Firearm Silencer Mounting Stabilizing Ring Vibration Damping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing noise suppressors for firearms often vibrate or exhibit ringing when mounted over flash hiders, affecting stability and shot grouping, especially during rapid or fully automatic fire.
Innovation Solution
A noise suppressor with a mounting system that includes a stabilizing ring and locking latch, allowing secure attachment over a flash hider without removal, using internal threads and a compressive force to dampen vibrations and maintain stability during firing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a noise suppressor is mounted over a flash hider, then the noise level is reduced, but vibration and ringing occur during firing
Solution Approach 1:
A stabilizing ring is introduced as an intermediary component between the noise suppressor and the flash hider. This stabilizing ring engages with the flash hider's tines to provide vibration damping and stability, while allowing the noise suppressor to be mounted over the existing flash hider without requiring removal. The stabilizing ring acts as a mediator that transmits and dampens vibrations, preventing them from affecting the noise suppressor's stability during firing.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting system utilizes compressive force applied through the stabilizing ring to change the physical state of the flash hider's tines. By applying compression to the tines, the system increases their rigidity and reduces their vibration tendency. This parameter change in the mechanical properties of the flash hider components directly addresses the vibration and ringing issues during high-rate firing.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a mounting system is designed to secure the noise suppressor over the flash hider, then stability is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system employs a nested configuration where the stabilizing ring is positioned within the noise suppressor body, and the stabilizing ring itself contains or engages with the flash hider's tines. This nested arrangement allows multiple functions (vibration damping, stability securing, and quick mounting) to be integrated into a compact structure, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high stability during firing.
Solution Approach 2:
The stabilizing ring serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides vibration damping, secures the noise suppressor to the flash hider, and enables quick mounting without removing the flash hider. By making this single component multi-functional, the design avoids the need for separate mounting mechanisms, thereby reducing system complexity while achieving improved mounting stability.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the flash hider is compressed to dampen vibration, then stability is improved, but the flash hider structure may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The compression is applied locally and selectively to the flash hider's tines rather than the entire flash hider structure. The stabilizing ring engages only with the tine portions that are prone to vibration, providing localized compression to dampen vibration while leaving the main body and mounting interface of the flash hider intact. This localized approach maintains overall structural integrity while achieving the desired vibration damping effect.
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 provides enhanced stability and minimizes vibration, ensuring consistent shot placement and reduced ringing, even during high-rate firing, by compressing the flash hider's tines and maintaining a secure, interference fit engagement.
Implementation Method 1
a stabilizing ring configured for receiving a distal end region of the flash hider therein, so as to apply a compressive force to at least one outermost surface of the distal end region of the flash hider sufficient to substantially dampen any vibration of at least one of the noise suppressor and the flash hider created during firing of the host firearm
Implementation Method 2
The mounting system can include both a proximal mount and a stabilizing ring. The proximal mount can be positioned proximate the proximal end of the body for at least partially mounting the noise suppressor to the flash hider
Data Source
AI summary
A noise suppressor having a mounting system for releasably mounting the noise suppressor to a flash hider mounted to the barrel of a host firearm. The noise suppressor mounting system includes a stabilizing ring that engages the distal end region of the flash hider to help stabilize the mounting of the noise suppressor to the flash hider.