Patents Examined by Michelle Clement
  • Patent number: 11307000
    Abstract: This invention provides a quick detaching device for handgun tactical light which includes a tactical light base, two locking members correspondingly disposed on two sides of a top end of the tactical light base, sliding members and a pressing mechanism; a sliding slot is correspondingly mounted in a middle part of each of the sliding members; the sliding members are respectively mounted in the sliding slots; a through slot which passes through the tactical light base is provided in the tactical light base; a stopping plate is provided in a middle part of the through slot; the pressing mechanism is mounted in the through slot and corresponds to the stopping plate. This invention can quickly mount and detach the tactical light without the help of tools and great effort, and is convenient to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Qiang Ma, Ziyang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11306999
    Abstract: This invention includes a first clamping means which comprises a base and a clamp for mounting a portable lighting apparatus; the clamp is mounted on a first end surface of the base; sliding slots are formed on two opposite side walls of the base; a second end surface of the base is provided with a groove; fixing rings, each of which comprises a connecting strip and first fixing members provided at two ends of the connecting strip; the connecting strips are mounted on the sliding slots for the base to slide on the fixing rings; a support comprising a body and a plurality of contact beads; the plurality of contact beads are mounted on the body by elastic members; a second clamping means comprising a fixing block and movable lock blocks mounted on two sides of the fixing block; the fixing block is mounted on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Qiang Ma, Ziyang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11293708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gun (1) with a pair of barrels (6?, 6?) flanking each other, each delimiting a cartridge chamber (12?, 12?). The gun further comprises a pair of firing pin tips (8?, 8?) for a cartridge (10?, 10?), movable towards the cartridge chambers (12?, 12?) by means of a firing device operated by a trigger (4?, 4?); such device acts on the firing pin tips to allow a substantially simultaneous advancement thereof. The invention also relates to a two row magazine for a double barrelled gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: ARSENAL FIREARMS FINANCE LIMITED
    Inventors: Nicola Bandini, Dimitry Streshinskiy
  • Patent number: 11268776
    Abstract: A expansion chamber assembly for a firearm is disclosed. The expansion chamber contains an outer tube containing a front end and a rear end, a front cap coupled with the outer tube at the front end, a rear cap coupled with the outer tube at the rear end, an inner tube retained within the outer tube by the front cap and the rear cap, wherein the inner cap contains one or more through apertures to allow expanding gasses to move from the inner tube into the outer tube, and one or more exit apertures to allow expensing gases to exit the expansion chamber assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: F.M. Products Inc
    Inventor: Paul T. Noonan
  • Patent number: 11268791
    Abstract: A rimless cartridge comprising a case and a bullet mounted therein. In embodiments, the bullet comprises a jacket having a cylindrical body portion, an ogive portion, and a plurality of longitudinally extending paths of weakness formed in the ogive portion and defining petals there between and extending rearward from the mouth. The bullet includes a malleable core mounted within the jacket. The bullet further comprises a circumferential groove between forward and rearward circumferential indentations imparted in the body portion of the jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Frees, Richard D. Hurt, David M. Laska, Lawrence P. Head, Shawn D. Fitzsimonds
  • Patent number: 11255637
    Abstract: An adjustment assembly having a rotary encoder, riflescopes incorporating the same, and related methods are provided. In one example, an adjustment assembly includes a first rotational component configured to rotate about an axis, a first gear coupled with the first rotational component and a second gear coupled with the first rotational component. The assembly further includes an encoder. The encoder includes a position gear engaged with the first gear, the first gear and the position gear having a 1:1 gear ratio, and a revolution gear engaged with the second gear, the second gear and the revolution gear having a gear ratio other than 1:1, wherein the gear ratio of the second gear and the revolution gear independent of a ratio of the respective diameters of the second gear and the revolution gear. Sensors may determine the rotational positions of the position sensor and the revolution sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GUNWERKS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Delz, Christopher Thomas, Andreas Schaefer
