Aperture Collimator for Firearm Sight Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals with impaired vision, either near-sighted or far-sighted, face difficulty in simultaneously visualizing a rear sight, a front sight, and a target while aiming a firearm equipped with open sights, as existing solutions like telescopes and peep hole sights are either complex, expensive, or distracting.
Innovation Solution
A small aperture made of opaque static cling vinyl is attached to glasses, collimating light from the rear sight, front sight, and target, allowing only a focused cone of light to reach the retina, enabling simultaneous visualization of all three.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a telescope is used as a sighting device, then the ability to visualize the target is improved, but the device complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts only the essential function of light collimation from a complex telescope system, using a simple aperture in an opaque material attached to eyeglasses. This minimalistic approach achieves the same aiming accuracy without the complexity of telescopic structures, multiple lenses, and mounting mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs an inexpensive, simple aperture made from opaque material that can be easily attached to and removed from eyeglasses. This disposable-like simplicity contrasts with the expensive, permanent telescope attachment, providing cost-effective aiming assistance for multiple firearms without prohibitive costs.
2Reliability
If a peep hole sight is attached to eyeglasses using a suction cup, then the ability to visualize sights is improved, but the suction cup refracts light and creates distraction
Solution Approach 1:
The invention removes the suction cup component entirely, using instead a simple aperture in an opaque material that adheres to eyeglasses without refracting light. This eliminates the harmful light refraction and distraction effects while maintaining the peep hole sight's functionality for visualizing targets and sights.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent converts the potential harm of light refraction by avoiding refractive materials altogether. The opaque material with aperture allows light to pass through undistorted, transforming the potential distraction into clear, undistorted vision while maintaining the sight's purpose.
3Device complexity
If a person uses open sights on a firearm, then the simplicity of the sight system is maintained, but the ability to simultaneously visualize rear sight, front sight, and target is impaired for those with vision defects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary device (aperture in opaque material on eyeglasses) that mediates between the simple open sight system and the user's impaired vision. This intermediary collimates light from all three visualization points (rear sight, front sight, and target) through a small aperture, enabling simultaneous clear visualization without changing the simplicity of the firearm's open sight system.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention provides a universal solution that works with any open sight configuration and any vision impairment type (near-sightedness or far-sightedness). The aperture on eyeglasses serves multiple functions: it collimates light, enables simultaneous visualization of multiple sights and targets, and can be attached to various eyeglass types, making it universally applicable.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution allows individuals with impaired vision to accurately aim a firearm by ensuring all light is focused on the retina, improving aiming accuracy for both near-sighted and far-sighted individuals without the need for expensive or complex equipment.
Implementation Method 1
A small aperture in an opaque material is attached to a pair of glasses worn by the person aiming a firearm. The small aperture collimates the light reflected from the rear sight, the front sight, and the target so that the light from each passes through only a small area of the lens of the person's eye
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AI summary
An apparatus to improve vision has a collimator of static cling vinyl affixed on a lens of eyeglasses by electrostatic attraction. The eyeglasses have a lens and the lens has a length and a width. The collimator is made of opaque material and the collimator has an aperture formed as a hole in a flat circle of the opaque material. The opaque material has a diameter and the diameter is less than the length and the diameter is less than the width of the lens of the eyeglasses. The eyeglasses are to be worn by a person. The collimator clears the vision of a person wearing the eyeglasses. When the person sights a firearm and sights through the aperture that person can simultaneously visualize the rear sight and the front sight of the firearm, and also the target.