Aeronautics inventions 04/07

20070090228 - Method and system of automatic control: The invention relates to aircraft automatic control systems. Its use for providing flight safety of civil aircrafts allows to obtain the technical result in the form of reducing a probability of a missile hit on a civil aircraft and ensuring protection reliability in optical interference environment. This technical result is... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20070090229 - Dynamic yaw steering method for spacecrafts: A spacecraft with a yaw steering system performing yaw steering. The yaw steering includes steering the spacecraft to have a yaw angle (ψ) for all sun elevation angles (β) in accordance with a yaw steering guidance law that provides a yaw steering motion about a yaw axis which is smooth... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070084961 - Method and arrangement for low or non-rotating artillery shells: This disclosure relates to a method and an arrangement for low or non-rotating artillery shells fired from launch weaponry, and which introduces a portion of the barrel pressure built up in the barrel during the launch phase into a chamber arranged in the low or non-rotating artillery shell which is... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070084962 - An unloaded lift offset rotor system for a helicopter: A rotor system (12) for a helicopter (10) includes a rotating shaft (82). A gimbaled hub assembly (56) is coupled to the rotating shaft (82). Rotating blades (24) and non-rotating blades (33) are coupled to the gimbaled hub assembly (56). The non-rotating blades (33) provide lift for the helicopter (10)... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20070084963 - Method and device for synchrophasing the propellers of an aircraft with several propulsion units: For constant-speed synchrophasing of the propellers (14) of the propulsion units (10) of an aircraft each equipped with an electronic control circuit (20) connected to a communications network (32) of the aircraft, each control circuit of a propulsion unit includes a clock delivering a clock signal at a frequency representing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070084964 - Thrust reversers including support members for inhibiting deflection: Aircraft systems having thrust reversers with support members are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an aircraft system includes a thrust reverser having a nozzle inner wall, a nozzle outer wall radially outward of the inner wall, and a blocker door carried by the outer wall. The blocker door is movable... Agent: Perkins Coie, LLP

20070084965 - Method of launching a catapult, catapult, and locking device: A method of launching a catapult, a catapult and a locking device for a catapult. The catapult comprises a carriage (4) for fastening an aircraft (5). The carriage (4) can be provided with a high acceleration by directing a launching force (F1) generated by a launching device thereto. The carriage... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070084966 - Stowage bin with shear fittings: An aircraft stowage bin assembly includes shear fittings configured to route a content load from the bucket of the bin assembly to the airframe in the event of a forward load condition, such as a crash or severe turbulence. When the forward inertial load factor on the stowage bin is... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070084967 - System and method for fabricating composite parts: The present application is directed to systems for controlling the direction of thermal expansion of a composite part during thermal processing. The systems may comprise at least one guiding mechanism capable of being attached to a surface of a tool for fabricating composites and at least one moveable composite insert... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070084968 - In-flight refueling system, boom, and method for extending range of motion of an in-flight refueling boom: An in-flight refueling system, boom, and method are provided for extending the range of motion of an in-flight refueling boom carried by a first aircraft so as to facilitate an in-flight refueling operation between the first and the second aircraft. More specifically, in some embodiments the present invention provides a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070084969 - A device and an aircraft anti-icing system comprising such a device: a temperature-dependent regulating means (20) connected to the valve arrangement for controlling the position of the valve member and thereby the amount of gas entering the mixing chamber from the secondary fluid inlet in dependence upon the temperature of the gas flowing through the primary fluid inlet or the fluid... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070084970 - Miniature kite frame: A miniature kite measuring less than ten inches wide and seven inches high, using a single one-piece die-cut polymer frame permanently attached to a miniature kite sail to produce the aerodynamic qualities desired for kites. The present invention also discloses a laminate frame using multiple die-cut polymer frame members where... Agent: Kenneth R. Wright

20070084971 - Wireless-controlled airplane: A wireless-controlled airplane includes a flying unit and an on-ground controller which is connected to the flying unit through a communication section and flies the flying unit. The flying unit includes a body, a drive section installed on the body, a propulsion apparatus which generates a propulsive force when driven... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070080257 - Flow path splitter duct: A flow path splitter duct is provided. The flow path splitter duct includes a main hub, a first outlet hub and a second outlet hub. The main hub has a plurality of inlet ports each being separated by at least one wall. The first outlet hub has a plurality of... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20070080258 - Modular seat system for a vehicle: A modular seat system for a passenger compartment of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, with at least one seat which includes a seat unit with a seating element and a seat back, a seat frame with at least one pair of essentially vertical support elements, at whose upper end... Agent: Perman & Green

