CONVERTIBLE SHIPPING CONTAINER FOR AIRCRAFT AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME

Japanese Patent JP3272388

B2

PURPOSE: To provide a container with high reliability against shocks by fixing paralleled, isolated stiffeners to each wall of the container, which has a plurality of walls connected each other, and the walls of which may be formed into a take-off and landing pad when unfolded.
CONSTITUTION: When a VTOL(Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft 12 is transported and stored, an outer wing panel 24 is removed and stored in a box 26 of the container 10 and the box is stored in the predetermined position in the container 10. The container 10 has a cover 14, a base 16, sidewalls 18 and 19, a front wall 20, a back wall 22. Each wall including the base 16 is formed with two layers, such as a lower layer made of filled steel materials or the like and an upper layer made of a metal mesh or the like so that the wall may be unfolded on the deck of ship. And each wall is located in parallel across each other and has stiffeners 32 with many holes 34. The cover 14 is comprises with four triangle panels 14A-14D and is located outside from flat walls when unfolded.

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Robert W. Cress
Robert Sea Powers

JP774092A

April 08, 2002

January 20, 1992

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Grumman Aerospace Corporation

B65D85/68; B64F1/22; B64F1/36; B64F5/00; B65D88/12; B65G63/00; B65G65/00; (IPC1-7): B65D85/68; B65D88/12; B65G63/00; B65G65/00

JP5712742B2
JP6330200B2

【文献】米国特許2342264(US,A)
【文献】米国特許2360220(US,A)
【文献】米国特許2482918(US,A)
【文献】米国特許3708200(US,A)
【文献】独国特許出願公開1481974(DE,A1)
【文献】欧州特許出願公開30849(EP,A1)
【文献】仏国特許出願公開1372839(FR,A1)
【文献】仏国特許出願公開2089371(FR,A1)

Takashi Ogaki

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