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Aeronautics January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/09

20090026308 - Short take-off aircraft: An aircraft capable of making short takeoffs and landings includes essentially a fuselage, a wing secured to the fuselage, a front horizontal stabilizer secured to the fuselage on the front end of the fuselage and at least two jet engines for propulsion. According to the architecture proposed, the propulsion engines... Agent: Perman & Green

20090026309 - Aircraft: The invention relates to an aircraft having a first propulsion unit with an air inlet above the fuselage of the aircraft and a second propulsion unit with an air inlet below the fuselage of the aircraft, the fuselage of the aircraft having recesses for receiving the propulsion units which are... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090026310 - Variable pitch anti torque coaxial counter rotation bi-prop rotor: Single engine aircrafts, spot light, seaplanes, ultra-light planes, gyro-planes, power parachutes, trikes, airship etc commonly use fixed pitch low efficiency propellers that generate unbalancing torque. Pilots need to make offset turning to anti-torque. The subject novel anti torque coaxial counter rotation Bi-Prop Rotor fill out the empty of such variable... Agent: Linvents Century Labs Inc. Romeo S. Linn

20090026311 - Aircraft tail assembly: An aircraft tail assembly planform comprising curvilinear leading edges (21) and trailing edges (22), with an aircraft tail assembly configuration in which the hinge line (13) is rectilinear and has a non-constant percentage with respect to the chord (50) in each section (51), being the front (11) and rear (12)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090026313 - Aircraft landing gear load sensor: An aircraft landing gear comprising a fibre optic load sensor for monitoring load in a component of the landing gear, such as an axle. The fibre optic cable is mounted on an inner surface of the component of the landing gear. Typically the fibre optic load sensor comprises one or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090026312 - Landing gear assembly: A landing gear assembly comprises a wheel support housing rotatably connected to a support member, the wheel support housing containing an electrically powered motor operable to adjust the angular position of the wheel support housing relative to the support member.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090026314 - Cargo aircraft: An aircraft for carrying at least one rigid cargo container includes a beam structure with a forward fuselage attached to the forward end of the beam structure and an empennage attached to the rearward end of the beam structure. Wings and engines are mounted relative to the beam structure and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090026315 - Reinforcement beam as well as method and fiber laminate for manufacturing the reinforcement beam: Disclosed is a reinforcement blank, in particular a curved ring frame segment for fuselage cells of aircraft, comprising a synthetic material that is reinforced by at least one fiber laminate. The fiber laminate includes at least one full-area layer with a first fiber direction and at least one full-area layer... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090026316 - Solar powered aerial vehicle: A solar powered aerial vehicle includes an elongated airframe incorporating lifting and control surfaces, a mechanism for propelling the airframe through the air such that lift developed by the lifting surface is equal to or greater than the weight of the aerial vehicle, a planar solar sail coupled to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20090026317 - Translating flap drive door: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided for covering and uncovering a flap opening in an aircraft. The apparatus comprises a door member, a torque tube roller member, at least one roller member, and a biasing member. The door member may be adapted to cover and uncover a flap opening.... Agent: Evan Law Group LLC And The Boeing Company

20090026318 - Installation system for an airplane: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention indicates an installation system for an airplane for securing interior equipment, which exhibits longitudinal and transverse rails. The transverse rails are designed as peripheral rails, and exhibit perforations to which the interior equipment can be secured.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090026319 - Aerial delivery system: An aerial delivery system including a ram-air parachute, one or more recovery parachutes, a mantle removably attached to a cargo, and a controller operably connected to the mantle, the ram-air parachute, and the one or more recovery parachutes. The controller may be configured to receive location information associated with a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090026320 - Fighting kite: A kite is particularly adapted for acrobatic flight maneuvers in preferred embodiments by a protruding nose section that extends outwards from a frame covered by a tensioned lightweight skin. In competitive combative flight with similar kites, a diving maneuver is used to drive the nose section downward to puncture the... Agent: Edward S. Sherman, Esq.

