161 |
TELEMATICS SENSORS AND CAMERA ACTIVATION IN CONNECTION WITH FIREARM ACTIVITY |
US15415642 |
2017-01-25 |
US20170160041A1 |
2017-06-08 |
Robert J. Stewart; David Glowacki; James Schaff; Kyle Howell; John Wade; Tom Tooley; Paul Hammond |
Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, methods, and machine readable media for activating a portable camera in response to the activity of a firearm, and for implementing and using a system for identifying an individual who discharged a firearm, and for recording, assessing, identifying, and transmitting information related to the firing of a firearm, and for monitoring the status of an implement at a mount, and for using a charging device for delivering electrical power to components of a firearm. A communications channel may be established between a firearm telematics sensor and a video camera, sometimes by means of intermediary devices. A communications channel may be established between a mount (e.g., holster) telematics device and local and/or remote monitoring service components, sometimes by means of intermediary devices. When the telematics sensor detects that its associated firearm is removed from its holster, or in motion, or being discharged, it may signal the camera to initiate recording. When the telematics device detects that its associated firearm is removed from its holster, the change in status can be reported to the local and/or remote system. |
162 |
Weapons System Smart Device |
US15241763 |
2016-08-19 |
US20170051993A1 |
2017-02-23 |
Paul Imbriano; Christopher Michael White |
A weapons system comprises a firearm, one or more sensors on an interior or exterior portion of the firearm configured to detect a motion or location of a moving part of the firearm relative to the sensor, a microprocessor configured to detect a signal sent by the one or more sensors and determine a status of the firearm, and a display in communication with the microprocessor configured to display information relating to the status of the firearm. |
163 |
PAINTBALL MARKER AND LOADER SYSTEM |
US15019391 |
2016-02-09 |
US20160265869A1 |
2016-09-15 |
John Higgins; Benjamin Lynn Frederick |
Among other things, methods and apparatus regarding collection, dissemination and display of information concerning paintball loaders and markers are disclosed. A loader includes a heads-up display, electronic devices for gathering, storing and disseminating information, and an antenna for sending and receiving data. Wireless voice communications among paintball players is possible via associated headsets. There is also disclosed paintball equipment and methods for controlling both the firing and loading mechanism of paintball equipment. Current systems or mechanisms have individual and discrete electronic control systems for firing operations, e.g. located in the paintball gun itself, and loading operations, e.g. located inside the paintball loader. The present disclosure unifies the electronic control of said firing and loader operations into a single electronic circuit board located on either the paintball gun or paintball loader. |
164 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCORING SHOOTING EVENTS USING HEARING PROTECTION DEVICES |
US14802546 |
2015-07-17 |
US20160076858A1 |
2016-03-17 |
Christopher Larry Howes |
A system for scoring a shooting event for a shooter includes a pair of hearing protection devices and a portable device. The hearing protection devices each include an electronic circuit that detects a gunshot and produces detection information characterizing the gunshot as detected. The difference between the detection information produced by the hearing protection devices worn in or over different ears of the shooter allows the portable devices to identify the gunshot as being fired by the shooter and subsequently prompt the shooter to give a voice command indicating the result of the gunshot to the portable device for the scoring without manual entry. |
165 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COUNTING ROUNDS FIRED FROM A FIREARM |
US14325390 |
2014-07-08 |
US20150226505A1 |
2015-08-13 |
Uri AMIT; Zeev Shneorson; Haim Sender; Dedi Haitin |
The subject matter discloses a round counter, comprising a detection unit configured to detect energy pulses resulting from an impact to a firearm; a round counter processor configured to analyzes data obtained by the detection unit to count a number of rounds fired from the firearm; wherein the round counter processor is configured to designate a time window data that is substantially a time length of an energy pulse; wherein the round counter processor compares the time window data to a firing window, wherein the firing window is a predetermined time length required for discharging a round from the firearm; a firing counter configured to store a number of round discharged from the firearm; wherein the firing counter increases the count when the round counter processor determines the time window data is larger than the firing window and transfers a command to the firing counter to increase the count of the firing counter; an energy source to power the round counter. |
166 |
Rifle dry-fire apparatus and method |
US14313497 |
2014-06-24 |
US09057577B2 |
2015-06-16 |
Karl E. Hannan; William Jeff Marshall |
A rifle lower receiver has a trigger well and a magazine well. A hammer is disposed in the trigger well and configured to pivot from a first hammer position to a second hammer position in response to moving a trigger from a first trigger position to a second trigger position. A gear member attached to the lower receiver has a predefined number of gear teeth and a locking pin extending from the gear member. A pawl is connected to the trigger and operationally engages the gear member to increment the gear member once per trigger pull. Upon reaching a predefined number of trigger pulls, the locking member locks the trigger. A release lever on the lower receiver is operably configured to advance the gear member one increment to unlock the trigger. A method of dry-fire training is also disclosed. |
