BLACKBOX POSITION REPORTING DEVICE

• US 20120105247A1
• Filed: 11/03/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aeroplane Explosion Limited
• Original Assignee: Aeroplane Explosion Limited
• Inventors: Kwong, Yat Wai Edwin
• Application Number:
  US12/938,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20120105247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/850
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/02 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the earth or a large mass of water thereon, e.g. earth telegraphy

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for reporting activities at certain locations below sea level. One embodiment includes a flight recorder system for collecting and reporting activities at specific locations below sea level. Further, the system is configured to provide automatic, real-time, collection of aircraft data and then transmission of such data to a world-wide communication system for subsequent reception, analysis, storage and generation of aircraft flight, safety, and fuel efficiency.

Claims

1. A flight recorder system for reporting locations below sea level using an global positioning system without using any sonar-related equipments, where global positioning system signals do not propagate across water, said system comprising a blackbox serving as a flight recorder, wherein the blackbox includes recording information in connection with a plane crash;

a global positioning system (GPS) for providing GPS data representing positions of GPS receivers,

a housing that is attached to the blackbox, wherein the housing is made of material that offers high buoyancy;

a GPS receiver embedded in the housing, wherein the GPS receiver locates information in connection with positions above the sea level only;

a transmitter embedded in the housing and is capable to transmit signals by air only;

a processing unit included in the blackbox for combining the recording information and the information in connection with the positions located by the GPS receiver;

a physical communication link linking between the blackbox and the housing, wherein the link is made of perfectly elastic material, and the link is configured to allow the blackbox to be fully attached physically to the housing shortly after the plane crash when the blackbox sinks into a sea bottom, the GPS receiver embedded in the housing failing to locate any GPS signals from the GPS System under the sea.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the physical communication link is configured to allow the housing to be detached physically from the blackbox after a period of time after sinking into the sea bottom when the blackbox survives the plane crash, the housing, due to its buoyancy, floating onto the water, and the physical ink serving as the only physical media linking between the housing floating onto the water and the blackbox onto the sea bottom.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the physical communication link is configured to transfer information from the GPS receiver embedded in the housing to the processing unit included in the blackbox, wherein the information includes a location captured by the GPS receiver embedded in the housing when the housing buoys onto the water.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the physical communication link is configured to transfer information from the processing unit included in the blackbox to the housing, wherein the information transferred includes a combination of the location captured by the GPS receiver and the information in connection with the plane crash included in the blackbox, and wherein the transferred information received by the housing uses the transmitter to broadcast the combined information as signals by air for rescue.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the physical communication link is configured to save power, re-attach and collapsing physically the housing and the blackbox after broadcasting the combined information for rescue, the housing re-sinking into the bottom of the sea and reattaching with the housing, and the GPS receiver embedded in the housing failing to locate any GPS signals from the GPS System under the sea.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the physical communication link is configured to, after a pre-determined period expires, allow the GPS receiver embedded in the housing to buoy onto the water to locate another position, after the blackbox has moved to a new position below the sea.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the physical communication link is configured to allow the transmitter to broadcast the new position and the information in connection with the plane crash included in the blackbox as combined information.