IP Library Granted Patent US 9,261,339
Granted Patent B2
US 9,261,339 · App. 14/547,383 · Granted Feb 16, 2016

Multiple report stun grenade

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Patent No.
US 9,261,339
App. No.
14/547,383
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Multiple report stun grenades have an elongated body defining a body axis and having a sidewall and opposed top and bottom end faces, the body including a plurality of delay chambers each containing a different delay feature, the body having a plurality of flash charge chambers each containing a quantity of flash charge material, the body defining a plurality of ignition passages, each ignition passage communicating from a respective flash charge chamber to an associated delay chamber, each flash charge chamber having at least one exhaust aperture, and each of the exhaust apertures penetrating at least one of the top and bottom end faces. Each of the flash charge chambers may have a first exhaust aperture penetrating the top end face, and a second exhaust aperture penetrating the bottom end face. Each of the flash charge chambers may be an elongated bore parallel to the body axis.

Claims (24)

1. A stun grenade device comprising:

an elongated body defining a body axis and having a sidewall and opposed top and bottom end faces;

the body defining a plurality of delay chambers each having a different delay feature;

the body defining a plurality of flash charge chambers each containing a quantity of flash charge material;

the body defining a plurality of ignition passages, each ignition passage communicating from a respective delay chamber to an associated flash charge chamber;

each flash charge chamber having at least one exhaust aperture; and

each of the exhaust apertures penetrating at least one of the top and bottom end faces.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein each of the flash charge chambers has a first exhaust aperture penetrating the top end face, and a second exhaust aperture penetrating the bottom end face.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein each of the flash charge chambers is an elongated bore parallel to the body axis.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the flash charge chambers are arranged in a contiguous array.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein each delay chamber is an elongated bore communicating with a central bore in the body to a fuse at the top end face, the central bore being centered on the body axis.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein at least some of the delay features have different burn rates, such that a flame front in the delay chambers reaches some of the ignition passages at different times.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein the delay chambers are bores offset at an angle to the body axis.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein the flash charge chambers are arranged in a cylindrical array.

9. The device of claim 1 wherein the ignition passages are bores offset at an angle to the body axis.

10. The device of claim 9 wherein the ignition passages connect with an intermediate position between opposed open ends of the flash charge chambers.

11. The device of claim 10 wherein the intermediate position between opposed open ends of the flash charge chambers where the ignition passages connect is the same position along the length of each flash charge chamber.

12. The device of claim 5 wherein the central bore has a first aperture penetrating the top end face that receives a fuse assembly and a second exhaust aperture penetrating the bottom end face.

13. The device of claim 12 wherein the second exhaust aperture receives a plug that ejects via the second exhaust aperture responsive to a selected pressure accumulating within the central bore.

14. The device of claim 1 wherein the at least one exhaust aperture of each flash charge chamber receives a plug that ejects via the at least one exhaust aperture response to a selected pressure accumulating within the flash charge chamber.

15. The device of claim 1 wherein each delay chamber defines a counterbore with a constricted passage that communicates with the central bore in the body.

16. The device of claim 6 wherein the delay features have different burn rates because the delay features have different mechanical lengths.

17. The device of claim 1 wherein the sidewall is free of penetrations communicating with any of the flash charge chambers.

18. The device of claim 1 wherein the body defines a common ignition chamber communicating with each of the delay chambers.

Assignments (6)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2023
From: FIDUS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
To: CSI-PENN ARMS, LLC
Reel/Frame 065432/0683 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2020
From: CSI-PENN ARMS, LLC
To: FIDUS INVESTMENT CORPORATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 051696/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: FIRST EAGLE PRIVATE CREDIT, LLC (FKA NEWSTAR BUSINESS CREDIT, LLC)
To: COMBINED SYSTEMS, INC.
Reel/Frame 051687/0760 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO ADD PATENT NO. 7444941 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 036101 FRAME: 0021. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE SECURITY AGREEMENT. Recorded Aug 13, 2015
From: COMBINED SYSTEMS, INC.
To: NEWSTAR BUSINESS CREDIT, LLC
Reel/Frame 036501/0251 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2015
From: COMBINED SYSTEMS, INC.
To: NEWSTAR BUSINESS CREDIT, LLC
Reel/Frame 036101/0021 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2014
From: MANCINI, PATRICK; VUKSANOVICH, BRIAN
To: CSI-PENN ARMS, LLC
Reel/Frame 034208/0380 →