Quick release lock for a parachute

US4618110A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Autoflug GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Just · Lauenburg/Elbe, DE
• Holger Hansen · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 1984
• Grant date: Oct 21, 1986
• Expiry date: Nov 20, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D17/38
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In the quick-release lock for a parachute, a measuring device (1, 2) is used for continuously measuring the distance of the parachutist from the surface on which he intends to land. In this arrangement, the measured distance values are repeatedly compared with predetermined values in a comparing device (3, 4, 7) during the descent. Only if the measured values agree with the predetermined values during the last section of the descent during, which the comparisons are carried out, is the parachute automatically released from the load, for example a person, when the distance 0 is reached.