Multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon and complete rounds for same

Abstract

The group of inventions relates to a multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon. The present remote-acting electroshock weapon comprises a body, an electric power source, a generator of an incapacitating electric current, a microcontroller-based control system, electric current commutating devices, a safety switch, and a removable magazine. The removable magazine is in the form of a shaped hollow shell with contact points and is designed to be loadable with complete rounds. Via the contact points of the magazine, an incapacitating electric current is transmitted to contact points of the rounds. The removable magazine is secured inside the body by a spring-loaded catch having an actuator for the forcible release of the magazine from the body of the weapon, said actuator being operated by the fingers of the person holding the gun. Current conductors of the generator of incapacitating electric current, which extend from a commutating device to the electric contact points of the rounds in the magazine, are arranged on the outer lateral surfaces of the front part of the body. The result is a multiple-charge remote-acting electroshock weapon capable of effectively immobilizing a target by means of dual shots or a plurality of single shots.

Description

[0001] Multi-charge remote electroshock weapon and unitary cartridges for it

[0002] Field of technology to which the invention relates

[0003] The invention relates to a multi-charge remote electric shock weapon (RESHW), with an electric means of destruction for self-defense of citizens, use in law enforcement agencies and protection from aggressive animals.

[0004] State of the art

[0005] The world's leading electroshock weapon company, Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly Taser Int. USA), is widely known for its Taser X2 and Taser 7 [1] models, made in the form of a pistol consisting of a housing in which the electronic part with an electronic high-voltage unit is placed, striking the target (offender, biological target, biotarget) with electric current and a special pocket (cavity in the front part of the weapon) in which two firing cartridges are placed. The firing cartridges are installed in the housing and held in it by means of latches. The cartridges contact the contact electrodes of the electroshock weapon (electrodes for direct contact action on the target by pressing the firing cartridges to the target's body without firing). When firing, current leads with devices for holding them on the target (probes with barbs) are ejected from the firing cartridges into the target.The high-voltage striking voltage of the electric current generated by the high-voltage unit is transmitted from the ESD to the target via the current leads that hit the target. The advantage of the analogs is the ability to fire shots at the target with two cartridges one after the other (duplicate shot) and the ability to perform arrest (capture). The arrest mode is implemented in all ESD models of the company "Axon Enterprise, Inc.", in which the firing cartridges after the shot, hitting the target and the user releasing the trigger of the ESD are not automatically extracted from the ESD, but are removed from the ESD only manually.In such ESDs, when the trigger is released after the shot and the current leads hit the target, the spent cartridges are not automatically removed from the weapon and are connected to the target by current leads until the spent cartridge is manually removed, and the voltage of the damaging current is supplied to the target after the trigger is released during the time of the timer (up to 5-15 s), depending on the specific ESD model or purpose (police or civilian). Thus, the law enforcement officer hits the target, releases the trigger, puts the ESD on the ground and while the timer supplies damaging current to the target and the target is immobilized, puts handcuffs on the immobilized offender. This is how it is done in the USA.

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[0007] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) For more than 20 years, the majority of arrests (captures) of offenders have been made using DESHO. In Russia, DESHO with the ability to make an arrest have not yet been adopted by law enforcement agencies.

[0008] The disadvantage of the analogs is that the firing cartridges are connected to the weapon with latches and do not automatically separate from the weapon after the shot. This significantly limits the ability to quickly and accurately fire a second shot if the next target appears behind the user of the weapon or in the plane behind the current leads already stretching to the first target. The current leads stretching to the first target do not allow the user to turn with the weapon to the target that has appeared behind his back, because this is prevented by strong current leads secured by the barbs of the probe needles on the clothing of the first target. These wires interfere with the physical turn of the shooter and the rapid aiming of the weapon at the target. In addition, the current leads from the previous shot stretching to the first target may be on the line of the next shot, which will inevitably change the trajectory of the probes of the new shot, and they will not hit the target even with correct aiming.Firing two consecutive aimed shots is only possible along an arc, from left to right, which is due to the sequence of initiating cartridge shots (from left to right) with each press of the trigger (trigger element). In the same way, the wires of the previous shot will deflect the trajectory of the probes of the subsequent shot when the next target appears in the plane behind the wires stretching to the first target. Another disadvantage of analogs is that spent cartridges for reloading the weapon have to be removed from the DEShO using both hands of the user. Removing the spent cartridge after a shot automatically or with one hand of the user holding the weapon is not provided. Thus, in order to reload the weapon in case of the need to quickly continue shooting, the user loses time on removing the spent cartridge using both hands.

[0009] The prototype chosen was the Taser under a patent [2], the sales of a production model of which, the "Taser 10" model manufactured by Axon Enterprise, Inc., for testing by US law enforcement agencies began in February 2023. This Taser has been called a "revolutionary invention" by US media and US law enforcement experts [3], "a new era in less lethal technology" and a breakthrough in non-lethal technologies akin to the landing of man on the moon in the Apollo-P program. The Taser prototype has a pistol body in which a power source in the form of an electric battery, a generator of striking 2

[0010] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) of electric current voltage, forming at the output pulses of damaging electric current, microcontroller switching system, measuring effective values ​​of damaging electric current, indicating operating parameters and many additional functions, safety switch, removable magazine inserted into the body from below the front part of the body and held by a lock with a given release force when pulling the magazine out of the weapon. The magazine, having cylindrical cartridge nests, is loaded with unitary metal cartridges in the form of a stepped cylindrical body of revolution, containing a charge of pyrotechnic propellant, a probe with a current conductor laying and a device for fixing on the target, a probe pushing tray during firing and obturation of the barrel bore from the release of propellant gases into the atmosphere after the shot. When firing from the DEShO, shots are made by throwing probes at the target, one for each press of the user on the trigger of the weapon.At the same time, automatic recognition of the passage of damaging current into the target allows for the automatic selection of pairs of current conductors through which the greatest current flows into the target and disconnection of those current conductors through which the damaging current flows into the target with insufficient force to immobilize the target.

[0011] The advantage of the prototype compared to its analogues is the declared possibility of achieving reliable target immobilization due to the possibility of multiple repetition of shots after the first hit (up to 9 shots). The disadvantage of the prototype is that when the user makes the first shot (with the first probe attached to the target), the target is not hit, since the user needs to make a second shot (with the second probe attached to the target to form a circuit conducting the damaging current) with a change in the aiming point to a place on the target's body that is at least 0.3 m from the first hit point (such a distance between the probe attachment points on the target is necessary for reliable target immobilization with an output electric power of the ESD of no more than 2-4 W, established in the USA and the EU for ESD analogues and the prototype).If the first two shots are fired instantly (quickly pressing the trigger), that is, without shifting the aiming point, then the probes will hit the target’s body very close to each other (since the DEShO has virtually no recoil when fired, shifting the point of impact of the probes during quick shots), not providing the necessary current loop [4] and, accordingly, not causing reliable immobilization of the target.

