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US 8,186,276 B1Granted
Entrapment systems and apparatuses for containing projectiles from an explosion
AssigneesRaytheon Company, Warwick Mills, Inc.
InventorsThomas A. Olden, Robert P. Johnson, Charles A. Howland
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Abstract
Embodiments of entrapment systems and apparatuses are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In one embodiment, an entrapment apparatus is provided. This entrapment apparatus comprises a casing and a piece of multilayered fabric packed into the casing. The piece of multilayered fabric, when deployed, is configured to wrap around a person having an explosive device and configured to contain packed metal projectiles from an explosion of the explosive device.
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An entrapment apparatus comprising:
- a casing;
- a piece of multilayered fabric packed into the casing, the piece of multilayered fabric, when deployed, configured to contain packed metal projectiles from an explosion of the explosive device;
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- at least one air beam frame including one or more air beam structures, and in a deployed configuration the at least one air beam frame extends across a portion of the multilayered fabric and the multilayered fabric is a web extending from the at least one air beam frame.
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An entrapment apparatus comprising:
- a casing;
- a pyrotechnic device coupled to the casing;
- a proximity sensor configured to detect a presence of a person;
- a circuitry coupled to the pyrotechnic device and the proximity sensor, the circuitry configured to trigger the pyrotechnic device to explode based on a detection of the presence of the person, the explosion of the pyrotechnic device configured to break apart the casing;
- a piece of multilayered fabric packed into the casing, the piece of multilayered fabric being a mesh, the piece of multilayered fabric, when stretched out, configured to wrap around the person having an explosive device and configured to contain packed metal projectiles from an explosion of the explosive device;
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- at least one air beam frame coupled with the piece of multilayered fabric, the air beam frame is inflatable from an undeployed configuration to a deployed configuration, and in the deployed configuration the at least one air beam frame provides a skeleton of one or more air beam structures that expand the multilayered fabric into a corresponding expanded configuration, and the piece of multilayered fabric is a web extending from the one or more air beam structures.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.