Abstract: An electrode assembly attaches to a garment using a pad supporting one or more electrodes for mounting against an inner surface of the garment and a housing arranged to be supported externally on the garment. Connectors on the pad and the housing are arranged to be penetrated through the garment in a non-destructive manner to form a mechanical connection between the pad and the housing that also conductively connects the electrodes on the pad to an electronic component in the housing whereby an electrical signal can be communicated to the electrodes from the housing, for example to deliver an electrical impulse generated by the electronic component through the electrodes in a painful yet non-injurious manner to the user.

Abstract: An apparatus is used to measure movement performance of a user undergoing firearm combat training. A light emitter emits a light signal along a beam path traversing over a starting location such that the light signal is interrupted by a user at the starting location. A target device initiates a visual representation of a threat directed towards a user at the starting location. A light detector detects a non-interference condition of the light emitter in which the light signal along the beam path is not interrupted at the starting location. A controller monitors the light detector and determines when the user has moved away from the starting location into the non-interference condition of the light emitter. The controller may also measure an elapsed time between activation of the target device and determination of the non-interference condition of the light emitter.

Abstract: An electrode assembly attaches to a garment using a pad supporting one or more electrodes for mounting against an inner surface of the garment and a housing arranged to be supported externally on the garment. Connectors on the pad and the housing are arranged to be penetrated through the garment in a non-destructive manner to form a mechanical connection between the pad and the housing that also conductively connects the electrodes on the pad to an electronic component in the housing whereby an electrical signal can be communicated to the electrodes from the housing, for example to deliver an electrical impulse generated by the electronic component through the electrodes in a painful yet non-injurious manner to the user.

Abstract: A simulated improvised explosive device has a cylindrical outer casing and a cylindrical inner casing received within the outer casing to define an annular first passage between the inner and outer casings and a second passage within the inner casing. A charge holder supports a charge at a first end of the second passage. The second ends of the inner and outer passages communicate with one another opposite from the charge holder. Exhaust ports are located at the first end of the first passage so that the expelled gases from detonating the charge are directed substantially along a full length of both passages. A flow restriction is provided within the first passage to assist in containing sparks within the outer casing rather than be expelled from the exhaust ports.

Abstract: A training device includes a band of material for support about a limb of a user training to apply a tourniquet. Pressure sensing elements are supported on the band at spaced positions about the limb. The user applies the tourniquet about the limb with the pressure sensing elements between the limb and the tourniquet so as to generate a pressure signal representative of a pressure level applied by the tourniquet to the limb of the user. A controller coupled to the pressure sensing elements changes the condition of a sensory feedback device carried on the user when receiving a pressure signal exceeding a lower pressure limit. The sensory feedback device may be a shocking device which is initially activated to intermittently shock the user until the user applies the tourniquet with sufficient pressure to overcome the lower pressure limit to inactivate the shocking of the user.

Abstract: A training device includes a band of material for support about a limb of a user training to apply a tourniquet. Pressure sensing elements are supported on the band at spaced positions about the limb. The user applies the tourniquet about the limb with the pressure sensing elements between the limb and the tourniquet so as to generate a pressure signal representative of a pressure level applied by the tourniquet to the limb of the user. A controller coupled to the pressure sensing elements changes the condition of a sensory feedback device carried on the user when receiving a pressure signal exceeding a lower pressure limit. The sensory feedback device may be a shocking device which is initially activated to intermittently shock the user until the user applies the tourniquet with sufficient pressure to overcome the lower pressure limit to inactivate the shocking of the user.

Abstract: An adapter assembly permits sensory feedback such as a pain penalty to be incorporated into a combat training system of the type which includes simulated weapons which output a laser hit signal representative of a projectile and user monitoring devices worn by participants having laser sensors to provide an indication when a participant is hit by a simulated projectile in a combat training exercise. The adapter assembly works with an electrical impulse device also worn by the participants to deliver an electrical shock to the participant in response to receiving an activation signal. More particularly, the adapter assembly has input sensor for sensing when a user monitoring device indicates a hit to the user, and a signal output for generating an activation signal which can be received by the electrical impulse device to shock the participant when hit.

Abstract: A control module used in combination with an activation device for generating an activation signal in response to a stress exposure training event and an electrical impulse device for delivering an electrical shock to the user. The control module has a housing for being carried on the user. The module includes a controller function which sends a shock signal to the impulse device to shock the user according to prescribed shock criteria in response to an activation signal. The control module can be used with various activation devices including light-based force-on-force training or video shoot-back simulations. An operator input of the controller enables the prescribed shock criteria stored on the controller which is carried on the user to be adjusted by an operator directly at the module or remotely.

Abstract: A vascular neck restraint training device is used for raining a first person to execute a vascular neck restraint on a second person. The training device includes a supporting structure, such as a collar for being supported about the neck of the second person, upon which a tracheal pressure sensor, and two arterial pressure sensors are supported for alignment with the trachea and the carotid arteries of the second person respectively. The sensors detect if an applied pressure during a vascular neck restrain exceeds a prescribed pressure threshold for that sensor and provides corresponding indication to the first person applying the pressure. The training device indicates if too much pressure is applied to the trachea corresponding to a respiratory neck restraint, and if sufficient pressure is applied to each of the carotid arteries for executing a successful vascular neck restraint.

Abstract: An edge weapon training device includes a handle body for gripping in a hand of a user and first and second contacts spaced apart at a first end of the handle body for delivering an electrical shock to a person being trained for self-defense against edge weapons when the handle body is thrust against the trainee in a simulated stabbing motion. In some instances a knife body protrudes beyond the contacts to visually represent a knife, but the knife body is supported to either retract into the handle body or be compressed against the handle body when the handle is thrust against a user in a simulated stabbing motion. Alternatively, the training device may take the form of a resilient adapter body which supports the contacts thereon and which can be supported over an existing stun gun with the contacts in connection to the electrical posts of the stun gun.

