Airbag payload landing system for damping landing impact forces on a flying payload

US6237875A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Stefan Menne · Kolbermoor, DE
• Peter Nikolaus Keerl · Oberpframmern, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 1999
• Grant date: May 29, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 17, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2201/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An airbag configuration for braking the landing impact of flying payloads has a central airbag (17) and at least one torus ring (11, 12, 13) surrounding the central airbag. A payload (L) is attachable on the central airbag (17). A stabilizing device (19) is provided which extends from the lowermost portion of the at least one torus ring (11, 12, 13) to the central airbag (17). The central airbag provides primarily vertical braking of the landing impact while the torus ring provides primarily horizontal braking of the landing impact.