Abstract
The utility model relates to a non-lethal police and civilian remote-acting electroshock weapon. The technical result consists in increasing the reliability and effectiveness of the performance of a remote-acting electroshock weapon, improving the likelihood of overcoming armed targets by using two pairs of current conducting wires simultaneously, and increasing the likelihood of arresting an offender. The present multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon, with firing cartridges having pyrotechnic devices for unlocking the cartridges from the frame of the weapon, comprises locking mechanisms for the firing cartridges with forced unlocking of a firing cartridge from the frame of the weapon, a mechanical cartridge lock for preventing automatic unlocking from the frame of the weapon, and a member for the control of the operating time of an electronic circuit in the weapon, irrespective of the position of a trigger element after firing.
Claims
1. Multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon comprising a frame, a power source, an electronic circuit that generates a high voltage electrical current voltage that damages the target, a trigger element, firing cartridges having thrown current conducting wires and pyrotechnic devices for unlocking the cartridges from the frame of the weapon located in the firing cartridges, spring extractors of the firing cartridges, an electronic circuit responsible for the sequence of the firing cartridges initiation, wherein the weapon comprises at least one mechanical locking mechanism of the firing cartridges having a human-powered drive mechanism with forced unlocking of the firing cartridge from the frame of the weapon, which drive is actuated by the finger of user's hand holding the weapon, at least one mechanical cartridge lock for preventing automatic unlocking from the frame of the weapon having a human-powered drive mechanism actuated by the finger of user's hand holding the weapon, and a member for the control of the operating time of the electronic circuit generating the high voltage electrical current voltage that damages the target, irrespective of the position of the trigger element after firing.
2. The weapon according to claim 1, wherein the locking mechanism with forced unlocking of the cartridges from the frame of the weapon is driven by a slider with a longitudinal movement relative to the frame of the weapon.
3. The multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon according to claim 1, wherein the locking mechanism with forced unlocking of the cartridges from the frame of the weapon is driven by a slider with a transverse movement relative to the frame of the weapon.
4. The multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon according to claim 1, wherein the locking mechanism with forced unlocking of the cartridges from the frame of the weapon is driven by a slider with a rotary movement.
5. The multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon according to claim 1, wherein the electronic circuit responsible for the sequence of the firing cartridges initiation has a selector switch for switching the sequence of the firing cartridges initiation.
Description
[0019] The utility model is illustrated by drawings, which show:
[0020] FIG. 1 and FIG. 2—Appearance of DESHO charged with firing cartridges and the firing cartridges.
[0021] FIG. 3—DESHO before shots with half of the frame removed (internal wiring is not shown) and two types of half of the frame with rotary forced extraction slider.
[0022] FIG. 4—DESHO during the second shot (the first firing cartridge is extracted after the shot) with half of the frame removed and two cutaway views of the trigger assembly housing to different depths.
[0023] FIG. 5—DESHO after the shot, with positive lock of the cartridges in the frame included (pressure piece 4 and drive pusher 16 are removed).
[0024] FIG. 6. Firing cartridge design.
[0025] FIG. 7. Firing cartridge of reduced cost and its cutaway view.
[0026] FIG. 8. Experimental DESHO with cartridges and half of the frame removed.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UTILITY MODEL
[0027] FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. DESHO consists of a frame 1 assembled from two symmetrical halves, in a pocket (front hollow cavity for installing the firing cartridges therein) of the frame there are firing cartridges 2 fixed in the frame 1 when loading. On each side of the frame there are sliders 3 with forced manual unlocking the firing cartridges 2 from the frame 1 and pressure pieces 4 of the mechanical cartridge locks designed for positive locking the cartridges in the frame 1.
[0028] A trigger 5 is designed to start operation of an electronic circuit in the DESHO, which circuit generates high voltage pulses of shock electrical current, to initiate firing of the firing cartridges 2 and fixing them in the frame 1 when fired and then for the time during which the target is damaged by the electrical current, and also to unlock the cartridges from the frame after firing. The firing cartridges 2 do not fundamentally differ from the firing cartridges according to the patent RU No. 2462678, but they have a gas engine which, unlike the cartridges according to the patent RU No. 2462678, does not push the protrusion out of the cartridge when fired, but pushes a movable protrusion 6 on the cartridge 2 into the cartridge case flush with the generatrix of the cartridge case. The cartridge case also has a recess 7 for fixing the cartridge in the frame 1 with the trigger 5 and a recess 8 for positive locking in the frame 1. Electrodes 9 and 10 are located at the front end of the frame 1. A removable battery 11 is located in the DESHO handle, a safety lock 12 and buttons 13 for controlling the modes of operation of the DESHO are located at the end of the frame 1, and also a display indicator 14 of the operation of electronic systems in the weapon can be located thereon.