  • Patent number: 11231244
    Abstract: A semiautomatic slide pin removal tool that includes a handle member, and a tube extending perpendicular to, and outwards from, the handle member and having a distal end including a variety of different pin receivers for pushing and removing slide stop lever pins of a slide assembly on semiautomatic pistols. The pin receivers effectively and efficiently engage and mate with heads of slide stop lever pins to prevent the distal end of the slide pin removal tool from slipping or sliding off the heads of the slide stop lever pins during use. In practice, users firmly grasp an automatic pistol in one hand while negotiating the slide pin removal tool with fingers to push and remove slide stop lever pins from semiautomatic pistols with ease while freeing use of the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventor: John Sturdevant
  • Patent number: 11221196
    Abstract: A vehicle for detecting and neutralizing an incendiary object comprises a detecting device configured to mount at fore-end of the vehicle is disclosed. The detecting device comprises: one or more platforms configured to be mounted at the fore end of the vehicle. The one or more platforms are located proximal to the ground surface such that they hover over the ground surface at a predetermined distance. A plurality of sensors wherein each of the plurality of sensors mounted on the at least one of the one or more platforms for capturing information related to the incendiary object. A neutralizing device interfaced with the detecting device, wherein the neutralizing device comprises: a neutralizing arm member which actuates in one or more directions for handling and neutralizing the incendiary object based on the information related to the incendiary object. An annihilator device equipped with the neutralizing device to annihilate the incendiary object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DIRECTOR GENERAL, DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (DRDO)
    Inventors: Natesan Babu, Alexander Rajasekaran, Swarna Ramesh, Lakshmi Prathibha Perumal Thirunavukkarasu
  • Patent number: 11209254
    Abstract: A new and novel non-lethal pellet shaped marking round for use with air rifles or air pistols, which utilizes the technology and ballistics of a bullet-shaped pellet projectile, and is designed to travel through a rifled barrel or a polygonal rifling barrel. Also disclosed is a novel non-lethal marking round pellet designed with grooves which imitate the spiral caused by a rifled barrel while utilizing a smooth bore barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MSATO, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas O'Rourke
  • Patent number: 11193744
    Abstract: Examples of safety devices for use with a munition are provided, the munition including a munition explosive and a safe and arm (S&A) device for activation of the munition explosive. In some examples the safety device includes a switch member and an actuation mechanism. The switch member is configured for being disposed between the munition explosive and the S&A device, the switch member being movable between at least two switch positions. In a first switch position (an arming prevention position (APP)), arming communication between the munition explosive and the S&A device is prevented. In a second switch position (an arming enabling position (AEP)), arming communication between the munition explosive and the S&A device is allowed. The actuation mechanism is configured for selectively moving the switch member at least from the APP to the AEP to thereby enable the S&A device, when armed, to detonate the munition explosive via the switch member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Gavriel Aminov, Eyal Zehavi
  • Patent number: 11181342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HVRT CORP.
    Inventors: Dennis J. Sammut, Todd Hodnett
  • Patent number: 11168960
    Abstract: A torpedo apparatus comprises a propulsion module operable to propel the torpedo apparatus through water and a steering module operatively coupled to the propulsion module. The steering module including a plurality of fins which are controllable for controlling a direction of travel of the torpedo apparatus through water. A plurality of head modules are removably and interchangeably attachable to the torpedo apparatus, wherein each of the head modules houses at least one guidance assembly and at least one utility assembly. A power supply module is configured to provide power to the propulsion module, the steering module, and an attached one of the head modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Wilcox Industries Corp.
