USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

James M McCarthy

Paul E Moody

Earl S Nickerson

Dennis J Langmack, Deceased

Steven S Newsom

A cable connector assembly is provided to eliminate or minimize dynamic durbance on the body shell surface of a vehicle in motion. The vehicle includes a body shell having a recessed portion which includes a cable connector receptacle and a connector housing. The connector housing does not protrude from the vehicle and is smooth with the body shell contour. The connector housing includes a female electrical connection portion. Adjacent the connector housing in the recessed portion of the body shell is a hinged closure plate which is controlled by a compression spring. When the vehicle is at rest, an electrical cable is connected to the connector housing and the closure plate is pushed into the recessed portion of the body shell. When the vehicle is put in motion, the closure plate spring decompresses to force the closure plate to close and seal the recessed portion of the body shell. The closure plate and the connector housing form a uniform and smooth surface which blends with the contour of the body shell.

Cable connector assembly

A recovery and deployment device consists of a relatively small base and a lurality of cable controlled armatures extending therefrom in substantially the same direction. Drive cables operate on the armatures for driving the end portions toward either an open or closed position. Each armature includes an elongated tentacle having a first end fixed to the support base and a terminating head portion. Inbound and outbound guides are provided for assisting in moving the free ends of the tentacles either inwardly or outwardly relative to their rest position. The armatures are arranged on the base in a petal-like interleaved array that permits interference-free overlapping of adjacent armatures upon closing movement out of the rest position, as well as movement of the free ends of each tentacle outwardly relative to the rest position so as to provide an enlarged target zone for recovering an object.

Recovery and deployment device

The transmission of prelaunch weapon communication in a submarine is accoished without the use of an umbilical cord. Acoustic transducers transmit and receive acoustic data through water in place of the umbilical cord. The data transmitted through the water from the launch tube wall to the weapon is in serial format having been converted from parallel data by multiplexing.

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Mattapoisett, MA, United States of America

James M McCarthy