US 10,479,535 B2Granted

Deployment and aiming device

AssigneeThales

InventorsJulien Ducarne, Yannick Baudassé, François Guinot

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Abstract

A deployment and aiming device of an instrument comprises: a first support, a second support to receive the instrument, N mandrels, N being an integer number greater than or equal to 1, positioned around the first support, each of the N mandrels rotationally mobile relative to the first support about a mandrel axis ZN intersecting the mandrel, N linear elements, each of the N linear elements cooperating with one of the N mandrels, each of the N linear elements having first and second ends, wherein the first end of the N linear elements is fixed in the mandrel with which it cooperates at a fixing point, wherein the second end of the N linear elements is linked to the second support, such that a rotation of the mandrel about its axis ZN generates a displacement of the fixing point.

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Dependent claims

A deployment and aiming device of an instrument comprising:

a first support,
a second support intended to receive the instrument,
at least one mandrel positioned around the first support, each of the at least one mandrel being rotationally mobile relative to the first support about a mandrel axis (ZN) intersecting said mandrel,
at least one linear element, each of the at least one linear element engaging with at least one of the at least one mandrel, each of the at least one linear element having a first and a second end,
wherein the first end of the at least one linear element is fixed in the at least one mandrel with which it engages at a fixing point, and wherein the second end of the at least one linear element is linked to the second support, such that a rotation of said at least one mandrel about its axis (ZN) generates a displacement of the fixing point,
and wherein each of the at least one mandrel is eccentric about the mandrel axis (ZN) intersecting said at least one mandrel.

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Facts

Application: 15/443,932Filed 27 Feb 2017
Priority: FR 16 003562 Mar 2016
Published: US 2017/0253352 A17 Sep 2017
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B64G 1/66
Parts of, or equipment specially adapted for fitting in or to, cosmonautic vehicles: arrangements or adaptations of apparatus or instruments, not…
B64G 1/105
Artificial satellites; Systems of such satellites; Interplanetary vehicles: space science
B64G 1/2225
Characterised by the manner of deployment: rolling or unfurling
B64G 1/2229
For deploying structures between a stowed and deployed state: characterised by the deployment actuating mechanism

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