Patent ID: 6412207
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
A safety magazine for use in conjunction with at least one external enabling/disabling or communication device and a firearm frame for firing projectiles therefrom, the frame having a magazine volume for receiving the magazine, a firing chamber and a firing control mechanism, the safety magazine comprising:(a) a projectile holding portion for holding the projectiles and conveying same to the firing chamber, and (b) a housing portion, comprising: (i) a safety magazine control module having at least one of an antenna, a coil and a sensor for at least one of sensing and receiving at least one predetermined signal emitted by the external enabling or communication device, the magazine control module having circuitry connected to at least one of the antenna, the coil or the sensor for sensing or receiving the predetermined signal, the circuitry further comprising means for generating at least a first output control signal; (ii) a motion generation device coupled to the means for generating the at least first output signal, the output control signal being provided to the motion generation device when the at least one predetermined signal is one of sensed and received or one of not sensed and not received, the motion generation device having an output member attached thereto or forming a portion thereof which moves in a first direction in response to the first output control signal being received by the motion generation device, and (iii) a first motion translation mechanism coupled to the motion generation device, the first motion translation mechanism comprising an interference member having an interference portion attached thereto or formed therein, the interference portion moving into a first interference portion position in response to the output member moving in the first direction and the first motion translation mechanism accordingly moving into a first motion translation mechanism position.