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Deployment control for inflatable escape slide

  • US 5,711,495 A
  • Filed: 01/02/1996
  • Issued: 01/27/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an inflatable escape slide having an inboard end and an outboard portion, said slide having a panel member supported by a plurality of inflatable tubes to provide a sliding surface from an elevated egress, inflation means operative upon actuation to provide pressurized fluid to said tubes to inflate said tubes to form an extended slide, a restraint control device interconnecting said inboard end and said outboard portion of said escape slide, and said control device operative upon pressurization of said tubes by said inflation means to deploy said outboard portion relative to said inboard end at a continuously controlled rate from the initial pressurization of said tubes to the deployment for a length of said slide that extends from said inboard end to said outboard portion.

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