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US 2009/0263191 A1Published application
Vehicle disablement device
AssigneePursuit Management, Inc.
InventorsMichael P. Moormeier, Todd O'Halloran
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a vehicle disablement device that includes deployment of a tire puncture strip in front of the tire of a moving vehicle.
Claims31
A moving vehicle disablement device, including:
- a tire puncture strip including a plurality of projection elements adapted to engage a vehicle tire;
- a first deployment member adapted to couple to a disablement device carrier generally transverse to the moving vehicle's direction of travel;
- a second deployment member sized to slidingly engage the first deployment member, the second deployment member having a first end adapted to allow axial movement of the second deployment member relative to the first member and help resist separation of the second member from the first member, the second member having a second end adapted to couple to the tire puncture strip;
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- a movable joint coupling the second member to the tire puncture strip, and adapted to allow movement of the tire puncture strip about one or more axes.
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A method of disabling a moving vehicle, comprising:
- providing a tire puncture strip deployment device coupled to a deployment device carrier, the device including a first deployment member and a second deployment member slidingly engaged with the first member, and a joint coupling the second member to the tire puncture strip and adapted to allow for movement of the tire puncture strip about one or more axis;
- ensuring the deployment device carrier is positioned such that the tire puncture strip deployment device is proximal to at least one tire on the moving vehicle;
- deploying the second member in a direction generally transverse to a direction of travel the moving vehicle such that the second member moves axially away from the first member, thereby positioning the tire puncture strip in front of the at least one tire;
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- causing the tire puncture strip to engage the at least one tire.
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A tire puncture strip, comprising
- an elongate base having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge adapted to first engage a tire to be punctured;
- a plurality of generally upstanding pointed members disposed about at least a portion of the length of the elongate base;
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- a plurality of generally upstanding knife edges disposed about at least a portion of the length of the elongate base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.