US 12,287,164 B2
Modular handgun
Alec Daniel Wolf, Westlake Village, CA (US); and Gene Anthony Velasquez, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US)
Assigned to ZEV Technologies, LLC, Oxnard, CA (US)
Filed by ZEV Technologies, LLC, Oxnard, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/063,215.
Application 16/152,604 is a division of application No. 15/434,933, filed on Feb. 16, 2017, granted, now 10,119,777, issued on Nov. 6, 2018.
Application 18/063,215 is a continuation of application No. 17/181,310, filed on Feb. 22, 2021, granted, now 11,525,645.
Application 17/181,310 is a continuation of application No. 16/152,604, filed on Oct. 5, 2018, granted, now 10,955,209, issued on Mar. 23, 2021.
Application 15/434,933 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/406,111, filed on Jan. 13, 2017, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/279,902, filed on Jan. 18, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0104146 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. F41A 11/02 (2006.01); F41A 19/15 (2006.01); F41A 21/48 (2006.01); F41C 23/10 (2006.01); F41C 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC F41A 11/02 (2013.01) [F41A 19/15 (2013.01); F41A 21/488 (2013.01); F41C 23/10 (2013.01); F41C 3/00 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A modular handgun system, comprising:
an elongated universal trigger frame having a pair of opposing sidewalls, a pair of slide rails, and an accessory rail, said trigger frame adapted to have a trigger assembly mounted thereto, wherein respective upper surfaces of said slide rails are positioned above respective upper surfaces of said opposing sidewalls, and said trigger frame adapted to be used with a plurality of grip frames and with a plurality of slide and barrel assemblies, wherein each of the plurality of grip frames has a different hand grip length, a different hand grip circumference, or both, and each of the slide and barrel assemblies has a different slide and barrel length,
a grip frame having an elongated channel and a hand grip extending downwardly from said elongated channel,
said trigger frame removably mounted in said elongated channel of said grip frame, said accessory rail of said trigger frame being positioned forward of a forward end of said elongated channel of said grip frame so as to be exposed, and
a slide and barrel assembly slidably mounted on said slide rails of said trigger frame.