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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2022
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Keith Ryan Hollen, Saint Charles, MO (US);
Nathan Matthew Knibb, Manchester, MO (US);
Perry T. Horst, Tacoma, WA (US);
Jonathan David Gettinger, Imperial, MO (US);
Alexander McGregor, St. Louis, MO (US);
Everett Ryan Eaton, Saint Charles, MO (US);
Michael L Oleshchuk, Saint Charles, MO (US);
Sean Craig Sundberg, Saint Charles, MO (US);
Angel Rodriguez, Saint Charles, MO (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A wing lock and deployment apparatus for an air launched vehicle includes a driver acted on by a single linear actuation event. The disclosed wing lock and deployment apparatus is capable of unlocking deployable wings of an air launched vehicle, deploying deployable wings of the air launched vehicle from a stored position, and locking deployable wings of the air launched vehicle in a deployed position in sequential order with the one single linear actuation event.