Aeronautics inventions 07/07

20070170306 - Unity method: This invention defines a Method for managing the psychological and physiological state of an individual person's life. The Method is a conscious perception of the Unity of the universe that we live in; whereby all natural and physical laws are included to understand and solve problems. Utilizing this Method creates... Agent: Eric R. Weaver

20070170307 - Convertible aircraft operating method: The invention relates to a convertible aircraft operating method. According to the invention, the aircraft comprises: a fuselage, standard fixed wings which are equipped with ailerons, a tail unit with flight-control surfaces, engines, a rotor with blades, a transmission which is placed between the engines and the rotor and which... Agent: Collen Ip

20070170308 - Brake for a kite: A kite brake and a kite that uses a brake are disclosed. The brake includes a spring-loaded standoff that is biased to push a top surface of a sail of the kite away from a strut of the kite when an air pressure on the bottom surface of the sail... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070170309 - Flight device (aircraft) with a lift-generating fuselage: An aircraft has a lift-generating fuselage (1), the largest span (11) of the fuselage being in the third fifth (15) or the four fifth (17) of the total length thereof. The outline of the fuselage progressively tapers off in the first fifth (13) and in the last fifth (18). The... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070170310 - Aircraft cabin: An aircraft cabin that comprises a plurality of compartments (5) for passengers each having side walls (7a, 7b, 15) and accessible via a doorway (9) in one of the side walls (7a, 7b, 15). The compartments (5) include door assemblies for closing the doorways (9) and creating enclosed spaces and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070170311 - Resting deck in an aircraft with resting cabins: A resting deck in an aircraft with a plurality of side-by-side arranged resting compartments, which are oriented in a special way and manner, in order to make use of the existing space as optimally as possible, and an aircraft, which is equipped with such a resting deck. The resting deck... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070170312 - Energy-efficient electro-thermal ice-protection system: A region of an airfoil to be protected from accreted ice is heated to reduce the strength of the bond between the ice and the airfoil, and is mechanically deformed to shed the accreted ice after the bond has been sufficiently weakened. Heating ceases before substantial water runback is generated.... Agent: Mark H. Jay, P.A.

20070170313 - Method and device for reducing the wake vortices of an aircraft in the approach/landing phase: According to the invention, the spoilers are automatically ordered to deploy when the lift-augmenting aerodynamic surfaces are themselves ordered to deploy and are automatically ordered to retract when at least one of the following three conditions holds: the angle of incidence α of the aircraft is equal to or greater... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070164148 - Helicopter: A helicopter has a main rotor with propeller blades which is driven by a rotor shaft and which is hinge-mounted to this rotor shaft. The angle between the surface of rotation of the main rotor and the rotor shaft may vary. A swinging manner on an oscillatory shaft is essentially... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070164149 - Helicopter: A helicopter has a main rotor with propeller blades which is driven by a rotor shaft and which is hinge-mounted to this rotor shaft. The angle between the surface of rotation of the main rotor and the rotor shaft may vary. A swinging manner on an oscillatory shaft is essentially... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070164146 - Rotary wing aircraft: A rotary wing aircraft is provided with longitudinally oriented counter-rotating rotors with circumferentially spaced variable pitch rotor blades connected to rotatable support rings mounted on the aircraft fuselage. Rotor downwash may be guided laterally and longitudinally by respective sets of moveable guide vanes. Propulsion may be obtained by an engine... Agent: Ip Section, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP 3000 Thanksgiving Tower

20070164147 - Aircraft internal wing and design: An aircraft designed with three wings located on either side of the fuselage. The forward wing has a downward angle with a curved top and bottom surface. The upper wing is located towards the rear of the aircraft and above the forward wing. The lower wing is located below the... Agent: Gable & Gotwals

20070164150 - Helicopter with horizontal control: A helicopter includes a system to effect motion in a horizontal dimension thereby to direct the desired direction. The rotor blades are driven by a rotor shaft and which is hinge mounted on this rotor shaft, such that the angle between the plane of rotation of the main rotor and... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070164151 - Aircraft shock strut and improved bearings therefor: An aircraft shock strut includes a cylinder and a piston telescopically movable within the cylinder. A first bearing is mounted to one of the cylinder and the piston. The first bearing includes a support structure and a first bearing surface formed by a lead-free PTFE material layer for providing sliding... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar

