Aeronautics inventions 12/07

20070295855 - Target maneuver detection: The present invention includes, in its various aspects and embodiments, a method and apparatus for determining whether a moving target is maneuvering. The method comprises determining an expected motion for the target assuming the target is not maneuvering; determining an upper bound and a lower bound for the expected motion;... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070295858 - Ornithopter: An new ornithopter is provided with an elongated body, wings extending laterally from the forward end of the elongated body, and a tail extending laterally from the rear end of the elongated body. In one embodiment, an elongated rotatable member is rotatably coupled at one end to the forward end... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070295859 - Heavy lift airship: A large heavy lift airship of lenticular shape is described making use of multiple temperature controlled buoyant cells for smooth control of buoyancy and trim.... Agent: Michael A. Ervin M. A. Ervin & Associates

20070295856 - Flying object for transonic or supersonic velocities: The invention relates to a flying object being moved with transonic or supersonic velocities. Known flying objects comprise so called “aerospikes” used for reducing the wave drag and improving the airflow at the front surface of the flying object. The positive effect of these aerospikes is decreased or cancelled in... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070295857 - Emergency device: The basic concept of the invention is to provide an auxiliary thrust mechanism that may be brought into action by the pilot or by an automatic on-board system that will allow the controlled flight to be maintained even after the loss of thrust from the tail rotor or fan for... Agent: Peter Lloyd

20070295860 - Propulsion system, aircraft comprising the propulsion system and an outlet device for a jet engine: A propulsion system for a craft includes two jet engines which are arranged parallel to one another. The system further includes an inlet and/or outlet device for each jet engine. Each device includes a duct for carrying a gas, the duct having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20070295861 - Carrier system for receiving components: A carrier system for receiving a component comprises a bottom plate integrated in the design of a conventional ball mat in order to introduce forces, e.g., acting on the ball mat, into the structure, for example an aircraft structure.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070295862 - Modular wall construction system for aircraft cabins: The individual room units presently used in aircraft, e.g. crew rest rooms, are usually fixed installations so that quick on-demand changeover of passenger seats to such a room unit may only be feasible with an extended change-over period in the repair hangar. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070295863 - Seating for a vehicle: A seating arrangement for a vehicle, especially an aircraft, in which seats are arranged in a plurality of generally parallel ranks, each rank extending in a fore-and-aft direction, and in a plurality of rows, each row extending at an angle other than a right angle with respect to said fore-and-aft... Agent: Attn: Intellectual Property Department Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP

20070295864 - Heili-kite, having an cambered streamedline airfoil inflated keel, filled with air or lighter than air substance, with a streamlined airfoil inflated keel, wing, nose, and tail uni-body, pleated stealth like shaped wings, with a bats wing shaped trailing: The heili-kite is an inflatable-kite having an inflated keel, it also has a uni-body structure consisting of the inflated keel, inflated reinforced pleated wing, inflated nose, and the inflated curved downward tail. The heili-kite is fabricated of a mylar material that is layered over each other in layers or a... Agent: Michael E. Garvin

20070295865 - Electromagnetic device for generating a force and a torque for positioning a body: An action device comprises first electromagnetic means installed on a first body and defining a first magnetic moment and a magnetic field and second electromagnetic means installed on a second body, distant from the first body, and defining a second magnetic moment able to interact with the magnetic field. It... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070290099 - Decoupled ducting for twin-engine reaction rotor drive: An engine system for an aircraft capable of operating in a helicopter-type flight mode and a fixed-wing flight mode and is capable of transitioning between those flight modes while in-flight includes first and second engines, and a ducting assembly. The ducting assembly includes a first exhaust subassembly in fluid communication... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070290096 - Methods and apparatus for guidance systems: Methods and apparatus for guidance systems according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a projectile including a guidance system having a guidance controller, a detector, and an optical system. The guidance controller controls the path of the projectile according to signals from the detector. The... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20070290097 - Vertical take-off and landing aircraft: An object of the invention is to prevent non-uniformity in the temperature distribution from occurring in a tip turbine fan in a vertical take-off and landing aircraft that uses the tip turbine fan as a source of thrust. In a vertical take-off and landing aircraft provided with a tip turbine... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070290098 - Airfoil having a movable control surface: An airfoil for use with an aircraft having an engine positioned such that exhaust from the engine flows under an underside of the airfoil. The airfoil includes an upper surface and a movable control element. The upper surface has a leading edge and a trailing edge. The movable control element... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20070284474 - Wirelessly controlling unmanned aircraft and accessing associated surveillance data: Controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may be accomplished by using a wireless device (e.g., cell phone) to send a control message to a receiver at the UAV via a wireless telecommunication network (e.g., an existing cellular network configured primarily for mobile telephone communication). In addition, the wireless device may... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070284475 - Programmable trim control system for marine applications: A programmable trim control system for marine applications preferably includes a controller, a control panel, a display device and a plurality of sensors. The controller receives input from the control panel and the plurality of sensors. The display device acts as a monitor for the controller. Each sensor monitors a... Agent: Vonbriesen & Roper, S.c.