[0012] The disadvantage of the prototype is the extremely high complexity of the detection control electronics (tracking the reliable connection of the probes with the target) and the switching of the passage of the damaging voltage of the electric current.

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[0014] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) current to the probes connected to the target with the best conductivity. The electronic circuit of such switching contains 10 small-sized high-voltage solid-state keys (transistors or thyristors) of foreign manufacture, the cost of which is extremely high, and determines the final price of the components, and the production of which is generally absent in the Russian Federation. Also, in the Russian Federation there is no production of other microelectronic components of the "Taser 10", or the production of some electronic components similar in functionality is available in the Russian Federation, but with dimensions and electrical characteristics that completely exclude their use in DEShO in the dimensions of a pistol. The cost of creating programs to control the electronic systems of the "Taser 10" alone is tens of millions of dollars, and this cost is included in the price of a serial product. In general, the cost of developing the "Taser 10" (R & D costs [5] of the company "Axon Enterprise, Inc.") are physically incomparable with the capabilities of all the companies developing the Taser in the Russian Federation (and the developers of all types of non-lethal weapons in the Russian Federation taken together). The cost of the prototype device "Taser 10" is $ 2,000 US, provided that it is sold at a discount only to US law enforcement agencies. Such a cost is completely unacceptable for Russian users, both civilian and even law enforcement users. At the same time, it is physically impossible to produce a product of such complexity in the Russian Federation due to a combination of the aforementioned shortcomings of the element base and technologies and the complete lack of state support for developers of electroshock weapons in the Russian Federation.

[0015] The disadvantage of the prototype also lies in the fact that during multiple shots at an inevitably moving target, in attempts to establish a reliable connection between the probes fired at the target and the target in order to create a circuit conducting current that hits the target, the current leads of the shots become entangled and overlap the trajectory lines of the next fired probes with the current leads, which increases the likelihood of the probes deviating from the aiming line due to touching the previous current leads extending to the target, with a corresponding failure to hit the target.

[0016] Another disadvantage of the prototype is that the magazine is removed from the weapon after firing unitary cartridges with two hands, since the magazine is fixed in the weapon body using a spring or magnetic lock that requires physical effort from the user both when inserting the magazine into the weapon (pressing) and when removing the magazine from the weapon (pulling force). With this method of removing the fired magazine with the rapid insertion of a new magazine, time is lost for reloading the weapon.

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[0018] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) The disadvantage of the prototype is also that it is impossible to hit multiple targets with it, since the automatic switching selects the best connection of the probes with the target, and an attempt to hit a second offender after the first will not lead to the immobilization of the second offender if a reliable connection has already been established with the first offender.

[0019] Another disadvantage of the prototype is that it cannot be used to implement the arrest regime.

[0020] The disadvantage of the prototype is also that it is impossible to carry out contact action on the offender with its help, since the prototype does not have external combat electrodes for contact action, and in addition, the developed striking voltage of the electric current of the prototype is no more than 1000-2000 V (1000 V according to the given characteristics of "Taser 10"), which is not enough to break through the target's clothing. The disadvantage of the prototype is also the impossibility of demonstrating a warning combat high-voltage electric spark discharge to the enemy (for the purpose of psychological action to reduce aggression before contact or remote use) due to the insufficiency of the striking voltage to form a spark discharge visible and audible to the offender.It is well known that when a user threatens to use an electric shock weapon with a demonstration of a damaging electric spark discharge accompanied by a characteristic noise and glow of spark discharges, in many cases the offender stops aggressive actions, realizing that he will have to deal with electricity and, accordingly, the subsequent pain. It is also well known that aggressive animals (for example, dogs, wild animals) almost always stop aggression when a person demonstrates electric discharges, reacting to the noise, crackling and ozone released by the electric discharge. Instead of a warning spark discharge, the prototype uses a warning sound signal reminiscent of a police siren. The developers of the prototype believed that the signal of the squeaker installed in the weapon would scare offenders and aggressive animals.

[0021] The prototype also has a drawback in that it does not have anti-snatch devices (electrodes under shock voltage on the surface of the weapon that prevent the offender from trying to snatch the weapon from the hand of the law enforcement officer) since the conductors of shock voltage to the cartridges are located inside the non-conductive body and the protruding magazine. The offender can seize the law enforcement officer's weapon and

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[0023] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) try to either snatch it from the hand of the law enforcement officer, or point the weapon with the muzzle away from you, preventing shots from being fired at you.

[0024] The cartridge for the Taser 10 explosive reactive weapon was selected as an analogue of the cartridge, according to a request [6] from Axon Enterprise, Inc. The cartridge has a metal cylindrical stepped body in the form of a rotation sensor, in which a pyrotechnic propellant charge is located, initiated by a low-voltage or high-voltage electric current source, a wad-obturator, a metal probe with an electric wire laid inside and a device for fixing to the target in the form of a needle with a barb. One end of the current-carrying wire in the laying contacts the metal probe, and the other end of the current-carrying wire in the laying contacts the metal body of the cartridge through a conductive wad-obturator. The only advantage of the cartridge is that it is used as part of the Taser 10 explosive reactive weapon. The disadvantage of the cartridge is its extremely complex design, illustrated in Fig. 4B; Fig. 5C; Fig. 6C; Fig. 7B; Fig. 7C.[6].For example, the probe body is made of precision stainless steel pipe with a polished inner surface (due to the necessary requirements for equipping the probe body with the laying of the current conductor to the cleanliness of the inner surface), the cartridge body is made by turning also from a precision pipe. The parts of the initiating-throwing device are redundant in terms of the necessary functionality of the action and are made on the most precise equipment. The patenting of the cartridge device of such an overcomplicated design was aimed exclusively at circumventing the patent [7] by the company "Axon Enterprise, Inc." In the Russian Federation, the manufacture of cartridges of such a design is generally impossible for reasons of both the lack of precise technologies and the absolutely unacceptable final cost in the case of special (actually manual) manufacture.

[0025] The cartridge for the DEShO according to the patent [8] was selected as a prototype of the cartridge. The cartridge has a polymer case with a barrel bore, a pyrotechnic propellant charge, a wad-pallet with an electrode, a probe with a hard or elastic shell with a current lead laid inside it and a device for fixing on the target. One end of the current lead is electrically fixed to the head, which weights the probe in which it is electrically fixed and the device for fixing on the target or directly the device for fixing on the target, and the other end of the current lead with an outlet from the barrel bore from the rear end of the laying is fixed to the front end of the case, covered with a conductive coating. The barrel bore has the orientation of its axis relative to the axis of the case and the internal structure of the channel required by the conditions of external ballistics.

