Patent No. 4893815 Interactive transector device commercial and military grade

 

Patent No. 4893815  Interactive transector device commercial and military grade (Rowan, Jan 6, 1990)

Abstract

A multiple task user based weapons system capable of neutralizing a variety of designated target types within a real time interval well below conventional systems faced with equivalent tasks. Said weapon system is described as a transector device. Target acquisition, assignment, pursuit and engagement of said targets by dedicated systems embodied within said transector device, including automated projectiles are described in detail. Additionally, the various options or strategies involved in neutralization of said designated targets to the exclusion of equivalent or similar non-designated targets are defined in the disclosure. Further the implementation interactive expert programs, embodying statistical analysis, pruning, probablistic mechanisms and other processes are described in relation to the operation of the aforesaid transector device.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The scope of the invention embodies short range missile or rocket launching devices, lethal and non-lethal devices delivering gases, electric shock and projectile delivery systems with single or multiple warhead configurations. The scope of the invention further embodies short range emissive devices projecting acoustic, radiofrequency and coherent emissions at designated targets.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Bordex's patent, Ser. No. 2,634,535 teaches the use of a policeman's club, incorporating a cartridge firing mechanism and O'Brien et al patent Ser. No. 2,625,764 teaches the use of a combination flashlight, gun and Billy club element. Larsen et al Ser. No. 3,362,711 teaches the use of a night stick incorporating an electric shock means. K. Shimizu's patent Ser. No. 3,625,222 teaches the use of a device wherein needle electrodes penetrates the skin of an assailiant discharging minute voltage subdermally including a psuedo state of epilepsy. Henderson's et al patent disclosure Ser. No. 3,998,459 teaches the construction of a high voltage low current capacitance discharge means emboding a two electrode discharge spark gap forming probes which discharge when said device is motivated forward and the aforesaid probes encounter or make contact with a physical object. The patent disclosure of Yanez Patent Ser. No. 4,486,807 teaches the use of a device which simultaneously delivers an intense light capable of blinding an assailiant by administering current by discharging high voltage pulses. Yanez patent disclosure Ser. No. 4,486,807 also embodies circuitry to synchronize the delivery of said blinding light simultaneously with the aforesaid high voltage discharge to the aforesaid assailiant. The commercially available Tazer, cattle prodes or other similar such devices may also be considered references of recent prior similar or related art, which is manually operated but capable of undergoing automation. The parent patent titled Interactive Transector Device, Ser. No. 814,743 provides the basis for programming ancillary circuitry and related processes embodied within this present disclosure. The Anti-Assault Submersible Vehicular Device Ser. No. 019,064 embodies variations of probalistic mathematical constructs, methods of statistical analysis and other related parameters utilized in the present patent disclosure to specify, acquire, pursue and eventually engage designated targets. The prior art also entails portable missile launchers,* mortars, gernade launchers and SMART munitions fired from light artillery devices.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the construction of a portable programmable non-lethal manual multifunction device which readily provides law enforcement agents with a means wherein potentially dangerous individuals can be efficiently subdued, apprehended and appropriately detained, minimizing the possibility of the said individuals either injuring themselves or others. In the preferred embodiment the device is incorporated into a cylindrical configuration which upon the appropriate keying distends or retracts a graduated telescoping delivery means. The delivery means in effect is a multipurposed structure serving as a directional unit for dispersing reactive carrier mediated volitiles, the delivery of electric charges or the accurate projection of acoustical, chemical and or kinetic/emissive fields. A rotating or radial selector means is preferentially located in the aft section of the devices body circumferentially disposed to be operated by holding or grasping the body with one hand and rotating the switch in a radial manner with either the palm or fingers of the other hand. The specific function, its duration and subsequent intensity is governed by the particular setting the rotating selector means engages. A release button or actuator means is preferably located midway between the front of the unit's body and its aft section. The release button is ideally actuated by depressing it with either the thumb or index finger. Several fail-safe mechanisms prevent unauthorized use of the device or its accidental discharge. The device will not be actuated when placed in the position unless a keying code or key means releases the lock mechanism. The device will remain activated but inoperative when the radial selector is placed in the standby position, until the selector is rotated into an operative mode.

Target engagement of objects requires specification, acquisition and the subsequent pursuit of said target. The difficulty or extent to which targets are eventually engaged varies directly with the velocity of said targets, the quantity of targets to be neutralized, the complexity of behavior exhibited by said targets and the number of functions which must be performed by a given projectile to neutralize said targets. Difficulties arise in acquisition of hostile targets which mimic the properties of neutral non-targeted objects or individuals. Additional difficulties are manifested when certain specified targets are either obscured by elements in the ambient environment. Further difficulties arise when said targets have the capacity to immediately alter their properties prior to or immediately after the launch of the projectiles from transector unit. Target specification and acquisition are initially encoded into the volatile memory chip embodied within said projectiles by the CPU and embodied within the Transector device. The user or automated transector initially determines the type and quantity of targets engaged prior to and during dispersal of the a aforesaid projectiles. The aforementioned projectiles have the capacity to function autonomously from the Transector unit or other sources upon the execution of the initial launch sequence. The microprocessor incorporated within any given projectile is embodied within a sensory feedback network, which enables said given projectiles to home in on a variety of specified targets and make a complex sequence of course changes or maneuvers to suitably engage said targets.

