Aeronautics inventions 09/08

20080230649 - Aircraft spiraling mechanism with jet assistance - d: An aircraft 1 with a spiral inducing assembly 2 which is capable of inducing the aircraft to travel in a continuous spiraling motion without the aircraft rolling. A ramjet 6b is attached to a tube 3 that is able to rotate around the encircled part of the fuselage. The ramjet... Agent: Tom Kusic

20080230656 - Aircraft wings having hinged vanes and aircraft having said wings: Reconfigurable aircraft wings with at least one set of hinged upper and lower vanes and aircraft that are equipped with such wings are provided. When the aircraft are taking off or landing vertically, the hinged vanes are open in order to allow rotor thrust to go through the wings, thereby... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20080230650 - Aircraft landing gear: The invention relates to an aircraft landing gear comprising a landing gear leg, wherein the landing gear leg or one or more parts of the landing gear leg consists partly or completely of a fiber composite material.... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080230651 - Turbofan provided with a pre-cooler: The invention concerns a turbofan provided with a pre-cooler. The invention is characterized in that to evacuate the heated cool air stream (24), at least one discharge pipe (25) is arranged in the chamber (12) and connects the pre-cooler (18) to at least one discharge orifice (26) provided in the... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080230652 - Composite barrel sections for aircraft fuselages and other structures, and methods and systems for manufacturing such barrel sections: Composite sections for aircraft fuselages and methods and systems for manufacturing such sections are disclosed herein. A composite section configured in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a skin and at least first and second stiffeners. The skin can include a plurality of unidirectional fibers forming a continuous... Agent: Perkins Coie, LLP

20080230653 - Self-powered dimmable windows with integrated controls: An electrically controlled dimmable window for aircraft includes a controller and power that eliminates the need for wiring connections to on-board systems. The controller is integrated into the sidewall in which the window is mounted. Power for controlling the window is derived from an energy harvesting device that generates power... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080230654 - Hydrogen fueled blended wing body ring tank: A toroidal shaped or ring fuel tank located within the loft line of a blended wing body aircraft is disclosed. The ring tank may be used in an aircraft to store liquid hydrogen fuel with a reduced tank weight. The ring tank may be continuous with no tank end domes... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP - Boeing

20080230655 - Air barrier for use with an expandable structure: An air barrier having a scuff coating is used in connection with the core of a spacecraft to form an inflatable, or expandable, human habitat module. The air barrier is comprised of a number of segments joined together to form a enclosure that has at least one opening. The joined... Agent: Franklin E. Gibbs, Esq.

20080223976 - Space vehicle launch system: A space vehicle launch system is proposed which utilizes a vacuum filled lighter than air vessel to lift a rocket powered vehicle to a high altitude where the vehicle can easily blast into outer space. The main advantages of this system are that, first, the rocket would not need to... Agent: Robert S. Turner

20080223977 - Methods and apparatus for projectile guidance: Methods and apparatus for projectile systems according to various aspects of the present invention comprise a projectile attached to an auxiliary control system. The auxiliary control system may include a control system and a transverse propulsion system. The control system controls the trajectory of the projectile system, for example by... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20080223994 - Moveable wings on a flying/hovering vehicle: The present invention includes an embodiment defined as a flying vehicle having a pair of wings and a transition assembly partially housed within each of the pair of wings. The transition assembly has ends rotatable with respect to each other and separately secured to the wing in which the end... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20080223978 - Variable fluid intake with ramp and inflatable bag: Methods and apparatus for a fluid inlet according to various aspects of the present invention comprise a housing and a ramp at least partially within the housing. The housing and the ramp define a passage through which air may flow to the engine and a cavity on the opposite side... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC

20080223979 - Aerodynamic lifting device and airborne craft: An airborne craft is provided comprising an aerodynamic lifting device having a radial drum fan and a thrust vectoring shroud. The radial drum or vertical axis fan comprises a fan with a rotor, the rotor having a rotational axis and comprising a plurality of rotor blades disposed in an annular... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080223980 - Bubble glider: This invention is a “bubble glider” which is a modified hybrid of the hot-air balloon and the glider. It has a distinct undulating forward motion. A simple bubble glider has a soft air-bubble, a hard air-bubble and a thin body and is made of 0.25 mm PVC sheets. It is... Agent: Dale Fung