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[0027] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) The advantages of the cartridge are that the cost of two cartridges per shot is less than the cost of all models of serial shooting cartridges DESHO produced by Russian companies, and the price is hundreds of percent less than the price of serial shooting cartridges of the company "Axon Enterprise, Inc." The disadvantage of the cartridge is that it uses only spark high-voltage initiation of pyrotechnic propellant charges of cartridges and cannot be used in any other type of DESHO except with spark high-voltage initiation of shots. The disadvantage of spark high-voltage initiation is the sensitivity of shooting cartridges or unitary cartridges to electrostatic discharges, for example, accumulating on the user, which can lead to an unauthorized shot both when handling cartridges and cartridges, and an unauthorized shot in the event of, for example, precipitation hitting the weapon.At the same time, the technology of the DESHO is currently moving towards initiation of shots by high voltage and low voltage electric current, which provides greater opportunities for the design of multi-charge DESHO [9]. Modern DESHO models manufactured in the USA have shot initiation only by low voltage electric current of 6.0-14.0 V or high voltage of 1000-2000 V.

[0028] Disclosure of invention

[0029] The technical problem is the need to create a multi-charge DESHO with the ability to effectively immobilize a biological target with paired shots or multiple single shots, with the ability to hit several targets one after another, with the ability to arrest an offender, with the ability to prevent an offender from snatching a weapon from a law enforcement officer with the ability to make contact, demonstrate a high-voltage discharge to the offender, with the ability to create improved conditions for firing and reloading weapons and manufactured from components available on the market under international sanctions at a low cost of the device. The technical problem also consists in the need to create a low-cost ammunition (cartridge) for the said DESHO.

[0030] The technical result consists in the implementation of a multi-charged ESHO with a solution to the specified technical problems. The technical result also consists in the implementation of a low-cost unitary cartridge with initiation by low-voltage or high-voltage electric current for a multi-charged ESHO.

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[0032] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) The specified technical results are achieved in that the multi-charge DESHO has a housing, a power supply, a generator of striking voltage of electric current, a microcontroller control system, electric current switching devices, a safety switch, a removable magazine, wherein the magazine is a profile hollow shell with contact points loaded with unitary cartridges located without gaps close to each other and loaded from the rear end of the cartridges by the force of springs of electrical contacts located inside the housing, the magazine is fixed in the housing by at least one spring-loaded latch having a drive for forced release of the magazine from the body of the weapon acting from the fingers of the hand of the user holding the weapon, the current leads of the generator of striking voltage from the switching device to the electrical contact points of the cartridges in the magazine are located on the outer side surfaces of the front part of the housing.

[0033] An additional feature is that the housing has contact points for the output of the power source voltage to the outer surface of the housing, which is switched by buttons on the housing.

[0034] An additional feature is that the housing has contact points for the output of damaging electric voltage to the outer surface of the housing, which is switched by buttons on the housing.

[0035] An additional feature is that a high-voltage pulse transformer with contact-action electrodes is electrically connected to the contact points of the output of the damaging voltage of the electric current and secured to the housing.

[0036] An additional feature is that part of the open sight sights is made on the outer surface of the magazine's profile frame.

[0037] An additional feature is that the magazine has on its inner walls protrusions for spring loading of cartridges in the magazine or protrusions for fixing cartridges with corresponding recesses in the cartridges.

[0038] An additional feature is that the magazine is made to extend beyond the dimensions of the weapon body and has contact points with conductive tracks on the outer surface of the magazine.

[0039] An additional feature is that the spring-loaded latch can be repositioned on both sides of the case.

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[0041] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) An additional feature is that electric current switching devices generate pulses of damaging electric current.

[0042] An additional feature is that the microcontroller control system is designed with the ability to select the weapon's operating mode before the shot, setting the sequence of firing the specified cartridges.

[0043] A unitary cartridge of a remote electric shock weapon having a housing with a barrel bore, a charge of pyrotechnic propellant composition with a device for electrical initiation of a bridge, conductive or spark type of electrical ignition, a probe with a current lead in a casing, a wad-tray for sealing the barrel bore, symmetrical recesses are made on the front end of the housing that extend into the barrel bore, and the end of the probe current lead that extends from the barrel bore is electrically connected to a contact point on the outer generatrix of the cartridge near the front end of the housing.

[0044] An additional feature is that the contact point is made of adhesive metal foil or metallization.

[0045] An additional feature is that the probe contains a non-conductive shell and has an electrically conductive path on the surface of the probe, with one end electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and with the other end adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

[0046] An additional feature is that the probe contains a conductive shell and has two contacts electrically connected to the conductive shell, wherein one contact is electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body and the other contact is adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

[0047] A unitary cartridge of a remote electric shock weapon having a body with a barrel bore, a charge of a pyrotechnic propellant composition with a device for electrically initiating a bridge, conductive composition or spark composition, a probe with a current-carrying conductor laid in a casing and a device for securing to a target, a wad-tray for sealing the barrel bore, the end of the probe current-carrying conductor coming out of the barrel bore is secured to a destructible element protruding near the front end of the body on the outer generatrix of the cartridge body, made directly integral with the body or in the form of an easily discardable separate element secured to the body with a given force of separation from the body, and on the side of the outer generatrix opposite to the destructible or easily discardable element

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[0049] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) a recess is made in the body that extends into the barrel channel, while the end of the current lead, secured to the destructible element or easily ejected part, is electrically connected to the contact point on the outer generatrix surface of the cartridge near the front end of the body.

[0050] An additional feature is that the contact point is made of adhesive metal foil or metallization.

[0051] An additional feature is that the probe contains a non-conductive shell and has an electrically conductive path on the surface of the probe, with one end electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and with the other end adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

[0052] An additional feature is that the probe contains a conductive shell and has two contacts electrically connected to the conductive shell, wherein one contact is electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and the other contact is adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

[0053] Brief description of the drawings

[0054] Fig. 1. External view of a multi-charge remote electric shock weapon with a regular magazine installed in it and a view of a regular and extended magazine with cartridges for it.

[0055] Fig. 2. Types of weapons with half of the body removed. View 1.

[0056] Fig. 3. Types of weapons with half of the body removed, view 2.

[0057] Fig. 4. Views of the weapon and the high-voltage transformer block in the disconnected and connected state to the weapon. View 1.

[0058] Fig. 5. Views of the weapon and the high-voltage transformer block in the disconnected and connected state to the weapon, view 2.

[0059] Fig. 6. Views of the weapon and the high-voltage transformer block in the disconnected and connected state to the weapon, view 3.

[0060] Fig. 7. View of a weapon with an extended magazine.

[0061] Fig. 8. Right and left standard unitary cartridges for initiation by electric shock voltage (external views).

[0062] Fig. 9. Right and left standard unitary cartridges for initiation of electric shock voltage (section and view of the probe).

[0063] Fig. 10. View of the magazine with right and left standard cartridges for initiation of electric shock voltage installed in it.

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[0065] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) Fig. 11. Right cartridge of a break in the current conductor with initiation by a striking voltage (external view of the housing).

[0066] Fig. 12. Right cartridge of a current lead break with initiation by a striking voltage (external view of the loaded cartridge).

[0067] Fig. 13. Left cartridge of a current lead break with initiation of a shock voltage electric current (external view).

[0068] Fig. 14. View of the magazine with the current-breaking cartridges and standard cartridges installed in it.

