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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2022
The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Newport, RI (US);
Paul V Cavallaro, Raynham, MA (US);
Nicholas A Valm, Dartmouth, MA (US);
Jacob D O'Donnell, Middletown, RI (US);
Michael P Smith, Warwick, RI (US);
Abstract
An inflatable deployable mast fairing assembly is provided with a rigid foundation, a hydrodynamic fairing and at least one soft actuator. The hydrodynamic fairing is shaped to close an aperture formed between a deployable hardware system and a sail bay opening. A first soft actuator connects to the rigid foundation at one end and to the hydrodynamic fairing at another. Fluid pressurization elongates a first soft actuator coaxial to the deployable hardware system to fittedly position the fairing in the aperture with a void in the fairing to receive the hardware system. If the rigid foundation is sail-mounted, a second soft actuator connects to the sail-mounted foundation opposite the first soft actuator and to a counter flange mechanically connected to the hydrodynamic fairing. A second pressurization elongates the second soft actuator coaxial to the deployable hardware system to retract the hydrodynamic fairing from the aperture.