20070164152 - Deformable forward pressure bulkhead for an aircraft: An aircraft forward pressure bulkhead as described herein includes a malleable and deformable dome that is configured to “catch” foreign objects, such as birds. The dome is intentionally designed to deform in response to a foreign object strike that imparts at least a threshold amount of impact energy to the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070164153 - Flap simulators: A flap simulator for an aircraft has a support with a handle. A first couple is on the support and is selectively engageable to a flap track for guiding an aircraft flap. A second couple is also on the support and is selectively engageable to a flap actuator for moving... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070164154 - Baggage bin door and baggage bin: A baggage bin for an aircraft includes a compartment with a lower face substantially plane and a first flap that, in a closing position, is inclined toward the inside of the baggage bin in relation to a plane perpendicular to the lower face of the baggage bin. The first flap... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164156 - Continuous power bus for seat power: A method of providing power and/or data to a seat in a seating area. A power distribution system having a continuous power bus is used to supply power and/or data to seats in a mobile platform or fixed structure. The power distribution system generally includes a bus strip that, in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070164155 - Telescopic stowage bin: A stowage bin arrangement for fastening a stowage bin for an aircraft, includes a stowage bin unit with a first direction of extension. The stowage bin unit may be fastened to an aircraft structure and be designed such that the stowage bin unit is capable of being tele-scopically extended along... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070164157 - Aircraft seating and seating arrangements: A seat (20) for a commercial aircraft capable of conversion to a sleeping configuration, comprises a seat back (26), a seat base (22) and a leg rest mounted within a seat shell, comprising side members (12, 14) and a back shell part (10) the rear surface of the back shell... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070164158 - Aircraft fuselage with upper and lower deck: Aircraft fuselage with an upper deck, constructed as a passenger area, and a lower deck, constructed as a freight area, and with a ventilation installation for the upper deck and lower deck, wherein a bilge area is provided, which is constructed as a vacuum chamber against the freight area and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070164159 - Compliant crown panel for an aircraft: An aircraft forward pressure bulkhead and an aircraft crown panel are described herein. The forward pressure bulkhead includes a malleable and deformable dome that is configured to “catch” foreign objects, such as birds. The dome is intentionally designed to deform in response to a foreign object strike that imparts at... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070164160 - Support device for fire-detection system: The invention relates to a support device which is designed to be installed between an aircraft engine and an associated thrust reverser, said device being equipped with a support means which can support at least one fire-detection element in the form of a capillary. The invention is characterized in that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070164161 - Aircraft structure and a fastener for use therewith: An aircraft structure, for example wing (20), comprises a structural skeleton comprising structural elements (in this example spars (60) and ribs (70)) enclosed within a skin (200). A fastener (110a,b) is fastened to the skeleton and wholly within the skin (200). The fastener (110a,b) fastens to the structure (20) a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070164162 - Aerially transportable tank for storing a composition for discharging in flight: The invention relates to an aerially transportable tank (20) for storing a composition for discharging in flight, the tank including a neck (23) terminated by a composition discharge opening (24), and having a wall (21) extending the neck that is sufficiently deformable to be received in part or in full... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070164163 - Integral accumulator valve and ram module with seal heater: A system and method is provided for pre-heating seals in an unpressurized gas-powered stores ejection system. The system and method allow the seals of the stores ejection system to be made pliable when operating at a low ambient temperature, and thus reliably seal during operation in Arctic cold start environments.... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070164164 - Method and associated apparatus for capturing, servicing, and de-orbiting earth satellites using robotics: This invention is a method and supporting apparatus for autonomously capturing, servicing and de-orbiting a free-flying spacecraft, such as a satellite, using robotics. The capture of the spacecraft includes the steps of optically seeking and ranging the satellite using LIDAR, and matching tumble rates, rendezvousing and berthing with the satellite.... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20070164166 - Apparatus and method for backup control in a distributed flight control system: Embodiments of the invention relate to a flight control system for controlling an aircraft during flight. The flight control system may include a primary controller configured to receive an input from a pilot and to output a primary control signal and a primary transmission path connected to the primary controller... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20070164167 - Autorotation flight control system: The present invention provides computer implemented methodology that permits the safe landing and recovery of rotorcraft following engine failure. With this invention successful autorotations may be performed from well within the unsafe operating area of the height-velocity profile of a helicopter by employing the fast and robust real-time trajectory optimization... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20070164168 - System and method for an integrated backup control system: Embodiments of the invention relate to a flight control system for controlling an aircraft in flight having a backup control system integrated into an active control stick. The actuated control stick may include a processing unit that includes independent and separate hardware and/or software dedicated to the primary control system... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20070158492 - Time-to-go missile guidance method and system: A method and apparatus for guiding a vehicle to intercept a target is described. The method iteratively estimates a time-to-go until target intercept and modifies an acceleration command based upon the revised time-to-go estimate. The time-to-go estimate depends upon the position, the velocity, and the actual or real time acceleration... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070158493 - Fire control system using a lidar (laser identification, detecting and ranging) unit: A fire control system that includes an array of photodiode elements. For each element of the photodiode array, there is a specific optical path in the atmosphere leading from the laser to a target and back from the target to the element. Accordingly, each element of the detector array can... Agent: David Klein Dekel Patent

