Taser International, Inc.

Axon Enterprise, Inc.

Checkers Industrial Products, Inc.

Steven N D Brundula

Magne H Nerheim

Milan Cerovic

Patrick W Smith

Scott Clifford

Stephen D Handel

Mark A Hanchett

Aleksander Petrovic

Oleg Nemtyshkin

Andrew F Hinz

Mark Joseph Phelps

Douglas J Landers

Nache D Shekarri

Scott L Klug

Reinhard J Gagnon

David K DuBay

Jordan P Meyers

A conducted electrical weapon ('CEW') launches wire-tethered electrodes from one or more cartridges to provide a current through a human or animal target to impede locomotion of the target. The CEW may detect when the electrodes launched from the cartridges may provide the current through more than one target. The CEW may detect when electrodes launched from the cartridges may provide the current through the same target. The CEW may set the pulse rate of the current based on detecting the launch of electrodes from one or more cartridges, detecting that electrodes may provide the current through two or more targets, and/or detecting that two or more pairs of electrodes may deliver the current through the same target.

Providing pulses of stimulus signal between pairs of electrodes

Methods and apparatus for detecting a magnitude of a voltage at a face of a conducted electrical weapon ('CEW'). The magnitude of the voltage may be used to determine whether a pulse of a stimulus signal was delivered to a target. Structures for detecting the magnitude of the voltage may include structures that provide a stimulus voltage.

Methods and apparatus for detecting a voltage of a stimulus signal of a conducted electrical weapon

A conducted electrical weapon ('CEW') deploys wire-tethered electrodes after generation of an ignition signal. The ignition signal is provided to a deployment unit. The deployment unit includes a primer material adjacent a conductor. The conductor conducts the ignition signal outside the primer material. A temperature of the conductor increases in response to receiving the ignition signal. The primer material ignites in response to the increase in temperature of the conductor.

Ignition device for a conducted electrical weapon

Determining a distance between a conducted electrical weapon and an electrode using sound

The number of pulses of a stimulus signal provided by a conducted electrical weapon ('CEW') between launch and establishing an electrical circuit with a human or animal target may be counted to determine the distance between the CEW and the target and the distance between electrodes launched by the CEW toward the target while positioned in or near target tissue.

Calculating a distance between a conducted electrical weapon and a target

Methods and apparatus for a conducted electrical weapon

Detecting a distance between a conducted electrical weapon and a target

Systems and methods for ignition in a conducted electrical weapon

A conducted electrical weapon ('CEW') launches wire-tethered electrodes to provide a current through a human or animal target to impede locomotion of the target. The current may ionize air in a gap. A gap may occur between terminals at a face of the CEW and/or between the electrodes positioned near target tissue. A CEW may include a detector to detect ionization of air in a gap. A CEW may use information related to detecting ionization to determine a location where the ionization occurred. Information regarding location of ionization may be used to determine whether the current was delivered through the target via the electrodes.

A hooded light head assembly for providing directional lighting is provided which comprises a light housing having a hood. The light housing has an internal light source and a rear attachment surface that has an insert extension. The insert extension is configured to attach the light housing to mounting surface upon insertion into an opening in the mounting surface and upon rotation of the light housing relative to the mounting surface. Some of these hoods also have a locking tab extending rearward from the surface that may prevent removal of the hood from the mounting surface. The light head may also have a controller having touch sensitivity and set to indicate light head status and prevent reversed current through the light heads. An arrow board using the controller and light heads may be easily installed and may be durable and reliable in outdoor conditions.

Arrow board light and touch controller

An apparatus for interfering with locomotion of a target by conducting a current through a load that includes an ionizable path. The apparatus includes, according to various aspects of the present invention, detectors and a processing circuit that determines a status of an electrical connection with the load.

Systems and methods for determining a status of an electrical coupling

A strobe light includes a base, a mounting post, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED) lights, a lens, and a channel. The mounting post extends vertically from the base. The plurality of LED lights are mounted around a periphery of the mounting post. The lens is connected to the base and covers the mounting post and the plurality of LED lights. The channel extends through the base, mounting post and lens. Air flowing through the channel transfers heat generated by the plurality of LED lights out of the strobe light.

LED strobe light with integrated magnet and heat sink chimney

An apparatus, according to various aspects of the present invention, produces contractions in skeletal muscles of a target to impede locomotion by the target. The apparatus is used with a provided deployment unit that deploys an electrode away from the apparatus. The electrode conducts a current through the target. The apparatus includes a detector that detects indicia describing the deployment unit and a processing circuit that performs a function of the launch device in accordance with the indicia.

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Chandler, AZ, United States of America

Steven N D Brundula