Telescoping Firearm Brace with Spring-Actuated Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing firearm stabilizing devices are cumbersome, unwieldy, and difficult to deploy, especially in tight quarters, due to their fixed or excessive size, which hinders easy holstering, storage, and concealment, and often require slow and complex deployment mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A brace apparatus with a mounting housing, sliding elongated bodies, and a deployment device featuring a locking member and spring element that automatically moves the brace from a compact to an extended position, allowing for quick and stable bracing against the user's body without obstructing the firearm's grip or stock.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If a fixed, backwardly extending brace is used to stabilize the firearm, then the firearm stability is improved, but the overall length of the firearm increases making it unwieldy in tight quarters and difficult to holster or conceal
Solution Approach 1:
The brace is designed to be movable rather than fixed, allowing it to extend backwardly when deployed for stability and collapse forwardly when stored. This dynamic configuration enables the brace to adapt between two states: extended for firing stability and retracted for compactness, directly resolving the contradiction between stability and length.
Solution Approach 2:
The brace structure incorporates a telescoping mechanism where the elongated body slides within a housing, allowing the brace to nest within itself when collapsed. This nesting arrangement reduces the overall length significantly when the brace is not in use, while maintaining full extension capability when deployed.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a centered brace design is used to provide stability, then the firearm stability is improved, but the device size increases and deployment becomes slow and difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The brace is divided into separate functional components: a housing, an elongated body, a brace element, and a deployment mechanism with locking members. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and simplifies the overall deployment process by distributing functions across discrete elements rather than a monolithic structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The deployment mechanism utilizes spring elements that automatically propel the elongated body backwardly when the locking member is actuated. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for manual extension, reducing deployment time and complexity while ensuring rapid transition to the stable configuration.
3Speed
If a deployment mechanism with locking members is used to enable automatic brace extension, then the deployment speed is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The locking member acts as an intermediary element that controls the interaction between the spring element and the elongated body. When actuated, it releases the spring's stored energy to rapidly extend the brace, then re-engages to maintain the extended position. This intermediary mechanism enables fast deployment without requiring a complex active actuation system.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus provides quick and stable bracing for firearms, maintaining usability in tight spaces while allowing easy holstering and storage, with a reduced profile that does not interfere with handling, and ensures unobstructed access to the firearm's grip or stock.
Implementation Method 1
a spring element between the mounting housing and the brace
Data Source
AI summary
A brace apparatus for use with a firearm provides a mounting housing and a brace which is automatically deployable from a first position where the brace is in closer proximity to the mounting housing to a second position where the brace is distanced from the mounting housing, the brace being positioned for resting against a part of the user's body during firing of the firearm.