Aeronautics and astronautics – Safety lowering devices – Parachutes
Patent
1978-02-06
1980-10-14
Kazenske, Edward R.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Safety lowering devices
Parachutes
244152, B64D 1756
Patent
active
042276632
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed an electronic barometric staging unit or aerial cargo delivery actuator for use with cargo carrying or recovery parachutes having an electronic pressure sensing assembly for initiating actuating of a deployment or staging line cutter such that parachute canopy directing and deployment occurs as a programmed function of a barometrically corrected altitude. The invention features a two-part housing assembly carrying the relatively expensive portion of the assembly that is reusable and an expendible or discardable portion of the assembly so that by recovering or retrieving the electronic module, it may be mated up with a new portion so as to substantially reduce the cost of subsequent usages of the apparatus. Since the barometric transducer per se is solid state and of extremely light weight, deceleration moments due to impacting the ground do not in any way impair its operation so that it may be recovered for re-use. The battery pack and the pyrotechnically activated cutter itself are the basic components which are not re-used.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3388879 (1968-06-01), Pisano
patent: 3547383 (1970-12-01), Carpenter
Ramsey Vernon B.
Woods Donald E.
Eisenzopf Reinhard J.
Kazenske Edward R.
Teledyne Inc.
Zegeer Jim
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