System for simulating shooting sports
Abstract
A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter system includes an actuating beam cartridge and an adjustable beam choke. The beam cartridge includes a first actuating beam emitter responsive to the firing pin. The beam choke includes a second emission beam emitter responsive to the first actuating beam. The receiver system is a self-contained reusable target having beam sensors and hit indicators. The beam sensors are "triggered" when the emission beam "hits" or is "sensed by" the beam sensors. When the beam sensors sense the emission beam, they cause the hit indicators to indicate that the target has been "hit" by the emission beam. The target may also include at least one triggering motion detector that detects a triggering motion that is associated with the target being launched into the air.
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Numbers
- Publication
- 0944809
- Application
- 979474410
Titles3
- English
- SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING SHOOTING SPORTS
- French
- SYSTEME DE SIMULATION POUR SPORTS DE TIR
- German
- SIMULATIONSSYSTEM FÜR SCHIESSSPORT
Classification
- CPC, 3
- F41J5/02
- F41A33/02
- F42B8/02
- IPC, 3
- F41G3 26
- F41A33 02
- F41J5 02
Designated states18
- Contracting states, 18
- Austria
- Belgium
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Denmark
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Portugal
- Sweden