    Inventors: James W. Teetzel, David G. Kent, John P. Bousquet, Christopher Jay Palmer
  • Patent number: 11150042
    Abstract: A magazine loader comprises a body for receiving an upper portion of the magazine and a cap slidingly engaged with the body for loading cartridges in to the magazine received by the body. The body comprises a plurality of wall portions defining a body cavity configured to receive an upper portion of a magazine. The plurality of cap wall portions may comprise a starboard cap wall portion and an opposing port cap wall portion. An upper portion of the body is slidingly received in the interior volume defined by the cap so that the body and the cap slide relative to one another along a sliding axis. The sliding axis may extend in the upward and downward directions and the cap may translate between an upper position and a lower position along the sliding axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Thomas Hefer, Brandon Karl Trostrud
  • Patent number: 11143485
    Abstract: A load carrier for a muzzleloader having a muzzle, comprising a first assembly component and a second assembly component, the first assembly component comprising a tubular open-ended charge receiving body configured to receive a charge though an open end section of the charge receiving body with the second assembly component comprising a tubular delivery body comprising a delivery end section and a connector end section, the delivery end section having an external diameter so as to be insertable into the muzzle and a removeable cap engageable with the delivery end section. The connector end section of the second assembly component may be engageable with the open end section of the charge receiving body of the first assembly component. Insertion of at least a portion of the delivery end section into the muzzle during pouring facilitates consistent and speedy loading. The disclosure also provides associated methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Martin T. Garthaffner, Aaron M. Garthaffner
  • Patent number: 11143489
    Abstract: A rail launch mechanism and method for launching a payload is configured to release payload lugs of a payload from a platform. A rack for launching a payload includes multiple rails that separately engage lugs in the respective payload of the rails, and a force actuator for launching the payload by accelerating the payload along the rails, causing the lugs to separate from the respective rails. A launching system for launching the payload from the platform may include a rail, at least one payload release shoe that carries a payload lug along the rail, and a force actuator for accelerating the payload release shoe such that inertia of the payload causes the payload lug to be released from the payload release shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: David R. Campbell, Philip C. Wright, Robert A. Bailey, James Traylor
  • Patent number: 11143478
    Abstract: A barrel mounting system for a firearm includes a longitudinal axis, a receiver, and a barrel detachably coupled to the receiver by upper and lower barrel mounting features above and below the barrel bore centerline. The lower mounting feature may comprise a clamping block compressing a lower breech end portion of the barrel against the receiver. In one embodiment, a pair of lower securement fasteners extend through the clamping block and threadably engage the receiver to draw the block into engagement with the receiver. The upper mounting feature may comprise a securement fastener compressing an upper breech end portion of the barrel against the receiver. The upper and lower mounting features form a triangular bolting pattern and balance moment forces created by the compressive forces of coupling the barrel to receiver with the fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Matthias Downey, Jonathan Philip Mather, Adam Jay Taylor
  • Patent number: 11131515
    Abstract: An example charging handle comprises a body having a handle portion, a bolt engaging portion and a shaft portion extending forwardly from the handle portion to the bolt engaging portion. The handle portion of the body may have a starboard arm extending away from the shaft portion in a starboard direction and a port arm extending away from the shaft portion in a portward direction. The charging handle may comprise a grip member disposed about the handle portion of the body so that the grip member encapsulates the handle portion and the handle portion is disposed inside the grip member. The grip member may comprise a thermoplastic material overmolded on the handle portion of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLC
    Inventors: Paul N. Smith, Aden P. Wright, Bryan P. Peterson, Christopher D. Laack, Robert J. Meinert
  • Patent number: 11112208
    Abstract: A handguard grip assembly has a connector to be fixed to a barrel of a rifle, the barrel having a barrel axis, a grip having a grip axis and adapted to be held by a user of the rifle and a flexible joint connected between the connector and the grip for allowing the grip and grip axis to pivot to any angle with respect to the barrel axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Dimitrios Mantas
  • Patent number: 11112196
    Abstract: A magazine loader comprises a body for receiving an upper portion of the magazine and a cap slidingly engaged with the body for loading cartridges in to the magazine received by the body. The body comprises a plurality of wall portions defining a body cavity configured to receive an upper portion of a magazine. The plurality of cap wall portions may comprise a starboard cap wall portion and an opposing port cap wall portion. An upper portion of the body is slidingly received in the interior volume defined by the cap so that the body and the cap slide relative to one another along a sliding axis. The sliding axis may extend in the upward and downward directions and the cap may translate between an upper position and a lower position along the sliding axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Thomas Hefer, Brandon Karl Trostrud
  • Patent number: 11092414
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a bumper system for use with an Explosive Ordnance Disposal disruptor. The bumper system can include a bumper stop configured the slidably engage the disruptor, and a bumper configured to receive at least a portion of an initiation system of the disruptor. The bumper may be configured to receive at least a portion of the initiation system such that the bumper is attached to the at least a portion of the initiation system by friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Zero Point, Incorporated
    Inventors: Perry Allen Sasnett, Michael Danforth Lincoln, Joshua Keith Brammer