Deployable decelerator
AssigneeHyperloop Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTadeh Avetian, Helen Durden, Ryan Okerson, Brogan Bambrogan, Joshua Giegel
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Abstract
A transport vehicle for traveling in a low-pressure environment structure is provided. The transport vehicle may include a deployable decelerator configured to deploy from the transport vehicle to decrease a distance between the transport vehicle and the low-pressure environment structure and a communication network that monitors and collects a plurality of operation parameters from the transport vehicle and the low-pressure environment structure to control deployment of the deployable decelerator based on a plurality of predetermined triggering events.
Claims10
A transport vehicle for traveling in a low-pressure environment structure, comprising:
- a deployable decelerator that includes a carbon reinforced carbon material contact surface that is configured to contact a corresponding contact surface on the low-pressure environment structure, wherein
- the deployable decelerator is deployable along an outer peripheral surface of the transport vehicle to contact the low-pressure environment structure and stop travel of the transport vehicle.
A transport vehicle deceleration system for decelerating a transport vehicle in a low-pressure environment structure, comprising:
- a deployable decelerator configured to deploy from the transport vehicle to decrease a distance between the transport vehicle and the low-pressure environment structure;
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- a communication network that monitors and collects a plurality of operation parameters from the transport vehicle and the low-pressure environment structure to control deployment of the deployable decelerator based on a plurality of predetermined triggering events.
A method of decelerating a transport vehicle in a low-pressure environment structure, comprising:
- monitoring at least one operation parameter collected by at least one sensor in a transportation system;
- detecting, via the controller, a triggering event based on the at least one collected operation parameter;
- transmitting, via a signal from the controller, instructions to the transport vehicle to decelerate based on the detected triggering event;
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- deploying a decelerator to decelerate the transport vehicle in the low-pressure environment structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.