Translucent Reticle Markings for Multi-Magnification Optics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing reticles for viewing optics, particularly those used in first focal plane, can obscure digital images at higher magnifications due to their bold lines or when smaller, thinner markings are used, leading to reduced effectiveness at low magnification.
Innovation Solution
A reticle with translucent primary marking features, such as etched patterns or coatings, allowing light to pass through, ensuring the reticle remains effective at both low and high magnifications without obstructing projected digital images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If bold reticle lines are used for low magnification visibility, then the reticle is effective at low magnification, but the reticle obscures digital images at higher magnifications
Solution Approach 1:
The reticle features are made translucent rather than opaque, creating a local quality change that allows light to pass through the marking features. This enables the reticle to maintain visibility while allowing digital images to pass through, resolving the contradiction between reticle visibility and image obstruction.
Solution Approach 2:
The reticle marking features utilize translucency properties, effectively changing their optical characteristics from opaque to translucent. This allows the reticle to adapt its visibility properties, maintaining effectiveness at low magnification while reducing obstruction at high magnification when digital images are displayed.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If smaller, thinner reticle markings are used to avoid blocking digital images, then image obstruction is reduced, but the reticle loses effectiveness at low magnification
Solution Approach 1:
The reticle features are made translucent rather than opaque, creating a local quality change that allows light to pass through the marking features. This enables the reticle to maintain visibility while allowing digital images to pass through, resolving the contradiction between reticle visibility and image obstruction.
Solution Approach 2:
The optical parameter of the reticle marking features is changed from opaque to translucent, fundamentally altering how they interact with light and digital images. This parameter change allows the reticle to simultaneously achieve both low magnification visibility and high magnification image transparency.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If translucent marking features are used to allow light passage, then digital image visibility is improved, but the reticle may lose contrast
Solution Approach 1:
The reticle features are made translucent rather than opaque, creating a local quality change that allows light to pass through the marking features. This enables the reticle to maintain visibility while allowing digital images to pass through, resolving the contradiction between reticle visibility and image obstruction.
Solution Approach 2:
The reticle marking features utilize translucency properties, effectively changing their optical characteristics from opaque to translucent. This allows the reticle to adapt its visibility properties, maintaining effectiveness at low magnification while reducing obstruction at high magnification when digital images are displayed.
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 translucent reticle maintains clarity and functionality across varying magnifications, enhancing the visibility of both the reticle and digital images, thereby improving aiming accuracy and usability in different shooting conditions.
Implementation Method 1
one or more features that are translucent... allowing light to pass through
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure relates to a reticle, and particularly a reticle having a marking feature that is translucent. A marking feature may be made from an etched pattern, a gradient, a coating, paint, a filament, or a combination thereof. Reticles may also include an additional feature, such as a center dot, crosshairs, range estimation feature, drop estimation feature, wind point-of-impact estimation feature, moving target point-of-impact feature, and combinations thereof. The additional feature may, but is not required to be, translucent.