Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
042130000 | With a reticle or graticule (e.g., crosshairs, etc.) | 28 |
20080202011 | Telescopic gun sight windage correction system - A improved telescopic gun sight includes a telescopic gun sight at least including an adjustable lens configuration for adjustably magnifying an external object to form an object image, an inverting tube for inverting the object image, an ocular lens array for presenting the object image for viewing, a primary reticule including sighting insignia imprinted thereon and a secondary reticule being movable both horizontally and vertically in the image plane. The secondary reticule includes a generally horizontal windage correction scale operative to provide instant windage correction target alignment. It includes instant windage correction target alignment values positioned at point-specific spaced-apart locations with specific instant windage correction target alignment values corresponding to selected distance amounts calculated for a selected bullet type and weight. | 08-28-2008 |
20100275498 | REDUCED EYE RELIEF, CO-WITNESSING SIGHT MOUNT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mounting assembly for mounting a reticle type sight on a long gun. The mounting assembly includes a mounting plate for securing the mounting assembly to a rearward portion of a long gun, and a mounting block coupled to a top portion of the mounting plate. The mounting plate has one or more connection elements to enable a reticle type sight to be coupled to the mounting block. | 11-04-2010 |
20110107649 | RETICLE AIMING DEVICE - In one embodiment, the reticle for a projectile weapon aiming system comprises a primary horizontal sight line, a primary vertical sight line which intersects the primary horizontal sight line to define a primary aiming point, a windage grid, a ballistics grid, and a range finder grid. | 05-12-2011 |
20120117848 | Electronic sight for firearm, and method of operating same - A firearm sight receives information regarding a factor, and then automatically adjusts the relative positions of a digital reticle and an image on a viewing section to compensate for the influence of the factor on a projectile trajectory. A different feature involves automatically adjusting a characteristic of the reticle based on the image. Another feature involves automatically adjusting the digital image to distinguish a portion thereof aligned with the reticle from an adjacent portion thereof. Yet another feature involves causing the firearm sight to generate an audible sound. Still another feature involves presenting information on the viewing section which represents the position of the firearm sight on the surface of the earth. | 05-17-2012 |
20120117849 | MAGNETIC BORESIGHTER - A rifle boresighter having a front adapted to face a rifle user after the boresighter has been attached to a rifle and a rear adapted to face away from the user after the boresighter has been attached to a rifle. The boresighter includes a post defining a receptacle that retains a magnet and a tubular housing having a front and a rear coincident to the front and rear of the boresighter and being supported by the post. A collimating lens is supported at the front of the tubular housing, a reticle supported in the tubular housing and a light window in the rear of the tubular housing. Also, the tubular housing is supported by the post approximately midway between it front and its rear, thereby providing a balanced load to the magnet. | 05-17-2012 |
20120137567 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AIMING POINT CALCULATION - The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets. | 06-07-2012 |
20120144720 | Gun sight reticle having open sighting areas for bullet drop compensation - A gun sight reticle includes a center horizontal hairline having a central discontinuity and a center sighting area located at the central discontinuity and circumscribed by indicia that encloses the center sighting area, the center sighting area located at a center of the gun sight reticle. The reticle also can include a center vertical hairline that is intersected by the center sighting area such that the center sighting area is located in a discontinuity of the center vertical hairline. The reticle also can include one or more drop-compensation sighting areas disposed below the center sighting area in one or more further discontinuities of the center vertical hairline, the one or more drop-compensation sighting areas being circumscribed by indicia that enclose the sighting area. Preferably, a diameter of the center sighting area is larger than a diameter of the one or more drop-compensation sighting areas. | 06-14-2012 |
20120167442 | Sight mount enabling inverted mounting of firearm sighting device - A sight mount base having longitudinally spaced base sections defines an intermediate space or recess within which the downwardly facing Horus reticle adjustment knob of an inverted optical sighting device is received. The sight mount base may have independent, spaced base sections, each being releasably mounted to the accessory mount rail of the firearm or may be a unitary base structure machined to define an intermediate recess or receptacle within which the Horus reticle adjustment knob is received. The spaced base sections may be interconnected by a structural bridge so that the sight mount base is in the form of an integral structure. Inverted positioning of the optical sighting device eliminates the presence of upwardly projecting obstructions. | 07-05-2012 |
