US 12,434,863 B2
Actuator module for releasing an equipment component
Thomas Sinn, Germering (DE); Markus Pietras, Germering (DE); Thomas Lund, Germering (DE); and Alexander Titz, Germering (DE)
Assigned to DEPLOYABLES CUBED GMBH, Germering (DE)
Appl. No. 17/796,330
Filed by DCUBED GMBH, Germering (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 20, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/051103
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/151732, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102020000688.4 (DE), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0092406 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B64G 1/64 (2006.01); B64G 1/22 (2006.01); F16B 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC B64G 1/6457 (2023.08) [B64G 1/2228 (2023.08); F16B 21/165 (2013.01); F16B 2200/77 (2023.08)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An actuator module for releasing an equipment component, comprising:
a module base, the module base forming a guide sleeve;
a release body provided for coupling with the equipment component and inserted into the guide sleeve, wherein the release body is arranged movably relative to the guide sleeve along a sleeve axis thereof from a standby position into a working position, wherein the release body, in the standby position, is under the action of a first spring bias which urges the release body towards the working position and is capable of effecting release of the equipment component by transfer from the standby position to the working position;
a blocking body mounted on the guide sleeve and movable relative thereto between a blocking position and a release position, which blocking body, in the blocking position, causes blocking of the release body against movement from the standby position into the working position and, in the release position, allows movement of the release body from the standby position into the working position, wherein the blocking body, in the blocking position, is under the action of a second spring bias which urges the blocking body in the direction from the release position towards the blocking position; and
an actuator unit for moving the blocking body from the blocking position to the release position, the actuator unit comprising at least one actuator wire of a shape memory material secured with both wire ends to the module base and coupled to the blocking body for applying an activation force counteracting the second spring bias.