Manifold Electrode Launch Matching for Taser Accuracy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic weapons face challenges in accurately delivering electrodes to form a circuit with a target, which affects the consistency and effectiveness of the stimulus signal for inhibiting locomotion.
Innovation Solution
The deployment unit incorporates a manifold structure that transports and directs a propelling force to electrodes, ensuring a correspondence in exit velocities and times, thereby improving the accuracy of electrode delivery and circuit formation with the target.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional electronic weapons launch electrodes without a manifold structure, then the device complexity is reduced, but the manufacturing precision of electrode delivery and exit velocity correspondence deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The manifold is segmented into multiple channels, each dedicated to propelling a specific electrode. This segmentation allows independent control and optimization of propelling force distribution to each electrode, ensuring precise delivery and consistent exit velocities without requiring an overly complex integrated system
Solution Approach 2:
The manifold acts as an intermediary component between the propellant and the electrodes. It receives the propelling force and distributes it through its channels to each electrode, mediating the transfer of energy and ensuring uniform delivery without requiring direct complex interaction between the propellant and each electrode
2Manufacturing precision
If a manifold structure is added to transport and direct propelling force to electrodes, then the manufacturing precision of electrode delivery is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The manifold serves multiple functions simultaneously: it transports propelling force, directs flow to specific electrodes, and ensures correspondence in exit velocities. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby limiting the increase in overall device complexity while achieving precise velocity matching
Solution Approach 2:
The manifold is designed with varying channel dimensions and geometries to modify the propelling force parameters (pressure, flow rate) delivered to each electrode. By changing these parameters through the manifold structure, precise control over exit velocities is achieved without requiring complex external control systems
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enhances the accuracy and reliability of electrode deployment, increasing the likelihood of forming a functional circuit with the target, which effectively interferes with the target's locomotion.
Implementation Method 1
a manifold structure that transports and directs a propelling force to electrodes
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic weapon with an installed deployment unit, from which at least one wire-tethered electrode is launched, provides a stimulus current through a target to inhibit locomotion by the target. A manifold, according to various aspects of the present invention, directs a pressurized gas to two or more electrodes to launch the electrodes from the cartridge and toward a target. A matching portion of the manifold increases a correspondence between an exit velocity and/or a time of exit of the two or more electrodes. An increased correspondence between an exit velocity and/or a time of exit increases an accuracy of delivery of the electrodes to a target.