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Methods and apparatus for a conducted electrical weapon

  • US 10,066,906 B2
  • Filed: 09/08/2016
  • Issued: 09/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A conducted electrical weapon (“

  • CEW”

    ) for providing a current through one or more provided targets to impede locomotion of the one or more targets, the CEW comprising;

    a handle, the handle includes a processing circuit, a signal generator for providing the current, a first user-operated control, a second user-operated control, and a plurality of bays, each bay includes a coupler;

    one or more deployment units, each deployment unit includes a coupler, a pyrotechnic and at least two wire-tethered electrodes, the pyrotechnic for launching the at least two wire-tethered electrodes, each deployment unit configured to be inserted into any one bay so that one or more bays hold a respective deployment unit;

    wherein;

    responsive to an operation of the first user-operated control, the processing circuit serially polls each bay to determine whether one of the deployment units is inserted into the bay;

    upon detecting one of the deployment units inserted into the bay, the processing circuit;

    sends data to and receives data from the deployment unit via the coupler of the bay and the coupler of the one deployment unit; and

    marks the bay as holding the one deployment unit; and

    after polling each bay and in response to each operation of the second user-operated control, the processing circuit successively selects one marked bay to launch the at least two electrodes from the one deployment unit in the marked bay toward the one or more targets to provide the current from the signal generator through the one or more targets.

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