167 |
Counting Device |
US14371259 |
2012-01-10 |
US20150113847A1 |
2015-04-30 |
Raúl Delgado Acarreta |
Counting device designed to determine the number of shots and cartridges in a weapon, which comprises an activator sensor (11) that supplies an activation signal to a processor (12) in response to a mechanical impulse; the processor (12) in turn supplies a counting-initiation signal to a counting sensor (13) that supplies at least two counting signals offset by a predetermined period of time to the processor (12). |
168 |
Tracking Weapon Health and Maintenance |
US14257951 |
2014-04-21 |
US20150075047A1 |
2015-03-19 |
M. Jason August; Rod Gilchrist; John Stevens; Florin Tarcoci; Paul Waterhouse |
A system for tracking weapon health includes a low frequency networked radio tag coupled with a firearm, said radio tag configured to receive and send data signals; a reader configured to be in operative communication with the tag antenna; and a display configured to display data relating to weapon health. The radio tag includes a shot sensor, a shot count register for tracking the number of shots fired and cadence registers for tracking the intervals between shots. |
169 |
RIFLE DRY-FIRE APPARATUS AND METHOD |
US14313497 |
2014-06-24 |
US20150013201A1 |
2015-01-15 |
Karl E. Hannan; William Jeff Marshall |
A rifle lower receiver has a trigger well and a magazine well. A hammer is disposed in the trigger well and configured to pivot from a first hammer position to a second hammer position in response to moving a trigger from a first trigger position to a second trigger position. A gear member attached to the lower receiver has a predefined number of gear teeth and a locking pin extending from the gear member. A pawl is connected to the trigger and operationally engages the gear member to increment the gear member once per trigger pull. Upon reaching a predefined number of trigger pulls, the locking member locks the trigger. A release lever on the lower receiver is operably configured to advance the gear member one increment to unlock the trigger. A method of dry-fire training is also disclosed. |
170 |
Processes and systems for monitoring environments of projectile weapons |
US13400095 |
2012-02-19 |
US08850730B2 |
2014-10-07 |
Robert Bernard Iredale Clark; Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise; David Gessel |
Processes and systems are disclosed for recording data relating to a shot by a projectile weapon. Environment data occurring prior to data indicating the occurrence of a shot by the projectile weapon is retained for subsequent evaluation. Such environment data includes, but is not limited to, ambient audio data, video data produced by a video camera associated with the projectile weapon, GPS data representing locations of the projectile weapon, electronic compass data representing orientations of the projectile weapon and acceleration data representing accelerations of the projectile weapon. |
171 |
Apparatus and method for dispensing incendiary projectiles |
US12528943 |
2008-02-27 |
US08776693B2 |
2014-07-15 |
Mark D. Toeckes; Earl D. Trautman; Edward S. Vanderploeg |
An apparatus and method for dispensing incendiary projectiles is provided. The apparatus includes an injector for injecting the projectiles with a reactant at a dispensing rate, and a controller operable to control the dispensing rate. The controller is operable to control solenoids of a dispenser gate and a shuttle motor, and to prevent jam conditions of the apparatus. The apparatus can detect and automatically correct jam conditions that do occur. The apparatus can count the number of incendiary projectiles dispensed during a current operation and during the lifetime of the apparatus. The apparatus is dimensioned to minimize the number of incendiary projectiles purged from the apparatus after an operator has indicated to stop dispensing. |
172 |
Firearm maintenance system |
US12655562 |
2009-12-31 |
US08464452B2 |
2013-06-18 |
John Harper |
A firearm maintenance system wherein a count for the number of times the firearm is fired is kept and stored in memory that is resident on the firearm. Also installed on the firearm are a shot counter device, including an inertia switch, a communication card, and an extended life battery. An epoxy resin encases the memory, shot counter device, communication card and battery to protect them from detrimental environmental effects. The life of various component parts of the weapon are tracked against the shot count of the weapon and replaced at appropriate intervals. Weapon maintenance is performed by transferring the weapon's data from the weapon's memory to an operator laptop computer wherein an algorithm analyzes the data and advises the operator to take necessary maintenance steps, such as replacing parts that have reached the end of their useful life. After performing such necessary maintenance, the operator makes a maintenance data submission that updates the memory to reflect the maintenance data steps taken. Data is transferred between the weapon and laptop computer via infrared communication such that no electrical connection to the weapon mounted device is necessary to communicate data into or out of the device. |
173 |
M249 rifle with select fire mechanism for selective fully-automatic and semi-automatic operation |
US13023083 |
2011-02-08 |
US08459172B2 |
2013-06-11 |
Robert I. Landies; Thomas M. Hardman; Daniel L. Albright; Joshua G. Hershberger |
A trigger assembly for a trigger housing for a, M249 fully automatic rifle is provided having a switch accessible at the outside of the trigger housing for changing the firing of the rifle between semi-automatic and fully-automatic fire. |
174 |
Device for a Toy Gun for Projecting a Light Beam to an Impact Point of a Projectile Fired from the Gun |
US13293129 |
2011-11-10 |
US20130122470A1 |
2013-05-16 |
YIN-HSI LIAO |