Abstract: A disposable compressed gas cartridge has an envelope formed of a cylindrical wall portion, an end wall portion enclosing a first end of the cylindrical wall portion, a neck portion formed at a second end of the cylindrical wall portion, and a membrane spanning across the neck portion such that the envelope is arranged to contain gas under pressure therein. A resilient sealing member is integrally and externally supported on the second end of the envelope so as to abut the seat surface about a charging pin of a compressed gas consuming device. Sealing engagement between the cartridge and the device being charged with compressed gas by the cartridge is provided primarily by the sealing member on the cartridge which is replaced together with the cartridge to always ensure that the sealing between the cartridge and the device is accomplished with a new and effective sealing member.

Abstract: An edge weapon training device includes a handle body for gripping in a hand of a user and first and second contacts spaced apart at a first end of the handle body for delivering an electrical shock to a person being trained for self-defense against edge weapons when the handle body is thrust against the trainee in a simulated stabbing motion. In some instances a knife body protrudes beyond the contacts to visually represent a knife, but the knife body is supported to either retract into the handle body or be compressed against the handle body when the handle is thrust against a user in a simulated stabbing motion. Alternatively, the training device may take the form of a resilient adapter body which supports the contacts thereon and which can be supported over an existing stun gun with the contacts in connection to the electrical posts of the stun gun.

Abstract: A control module used in combination with an activation device for generating an activation signal in response to a stress exposure training event and an electrical impulse device for delivering an electrical shock to the user. The control module has a housing for being carried on the user. The module includes a controller function which sends a shock signal to the impulse device to shock the user according to prescribed shock criteria in response to an activation signal. The control module can be used with various activation devices including light-based force-on-force training or video shoot-back simulations. An operator input of the controller enables the prescribed shock criteria stored on the controller which is carried on the user to be adjusted by an operator directly at the module or remotely.

Abstract: A target device is usable with a simulation system which includes a weapon simulator having a trigger, a chamber for firing a blank cartridge in response to the trigger, and a transmitter arranged to emit a light signal defining one or more activation codes of prescribed duration in response to the trigger. The target device includes a sensor array of photodiodes and a processor receiving output signals from the photodiodes. The processor determines that the sensor array has been hit by the weapon simulator in response to a first portion of one activation code being received by one of the photodiodes and at least one second portion of the same activation code being received by the same or a different one of the photodiodes when the first portion and the at least one second portion correspond to an entirety of one activation code within the respective prescribed duration.

Abstract: A disposable compressed gas cartridge has an envelope formed of a cylindrical wall portion, an end wall portion enclosing a first end of the cylindrical wall portion, a neck portion formed at a second end of the cylindrical wall portion, and a membrane spanning across the neck portion such that the envelope is arranged to contain gas under pressure therein. A resilient sealing member is integrally and externally supported on the second end of the envelope so as to abut the seat surface about a charging pin of a compressed gas consuming device. Sealing engagement between the cartridge and the device being charged with compressed gas by the cartridge is provided primarily by the sealing member on the cartridge which is replaced together with the cartridge to always ensure that the sealing between the cartridge and the device is accomplished with a new and effective sealing member.

Abstract: An adapter assembly permits sensory feedback such as a pain penalty to be incorporated into a combat training system of the type which includes simulated weapons which output a laser hit signal representative of a projectile and user monitoring devices worn by participants having laser sensors to provide an indication when a participant is hit by a simulated projectile in a combat training exercise. The adapter assembly works with an electrical impulse device also worn by the participants to deliver an electrical shock to the participant in response to receiving an activation signal. More particularly, the adapter assembly has input sensor for sensing when a user monitoring device indicates a hit to the user, and a signal output for generating an activation signal which can be received by the electrical impulse device to shock the participant when hit.

Abstract: An expandable baton assembly has an outer baton section which received an intermediate baton section and an inner baton section telescopically received therein such that an overall length between two opposing working ends of the assembly can be extended for use and retracted for storage. Each of the two opposing ends is suitably arranged as both a hand grip and a striking portion such that the assembly is reversible between two different working orientations having different characteristics. The assembly can be retained in the retracted position by frictional engagement of the grip at the working end of the inner baton section within the open inner end of the outer baton section.

Abstract: An adapter device for use in a combat training system communicates between an anti-personnel training device and a user monitoring device in a training exercise. The anti-personnel training device may be a simulated improvised explosive device including a trigger and an output arranged to output a simulated attack, for example light and sound representative of an explosion, in response to activation of the trigger. The user monitoring device, for example existing training products, such as the Stressvest™ system, the IR Tactical System™, or the MILES™ system, is worn by a user and includes an input which receives a hit signal indicative of the user being hit and an indicator output arranged to indicate the user has been hit. The adapter device has an input sensor to sense the simulated attack of the anti-personnel training device and a signal output to output a hit signal detectable by the user monitoring device.

Abstract: A vascular neck restraint training device is used for raining a first person to execute a vascular neck restraint on a second person. The training device includes a supporting structure, such as a collar for being supported about the neck of the second person, upon which a tracheal pressure sensor, and two arterial pressure sensors are supported for alignment with the trachea and the carotid arteries of the second person respectively. The sensors detect if an applied pressure during a vascular neck restrain exceeds a prescribed pressure threshold for that sensor and provides corresponding indication to the first person applying the pressure. The training device indicates if too much pressure is applied to the trachea corresponding to a respiratory neck restraint, and if sufficient pressure is applied to each of the carotid arteries for executing a successful vascular neck restraint.