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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Ensign-bickford Aerospace & Defense Company, Simsbury, CT (US);
David Novotney, Westfield, MA (US);
Geoff Kaczynski, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Craig Boucher, Simsbury, CT (US);
ENSIGN-BICKFORD AEROSPACE & DEFENSE COMPANY, Simsbury, CT (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the present invention involves a hold-down and release mechanism ('HDRM') that includes a hold-then-release mechanism configured to hold an element until the hold-then-release mechanism is commanded to release the element; and an integral sensor configured to sense an amount of a parameter of interest associated with the HDRM and to communicate the sensed amount of the parameter of interest to a receiving device. The parameter of interest comprises one of tensile preload, temperature, vibration, shock, and time from application of an HDRM firing current to HDRM release of the element.