Launchable remote-control attack device

• US 8,636,096 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2011
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Duksan Mecasys Inc., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Duksan Mecasys Inc., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Kim, Soohyun, Kim, Kyung-Soo, Kim, Jeehyoung, Kang, Bong-soo, Jung, Wonsuk, Kim, Chulyoung, Hong, Yunsic, Park, Hyunsoo, Yoo, Kyuje, Koh, Doo-Yeol, Lee, Seung-Ho, Lee, Min-Gu
• Primary Examiner(s): Hurley, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): STABLEY, MICHAEL R
• Application Number:
  US13/213,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20120043149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: 180/218, 180/7.1, 180/21, 180/65.51, 180/6.48, 180/6.5
• US Class Current: 180/218
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 11/002 Manipulators for defensive or military tasks
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 7/30 Command link guidance systems homing F41G7/2206
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/005 Unmanned ground vehicles, i.e. robotic, remote controlled or autonomous, mobile platforms carrying equipment for performing a military or police role, e.g. weapon systems or reconnaissance sensors F41H11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 9/04 Gas-blowing apparatus, e.g. for tear gas F41H9/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/20 of high-explosive type F42B12/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/365 Projectiles transmitting information to a remote location using optical or electronic means F42B12/385 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/50 by dispersion
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/58 Cluster or cargo ammunition, i.e. projectiles containing one or more submissiles F42B12/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/625 a single submissile arranged in a carrier missile for being launched or accelerated coaxially; Coaxial tandem arrangement of missiles which are active in the target one after the other with shaped or hollow charges F42B12/16
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 23/005 Selfpropelled land mines

Abstract

Provided is a launchable remote-control attack device that enables an operator to remotely grasp the status of a target place and to remotely control weapons it has been equipped with to perform an attack using explosives or gas when necessary. The remote-control attack device includes a cylindrical body with a camera, drivers which are made up of two tires that are disposed on opposite sides of the body and can be driven individually, and battery units for supplying power and which are disposed in central openings of the tires of the drivers. The attack device further includes a plurality of storage units and a wireless control unit.

Claims

1. A remote-control attack device, comprising:

a cylindrical body with a camera;

drivers made up of two tires that are disposed on opposite sides of the body and can be driven individually;

battery units for supplying power and disposed in central openings of the tires of the drivers;

a plurality of storage units, the plurality of storage units including a first storage unit provided in the body and a second storage units provided in the respective battery units; and

a wireless control unit,

wherein each of the first and second storage units comprises a detonator, an explosive and shrapnel.

2. The remote-control attack device of claim 1, wherein the shrapnel comprises steel balls that scatter to enhance killing ability when exploding.

3. The remote-control attack device of claim 1, wherein each of the first storage unit and the second storage units comprises a gas reservoir storing gas therein.

4. The remote-control attack device of claim 3, wherein a discharge nozzle is provided on the first storage unit so that gas is discharged from the first storage unit and the second storage units through the discharge nozzle under control of the wireless control unit.

5. The remote-control attack device of claim 3, wherein each of the first storage unit and the second storage units has a detonator.

6. The remote-control attack device of claim 3, wherein the wireless control unit is connected to the first storage unit and the second storage unit to control detonation of the explosive or discharge of gas.

7. The remote-control attack device of claim 1, comprising a plurality of remote-control attack devices, wherein the cylindrical bodies of the remote-control attack devices are coupled to each other by a connector.

8. The remote-control attack device of claim 7, wherein the connector has an explosive or a gas reservoir therein.

9. The remote-control attack device of claim 1 contained in a protective casing filled with a protective material.