[0029] FIG. 3. The firing cartridge 2 is fixed in the frame 1 by its own movable protrusion 6 engaging with a movable spring loaded locking mechanism 15 (present in each half of the frame 1) moving vertically, downward relative to the frame of the weapon, in coordination with a spring loaded drive pusher 16 (which is also present in each half of the frame 1) and connected to the slider 3. When the slider 3 is pressed by user's finger and the drive pusher 16 moves forward relative to the frame of the weapon, it engages the locking mechanism 15 moving it down relative to the frame of the weapon, and at the same time the movable protrusion 6 is unlocked from the locking mechanism 15 and the cartridge is pushed (extracted) from the frame of the weapon by one of two spring loaded ejectors 17 (extractors) located in the frame 1 (see FIG. 4), ejection springs of which were compressed by the cartridge cases when the cartridges were loaded into the pocket designed for installing the weapon cartridges therein. Therefore, when pressing the sliders 3 with the thumb or forefinger of the hand holding the weapon, it is possible to forcibly unload the weapon from the cartridges charged into it, when it is necessary to unload the weapon (for example, for storage), or forcibly extract the spent cartridge after the shot in case of failure of the gas engine or the movable protrusion 6 driver and, accordingly, the failure of automatic extraction of the spent cartridge after releasing the trigger 5.
[0030] In the frame 1, there is an electronic circuit 18 that generates the high voltage electrical current voltage that damages the target, which circuit includes an electronic circuit responsible for the sequence of the firing cartridges initiation, a timer for controlling the time of generating the voltage that damages the target, and the display indicator 14 of the operation of the electronic circuit, battery (and other information related to operation of the weapon), if necessary, and a battery 11 for the power supply of the DESHO.
[0031] 5. The locking mechanism 15 can be driven from the slider 3 (buttons) with longitudinal movement relative to the length of the weapon or from the slider with transverse movement or rotary movement around a certain axis. Longitudinal, transverse or rotary movement of the slider relative to the frame of the weapon is determined by the designer. The two lower views on FIG. 3 (reduced views) show a view of the weapon with the rotary slider having a rotary lever on the inner side of the half of the frame of the weapon, which lever engages a recess on the drive pusher moving the drive pusher to unlock the cartridge locking mechanism during the rotary movement. It is clear that both the rotary movement and transverse movement of the slider can be transmitted to the locking mechanism 15 by simple devices in the form of levers, inclined planes, rack and pinion gears or their combinations that are widely used and understandable to any specialist in mechanical engineering.
[0032] FIG. 4. When the trigger 5 is pressed to fire a shot, it acts, with its front protrusion, on the element 19 that enters the recess 7 with its front tooth for fixing the cartridge. At the final stroke of the trigger 5, it turns on, with its rear protrusion, a tact switch 20 starting the operation of the electronic circuit 18 that generates a high voltage electrical current voltage that damages the target and a low voltage electrical current voltage that initiates a propellant charge of the pyrotechnic substance of the cartridge with throwing current conducting wires at the target. At the moment of firing, the gas engine of the cartridge moves a cartridge element 21, which has protrusion 6 on the reverse side inside the cartridge so that the protrusion 6 disengages the spring loaded locking mechanism 15 and is kept from being extracted from the frame of the weapon by the spring loaded ejector 17 only with a tooth on the element 19 that entered the recess 7 for fixing the cartridge. After hitting the target, the user releases the trigger 5, the tooth on the element 19 comes out of the recess 7, and the spent cartridge is unlocked from the frame 1 with the extraction of the cartridge having the current conducting wires thrown out at the target from the frame 1 by the ejector 17 under the action of its spring being compressed when loading the weapon with the cartridge.
[0033] FIG. 5. If it is necessary to produce two quick successive shots at an offender (duplicate shot) to increase the reliability of defeat or arrest of armed offender, taking into account the likelihood of a possible failure of immobilization due to probability of the current conducting wire breakage or non-attachment of the current conducting wire to the target during the first shot, a law enforcement user of the DESHO presses the pressure pieces 4 of the mechanical cartridge locks with the index finger of the hand holding the weapon, moving them upward relative to the frame of the weapon, for positive locking the cartridges in the frame 1 before the start of firing. The crossbars of the locks 22 (connected to the pressure piece 4) enter the recesses 8 on the cartridge for positive locking in the frame 1. In this case, even with the protrusion 6 unlocked from the locking mechanism 15 (as shown in FIG. 5) and the trigger 5 released, the cartridge 2 remains in the weapon, that is, automatic extraction of the spent cartridge does not occur, which allows hitting the target with the current conducting wires of the two cartridges and electrically affect it during the time the trigger is held at the pressed position. If it is necessary to arrest the offender, the user must press the pressure pieces 4 of the locks 22, for positive locking the cartridges in the frame 1, and use one of the buttons 13 to switch the operation mode of the weapon to the timer operation mode for the continuation of the operation of the electronic circuit 18 for a certain predetermined time or to an intermittent supply mode (according to the established algorithm for supplying current and pause to restore the cardio-respiratory functions of the bio-target) of the high voltage electrical current voltage that damages the target to the bio-target after releasing the trigger. The button for switching the operation of the electronic circuit to the arrest mode can be connected mechanically or electrically to the lock 22 or the pressure piece 4 of the locks (for example, using a magnetic element fixed in the lock 22 or in the piece 4 and a reed switch located in the frame 1 and connected to the button or electronic part 18 of the weapon), being actuated when the pressure piece 4 is switched to the arrest mode. This mode of operation of the DESHO allows hitting the target with one or two shots, put the weapon with the working striking part of the electronic circuit 18 on the ground and arrest the offender by handcuffing him or her. Spent cartridges are extracted by pressing the pressure pieces 4 of the locks with the index finger and moving them downward relative to the frame of the weapon.