20090026321 - Morphing aircraft with telescopic lifting and control surfaces: A morphing aircraft includes a lifting body and a telescopic lifting or control surface, such as a wing, coupled to the lifting body. The lifting surface is deployable between extended and retracted positions relative to the lifting body and configured such that, when disposed in the extended position, the flight... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20090020654 - Harness with mounted engine frame: A harness with mounted engine frame comprises a harness to be worn by a user. An engine support arm is mounted on the harness and a pair of lateral arms extend from the engine support arm. At least one engine is associated with each lateral arm. A connector attaches directly... Agent: Colin P. Abrahams

20090020643 - Aircraft having reduced environmental impact: Aircraft having reduced environmental impact. According to the invention, said aircraft comprises at least one engine (10) with at least one propeller (12, 13) carried, at the rear, on the top of said aircraft with the propeller(s) located in vertical alignment with the rear part (2R) of the noise barrier... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090020644 - Contra-bevel driven control surface: A contra-bevel driven control mechanism repositions a control surface in a fluid environment such as an aerodynamic or hydrodynamic environment. This involves mechanically coupling an airfoil and a control surface. The control surface may pivot about a spanwise axis between upwardly deflected and downwardly deflected positions. A forward beveled rotor... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090020645 - Method for frabricating an aircraft fuselage in composite material: A method for manufacturing an aircraft fuselage includes an internal framework surrounded by an external skin made of composite material, in which the internal framework at least partially constitutes a mould for manufacture and/or the support for the mould for the external skin made of composite material. The disclosed embodiments... Agent: Perman & Green

20090020646 - Assembly of panels of an airplane fuselage: An aircraft fuselage including at least two sections kept assembled at a circumferential join, each section having at least one panel. The circumferential join includes at least one inner ring, situated on one face, called the inner face, of the fuselage. The inner ring has a width li, partially overlaps... Agent: Perman & Green

20090020647 - System for deicing an air inlet cowl for a turbine engine: According to the invention, a scaled articulation device (27) is mounted on at least one (14) of the branches (14; 18, 9) of said hot-air circulation circuit in the form of a bracket so as to provide said bracket with capabilities of deforming about said articulation device (27).... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090020648 - Latching device for an escape chute in an aircraft: According to the invention the press-down element 17 can be released from the door fitting end 16 by actuating the securing means 18 so that the girt bar 15 becomes free. This functionality is important if an aircraft door is below the water surface in case of a landing on... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090020649 - Rotor kite: A rotor kite is characterized by a stabilizer bar connected between the wing and stabilizer ring components of the kite to maintain the wing and the stabilizer ring in a perpendicular orientation with respect to each other during flight. The stabilizer bar is connected at its ends with the inner... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.c.

20090020650 - System and methods for simultaneous momentum dumping and orbit control: The present system and methods enable simultaneous momentum dumping and orbit control of a spacecraft, such as a geostationary satellite. Control equations according to the present system and methods generate accurate station-keeping commands quickly and efficiently, reducing the number of maneuvers needed to maintain station and allowing station-keeping maneuvers to... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090020651 - Method and device for piloting an aircraft about a piloting axis: The flight-control device (1) makes it possible, by offsetting part of a flight command according to a particular flight path to obtain the same control as is obtained with usual flight control, but without flexible excitation that generates discomfort in the aircraft.... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090020652 - Wing leading edge having vortex generators: An arrangement of devices as well as a method for improving the aerodynamics of an aircraft wing are disclosed. In embodiments, a plurality of vortex generators are attached in span-wise alignment on an deice boot along the wing's leading edge. The vortex generators are, in embodiments, constructed of a flexible... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20090020653 - Method and device for suctioning the boundary layer: A method for suctioning the boundary layer at the surface (1) of an aircraft having an air-conditioning system (4), at whose flow-critical points of the surface multiple suction openings (2) are provided, the air quantity suctioned via these being discharged to the atmosphere again via at least one outlet (7)... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20090014599 - Convertible aerial vehicle with contra-rotating wing/rotors and twin tilting wing and propeller units: A micro aerial vehicle can be converted during flight between a fixed wing flight mode and a rotary wing flight mode. The canard design micro aerial vehicle includes a fuselage, two tiltable propellers and airfoils arranged at a forward portion of fuselage, a pair of coaxial drive shafts positioned aft... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20090014580 - Vectored thruster augmented aircraft: The Invention is a rotary-wing aircraft having at least two vectored thrusters that may be tilted from a horizontal to a vertical position and to positions intermediate between the horizontal and vertical positions. The two vectored thrusters are equipped with propellers having separately variable pitch. The two vectored thrusters also... Agent: Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20090014581 - Counter-torque device for a helicopter: A ducted fan for a helicopter includes a transverse duct and a counter-torque device supported within the duct. The counter-torque device includes a rotor rotatably mounted within the duct and a stator fixedly mounted within the duct downstream from the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor hub having a rotor... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090014596 - Long endurance aircraft having morphing wing configured to change shape: A long endurance powered aircraft includes a central spar, a propeller coupled to the central spar, and a wing coupled to the central spar. The wing includes a first spar and an opposing second spar. Leading ends of the first and second spars are coupled to the central spar and... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090014598 - Aircraft engine nacelle inlet having access opening for electrical ice protection system: An aircraft engine nacelle inlet is provided with an inlet cowling. The inlet cowling includes an inner lip, an outer lip, and a leading edge portion connecting the inner and outer lips. Heating elements are provided proximate the leading edge, either on an inside surface of the cowling or on... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Goodrich Corp.