[0069] Fig. 15. Left cartridge of a low-voltage initiated current-carrying circuit breaker (external view).

[0070] Fig. 16. Left cartridge of a low-voltage initiated current-carrying conductor break (section).

[0071] Fig. 17. Cartridge with an easily removable insert element (view of the cartridge body with a separated insert element).

[0072] Fig. 18. Cartridge with an easily removable insert element (view of the cartridge with an installed insert element and a probe without a split plug for fixing the probe in the cartridge).

[0073] Fig. 19. Simplified block diagram of a weapon with cartridge initiation by electric current (description of operation).

[0074] Fig. 20. Simplified block diagram of a weapon with low-voltage electric current cartridge initiation (description of operation).

[0075] Fig. 21. Types of execution of devices for holding cartridges in a magazine. View 1.

[0076] Fig. 22. Types of execution of devices for holding cartridges in a magazine. View 2.

[0077] Fig. 23. External views of the experimental DEShO 1 view.

[0078] Fig. 24. External views of the experimental DEShO 2 view.

[0079] Implementation of the invention

[0080] Fig. 1. The weapon has a housing 1 consisting of two halves, into which a magazine 2 is installed, having a front sight 3, unitary cartridges 4, contact points 5 located on both sides of the magazine, and a recess 6 for the latch for holding the magazine in the weapon housing. The housing 1 has a two-sided safety switch 7, a trigger 8, two-sided buttons 9 mainly with a lock that allows each button to be set in two firing mode positions, a latch 10 for holding the magazine in the weapon housing with a button 11, conductive tracks 12 located on both sides of the housing 1, sleds 13 for mounted devices, a rear sight

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[0082] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) 14. The extended magazine 15 has contact points 16 extending from both sides of the magazine surface to the conductive tracks 12.

[0083] Fig. 2. The latch 10 with the reversible button 11 (shown separately from the weapon for clarity) has leaf springs 17 and can be either repositioned from one side of the weapon to the other (with the installation of a plug for the opening in the body on the unused side of the weapon) or installed on both sides (in this case, the reliability of the magazine fixation in the weapon increases, for example, when using an extended magazine, but the instantaneous possibility of extracting the magazine with only one hand holding the weapon disappears), the trigger 8 can interact with the firing switch 18, a microcontroller board 19 (and a low-voltage initiation switch in the low-voltage initiation variant) is installed in the handle of the body 1, a striking voltage generator 20, a power source in the form of a battery 21 with a charging socket 22, boards 23 of high-voltage switching solid-state keys are located in the body 1 (in Fig.2 shows 2 boards installed one above the other) with high-voltage transistors or thyristors in TO-220 and larger size cases), a board with 24 pogo pins (spring contacts, "pogo pins") with pogo pins 25, a laser target designator (LTD) 26 and pogo pins 27 for outputting low-voltage battery voltage or damaging voltage of electric current to the outer surface of case 1.

[0084] Fig. 3. The safety switch 7, by means of its driver 28, can interact with the switch 29 of the battery 21. The pins 25 interact with the contact electrodes of the cartridges 4 when the magazine 2 is inserted into the weapon. The battery 21 can be permanent as shown in the figure or removable.

[0085] Fig. 4, 5, 6. Pogopins 27, block 30 of the high-voltage pulse transformer, output high-voltage electrodes 31 of block 30, opening 32 for the passage of the laser beam 26, contact electrodes 33 (responding to pogopins 27), slides 13 of housing 1.

[0086] When operating, the generator of striking voltage of electric current DEShO can produce striking pulses at the output of the capacitor discharged onto the target through the fired current leads with a charging voltage of 1000-3000 V. In connection with this, to convert such voltage into classical high-voltage pulses for the long-known electroshock weapon at the output of electroshock devices (40-90 kV), the output of the generator of striking voltage 12

[0087] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) is connected via pogopins 27 on the body to block 30 containing a high-voltage pulse transformer and attached to the DEShO on sleds 13 as a suspended device. In this case, the user has the ability to make contact impact on the offender, as well as to demonstrate a high-voltage electric discharge. To do this, the user presses one or the other button 9 with a finger of the hand holding the weapon, setting the contact action or electric discharge demonstration mode. In this case, the damaging voltage generator operates, supplying capacitor pulses of damaging electric current only to block 30 connected to the weapon, but does not supply them to initiate the cartridges (since neither the high-voltage switching keys nor the low-voltage switching keys are switched on in this weapon operating mode). The operation of the keys in different versions of the weapon and cartridges is shown below.Between the electrodes 31 of the block 30 a high-voltage spark discharge develops, used both for contact action through the offender's clothing and for demonstrating an electric discharge before using the weapon. In another design, the block 30 may include, in addition to the high-voltage pulse transformer, additional elements such as a "current" capacitor, diodes, gas dischargers

[0010] , and the number of output pogopins 27 on the weapon may be more than two. In another design of the weapon, low-voltage voltage of the power source of the weapon is output to the pogopins 27 and the sleds 13 of the body can be used to attach other additional attachments, such as a flashlight, a green laser (which, due to the large dimensions of the green lasers available in the Russian Federation, cannot be built into the design of the weapon without increasing its dimensions), a siren, etc. In this case, additional attachments do not require their own power source.The attachments can be turned on and off by pressing the button 9 with the finger of the user's hand holding the weapon. Using the weapon's own power source to operate the attachments allows for a reduction in their dimensions, and therefore the dimensions of the weapon with attachments, which improves the convenience of carrying and using the weapon.

[0088] Fig. 7. Weapon with extended magazine 15 installed in it.

[0089] The use of an extended magazine on extended cartridges, which do not differ from those described below except for length, allows for an increase in the length of the sighting line (since the weapon's front sight is located on the magazine itself), and therefore the accuracy of hits, the use of an extended probe with a large amount of current-carrying wire in the stowage, that is, an increase in the firing range and, in connection with the increased 13

[0090] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) ballistic data to supply the weapon with an add-on buttstock, attached to the handle of the weapon to convert it into a pistol-carbine.

[0091] Fig. 8. Right and left standard unitary cartridges for initiation by electric shock voltage. Cartridges 4 (position 4 also designates the cartridge body itself) have a non-conductive body (polymer sleeve) with a barrel channel inside, a split plug 34 for fixing the probe in the cartridge, an outlet 35 of the rear end of the probe current lead, a contact point 36 of the cartridge made of adhesive metal foil or metallization, an initiating current lead 37 of the probe, recesses 38 symmetrically located on the sides of the cartridge and extending into the barrel channel, a ledge 39 for fixing the cartridge in the magazine, one of the openings 4 (located symmetrically on one side of the front end of the housing) for fastening the end of the current lead 35. The right and left cartridges differ from each other only in the fastening of the end of the current lead 35 on the end of the cartridge in one or the other opening 40, respectively, in the location of the contact point 36 near one or the other opening 40 and the orientation of the current lead 37 of the probe near the contact point 36.

