. 5. The weapon of claim. 1, characterized in that the source of electrical energy in the form of a battery has a charging socket located in a pocket for a firing cartridge.

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