APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARCHERY EQUIPMENT

• US 20080287229A1
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Full Flight Technology, Llc
• Original Assignee: Full Flight Technology, Llc
• Inventors: Donahoe, Robert V.
• Granted Patent: US 8,221,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/570
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 47/008 Devices for measuring or verifying ball characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3658 Means associated with the ball for indicating or measuring, e.g. speed, direction
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/14 Details of bows; Accessories for arc shooting sighting devices for bows F41G1/467
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/385 Arrow or dart carrying a radio transmitter for signalling
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/04 Archery arrows F42B6/08, F41B5/06, F42B12/362 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/06 Tail ends, e.g. nocks, fletching
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/08 Arrow heads; Harpoon heads

Abstract

An apparatus is configured for inclusion in an arrow, where the apparatus includes a device configured to provide feedback to a user concerning the arrow shot from a bow, and a processor coupled to the device, the processor configured to control an operation of the device at least during a flight of the arrow.

Claims

1. An apparatus configured for inclusion in an arrow, the apparatus comprising:

a device configured to provide feedback to a user concerning the arrow shot from a bow; and

a processor coupled to the device, the processor configured to control an operation of the device at least during a flight of the arrow.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device configured to be located in a nock included in the arrow.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the device is an illuminating device.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the processor is located in the nock.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a microcontroller, wherein the processor is included in the microcontroller.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bow is a crossbow, and wherein the arrow is a bolt.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device operates to provide feedback to the user during the flight of the arrow.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the device includes a sensor, and wherein at least some data provided by the sensor during the flight of the arrow is employed to provide feedback to the user after a completion of the flight of the arrow.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus generates an output that includes information that allows the apparatus to be uniquely identified relative to at least one other apparatus configured for inclusion in an arrow.

10. An apparatus configured for inclusion in an arrow, the apparatus comprising:

a device configured to transmit information from the arrow; and

a microcontroller coupled to the device and including a processor, the processor configured to control an operation of the device.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus operates in a sleep-mode until substantially a time when the arrow is shot from the bow.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the device includes an RF transmitter.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the device includes an illuminating device.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the illuminating device includes an LED.

15. An apparatus configured for use with an arrow, the apparatus comprising:

a housing comprising;

a first portion sized and configured for removable attachment to a distal end of the arrow; and

a second portion coupled to the first portion and configured as a tip; and

an electronic apparatus located in the housing, wherein the electronic apparatus operates without being placed in electrical communication with another device included in the arrow.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the first portion of the arrow is sized and configured to be secured within an arrow shaft via a friction fit.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the first portion of the arrow includes a spring-biased element.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the spring-biased element provides a force that is directed radially outward from a longitudinal axis of the arrow.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the second portion of the arrow comprises a body including a distal end forming a tip constructed to deform when the distal end strikes a substantially rigid object.

17. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the first portion is sized and configured to extend into the arrow shaft to a depth which is greater than a depth to which a standard archery fitting penetrates into the arrow shaft.