Integral Gun Barrel Sound Suppressor with Deflector System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing integral sound suppressors for guns require complex construction and additional sound suppressing media, with separate adapters and increased complexity, affecting the gun's balance and aesthetic appearance.
Innovation Solution
An integral sound suppressor design featuring a deflector system, guide surface, and expansion chamber within the tubular housing to reduce sound energy and recoil, with a baffle arrangement or muzzle brake to slow and deflect gases, maintaining the gun's balance and appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If an integral sound suppressor encases the gun barrel along its longitudinal direction, then sound suppressing effectiveness is optimized and balance is improved, but constructional complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The integral sound suppressor is divided into distinct functional sections: a front section with a guide surface for barrel mounting, a middle section with baffles for sound suppression, and a rear section with a thread connection. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The gun barrel is nested within the tubular housing of the sound suppressor, with the barrel passing through the hollow interior of the suppressor body. This nested configuration enables the suppressor to encase the barrel along its longitudinal direction without requiring separate mounting structures, reducing constructional complexity.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a separate adapter with valve assembly is used for injecting sound suppressing medium, then sound suppression can be activated, but device complexity and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The sound suppressing medium injection function is extracted from a separate adapter-valve assembly and integrated directly into the tubular housing of the sound suppressor. This eliminates the need for external adapters and complex valve mechanisms, reducing both device and operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The tubular housing serves multiple functions: it provides the structural body of the sound suppressor, contains the sound suppression medium, and incorporates the injection mechanism. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate dedicated components, simplifying the overall design.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the integral sound suppressor is permanently mounted on the barrel, then sound suppression is continuously effective, but adaptability and ease of maintenance are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system transitions from a permanent fixed connection to a dynamic removable connection via thread. The rear section of the suppressor incorporates an external thread that engages with a corresponding internal thread on the barrel, allowing the suppressor to be easily attached and detached while maintaining secure mounting during use.
4Ease of manufacture
If the integral sound suppressor is mounted without a guide surface, then manufacturing is simpler, but mounting stresses and perceptible transitions occur
Solution Approach 1:
A guide surface is provided on the interior surface of the tubular housing that engages with the exterior surface of the barrel before the threaded connection is made. This preliminary guiding action ensures proper alignment and prevents mounting stresses, creating a smooth transition between components.
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 sound energy and recoil with minimal additional components, maintaining the gun's handling and aesthetic characteristics, allowing easy detachment and reattachment for maintenance and use as a regular firearm.
Implementation Method 1
The baffle arrangement allows the flow of the gas exiting from the muzzle of the barrel upon firearm discharge to be slowed down, and prevents the volume of gas from suddenly escaping into the air. Thus, the gas which expands after a firearm discharge can expand inside the integral sound suppressor, thereby reducing the sound energy emitted into the environment.
Implementation Method 2
Using a muzzle brake that is disposed inside the housing in addition to the baffle arrangement or instead of the baffle arrangement, the combustible gas exiting from the muzzle of the barrel upon firearm discharge can also be deflected and directed into an expansion chamber toward the rear. As a result, the energy of the combustible gas can be reduced as well. In addition, the recoil can be reduced by the gas, which is directed toward the rear, and by the counterforces generated thereby.
Implementation Method 3
An inner tube designed for receiving the gun barrel is disposed in an especially useful manner inside the housing, which inner tube, together with the housing, bounds an expansion chamber for receiving the gas that is generated by firearm discharge.
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AI summary
An integral sound suppressor for a gun barrel, with the integral sound suppressor including a tubular housing designed for nearly completely or completely encasing the gun barrel along its longitudinal direction with an internal thread disposed inside the housing for mounting the integral sound suppressor on an external thread disposed on the muzzle of the gun barrel. Disposed inside the housing is a deflector system for deflecting the gas generated by firearm discharge, and disposed on the housing is a guide surface which is spaced at a distance from the internal thread along the longitudinal direction of the housing for guiding the integral sound suppressor in the region of the front end of the gun barrel.