20080223981 - Ground effect glider: A glider including a center section configured to receive and support an operator thereon, and a pair of air-foil shaped wings extending generally outwardly from the center section. The glider is configured such that when the glider supports the operator thereon the glider is glidable down an incline in the... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080223993 - Homeostatic flying hovercraft: A homeostatic flying hovercraft preferably utilizes at least two pairs of counter-rotating ducted fans to generate lift like a hovercraft and utilizes a homeostatic hover control system to create a flying craft that is easily controlled. The homeostatic hover control system provides true homeostasis of the craft with a true... Agent: Woods Patent Law

20080223982 - Method and device for wind generated electricity: An airborne electricity producing generator powered by wind at high altitude. A gas filled balloon keeps the turbines and other apparatus afloat. Connection with the ground is with tethers that also prevent the apparatus from floating freely and conduct electricity, thereby bringing the electricity produced to ground based transformers. Computer... Agent: Uzi Ezra Havosha & Partners

20080223983 - Method for mounting an aircraft engine on a rigid structure of a strut for locking the engine:

20080223984 - Aircraft comprising a landing gear compartment permitting better integration of the landing gear: The object of the invention is an aircraft comprising at least one gear compartment in which is adapted to be disposed a landing gear (24) comprising at least one wheel (36), characterized in that said gear compartment comprises an upper panel (50) with at least one hollow shape F enclosing... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080223985 - Splicing fuselage sections without shims: Fuselage sections of an aircraft are joined using splice elements that compensate for gaps caused by mismatches between mating surfaces on the fuselage sections. The fuselage sections are virtually assembled using computer models that are based on non-contact measurements of as-built fuselage sections. The virtually assembled fuselage sections are used... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080223986 - Trussed structure: The invention provides a trussed structure comprising a frame and at least one strut, wherein the frame is of composite material and includes sockets which are integral with the frame. The invention also provides a process of making the trussed structures. The struts are typically of composite material and the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080223987 - Rib element and composite flange for aircraft: A rib element for aircraft and a composite flange for use in aircraft. The rib element (24) and the composite flange (14), manufactured from a composite material, comprise at least two elongated flanges (15, 16, 26) interconnected with one another in a corner (17) provided with a rounded inner corner... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080223988 - System for inerting a compartment of a self-propelled vehicle, especially an aircraft: The invention relates to a system for inerting a compartment of a vehicle, typically a fuel tank (1) for supplying the gas turbine (3) of an aircraft with fuel. Said system comprises a filtering device (5) arranged between the compressed air source (3) and the device for separating gas from... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20080223989 - Force balancing kite control system: An improvement to kite control systems for power kites, comprising at least one proportional redirection mechanism, which balances the forces of the main lifting force of the kite and the control handlebar, thus assisting with steering the kite and significantly reducing the effort needed to hold or pull the control... Agent: Frank Walter Mutzenberg

20080223990 - Self-powered spacecraft attitude control system and method: A system and method are provided for operating a control moment gyro (CMG) in a spacecraft. The CMG includes a spin motor, and a CMG rotor that is coupled to the spin motor and is configured to rotate about a spin axis. Electrical power from a power source is supplied... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080223991 - Wing tip device: An aircraft comprises a wing having a positive dihedral, the wing comprising a tip and a wing tip device mounted in the region of the tip. The wing tip device is generally downwardly extending and has a region inclined at a cant of more than 180 degrees. The region is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080223992 - High-performance low-noise aircraft exhaust systems and methods: Aircraft exhaust systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an integrated propulsion assembly includes a wing assembly having an upper surface and a lower surface, and a propulsion unit at least partially disposed within the wing assembly. An exhaust system is configured to conduct an exhaust flow emanating from... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080217471 - Intelligent aircraft secondary power distribution system that facilitates condition based maintenance: An electrical power distribution system comprises a solid state power controller in communication with an aircraft system main data bus via a gateway module and a condition based maintenance module in communication with the solid state power controller via a communication network distinct from the main data bus. A method... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080217473 - Rocket-powered vehicle racing competition: A method for racing rocket-powered vehicles directly against one another is provided in which a first rocket-powered vehicle simultaneously races against a second rocket-powered vehicle to be the first to complete a race course. The method may include the first and second rocket-powered vehicles performing a pre-determined maneuver while proximate... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.c.