20090014597 - Supersonic aircraft jet engine: A non-uniform shock system is created that generates a central region of nearly isentropic compression and relatively ram recovery and an outer region of reduced ram recovery but entailing reduced cowl angle and drag. Translating cowl structure and also nozzle integration with the fuselage contour to reduce boat tail drag... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20090014582 - Aircraft landing gear comprising an operation strut device and aircraft provided therewith: An aircraft landing gear including a leg, a bracket which defines the axis of rotation of the leg on the operating plane defined by the leg extension and retraction positions and a leg operating device consisting of at least one strut whose first end is provided with a first means... Agent: Perman & Green

20090014583 - Removable cargo pod with lifting mechanism and open top: A removable cargo pod for attachment to an aircraft fuselage; a mechanism in said pod to raise and lower it into and from engagement with the fuselage; and an open top so as to provide access to the interior while it is vertically displaced or removed from the fuselage.... Agent: David B. Shelton

20090014584 - Tracks, power, and data blocks and releasable fastening system: A track (20) for a relocatable seat including a first channel (22), having a slot opening into the track with a plurality regions where slot is enlarged. The enlarged regions receive a foot (50) of a seat and the non-enlarged regions of the slot retain the feet. The track includes... Agent: Telezygology, Inc.

20090014585 - Light plane in the ultralight category and sport plane category: This light aeroplane at the same time fulfilled the weight limits for the European ultra light class or acolyte class as do at the same time for the US-American sport plan Category. It comprises an engine arranged at the nose and is provided with tractor airscrew and the cabin cell... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20090014586 - Light rail system for powered introduction of large loads in a structure: A device for securing installed equipment in an airplane, with one or more oblong attachment rails, one or more attachment means for securing the attachment rails to an airframe structure, and one or more bracket units that can be attached to or in the attachment rails, wherein the bracket units... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090014587 - Aircraft safety system: An aircraft (10) comprising a fuselage (12) having an upper pilotable fuselage portion (10A) and a lower jettisonable fuselage portion (10B), the lower jettisonable fuselage portion (10B) being detachably engaged with the upper pilotable fuselage portion (10A) during normal flight. An upper wing structure (14A) is associated with the upper... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090014588 - Aircraft structural element provided with a cavity and drainage element: An aircraft structural element having a cavity. The structural element has an opening in a wall of the cavity through which moisture located in the cavity can escape into the surroundings, wherein a drainage element for sealing the opening in the wall of the cavity is provided in the opening.... Agent: Perman & Green

20090014589 - Rf shielding for aircraft windows: A window includes a pane and a geometrically patterned grid. The grid is embedded in the pane and the grid comprises an electrically conductive material and is operable to attenuate radio frequency (RF) energy.... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20090014590 - Hatch equipped with at least one locking socket capable of being actuated on each side of the hatch: The present invention relates to a hatch (1) provided with at least one locking socket, equipped with first actuation means (108) making it possible to urge a flexible linear pulling member (104), connected to the socket, in an unlocking direction (126), by abutting against a stop member (132) secured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090014591 - Retractable aerodynamic device permitting the control of the wake trajectory of an aircraft trap: characterized in that it is provided with at least one mobile aerodynamic deflector (30, 32), whose movement is slaved to that of the said at least one trapdoor, the said at least one aerodynamic deflector projecting relative to the exterior surface in a zone thereof situated outside the zone covered... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090014592 - Co-flow jet aircraft: The present invention provides an aircraft having one or more fixed wings in a flying wing configuration, where the aircraft further includes a high performance co-flow jet (CFJ) circulating about at least a portion of an aircraft surface to produce both lift and thrust.... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090014593 - Cooling system on the basis of suction of a boundary layer: A cooling system on board an aircraft includes a device for removing by suction a boundary layer, and a heat exchanger through which flows the boundary layer air that has been removed by suction. Cooling by way of a ram air channel can be reduced or entirely stopped, depending on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090014594 - Jack system with automatic locking of the piston in high position, especially for aircraft: c

