Vehicle protection system
AssigneeFoster-Miller, Inc.
InventorsMichael D. Farinella, Thomas F. 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.
Claims23
A protection system comprising:
- a sensor subsystem for detecting an incoming threat;
- a flexible packaged net with perimeter weighting housed in a deployment box attached to a ground based vehicle or structure;
- 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 several feet from the ground based vehicle or structure 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 ground based structure or vehicle;
- an airbag packaged in the deployment box behind the net;
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- a fire control subsystem, responsive to the sensor system, configured to activate the deployment system to inflate the airbag and deploy the net into the trajectory path of the incoming threat.
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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.