Abstract: Disclosed is a lumbar support system enabling the lower back to recoil during open canopy descent. The system includes at least one lumbar strap linked by a front link to the lower part of the main lift webs and arranged in such a way that same is adapted to be linked at least in one point to the back straps when arranged in a “V” shape at the rear of the parachute pack, or in two spaced-apart locations when arranged separately. After the main parachute opening, the angular pivoting of the lumbar strap performed by the transfer of the load onto the back of the user increases the respective spacing of the two main lift webs, which allows the lower back to recoil.

Abstract: A device for absorbing impacts of a parachutist or airdropped package upon landing, which can equip a harness, and/or a skydiver or dropping pallet for performing the aircraft jump without any risk of interferences, allows, during the aircraft exit and free fall, to hold, neutralized in a reduced volume, an air-inflatable airbag, for deployment during the canopy descent. It includes a container back pad hooked to the harness and/or to the user or to the dropping pallet, which can be made removable by straps and bridles, in which an airbag is arranged such that its air scoop is closed by flaps locked by a cutaway cable. When the user exerts an action on the opening handle or when the parachute opens, the cable separates the flaps, allowing to unballast the airbag and open the air scoop to the air flow from the movement of the harness during the descent.

Abstract: A device for absorbing impacts of a parachutist or airdropped package upon landing, which can equip a harness, and/or a skydiver or dropping pallet for performing the aircraft jump without any risk of interferences, allows, during the aircraft exit and free fall, to hold, neutralized in a reduced volume, an air-inflatable airbag, for deployment during the canopy descent. It includes a container back pad hooked to the harness and/or to the user or to the dropping pallet, which can be made removable by straps and bridles, in which an airbag is arranged such that its air scoop is closed by flaps locked by a cutaway cable. When the user exerts an action on the opening handle or when the parachute opens, the cable separates the flaps, allowing to unballast the airbag and open the air scoop to the air flow from the movement of the harness during the descent.

Abstract: A maintaining equipment with variable length side transverse strap segments in with the one side fastening strap, includes two pairs of saddle straps connected via saddle straps, to either the back transverse strap, back straps crossing the container backrest, or extension of the side transverse straps. The latter extends into a side fastening strap. A loop at a location locatable from the waist to the leg straps is run through by the side fastening strap or the side transverse strap. Strap tightening can occur at hooking or thereafter, allowing adjustment of the side transverse strap and the side fastening strap to maintain the container on the solo skydiver's back or maintain the passenger to the tandem pilot during freefall. Unlocking and/or loosening after canopy deployment elongates the side transverse strap with shortening of the side fastening strap allowing backward movement of the lower back and progression of the leg straps.

Abstract: A skydiving equipment with a drogue parachute to capture the deployment bag until the opening, and to suspend the parachutist(s) in a horizontal position during the free fall, while distributing the tension forces of the drogue parachute such that the ripcord operation is effortless, includes a first fastening strap bearing a lower tab and a second fastening strap bearing an upper tab to fasten the drogue parachute drogue bridle to the parachute pack at the desired level of the main container. A three-ring system connects the upper tab and the lower tab to the drogue parachute drogue bridle and is operational to effortlessly cause the release of the upper tab and the lower tab out of the drogue bridle simultaneously or successively, while the main container opens at a different time.

Abstract: A device, system and method of reserve parachute deployment comprising; a reserve bridle 2 connecting the reserve deployment bag 5 to the reserve pilot chute 4, and a lanyard 3 connecting the main parachute 1 to the reserve bridle 2 with a releasable attachment and a retention means of this attachment. This connection being placed onto a holding flap 17 of the reserve container 22, by releasable holding means. The system and method of realization allows the reserve parachute to be activated without cutting-away a main parachute, in a manner that the holding means are not released, while if the main parachute is cut away then the holding means release without the retention means doing so.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an equipment for jump in an oversized parachute for carrying a pilot (1) and a passenger (2) comprising a main harness (3) and a secondary harness (4) connected to the main harness (3) and provided with at least a dorsal part and a frontal part which can be applied on the back and the belly of the passenger (2), respectively, characterized in that it comprises means to maintain the dorsal part and the frontal part of the secondary harness (4) spaced apart. The invention has the advantage of enabling a better positioning of the passenger (2) during the canopy descent in view of the landing operations. The invention will find its application during jumps in tandem parachute.

Abstract: A maintaining equipment with variable length side transverse strap segments in with the one side fastening strap, includes two pairs of saddle straps connected via saddle straps, to either the back transverse strap, back straps crossing the container backrest, or extension of the side transverse straps. The latter extends into a side fastening strap. A loop at a location locatable from the waist to the leg straps is run through by the side fastening strap or the side transverse strap. Strap tightening can occur at hooking or thereafter, allowing adjustment of the side transverse strap and the side fastening strap to maintain the container on the solo skydiver's back or maintain the passenger to the tandem pilot during freefall. Unlocking and/or loosening after canopy deployment elongates the side transverse strap with shortening of the side fastening strap allowing backward movement of the lower back and progression of the leg straps.

Abstract: A device, system and method of reserve parachute deployment comprising; a reserve bridle 2 connecting the reserve deployment bag 5 to the reserve pilot chute 4, and a lanyard 3 connecting the main parachute 1 to the reserve bridle 2 with a releasable attachment and a retention means of this attachment. This connection being placed onto a holding flap 17 of the reserve container 22, by releasable holding means. The system and method of realization allows the reserve parachute to be activated without cutting-away a main parachute, in a manner that the holding means are not released, while if the main parachute is cut away then the holding means release without the retention means doing so.

Abstract: The device enables the gradual opening of the parachute canopy, round or square, during the spreading phase of the canopy (12), by an arrangement on the lower surface (30) of the canopy (12), combined with an arrangement on the slider (26) comprising at least a magnetic element (Z) provided on the canopy, which is attracted by at least another element (M) which is positioned on the slider (26). The device ensuring the holding of the slider (26) on bottom of the canopy during the spreading phase, thus ensuring that the slider (26) will not be displaced before the woven fabric (50) takes the shape of a dome (42) during this spreading phase prior to the inflating phase of the canopy (12), as it was the case in the prior art.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an equipment for jump in an oversized parachute for carrying a pilot (1) and a passenger (2) comprising a main harness (3) and a secondary harness (4) connected to the main harness (3) and provided with at least a dorsal part and a frontal part which can be applied on the back and the belly of the passenger (2), respectively, characterized in that it comprises means to maintain the dorsal part and the frontal part of the secondary harness (4) spaced apart. The invention has the advantage of enabling a better positioning of the passenger (2) during the canopy descent in view of the landing operations. The invention will find its application during jumps in tandem parachute.