Cross Reference to Related Applications
Background of the Invention
Summary of the Invention
Brief Description of the Drawings
Description of Specific Embodiments
What is Claimed is:
Abstract of the Disclosure
This application incorporates by reference the entire disclosures of the following U.S. patents and patent applications for all purposes:
The present disclosure is related to the following U.S. patent applications, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated by reference for all purposes:
The entire disclosures of the following U.S. Patents are incorporated by reference for all purposes:
The following document is incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes:
The present invention relates in general to firearms and other projectile weapons (such as rail guns, gas weapons, air guns, Tasers or similar weapons, projected energy weapons, and the like), and more particularly to weapons incorporating sensors and logic that can constrain the circumstances under which the weapon can be fired.
From shotguns to rifles to handguns, firearms and other projectile or projectile-like weapons have proven to be a valuable tool for law enforcement and self-defense. Sadly, however, firearms have also proven to be a valuable tool for criminals, who use them to threaten, injure, or murder their victims. In addition, many people are injured or killed each year through accidental discharge of firearms, including children playing with a parent's gun.
Attempts to solve these problems include trigger locks and gun safes. While they are of some help, both solutions are imperfect. Trigger locks and gun safes, for example, keep unauthorized users (particularly children) from operating a firearm or other weapon, but they can also interfere with legitimate users' ability to respond quickly to a deadly threat. Further, because a criminal can steal a weapon or a gun safe and remove the lock at his or her leisure, trigger locks and gun safes do little to prevent stolen weapons from being used in further crimes.
Therefore, it would be desirable to provide weapons with improved protection against unauthorized use.
In short, embodiments incorporate mechanisms to enhance the safety of weapons, for example to control the users that are permitted to use the weapon or to limit the locations and directions of aiming the weapon. In this context, the term weapon is intended to cover a range of weapons beyond firearms and other projectile-launching (including steerable projectiles) weapons. Included in the definition are devices that launch barbs attached by wires to an electrical source (e.g., Tasers), lasers and other electromagnetic beam devices such as gamma ray guns, and particle beam devices (e.g., alpha particles, electrons) or hybrids of the latter well known weapons.
In one embodiment of the invention, the firearm includes a specially designed trigger capable of verifying a user's identity so that only an authorized user can discharge the firearm. For example, the firearm can be programmed with a time sequence of pressures (which may vary or remain constant) that a user exerts on the trigger to activate the firearm. In a further embodiment and in conjunction with a piezoelectric structure pressed or attached rigidly to the trigger pressure and vibration may be sent back to the users trigger finger to signal that a pressure stage has been reached, or that ammunition is running low or is out. Further the trigger can be used to set the force for the trigger firing in one or more stages. By feeding back different vibrations other parameters and controls can be set up. All these various programming or setting methods would only occur from set safe conditions.
In another embodiment of the invention, a weapon is configured with a restricted area automatic fire disable function. The weapon uses sensors to determine the location of the weapon, the angle with respect to a plane parallel to the earth, and the direction and range of the projectile or other launched beam if fired at any given moment along with the rate of change of the angle and direction whenever the weapon is within striking distance at the most favorable angle with respect to the restricted area and any area within the restricted area. So for example a weapon with a best range of 2 miles (a 2 mile circle) would not function if pointed and angled such that it could enable a hit on any portion of a restricted area. This is the case, even though the restricted area is substantially smaller then the range area which can be said to move and align with the pointing direction of the weapon.
In another embodiment, the weapon can use its emergency broadcast capability to signal on the emergency frequencies its presence and the need for assistance. This signal can be commanded by the user or if the weapon is dropped or simply left unattended for a programmable time. Thus a dropped, stolen, or lost weapon can be quickly located and recovered.
In another embodiment, the weapon includes a sighting system with an included optical presentation of the status of the weapon including fire system on/off, shots remaining. It also includes an audio system bi-directionally communicating to earbuds or headset, or through bone conduction in the stock (of a rifle like weapon) near the cheek rest. The weapon will learn the unique voice characteristics of each authorized user whose voice will be part of the enabling process, and will subsequently be able to directly request services such as emergency beacon, cartridges or charge or gas or air reserves remaining. Voice may command trigger release force, number of stages in the trigger release for a time set up by the authorized user. For example, fire is enabled by a commend on or off for hours or days, but otherwise stays fire disabled to anyone failing to know the quick enable pass codes (voice in combination with pressure pattern on trigger).
A further understanding of the nature and advantages of the present invention may be realized by reference to the remaining portions of the specification and the drawings, which are intended to be exemplary and not limiting.
The related patent applications incorporated by reference above describe, inter alia: various techniques and apparatus for a pressure sensitive trigger (U.S. Pat. No. 7,441,362). In embodiments of the present invention, such techniques can be used.
Embodiments of the present invention can utilize details of complementary laws or governmental regulations at the state, national, and international levels providing greater freedom of operation for defense, and other legitimate uses of the weapon because of the unique safety qualities of the weapon. Such laws permit action ready weapons to be kept ready for authorized users close at hand in homes, small and large businesses, and vehicles. The users of these operational weapons can be secure in the knowledge that such weapons cannot be used by children, thieves, or any agent other then the authorized users for which the weapon has trained recognition systems.