A device for a toy gun is adapted for connection to the front end of the barrel of a toy gun. The device comprises a laser unit including a sighting means and a firing means, so that the firing accuracy of the toy gun can be increased. Also, the device can measure the speed of a projectile fired from the toy gun, the total number of projectiles that have been fired from the toy gun, so that a player can adjust the toy gun or replace the magazine of projectiles at an appropriate time. |
175 |
Failure prevention in portable target throwing machines |
US12324392 |
2008-11-26 |
US08276573B2 |
2012-10-02 |
Daniel G. Skell; Frederick Kruschka; Thomas D. Tagliapietra; Brent Munsall |
A circuit module for preventing component failure in portable target throwing machines, the circuit module comprising a microcontroller coupled to a power source and a motor, wherein the microcontroller is configured to count a number of clay target throwing cycles and a run time of the motor. The circuit module also comprises a relay coupled to the microcontroller and the motor, wherein the relay is configured to open and interrupt power supply to the motor when at least one of the number of clay target throwing cycles and the run time of the motor exceeds a predetermined threshold. |
176 |
Smart Magazine for Simulated Weapon |
US13293404 |
2011-11-10 |
US20120122058A1 |
2012-05-17 |
Rick Allen Jensen; Jared Russel Orvis |
A smart magazine adapted to be releasably engaged with a simulated weapon is provided, the magazine comprising a housing, a valving mechanism disposed within the housing and a data module including an electronic storage medium for storing information concerning an amount of simulated ammunition “shots” present in the magazine, and a connection member operably connected to the data module and adapted to be operably connected to a control module in the weapon to transmit and receive signals in response to the firing of the weapon to adjust the number of “shots” stored in the storage medium. The magazine utilizes a compressed gas cartridge that releases gas to produce an audible “pop” when the weapon is fired and to reset the “shot” count for the magazine when the canister is replaced. |
177 |
Processes and systems for monitoring environments of projectile weapons |
US12353602 |
2009-01-14 |
US08117778B2 |
2012-02-21 |
Robert Bernard Iredale Clark; Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise; David Gessel |
Processes and systems are disclosed for recording data relating to a shot by a projectile weapon. Environment data occurring prior to data indicating the occurrence of a shot by the projectile weapon is retained for subsequent evaluation. Such environment data includes, but is not limited to, ambient audio data, video data produced by a video camera associated with the projectile weapon, GPS data representing locations of the projectile weapon, electronic compass data representing orientations of the projectile weapon and acceleration data representing accelerations of the projectile weapon. |
178 |
Retrofit safety means for weapons and method for securing weapons |
US11974932 |
2007-10-16 |
US08046948B2 |
2011-11-01 |
Ernst Mauch; Dirk Steuwer |
The present invention relates to a safety means for weapons. The safety means comprises an electronic control unit for the authentication of an authorized user and the control of a safety mechanism. The safety mechanism mechanically engages with at least one mechanical part of the ignition chain so that said ignition chain is interrupted and firing is prevented. The safety mechanism comprises an actuator for releasing said engagement of the safety mechanism in case the electronic control unit identifies an authentication signal. The safety means according to the present invention is provided in a retrofit main component part of a weapon, which replaces a corresponding original main component part of the weapon. The safety means is preferably controllable by a transponder. |
179 |
Shot-counting device for a firearm |
US11651722 |
2007-01-10 |
US08046946B2 |
2011-11-01 |
Kenneth F. Packer; Alan D. Wilks; Peter J. Schubert; Thomas E. Long |
A device for counting shots fired by a firearm including a permanent magnet mounted to moving portion of the firearm and electrically coupled to a coil mounted on a relatively stationary portion of the firearm. Movement of the magnet relative to the coil induces an electromotive force within the coil. The induced electromotive force can be used increment a shot-count indictor and thereby record the number of shots fired by the firearm. The electromotive force can also be measured by a verification circuit to determine the strength of a shot and thereby verify whether a round was actually discharged by the firearm. In some embodiments, information regarding the number of shots discharged and the strength of the shots can be transmitted to an external device. |
180 |
System and Method For Automated Gun Shot Measuring |
US13008103 |
2011-01-18 |
US20110178729A1 |
2011-07-21 |
Asaf Bar-David; Yuval Spector |
A system, device and method are provided to enable low energy firearm shot measurement, including, in some embodiments, an impact sensor adapted to detect a substantial impact event from the firearm, and to generate an analog signal representing the impact event; an electronic circuit supporting a microprocessor to enable processing of digital data representing the analog signal, the electronic circuit also supporting a memory unit to store the data, the microprocessor and the memory being designed to be substantially in a sleep state except for a selected time interval related to the impact event following an identification of the impact event from the firearm; an amplifier, adapted to amplify the analog signals and transmit the signals to the circuit; a power source to support the circuit supported components; and a communications module for enabling communicating of the digital data to an external data receiver, upon demand. |