20070158494 - Tilt-rotor aircraft: A tilt-rotor aircraft (1) comprising a pair of contra-rotating co-axial tiltable rotors (11) on the longitudinal centre line of the aircraft. The rotors (11) may be tiltable sequentially and independently. They may be moveable between a lift position and a flight position in front of or behind the fuselage (19).... Agent: James F Hann Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld

20070158495 - High lift and high strength aerofoil: A high lift stepped aerofoil section, incorporating a leading edge 1, trailing edge 3 and a step 2 to provide a higher vertical component in its construction; the aerofoil has greater perceived root thickness giving greater lift through compression 4 on the aerofoil under surface. The section has high pressure... Agent: Adrian Alexander Hubbard

20070158496 - Mechanism for reducing heat generation in a joint: The invention relates to mechanisms for reducing heat generation in a pivot joint, and to methods for their use. The mechanism may be designed to average relative velocities of a pin with respect to velocities of first and second members joined by the pin. The mechanism may comprise at least... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070158497 - Geared wheel motor design: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for driving an aircraft having an undercarriage wheel, comprising aircraft drive means for driving an undercarriage wheel, and a clutch disposed between said driven means and said wheel, wherein said drive means and said clutch are directly connected to the undercarriage apparatus.... Agent: Borealis Technical Limited

20070158498 - Uav recovery system ii: A UAV recovery system is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment for UAV recovery over water, the system includes ship-based elements and UAV-based elements. The UAV-based elements include a mass, such as ball, that is coupled to cord, which is in turn coupled to the tail of a UAV. The ship-based... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070158501 - Aircraft heater floor panel: An aircraft heated floor panel (10) comprising a heat-generating layer (20) including an electric heater (52) having current supply lines (54) and a controller (60) which controls the current supplied to the heater (52) via the supply lines (54) to thereby control the heat generated by the layer (20). The... Agent: Don W. Bulson (goodrich) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070158499 - Aircraft air disinfection system: An aircraft air conditioning system for conditioning of the cabin and/or cockpit air comprises an air re-circulation circuit (13, 14, 15, 16) and a UVC radiation unit (12) positioned so as to irradiate air in the re-circulation circuit (13, 14, 15, 16) with ultra violet light. The air conditioning system... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070158500 - Solid oxide fuel cell system for aircraft power, heat, water, and oxygen generation: An aircraft contains a plurality of solid oxide fuel cells located in different portions of the aircraft. A method of operating the plurality of solid oxide fuel cells includes providing power from each of the plurality of solid oxide fuel cells to at least one of a plurality of power... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070158502 - Ultrasonic communication and drag modification: A vehicle traveling through an environmental media such as air experiences drag. The drag is actively modulated by energy beams which may either increase or decrease the drag. The energy beams may provide either a chemical, acoustic or electromagnetic energy at a transition region between turbulent and laminar flows or... Agent: Paul D. Bianco: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini, & Bianco P.l.

