Patent ID: 6886785

Claim:
A ram air parachute having a control inflation upon deployment, the ram air parachute comprising: a top skin; a bottom skin opposite the top skin; a plurality of ribs between the top skin and bottom skin to form a plurality of cells, each cell having an inlet at the front of the parachute, wherein at least one rib has cross porting of lower conductance from the cross porting of at least one other rib; a plurality of suspension lines attached to the bottom skin; and a slider movably connected to the plurality of suspension lines to slow deployment of the parachute; wherein the slider is positioned so that during deployment of the ram air parachute, an inlet for a cell on one side of the at least one rib which has cross porting of lower conductance receives air while an inlet for a cell on another side of the at least one rib which has cross porting of lower conductance does not receive air.