Close-contact counter-measure garment and method

• US 6,272,781 B1
• Filed: 05/24/1999
• Issued: 08/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Joseph Anthony Resnick
• Original Assignee: Joseph Anthony Resnick
• Inventors: Resnick, Joseph Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): ELDRED, JOHN W
• Application Number:
  US09/312,535
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 42/11.1, 42/10.9, 89/11.1, 89/11, 89/360.5, 2/5, 2/25, 224/262
• US Class Current: 42/1.11
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 1/00 Personal protection gear shields for personal use F41H5/08; footwear for use in minefields A43B3/0026; for protection against chemical warfare A62B
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/00 Defence installations; Defence devices constructional aspects see Section E, e.g. air-raid shelters E04H9/04; protective arrangements for buildings E04B1/92; extinguishing or preventing the spread of fire from, incendiary bombs A62C3/06; dynamic armour F41H5/007; ballistically deployed systems for restraining persons or animals F41H13/0006; electronic countermeasures G01S
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/00 Means of attack or defence not otherwise provided for details of radar or sonar systems G01S7/00
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0025 for remote electrical discharge via conducting wires, e.g. via wire-tethered electrodes shot at a target
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0068 the high-energy beam being of microwave type, e.g. for causing a heating effect in the target
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0087 the high-energy beam being a bright light, e.g. for dazzling or blinding purposes F41H13/0056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 9/10 Hand-held or body-worn self-defence devices using repellant gases or chemicals

Abstract

A garment equipped with emitter, said emitter positioned on the garment such that the emitter can be a weapon, where said emitter can be fired by the wearer of the garment or fired remotely by a second person, an observer, or a third person, a monitor, an observer who is monitoring, where said emitter emits a means to mark an attacker by marking means, the position, identification of, and, alternatively, to immobilize or interfere with an attacker of the wearer of the garment. A method of defending an individual, including wearing by the individual a garment having contained upon, in, or proximal thereto a lethal, non-lethal, or less-than lethal weapon, and discharging or firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker.

Claims

1. A garment equipped with an armable emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, further comprising a sensor-driven means for arming the emitter upon sudden movement of a potential attacker.

2. A garment equipped with a fireable emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for firing at a potential attacker, further comprising an interactive radio and video telemetry means enabling a supervisor to observe a situation being faced by a wearer of the garment and to fire the emitter for the wearer.

3. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, the emitter comprising:

A. Means for launching wire-trailing projectiles in the direction of an attacker; and

further comprising;

B. A second emitter means for firing a marker in the direction of the attacker.

4. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, the emitter comprising means for:

A. launching a net in the direction of the attacker; and

B. utilizing a substance as a means of launching said net.

5. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, the emitter comprising means for:

A. launching a sticky substance in the direction of the attacker; and

B. utilizing a propelling substance as a means of propelling the sticky substance in the direction of the attacker.

6. A garment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the sticky substance comprises a glue.

7. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, the emitter comprising an electronic weapon, said electronic weapon having means for producing energy spectra injurious to human beings.

8. The garment as claimed in claim 7, wherein the spectra are sounds.

9. A garment equipped with an emitter having an identification marker, the emitter being positioned on the garment for delivering the identification marker in the direction of and to the body of an actor.

28. A garment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the marker is a transmitter for tracking by Global Positioning Satellite.

10. A garment equipped with emitter, where the emitter comprises a marker, wherein the marker is an electronic radio frequency transmitter operating over the entire broadcast spectrum.

11. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, wherein the firing is done by an observer, different from the individual.

12. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, wherein the firing is done automatically for the individual by and through electronic sensing means contained in the garment.

13. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, wherein the firing is done by signal from a location remote to the garment, in combination with means contained in the garment for acting on said signal.

29. A garment as claimed in claim 13, wherein the signal is from an orbiting satellite.

14. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, further comprising the steps of sensing sudden movement by an actor toward the direction of the individual and then placing the weapon in an armed state ready for the step of firing toward the actor as a potential attacker.

15. A method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising the step of sensing closer approach of the actor, before the step of firing the armed weapon.

16. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, further comprising, before the step of firing, the step of sensing a physiological variance of an actor, for the purpose of alerting the individual or an observer to such change.

17. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, further comprising the step of visual monitoring of the individual and an actor by a third party.

18. A method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the firing is done by the third party, based on the visual monitoring.

19. A method of defending an individual, comprising the steps of wearing by the individual a garment having a weapon, and firing the weapon from the garment in the direction of an attacker, further comprising the step of monitoring of the individual and an actor by satellite.

20. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, where said garment is made from composite substances comprising microspheres and the microspheres have a coating reactive to electrical impulses, in order to effect a change of properties of an outside portion of the garment.

21. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, the emitter being operated by sounds produced by a wearer of the garment.

22. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, further comprising a radio telemetry systems means for operating the emitter.

23. A garment equipped with an emitter, said emitter being positioned on the garment for defending against a potential attacker, where said emitter is an elecrto-motive force weapon.

24. A garment, having a signal damping and camouflage means for protecting a wearer by making the wearer unobservable, undetectable, and invisible, both visually and electronically, to an attacker.

25. A garment equipped with a switchable means, in combination with a switching means located in the mouth of a wearer of the garment, the switching means being activatable by bodily fluid.

26. A garment equipped with a switchable means, in combination with a switching means contained in face mounted architectures.

27. A garment equipped with a switchable means, in combination with a switching means including a power source comprising two dissimilar metals supported in a dental architecture within a wearer'"'"'s dental arcade, which when presented to bodily fluid as the electrolyte creates a microvoltage.