COMMUNICATION AND POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND SEGMENTED RAIL ADAPTER

• US 20130061504A1
• Filed: 06/20/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RESET Incorporated (X-ceed, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: RESET Incorporated (X-ceed, Inc.)
• Inventors: MALHERBE, MICHAEL JON, KENT, HOWARD
• Application Number:
  US13/527,945
• Publication Number:
  US 20130061504A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 42/84
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/003 Mountings with a dove tail element, e.g. "Picatinny rail systems"

Abstract

A firearm rail adapter comprising a rail adapter assembly configured to detachably attach to a structure, the rail adapter assembly comprising a first member proximate to the structure and a second member distal from the structure, wherein the proximate first member and the distal second member define a conduit configured to: conduct electricity via a plurality of contact pads; and/or transport data signals via at least one contact pad.

Claims

1. A firearm rail adapter comprising:

a rail adapter assembly configured to detachably attach to a structure, the rail adapter assembly comprising a first member proximate to the structure and a second member distal from the structure, wherein the proximate first member and the distal second member define a conduit configured to conduct electricity via a plurality of contact pads.

2. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the conduit is further configured to distribute electrical signals used for communication via one or more contact pads.

3. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a printed circuit board configured to conduct electricity to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

4. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a printed circuit board configured to transport data signals to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

5. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a flexible circuit configured to conduct electricity to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

6. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a flexible circuit configured to transport data signals to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

7. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the rail adapter further comprises a centralized power source and power distribution system configured to power at least one detachably attached device.

8. The firearm rail adapter of claim 7 wherein the centralized power source is configured to draw from a battery store packaged in a housing configured to conform to an ammunition magazine clip.

9. The firearm rail adapter of claim 7 wherein the rail adapter is further configured to comprise a structural receiver to both mechanically and electrically engage a housed battery store.

10. The firearm rail adapter of claim 1 wherein the rail adapter further comprises a data processing module and one or more data links between the at least one detachably attached device and the data processing module.

11. The firearm rail adapter of claim 10 wherein the data processing module is a data processing circuit.

12. A firearm rail adapter comprising:

a rail adapter assembly configured to detachably attach to a structure, the rail adapter assembly comprising a first member proximate to the structure and a second member distal from the structure, wherein the proximate first member and the distal second member define a conduit configured to transport data signals via at least one contact pad.

13. The firearm rail adapter of claim 12 wherein the conduit is further configured to distribute electrical power to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

14. The firearm rail adapter of claim 12 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a printed circuit board configured to distribute electrical power to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

15. The firearm rail adapter of claim 12 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a printed circuit board configured to transport data signals to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

16. The firearm rail adapter of claim 12 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a flexible circuit configured to distribute electrical power to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

17. The firearm rail adapter of claim 12 wherein the conduit and first member comprise a flexible circuit configured to transport data signals to at least one device detachably attached to the rail adapter.

18. The firearm rail adapter of claim 12 wherein the rail adapter further comprises a centralized power source and power distribution system configured to power at least one detachably attached device.

19. The firearm rail adapter of claim 18 wherein the centralized power source is configured to draw from a battery store packaged in a housing configured to conform to an ammunition magazine clip.

20. The firearm rail adapter of claim 18 wherein the rail adapter is further configured to comprise a structural receiver to both mechanically and electrically engage a housed battery store.

21. The firearm rail adapter of claim 18 wherein the rail adapter further comprises a data processing module and one or more data links between the at least one detachably attached device and the data processing module.

22. The firearm rail adapter of claim 21 wherein the rail adapter further comprises a user interface to the data processing module.

23. The firearm rail adapter of claim 21 wherein the data processing module is a data processing circuit.

24. A firearm rail adapter comprising:

a rail adapter assembly configured to detachably attach to a structure, the rail adapter assembly comprising a first member proximate to the structure and a second member distal from the structure, wherein the proximate first member and the distal second member define a conduit configured to power at least one device detachably attachable to the rail adapter assembly;

wherein conduit power transmission is based on at least one of;

(a) a mechanical switch tripped by attachment of the at least one device detachably attachable to the rail adapter; and

(b) a detected magnetic field, of the at least one detachably attachable device, by a magnetic sensor embedded in the firearm rail adapter.