Aircraft with a detachable passenger escape cabin and an aircraft with airbags

Patent 6682017 Issued on January 27, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 9, 2022. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Giannakopoulos, Pavlos

Application

No. 10/220977 filed on 09/09/2002

US Classes:

244/140, Passenger compartment244/138R, SAFETY LOWERING DEVICES70/275Using a powered device (e.g., motor)

Examiners

Primary: Dinh, Tan

International Classes

B64C 1/00 (20060101)
B64C 1/32 (20060101)
B64D 17/00 (20060101)
B64D 25/00 (20060101)
B64D 17/80 (20060101)
B64D 25/12 (20060101)

Abstract

An aircraft with a detachable cabin (1) that serves to rescue its passengers as a result of the aircraft's sudden fall either due to its malfunction or fire. The cabin escapes either smoothly or by means of fast ejection and descends slowly to the Earth with the aid of a parachute (13, 14); during a crash on the ground or in the sea external airbags (38a-38f) with which it is equipped and which are located in its lower part are inflated thus absorbing the loads that are developed during the crash. In addition a conventional aircraft (70) of the type being already in use is also described and in which the parachute equipment (71) has already been applied; however, the proposed equipment of the airbag boxes (72a-72c) is adapted to it for the absorption of the energy produced due to its crash on Earth in case of its sudden fall.