Patents Examined by Derrick Morgan
  • Patent number: 9835406
    Abstract: A toy gun includes: a nail arm which is rotated around a nail arm rotating shaft placed in a position opposite to the cartridge with a trigger rotating shaft in between and is substantially in an L shape; a guide as a long hole which is provided in the nail arm and guides a terminal; a nail which is attached to a tip of the nail arm and can be engaged with a cartridge loading portion; and a link which is attached to a cover capable of being abutted against a cartridge loading portion and slides the cover to the cartridge side or the side opposite to the cartridge by bringing the terminal into or out of abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9835429
    Abstract: A shock attenuation device is used to reduce the effect of a blast shock by both disrupting the propagation of the shock and by spreading, deflecting, and/or redirecting the shock. The device includes multiple layers of different materials, having different shock transmission impedances, stacked in a direction in which the blast shock travels through the device. At least one of the layers includes a material that crumples in response to the shock, undergoing an inelastic deformation in response to the shock. Also, at least one of the layers includes a material that has a directional shock transmission impedance that provides different shock transmission impedance within different directions within the material. The directional shock transmission material may be oriented such that the preferred direction of shock transmission within the material is oriented away from the direction of in which the multiple layers of material are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Keith A. Kerns, Wayne Y. Lee, John J. Spilotro
  • Patent number: 9791240
    Abstract: A firearm handgrip assembly with laser gunsight system has a frame, the frame having an attachment facility adapted for secure connection to a firearm, the frame having a connection facility associated with an optical passage, an elongated beam projection element having a first end connected to the connection facility, and an opposed second end, the beam projection element operable to emit a beam from the first end, and the frame including an aiming facility operable to adjust the position of the second end of the beam projection element while the first end remains connected to the connection facility. The first end of the beam projection element may be pivotally connected to the connection facility. The beam projection element and the connection facility may be connected by a ball and socket joint. The first end of the beam projection element may include a spherical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HOGUE, INC.
    Inventor: James David Bruhns
  • Patent number: 9784535
    Abstract: A sight adjustment tool includes a surrounding frame and a sight adjustment module. The surrounding frame including two side members and a top member to define an adjustment cavity. The sight adjustment module includes a base platform movably supported within the adjustment cavity in an elevated direction for adjustably supporting a bottom of a pistol slide, two side clampers movably extended from the side members respectively to the adjustment cavity for biasing against two sides of the pistol slide respectively, and a sight adjuster including an adjusting jaw movably supported by a sight adjusting arm and suspendedly supported within the adjustment cavity for engaging with the sight element, wherein when the sight adjusting arm is rotated, the adjusting jaw is driven to slide along the sight adjusting arm for selectively adjusting the position of a sight element with respect to the pistol slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NcSTAR, Inc.
    Inventors: Carson Cheng, Changan Tian, Richard Thomas
  • Patent number: 9777989
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a guided missile launch system comprising a launch tube with a guided missile space for receiving a guided missile and with a cartridge space for receiving a blank cartridge, further comprising a handle piece mountable on the launch tube and separable from the launch tube, the handle piece having a striking pin system for firing the blank cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: MBDA Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Lehmann, Jörg Lutzenberger
  • Patent number: 9772160
    Abstract: A firearm maintenance tool has a body including a rail mount segment and a spindle rotatably mounted to the body and adapted to receive an elongated cleaning rod. The tool may include a square drive element adapted to engage a tool socket. The body may be an elongated body, and the rail segment may extend the length of the body. The body may be an elongated body defining a body axis, and the spindle may extend perpendicularly from the body along a spindle axis perpendicular to the body axis. The body may define a first aperture receiving the spindle, and a second aperture receiving a retention element operably securing the spindle to the body. The first and second apertures may be perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SAIN DEFENSE LLC
    Inventor: Brian Keith Sain
  • Patent number: 9772156
    Abstract: A method of installing a safety selector in a firearm includes inserting the safety selector into an opening in the firearm, aligning a hole extending through the safety selector with a cavity extending transversely from the opening, inserting a spring through the hole and into the cavity, inserting a detent plunger through the hole and at least partially into the cavity, thereby compressing the spring, and moving the safety selector within the opening transversely to the cavity so as to capture the detent plunger at least partially within the cavity. The invention also encompasses a method of removing the safety selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.
