Simulacrum Firearm Training With Grip-Triggered Muscle Stimulation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing firearm training systems either require large areas, pose safety risks, or fail to provide a realistic training experience, lacking physical sensations and fatigue similar to real situations.
Innovation Solution
A training system using a simulacrum firearm with grip and spatial detection, combined with electro-stimulator means to provide haptic feedback and muscle stimulation, simulating recoil and fatigue through a command and control unit, allowing training in confined spaces and with augmented or virtual reality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real firearms are used in training, then the training experience is physically similar to real conditions, but safety risks increase and large training areas are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a simulacrum firearm that replicates the physical characteristics, weight, and handling of a real firearm without containing actual ammunition. This copying approach maintains training realism while eliminating the safety hazards of real firearms, allowing safe practice in confined spaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary device - the simulacrum firearm with integrated sensors and electro-stimulator - that mediates between the trainer and the training objectives. This intermediary provides realistic physical feedback through muscle stimulation while eliminating the dangerous elements of real firearms.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If simulacrum firearms are used in training, then safety improves and training area requirements are reduced, but physical sensations and fatigue similar to real firearm use are not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of real ballistics with an electro-physiological system. Instead of actual gunfire, the electro-stimulator activates the user's muscles to simulate recoil sensations, trigger pull resistance, and physical fatigue, achieving training realism through biological feedback rather than mechanical ballistics.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of physical feedback from external mechanical force (real recoil) to internal electro-physiological stimulation. By controlling the intensity, duration, and pattern of muscle stimulation, the system replicates the sensory experience of firing real weapons including fatigue accumulation over time.
3Productivity
If real firearms loaded with blanks are used for group training, then group training becomes possible, but large training areas are still required
Solution Approach 1:
The simulacrum firearms are designed as standalone training devices that copy the essential handling characteristics of real weapons without requiring blank ammunition or large firing ranges. Multiple users can train simultaneously in close proximity using these self-contained devices, enabling efficient group training in confined spaces.
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
Provides a realistic and safe training experience, inducing physical stress and fatigue similar to real firearm use, suitable for group training in varied conditions, with customizable muscle stimulation based on grip and movement.
Implementation Method 1
electro-stimulator means (3) engaging the user's body, which means are suitable for producing an electrical stimulation, that is an electric current, in the user's musculature
Data Source
Figure 1a
Figure 1b
Figure 2a~2c
AI summary
The invention is a training system (1) for using a firearm, comprising : i) a simulacrum firearm (2) comprising a trigger assembly (21); ii) electro-stimulator means (3) engaging the user's body, which are suitable for producing an electrical stimulation; ill) shot detection means (210, 610) suitable for detecting the actuation of the trigger assembly (21); iv) a grip detection unit (25, 35) suitable for detecting the modes of gripping the simulacrum firearm (2) by the user; v) a command and control unit (9) operatively connected to the simulacrum firearm (2) and to the electro-stimulator means (3) so as to command the latter on actuation to detect the shot event fired by the shot detection means (210, 610). The command and control unit (9) commands the intensity, the duration, the timing and the type of electrical stimulation, that is the type of electric current, emitted by the electro-stimulator means (3) as a function of the detection performed by the grip detection unit (25, 35).