98 results about "Rate of fire" patented technology

A method of target specific fire fighting including the steps of providing a barrel assembly, suitably in a pod, which is capable of firing a plurality of projectiles. Each projectile having containment for matter or objects to be delivered to a target fire; loading the containments with matter or objects comprising fire retardants, dousing or extinguishing means; providing control means for aiming and controlling the rate of fire of projectiles and / or quantity of the projectiles fired; and firing the projectiles in a controlled manner from a remote location toward the fire so as to douse or extinguish the fire. The barrel assemblies of the projectile launching apparatus are of the type having a plurality projectiles arranged in-line within a barrel and associated with discrete selectively ignitable propellant charges for propelling the projectiles sequentially through the muzzle of the barrel.

An electro-mechanical firearm trigger mechanism for controlling the rate of fire for a firearm in automatic firing mode. The controlling being achieved through the use of a solenoid directed by a computer processor. The computer processor being connected to multiple sensors to instruct the solenoid on a rate of fire or to disengage automatic fire if needed.

An electro-pneumatically operated paint ball gun operates without the use of a mechanical sear, and includes a pneumatically operated hammer assembly effective to bump open a discharge valve and fire the gun. A programmable, microprocessor-based controller allows default values for time intervals of operation of the gun to be programmed, and also allows a user of the gun to access and change default values so that the operation of the gun can be modified to better meet the user's preferences. A cyclic rate of fire of as much as 30 paint ball shots per second or more is possible with a paint ball gun according to this invention. Further, a retrofit kit assembly provides for conversion of a conventional “autococker” type of paint ball gun into a gun embodying the present invention.

A paintball gun provides a double-acting trigger apparatus including a pair of finger engagement surfaces against which a user of the gun may employ a pair of trigger fingers. The user of the paintball gun may effect a firing operation of the gun by using either one of the two fingers to pull the trigger. Consequently, rapid firing operations of the gun are effected by dithering the two trigger fingers in rapid alternating motions to apply pressure on and off the two trigger engagement surfaces. Further, the paintball gun includes a programmable, microprocessor-based controller allowing the gun to be fired in response to a chosen discreet event in time. This chosen discreet event may include the opening and / or closing of a pair of switch contacts, for example; or the making or breaking of an electrical circuit effected between conductive components of the paintball gun. Movements of the double-acting trigger apparatus will result in plural discreet events separated in time, so that plural rapid-sequence firing operations of the paintball gun may be accomplished. Accordingly, a very high cyclic rate of fire is possible with a semi-automatic paint ball gun according to this invention.

The invention relates to the field of planning and dispatching of a power grid, and discloses a method for dispatching power grid pitch peak capability based on large-scale wind power sychronization. The method comprises the following steps: (1) setting the pitch peak capacity provided by hydropower for wind power as F, and the sum of wind power and hydropower as a definite value, F plus Q; leading Wa plus Wi to be more than or equal to (F plus Q) multiplied by 24, conducting pilot calculation on maximum output Fa of wind power allowed by the power grid; (2) substituting Fa into an analog computation model run by a given power grid system, carrying out calculation to obtain load rate of fire power with a light load and a difference F fire between fire power output and fire power minimum output under the load rate, which are taken as the pitch peak capacity provided by the fire power for wind power; and (3) when F fire is less than 0, decreasing wind power output Fa value capable of being balanced by hydropower, and repeating the step (2) until F fire is more than or equal to 0, thus obtaining the total pitch peak capacity provided by the given power grid system for wind power: total F equals to Fa plus F fire, wherein total F is wind power capacity capable of being integrated into the given power grid system.