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US 4,050,166 AGranted
Recoil simulator
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsEdmund Swiatosz, Albert H. Marshall
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Abstract
A recoil simulator is disclosed which generates various predetermined mots and forces that may be imparted to training guns, weapons, and other devices, so as to give them realistic operational characteristics which they otherwise would not have. To generate such motions and forces -- and, thus, to effect such operational characteristics -- a given mass is moved along a predetermined axis thereof while the displacements, velocities, and accelerations thereof are controlled by an unusual combination of mass positioning and cocking device, compression springs, and electric solenoids, the latter of which is timely energized by a unique electronic programmer circuit.
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A recoil simulator, comprising in combination:
- a movable mass having a predetermined axis along which movement thereof may occur;
- first resilient means effectively connected to said movable mass for timely effecting the urging thereof in a certain first manner in one direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis in effective response to a first signal;
- first actuator means effectively connected to said movable mass for timely effecting the movement thereof in a certain second manner in timely conjunction with the urging thereof by said first resilient means in said one direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis in response to a second signal;
- second resilient means playably spatially disposed from said movable mass for timely inhibiting and subsequently stopping the movement thereof in a certain third manner in said one direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis and for timely effecting the urging thereof in a certain fourth manner in the other direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis;
- second actuator means effectively connected to said movable mass for timely effecting the movement thereof in a certain fifth manner in timely conjunction with the urging thereof by said second resilient means and in timely conjunction with the opposition to the urging thereof by said first resilient means in the other direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis in response to a third signal;
- means releasably contacting said movable mass for timely effecting the holding thereof in a predetermined cocked position when said mass has been moved a predetermined distance in the aforesaid other direction along said predetermined axis by said second resilient and actuator means;
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- third actuator means connected to said mass cocked position holding means for timely effecting the release of the aforesaid movable mass.
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A recoil simulator, comprising in combination:
- a movable mass having a predetermined axis along which movement thereof may occur;
- first resilient means effectively connected to said movable mass for timely effecting the urging thereof in a certain first manner in one direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis in effective response to a first signal;
- first actuator means effectively connected to said movable mass for timely effecting the movement thereof in a certain second manner in timely conjunction with the urging thereof by said first resilient means in said one direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis in response to a second signal;
- second resilient means playably spatially disposed from said movable mass for timely inhibiting and subsequently stopping the movement thereof in a certain third manner in said one direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis and for timely effecting the urging thereof in a certain fourth manner in the other direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis;
- second actuator means effectively connected to said movavle mass for timely effecting the movement thereof in a certain fifth manner in timely conjunction with the urging thereof by said second resilient means and in timely conjunction with the opposition to the urging thereof by said first resilient means in the other direction along the aforesaid predetermined axis in response to a third signal;
- means releasably contacting said movable mass for timely effecting the holding thereof in a predetermined cocked position when said mass has been moved a predetermined distance in the aforesaid other direction along said predetermined axis by said second resilient and actuator means;
- third actuator means connected to said mass cocked position holding means for timely effecting the release of the aforesaid movable mass;
- means connected to the aforesaid first, second, and third actuator means for timely supplying said first, second, and third signals thereto;
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- means connected to said first, second, and third signal supplying means for triggering the timely generation of said first, second, and third signals thereby.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.