Mount to safely secure a cutter of an automatic activation device
AssigneeSun Path Products, Inc.
InventorsThomas Parker, Jesse Sparling, Justin Beaurivage
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Abstract
Systems and methods to cut a closing loop to deploy a parachute. The system includes a cutter with a body with a cutter opening that extends through the body and a blade that is movable across the cutter opening. Processing circuitry is configured to signal the cutter to move the blade across the cutter opening. A mount includes a base, a retainer with a channel sized to receive the cutter, and a mount opening that extends through the mount and across the channel. The cutter is configured to fit within the channel with the cutter opening aligned with the mount opening to form a through-opening such that the closing loop extends through the cutter and the mount.
Claims19
A system to cut a closing loop to deploy a parachute, the system comprising:
- a cutter comprising a body with a cutter opening that extends through the body and a blade that is movable across the cutter opening;
- and processing circuitry configured to signal the cutter to move the blade across the cutter opening;
- a mount comprising:
- a retainer with a channel sized to receive the cutter;
- a mount opening that extends through the mount and across the channel;
- the cutter configured to fit completely within the channel with the cutter opening aligned with the mount opening to form a through-opening such that the closing loop extends through the cutter and the mount.
A system to cut a closing loop to deploy a parachute, the system comprising:
- an automatic activation device comprising a computer with processing circuitry, a control unit, and a cutter with a body having a cutter opening and a blade positioned in the body, the body comprising a body length;
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- a mount configured to position the cutter and comprising:
- a base;
- a retainer that extends from the base and comprises an enclosed channel that extends along a first axis of the retainer and a retainer opening aligned along a second axis that extends across the first axis, the channel comprising a channel length;
- the channel length being greater than the body length and with the retainer sized to receive the cutter with the body fully inserted into the channel with the cutter opening aligned with the second axis when the cutter is positioned in the retainer to form a through-opening for the closing loop to extend through the cutter and the mount.
A method of rigging a system to deploy a parachute that Is secured within a container by a closing loop, the method comprising:
- inserting a cutter into a retainer of a mount;
- aligning a cutter opening that extends through the cutter with an opening in the mount;
- threading the closing loop through the cutter opening and the opening in the mount such that a first portion of the closing loop and the container are positioned on a first side of the mount and a second portion of the closing loop is positioned on an opposing second side of the mount;
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- securing the second portion of the closing loop on the second side of the mount and preventing the closing loop from being pulled out of the cutter opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.