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US 12,352,549 B2Granted
Non-pyrotechnic diversionary device
AssigneePavaShot, Inc.
InventorsCurtis E. Graber, Jonathan S. Willson
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Abstract
A diversionary device including a triggering mechanism, a payload and a compressed gas container containing a compressed gas. The compressed gas is non-flammable. The triggering mechanism is coupled to the compressed gas container, and conveys at least some of the gas from the compressed gas container to the payload after a predetermined delay after the triggering mechanism is activated. The gas conveyed to the payload causes the payload to produce a diversionary acoustic effect.
Claims17
A diversionary device, comprising:
- a triggering mechanism;
- a payload including a first and a second envelope, the first envelope being inside the second envelope, the second envelope having a predetermined failure pattern;
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- a compressed gas container containing a compressed gas, the compressed gas being non-flammable, the triggering mechanism being coupled to the compressed gas container, the triggering mechanism conveying at least some of the gas from the compressed gas container to the first envelope after a predetermined delay after the triggering mechanism is activated, the gas conveyed to the payload causing the payload to produce a diversionary acoustic effect.
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A method of operating a diversionary device, comprising the steps of:
- activating a triggering mechanism coupled to a payload, the payload including a first envelope inside a second envelope, the second envelope having a predetermined failure pattern;
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- conveying at least some gas from a compressed gas container to the first envelope after a predetermined delay after the triggering mechanism is activated in the activating step, the gas conveyed to the first envelope causing the payload to produce a diversionary acoustic effect, the diversionary acoustic effect being a rapid overpressure rise time shockwave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.