Flash Redirecting Recoil Compensator With Vectoring Ports

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional recoil compensators for firearms reduce recoil but direct the muzzle flash into the shooter's sight path, causing night blindness and obscuring the target in low-light conditions, and often require significant modifications or expansion chambers.

Innovation Solution

A flash redirecting recoil compensator with vectoring ports that mount directly on the firearm barrel, redirecting recoil forces downward and redirecting the muzzle flash away from the shooter's sight, eliminating the need for an expansion chamber and minimizing weight.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Force

If traditional recoil compensators redirect hot gas upward to counter barrel rise, then recoil reduction is achieved, but muzzle flash is directed into the shooter's sight path causing night blindness and obscuring the target

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverecoil reductionVSAvoidmuzzle flash in sight path

Core Design Contradiction:

ForceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The compensator divides the hot gas flow into separate streams through multiple ports: upward-vectoring ports for recoil compensation and downward/sideward ports for flash redirection. This segmentation allows independent control of recoil management and flash direction, resolving the contradiction between recoil reduction and sight protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different sections of the compensator body have different port configurations optimized for specific functions. The upper portion contains upward-vectoring ports for recoil counteraction, while lower portions contain downward or sideward ports for flash redirection away from the sight path. Each local region performs its specialized function to simultaneously achieve both goals.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Force

If recoil compensators use expansion chambers to redirect hot gas, then recoil is reduced, but device complexity and weight increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverecoil reductionVSAvoidstructure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ForceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts and eliminates the expansion chamber component from traditional recoil compensator designs. By using a streamlined compensator body with directly integrated vectoring ports on the barrel, it achieves recoil reduction without the added complexity and weight of expansion chambers, while maintaining effective hot gas redirection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Stability of the object's composition

If recoil compensators are designed to vector hot gas upward, then barrel rise is counteracted, but the bright flash obscures the sight picture entirely in low-light conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesight picture stabilityVSAvoidmuzzle flash brightness

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of directing all hot gas upward as in traditional compensators, the invention inverts the approach by directing portions of the hot gas downward or sideward through specific ports. This inversion redirects the bright flash away from the shooter's sight path while maintaining upward vectoring capability for recoil compensation, thus preserving sight picture stability without the harmful brightness effect.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

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 solution effectively reduces recoil and prevents muzzle flash interference with the shooter's sight, maintaining accuracy and visibility in low-light conditions without requiring significant firearm modifications or additional weight.

Implementation Method 1

redirecting the force of the hot gas and unburned powder being expelled from the barrel of the firearm

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectGas flow redirection:

Implementation Method 2

the action of the bullet being propelled forwards at extreme velocities causes the equal and opposite reaction of the firearm recoiling backwards

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectRecoil force redirection: Reaction (physics)

Implementation Method 3

Recoil compensators aim to counter this effect by vectoring portions of the hot gas and unburned powder upwards when the firearm is discharged

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectVectoring:

Data Source

PatentUS10323896B2Flash redirecting recoil compensator

Publication Date: 2019.06.18 MORRIS JR JAMES

AI summary

A flash redirecting recoil compensator for a firearm includes a compensator body that provides a platform for the rest of the components. The compensator body attaches with a firearm in order to reduce recoil force and redirect the muzzle flash away from the site of the shooter. An attachment chamber and a discharge chamber of the compensator body are positioned through a top portion of the compensator body from a rear face to a front face. The attachment chamber fastens the compensator body into the firearm while the discharge chamber provides space for the discharging bullet. At least two vectoring ports, which are traversed through the compensator body and into the discharge chamber, redirect hot gas and unspent propellants away from the firearm after the bullet is discharged as the redirection of the hot gas and unspent propellants reduce the recoil force and provide a clear shooting sight.