Interlock reserve parachute deployment system
OwnerEric Fradetinventor
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Abstract
A device, system and method of reserve parachute deployment comprising; a reserve bridle 2 connecting the reserve deployment bag 5 to the reserve pilot chute 4, and a lanyard 3 connecting the main parachute 1 to the reserve bridle 2 with a releasable attachment and a retention means of this attachment. This connection being placed onto a holding flap 17 of the reserve container 22, by releasable holding means. The system and method of realization allows the reserve parachute to be activated without cutting-away a main parachute, in a manner that the holding means are not released, while if the main parachute is cut away then the holding means release without the retention means doing so.
Claims21
A harness-container including:
- a primary container, which receives a deployment bag in which the main canopy is packed, this is linked to riser groups, which are attached to the harness-container via a first release mechanism;
- a primary pilot chute linked to the deployment bag and packed;
- a second release mechanism to release the riser groups of the main canopy from the harness-container in case of a main canopy malfunction;
- a control handle to release the riser groups of the main canopy;
- a secondary container which receives a reserve deployment bag in which the reserve canopy is packed, this is linked to riser groups which are part of the harness-container, which can not be released;
- a reserve pilot chute packed into the secondary container;
- a reserve bridle linking the reserve pilot chute with the reserve deployment bag;
- a Reserve Static Lanyard having a first end and a second end and being linked to the main canopy;
- a first connector carried by the second end of the Reserve Static Lanyard and a second connector, connecting with the first connector, carried by the reserve bridle, which in combination form the connection between the Reserve Static Lanyard and the reserve bridle, the first connector and the second connector being detachable only in case of a reserve only procedure where the main canopy remains in the primary container during the reserve only procedure;
- a third connector carried by the Reserve Static Lanyard and fourth connector, connecting with the third connector carried by at least one of the Reserve Static Lanyard and the secondary container, forming in combination, the connection between the Reserve Static Lanyard and the secondary container, the third connector and the fourth connector being detachable only in case of a cutaway, when the main canopy pulls the Reserve Static Lanyard, which opens the secondary container, frees the reserve pilot chute from the secondary container and pulls the reserve bridle to extract the reserve deployment bag;
- wherein the connection between the first connector and the second connector does not give way in case of a cutaway of the main canopy and the connection between the third connector and the fourth connector does not give way in case of the reserve only procedure.
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