20070284473 - Method and apparatus for fast deploying and retrieving of towed bodies: In a method and apparatus for controlling the deployment of a towline connecting a mooring craft to an ejected object comprising the steps of monitoring velocity to determine when a point for optimum braking has been achieved and then engaging a brake system to retard deployment of the towline, a... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20070284476 - Location signaling device: A location signalling device comprising a wing balloon for signalling a location. The wing balloon is fixed to a tether line that itself is fixed to the location to be signalled. The wing balloon has an inflatable aerodynamically shaped hollow body to be at least partly be filled with a... Agent: Steven S. Payne AratorIPLaw Group

20070284477 - Vertical tail unit for aircraft and aircraft equipped with same: The invention concerns a vertical tail unit (5) for an aircraft (1). The vertical tail unit is provided with an engine (7). The engine extends cantilevered beyond a fin (11) of the vertical tail unit and is secured to said fin by a mount (12). Said mount is at least... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070284478 - Magnetically induced aircraft landing wheel rotation: An aircraft landing wheel assembly comprising a set of rotating components and a set of static components wherein an applied electrical current applied to conductive elements associated with one set of components gives rise to primary magnetic fields which interact with reactive magnetic fields associated with the other set of... Agent: Rod F. Soderberg

20070284479 - Quick-change fastening system for mounting an element to a fastening structure: The present application describes a quick-change fastening system for demountably mounting an element to a fastening structure. The element comprises an engagement element that is designed to engage a bearing element of the fastening structure, wherein the element is hingeably held around the bearing element between a hooked-in position and... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070284480 - Electric-based secondary power system architectures for aircraft: Methods and systems for providing secondary power to aircraft systems. In one embodiment, an aircraft system architecture for providing power to an environmental control system includes an electric generator operably coupled to a jet engine. The jet engine can be configured to provide propulsive thrust to the aircraft, and the... Agent: Perkins Coie, LLP

20070284481 - Aircraft luggage handling system: In one embodiment, a method of operating an aircraft having a passenger cabin and a cargo hold, comprises the steps of directing passengers to board the aircraft, directing passengers to deposit their luggage in a luggage deposit location on-board the aircraft, and subsequently taking the deposited luggage from the luggage... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070284482 - Complimentary retrograde/prograde satellite constellation: A method for sensing and monitoring ICBM threats using a constellation of earth orbiting satellites. The method includes arranging a first and a second plurality of threat sensing satellites in earth orbit. The first plurality is selected to have a first prograde orbit plane with a first inclination angle between... Agent: Darby & Darby (formerly Sacco & Associates)

20070284483 - Mobile airfoil device for an aircraft wing: The invention concerns a mobile airfoil device that can locally modify the lift of an aircraft wing, including an upper panel and a lower panel and at least one actuator per panel in order to move the panels independently of one another between a first position, called rest, in which... Agent: Perman & Green

20070278344 - Apparatus and method for producing lift gas and uses thereof: Methods and apparatus are described for producing lift gas to enable balloon launch or to allow the prolongation of balloon flight. In one example, the method may include reforming a fuel source by reaction with water to generate hydrogen-rich lift gas mixtures, and injecting the lift gas into a balloon.... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20070278345 - Device for articulating a door of a nacelle of an aircraft and nacelle provided with said articulation device: An articulation device connects a door (46) of an aircraft nacelle (30), the nacelle (30) including an external wall called a fairing including at least one opening (44) adapted to be closed by at least the door (46). The articulation device includes at least one arm (56) connected by a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070278346 - Aircraft cabin configuration: In one embodiment, an aircraft comprises a fuselage 1, a passenger cabin 3 housed therein, and a primary opening 13 for accessing the cabin 3. The opening 13 is located in a central region extending from 20% to 80% of the total cabin length. The opening 13 has a width... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070278347 - Aircraft ejection seat with adjustable headrest: An aircraft ejection seat includes a frame and a headrest. The vertical position of the seat is adjusted by a pair of motor driven lead screws that cooperate with threaded barrel nuts attached to the seat frame. The upper end of one of these motor driven lead screws drives a... Agent: Goodrich Corporation C/o The Cavanagh Law Firm

20070278348 - Apparatus for opening airframe of missile by pyrotechnical power: Disclosed is an apparatus for opening an upper and lower split-type airframe hinge-coupled to a propulsion unit of a missile and separating a payload mounted in the airframe. The apparatus for opening the airframe of the missile by pyrotechnical power includes: pressure generation units installed between the airframe and the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070278349 - Helicopter-borne power line deicer: A deicer for removing ice or snow from a high voltage electric power transmission line suspended between opposed supports. The deicer incorporates a frame, a tether, an electric power source and a vibrator. One end of the tether is attachable to the frame; the tether's opposed end is attachable to... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20070278350 - Aircraft walkway: An aircraft 1 comprises a walkway 11 moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The aircraft may be arranged such that the walkway, in the deployed position, defines a path, at least a portion of which extends from the fuselage at an angle, when viewed from above, of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070278351 - Star blanking method, device and assembly therefor: The invention relates to a self-contained device (4) for blanking out the light rays from at least one star (1), which device (4) comprises means (43) for controlling propulsion means (44) which are in turn capable of moving or halting the device (4) in space and/or on a pseudo-orbit in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070278352 - Low-energy locking hinge mechanism for deployable devices: A low-energy locking hinge mechanism operable with a spacecraft to support a deployable device, and to facilitate the deployment and locking of the deployable device, the hinge mechanism comprising: (a) a support base configured to couple to a structure of the spacecraft; (b) means for securing a deployable device to... Agent: Thorpe, North & Western, LLP

20070278353 - Wings for aircraft: A wing for an aircraft is provided, including at least a first wing portion configured for providing high-lift mild stall characteristics at least at Reynolds numbers in the range between about 0.3*106 and about 2.0*106, and at least a second wing portion comprising a substantially permanently slotted aerofoil arrangement. Also... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20070278354 - Slotted high lift aerofoils: A slotted aerofoil configuration is provided in which the leading element thereof is contoured to provide mild stall characteristics. A wing based partially or fully on such an aerofoil, an air vehicle including such wings, and a method for designing an aerofoil are also disclosed... Agent: The Nath Law Group