[0092] Fig. 9. Section of the cartridge and view of the probe. In the barrel channel 41 of the cartridge there is a probe 42 (the laying of the current lead inside the shell (housing) of the probe is not shown), a split plug 34, a wad-pan 43 with an electrode 44 embedded in it, a pyrotechnic propellant charge 45 of the current-conducting or spark ignition type, an embedded electrode 46 of the rear end of the cartridge. The charge 45 can be located both in the cavity of the wad-pan 43 itself and in the cavity between the rear end of the barrel channel with the electrode 46 and the wad-pan 43 with the electrode 44, but without a cavity for the charge. An initiating current lead 37 of the probe, electrically connected to the contact point 36 on the side surface of the cartridge, comes out onto the front end of the cartridge. The initiating current lead 37 is made primarily of adhesive metal foil, glued to the surface of the non-conductive shell of the probe. In this case, the end of the current lead 37 on the rear end of the probe 42 adjoins the electrode 44.In the case of the probe shell being made conductive, a front and rear current-carrying conductor made of metal foil are glued to it, one of which is adjacent to the contact point 36, and the other is bent onto the rear end of the probe to contact the electrode 44. Such a design performs the function of a conductor along the body of the probe similar to the current-carrying conductor 37. The probe 42 has an outlet 35 of the current-carrying conductor 47 from the rear end of the current-carrying conductor laying in the probe and a device for fastening to the target 48 in the form of a needle with a barb.

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[0094] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) Fig. 10. Magazine 2 with standard cartridges, guide projection 49 of the magazine for fixing it vertically in the body of the weapon, right cartridges 50, left cartridges 51.

[0095] Fig. I. The non-conductive body 52 of the cartridge for breaking the current conductor (right) for initiating the striking voltage of an electric current has a projection 53 with a cut 54 on the front end near the exit of the barrel channel. On the side of the cartridge opposite the projection 53, a recess 55 is made, which extends into the barrel channel.

[0096] Fig. 12. The end of the current lead 56 from the rear end of the current lead installation in the probe is secured to the projection 53 and is electrically connected to the contact point 57 on the side surface of the cartridge. The internal structure of the cartridge is similar to that described in Fig. 8, the initiating current lead 37 is electrically connected to the contact point 57.

[0097] Fig. 13. The housing 58 of the cartridge for breaking the current lead (left) of initiation by the striking voltage of an electric current differs from the housing 52 by the reverse symmetry of the arrangement of the protrusion 53 and the recess 55 relative to the ledge for fixing the cartridge in the magazine.

[0098] Fig. 14. Magazine 2, cartridges 52 for breaking the current lead (right), cartridges 58 (left), standard cartridge 50 (right), standard cartridge 51 (left).

[0099] Fig. 15, 16. Non-conductive body 59 of the current-break cartridge (left) with initiation by low-voltage electric current, wad-pallet 60, body 61 of a standard industrially produced electric ignition-throwing device (EID), pyrotechnic propellant charge 62 of the low-voltage bridge ignition EID, central electrode 63 EID. The body of the current-break cartridge (right) with initiation by low-voltage voltage differs from body 59 in the reverse symmetry of the arrangement of the projection 53 and the recess 55 relative to the ledge for fixing the cartridge in the magazine.

[0100] Fig. 17, 18. Non-conductive body 64 of the current-carrying conductor breakage cartridge, easily removable embedded element 65. In order to simplify the manufacturing technology of current-carrying conductor breakage cartridges with reverse symmetry (two molds), a single cartridge (one mold) with an easily removable separate element 65 fixed to the body with a given separation force from the cartridge body can be produced. In this case, the cartridge body has two identical symmetrical recesses 55 on both sides of the body 64, in one or the other of which the easily removable element 65 is fixed when assembling the right or left cartridge.

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[0102] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) The easily removable element 65 is attached to the body 64, for example, by glue or pressing with a specified force to tear it away from the body 64.

[0103] In general, in various versions, the claimed weapon can use both cartridges with initiation of shots by striking voltage of electric current and with low-voltage initiation. The main difference between cartridges with low-voltage initiation, both standard (right and left), and with a break in the current lead (right and left), is the absence of the initiating current lead 37, the embedded electrode 44 in the wad-pallet and the presence of the EVU. That is, for example, the right and left standard unitary cartridges (i.e. without a break in the wire) with initiation by low-voltage voltage differ from the cartridges in Fig. 8 by the absence of the initiating current lead 37, the presence of the wad-pallet 60 and the presence of the EVU.

[0104] The DEShO prototype uses cartridges with a gas cut-off, which allows for silent shots. All types of the declared cartridges can also use a silent shot. To implement silent shots, the barrel channel of the declared cartridges simply has a muzzle constriction that stops the 46 or 60 wad in the barrel channel when fired, thus eliminating the release of shot gases into the atmosphere.

[0105] Fig. 19. Block diagram of a weapon with initiation of cartridges by striking voltage of electric current. The weapon operates as follows. Magazine 2 is loaded from behind with right and left cartridges in a row vertically (5 right cartridges and 5 left cartridges), whereby ledge 39 of cartridges rests against the corresponding ledge of the magazine and allows the cartridges to move further than to the front edge of the magazine aligned with front sight 3. Magazine 2 with cartridges 4 is installed in the guide grooves of body 1 of the weapon with its guide projections 49 and is sent into the body of the weapon. In this case, pogopins 25 are compressed by the action of electrodes 46 of the cartridges. When recess 6 of the magazine reaches latch 10, the latch, under the action of spring 17, rotates on its axis, latches with its front locking part into recess 6 and holds the magazine from falling out of the body of the weapon.In the block diagram, to simplify the figures, only three pairs of right and left cartridges are indicated (and not 5 pairs as in the figures of weapons and magazines) designated in pairs on the block diagram as -1-2-; -3-4-; -5-6- . with numbers on the rectangles indicating the cartridges. When removing the weapon from the safety switch (pos. 7 Fig. 1), switch 29 is turned on. In this case, the voltage of the battery 21 V 6-14 V goes to the board 19 of the microcontroller.

