Process for preventing turning over during the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft

US6158691A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Stefan Menne · Kolbermoor, DE
• Yasar Ovadya · Taufkirchen, DE
• Bernhard Schmidt · Neunkirchen, DE
• Adalbert Wagner · Miesbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 27, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D1/14
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for preventing overturning during the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft using an air bag type landing impact-damping system, which is inflated with gas before the landing and from which gas is discharged via discharge valves during the landing. The process includes using as the air bag type landing impact-damping system a system that is divided into a plurality of chambers that can be inflated with gas and from which gas is released independently from one another, and that a pressure difference is generated during landing in the individual chambers of the air bag type landing impact-damping system.