Once the flight vector or glide path of a projectile coincides with those of specified targets said projectiles are locked onto said targets the target neutralization program is actuated. The target neutralization entails a service of interrelated subprograms, routines and subroutines structured to neutralize either a single target or a group of targets. The process of neutralization need not kill or destroy said targets, but may function to disable, deactivate or render said targets inert.

There are a number of scenarios wherein automated projectiles functioning autonomously from other sources are superior to conventional and/or so-called SMART munitions. The dispersal or multiple function, high velocity projectiles is essential when isolating suspected terrorist from their hostages, or negating certain structures or individuals within a group without effecting other members of the group. High velocity projectiles automated motivators to, elevate, lower or change the confirmation of aerolons or other structures to alter the glide path of said projectile to coincide with the four dimensional spatial temporal vectors of designated targets. Multiple functioned projectiles may pierce armor plated structures and destroy or disable certain specified structures or individuals to the exclusion of other similar or equivalent structures and/or individuals. Upon penetration projectile may detonate shaped explosive charged, disperse volatile gases (i.e. tranquilizers, toxins, neural inhibitors or other carrier mediated chemicals), release radiation disruptive to sensitive circuitry, or ignite various incindrary means providing thermite reaction to initiate combustion of plastics, certain metals and other structure. Hostile personel, terrorist holding hostages may have to be subjected to carrier mediated neural inhibitors, tranquilizers, or toxins; which immediately passes through clothing and/or pores of the skin entering the blood stream and effectively binding to sites located in muscle structure, neural end plates, interfer with conduction or neural impulses and/or effect metabolism of living systems.

The projectiles must in order to acquire, pursue and engage targeted objects and/or individuals to the exclusion of other similar such systems be equipted with a volatile memory, sensory feedback system and programming emboding a limited expert program. Sensory elements feedback systems, guidance control, micro-servosystems must all function prior to and a transitory period after engagement of targets. Certain projectiles must be nearly fully functional after impact through structures inbetween said targets and the aforesaid projectiles. Projectiles must also have the capacity to avoid engaging equivalent or similar non-designated targets from designated ones. Continueous course modifications or alterations in the glide path trajectory of said projectile is a pre-requisite for avoidance of similar or equivalent non-designated targets. White noise and other forms of interference are additionally filtered out by unique variations of Kalman filtering, probabilistic mathematics, statistical analysis and other means. Laser designation, radar, infra-red patterns and acoustical signals or other forms of target identification are applicable methods to seek and locate specified targets. Aerolons, elevators and velocity are elements regulated by microminiature motivator means. Target illumination is employed by projectiles prior to and during engagement. Sensory elements and feedback systems are preferably incorporated within the chip element or microprocessor means. Ascent, decent, elevation, pitch, roll and yaw motions and/or velocity are motivated by solenoid means controlled by impulses provided by the microprocessor unit. The aforesaid solenoid or motivator elements must have a real time operation in the microsecond range; whereas the turn around time interval for the aforementioned microprocessor is preferably within tens or hundreds of nanoseconds. The velocity of the aforesaid projectiles range from a fixed or static zero state relative to the transector device to a maximum velocity exceeding two thousand meters per second. High velocities preferably entail projectiles composed by shells containing ceramic composite materials coated by teflon and ablative surfactants.

The rapid sequential firing of high velocity multiple function projectiles are effective against designated targets at extreme range, or concealed within protective structures; whereas close range defensive and offensive systems are embodied within the Transector Device. Close range defensive and offensive systems include but are not limited to a laser flash element, acoustic emitter means, high voltage electrical generator unit, a volatile dispersal, cryogenic means and a radio-frequency emitter element. Intense concentrated acoustic emissions in short burst produce temporary disorientation, a transitory loss of hearing and localized pain without cellular damage. An intense non-injurous laser flash induces temporary blindness, if concentrated localized pain, minor cellular damage and disorientation. Intense localized radiofrequency emission induces intense localized pain and superficial or peripheral cellular damage due to subdermal thermal coagulation. Subjecting designated targeted individuals to high voltage induces intense localized pain, transitory convulations, apnea and temporarily induces atrial fibrillation. The effective range of the electric are emitted from the barrel of the Transector Device is limited to not more than ten centimeters from the terminating segment of said barrel of the device. The automated release of high pressure high velocity, carrier mediated volatiles from the sintered portion of the barrel effectively disables or neutralizes hostile individuals from a range of zero one hundred meters with an optimum pin point dispersal range of between ten to twenty-five meters. Carrier mediated tranqualizers, neural inhibitors, toxins or other volatile chemicals rapidly penetrate protective clothing, glass, metals, concrete and other protective structures. The aforesaid carrier mediated transported substances immediately penetrate the dermal barrier and are readily absorbed into the bloodstream of designated individuals whereby binding occurs at a molecular level to neural sites, muscular structures, cellular metabolic organels and other organic mechanisms embodied within said targeted individuals.

Physiological, biochemical and electrophysiological processes of designated individuals are continuously monitored by the Transector's CPU in order to avoid exceeding the lethal physiological limits of said designated targets. In regards to hand held anti-personel devices presently in use or known to be in existance, none of the aforesaid devices are known to embody the variety of functions and interactive expert programs necessary to control the entire scenarios of circumstances ranging from a single to multiple assailants.

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Although various alterations or modifications may be suggested by those skilled in the art, it is the intention of the inventor(s) to embody within the patent warranted hereon all changes and modifications as reasonably and properly come within the scope of contributions to the art, without departing from the spirit of the invention.