Gun Scope Battery Compartment Radial Leverage Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gun scopes face challenges in housing batteries due to their narrow profiles, leading to limited operational time with smaller batteries, which is exacerbated by the difficulty in manual adjustments, especially with gloved hands, and the need for frequent battery replacement or recharging in field use.
Innovation Solution
A gun scope design that integrates a rotating battery compartment with a rotatable component, such as a magnification ring, which provides leverage and houses various battery types, maintaining electrical contact through spring-loaded contacts and traces on a printed circuit board, allowing for extended battery life and ease of use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If smaller batteries are used to maintain the narrow profile of the gun scope, then the spatial impact on the gun scope is limited, but the operational time is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The battery compartment is positioned radially outward from the rotatable component, utilizing the radial dimension rather than extending the linear profile of the scope. This allows larger batteries to be housed without increasing the scope's narrow profile along its main axis, thereby extending operational time while maintaining a sleek appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotatable component serves dual functions: it acts as both the operational control element (for magnification adjustment) and as the mounting structure for the battery compartment. This integration allows the battery housing to be part of an existing functional element rather than adding a separate component, thus accommodating larger batteries without compromising the scope's profile.
2Ease of operation
If textured surfaces or protrusions are added to knobs and rings to facilitate manual manipulation, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The battery compartment itself is designed to function as the leverage element for rotating the magnification ring. By combining the battery housing with the rotatable component, the design eliminates the need for separate textured surfaces or protrusions on the ring, reducing overall complexity while maintaining ease of operation through the battery compartment's inherent structure.
3Quantity of substance
If the battery compartment is positioned radially outward from the rotatable component, then larger batteries can be housed, but the profile of the gun scope increases
Solution Approach 1:
The battery compartment extends radially outward from the rotatable component rather than along the scope's main axis. This utilizes the radial dimension perpendicular to the scope's profile, allowing larger batteries to be housed without increasing the scope's narrow profile along its length, thus maintaining a sleek appearance while accommodating higher battery capacity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables extended battery life and improved usability by providing additional leverage for rotating components, ensuring continuous operation over multiple days without recharging or battery replacement, enhancing user experience in field conditions.
Implementation Method 1
maintaining electrical contact through spring-loaded contacts and traces on a printed circuit board
Data Source
AI summary
A gun scope is provided having a battery compartment. The battery compartment may be configured to house one or more batteries to provide electronic power to one or more electronic components associated with the gun scope. The battery compartment is associated with a rotatable component, such as a magnifying ring, and configured to rotate with the rotatable component about an axis. In one embodiment, the battery component may be integrally formed with the rotatable component. In another embodiment, the battery component may be formed as a separate component and coupled with the rotatable component. The battery compartment extends radially outward from the rotatable component and provides a lever for rotation of the rotatable component about its axis of rotation.