20080217472 - Rocket-powered vehicle racing reality system: An aerial vehicle race and reality system for entertaining spectators wherein computer-generated images are optionally provided to at-least partially define a race-course.... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.c.

20080217474 - 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

20080217465 - Piezoelectric fiber, active damped, composite electronic housings: A vibration controlled housing. The novel housing includes a housing structure and a mechanism for receiving a control signal and in accordance therewith electronically tuning a structural response of the structure. In an illustrative embodiment, the housing structure includes a composite material containing a plurality of piezoelectric fibers adapted to... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080217486 - Small unmanned airborne vehicle airframe: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is designed for low-speed, low altitude, long endurance missions typical to UAVs of this size and class. The UAV structure is configured to be substantially impervious to small arms fire and to have a very small representative radar cross-section. The UAV is modular such that... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.c.

20080217466 - Auxiliary on board power system for an aircraft: An auxiliary on board power system for an aircraft provides the capability of taxiing the aircraft on the ground without using the main aircraft engine(s). The power system includes a small driver mounted on the aircraft. In one embodiment of the invention, the driver may be mounted at any desirable... Agent: The Law Office Of Richard S Erbe

20080217467 - Assembly for aircraft comprising a wing system element as well as an attachment mast: An assembly for an aircraft including a wing element, a suspension pylon, a mechanism of attaching the pylon onto the element, including two forward half-attachments, each including a shackle and configured to resist forces applied along a vertical direction. The shackle is mounted firstly articulated onto a first fitting fixed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080217468 - Mast for an aircraft nacelle incorporating means for limiting the appearance of vibrations, in particular in certain flight regimes, at a high mach number and low lift: A mast for connection between a power plant and the rest of an aircraft that includes an outside surface (14) that is in contact with the air flows, characterized in that it includes, in the outside surface (14), at least one recess (22) that is blocked by a porous wall... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080217469 - Rotorcraft air conditioner system: The invention relates to a method of controlling an air conditioner in a rotorcraft that also includes a cooler for cooling transmission lubricant, in which the temperature of the lubricant is monitored and the capacity of the air conditioner is decreased in the event of the lubricant temperature reaching or... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080217470 - Modularized airplane structures and methods: A modularized airplane includes two separably interconnected modules. The first module, incorporating substantial airplane style characteristics, comprises wings and stabilizers having at least one associated control surface joined with a fuselage portion. The second module carries a set of essential airplane components interconnected to suffice airplane operations including a propulsion... Agent: Jie Zhao

20080217475 - Airport system for safety and security: A new and improved airport system is disclosed herein. Redesigned aircraft dock in a terminal, instead of pulling up to loading bridge and the nose section of the aircraft tilts upwards or to the side for allowing passengers to be removed from the aircraft for deplaning. Cargo and baggage can... Agent: Mathews, Lawson & Bowick, Pllc