20130160346 | RETICLE - A reticle is provided and may include a vertical line and a horizontal line cooperating to form a center-aiming point. A first plurality of indicia may be located along the vertical line and may each include two normal sides that are formed normal to the vertical line and two parallel sides that are formed parallel to the vertical line. A second plurality of indicia may be located along the horizontal line and may each include two normal sides that are formed normal to the horizontal line and two parallel sides that are formed parallel to the horizontal line. | 06-27-2013 |
20140075821 | Touch display screen used for adjusting and determining the reticle of an electronic firearm sight - A touch display screen used for adjusting and determining the reticle of an electronic firearm sight, includes: a display; a touch screen installed in front of the display; and a display driver. The touch display screen is connected with a processor, the processor in turn is connected with a memory; the memory is provided with pre-saved data of a Cartesian coordinate system, ballistic trajectory data of different bullets and reticle scales formed based on different ballistic trajectories of different bullets; the touch display screen receives operations of adjusting the reticle from a user and sends corresponding information to the processor; the processor analyzes the information through using the pre-saved data in the memory, forms commands, and sends the commands to the touch display screen to execute. | 03-20-2014 |
20140101982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SIGHTING OPTIC WITH INTEGRATED LEVEL - Methods and systems for providing a firearm sighting optic, including a body having a first lens at a first end and a second lens at a second end, and a reticle associated therewith and a level device integral to the body and providing a visual indication of a rotation of the firearm sighting optic with reference to a predetermined plane, wherein the indication is presented in association with the reticle. | 04-17-2014 |
20140305025 | BALLISTIC EFFECT COMPENSATING RETICLE AND AIM COMPENSATION METHOD WITH SLOPED MIL AND MOA WIND DOT LINES - A dynamic ballistic effect compensating reticle and an aim compensation method for use in rifle sights or projectile weapon aiming systems includes a multiple point elevation and windage aim point field including a primary aiming mark indicating a primary aiming point adapted to be sighted-in at a first selected range (e.g., 200 yds) and a plurality sloped secondary aiming point arrays beneath the primary aiming mark. The method for compensating for a projectile's ballistic behavior while developing a field expedient firing solution permits the shooter to express the field expedient firing solution in units of distance, (e.g., yards or meters, when describing or estimating range and nominal air density ballistic characteristics), and angular offset of azimuth (e.g., MILS or MOA) for crosswind jump corrected windage hold points. | 10-16-2014 |
20140360083 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AIMING POINT CALCULATION - The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets. | 12-11-2014 |
20150020431 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING AIMING POINT INFORMATION - The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets. | 01-22-2015 |
20150082680 | IMAGE DEFLECTOR FOR GUN SIGHTS - Optical apparatus in which a beam deflector is used to reposition the sight beam from a reflex sight. In one example, an optical apparatus includes a reflex sight configured to produce a collimated reflex sight beam directed along an optical axis, and a beam deflector coupled to an output of the reflex sight and configured to deflect the reflex sight beam by a selected angle of deflection relative to the optical axis to reposition an eyebox of the reflex sight off-axis with respect to the optical axis and remote from the reflex sight. In certain examples, the optical apparatus also includes a telescopic sight, and the beam deflector is configured to deflect the collimated reflex sight beam to overlap the reflex sight beam with the exit pupil of the telescopic sight. | 03-26-2015 |
20150135579 | SLIDING ARCHERY SIGHT - An adjustable mechanism for an archery sight is characterized by a unique elevation and tension adjustment assemblies which allow a user to quickly and easily set the sight for optimum performance. The mechanism includes an elevation base having an elevation rail and carriage assembly connected therewith for sliding movement along the base in a first direction. A windage carriage is connected with the elevation carriage for movement in a second direction, and a sight is connected with the windage carriage. A tension assembly including a unique traction wheel, yoke and cam mechanism is provided for adjusting the tension between the rail and the base, and an adjustable detent assembly is provided to stop movement of the elevation rail and carriage in selected elevation locations relative to the base. | 05-21-2015 |
20150354921 | PROJECTILE-WEAPON RETICLE WITH HOLDOVER AIMING FEATURES FOR MULTIPLE PROJECTILE VELOCITIES - A reticle of a projectile-weapon aiming system such as a riflescope includes first and second series of secondary aiming marks spaced apart below a primary aiming point, the first and second series providing holdover aiming points for regularly incrementing target distances for respective subsonic and supersonic .300 AAC Blackout ammunition, or other differing types of ammunition, without requiring adjustment of the optics or settings of the aiming system. | 12-10-2015 |
