Patent ID: 6779431
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: F41H

Abstract:
An arrangement to protect the occupants of a military vehicle in the event of a percussive-type impact on a surface of the vehicle, the vehicle including a cabin having an interior surface and the interior surface of the cabin being subject to deflection in the event of a percussive-type event, the arrangement comprising:a foot floor being selectively alternatively disposable between at least one position which is an operating position at which the foot floor is supported at a damage mitigation spacing, from a respective portion of the interior surface of the cabin which is intermediate the foot floor and the travel surface on which the vehicle is traveling and at which no structures connect the foot floor and the interior surface of the cabin to one another with a rigidity sufficient to transmit to the foot floor more than a negligible amount of the energy of a deflection of the interior surface of the cabin in the event of a percussive-type event, and a rest position at which the foot floor is closer to the respective portion of the interior surface of the cabin than in its operating position, the foot floor being selectively movable, at a time prior to the occurrence of a percussive-type event, between its operating position and its rest position in a sequence of movement such that the foot floor moves successively from its operating position into its rest position and then returns to its operating position, whereupon the foot floor is available, upon ultimately returning to its operating position at the end of such sequence of movement, for supporting the feet of a vehicle occupant.