Patents Examined by Stephen M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9291430
    Abstract: An accessory device for attachment to a firearm may include a device body having a light source and a biasing member extending from the device body through an aperture of a rail clip. The biasing member has a distal end shaped for insertion into a firearm slot, and the device body has an anti-rotation feature that prevents the body from rotating about the biasing member with respect to the rail clip when the distal end is inserted in the firearm slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SPECIALIZED TACTICAL SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Robert Campbell Clark
  • Patent number: 8782944
    Abstract: An apparatus for mounting accessories on a weapon mount. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an accessory interface system having a forward module coupled to a mounting module. The mounting module of the accessory interface system mounts on a weapon mount. The forward module of the accessory interface system provides a plurality of surfaces for mounting weapon accessories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jason M. Davis, Brian P. Dean, Brandon R. Clarke
  • Patent number: 7900388
    Abstract: An apparatus, according to various aspects of the present invention, produces contractions in skeletal muscles of a target to impede locomotion by the target. The apparatus is used with a provided deployment unit that deploys an electrode away from the apparatus. The electrode conducts a current through the target. The apparatus includes a terminal; a producing sub-system for producing an electric arc to warn the target without conducting a current through the target; a conducting sub-system for conducting the current in series through the terminal and through the target; an initiating sub-system for initiating deployment of the electrode; and an operator interface. The operator interface facilitates, prior to deployment of the electrode, repeated operation of any one or both of the producing sub-system and the conducting sub-system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: TASER International, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven N. D. Brundula, Milan Cerovic, Magne H. Nerheim
  • Patent number: 7516570
    Abstract: A firing pin assembly is provided that includes a firing pin and a firing pin shaft. The firing pin is received in a slot of the end of the firing pin shaft to be retained therein with a spring retaining sleeve, a main spring, and a mainspring sleeve. The firing pin is removable from the firing pin assembly and can be replaced to result in a prolonged use of the firing pin assembly. The firing pin assembly will operate as a one-piece unit when the spring retaining sleeve is oriented to hold the components securely in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: RA Brands, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Jeffrey W. Stone
  • Patent number: 7360487
    Abstract: A perforating gun connector comprising a first and second section connected together on one end. The two sections of the perforating gun connector that couple together are correspondingly tapered so that one end of one connector is tapered and fits into the corresponding tapered hollowed section of one end of the other section. The present invention also provides for the inclusion of shaped charges and booster charges within. Adjacent the charges are sealing bulkheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: William D. Myers, Jr., Edgar W. Van Sickle, Kristian Vargervik
  • Patent number: 7350448
    Abstract: A firing assembly for activating a perforating device comprising a module having a first chamber and a second chamber. The firing assembly comprises a firing head for transferring ballistic energy to the perforating device, said firing head having a detonator and a plurality of ballistic charges, said detonator coupled to at least one of said first gun assembly and said second gun assembly a remote telemetry device for sending a detonation signal, a transmission medium for transmitting said detonation signal to said firing head, and a receiving device for receiving said detonation signal and a processor for interpreting said detonation signal and activating said detonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Matthew Robert George Bell, Eugene Murphy, Edward Paul Cernocky, Christopher Burres, Aron Ekelund, Allen Lindfors
  • Patent number: 7325474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silencer easily cleanable inside. This silencer comprises a casing cylinder and a segment member housed in the casing cylinder to constitute a sound reducing means. The silencer further comprises a segment member fastening means for fastening the segment member to the casing cylinder, a gas inlet-side lid plate with a punched hole, which closes an opening at one end of the casing cylinder, and a gas outlet-side lid plate with a punched hole, which closes an opening at the other end of the casing cylinder. At least either one of the gas inlet-side lid plate or the gas outlet-side lid plate is adapted to be detachable from the casing cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Shoji Yoshimura, Yasumasa Kimura, Zenzo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7322143
    Abstract: A semiautomatic handgun has a frame, a barrel mounted on the frame and having a chamber for receiving a cartridge, a slide mounted on the frame and over the barrel and longitudinally movable relative to the frame and the barrel, a firing mechanism for striking the cartridge, and a trigger for releasing the firing mechanism. The barrel has a peripheral wall portion extending from the chamber, a cylindrical portion forming a front terminal end of the barrel, and a conical portion disposed between and contiguous with each of the peripheral wall portion and the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Rohrbaugh Firearms Corp.
