Reticle display for small arms

• US 4,561,204 A
• Filed: 07/06/1983
• Issued: 12/31/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Binion W. Sidney
• Original Assignee: Binion W. Sidney
• Inventors: Binion, W. Sidney
• Primary Examiner(s): Jordan, Charles T.
• Application Number:
  US06/511,096
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: 42/1 ST, 33/245
• US Class Current: 42/122
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/38 Telescopic sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance telescopic sights in general G02B; Supports or mountings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/467 for bows
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/06 with rangefinder rangefinders per se G01C
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/08 with means for compensating for speed, direction, temperature, pressure, or humidity of the atmosphere measuring G01

Abstract

A separate opaque reticle display attachment for a rifle or the like equipped with a telescopic sight. The user sights through the telescopic sight with his bore axis eye while simultaneously viewing an opaque reticle display screen which is aligned with his other eye. The display includes a cross-hairs aiming reticle. Transducers gather information relative to wind velocity and direction, ambient temperature, relative humidity, target elevation, and the like, which affect the ballistic trajectory of a projectile fired from the rifle. This information along with range information is fed to a microprocessor, which adjusts the position of the cross-hairs reticle on the display for proper aiming of the rifle. The user, by simultaneously viewing through the telescopic sight with one eye and viewing the opaque reticle display with the other eye, combines or superposes the two images into a single field of vision to aim the rifle in accordance with the position of the cross-hairs reticle.

Claims

1. A gun sight for small arms having a gun barrel, and for aiming a gun at a target located in a target field, comprising, a telescopic sight for mounting on a gun in axial alignment with the gun barrel and in position to be aligned with a first eye of a user when aiming the gun to observe the target field therethrough, an essentially opaque reticle display means comprising a display screen, a microprocessor, means for generating inputs to said microprocessor including target range and atmospheric conditions affecting projectile ballistic trajectory, means for displaying an aiming reticle on said screen, the position of said aiming reticle on said screen being controlled by said microprocessor in accordance with said inputs, and means for mounting said display screen in offset relation to the sighting axis of said telescopic sight and substantially in alignment with the other eye of a user when sighting through said telescopic sight with said first eye, whereby the users field of vision combines and superposes and target field and the aiming reticle displayed on said screen.

2. A gun sight system for small arms as set forth in claim 1, wherein said means for mounting said display screen in offset relation to the sighting axis of said telescopic sight includes means for adjusting the offset position of said display screen relative to said sighting axis of said telescopic sight.

3. In combination, a small arms weapon having a barrel, sighting means mounted on said weapon aligned with said barrel for aiming the weapon at a target by aligning one eye of a user with said sighting means, reticle means including a non-transparent screen displaying a reticle pattern, means mounting said reticle means on said weapon in offset relation to said sighting means, including means for adjusting the offset position of said screen for alignment with the other eye of said user when said one eye is aligned with said sighting means, whereby the field of vision of said user combines and superposes the view of the target through said one eye with the view of said reticle display screen through said other eye.

4. In a combination as set forth in claim 3, means for varying the position of said reticle pattern on said screen.

5. In a combination as set forth in claim 4, said means mounting said reticle means being adjustable to vary the offset relation of said reticle means to said sighting means.

6. In a combination as set forth in claim 3, said means mounting said reticle means being adjustable to vary the offset relation of said reticle means to said sighting means.

7. In a combination as set forth in claim 3, means for varying the position of said reticle pattern on said screen, including a computer means, and means for generating inputs to said computer means including target range and atmospheric conditions affecting ballistic trajectory.

8. In a combination as set forth in claim 7, said means mounting said reticle means being adjustable to vary the offset relation of said reticle means to said sighting means to accommodate to the eyes of different users.