Firearm trigger pull training system and methods
AssigneeTriggerMaster, Inc.
InventorMalcom Baxter
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Abstract
A firearm training system provides a firearm body having a trigger and a trigger pull sensor circuit. When the trigger is pulled, the trigger pull sensor circuit provides trigger pull data allowing monitoring of the actual two-dimensional trigger pull path taken by the trigger during the trigger pull. The trigger pull path is graft on a predetermined map together with boundary lines representing a predetermined difference threshold from ideal trigger pull data. The system provides a way to monitor trigger pull path to determine whether the trigger has been pulled laterally and/or the firearm body has moved with respect to a longitudinal axis of the firearm body during the trigger pull. By repeatedly monitoring trigger pulls using the system, a user can train to improve trigger pull technique.
Claims26
A firearm training system comprising:
- a firearm body;
- a trigger on the firearm body, the trigger moveable relative to the firearm body;
- a trigger pull sensor circuit including a trigger pull path sensor, the sensor operable to provide trigger pull path data in response to a user pulling the trigger of the firearm training system, the trigger pull path data being representative of the actual two dimensional pull path of the trigger of the firearm training system;
- and
- a processor operable to:
- receive the trigger pull path data from the trigger pull sensor circuit;
- and
- generate a graph based on the trigger pull path data, wherein the processor graphs the trigger pull path data by plotting a line representative of the actual two dimensional trigger pull path of the trigger relative to the firearm body in a predetermined map, wherein the predetermined map is a two dimensional Cartesian coordinate system representing a physical plane of the firearm body;
- wherein the predetermined map comprises a plot in the two dimensional Cartesian coordinate system of an ideal trigger pull path corresponding to ideal trigger pull data representative of an ideal pull path of the trigger.
One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, wherein said instructions are executable by a computing device, said instructions for performing the steps of:
- storing a predetermined map in a memory of the computing device, wherein the map is a two dimensional Cartesian coordinate system representing a physical plane of a firearm training system;
- capturing, in the memory, trigger pull path data from a trigger pull sensor in a trigger pull sensor circuit of the firearm training system, the trigger pull path data being representative of the actual two dimensional pull path of a trigger in the firearm training system;
- generating a graph by plotting the captured trigger pull path data as a line representative of the actual two dimensional pull path of the trigger on the predetermined map;
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- displaying the generated graph to a user on a display associated with the computing device;
- wherein generating the graph comprises:
- retrieving, from the memory, a skill level, ideal trigger pull data, and the predetermined map, wherein the predetermined map corresponds to a plane perpendicular to the trigger of the firearm training system;
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- plotting an ideal trigger pull path on the retrieved map as a function of the retrieved ideal trigger pull data.
A method of training a user via a firearm training system, said method comprising:
- storing a predetermined map in a memory of the firearm training system, wherein the map is a two dimensional Cartesian coordinate system representing a physical plane of the firearm training system;
- capturing, in the memory, trigger pull data from a trigger pull sensor circuit of the firearm training system in response to the user pulling a trigger of the firearm training system, the trigger pull data including data representative of an actual two dimensional pull path taken by a trigger of the firearm training system along the physical plane on the firearm training system during a trigger pull;
- generating a graph by plotting the captured trigger pull data as a line representative of the actual two dimensional pull path taken by the trigger on the predetermined map;
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- displaying the generated graph to the user on a display associated with the firearm training system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.