    Inventors: Matteo Vincenzio Viviano, Joshua Raymond Lloyd
  • Patent number: 9766038
    Abstract: A laser aiming and illumination device comprising an illumination module, an illumination mode selector, a power module, an activation switch and a connection module. The illumination module including at least one of an illumination source and a laser source configured to be activated in a selected operating by actuation of the activation switch. The illumination mode selector configured to select said operating mode. The connection module releasably electrically connecting the power module and the illumination module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: CQB Optics, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald L. Toole
  • Patent number: 9759500
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a breech system comprising, first, a breech lock with a pivotable cam end plate for accessing a firearm breech and, second, a camming cartridge extractor with a pivotable lever for extracting a fired cartridge. The pivotable cam end plate may be connected to an independently pivotable arm that is operable as a lever for moving the cam end plate into an open position to allow breech access. The pivotable cam end plate and pivotable arm may be capable of a plurality of movements within the same plane in order to optimize leverage and cam action for opening the breech lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Triple Action, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Janos I Lakatos, Edward Clay Slade, Clayton R. Carter
  • Patent number: 9759538
    Abstract: A blasting system with automated detonator logging eliminates on-the-field manual logging of each detonator. Detonators are connected in sequence in an auto-logging circuit, and the blast machine initiates a logging operation in which each detonator receives and confirms an assigned sequence number along with assigned delay data. Elimination of manual logging by individuals increases safety in the blast zone and facilitates the blasting operation. The operation is simplified, likelihood of human error is reduced, and the cost of a separate logger device is eliminated. An auto-logging protocol may be incorporated into the control module of the electronic detonator. Alternately, an auto-logging module may be connected externally to each detonator similar to the conventional surface plus down-the-hole delay systems. The inventive system may include an IDC connector that facilitates the serial connection of the detonators for the logging circuit while allowing parallel connections of the blast control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: UTEC Corporation, LLC
    Inventor: Nanda Kumar J. Nair
  • Patent number: 9759501
    Abstract: A breech assembly for an automatic weapon having a barrel extension aligned with and extending outwardly from the rifle bore. The barrel extension has a throughbore aligned with the rifle bore and a non-circular locking recess at a rear end of fee barrel extension. The barrel extension also includes an internal thread in the throughbore. An elongated bolt includes an external thread complementary to the infernal thread hi the barrel extension. The bolt is mounted to a bolt carrier that is longitudinally slidably mounted to the gun body. Longitudinal movement of the bolt carrier simultaneously longitudinally and rotatably drives the bolt so that the bolt thread is threaded into the barrel extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Alexander E. Michlin
  • Patent number: 9752853
    Abstract: A combined reflex and laser sighting device is provided. In one aspect, the reflex sight and one or more laser elements are coaligned, such that both the reflex sight and the laser sight can be sighted in or boresighted to a weapon together in a single operation. In another aspect, one or more laser elements are mounted within a laser bench and aligned with a reflex sight attached to the laser bench. In yet another aspect, a plurality of laser elements are provided within the laser bench and are coaligned with each other and the reflex sight. In another aspect, a mounting block with yielding vertical and horizontal webs is provided to allow windage and elevation adjustments to be made to the reflex sight and laser elements together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Wilcox Industries Corp.