20070158503 - Fluid dynamic foil with coanda energizer: Presented is an improved concept airfoil, or more properly called fluid dynamic foil, that promises coefficients of lift several times better than present day airfoils or hydrofoils. This is accomplished by use of a rotary Coanda fluid accelerator that is part of the boundary of a high camber or fat... Agent: Donald E. Burg

20070152096 - Rocket engine having guide vanes in the nozzle of the engine: A rocket engine having guide vanes in the engine nozzle the guide vanes (2) being mounted for turning at or near the rearmost ends of fixed vanes (1) being parallel to the axis of the nozzle and protruding into the combustion chamber of the engine. The foremost ends (4) of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070152097 - Exhaust assembly for mass ejection drive system: The present invention discloses a system, device and method for providing an exhaust assembly adapted for use with a mass ejection drive system to produce rotational torque about the principle axis of the drive system. Representative features generally include a vane suitably configured to at least partially engage a mass... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20070152098 - Structural mechanism for unlocking and engaging a controllable surface on a hinged platform (wing): A structural mechanism for an aircraft includes a support, a hinged surface, and a hinge assembly joining the hinged surface to the support. An actuation system includes an actuator shaft engaged to the hinges and lying coincident with a hinged-surface hinge axis and extending through the aligned center passagways of... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070152099 - Onboard modular optronic system: The present invention relates to a modular optronics system onboard a carrier, such as a combat aircraft, a helicopter or a drone. The system as claimed in the invention comprises at least one optronics element having a target line that can be addressed in a given space, and comprising a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070152100 - Double module for aircraft passenger(s): a partition (18) intended to achieve separation between the two seats (10), this partition (18) being displaceable from a first position, in which it achieves separation of the two seats (10), to a second stored position, in which it does not form a barrier between the two seats (10).... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070152101 - Variable-force payload ejecting system: The Variable-Force Payload Ejecting System, residing within an air vehicle, utilizes multiple pressure generators, one or more of which may be activated, to produce variable levels of force. A controlling computer within the air vehicle determines when and how much pressure needs to be generated to eject a given item,... Agent: Department Of The Army Legal Office

20070152102 - High drag parachute with radial slots providing porosity distribution and enhanced stability without forward speed: A parachute having radial slots distributed at regular intervals around the shoulder region to effect boundary flow separation, causing Von Karmen Vortex Street shed vortices to separate in a symmetrical manner from the inflated shape and resulting in an extremely stable aerodynamic decelerator. In addition, pressure vents in the crown... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070152103 - Kite system having a light transmitter and a light receiver: A kite system having a light transmitter and a light receiver is described. The kite system comprises a kite having a light receiver attached with the kite. The light receiver is capable of receiving and registering a light signal. A light transmitter is included for emitting a light signal. The... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20070152104 - Method and system for flow control with arrays of dual bimorph synthetic jet fluidic actuators: A system and method for control of a fluid flow. The system includes an array of interdependent fluidic actuators, each including a chamber, a flow control port, and opposite side walls configured to expand apart and contract together to flow a control fluid through the flow control port in response... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070152105 - Composite fiber component produced by braiding: A fiber composite component is at least partially produced by braiding. It comprises a core element which has at least one concavely constructed face that is adjoined by a passage opening. Respective opposite transverse or longitudinal sides of the core element and the side of the passage opening not bounded... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070152106 - Wing, particularly airfoil of an aircraft, having changeable profile: A wing, particularly an airfoil of an aircraft, having a changeable profile, which extends in the wing depth direction (5) running essentially in the flow direction and transversely thereto in the wing span direction and has a first planking (55a) and a second planking (55b), and having a flexible area... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.