Electronic Gun State Indicators for Intuitive Status 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
Implementing electronic components like light pipes, display panels, and electronically actuated switches to indicate gun states, allowing for a variety of representations such as color illumination, pulsating patterns, and icons to enhance user understanding of the gun's status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mechanical components are used to indicate gun state information, then the device structure is simple, but the type of gun state information that can be indicated is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical indication systems 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 various representations such as color illumination, pulsating patterns, and icons, thereby increasing the versatility of state information indication without being constrained by mechanical limitations.
2Loss of information
If electronic components are used to indicate gun state information, then the type of gun state information indicated increases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functional electronic components that can indicate multiple gun states through a single integrated system. The light pipes, display panels, and electronically actuated switches work together to provide comprehensive feedback on various gun states (ready, locked, unlocked, charging, error conditions) using different representations (color illumination, pulsating patterns, icons), thereby reducing information loss while managing device complexity through universal component design.
3Ease of operation
If multiple representations are used to indicate gun states, then user understanding improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
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), providing intuitive visual feedback that enhances user understanding. This principle is combined with other representation methods including pulsating patterns and icons to create a comprehensive indication system that improves ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs pulsating patterns as a periodic action to indicate specific gun states. The periodic pulsation of light provides distinctive visual feedback that helps users quickly identify and understand the current gun status, particularly for critical states such as error conditions or charging states. This periodic action works in conjunction with color changes and icons to enhance overall user comprehension.
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.