Modular Rifle Bipod Mount With Spring-Locked Quick Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bipods often compromise on stability, adjustability, ease of use, robustness, versatility, and safety while maintaining affordability, and lack modular design for different shooting conditions and rifle types.
Innovation Solution
A modular bipod design featuring a detachable leg arrangement with a mushroom-shaped support part, adjustable leg fastening, and an interface connection adapter with a spring mechanism for secure attachment and quick release, allowing for adjustable orientation and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional bipod design is used, then the structure is simple and manufacturing cost is low, but the bipod lacks stability, adjustability, and versatility
Solution Approach 1:
The bipod is divided into modular components: a body, two legs with independent adjustment mechanisms, and a mounting interface. Each leg can be adjusted independently for length and angle, allowing versatile positioning while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure. The segmentation enables adaptability without requiring a completely complex design.
Solution Approach 2:
The bipod incorporates dynamic adjustment capabilities through telescopic legs with locking mechanisms and adjustable angle joints. These dynamic features allow the user to modify the bipod's configuration during use, providing adaptability while the locking mechanisms ensure stability when adjusted to a desired position.
2Reliability
If the bipod is made robust and stable, then it can withstand harsh conditions, but it becomes heavier and more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The bipod applies local quality by concentrating strength and robustness only where needed - at the mounting interface, the leg joints, and the foot contacts. The main body and adjustment mechanisms use sufficient but not excessive material. This localized approach ensures stability and reliability in critical areas while minimizing overall weight.
3Measurement precision
If the bipod offers fine adjustability, then it provides precise orientation, but it becomes more complex and harder to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustment mechanisms are designed to be self-servicing through spring-loaded locking systems and friction-based holds that automatically maintain position without requiring constant user intervention. The user makes the adjustment, and the mechanism itself maintains the precise orientation through its self-locking features, simplifying operation while preserving precision.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the bipod is made modular with detachable parts, then it offers versatility and ease of transport, but it reduces reliability and increases complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The detachable components are merged with robust fastening mechanisms that combine multiple locking features - mechanical locks, friction holds, and positive engagement elements. This merging of fastening methods ensures that the modular connections are as reliable as integrated designs, maintaining reliability while preserving the benefits of modularity for versatility and transport.
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 modular bipod provides stable, adjustable, and robust support for rifles with ease of use, versatility across different conditions and rifles, while ensuring safety and cost-effectiveness through its modular design.
Implementation Method 1
the interface connection adapter arrangement further comprises a spring means, arranged to press the first part and the second part together along said movement dimension, and as a result the first rifle fastener into engagement with the rifle
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AI summary
Interface connection adapter arrangement (300) for a bipod (1) for a rifle (2), whereinsaid arrangement further comprises a first part (310) and a second part (320), being trans-latable in relation to each other, the arrangement comprising a rifle fastener (331), in turn comprising cooperating fastener means both on said first part and on said second part;said rifle fastener being arranged to be activated for fastening the arrangement to the rifle by translating said first part in relation to said second part into a gripping position; and whereinthe arrangement is arranged to be connected to two leg parts.The invention is characterised in thatthe arrangement further comprisesa spring means (350), arranged to press the first part and the second part together; anda freedom of movement adjustment means (360), arranged to adjustably limit a freedom of translational movement of said first part in relation to said second part away from each other.The invention also relates to a method.