Vehicle protection system
AssigneeFoster-Miller, Inc.
InventorsMichael Farinella, Thomas Hafer, Christopher Moeller, Loren Howard, Scott LaValley
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Abstract
A protection system features a flexible packaged net with perimeter weighting housed in a deployment box releasably attached to a vehicle. One deployment subsystem includes an airbag packaged in the deployment box behind the net. A sensor subsystem detects an incoming threat and a fire control subsystem is responsive to the sensor subsystem and is configured to activate the deployment subsystem to inflate the airbag and deploy the net in the trajectory path of the incoming threat.
Claims51
A protection system comprising:
- a sensor subsystem for detecting an incoming threat;
- a flexible packaged net with perimeter weighting housed in a deployment box;
- a deployment subsystem including an airbag packaged in the deployment box behind the net;
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- a fire control subsystem, responsive to the sensor subsystem, configured to activate the deployment subsystem to inflate the airbag and deploy the net in the trajectory path of the incoming threat.
A protection system comprising:
- a sensor subsystem for detecting an incoming threat;
- a flexible packaged net in a deployment box attached to a structure;
- a deployment subsystem associated with the deployment box;
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- a fire control subsystem, responsive to the sensor system, configured to activate the deployment system to deploy the net into the trajectory path of the incoming threat.
A structure protection system comprising:
- a frame on the structure;
- and
- a net on the frame spaced from the structure and having a mesh size designed to disarm an incoming threat.
A protection system comprising:
- flexible means for disarming an incoming threat;
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- means for deploying said flexible means into a spaced relationship with a structure.
A protection system comprising:
- a mobile vehicle including sensor subsystem for detecting an incoming threat;
- a deployment box removably attached to the vehicle, the deployment box including therein:
- a flexible packaged net with perimeter weighting, and
- a deployment subsystem including an airbag packaged in the deployment box behind the net;
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- a fire control subsystem, responsive to the sensor subsystem, configured to activate the deployment subsystem to inflate the airbag and deploy the net in the trajectory path of the incoming threat.
A protection system for a threat having a nose diameter less than its body diameter, the system comprising:
- a mobile vehicle;
- a frame releasably attached to the vehicle;
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- a net on the frame spaced from the vehicle and having a mesh size between the nose diameter and the body diameter of the threat to disarm the threat.
A protection system comprising:
- a flexible packaged net including at least two layers of a small line diameter net over at least one layer of a larger line diameter net;
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- a deployment subsystem for deploying the net.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.