Rotating Target Base for Dynamic Shooting Scenarios
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current firearm target systems lack interactive and individualized training experiences, failing to simulate dynamic scenarios that require shooters to react to moving targets and make quick decisions, limiting their ability to improve skills in realistic shooting scenarios.
Innovation Solution
A modular and portable target system with a rotating base station that can present different images to shooters, allowing for various positions and rotations, controlled by a remote controller to simulate dynamic scenarios, including threat and non-threat presentations, and equipped with impact recognition for scoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If static target systems are used, then safety and efficiency for multiple shooters are improved, but dynamic scenario simulation and reaction time training are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the Dynamics principle by transforming static targets into dynamic, moving targets that can change position, orientation, and presentation. The target system incorporates motors and controllers that enable targets to move laterally, vertically, and rotate, creating realistic dynamic shooting scenarios while maintaining safety through controlled movement within designated ranges.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical rail-based target movement systems with electronically controlled motorized systems. This substitution enables more complex and versatile target motion patterns, including unpredictable movements and changes in target presentation, while improving efficiency and reducing the need for manual target retrieval and replacement.
2Ease of manufacture
If fixed position targets are used, then simple target practice is enabled, but moving target shooting skills and threat recognition are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system transforms fixed targets into dynamically movable targets using motorized mechanisms. Targets can move laterally along rails, vertically on suspension systems, and rotate on mounting structures, enabling realistic moving target scenarios that train shooters' reaction times and tracking skills while maintaining relatively simple mechanical implementations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal target system that can perform multiple functions: static presentation for basic accuracy training, controlled movement for dynamic target practice, rotation for angle-based shooting scenarios, and coordinated multi-target sequences for complex threat recognition training. This multi-functionality replaces the need for multiple specialized target systems.
3Productivity
If traditional rail target systems are used, then multiple shooters can train simultaneously, but interactive and individualized training experiences are prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where target behavior responds to shooter actions. Targets can be programmed to move in response to detected gunfire, present different target types based on shooting performance, and provide real-time feedback through their movement patterns. This creates individualized training experiences while maintaining multi-shooter capacity through independent target control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses preliminary action by pre-programming target sequences and movement patterns that adapt to individual shooter performance. Targets can be configured in advance with specific movement profiles, presentation sequences, and response behaviors that are then executed during training sessions, allowing each shooter to experience customized scenarios without requiring manual intervention.
4Measurement precision
If static targets are used, then aiming and sight dialing can be practiced, but reaction time and decision-making skills are not tested
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines static precision aiming practice with dynamic reaction time training by enabling targets to transition between stationary and moving states. Shooters can practice precise aiming at static targets, then immediately engage moving targets that require quick acquisition and tracking, thereby training both accuracy and reaction time within the same system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic action by alternating between static target presentations for accuracy practice and dynamic moving sequences for reaction time training. Targets can be programmed with periodic movement patterns that create predictable sequences, allowing shooters to develop both precision aiming skills and rapid response capabilities through repeated practice cycles.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Provides a more realistic and dynamic training experience, allowing shooters to practice reacting to moving targets and improving their decision-making skills in a flexible and affordable manner, suitable for both military and civilian training.
Implementation Method 1
a motor affixed to a support structure... a target suspended from the motor
Data Source
AI summary
A target system designed to be stand-alone and modular which includes a target area which is two or more sided and which can be rotated through a large number of different positions and rotations. The system can also include systems for projectile impact recognition. Target rotation is generally accomplished through a target base that is in communication with and configured to receive data input from a remote target controller.