20080217476 - Aircraft including an air conditioning system: According to the invention, means (11) are provided that are able to recover, when said aircraft is in cruising flight phase or in a flight phase close to cruising, the energy of the release of the conditioned air when the latter passes from the conditioned zone (2) to outside the... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080217477 - Aircraft with seat arrangement having different seat configurations for transport of a patient: An aircraft having a seating arrangement comprising with a plurality of seats arranged in-line in the fore and aft direction of the aircraft. In a first configuration, the seats are arranged so that the in-line spacing between seats is smaller than the height of a backrest of a seat. At... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080217478 - Aircraft floor to fuselage attachment: A floor to fuselage attachment structure incorporates a truss having an upper angled attachment engaging the floor proximate an edge and extending at an angle upward from the floor edge to attach to the fuselage. Additionally, the truss includes a lower angled attachment engaging the floor proximate the edge and... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080217479 - Window installation method and apparatus: An exemplary window frame assembly includes a window frame and spring clips. The window frame includes a window frame body, and flanges extend from the window frame body. The spring clips are removably attachable to the flanges. Each flange may define at least one first locking member and each spring... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20080217480 - Multi-grommet retained slider for parachutes: A reefing slider for providing improved line management and canopy deployment characteristics of a ram air inflated airfoil type canopy. During initial descent of the parachute the slider, secured by retaining elements, is held against the canopy in the upper reefing position where it mechanically restricts canopy deployment while giving... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080217481 - Reversible space plane: A reversible aerospace plane includes an air intake at a first end of the aerospace plane, at least one heat exchanger disposed in the aerospace plane, an engine at a second end of the aerospace plane, wherein the aerospace plane is configured to accelerate in a first direction and configured... Agent: James E. Brunton, Esq.

20080217482 - Thruster-solar-sails or thrusterring-spacecraft improved through additional fuel less steering/-attitude control ( - attitude control system - acs ). solar-sail-launch-system, consisting of a self expanding solar sail with docking station and primary fuel: r

20080217483 - Thermal control device on board a spacecraft: The invention relates to a thermal control device intended to dissipate the heat generated by a payload on a spacecraft, comprising a number of surfaces and including means for circulating a refrigerant. An evaporation zone (Z1) comprises means for circulating the refrigerant, a compression zone (Z2), a condensation zone (Z3)... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080217484 - Brake flap for an aircraft: A brake flap is provided for an aircraft, which brake flap, for the purpose of delaying the aircraft, can be set at an angle relative to the airstream flowing around it. The flap comprises a free edge which when set at an angle is spaced apart from the exterior skin... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c.

20080217485 - Smart vortex generator, and aircraft, vessel, and rotary machine being equipped with the same: A smart vortex generator including a main body, disposed on a body surface, such as a main wing of aircraft, making a boundary to a flow of fluid, and at least a part of which includes a shape memory alloy. A form of the main body, depending on a temperature... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080210808 - Interoperable aerial refueling apparatus and methods: Interoperable aerial refueling apparatus and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a receptacle configured to fluidly receive a terminal portion of a refueling boom is coupled to a refueling drogue. A retainer is coupled to an aircraft that removably retains the receptacle when the aircraft is refueling another aircraft configured... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080210809 - Electrical system for unmanned vehicles: An electrical system for unmanned vehicles includes a first spine printed circuit board (PCB) having an electronic buss on or between layers of the first spine PCB for transmitting electronic signals to and between distal ends of the PCB. The spine PCB can be used as a portion of the... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080210810 - Airship port operations: A process for conducting port operations with a cargo-lifting airship that enables inspection of cargo lifted from a cargo ship while the cargo-lifting airship is in route to a destination. If the cargo fails inspection, the cargo may be delivered to quarantine. If the cargo passes inspection, it may be... Agent: Keith L. Jenkins

