Electronic Weapon Canister Manifold for Synchronized Electrode Launch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic weapons face challenges in accurately delivering electrodes to a target to form a consistent circuit for stimulus signal transmission, leading to inconsistent locomotion inhibition and potential safety concerns due to varying electrode velocities and trajectories.
Innovation Solution
A deployment unit with a manifold structure that manages a propelling force, including a pyrotechnic material and pressurized gas, to synchronize the exit velocities and times of multiple electrodes, ensuring accurate delivery and formation of a circuit with the target.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional propellant systems are used to launch electrodes, then the electrodes can be delivered to the target, but the exit velocities and trajectories vary leading to inconsistent circuit formation
Solution Approach 1:
The propellant system is segmented into multiple independent canisters, each containing its own propellant charge. Each canister is responsible for propelling a specific electrode, ensuring that each electrode receives a controlled and consistent propelling force independently of others, thereby achieving consistent exit velocities and trajectories.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical state and parameters of the propellant by using compressed gas in canisters rather than conventional explosive propellants. This allows for controlled release of gas at specific pressures to propel electrodes with consistent velocities, and the gas can be regulated to achieve precise trajectory control.
2Speed
If higher propelling force is used to ensure electrode delivery, then delivery speed increases, but the risk of blunt impact trauma increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention uses pneumatic propulsion where compressed gas in canisters propels electrodes through controlled expansion. This allows for precise control of propelling force by regulating gas pressure, achieving high delivery speeds while avoiding excessive force that would cause blunt impact trauma. The gas pressure can be precisely controlled to deliver electrodes at optimal velocities.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the propellant from high-explosive materials to controlled compressed gas, allowing for continuous adjustment of propelling parameters. By controlling gas pressure and release timing, the system achieves high delivery speeds while maintaining forces within safe limits to prevent trauma, thus resolving the contradiction between speed and safety.
3Reliability
If synchronized electrode delivery is implemented, then circuit formation reliability improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The propellant system is divided into multiple independent canisters, each managing its own propellant charge for a specific electrode. This segmentation allows each canister to operate independently with its own timing mechanism, achieving synchronized delivery without requiring a complex centralized control system. Each canister unit is relatively simple, but collectively they achieve sophisticated synchronized propulsion.
Solution Approach 2:
The electrodes and their corresponding propellant canisters are pre-positioned and prepared in the deployment unit before activation. The system is pre-configured with all necessary components in place, and upon activation, the pre-positioned canisters release their propellant in a coordinated manner, achieving synchronized delivery without requiring complex real-time control mechanisms during operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The synchronized delivery of electrodes increases the accuracy and effectiveness of locomotion inhibition by ensuring consistent stimulus signal transmission, while minimizing the risk of blunt impact trauma.
Implementation Method 1
A deployment unit with a manifold structure that manages a propelling force, including a pyrotechnic material and pressurized gas
Implementation Method 2
A deployment unit with a manifold structure that manages a propelling force, including a pyrotechnic material and pressurized gas
Implementation Method 3
A deployment unit with a manifold structure that manages a propelling force
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic weapon with an installed deployment unit, from which wire-tethered electrodes are launched, provides a stimulus current through a target to inhibit locomotion by the target. A canister of compressed gas propels the electrodes. The canister is located in the deployment unit in a manner that facilitates the design and manufacture of a relatively narrow deployment unit.