Electronic Gun State Indicators for Ready and Error Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional guns, particularly those with mechanical components, are limited in the types of gun state information they can indicate to users, failing to provide comprehensive and intuitive feedback on states such as ready, locked, unlocked, charging, and error conditions.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating electronic components like light pipes, display panels, and electronically actuated switches to indicate gun state information, allowing for multiple states to be represented through colors, patterns, and icons, enhancing user insight and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mechanical components are used to indicate gun state information, then the indication method is simple and reliable, but the type of gun state information that can be indicated is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical indication components with electronic components including light pipes, display panels, and electronically actuated switches. These electronic components can indicate multiple gun states (ready, locked, unlocked, charging, error conditions) through different colors, patterns, and icons, thereby increasing the adaptability and versatility of the indication system without significantly increasing overall device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes color changes in light pipes and display panels to indicate different gun states. Different colors represent different states (e.g., green for ready, red for error), allowing the system to convey multiple types of information through a single visual indicator, thus improving versatility without adding multiple separate mechanical indicators
2Loss of information
If mechanical components are used to indicate gun state information, then the device structure is simple, but the user awareness and insight provided is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by using electronic components that can indicate multiple gun states simultaneously or sequentially. The display panel and light pipes can show ready state, locked state, unlocked state, charging state, and error states through different visual patterns, colors, and icons, ensuring complete information transmission about the gun's condition
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a feedback system where the electronic indication components provide real-time visual feedback about the gun's state to the user. The compute component processes sensor data and triggers appropriate visual indicators, creating a closed-loop feedback system that keeps the user informed about gun status without requiring mechanical complexity
3Loss of information
If electronic components are used to indicate gun state information, then comprehensive state information can be provided, but the risk of distracting the user increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by positioning indication components in locations that do not obstruct the user's view or interfere with gun operation. The visual indicators are placed on the gun body in areas that provide information without creating visual clutter in the user's line of sight, thus maintaining complete information delivery while minimizing distraction
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses periodic or intermittent indication patterns rather than continuous illumination. The electronic components can flash or pulse to indicate specific states, drawing attention only when necessary and allowing the user to ignore steady or inactive indicators, thereby reducing distraction while maintaining information completeness
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides techniques, systems, and devices that support indicating gun state information. One or more electronic components may be used to indicate the gun state information, and the electronic components may be coupled with a gun. The gun may identify a state of the gun based on a compute component including a data signal, and the compute component may be coupled with the gun. The gun may select a representation of the state of the gun, where the representation of the state of the gun is compatible with an electronic component coupled with the gun. The gun may indicate, at the electronic component and based on the compute component, the state of the gun with the representation of the state of the gun. Indicating the state of the gun may include displaying an icon, illuminating the electronic component with a color, or pulsating the electronic component.