20150362287 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING AIMING POINT INFORMATION - The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets. | 12-17-2015 |
20160169620 | Reticle Providing Maximized Danger Space | 06-16-2016 |
042131000 | Including an incandescent or illuminating device | 9 |
20080295380 | Photoluminescent (PL) weapon sight illuminator - Methods and systems are described herein for an article of manufacture for use in a weapon sight wherein the article of manufacture comprises a passively charged photoluminescent material. When installed in a weapon sight, the passively charged photoluminescent material provides light to a fiber optic of the weapon sight during low light conditions to illuminate a reticle pattern of the weapon sight. | 12-04-2008 |
20100095578 | OPTICAL SIGHT - An optical sight is provided and may include a housing, an optical element supported by the housing, and a reticle. An illumination system may selectively display the reticle on the optical element and may include a switch supplying the optical element with light from one of a first light source and a second light source to generate the reticle. | 04-22-2010 |
20110296733 | MULTI-COLOR RETICLE FOR BALLISTIC AIMING - According an embodiment, a projectile weapon aiming system includes a computer-controllable reticle with crosshairs or other aiming marks having a color and/or illumination that can be selectively changed to provide feedback to a shooter to indicate when the projectile weapon aiming system (and hence the projectile weapon itself) is accurately aimed to compensate for a particular range, inclination, crosswind, and/or other ballistic conditions. | 12-08-2011 |
20120159833 | FIRE-CONTROL SYSTEM - A fire-control system comprising -a housing, -a light channel, through which a user may directly observe a target and receive visually displayed information simultaneously, said light channel comprising partially reflective optics a light source, for visualization of a reticle to the user via the partially reflective optics, -means for receiving a measure of the distance to the target a processor, for determining the adequate position of the reticle, based on the distance to the target, and for controlling the light source to emit light so that the reticle is visualized at the adequate position, wherein the light source is an array capable of selectively emitting light in well defined locations on its surface. | 06-28-2012 |
20120167443 | OPTICAL SIGHT - An optical sight is provided and may include a housing having a base, a first post extending from the base, and a second post extending from the base. The optical sight may additionally include an optical element supported by the housing between the first post and the second post, a reticle displayed on the optical element, and an illumination system generating the reticle. A first actuation member may be disposed on one of the first post and the second post and may selectively control an intensity of the reticle by controlling an output of the illumination system. | 07-05-2012 |
20120186132 | GUN SIGHT - Various gun sights for firearms and related methods of use are provided. In one embodiment, the sight includes an apparatus adapted to be mounted at a rear end of a firearm and arranged to occlude one eye of a user of the firearm and to generate an illuminated dot that is disposed such that it is generally centered on the longitudinal axis of the barrel of the firearm. The gun sight produces a collimated beam of light that creates an image of an illuminated dot by either a refractive method or a reflective method. In use, a dominant eye of the user is occluded by the sight and the other eye of the user is focused on the target. The user then adjusts the position of the gun relative to the target such that the user perceives the illuminated dot of the sight to be positioned on the target. In one embodiment the sight includes a dry fire detector that generates some output to the user, such as an increase in brightness of the illuminated dot, at the instant the weapon would have fired if a round had been in the chamber. | 07-26-2012 |
20140026464 | FIRE-CONTROL SYSTEM - A fire-control system comprising a housing, a light channel, through which a user may directly observe a target and receive visually displayed information simultaneously, said light channel comprising partially reflective optics, a light source emitting light to the partially reflective optics via an optical path, providing light for a reticle visible for a user, means for receiving a measure of the distance to the target a processor, for determining the adequate position of the reticle, based on the distance to the target, wherein at least one tiltable mirror is arranged in the optical path such that the position of the reticle in controllable by the tilt of the mirror. | 01-30-2014 |
20160025453 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR WEAPON OPTICS - An illumination system for weapon optics includes a light source and one or more channels that direct light from the light source onto adjustment interfaces of a weapon optical device, such as windage and elevation turrets of a scope. An illumination system for weapon optics may also include an illuminated level device for positioning the weapon level in relation to the surface of the earth. An illumination system for weapon optics illuminates adjustment interfaces of a weapon optical device such that markings on the adjustment interfaces can be read in low-light and no-light conditions. | 01-28-2016 |
20160033233 | FIRE-CONTROL SYSTEM - A fire-control system comprising
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