Self-Tightening Suppressor Core With Cooling Mesh Chambers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing firearm suppressors face issues with durability and effectiveness in reducing noise and recoil due to uncontrolled gas flow and loose connections, particularly when using sound-absorbing materials like aluminum chips.
Innovation Solution
A suppressor design featuring a cylindrical casing with radially disposed disk elements and chambers filled with a structured cooling mesh, creating a controlled gas path and ensuring a secure connection through clamping grooves that generate torque for self-tightening.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If sound-absorbing materials like aluminum chips are used in the chambers, then noise reduction is improved, but the connection security and durability deteriorate due to uncontrolled gas flow and loose connections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical state and arrangement of the sound-absorbing material from loose aluminum chips to a compressed, structured foam material with controlled porosity. This parameter change allows the material to maintain noise reduction effectiveness while providing sufficient structural integrity to secure the connection between suppressor components, resolving the contradiction between noise reduction and connection security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a composite structure combining the foam sound-absorbing material with a mesh screen and housing structure. This composite approach allows the foam to provide noise reduction while the mesh screen and housing provide structural support and secure connections, eliminating the need for loose aluminum chips and improving both noise reduction and connection security simultaneously.
2Productivity
If the core thickness decreases from rear to front end, then gas flow control is improved, but the structural strength deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by varying the core thickness along its length, making it thicker at the rear where structural strength is needed and thinner at the front where gas flow control is prioritized. This gradient thickness design allows different sections of the core to optimize for their specific functional requirements, resolving the contradiction between gas flow control and structural strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs asymmetry in the core design by creating a non-uniform thickness distribution from rear to front. This asymmetric configuration optimizes gas flow paths while maintaining adequate structural strength where needed, allowing the core to simultaneously achieve effective gas flow control and sufficient structural integrity.
3Reliability
If clamping grooves are added to create torque for self-tightening, then connection security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by designing clamping grooves that automatically generate torque to tighten the connection between suppressor components. The gas flow itself activates the self-tightening mechanism through the clamping grooves, eliminating the need for separate adjustment mechanisms or complex fastening systems, thus improving connection security while minimizing the increase in device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design effectively reduces noise and recoil while maintaining a secure attachment to the firearm barrel, enhancing durability and efficiency by controlling gas flow and temperature.
Implementation Method 1
the working chambers formed between two disk partitions are filled with sound-absorbing material
Implementation Method 2
At least two shifted one towards another clamping grooves are made in the core, so that when gases pass through them, a torque is created ensuring self-tightening
Implementation Method 3
the working chambers formed between two disk partitions are filled with sound-absorbing material
Data Source
AI summary
A suppressor comprising a cylindrical housing (1) and a core (2) with radially located disk partitions (3) arranged along it, wherein the thickness of the disk partitions (3) decreases in the direction from the rear to the front of the suppressor, a number of gas openings (4) are provided along the core, a sound-absorbing material is placed in working chambers between two adjacent disk partitions (3), and clamping grooves (6)—offset from each other—are provided in the core (2) yielding a torque to the core when gas escapes therethrough, the sound-absorbing material being a cooling mesh (7) formed in a structured package (8) with an annular shape, consisting of two folded accordion-like strips, one of said strips being folded radially and the other being folded axially in relation to the axis of the compressor.