Vehicle interdiction device and method

• US 7,246,613 B1
• Filed: 08/19/2004
• Issued: 07/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert C. Mohar
• Original Assignee: Robert C. Mohar
• Inventors: Mohar, Robert C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chambers; Troy
• Application Number:
  US10/922,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20070163431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: 89/11.1, 102/502, 124/57, 124/69
• US Class Current: 124/57
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/043 by blocking the exhaust
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/08 Barbed-wire obstacles; Barricades; Stanchions; Tank traps; Vehicle-impeding devices; Caltrops making barbed wire B21F25/00; barbed-wire fencing E04H17/04; road barricades, obstructing passage of vehicles or pedestrians E01F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/34 expanding before or on impact, i.e. of dumdum or mushroom type
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/36 for dispensing materials; for producing chemical or physical reaction; for signalling ; for transmitting information
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 3/04 for producing gas under pressure generators of inflation fluid especially adapted for vehicle air bags B60R21/26

Abstract

A motor vehicle interdiction device with an elastic bladder inserted by hand or fired as an infrared seeking missile into an automobile exhaust pipe and inflated with a compressed gas cartridge.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle interdiction projectile device comprising:

(A) a cylindrical tubular body comprising an aero dynamic head, a frangible forward section and retractable fins extending radially outwardly from a rearward section of the body,

(B) an infrared sensor in the head adapted to locate an exhaust pipe opening on an motor vehicle within a defined conical space fanning out in a direction the projectile in traveling,

(C) guidance means in the rearward section adapted to adjust the path of the flight of the device to direct the flight of the projectile to the exhaust pipe opening,

(D) an elastic bladder in the frangible forward section of the body, the bladder operably connected to a compressed gas cartridge adapted to inflate the bladder to a size greater than the exhaust pipe opening of the motor vehicle upon gas being released from the cartridge, and

(E) a piercer attached to the compressed gas cartridge adapted to release the gas upon the projectile device entering the exhaust pipe opening of the motor vehicle.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the wherein the gas cartridge is adapted to be punctured to release the gas and the piercer is adapted to puncture the cartridge when actuated by the device coming to an abrupt halt.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the device further comprises a weight loaded lever adapted to release the piercer, which comprises a spring loaded pointed rod adapted to puncture the gas cartridge when the weight is thrown forward as the device is halted in the exhaust pipe of the motor vehicle.