Patent ID: 8985520
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. A parachute canopy system, comprising: a canopy having a skirt on an outer periphery of the canopy and a vent defined by an inner periphery of the canopy; a suspension line attached to the skirt; a first junction point on the skirt; a pair of first line members attached to the canopy along one side thereof and extending in a substantially radial direction away from the skirt towards the inner periphery of the canopy, a first end of each pair of first line members being connected together and to the suspension line at the first junction point on the skirt and each first line member having a second end terminating at the inner periphery of the canopy and being laterally spaced from each other along the inner periphery of the canopy; and a pair of second line members located along another side of the canopy, a first end of each of the second line members connected to the inner periphery of the canopy and to a respective second end of one of the first line members and a second end of each of the second line members connected to a single second junction point on the suspension line.