20080210811 - Aircraft engine unit: An engine assembly for an aircraft including a turbojet, a suspension pylon, and a plurality of engine suspensions. The plurality of suspensions include a first forward suspension and a second forward suspension fixed to an engine fan case and located symmetrically about a plane defined by a longitudinal axis of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080210812 - Fuel cell emergency system: In an embodiment, a fuel cell system for supplying emergency power to an aircraft, includes a fuel cell, a hydrogen tank, an oxygen tank, and a power distribution unit. This provides for an emergency power supply for aircraft that is reliable, independent of the outside air, and has low maintenance... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20080210813 - Front aircraft part comprising a flat partition between a pressurised zone and a non-pressurised zone housing landing gear: The present invention relates to a front aircraft part (1) comprising a non-pressurised landing gear housing zone (28) designed to house a front landing gear (30) in a retracted state, as well as a pressurised zone (2) adjacent to the non-pressurised landing gear housing zone. According to the invention, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080210815 - Aircraft archway architecture: An architectural archway for an aircraft. The archways can be positioned individually, or in pairs or other sets along the length of an aircraft fuselage. The archways are used to run or connect various transport elements, such as electrical wiring, water lines, and environmental control system conduits, between the upper... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20080210814 - Device for introducing and distributing forces into or inside a luggage compartment: The invention relates to a device for introducing forces into a luggage compartment (1) and for transferring and/or distributing the forces and/or stresses in vehicles, particularly in fast-traveling vehicles such as aircraft, ground vehicles and watercraft, e.g. express trains, speedboats and the like. In order to create a device of... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080210816 - Mixing apparatus for an aircraft air-conditioning system: The invention relates to a mixing apparatus for an aircraft air-conditioning system comprising a plurality of supply lines and a plurality of discharge lines. In accordance with the invention, the mixing apparatus consists of the flow cross-section of pockets which are arranged above one another, which have a free cross-section... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080210817 - Energy-absorbing square tube composite stanchion: An energy absorbing structural strut employs a composite tube bonded to an end fitting with the bond being slightly lower in strength than the crushing strength of the tube in axial compression. The end fitting incorporates an anvil to rupture the tube and absorb energy upon shearing of the bond... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080210820 - Aircraft floor and method of assembly: The invention relates to aircraft floor assemblies and to methods for their assembly. In one embodiment, an aircraft comprises at least one fuselage section and at least one floor section. At least one system component is installed to the floor section prior to installation of the floor section in the... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080210818 - Autonomous, back-packable computer-controlled breakaway unmanned aerial vehicle (uav): A modular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a fuselage, a nose cone, a left wing piece, a right wing piece, and a tail section. The tail section and nose cone each join to the fuselage through mating bulkhead structures that provide quick connection capability while being readily separated so as... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080210819 - Stringers assembled at a circumferential join of an airplane fuselage: The disclosed embodiments relates to an airplane fuselage produced by assembly, at a circumferential join, at least two sections including a skin and at least one stringer split into two elements and which are assembled at the join between the two sections by at least one splicing plate. The splicing... Agent: Perman & Green

20080210821 - Rib support for wing panels: An innovative wing structure provides ribs to support skin panels without an attachment between the rib and the stringer free flange or the web. The support is provided by rib shear ties installed directly to the stringer skin flange. The rib incorporates a cut away to allow the stringer to... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080210822 - Very high frequency line of sight winglet antenna: A line of sight antenna supported in an upturned terminal winglet or similar vertical member of an aircraft is disclosed. An aperture is formed in the conductive winglet or vertical member, and the antenna is supported within the aperture by a support mechanism such that the antenna is exposed to... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080210823 - Control device for locking and unlocking and aircraft door and aircraft door that integrates such a device: A control device for locking and unlocking a door includes a handle (46) whose movement makes it possible to control the change of state of the locking or unlocking of the door, a hinged flap (54) that can move between a closed position and an open position in which it... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080210824 - Connecting structure for an aircraft or spacecraft and method for producing the same: The present invention relates to a connecting structure for an aircraft or spacecraft, with a structural component and a stringer. The stringer is connected to the structural component by means of connecting regions. In order to reduce stress peaks that result for example from impact in the structural component, a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080210825 - Enhanced aerial delivery system: An enhanced aerial delivery system addresses issues raised when large quantities of fluids, powders, and other agent materials are to be transported in and aerially dispersed by aircraft. Some aspects include positioning and securing of tanks aboard the aircraft to facilitate management and safety of the tanks and aircraft. Other... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080210826 - Kite, method of generating power using such a kite, method of providing driving force to a vehicle using such a kite, vehicle provided with such a kite, and power generation assembly comprising such a kite: A kite having a main body provided with at least a first and a second connection cable and at least one main pulling cable, the at least first and second connection cables each having a first and a second end, the first ends of the at least first and second... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP