Electrically activated archery component

• US 7,337,773 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2005
• Issued: 03/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: New Archery Products, LLC (BRS Outdoor Sports Holdings LLC)
• Original Assignee: New Archery Products Corporation (BRS Outdoor Sports Holdings LLC)
• Inventors: Kozlik, Christopher A., Mizek, Robert S., Simo, Miroslav A., Harwath, Frank A., Smith, Gregory C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ricci; John A.
• Application Number:
  US11/031,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20060011189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,153 Days
• Field of Search: 124/32, 124/44.5, 124/86, 124/88
• US Class Current: 124/44.5
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/1426 Bow stabilisers or vibration dampers
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/143 Arrow rests or guides

Abstract

An archery component mountable with respect to an archery bow. The archery component includes a sensor that senses a movement of an archery arrow with respect to the archery bow and/or a movement of the archery bow. The sensor transmits a signal, upon sensing at least one movement, to a signal processor housed within a body of the archery bow and in communication with the sensor. The signal processor receives the signal and activates the archery component in response to the received signal.

Claims

1. An archery component mountable with respect to an archery bow, the archery component comprising:

a sensor sensing at least one of a first movement of an archery arrow with respect to the archery bow and a second movement of the archery bow, the sensor transmitting a signal upon sensing at least one of the first movement and the second movement; and

a signal processor housed within a body of the archery bow and in communication with the sensor, the signal processor receiving the signal and activating the archery component in response to the received signal, and at least a portion of the signal processor housed within a limb portion of the archery bow.

2. The archery component of claim 1 comprising at least one of an arrow rest, a bow limb silencer, a stabilizer, a noise dampener, a vibration dampener and an arrow sight.

3. The archery component of claim 1 wherein the sensor comprises at least one of an optical sensor, an electrical sensor, a phototransistor, a photodiode, a light sensing electrical component, a magnetic sensor, a magnetic coil, a magnetically permeable material, a strain gage, an accelerometer, a microphone, a proximity sensor, and a micro-switch.

4. The archery component of claim 1 wherein the sensor is mountable with respect to at least one of a shaft of the archery arrow, a limb portion of the archery bow, a limb pocket, a riser portion of the archery bow, a cable, a cable slide, a cable guard, a cam, a pulley, a bow string, a trigger device and a release aid.

5. The archery component of claim 1 wherein the sensor is mountable to a limb portion of the archery bow, and a wire electrically connects the sensor to the signal processor.

6. The archery component of claim 5 wherein at least a portion of the wire is routed through a passage formed in the limb portion.

7. The archery component of claim 5 wherein at least a portion of the wire is routed through a passage formed in a riser portion of the archery bow.

8. The archery component of claim 1 further comprising a power source housed within the body and electrically connected to at least one of the sensor and the signal processor.

9. The archery component of claim 8 wherein the power source comprises a battery.

10. An archery component mountable with respect to an archery bow, the archery component comprising:

a sensor mountable on a body of the archery bow, the sensor sensing at least one of a first movement of an archery arrow with respect to the archery bow and a second movement of the archery bow, the sensor transmitting an input signal upon sensing at least one of the first movement and the second movement; and

an electronic module housed within the body of the archery bow, the electronic module including a receiver for receiving the input signal transmitted by the sensor, a signal processor in communication with the receiver for processing the input signal and generating an output signal, the archery component in responsive communication with the output signal and activatable in response to the output signal, and a transducer transmitting a signal to the signal processor in response to the receiver receiving the input signal from the sensor.

11. The archery component of claim 10 wherein the signal processor is housed within a riser portion of the archery bow.

12. The archery component of claim 10 further comprising a power source housed within the body of the archery bow and electrically connected to the electronic module.

13. The archery component of claim 10 further comprising a wire electrically connecting the sensor to the signal processor and transmitting the signal from the sensor to the signal processor, at least a portion of the wire positioned within a passage formed in the archery bow.

14. The archery component of claim 10 further comprising a power source housed within a body of the archery bow and operatively connected to the signal processor.

15. The archery component of claim 10 further comprising a release element operatively connected to the signal processor and moving the arrow rest between an arrow support position and an arrow release position in response to the received signal.

16. The archery component of claim 15 wherein the release element comprises at least one of an electric motor, a linear actuator, a hydraulic piston, a pneumatic piston, a solenoid, a spring, a battery, a capacitor, an inductor, a fuel cell, a hydraulic accumulator, a supply of a compressed gas, at least one reactable chemical component and at least one combustible material.