20070080259 - Heavy payload parachute ground disconnecting device: The present invention relates to a heavy payload parachute ground disconnecting device. The device comprises an actuator for keeping a holding mechanism in a locked position during a predetermined time interval and after elapse of the predetermined time interval for releasing the holding mechanism when a force acting on the... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070080260 - Launching vehicle and satellite connection-separation apparatus: A launcher and satellite connection-separation apparatus comprising a band (11) with an inner channel in which a plurality of clamps (13) are located in a sliding manner, which clamps are applied on the rings (15, 17) making up the joining interface between both vehicles, means (19) for radially tightening the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070080261 - Method for load limitation in drive systems for a high lift system for aeroplanes: The invention relates to a device for load limitation in a aircraft high lift system, said system comprising individual segments of landing flap systems and slat flap systems, and a drive unit. The inventive device for load limitation comprises a control unit that is connected to position sensors and is... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070080262 - Device for moving at least one moveable element in a gas turbine: The invention relates to a device (20) for moving at least one moveable element (19) in a gas turbine engine (1) between a first and a second position. The device includes a linkage (21) that connects a pivotable annular member (18) with the moveable element (19) in such a way... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070075182 - Directed infrared countermeasures (dircm) system and method: An agile, high-power, reliable DIRCM system that is easily extended to address sophisticated UV or UV-visible capable multi-band threats includes a missile warner having missile warning receivers (MWRs), one or two-color suitably in the mid-IR range, that detect likely missile launch and pass the threat coordinates to a pointer-tracker having... Agent: Thomas J. Finn, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070075183 - Wing arrangement as well as a missile: A wing arrangement (10), which can be pushed onto a structure, such as a missile, and which includes a number of tubular segments (14) and a number of wings (16) which are arranged on the tubular segments (14). In order to allow the wing arrangement (10) to be pushed on... Agent: Leopold Presser, Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070075184 - Direct mounted propulsion for non-rigid airships: A propulsion assembly for attachment to the enclosing material of an airship which includes a base which is positioned proximate to the enclosing material. An extension member having opposed ends projects away from the base and includes opposed ends. A motor assembly is attached to the end of the extension... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070075185 - Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft, including releasably gripping aircraft during launch and braking subsequent grip motion: Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft and other flight devices or projectiles are described. In one embodiment, the aircraft can be launched from an apparatus that includes a launch carriage that moves along a launch guide. The carriage can accelerate when portions of the carriage and/or the launch guide... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070075186 - Airship with lifting gas cell system: An airship with a lifting gas cell system comprises an airship that contains a plurality of partitions and a plurality of diaphragms, wherein the partitions and diaphragms are configured to form a number of gas cells that contain a lifting gas such as helium, and a single air cell that... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070075187 - Window frame for aircraft: A window frame for installation in the exterior shell of an aircraft, which comprises one outer flange, an inner flange, and a vertical flange extending between between flanges. A window frame is fixed in its position via a plurality of holder elements being arranged substantially equidistance from each other over... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070075188 - Low power, pulsed, electro-thermal ice protection system: An electro-thermal ice protection system for an airfoil comprises: a metal foil heater including an integral parting strip, the metal foil heater configurable to cover at least a portion of a leading edge of the airfoil with the integral parting strip disposed along an air-stagnation zone of the leading edge;... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Goodrich Corp.

20070075189 - Parachute with skirt reefing system: A parachute system has a canopy, suspension lines that extend from the canopy skirt to a confluence point, and a center line that is attached to and between the apex of the canopy and the confluence point. A single reefing line cutter is attached to the center line and is... Agent: Us Army Soldier Systems Center

20070075190 - Solid propellant-based space propulsion device: Disclosed is a space propulsion device capable of continuous operation using a solid propellant having high density and excellent handleability. The solid propellant-based space propulsion device comprises solid-propellant support means for supporting a solid propellant, a solid-propellant attachment surface for permitting the solid propellant to be attached thereon, solid-propellant feed... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP