Illuminating assembly, projectile and projectile tail

• US 10,077,976 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2017
• Issued: 09/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BRT Medical, LLC
• Original Assignee: BRT Medical, LLC
• Inventors: Wynn, Ernest, Zhang, Xuechao
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Laura
• Application Number:
  US15/718,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20180087883A1
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• Field of Search: 362157, 362 96, 362101, 362110, 362154, 362171, 362194, 362202, 362253, 362234
• CPC Class Codes: A61D 7/00 Devices or methods for introducing solid, liquid, or gaseous remedies or other materials into or onto the bodies of animals for reproduction or fertilisation A61D19/00 ; devices for implanting pellets, radon seeds or the like A61M37/0069
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 4/00 Electric lighting devices with self-contained electric batteries or cells
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0407 for flashing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0485 the sensor sensing the physical interaction between a user and certain areas located on the lighting device, e.g. a touch sensor
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/06 the elements being coupling devices , e.g. connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/40 of target-marking, i.e. impact-indicating type F42B12/48, F42B12/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/42 of illuminating type, e.g. carrying flares
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/54 by implantation, e.g. hypodermic projectiles

Abstract

The illuminating projectile and projectile tail includes housing, a battery, and a light and lights up upon impact with a target.

Claims

1. An illuminating projectile, comprising:

a dart substrate;

an illuminator tail assembly, comprising a housing comprising a central bore battery compartment, an adjacent central bore transparent light compartment, a tail component and attachment element;

a battery having an actuator terminal and being slideably disposed within the battery compartment;

a light disposed within and visible through the transparent light compartment, the light having a pair of electrical contacts; and

an actuator in communication with the light, wherein the dart substrate is attached to the tail assembly through the attachment element and the illuminator tail assembly illuminates upon impact of the projectile with a target.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the projectile is a remote drug delivery dart.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises a drug delivery substrate.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises a tissue collection substrate.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the light compartment is disposed forward of the battery compartment relative to a direction of travel of the projectile.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the light is an LED.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the LED is a flashing, color changing LED.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the tail component is detachable from the illuminator tail assembly.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein activation of the illuminator tail assembly is prevented during acceleration upon shooting the projectile.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the tail component is a stabilizer tail or a smooth tail.

11. An illuminator tail assembly, comprising:

a housing comprising a central bore battery compartment, an adjacent central bore light compartment, a tail component and attachment element capable of attachment to a projectile;

a light disposed within and visible through the transparent light compartment, the light having a pair of electrical contacts;

a battery having an actuator terminal and being slideably disposed within the battery compartment; and

an actuator in communication with the light, wherein impact of the assembly with a target causes the battery to slide into an activated position, in which the actuator terminal is in electrical contact with one of the pair of electrical contacts and the battery casing is in electrical contact with the other one of the pair of electrical contacts causing the illuminator tail assembly to illuminate upon impact with a target.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the light compartment is disposed forward of the battery compartment relative to a direction of travel.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the light is an LED.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the LED is a flashing, color changing LED.

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the tail component is detachable from the illuminator tail assembly.

16. The device of claim 11, wherein the activation of the illuminator tail assembly is prevented during acceleration upon shooting the projectile.

17. An illuminating projectile, comprising:

an illuminating assembly including a housing having a transparent lighting compartment and an attachment element capable of attaching the assembly to a non-illuminating dart;

lighting means visible through the transparent lighting compartment; and

actuator means in communication with the lighting means, wherein upon impact the actuator means activates the lighting means.