Patent Grant
10408562
The present invention relates generally to a gas heating structure of a bullet magazine, and more particularly to a magazine gas heating structure that enable heating to be directly conducted inside a magazine body to maintain the magazine body at an optimum environmental operation temperature for making gasification more complete to thereby improve and maintain the performance thereof.
Modern people are living in a very fast pace, which often accompanied with increased living stress. Various measures are taken for relaxing or relieving of such stress. One of such measures for stress relieving is survival games, in which players who are equipped with replica or reality-mimicking toy guns to combat each other in a simulative combat field in order to achieve the purpose of stress relieving. Shooting of such toy guns generally involves pressurized fluid or electric firing to project bullets or projectiles out of the toy guns. The pressurized fluid used is often pressurized gas or compressed carbon dioxide. Gasification of the pressurized fluid that occurs in a bullet magazine absorbs thermal energy from the surroundings. After multiple successive shots, the bullet magazine would get excessively cold so that the gasification of the pressurized gas becomes poor and bad, leading to inoperability of shooting of the toy gun. To overcome such an issues of the bullet magazine getting excessively cold, Taiwan Utility Model M542760 proposes a “handle temperature control device”, of which the technical contents are generally “a handle and a temperature control device, wherein the handle defines therein a receiving space in which a magazine can be arranged and the temperature control device is arranged between the receiving space and an internal wall of the handle, characterized in that the temperature control device comprises a thermal isolation element, a heating element, a thermal conduction element, and a control module, wherein the thermal conduction element is arranged to face the receiving space, whereby in case that a gasification operation of a bullet magazine that contains therein pressurized gas is deteriorating due to a long term use of the toy gun, heating can be immediately carried out by the heating element driven by the control module such that thermal energy is generated and conducted through the thermal conduction element to the magazine.” In this way, an environmental operation temperature of the bullet magazine is kept and gasification can be made more complete to thereby improve and maintain the performance thereof.
However, in the operation of the handle temperature control device, since heating of the magazine is made from the outside of the magazine. Thermal energy may get lost to the outside during the course of heating. This causes a waste of energy and also leads to an issue of poor heating performance.
The primary objective of the present invention is a unique arrangement of an electricity supply device and a heating element that allows heating to be directly conducted in an interior of a magazine body of a bullet magazine such that the magazine body is kept at an optimum environmental operation temperature to thereby heighten the performance of heating and achieving an effect of saving energy.
Another objective of the present invention is that a unique arrangement of a turbulence thermal conduction element that increases a surface area of contact between pressurized fluid and the turbulence thermal conduction element so that gasification of the pressurized fluid is made more efficiently and more completely.
A further objective of the present invention is that a unique arrangement of a terminal end of a liquid channel is provided in the turbulence thermal conduction element so that the heating efficiency of the turbulence thermal conduction element is made even higher.
To achieve the above objective, the present invention provides a structure that generally comprises a magazine body, which is provided therein with at least one electricity supply device. The magazine body is further provided therein with at least one heating assembly electrically connected with the electricity supply device. The magazine body defines at least one liquid channel therein. The magazine body is provided therein with at least one turbulence thermal conduction element connected to the heating assembly. The turbulence thermal conduction element is arranged at one end of the liquid channel. As such, a user may combine the magazine body with a toy gun so that the electricity supply device may supply electrical energy to the heating assembly. With the heating assembly heating the turbulence thermal conduction element, when pressurized fluid passes through the turbulence thermal conduction element to increase a contact surface area between the turbulence thermal conduction element and the pressurized fluid, the efficiency of gasification of the pressurized fluid can be improved so that the magazine is set at an optimum environmental operation temperature and the pressurized fluid is converted into gas before reaching the end of the liquid channel, whereby the heating efficiency of the turbulence thermal conduction element is made even higher and the use of energy is made more economic.
With the above techniques, the drawbacks of the prior art that a handle temperature control device is heated from outside the magazine, thermal energy may get lost to the outside during the course of heating, and energy may be wasted and heating efficiency is poor can be overcome and utilization of the present invention can be improved.
The foregoing objectives and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
Referring to
a magazine body 1, wherein the magazine body 1 defines at least one thermal isolation section 11, the thermal isolation section 11 is made of a plastic material, the magazine body 1 further defining at least one gas discharge section 12;
at least one electricity supply device 2 arranged in the magazine body 1, the electricity supply device 2 comprising at least one electricity supply element 21 and at least one electrical conduction element 22 electrically connected with the electricity supply element 21, the electrical conduction element 22 being electrically connected with a control assembly 32 that will be described hereinafter, the electricity supply element 21 comprising a battery or an electric cell;
at least one heating assembly 3 arranged in the magazine body 1 and electrically connected with the electricity supply device 2, the heating assembly 3 being provided with at least one control assembly 32, the magazine body 1 comprising at least one turbulence thermal conduction element 31 that is connected to the heating assembly 3, the turbulence thermal conduction element 31 being arranged at a terminal end of a liquid channel 4 that will be described hereinafter, the turbulence thermal conduction element 31 being provided with at least one temperature detection element 33 electrically connected with the control assembly 32; and
at least one liquid channel 4 defined in the magazine body 1 and in communication with the turbulence thermal conduction element 31, the magazine body 1 defining therein at least one liquid storage space 41 in communication with the liquid channel 4.
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The above provides an example of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims. Easy modification and equivalent structural variation based on the contents of the specification and drawings of the present invention are considered falling within the scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.
Thus, with reference being had to all the drawings, the present invention, as compared to the prior art, demonstrates the following advantages when put into practice:
(1) The arrangement of the electricity supply device 2 and the heating assembly 3 enable direct heating to be carried out inside the magazine body 1 to set the magazine body 1 at an optimum environmental operation temperature and the efficiency of heating is made higher to thereby achieve an effect of saving energy.
(2) The arrangement of the turbulence thermal conduction element 31 helps increase a contact surface area of pressurized fluid and the turbulence thermal conduction element 31 so that gasification of the pressurized fluid is made more efficient and more complete.
(3) The arrangement of the thermal isolation section 11 helps isolate thermal energy to protect a user from burning and provide an effect of saving energy.
(4) The arrangement of the turbulence thermal conduction element 31 at a terminal end of the liquid channel 4 makes the efficiency of heating of the turbulence thermal conduction element 31 even better.
It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the claims of the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 106210779 U | Jul 2017 | TW | national |
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| Number | Date | Country | |
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| 20190025010 A1 | Jan 2019 | US |