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[0107] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) After aiming at the offender, the user of the weapon presses the trigger (pos. 8 Fig. 1), which turns on switch 18 of microcontroller board 19. The microcontroller switches on the generator of striking voltage of electric current 20 (producing at the output capacitor pulses of electric current with a frequency of 50-150 Hz and a voltage of 1000-3000 V) and simultaneously closes one high-voltage switch 66 (in Fig. 12 switch 66 (pairs of cartridges -1-2- is shown closed) (the switches are installed on the board pos. 23 Fig. 2). The striking voltage of electric current from the generator 20 along the conductive tracks 12 of the weapon body goes to the mating contact places 5 of the magazine and then to the contact places 36 of the right and left cartridges (pairs of cartridges -1-2-) or contact places 57, if cartridges with a break in the current lead are used. Electrodes 46 of both cartridges are connected in series through pogopins 25.The impulses of the damaging electric current pass through the initiating current leads 47, through the electrodes 44 of the wads of the obturators 43 and through the pyrotechnic propellant charges 45 of the right and left cartridges. In this case, the charges 45 of both cartridges are initiated by being pyrotechnic compositions of either a conductive or spark ignition type. The use of one or another type of pyrotechnic composition is established depending on the value of the damaging voltage, for example, a conductive type at 1000-1500 V, and a spark type at 3000 V or more. When the charges 45 burn, the probes 42 are accelerated in the barrel channels 41 by combustion gases and fly out of the barrel channels, breaking the current leads 47 and pulling out of themselves the current lead layings electrically connected to the contact points 36 of the right and left cartridge. When the target is reached, the probes are secured to the target with barbed corners, with the needles entering the epidermis of the target's body.Along the formed closed circuit, the damaging electric current between the probes passes through the target's body, causing its immobilization from the action of damaging electric current pulses. To increase the current loop with cartridges located close to each other horizontally, one cartridge from the fired pair (for example, the left one) should have a barrel channel predominantly inclined at an angle downwards, as, for example, described in the patent of the prototype cartridge. The damaging current passes into the target while the user holds down the trigger 8.

[0108] If it is necessary to implement the arrest mode, the user presses button 9 before shooting. In this case, the microcontroller after the shot implements the timer mode, in which even after the user releases the trigger 8, the striking voltage continues to flow to the target for a time that is safe according to medical standards, but sufficient to make an arrest 17

[0109] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) of the offender. To fire the next shot without activating the arrest mode, the user releases the trigger and pulls it again. In this case, the high-voltage key 66 of the first fired pair of cartridges (-1-2-) opens, disconnecting the passage of the damaging current from the target, and the second high-voltage key 66 closes, repeating the above-described cycle of initiating cartridges and shots, but already the second pair (-3-4-). If the next shot is necessary, the pair of fired cartridges (-3-4-) is also disconnected and the next pair (-5-6-) is initiated. In total, 5 pairs of cartridges in the magazine can be initiated in sequence (Fig. 6) with the disconnection of the previous fired pairs of cartridges with the current leads leading to the targets).Disconnection of the previous fired pairs of cartridges from the target is necessary because the leakage of the current of the striking and simultaneously initiating electric current to the previous target can cause a drop in voltage for initiating the next pair of cartridges (partial or complete shunting of the electric current of the targets already struck by the current leads of the previous fired pairs) and failure of shots. In the given version of the 5-charge weapon and cartridges, only 10 pogopins are used, installed on the board 24 (one pogopin per cartridge) and 5 high-voltage transistors or thyristors for switching the striking voltage of the electric current and initiating cartridges). Pairs of cartridges are fired primarily from the lower pairs of cartridges in the magazine upwards (toward the front sight 3) to reduce the possibility of deviation of the subsequently fired probes from the current leads of the previously fired probes already reaching the targets.Since on one side of the weapon the conductive tracks 12 are constantly under the potential of the first pole of the generator of the striking voltage of the subsequent shot increases the possible current loops between the probes of the first pole that have previously entered the body and the probe of the second pole that has entered the body again, which increases the effectiveness of the physiological impact on the offender by creating additional loops of electric current in his body. Due to the fact that the voltage of the striking current is transmitted to the cartridges along the conductive tracks 12 located on the surface of the body of the weapon, the tracks perform the functions of anti-snatching electrodes.

[0110] If the offender attempts to take the weapon away from the user by grabbing the weapon body with his hand, the user only needs to fire a shot and at least two tracks 12 will be under the voltage of a damaging electric current that will have a painful effect on the offender's hand grasping the weapon and force him to release the weapon he has seized. When the user has fired all pairs of cartridges from the magazine or if it is necessary to reload the magazine, the user presses 18

[0111] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) with the index finger of the hand holding the weapon, on the button 11 of the latch 10. The latch 10 rotates on its axis, its front locking part comes out of the recess 6 of the magazine and the magazine, under the action of the pushing force of the pogopins 25 compressed during loading, is vigorously ejected from the weapon. In this way, the magazine is extracted from the weapon without the help of the second hand, increasing the speed of reloading the weapon with the next magazine. To fire the next shot with the arrest mode on, the user releases the trigger, but the damaging voltage continues to flow to the arrested person until the end of the timer. But if the next shot is necessary, the user can press the trigger. In this case, the damaging voltage will be switched off from the first pair of cartridges, but the next pair of cartridges will be initiated and the arrest mode will be activated again.

[0112] Fig. 20. Block diagram of a weapon with low-voltage (weapon power supply voltage) electric current initiation of cartridges. The weapon operates as follows. Loading of cartridges with low-voltage initiation is performed similarly to that described in Fig. 19. When inserting a magazine, pogopins 25 are compressed by the action of central electrodes 63 of the cartridge EVU and the end of the EVU housing 61, which is the second electrode of the EVU. Unlike the design of the weapon in Fig. 19, 20 pogopins are installed on the pogopin board 24 (two pogopins per cartridge).

[0113] In the block diagram, to simplify the figures, only three pairs of right and left cartridges are indicated (and not 5 pairs as in the figures of weapons and magazines) designated in pairs on the block diagram as -1-2-; -3-4-; -5-6-. When removing the weapon from the safety switch (pos. 7 Fig. 1), switch 29 is turned on. In this case, the voltage of the 21 V battery 6-14 V is supplied to the board 19 of the microcontroller. After aiming at a certain part of the offender's body, the user of the weapon presses the trigger (pos. 8 Fig. 1), which turns on switch 18 of the board 19 of the microcontroller. The microcontroller switches on the generator of striking voltage of electric current 20 (producing at the output capacitor pulses of electric current with a frequency of 50-150 Hz and a voltage of 1000-3000 V) and simultaneously closes one high-voltage switch 66 (in Fig. 13 switch 66 (pairs of cartridges -1-2- is shown open).The striking voltage of the electric current from the generator 20 along the conductive tracks 12 goes to the corresponding contact points 5 of the magazine and then to the contact points 36 of the right and left cartridge (pairs of cartridges -1-2-) or contact points 57, if cartridges with a broken wire are used. At the same time, the low-voltage switch of the microcontroller board supplies.

