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US 9,809,109 B2Granted
Ballooning self-sealing bladders
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsMichael P. Kozar, Mark S. Wilenski
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Abstract
A self-sealing liquid bladder having a wall including plurality of connected cells each cell having an elastic wall portion and a stiffened wall portion and at least one source of pressure associated with one or more of the plurality of cells.
Claims26
A self-sealing liquid bladder comprising:
- a liquid bladder having a bladder wall structure that is impermeable to a liquid in the bladder, and that includes a plurality of connected cells each cell having an elastic wall portion and a stiffened wall portion;
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- at least one source of pressure associated with one or more of the plurality of cells wherein perforation of a cell causes the at least one source of pressure to urge the elastic wall portion of cells adjacent to the perforated cell to expand towards the perforated cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.