    Inventors: Karl Rohrbaugh, Steven F. Reuter, Anthony Reda, Geoff Gliebe
  • Patent number: 7316090
    Abstract: A storage unit includes a nozzle unit, a storage space holding an active substance, an openable closure element sealing the storage space, a store output that includes the nozzle unit and a nozzle entry space having a circumferential inner wall arranged between a nozzle inlet and the closure element and a propellant charge and a firing charge for firing the propellant charge in order to force the active substance out of the storage space through the store output into a free environment, where the closure element is configured to remain attached to the storage unit and not interfere with the discharge of the active substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Piexon AG
    Inventors: Raphael Fleischhauer, Jürg Thomann
  • Patent number: 7311046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bullet for infantry ammunition comprising a bullet core (1), a bullet tip (13), and a metal case (2). The aim of the invention is to create a durable connection between the bullet core (1) and the metal case (2). To this end, the metal case (2) is a shell, which is open at the front and which is pulled onto the bullet core (1) from the rear. The bullet tip (13) projects away from the metal case (2), and a constriction (4) is provided on the bullet core (1). The case end (5) that is open at the front projects into this constriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Ruag Ammotec GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Riess, Erich Muskat, Erich Zeiher
  • Patent number: 7311032
    Abstract: Firearms employing gas pressure loading mechanisms are disclosed. An example firearm includes a single force receiving component containing a gas cylinder, and a barrel in communication with a cartridge chamber received in the force receiving component. The cartridge chamber is in communication with a gas withdrawal-opening and is sized to fire cartridges having a caliber of at least 15 mm. The firearm also includes a bore in communication with the gas withdrawal opening and the gas cylinder. Further, the firearm includes a locking bolt having a locked position and an unlocked position. The locking bolt engages the single force receiving component when the locking bolt is in the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Heckler & Koch, GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Murello
  • Patent number: 7310902
    Abstract: A personal safety device (10) includes at least one housing containing a quantity of a marking substance (30), an explosive charge (36), and a triggering apparatus (22) which is operative to detonate the explosive charge (36) to propel the marking substance from the housing (H) to mark the area surrounding the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Inventor: Janet Elizabeth Williams
  • Patent number: 7308891
    Abstract: Archery and firearm sight products and processes are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment an apparatus may comprise a sight ring and a shaft. The sight ring may comprise a proximal end, a distal end, and a track. The track may comprise a major axis disposed substantially parallel with a vertical axis of the sight ring. The shaft may comprise a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a body disposed between the first and second ends of the shaft. The first end of the shaft may be removably coupled with the sight ring and may be adapted to be displaced along the track of the sight ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: SOP Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Charles Graf
  • Patent number: 7308847
    Abstract: A perforating gun loading bay is described for protecting adjacent areas from an accidental explosion during gun loading. The bay can be an insert-type arrangement or a stand-alone structure. The bay includes metal plate walls, a floor and a roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Walker's Holdings Inc.
    Inventor: Troy S. Walker
  • Patent number: 7305787
    Abstract: A system and method provide immediate monitoring of a physiological function, such as ECG, of a subject before, during, or after application of an electric shock intended to temporarily incapacitate the subject. The electric shock may be delivered via at least one electrode ballistically implanted into the subject's skin. Systems and methods may further include performing time domain and/or frequency domain analysis of the results of monitoring, recording results of monitoring and/or analysis, and preventing follow-on shocks, or altering energy characterizing parameters of follow-on electric shocks so as to lessen the risk of injury to the subject, such as cardiac malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: TASER International, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Stratbucker
  • Patent number: 7302892
    Abstract: A sabot and shotshell combination includes a bullet, a shotshell hull, propellant, a shotshell primer, wadding, and a sabot comprising a molded member having a base portion and a plurality of petal portions each extending from a proximal base root to a distal tip, the base and petals defining a volume for accommodating a bullet. A reinforcement is at least partially embedded in the base, the reinforcement being more rigid than the molded member and having a plurality of apertures with the base portion extending through at least one of the apertures to retain the reinforcement within the molded member upon firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen W. Meyer, Robert J. Gardner, Gerald T. Eberhart
  • Patent number: 7299581
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, a new mechanical means in the magazine engaged bolt catch mechanism of spring motor firearms. The invention is a system in which the normal firing trigger will also release the bolt catch. A firearm equipped with this device is reloaded by pulling the firing trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Inventor: Gary Kenneth LaFleur
  • Patent number: 7290475
    Abstract: Blank cartridge devices for attachment over a muzzle flash suppressor and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A disclosed example includes a muzzle flash suppressor mounted on a barrel that includes a muzzle, a longitudinal bore including internal threading, an inner cone in communication with the longitudinal bore, and a lateral opening located in a side of the muzzle flash suppressor between the inner cone and the muzzle of the muzzle flash suppressor. A disclosed example further includes a blank cartridge device that includes a tube, a cover and a stop block. The tube is sized to penetrate the longitudinal bore of the muzzle flash suppressor, and the tube has external threading to threadingly engage the internal threading in the longitudinal bore of the muzzle flash suppressor. The tube also includes an outer cone to form a seal with the inner cone of the muzzle flash suppressor. The tube further defines a core bore that is in communication with the bore of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Heckler & Koch, GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Fluhr
  • Patent number: 7287351
    Abstract: A rear tactical sight for a handgun having a barrel with a barrel axis. The sight including a base extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to the barrel axis. The base having a front and an oppositely facing back with sides extending in the longitudinal direction between the front, the back and a bottom. The sight further including an upwardly opened notch joined to the base and spaced above the base bottom which at least partially defines boundaries of a sight line for the sight and a pair of side walls spaced on either side of the sight line each having outer surfaces that are opposite to one another and which extend upwardly from the base sides. The outer surfaces being substantially symmetrical to one another and each including a first arcuate surface extending upwardly and inwardly from a corresponding one of the base sides respectively and a second arcuate surface extending inwardly and upwardly from the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Inventor: Scott M. Warren
  • Patent number: 7284488
    Abstract: A gas generator comprising a first cup case 3 packing therein gas generant 2 to generate gas by the burning of it, a squib 5 having a second cup case E arranged in an inside of the first cup case 3 and containing an ignition charge D, a squib case 7 having a hole 20 and covering the second cup case E, and a holder 6 to hold the squib case 7 and second cut case E by crimping, wherein the holder 6 has holes 13, 14 for allowing passage of electrode pins 11, 12 of the squib 5, one for each of the electrode pins 11, 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Maruyama, Kazumasa Kurita, Akihiko Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Kishino