Patent ID: 11859950
Assignee: nan
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G | IPC F  G

Claim 7:
8. A non-lethal handheld dazzling device comprising:
a housing having a forward-facing direction and a rear-facing direction;
a processor disposed in the housing;
a forward-facing range finder coupled to the processor, the range finder producing a distance to target signal representing a detected forward distance to an object in the forward-facing direction from the forward-facing range finder;
a rear-facing range finder coupled to the processor, the rear-facing range finder producing a rearward distance signal representing a detected rear distance to an object in the rear-facing direction from the rear-facing range finder;
a dazzling module coupled to the housing, the dazzling module comprising:
at least one emitter mounted to be operative to emit a laser beam in the forward-facing direction;
an emitter drive circuit; and
a trigger operatively coupled to the emitter drive circuit and to the processor whereby the emitter drive circuit is activated by an activation of the trigger and produces a drive power only when the detected rear distance is less than a predefined maximum limit and the detected forward distance is greater than a predefined minimum limit;
wherein the emitter drive circuit powers the emitter.