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[0115] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) low-voltage voltage (closes the low-voltage transistor switch) of the storage battery 21 to electrode 68 (one pogopin of the cartridge -2- (from the pair -1-2-), adjacent to electrode 63 of the EVU), the second electrode 67 (the second pogopin of the cartridge -2-) is adjacent to the end of the body 61 of the EVU and is constantly connected to one of the poles of the storage battery 21. Low-voltage voltage of electric current passes through the bridge of the EVU and initiates the pyrotechnic propellant charge 62 of the EVU. When charges 62 burn out, probe 42 accelerates in the barrel channel of the cartridge and flies out of it, pulling out the current-carrying conductor packing from itself. Upon reaching the target, the probe is fixed on the target. The user moves the aiming point to another part of the target's body and, again pressing the trigger of the weapon, makes the next shot.In this case, the low-voltage switch supplies low-voltage voltage to the EVU of cartridge -1- (from the pair -1-2-), the second cartridge of the pair is fired and the second probe hits the target, after which the damaging voltage of the electric current forms a closed circuit "damaging voltage generator - target body", immobilizing the offender. In the absence of immobilization (for example, a break in the current lead, a small current loop, insufficient depth of penetration of the probe needle into the target due to the thick clothing of the offender), the user of the weapon makes the next shot. In this case, the second key 66 of the pair -3-4- of cartridges is turned on) and low-voltage voltage is supplied to initiate the cartridge -4- of the next pair and the next probe hits the target. Key 66 of the pair -1-2- of cartridges, depending on the microcontroller program, can either disconnect the first circuit of damaging voltage or leave damaging potential on it.In this case, the current loop between the three probes that have already entered the target's body can be formed or changed, increasing the effectiveness of destruction. With the next shot, the probe of cartridge -3- of pair -3-4- will enter the target's body, further increasing the variability of the current loop and again increasing the effectiveness of destruction. Thus, the user can, as in the prototype device, fire only 9 additional shots after the first probe has entered the target's body, increasing the variability of the current loops with each shot. With different programming, when firing each subsequent pair of cartridges, the damaging voltage can be switched off by the keys 66 for switching the damaging voltage on pairs of cartridges from the previous pair of cartridges. Such a mode of firing pairs of cartridges at once is effective when acting not on one, but on several offenders appearing sequentially one after another, since each offender will be damaged by the full value of the current damaging electric current on the pair.

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[0117] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) of the conductors, and not by a reduced value due to the voltage drop on the loads of previously affected targets.

[0118] The principle of firing cartridges one at a time allows for a significant increase in the current loop when firing a pair of cartridges due to the spacing of the probe impact points compared to the weapon design according to Fig. 19. where the current loop when firing a pair of cartridges is limited by the distance to the target and the angular divergence of the cartridge barrel bores. In the single-cartridge firing mode, there is no need to make the barrel bore of one of the cartridges inclined downwards at an angle.

[0119] The weapon can also perform the firing mode simultaneously with a pair of cartridges as described in Fig. 2, 3. In this mode, when the trigger is pressed, the low-voltage voltage initiating the cartridges is supplied to the pair of cartridges at once. In this case, to increase the current loop, it is advisable to install one cartridge in the pair with a barrel channel inclined at an angle downwards. The weapon can also perform the arrest mode both when firing single shots and with a pair of cartridges at once.

[0120] For a deliberate guaranteed increase in the current loop (for example, during rapid fire, when there is no time to transfer the points of impact to the targets), the weapon may have a firing mode not only with horizontal pairs of cartridges, but also with cartridges staggered relative to their position in the magazine. For example, in the firing mode with cartridges one per shot, shoot cartridge -2-, and then the farthest from it in the magazine cartridge -5-. Then shoot cartridge -1-, and then cartridge -6-. With 5 pairs of cartridges in the magazine (and not 3 pairs as shown in the block diagram), the distance of the possible current loop will be even greater. In the firing mode with a pair of cartridges, a pair of cartridges -2-5- is fired simultaneously, and then a pair of cartridges -1-6-. In this mode of firing pairs of cartridges, it is permissible to use cartridges without using one of the cartridges with a barrel bore inclined downwards.

[0121] The supply of a damaging current to the fired current leads with probes can be carried out either only when the user holds the trigger after pressing it and firing a shot, or for some time, set by the timer after releasing the trigger without specially turning on the arrest mode.

[0122] All the above-mentioned firing mode options (and newly created ones by programming) can be changed by setting the specified microcontroller programs using buttons 9 (not shown in the block diagram to avoid cluttering the block diagram). An LED information display screen 21 can be installed on the flat rear end part of the weapon body above the pistol grip.

[0123] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) of the weapon status displaying the weapon operating modes, the battery charge level, the condition and operability of the internal units, the shot counter, the time of weapon use and other similar information, which is already considered classic and mandatory in the DEShO manufactured by the company "Axon Enterprise, Inc." USA, and accordingly a world trend. DEShO without such functions are no longer allowed to participate in tenders of foreign law enforcement agencies. However, the introduction of all additional functions in the weapon except for those necessary directly for shooting (as in classic firearms) seriously increases the cost of the weapon and is actually not required for the production of the declared weapon for law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.

[0124] When the user has fired all pairs of cartridges from the magazine or when it is necessary to reload the magazine, the user extracts the magazine in the same way as described in Fig. 19.

[0125] The firing of pairs of cartridges is carried out mainly from the lower pairs of cartridges in the magazine upwards (to the front sight 3) as described in Fig. 2, 3 except for the mode of firing cartridges in the magazine out of order relative to the horizontal arrangement of pairs. The weapon according to Fig. 13 uses only 5 high-voltage transistors or thyristors for switching the striking voltage of the electric current and 10 low-voltage transistors for initiating the EVU.

[0126] In one embodiment of the weapon, both according to Fig. 19 and according to Fig. 20, the generator of damaging voltage of electric current 20 can supply to the cartridges through the keys 66 the pulses of damaging electric current already formed by the output high-voltage key of a separate generator setting the frequency of damaging pulses as part of the generator 20. In another embodiment, the pulses of the initiating and then damaging current are formed by first including in the circuit the resistances of the conductive igniting pyrotechnic compositions of charges 45, and when the conductive wires of the probes that hit the target are closed by the resistance of the target body included during initiation first in series with the charges 45 of the cartridges, and then in series with the target (as part of the generator 20, the threshold element (gas discharger) of the output capacitor of the generator 20 operates, constantly charged from the inverter of the generator 20 with an output direct voltage of 1000-3000 V).In the third version, the generator 20 itself does not include an output high-voltage key or threshold element, and the keys 66 themselves, when launched during a shot, generate pulses of damaging voltage, operating from a separate generator in the generator 20 that sets the frequency of damaging pulses.

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[0128] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) In both versions of the weapon (both according to Fig. 19 and Fig. 20), cartridges with forced breakage of current leads can be used. Such cartridges are used for the purpose of forced separation of the current leads of previous shots from the weapon in order to free the trajectories of the probes of the next fired cartridges from the current leads of previous shots stretching toward the target, which can deflect the newly fired probes from the target. Firing cartridges with forced breakage of current leads is from the lower cartridges in the magazine upwards to the front sight of the magazine. In Fig. 15, projections 53 of the lower pairs of cartridges (left and right) are visible, entering the recesses 55 of the upper pairs of cartridges when loading cartridges into the magazine. In this case, some of the projections 53 of the lower pairs of cartridges enter the barrel channels of the upper pairs of cartridges through the recesses 55 of the upper pairs of cartridges, partially blocking the barrel channels. The first pair, starting from the bottom of the store, is shot off and the current leads fixed on the protrusions 53 are pulled towards the target.When firing the second pair of cartridges from below, their probes, flying out of the barrel channels, vigorously interact with the parts of the projections 53 protruding into the barrel channels and break them off at the undercuts 54 and throw them out of the barrel channels. In this case, the current leads of the lower pair of cartridges held by the projections 53 are disconnected from these cartridges and, accordingly, from the weapon. Thus, firing subsequent cartridges separates the current leads of the previously fired cartridges from the weapon. The ejection of the previous current leads by them does not affect the accuracy of the probes' flight. The last pair of cartridges installed near the front sight of the magazine does not have projections 53, that is, they are standard-design cartridges (without a break in the current lead), since with this magazine design, cartridges with projections 53 cannot be installed in the magazine during loading. When performing cartridges with a break in the current leads according to Fig.18 the force of throwing element 65 off the cartridge body must be obviously greater than the force of its detachment from the cartridge body that occurs after the probe leaves the barrel channel due to the action of the resistance force of the unwinding (exit) of the current lead from the probe shell.

