Detachable Arrow Transmitter for Weighted Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current hunting arrows face challenges in adding weight without recalibrating the bow, locating missed arrows, and tracking wounded animals efficiently, with existing solutions being costly and prone to breakage, and affecting arrow performance.
Innovation Solution
A hunting arrow apparatus with a detachable transmitter assembly that securely attaches to the arrow shaft, allowing for weight addition without recalibration and featuring a barbed hook mechanism for tracking wounded animals, ensuring minimal weight impact on arrow performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Force
If weight is added to the arrow to increase force and damage, then the arrow's penetrating capability is improved, but the bow requires recalibration and arrow performance is affected
Solution Approach 1:
The arrow system is divided into modular components: a standard arrow shaft that maintains original flight characteristics, and separate detachable weight modules (including transmitters and broadheads) that can be attached only when needed. This segmentation allows the arrow to maintain its original performance for normal shooting while enabling weight addition for hunting scenarios without permanent modification or recalibration.
Solution Approach 2:
The arrow configuration is made dynamic through detachable weight modules that can be attached or removed based on hunting conditions. The system transitions between a lightweight standard configuration for accurate flight and a weighted configuration for increased penetrating force, allowing adaptability without permanent modification to the arrow or bow calibration.
2Loss of information
If tracking devices are integrated into the arrow to locate missed shots and wounded animals, then tracking capability is improved, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tracking system is segmented into a detachable transmitter module that can be independently attached to the arrow shaft. This module contains the electronic tracking components separated from the main arrow structure, allowing the arrow to remain simple for normal use while enabling sophisticated tracking functionality when the module is attached.
Solution Approach 2:
The detachable transmitter module serves multiple functions: it adds weight for penetrating force, provides tracking capability to locate missed shots and wounded animals, and can be removed when not needed. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized components.
3Ease of operation
If the transmitter assembly is made detachable to ease attachment and removal, then ease of operation is improved, but the reliability of the connection may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The detachable transmitter assembly combines multiple functions into a single integrated unit: mechanical attachment features, weight addition, and electronic tracking components are merged into one assembly. This allows the user to attach or remove a complete functional module rather than dealing with separate components, simplifying operation while maintaining secure connection through the integrated design.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for adding weight to an arrow and a system and method of correcting the trajectory of the arrow with the added weight is disclosed and described. The arrow can include a compensator designed to fit as a sleeve on a shaft of the arrow and the compensator has diameter that is larger than a diameter of the shaft of the arrow. A thickness of the compensator, which is measured as the difference in the diameter of the compensator and the diameter of the shaft of the arrow, is configured to enable a user to aim the arrow with a bow that has been sighted for a standard arrow.