Modular Resetting Target System with Sliding Rail and Pivot Latch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing resetting target systems are often heavy, difficult to transport, and lack adjustability and cost-effectiveness, with limited ability to configure or expand.
Innovation Solution
A modular resetting target system featuring a reset subassembly and target subassembly that are individually positionable along a support rail, allowing for easy assembly, reconfiguration, and expansion, with components made from lightweight and inexpensive materials like lumber, and a mechanism that includes a reset plate, latch, and reset bar for automatic target resetting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If resetting target systems are made of durable materials such as steel to withstand repeated impacts, then the strength and durability are improved, but the weight increases making them difficult to transport
Solution Approach 1:
The target system is divided into separate modular components including target supports, targets, reset bars, and mounting hardware that can be independently assembled and disassembled. This segmentation allows users to transport only necessary components and assemble the system at the destination, reducing the weight burden during transport while maintaining full functionality when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamic resetting mechanisms where targets are automatically returned to their initial positions after being struck, using movable components rather than fixed rigid structures. This dynamic approach allows the system to withstand impacts without requiring excessive structural mass, thereby reducing overall weight while maintaining durability.
2Stability of the object's composition
If resetting target systems use fixed configurations to ensure stability, then the stability is improved, but the adaptability to adjust target positions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into modular components with standardized interfaces that allow individual targets and supports to be independently positioned and reconfigured. This modular segmentation enables users to adjust target positions and configurations while maintaining system stability through consistent connection mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates movable and adjustable components including sliding target supports, reconfigurable mounting positions, and dynamic resetting mechanisms. These dynamic elements allow the system to adapt to different configurations while maintaining operational stability during target engagement and resetting cycles.
3Reliability
If resetting target systems are designed as integrated units to ensure reliability, then the reliability is improved, but the ease of assembly and reconfiguration is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into standardized modular components with consistent connection interfaces and assembly procedures. This segmentation enables reliable assembly through repetitive, standardized processes rather than complex custom fittings, actually improving ease of assembly while maintaining reliability through consistent connection quality across all modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular components are designed with universal interfaces and standardized connection mechanisms that can be used across different target configurations. This universality ensures reliable connections while simplifying assembly procedures, as the same connection methods work for all components regardless of their specific function or position in the system.
4Measurement precision
If resetting target systems use complex mechanisms to achieve precise target resetting, then the measurement precision is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The resetting mechanism is designed to automatically return targets to their initial positions without requiring external intervention or complex control systems. The self-service nature of the resetting mechanism achieves precise target positioning through simple mechanical means, avoiding the need for complex actuators, sensors, or control electronics that would increase device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces complex electronic or hydraulic resetting mechanisms with simple mechanical resetting components such as spring-loaded targets, gravity-assisted resetting, or cam-based positioning. This substitution achieves sufficient resetting precision through basic mechanical principles while significantly reducing the overall complexity of the device.
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 system allows for easy setup and reconfiguration of multiple targets, reduces weight and cost, and enables users to set up a variable number of targets with different configurations, enhancing usability and flexibility.
Implementation Method 1
When the reset plate is struck, it rotates within the reset plate support and also rotates the reset bar coupled thereto. The reset bar is shaped to contact the latch when rotated, thereby causing the latch to pivot and freeing the target from the latched position.
Implementation Method 2
A spring may be connected between the latch and the target support and configured to pivot the latch from the withdrawn position to the engageable position.
Implementation Method 3
The reset bar is inserted through the a reset bar hole in the target support, and the target support is slidably positionable along the reset bar to a desired location.
Data Source
AI summary
A resetting target system includes a reset subassembly and a target subassembly which are separately positionable along a support rail. An arm of a reset plate is removably coupled to a reset bar. The reset bar is inserted through the target subassembly. When the reset bar is actuated by striking the reset plate, the reset bar pivots a latch of the target subassembly and frees a target from a latched position. One reset bar may engage with one or more target subassemblies, and multiple reset bars may be interconnected and coupled to a single reset plate. The target system is modular, adjustable, and easy to assemble.