[0129] Fig. 21. Upper view. Magazine 2 with spring tongues 69 made integral with it on its lower wall, protruding into the magazine and pressing the cartridges against each other and against the upper inner wall of the magazine, preventing the cartridges from falling out when handling the magazine.

[0130] Fig. 22. Bottom view. Magazine with projections 70 protruding into the magazine, made integral with it on both its side walls, and one of the cartridges with a matching recess 71. When loading cartridges into the magazine, due to the elasticity of the walls

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[0132] SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) magazine projections 70 can enter the recesses 71 of the cartridges, snapping into place and preventing the cartridges from falling out when handling the magazine (lower view).

[0133] Fig. 23, 24. External view of the operating experimental DEShO made by 3D prototyping, magazine and firing cartridges.

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[0142] 7. Patent of the Russian Federation No. 2308668

[0143] 8. Patent of the Russian Federation No. 2607701

[0144] 9. Ladyagin Yu.O. "Remote electroshock weapon" M.: Publishing house of the Stalingrad fund, 2017, pp. 286-289.

[0145] 10. Ladyagin Yu.O. "Remote electroshock weapon" M.: Publishing house of the Stalingrad fund, 2017, pp. 457-462.

[0146] I. Patent of the Russian Federation No. 2701290

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Claims

Invention formula 1. A multi-charge remote electric shock weapon comprising a housing, a power source, a generator of striking voltage of electric current, a microcontroller control system, electric current switching devices, a safety switch, a removable magazine, characterized in that the removable magazine is a profile hollow shell with contact points, the magazine is designed with the possibility of loading it with unitary cartridges, which are designed with the possibility of being located in the magazine close to each other without gaps and which are loaded from the rear end of the cartridges by the force of the springs of electrical contacts located inside the housing, wherein the striking voltage of electric current from the generator is supplied through the contact points of the magazine to the contact points of the cartridges, which are located on the outer generatrix surface of the cartridge at the front end of the housing, the removable magazine is fixed in the housing with at least one spring-loaded latch,having a drive for forced release of the magazine from the weapon body, which is operated by the fingers of the user's hand holding the weapon, the current leads of the generator of the striking voltage of the electric current from the switching device to the electrical contact points of the cartridges in the magazine are located on the outer side surfaces of the front part of the body.

2. The weapon according to item 1, characterized in that the body has contact points for the output of the power source voltage to the outer surface of the body, switched by buttons on the body.

3. The weapon according to paragraph 1, characterized in that the body has contact points for the output of damaging electric current voltage to the outer surface of the body, switched by buttons on the body.

4. The weapon according to paragraphs 1 and 3, characterized in that a high-voltage pulse transformer with contact-action electrodes is electrically connected to the contact points of the output of the damaging voltage of the electric current and secured to the body.

5. The weapon according to item 1, characterized in that part of the sighting devices of the open sight is made on the outer surface of the profiled magazine frame.

6. The weapon according to paragraph 1, characterized in that the magazine has on its internal walls protrusions for spring loading the cartridges in the magazine or protrusions for fixing the cartridges with corresponding recesses in the cartridges. 25 SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) 7. The weapon according to paragraph 1, characterized in that the magazine is made to extend beyond the dimensions of the weapon body and has contact points with conductive tracks on the outer surface of the magazine.

8. The weapon according to item 1, characterized in that the spring-loaded latch is moved to both sides of the body.

9. The weapon according to paragraph 1, characterized in that the electric current switching devices generate pulses of damaging electric current.

10. The weapon according to item 1, characterized in that the microcontroller control system is designed with the ability to select the weapon operating mode before the shot, setting the sequence of firing the specified cartridges.

11. A unitary cartridge for a remote electric shock weapon according to paragraph 1, comprising a housing with a barrel bore, a charge of a pyrotechnic propellant composition with a device for electrical initiation of a bridge, conductive or spark type of electrical ignition, a probe with a current-carrying conductor in a casing, a wad-tray for sealing the barrel bore, characterized in that symmetrical recesses are made on the front end of the housing, extending into the barrel bore, and the end of the current-carrying conductor of the probe, extending from the barrel bore, is electrically connected to a contact point on the outer generatrix of the cartridge at the front end of the housing.

12. The cartridge according to item 11, characterized in that the contact point is made of adhesive metal foil or metallization.

13. The cartridge according to item 11, characterized in that the probe contains a non-conductive shell and has an electrically conductive path on the surface of the probe, one end of which is electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and the other end of which is adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan, passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

14. The cartridge according to item 11, characterized in that the probe contains a conductive shell and has two contacts electrically connected to the conductive shell, wherein one contact is electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and the other contact is adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan, passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

15. A unitary cartridge of a remote electric shock weapon according to paragraph 1, comprising a body with a barrel channel, a charge of a pyrotechnic propellant composition with a device for electrically initiating a bridge, conductive composition or 26 SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) spark composition, a probe with a current-carrying conductor laid in a shell and a device for securing to a target, a wad-tray for sealing the barrel bore, characterized in that the end of the current-carrying conductor of the probe, coming out of the barrel bore, is secured to a destructible element protruding at the front end of the housing on the outer generatrix of the cartridge housing, made directly integral with the housing or in the form of an easily resettable separate element, secured to the housing with a given force of separation from the housing, and on the side of the outer generatrix of the housing opposite to the destructible or easily resettable element, a recess is made that comes out into the barrel bore, wherein the end of the current-carrying conductor, secured to the destructible element or easily resettable part, is electrically connected to a contact point on the outer generatrix of the cartridge surface at the front end of the housing.

16. A cartridge according to item 15, characterized in that the contact point is made of adhesive metal foil or metallization.

17. The cartridge according to item 15, characterized in that the probe contains a non-conductive shell and has an electrically conductive path on the surface of the probe, one end of which is electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and the other end of which is adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan, passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end.

18. The cartridge according to item 15, characterized in that the probe contains a conductive shell and has two contacts electrically connected to the conductive shell, wherein one contact is electrically connected to the contact point of the cartridge body, and the other contact is adjacent to the electrode of the wad-pan, passing from the generatrix of one end of the wad-pan to the generatrix of the other end. 27 SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26)

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