[0034] If it is necessary to demonstrate a spark electric discharge to an offender to remove aggression or to use in a contact way (without shots), the user, using one of the buttons 13, disables the operation of the part of the electronic circuit 18 responsible for the sequence of the firing cartridges initiation for firing. In this case, the low voltage electrical current voltage that initiates the pyrotechnic charge of the firing cartridge is not generated and is not supplied to the electrical contacts 23 (see FIG. 4) for the electrical initiation of the pyrotechnic charge of the cartridges. If the specified part of the electronic circuit is disabled when the trigger 5 is pressed, the electronic circuit 18 generates shock electrical current voltage with the formation of a visible spark discharge between the electrodes 9 and 10 when the electric discharge is demonstrated or when the electrodes 9 and 10 come into contact with the body of the bio-target, producing an immobilizing effect on the target. If necessary, the DESHO can be equipped with a selector switch for switching the part of the electronic circuit responsible for the sequence of the firing cartridges initiation (in the form of a button, for example). The selector switch can switch firing the first shot from the right cartridge to the left one or vice versa. This function is used for the convenience of loading (reloading) a new cartridge instead of the spent one, depending on the user's right handedness or left handedness, since it is more convenient to reload the weapon with one cartridge extracted using the hand that is closer to the side of the weapon with the cavity of the extracted cartridge.
[0035] The loading of the DESHO is carried out by inserting the cartridges 2 into the frame pocket located at the front, while the springs of the ejectors 17 are compressed, which ensure the extraction of the cartridges from the pockets after the shot or when the DESHO is unloaded. When the cartridges are inserted into the pocket, the protrusions 6 of the cartridges are pressed down relative to the frame of the weapon by the spring loaded locking mechanism 15, which, when the cartridges are fully inserted into the pockets, snap onto the protrusions 6, fixing the cartridges in the frame 1. The weapon is unloaded by pressing the sliders 3, and therefore the single device for manually unlocking the cartridges from the frame of the weapon performs both the function of a device, which is alternative to the automatic extraction, and a device for weapon unloading.
[0036] FIG. 6. Cartridge case 24, a plug (safety insert) 25, an element 21 with the protrusion 6, a piston with fork 26 of the gas engine, gas channels 27, a pyrotechnic charge 28 with electric ignition, thrown probes 29 with the current conducting wires, a window 30 for movement of the element 21 having the protrusion 6. When the electrical current voltage is applied to the pyrotechnic charge 28, the later is initiated and the combustion gases generated by the charge pass through the channels 27 into the barrel channels of the cartridge, throwing the probes 29 with the current conducting wires at the target. At the same time, the combustion gases of the charge act on the piston with fork 26, wherein the fork has bevels which engage with the corresponding bevels on the element 21 lowering it in the window 30 so that the protrusion 6 of the element 21, which protrudes above the generatrix of the case 24 before the shot, falls into a position flush with the generatrix of the case 24. In this case, the cartridge is unlocked from the locking mechanism 15 and, accordingly, from the frame 1 of the weapon.
[0037] FIG. 7. The proposed weapon can also use low cost firing cartridges without the plug 25, the piston with fork 26, and elements 21 requiring high manufacturing accuracy and, accordingly, increasing the cost of the shot. The firing cartridge 31 of reduced cost has the protrusion 6 made integral with the case of the cartridge and does not have the recess 8. When such a cartridge is fired from the weapon, automatic extraction does not occur, but the user of the weapon having necessary skills of spent cartridges forced extraction trained and using the sliders 3 can extract spent cartridges almost as fast as with automatic extraction. In this case, it is no longer necessary to use locks 22 with pressure pieces 4 for a duplicate shot or arrest, which simplifies the use of the weapon.
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
[0038] FIG. 8. Appearance of an experimental DESHO performed by 3D prototyping with cartridges milled on a CNC machine. DESHO is assembled, with half of the frame removed.
LIST OF SOURCES CITED
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