Abstract: A sling seat includes a seat back and a seat bottom cushion connected by resilient arms. Flexible supports and emergency release connectors suspend the seat from an overhead structure. The height of the seat, and the position of the seat back relative to the seat bottom cushion, are adjustable. The seat may be used in a military vehicle, for example as a gunner sling seat.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 31, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 18, 2012
Assignee:
BAE Systems Safety Products Inc.
Inventors:
Robert Alan Mehl, Andrew Walker, Norman Raul Shimizu, Jorge Cuervo, Michael Duncan, Marianne Kump
Abstract: A sling seat includes a seat back and a seat bottom cushion connected by resilient arms. Flexible supports and emergency release connectors suspend the seat from an overhead structure. The height of the seat, and the position of the seat back relative to the seat bottom cushion, are adjustable. The seat may be used in a military vehicle, for example as a gunner sling seat.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 31, 2011
Publication date:
October 6, 2011
Applicant:
BAE Systems Safety Products Inc.
Inventors:
Robert Alan Mehl, Andrew Walker, Norman Raul Shimizu, Jorge Cuervo, Michael Duncan, Marianne Kump
Abstract: An apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle includes a vest and a restraint incorporated into the vest. The vest includes a front panel, a back panel, and left and right shoulder portions extending between the front panel and the back panel. The vest has an inner face and an outer face. The restraint includes a front latch fixed to the vest front panel and a back latch fixed to the vest back panel. The restraint includes webbing portions extending in a force-transmitting relationship between the front latch and the back latch, within the front panel and the shoulder portions and the back panel of the vest, so as to extend at least partially around the torso of a occupant wearing the vest. The front panel of the vest includes a front armor pocket and the back panel of the vest includes a back armor pocket, for receiving and supporting panels of body armor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 27, 2010
Date of Patent:
May 3, 2011
Assignee:
BAE Systems Safety Products, Inc.
Inventors:
Andrew Walker, Marianne Kump, Ron Grilliot
Abstract: A high mobility restraint for a side facing vehicle occupant allows the occupant's trailing shoulder to rotate forward during the vehicle collision by a controlled amount after the restraint is activated, and allows the occupant's lower torso to move by a controlled amount in the vehicle direction of travel during the vehicle collision after the restraint is activated.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 22, 2009
Publication date:
October 28, 2010
Applicant:
BAE SYSTEMS SAFETY PRODUCTS INC.
Inventors:
Marianne Kump, Andrew Walker, Stefan Meier-Arndt