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US 9,703,295 B1Granted
Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing targeted payload descent
AssigneeBarron Associates, Inc.
InventorsDavid Anthony Neal, III, Kevin Marlan Ehlmann, William Thomas Gressick, Alec Jacob Devine Bateman, Kenneth Richard Horneman
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Abstract
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, providing a guided descent from a release zone and toward an entry zone.
Claims32
A tube-launched device comprising:
- a sonobuoy glide harness configured to:
- be operably connected to a sonobuoy internal module to form a sonobuoy vehicle, the sonobuoy vehicle defining a sonobuoy vehicle length and a sonobuoy vehicle outer diameter;
- and
- operatively substantially surround the sonobuoy internal module, the sonobuoy internal module defining a sonobuoy internal module length, the sonobuoy glide harness defining a sonobuoy glide harness length and a sonobuoy glide harness outer diameter, the sonobuoy glide harness length not exceeding the sonobuoy internal module length;
- the sonobuoy glide harness comprising a plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces;
- and
- the plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces comprising one or more folding tail control surfaces.
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A method comprising:
- providing a dynamically determined, substantially controlled, and substantially guided descent of a tube-launched sonobuoy vehicle from a predetermined release zone and toward a predetermined sonobuoy water entry zone, the sonobuoy vehicle comprising a sonobuoy glide harness configured to:
- be operably connected to a sonobuoy internal module to form the sonobuoy vehicle, the sonobuoy vehicle defining a sonobuoy vehicle length and a sonobuoy vehicle outer diameter;
- and
- operatively substantially surround the sonobuoy internal module, the sonobuoy glide harness defining a sonobuoy glide harness length and a sonobuoy glide harness outer diameter, the sonobuoy glide harness length not exceeding the sonobuoy internal module length;
- wherein the sonobuoy glide harness comprises:
- a plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces, the plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces comprising one or more folding tail control surfaces.
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A machine-readable medium storing machine-implementable instructions for activities comprising:
- providing a dynamically determined, substantially controlled, and substantially guided descent of a tube-launched sonobuoy vehicle from a predetermined release zone and toward a predetermined sonobuoy water entry zone, the sonobuoy vehicle comprising a sonobuoy glide harness configured to:
- be operably connected to a sonobuoy internal module to form the sonobuoy vehicle, the sonobuoy vehicle defining a sonobuoy vehicle length and a sonobuoy vehicle outer diameter;
- and
- operatively substantially surround the sonobuoy internal module, the sonobuoy internal module defining a sonobuoy internal module length, the sonobuoy glide harness defining a sonobuoy glide harness length and a sonobuoy glide harness outer diameter, the sonobuoy glide harness length not exceeding the sonobuoy internal module length;
- wherein the sonobuoy glide harness comprises:
- a plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces, the plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces comprising one or more folding tail control surfaces.
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A circuit comprising:
- a guidance sub-circuit configured to provide a dynamically determined, substantially controlled, and substantially guided descent of a sonobuoy vehicle from a predetermined release zone and toward a predetermined sonobuoy water entry zone, the sonobuoy vehicle comprising a sonobuoy glide harness configured to:
- be operably connected to a sonobuoy internal module to form the sonobuoy vehicle, the sonobuoy vehicle defining a sonobuoy vehicle length and a sonobuoy vehicle outer diameter;
- and
- operatively substantially surround the sonobuoy internal module, the sonobuoy internal module defining a sonobuoy internal module length, the sonobuoy glide harness defining a sonobuoy glide harness length and a sonobuoy glide harness outer diameter, the sonobuoy glide harness length not exceeding the sonobuoy internal module length;
- wherein the sonobuoy glide harness comprises:
- a plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces, the plurality of deployable aerodynamic control surfaces comprising one or more folding tail control surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.