Sight Magnification Interlock Using Focusing Ring Angle Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Adjusting the image size of a front infrared sight to match the magnification of a visible light sight is inconvenient due to the infrared sight's distance from the operator, making manual operation difficult.
Innovation Solution
An interlocking control device and method that uses sensing components and a processor to automatically adjust the infrared image display magnification based on the relative rotation angle of the visible light focusing ring, ensuring synchronized magnification adjustment between the visible light sight and infrared sight.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the front infrared sight is connected to the front end of the visible light sight through an adapter ring, then the infrared sight can be used in conjunction with the visible light sight, but the infrared sight becomes difficult to operate manually due to its distance from the operator
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically adjusts the infrared image magnification by detecting the rotation angle of the visible light focusing ring through sensing components, eliminating the need for manual adjustment of the infrared sight. The infrared sight serves itself by being controlled through the visible light sight's focusing mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensing components act as intermediaries between the visible light focusing ring and the infrared sight, detecting the rotation angle and transmitting this information to automatically adjust the infrared image magnification, thereby resolving the operational difficulty caused by the physical distance between the operator and the infrared sight.
2Measurement precision
If the magnification of the visible light sight is changed manually, then the visible light image can be focused, but the infrared image magnification does not automatically match, requiring separate manual adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustment mechanisms of the visible light sight and infrared sight are merged into a single interlocking system. The sensing components detect the visible light focusing ring's rotation, and the processor automatically adjusts the infrared sight accordingly, combining two separate adjustment operations into one unified action.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensing components provide feedback about the visible light focusing ring's rotation angle to the processor, which then automatically adjusts the infrared image magnification to match. This feedback loop ensures synchronized magnification adjustment without requiring separate manual operations.
3Ease of operation
If sensing components and a processor are added to automatically adjust infrared image magnification, then adjustment convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing components and processor serve multiple functions: detecting the focusing ring rotation, calculating the relative rotation angle, and controlling the infrared sight magnification adjustment. This multi-functionality justifies the added complexity by eliminating the need for separate manual adjustment mechanisms.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Automatically adjusts the infrared image display magnification to match visible light sight magnification changes, facilitating convenient and synchronized adjustment without manual operation.
Implementation Method 1
a first sensing component mounted on a sight body of the sighting device; a second sensing component mounted on a visible light focusing ring of the visible light sight; and a processor in signal connection to the first sensing component and the second sensing component, to monitor a relative rotation angle of the visible light focusing ring relative to the sight body
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AI summary
An interlocking control device for sights and an interlocking control method thereof are provided in the present application. The interlocking control device comprises a first sensing component mounted on a sight body of the sighting device; a second sensing component mounted on a visible light focusing ring of the visible light sight; and a processor in signal connection to the first sensing component and the second sensing component, to monitor a relative rotation angle of the visible light focusing ring relative to the sight body, so as to adjust an infrared image display magnification of the infrared sight according to the relative rotation angle. The infrared image display magnification of the infrared sight is automatically adjusted, realizing interlocking adjustment between the focusing magnification of the visible light sight and the infrared image display magnification of the infrared sight, and synchronize the visible light magnification variation to the infrared sight.