Scope with head lighting arrangement

• US 9,291,427 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2014
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NcSTAR, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NcSTAR, Inc.
• Inventors: Cheng, Carson, Thomas, Richard, Cheng, Jason Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdosh, Samir
• Application Number:
  US14/261,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20150308787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 421/26, 421/46, 362/110, 362/113, 362/114
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/02 Foresights
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/06 Rearsights
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/34 combined with light source, e.g. spot light
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/35 for illuminating the target , e.g. flash lights
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/387 Mounting telescopic sights on smallarms

Abstract

A scope includes a scope assembly and a head lighting arrangement. The scope assembly includes a tubular scope body having an objective end and an opposed sight end to define a scope axis, an objective lens and an eyepiece lens supported at the objective end and the sight end of the scope body respectively for generating a scope reticle, and an attachment base extended from a bottom side of the scope body for detachably mounting the scope body on the firearm to parallelly align the scope axis with a barrel axis of the firearm. The head lighting arrangement includes a plurality of illumination elements formed at a rim of the objective end of the scope body for generating navigation light at a direction aligned with the scope axis of the scope body.

Claims

1. A scope for a firearm, comprising:

a scope assembly which comprises;

a tubular scope body having an objective end and an opposed sight end to define a scope axis;

a lens module comprising an objective lens and an eyepiece lens supported at said objective end and said sight end of said scope body respectively for generating a scope reticle; and

an attachment base extended from a bottom side of said scope body for detachably mounting said scope body on said firearm to parallelly align said scope axis with a barrel axis of said firearm; and

head lighting arrangement which comprises a plurality of illumination elements formed at a rim of said objective end of said scope body for generating navigation light at a direction aligned with said scope axis of said scope body.

2. The scope, as recited in claim 1, wherein said scope body comprises a lens housing formed at said objective end to house said illumination elements in a circular configuration and to support a protection lens of said lens module coaxially within said illumination elements.

3. The scope, as recited in claim 2, wherein said lens housing comprises an outer ring and an inner ring coaxially supported within said outer ring, wherein said illumination elements are spacedly received between said outer and inner rings and said protection lens is supported within said inner ring at a position in front of said objective lens.

4. The scope, as recited in claim 2, wherein said head lighting arrangement further comprises a ring shaped circuit board, wherein said illumination elements are spacedly mounted on said circuit board to be supported in said lens housing.

5. The scope, as recited in claim 3, wherein said head lighting arrangement further comprises a ring shaped circuit board, wherein said illumination elements are spacedly mounted on said circuit board to be supported in said lens housing.

6. The scope, as recited in claim 3, wherein said scope assembly further comprises a ring shaped front rim cover attached to said outer and inner rings, wherein said front rim cover has a center lens window aligned with said protection lens and a plurality of light windows aligned with said illumination elements respectively.

7. The scope, as recited in claim 5, wherein said scope assembly further comprises a ring shaped front rim cover attached to said outer and inner rings, wherein said front rim cover has a center lens window aligned with said protection lens and a plurality of light windows aligned with said illumination elements respectively.

8. The scope, as recited in claim 1, further comprising an integrated control module provided at said attachment base to operatively link with a scope luminous element of said scope assembly and said illumination elements of said head lighting arrangement.

9. The scope, as recited in claim 3, further comprising an integrated control module provided at said attachment base to operatively link with a scope luminous element of said scope assembly and said illumination elements of said head lighting arrangement.

10. The scope, as recited in claim 7, further comprising an integrated control module provided at said attachment base to operatively link with a scope luminous element of said scope assembly and said illumination elements of said head lighting arrangement.

11. The scope, as recited in claim 8, wherein said integrated control module comprises a power source compartment formed at a sidewall of said attachment base for receiving a power supply to operatively link with said scope luminous element and said illumination elements, and a control panel provided at said sidewall of said attachment base for adjustably controlling a scope reticle illumination, for adjustably controlling a brightness level of said navigation light, and for selecting colors of said navigation light.

12. The scope, as recited in claim 9, wherein said integrated control module comprises a power source compartment formed at a sidewall of said attachment base for receiving a power supply to operatively link with said scope luminous element and said illumination elements, and a control panel provided at said sidewall of said attachment base for adjustably controlling a scope reticle illumination, for adjustably controlling a brightness level of said navigation light, and for selecting colors of said navigation light.

13. The scope, as recited in claim 10, wherein said integrated control module comprises a power source compartment formed at a sidewall of said attachment base for receiving a power supply to operatively link with said scope luminous element and said illumination elements, and a control panel provided at said sidewall of said attachment base for adjustably controlling a scope reticle illumination, for adjustably controlling a brightness level of said navigation light, and for selecting colors of said navigation light.

14. The scope, as recited in claim 1, wherein said scope assembly further comprises an elevation adjustment module formed at said attachment base at a bottom of said scope body for adjusting said scope reticle.

15. The scope, as recited in claim 3, wherein said scope assembly further comprises an elevation adjustment module formed at said attachment base at a bottom of said scope body for adjusting said scope reticle.

16. The scope, as recited in claim 13, wherein said scope assembly further comprises an elevation adjustment module formed at said attachment base at a bottom of said scope body for adjusting said scope reticle.

17. The scope, as recited in claim 1, wherein said illumination elements are light diodes.

18. The scope, as recited in claim 16, wherein said illumination elements are light diodes.

19. The scope, as recited in claim 1, wherein said scope assembly further comprises a back-up iron sight integrally formed on a top side of said scope body.

20. The scope, as recited in claim 18, wherein said scope assembly further comprises a back-up iron sight integrally formed on a top side of said scope body.