Firearm assembly

• US 8,458,944 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2012
• Issued: 06/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LMD Applied Science LLC
• Original Assignee: LaserMax Incorporated
• Inventors: Houde-Walter, William R.
• Primary Examiner(s): HAYES, BRET C
• Application Number:
  US13/555,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20120285064A1
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 42/84, 42/710.1, 42/710.2, 42/72
• US Class Current: 42/72
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 35/00 Accessories or details not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 23/16 Forestocks; Handgrips; Hand guards pump-action guns F41C7/02
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 27/00 Accessories; Details or attachments not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/00 Sighting devices for indirect laying of fire F41G3/16; bombsights F41G3/24 ; structurally associated with laser telemeters F41G3/065; mounting tubular or beam shaped aiming devices on firearms F41G11/001

Abstract

A firearm system includes a foregrip removably mountable to a firearm, the foregrip having a programmable button controlling at least one of an accessory of the firearm and a component of the foregrip.

Claims

1. A firearm system, comprising:

a foregrip removably mountable to a firearm, the foregrip having a programmable button controlling at least one of an accessory of the firearm and a component of the foregrip, wherein one of the foregrip and the accessory comprises a first portion of an optical data link, and a rail of the firearm comprises a second portion of the optical data link, the first portion configured to mate with the second portion.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the further including an additional device wirelessly connected to at least one of the foregrip and the accessory, the additional device being located remote from the firearm.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the foregrip and the accessory transmits an emission to the additional device and the additional device activates upon receipt of the emission.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the emission comprises a radio frequency.

5. The system of claim 3, the foregrip further comprising a transmitter controllably connected to the programmable button, wherein the emission is sent by the transmitter.

6. A firearm system, comprising:

(a) a first accessory mounted to a firearm;

(b) a second accessory mounted to the firearm, the first and second accessories transmitting information between the accessories;

(c) a foregrip removably mounted to the firearm, the foregrip having a programmable button controllably connected to at least one of the first and second accessories; and

(d) an optical data link, a first portion of the optical data link connected to the firearm and a second portion of the optical data link connected to the first accessory, the first portion being configured to mate with the second portion.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the first portion of the optical data link comprises a transmitter portion and the second portion of the optical data link comprises a receiver portion.

8. The system of claim 6, further including an additional device wirelessly connected to at least one of the foregrip and the first accessory.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the additional device is located remote from the firearm.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the one of the foregrip and the first assembly accessory transmits an emission to the additional device and the additional device activates upon receipt of the emission.

11. A method of controlling a firearm system, comprising:

(a) removably connecting a foregrip to a firearm; and

(b) directing a control signal from the foregrip to an accessory of the firearm by manipulating a programmable button of the foregrip,

wherein one of the foregrip and the accessory comprises a first portion of an inductive coupling device or an optical data link, and a rail of the firearm comprises a second portion of the inductive coupling device or the optical data link, the first portion being configured to mate with the second portion.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising transmitting information from the accessory to an additional accessory of the firearm.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising directing a wireless signal from the foregrip to an additional device of the firearm system located remote from the firearm.

14. The method of claim 11, further including directing power to a power source of the firearm by moving a loading bolt of the firearm.

15. A firearm system, comprising:

a foregrip removably mountable to a firearm, the foregrip having a programmable button controlling at least one of an accessory of the firearm and a component of the foregrip,

wherein one of the foregrip and the accessory comprises a first portion of an inductive coupling device, and a rail of the firearm comprises a second portion of the inductive coupling device, the first portion configured to mate with the second portion.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the first and second portions of the inductive coupling device comprise mating portions of an inductor/transmitter.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the inductive coupling device transmits at least one of data and power between the firearm and the first accessory.

18. The system of claim 15, further including an additional device wirelessly connected to at least one of the foregrip and the accessory.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the additional device is located remote from the firearm.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the one of the foregrip and the accessory transmits an emission to the additional device and the additional device activates upon receipt of the emission.

21. A firearm system, comprising:

(a) a first accessory mounted to a firearm;

(b) a second accessory mounted to the firearm, the first and second accessories transmitting information between the accessories;

(c) a foregrip removably mounted to the firearm, the foregrip having a programmable button controllably connected to at least one of the first and second accessories; and

(d) an inductive coupling device, a first portion of the inductive coupling device connected to the firearm and a second portion of the inductive coupling device connected to the first accessory, the first portion being configured to mate with the second portion.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the inductive coupling device transmits at least one of data and power between the firearm and the first accessory.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the first portion of the inductive coupling device comprises a transmitter portion and the second portion of the inductive coupling device comprises a receiver portion.

24. The system of claim 21, further including an additional device wirelessly connected to at least one of the foregrip and the first accessory.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the additional device is located remote from the firearm.

26. The system of claim 24, wherein the one of the foregrip and the first accessory transmits an emission to the additional device and the additional device activates upon receipt of the emission.