Tri-tronics, Inc.

Gerald J Gonda

Gregory J Farkas

John Vancza, Jr

A resistive electrode structure for an electronic stimulus collar includes a base attached to a connecting element of the electronic stimulus collar. An electrode of the resistive electrode structure includes a tip adapted to supply electrical stimulus to the skin of an animal. A resistive material is electrically connected between a conductor for electrical connection to an output of the electronic stimulus collar and the electrode. An insulative housing encloses the resistive material and supports the electrode and the conductor. Various such resistive electrode structures having various resistances can be interchangeably connected to the electronic stimulus collar to vary the level of stimulus applied to the skin of the animal.

Animal training electrode structure including integral resistive element

An electroshock apparatus mounted on a strap placed around a portion of an animal's body includes first and second electrodes each extending through the strap from remotely controlled electroshock circuitry supported by the strap, and inserted through insulators surrounding shanks of the electrodes. The tips of the electrodes extend sufficiently far beyond the ends of the respective insulators to 1) ensure consistent electrical contact of the first and second electrodes with the animal's skin without overtightening the strap, and 2) avoid substantial shunting of electrical stimulus current between the first and second electrodes through wet fur.

Electrode structure for collar mounted animal training apparatus

An electroshock apparatus mounted on a strap placed around a portion of an animal's body includes first and second electrodes each extending through the strap from remotely controlled electroshock circuitry supported by the strap, and inserted through insulators surrounding shanks of the electrodes. The tips of the electrodes extend approximately one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch beyond the ends of the respective insulators.

A remote animal training apparatus includes a portable transmitter with controls for selecting various degrees of electrical stimulation applied by means of a pair of electrodes protruding from a collar-mounted receiver-stimulator unit to the skin of an animal. The described receiver unit includes three oscillatory circuits for producing a low, medium and high number of pulses per second of the electrical stimulation in response to low, medium, and high frequency selection signals from the remote transmitter. The receiver-stimulator unit includes an output transformer having a secondary winding with terminals connected to the electrodes and primary windings driven by a switching circuit that drives predetermined current pulses through the primary winding at the selected number of pulses per second. The open circuit voltage produced across the electrodes remains at a high predetermined level regardless of the degree of electrical stimulation selected, thereby ensuring adequate coupling of electrical current to the animal's skin despite any variations in electrode positioning relative to the skin of the animal as it moves about.

Method and apparatus for remote control of animal training stimulus

A short, resonant top-loaded helical coil antenna having a flexible lower section is attached to one side of the housing of a receiver unit. The antenna is approximately eight inches in length, and extends outwardly from the receiver unit at an angle of about 30.degree. from vertical, so as to maintain a minimum spacing from the dog's neck.

Antenna for animal training receiver unit mounted beneath collar

A unit adapted to be worn by a dog or other animal acts under the control of a remote control unit to produce stimuli including an aversive electrical stimulus followed by a characteristic sound or other second stimulus in a relation conditioning the animal to have safety, relief and relaxation responses to that second stimulus. A different sound or other third stimulus is preferably produced just prior to the onset of the aversive electrical stimulation, and becomes a conditioned warning stimulus to the animal. The remote control unit is actuable to cause production of these three different stimuli in sequence, to condition the sounds to the desired responses, and after such conditioning can produce the two sounds independently and without aversive electrical stimulation to control the animal's behavior and facilitate training of the animal.

Animal training apparatus

In order to train a dog not to bark, a device attached to the dog's collar emits a characteristic sound whenever he barks, which sound may be accompanied on some occasions by a light electrical shock acting to condition the dog to dislike the sound more than he otherwise would.

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Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Gerald J Gonda