Weapon aiming device
View Patent ↗A weapon mountable aiming system has a multi-laser assembly having a first visible laser pointer assembly, a second infrared laser pointer assembly, and an infrared laser illuminator assembly whose generated light beams extend outwardly through an opening in an actuator used to adjust the divergence of the infrared laser illuminator assembly. The multi-laser assembly being steerable by a set of adjusters in the weapon mountable aiming system to allow alignment of the generated light beams with a point of impact of a bullet with a target.
1. A multi-laser assembly, comprising:
a visible laser pointer assembly comprising a first diode and a first collimating lens for collimating light emitted from said first diode, an infrared laser pointer assembly comprising a second diode and a second collimating lens for collimating light emitted from said second diode, and an infrared laser illuminator assembly all being encircled by an adjuster such that each is configured to emit a separate associated output through said adjuster, said adjuster being configured to allow beam divergence of at least one of the laser assemblies to be manually adjusted through movement of the adjuster.
2. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , wherein the adjuster is rotatable and has an opening extending therethrough to allow light from the laser assemblies to extend therethrough.
3. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , further comprising one of a thread and a cooperating groove disposed on an inside surface of the actuator, the actuator cooperating with the other of the thread and the groove disposed on an outside surface of the infrared laser illuminator assembly.
4. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first diode of the visible laser pointer assembly is spaced a fixed distance from the first collimating lens, the second diode of the infrared laser pointer assembly is spaced a fixed distance from the second collimating lens, and the infrared laser illuminator assembly is configured to allow a third diode to be spaced an adjustable distance from a third lens.
5. The multi-laser assembly of claim 4 , wherein the adjuster is rotatable and rotation of the adjuster causes the third lens to travel along a longitudinal axis of the infrared laser illuminator assembly relative to the third diode.
6. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of gear teeth coupled to an inside surface of the adjuster, the adjuster cooperating with a plurality of gear teeth coupled to an outside surface of the infrared laser illuminator assembly.
7. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , further comprising a pivot adjuster coupleable to an up-down adjuster and a left-right adjuster for steering a longitudinal axis of at least one of the laser assemblies.
8. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , wherein the infrared laser illuminator assembly has a third laser diode coupled to and spaced from a third collimating lens.
9. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , wherein the visible laser has a wavelength between 400 and 750 nm and the infrared laser has a wavelength greater than 750 nm.
10. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , further comprising a pivot adjuster coupleable to an up-down and a left-right adjuster for steering the visible laser point assembly and the infrared laser pointer assembly as a group.
11. The multi-laser assembly of claim 1 , further comprising a window spaced a fixed distance from the first collimating lens wherein each of the separate outputs exits through the window.