    Inventors: James W. Teetzel, Gary M. Lemire
  • Patent number: 9739560
    Abstract: A system for attaching an accessory to a firearm includes a muzzle device configured for attachment to the muzzle end of the firearm, the muzzle device having a first coarse-threaded engagement means and one of an annular grooved surface and a grooved surface engagement mechanism, and an adapter device. The adapter device includes an adapter having a forward portion including an accessory engagement means for receiving the accessory and a rearward portion having a second coarse-threaded engagement means formed on an inner surface of the adapter, a biasing mechanism received on the rearward portion, and a retainer ring received on the rearward portion adjacent to the biasing mechanism, the retainer ring having the other of the annular grooved surface and the grooved surface engagement mechanism. The male coarse-threaded engagement means and the female coarse-threaded engagement means cooperate to releasably secure the adapter device to the muzzle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: DAVINCI ARMS, LLC
    Inventor: Joe Salvador
  • Patent number: 9739564
    Abstract: An efficient high-velocity compressed gas-powered gun includes a lower receiver having a trigger assembly. The efficient high-velocity compressed gas-powered gun includes an upper receiver having a gas distribution assembly and a bolt assembly configured to operate in response to actuation of the trigger assembly and configured to be operated by the gas distribution system. The bolt assembly has a first part and a second part that are separated by a small gap just prior to actuation of the trigger assembly, and become separated by a large gap, larger than the small gap, over a projectile-firing period of time immediately after the trigger assembly is actuated. The increase in the gap size is caused by movement of the second part in response to gas entering the small gap from the gas distribution assembly. The first part and the second part move together to cock the gun once they are separated by the large gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Inventor: William S. Nachefski
  • Patent number: 9739561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mounting assembly for a primary firearm, which may include a non-recoil reducing cradle pivotably coupled to a carriage configured to mount a selectively removable shield assembly. The mounting assembly includes a quick release pintle adaptor locking mechanism, which aids in the rapid mounting and dismounting of a secondary firearm to the mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: H & H Tool Shop, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Edward Hagedorn, Joe Bebee
  • Patent number: 9739559
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for suppressing the muzzle gases from a firearm are disclosed. The suppressor includes a shell and a core, the core having a body with first and second stages. The diameter of the first stage is larger than the diameter of the second stage. In some embodiments, the first and second stages of the core body include hollow chambers defined by baffles. The hollow chambers may have a serpentine arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Century International Arms, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Bush
  • Patent number: 9719752
    Abstract: A spear for use with a spear gun includes a hollow shaft having a leading end and a trailing end opposite the leading end, a piston retained in the hollow shaft and configured to slide within the hollow shaft, and a check valve. The piston forms a seal with an inner surface of the hollow shaft and divides the hollow shaft into a pre-charge chamber toward the leading end and a firing charge chamber toward the trailing end. The check valve is in fluid communication with the pre-charge chamber and is configured to permit a pressurized gas pre-charge to enter the pre-charge chamber and restrict the gas pre-charge in the pre-charge chamber from exiting the pre-charge chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventor: Alfred F. Nibecker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9719741
    Abstract: A magazine loading device comprises an ammunition delivery interface, a shuttle or escapement, an orientation gate, a staging gate, a plunger, and a magazine receiver. The ammunition may be supplied to the ammunition delivery interface in a number of ways, including utilization of a hopper. The ammunition may be guided into an opening in the shuttle or escapement, which may then transfer the ammunition to an orientation gate. The geometry of the orientation gate is such that the ammunition will always drop through the orientation gate with the projectile down, which in this case is the desired orientation for loading into the magazine. A plunger may then push the ammunition into the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MagPump, LLC
    Inventors: Luther Cifers, Kenneth P. Green
  • Patent number: 9714803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for introducing, in a firearm comprising a movement space arranged in a housing of the firearm and provided for a moveable component of the firearm or for a fluid moveable within the firearm, a filling material, which, at least in part, fills the movement space and preferably solidifies therein, into the movement space, when there is a condition in which the firearm is to be disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Inventor: Karl-Friedrich Giebel
  • Patent number: 9709352
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an ammunition clip comprises an elongated channel comprising a first floor, and a first wall and a second wall, the walls extending upwardly from the first floor on opposite longitudinal sides of the floor; a first inwardly facing elongated pawl integrally formed with an inside face of the first wall, and a second inwardly facing elongated pawl integrally formed with an inside face of the second wall; at a first end of the channel, an upwardly protruding stop member on the first floor; at a second end of the channel, in the first floor, an upwardly protruding flexible stop lever, and a longitudinally extending guide tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Troy Hess