Integrated Archery Panel for Stabilization and Silencing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current archery devices require multiple separate accessories for stabilization, noise reduction, arrow storage, concealment, and video recording, leading to imbalance, inconvenience, and poor video quality due to vibration transmission.
Innovation Solution
A multi-function archery device that can be fixedly or removably attached to a bow, providing shooting stabilization, silencing, visual concealment, arrow quiver functionality, and video recording capabilities, with adjustable mass distribution and interchangeable camouflage surfaces, incorporating a lighted aiming device and shooting stick for improved accuracy and convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate accessories are used for stabilization, noise reduction, arrow storage, concealment, and video recording, then each function can be performed adequately, but the device complexity increases and bow balance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple archery accessories (quiver, stabilizer, silencer, camouflage cover, video recording device, aiming device, and shooting stick) into a single integrated panel structure. The panel serves as the structural backbone that unifies these previously separate components, reducing overall device complexity while maintaining functional versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The panel is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a stabilizer through its mass distribution, a quiver through integrated arrow slots, a silencer through vibration-absorbing materials, a camouflage cover through interchangeable surfaces, and a mounting structure for video and aiming devices. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate accessories.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate accessories are attached to the bow, then various functions are available, but the bow balance and shooting accuracy deteriorate due to mass distribution
Solution Approach 1:
The panel is intentionally designed with asymmetric mass distribution, positioning the center of mass forward of the bow's vertical centerline. This asymmetric configuration provides shooting stabilization by counterbalancing the bow's natural tendencies and improving accuracy, while the panel's extended structure accommodates multiple functions.
3Ease of operation
If a quiver is attached to the side of the bow for convenient transport, then arrow access is easy, but the bow balance deteriorates and requires additional stabilizing weight
Solution Approach 1:
The quiver function is merged into the panel structure through vertically oriented slots that run along the panel's length. Arrows are stored within these slots and can be accessed by simple upward motion, eliminating the need for a separate side-mounted quiver and its associated stabilizing weight.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If vibration-absorbing materials are added to reduce noise and vibration, then sound wave interference is reduced, but the device mass increases
Solution Approach 1:
The panel incorporates vibration-absorbing materials such as foam, rubber, or viscoelastic compounds into its construction. These materials are integrated as layers or infill within the panel structure, providing noise and vibration reduction without significantly increasing overall device mass, as the panel's structural requirements already accommodate this additional functionality.
5Ease of manufacture
If a video recording device is rigidly attached to the bow for stable recording, then mounting is simple, but video quality deteriorates due to vibration transmission
Solution Approach 1:
The panel serves as an intermediary mounting structure between the bow and the video recording device. It incorporates vibration-dampening materials and flexible mounting mechanisms that decouple the video device from bow vibrations, thereby improving video quality while maintaining ease of installation through the panel's integrated mounting points.
6Object-affected harmful factors
If camouflage materials are added to conceal the archer, then visual detection by game is reduced, but the device complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The panel's large surface area, required for structural stability and function integration, is utilized as the mounting substrate for camouflage materials. This eliminates the need for separate camouflage attachments, as the panel itself serves as the camouflage platform, reducing overall device weight while maintaining concealment effectiveness.
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
The device offers improved shooting accuracy and balance by reducing noise and vibration, providing convenient arrow access, and enhancing video quality while simplifying archery equipment needs and reducing weight and cost.
Implementation Method 1
The device may be constructed and dimensioned to substantially intercept by deflecting, diffusing, and/or absorbing the sounds produced by a bow while discharging an arrow
Implementation Method 2
A device which more effectively absorbs, diffuses, and/or deflects vibration, and intercepts its resulting sound wave to reduce poor hits on game animals
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods directed to archery bow accessories include a panel to be mounted on an archery bow, forward of the archery bow limbs, to provide stabilization, silencing, and/or concealment. The panel may be sufficiently rigid to support all or some of the weight of the archery bow against a support structure, such as the ground. The panel may also be sufficiently structurally sound to quiver arrows and to support other optional features, such as aiming devices. Silencing functionality of the panel may be enhanced by usage of or addition of sound absorbing materials, such as cork, foam, rubber, honeycomb structures, or combinations thereof.