Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Fuselage and body construction
Patent
1983-05-02
1985-04-02
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Fuselage and body construction
297488, 280733, B64D 2504
Patent
active
045082944
ABSTRACT:
An air bag restraint system is disclosed for protecting an occupant in a t during ejection from a vehicle, particularly an aircraft. In one preferred embodiment, an air bag member is deployed from a stored position frontally to the chest of the occupant and guided upward and downward along tracks on either side of the seat so that the upper body of the occupant is enclosed within the seat just prior to ejection. In another preferred embodiment, the air bag is stowed within a cover about a semicircular hoop releasably connected to the seat about the chest of the occupant. At the initiation of the ejection sequence, the cover is released and the air bag inflated, expanded into the proper shape by external restraint straps, so that the head, arms and torso of the occupant are encapsulated at the time of ejection.
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Barefoot Galen L.
Beers Robert F.
Hansen Henry
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Vozzo, Jr. Armand M.
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