Ordnance – Waging war
Patent
1996-02-08
1997-10-07
Carone, Michael J.
Ordnance
Waging war
361213, 361232, H01T 2300
Patent
active
056751036
ABSTRACT:
A non-lethal weapon for temporarily immobilizing a target subject by means of muscular tetanization in which the tetanization is produced by conducting a precisely-modulated electrical current through the target. Because the electrical current is a close replication of the physiological neuroelectric impulses which control striated muscle tissue, it tetanizes the subject's skeletal muscles without causing any perceptible sensation. The transmission of this current to the distant target is via two channels of electrically conductive air. The conductive channels are created by multi-photon and collisional ionization within the paths of two beams of coherent (laser) or columnated incoherent ultraviolet radiation directed to the target. A single beam may be used to tetanize a grounded target. The high-voltage tetanizing current flows from electrodes at the origin of the beams along the channels of free electrons within them.
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Buchaca John D.
Carone Michael J.
Charmasson Henri J. A.
Montgomery Christopher K.
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