System and method for deploying loads out of an aircraft
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsCarsten Bohlen, Holger Bohlen
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Abstract
A system for deploying loads out of an aircraft comprises an aerial delivery parachute with an aerial-delivery parachute line and an activation means for placing the aerial delivery parachute in an enveloping flow past the aircraft. Within the aircraft a receiving device can be positioned that receives a tractive force acting on the aerial-delivery parachute line, which tractive force has been determined by a force measuring device and has been transmitted by way of a transmitting device. With the knowledge of the tractive force it is possible both to implement emergency release and to assess whether an aerial delivery parachute has correctly deployed in the flow enveloping the aircraft.
Claims20
A system for deploying loads out of an aircraft, comprising:
- an aerial delivery parachute with an aerial-delivery parachute line;
- an activator configured to place the aerial delivery parachute in an enveloping flow past the aircraft;
- a receiving device located in a fuselage of the aircraft that is configured to wirelessly receive signals;
- a first force measuring device located outside the fuselage of the aircraft during a deployment process that is connected in series to the aerial-delivery parachute line to thereby measure a measured tractive force acting on the aerial-delivery parachute line;
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- a first autarkical voltage supply as well as a wireless first transmitting device that is connected to the first autarkical voltage supply and to the first force measuring device so that the first autarkical voltage supply, the wireless first transmitting device and the first force measuring device are all located outside the fuselage of the aircraft,
- wherein the first transmitting device is equipped to transmit to the receiving device signals representing the measured tractive force acting on the aerial-delivery parachute line to the receiving device located in the fuselage of the aircraft.
An aircraft having a fuselage, the aircraft comprising:
- a closeable opening;
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- a system for deploying loads out of the opening, the system including:
- an aerial delivery parachute with an aerial-delivery parachute line;
- an activator configured to place the aerial delivery parachute in an enveloping flow past the aircraft;
- a receiving device located in the fuselage of the aircraft configured to wirelessly receive signals representing acquired measuring data indicating a measured tractive force acting on the aerial-delivery parachute line;
- a first force measuring device that is located outside of the fuselage of the aircraft during a deployment process and that is connected in series to the aerial-delivery parachute line to thereby acquire the measuring data representing the measured tractive force acting on the aerial-delivery parachute line;
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- a first autarkical voltage supply as well as a wireless first transmitting device that is connected to the first autarkical voltage supply and to the first force measuring device so that the first autarkical voltage supply, the wireless first transmitting device and the first force measuring device are all located outside the fuselage of the aircraft,
- wherein the first transmitting device is equipped to transmit to the receiving device the signals representing the measured tractive force acting on the aerial-delivery parachute line to the receiving device located in the fuselage of the aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.