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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Ruag Space Ab, Göteborg, SE;
RUAG SPACE AB, Göteborg, SE;
Abstract
The disclosure concerns a joint () for releasably connecting a first space craft element () to a second space craft element () comprising a first flange () on the first space craft element () and a second flange () on the second space craft element (). The joint () comprises first shoe portions () and second shoe portions () formed as sectors of a solid of revolution, keeping the flanges () together in a longitudinal direction, The shoe portions are positioned next to each other in a circumferential direction the reference to a longitudinal direction of the space crafts. The first shoe portions being arranged to, at a prevailing Coulomb friction, not allow self-locking and the second show portions are arranged to allow self-locking.