Harness/Container Equipment for Parachutes - Safety and Performance Design

The overall objective of the research is to achieve a multifunctional harness / container assembly for parachutes, adaptable to a big range of canopy types and packing volume. The container is designed to take over and maintain main and reserve parachute canopies in a folded stage. Container / harness assembly is the safety system of the parachutist; it controls the deployment and opening of parachutes. The main components and subassemblies of container are specific with the type of parachutes connected to the container (Romanian Air Club, 2013). Containers for sport parachutes have two compartments, the bottom compartment for main parachute and its subassemblies and the upper compartment for reserve parachute and its subassemblies. Sports containers have distinct requirements for main parachute compartment and reserve parachute compartment. Currently the sizes of reserve canopy parachute and main parachute canopy compartments are manufactured in accordance with the volume of folded canopies. The project innovation is to develop a multifunctional container with adjustable variable compartments volume that allow the hosting of three different sizes of main and reserve parachutes. We propose for the variable volume compartments to be achieved by adjusting the container side panel in three positions adequate with the three packing volume of the parachutes.