In operation, a force sensing trigger 100, which may include a piezoelectric 110 or piezoresistive element is pressed and changes output voltage or resistance as a function of the applied pressure, one or more times in an activation sequence. The activation sequence includes a specific pattern of pressures or pulses on the trigger 100, and the pattern may be defined by reference to a relative duration of the pulses and/or relative force on the trigger as a function of time. In addition in the preferred embodiment one or more voice commands can be sensed by one or more microphones 186. The activation sequence or owners recognition code is advantageously preprogrammed by the user, e.g., upon purchasing the firearm, and stored in memory in control logic 120-180.
When trigger 100 is operated, signals representing the force as a function of time are transmitted to control logic section 120, and thence to 130 which compares them to the activation sequence, with the firearm becoming usable only when the trigger operations match the preprogrammed activation sequence and is sent to logic in 140 and 150. Finally the arm is fired, after a second check of owner recognition at 160, by the action of electromechanical elements at 190 which release a spring loaded firing pin, or hammer.
Alternatively, the firing pin may be part of a solenoid and be electrically actuated. In yet another embodiment the ignition may be initiated by an electrical current for example causing thin magnesium wire to vaporize thus setting off the primer material or with sufficient flash magnesium wire the gunpowder directly. One or more program controlled safeties are turned to on or Safe position if the arm is not fired and a preset time has elapsed 170. 170 also treats the use of the GPS sensor to determine the position and orientation of the firearm along with the time and compare that time and location to a table of restricted GPS locations. In addition as shown in 230
In addition to the restricted areas (if any) there are also owner defined locations which are entirely unrestricted. As an example one table of GPS coordinates parameters and times in one embodiment will be all the schools, malls, hospitals, doctors offices, clinics, all sites where large crowds gather together, ballparks, museums, music halls, playgrounds, and theatres in North America. Based on the 2010 school count in the U.S. of 98,817 public schools the total estimate for North America is 950,000 such sites. Each site will require 200 bytes of information including the site location, time of restriction, a described polygon which includes any legally required distance for firearms creating the need for 190 megabytes of memory space for such or far less memory then is commonly used in most low cost electronic devices today. In one embodiment the arm will also note when the weapon is pointed at a restricted region and prevent firing if the range to the restricted area is smaller than the range for the cartridge used in the firearm.
The activation sequence acts as a “password” with both or either voice and trigger pressure to prevent the firearm from being used by anyone other than an authorized user. After the owner is recognized the trigger pull and one or more stages of pull may be set 180 by putting in the trigger set sequence, followed by the number of stages (1 to 4) the trigger will then vibrate to indicate the stage and the owner then simply presses the trigger to set the force to fire (last stage) or to move to the next stage, note that when in these setting sequences the safety is always on and firing is fully inhibited. If the activation sequence is not recognized then logic in 140 commands the drivers in 150 to flash the safety LED, if recognized the LED is steady but in both cases the safety is set and must be release by the shooter.
In an additional embodiment programmable logic in 180 in conjunction with sensors in the magazine or on the frame of a revolver looking in the chambers not in battery permits the arm to notice ammo out, remaining ammo or last round as trigger back pressure giving notice to the shooter. Also LED flash and LED steady may be replaced by a vibration or series of vibrations indicating that the safety is on, that is fed back to the trigger finger. Thus if password enabled every time the trigger is pressed when the safety is on, the signal of safety on is sent to the finger.
In a further embodiment the mechanical safety which blocks the firing pin of the weapon must be cycled on and then off (ready to fire) before the weapon will fire for the first time after the owners code is entered. The position of the mechanical safety is detected optically or electronically and the resultant electronic signal is sent to the logic of the electronic recognition trigger. In an additional embodiment the trigger is vibrated to indicate a safe state (safety on firing disabled) for an preset (but programmable) time after the arm is enabled and in the dark (as sensed by a phototransistor). In yet another embodiment, the safety display may be any combination of passive mechanical, electrophoretic, liquid crystal, OLED, electroluminescent and LED displays. In an alternate embodiment displays and/or speaker 184 are used to report the GPS position and with the display the nearest known roads. In an alternative embodiment microphones and trigger can be used to select the emergency beacon 184 or transmitter 280 function in those firearms, typically rifles, where antenna and adequate power is available from batteries, supercaps, and small stock mounted solar panels.
In operation then in
While the invention has been described with respect to specific embodiments, one skilled in the art will recognize that numerous modifications are possible. One skilled in the art will also recognize that the present invention provides a number of advantageous techniques, tools, and products, usable individually or in various combinations. These techniques, tools, and products include but are not limited to:
While the above is a complete description of specific embodiments of the invention, the above description should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the claims.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/203,440, filed Mar. 10, 2014 for “Molded Plastic Cartridge with Extended Flash Tube, Sub-Sonic Cartridges, and User Identification for Firearms and Site Sensing Fire Control” (Victor B. Kley), which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/787,459, filed Mar. 15, 2013 for “Molded Plastic Cartridge with Extended Flash Tube, Sub-Sonic Cartridges, and User Identifications for Firearms and Site Sensing Fire Control” (Victor B. Kley). The entire disclosures of the above applications are hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes.
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