20090014595 - Electrical control system for an aircraft steering vane: The invention concerns a system (1) comprising a steering vane (2) which can turn within a rudder deflection range which is limited by first and second rudder deflection limits and means (12) for asymmetrically varying said first and second rudder deflection limits based on the current values of the aircraft... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090008495 - Exclusion zone guidance method for spacecraft: Systems and methods for are adapted for automatic implementation of exclusion zone avoidance for target-tracking vehicles, such as spacecraft. The systems and methods are configured to monitor pointing commands (commanded attitude and angular rates) generated for target tracking, and modify these commands as necessary to avoid pointing a boresight into... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20090008496 - Wing-unfolding apparatus, folding wing assembly, and vehicle with folding wing assemblies: An apparatus for wing unfolding is particularly suited for an airborne vehicle. The apparatus has a base body with a longitudinal axis, a number of moveable flaps, and a number of lateral recesses. Attachment devices are configured for fitting the base body to an end face of a wing, with... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090008510 - Aircraft having the ability for hovering flight, fast forward flight, gliding flight, short take-off, short landing, vertical take-off and vertical landing:

20090008497 - Rotary-wing miniature gyro helicopter: There is provided a gyro helicopter generally comprising a fuselage, a rotor mast extending upwardly from the top of the fuselage, a rotor adapted to autorotate when the gyro helicopter moves forward, and drive means mounted to the fuselage for driving the gyro helicopter in at least a forward direction... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090008498 - Aircraft stabilizer system and methods of using the same: An aircraft can include a tail section and a stabilizing system coupled to the tail section. The stabilizing system has a vertical stabilizer and at least one strake that cooperate to generate forces that compensate for a reaction torque generated by a main lifting rotor that produces lifting forces when... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090008499 - Modular flying vehicle: The invention is a modular vehicle having an air vehicle that can be coupled to cargo containers, land vehicles, sea vehicles, medical transport modules, etc. In one embodiment the air vehicle has a plurality of propellers positioned around a main airframe, which can provide vertical thrust and/or horizontal thrust. One... Agent: Law Office Of Richard B. Cates

20090008500 - Radial venturi wing machine; apparatus for improved aircraft flight: e

20090008507 - Aircraft wing: A powered aircraft wing is described including a flexible solid sheet having energy cells integrated with the sheet.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090008509 - Aircraft engine nacelle inlet having access opening for electrical ice protection system: An aircraft engine nacelle inlet is provided with an inlet cowling. The inlet cowling includes an inner lip, an outer lip, and a leading edge portion connecting the inner and outer lips. Heating elements are provided proximate the leading edge, either on an inside surface of the cowling or on... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Goodrich Corp.

20090008508 - Variable contour nacelle assembly for a gas turbine engine: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a nacelle assembly which at least partially surrounds the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. At least a portion of the nacelle assembly includes an adjustable contour. The portion of the nacelle... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090008501 - Landing gear: An aircraft landing gear door assembly includes a door, which is moveable to an open position, in which an aperture is exposed, the landing gear being able to be deployed through said aperture, and moveable to a closed position, in which the door is closed across the aperture. The door... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090008502 - Aircraft fuselage interior: An aircraft fuselage interior comprises a side wall that extends in a direction along the length of the fuselage and includes an upper section that slopes inwardly. In one embodiment, the side wall comprises a multiplicity of visible elongate features, such as sloping lines, arranged along the length of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090008503 - Single-wire telemetry and command: Communication between a payload services unit (PSU) and a payload unit utilizes a single-wire interface used to power the PSU as well as to communicate telemetry and command signals. A telemetry and command (T&C) system includes a payload unit configured to respond to a plurality of commands and generate a... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090008504 - Elastomer-based modular multi-axis vibration/shock isolation device: The device comprises at least three isolating modules each having two rigid pieces, one of which is fastened to the carrier structure and the other of which is fastened to the support for the vibrating equipment, these pieces being linked by at least one isolating stud made of an elastomer,... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20090008505 - Aircraft with a fluid-duct-system: An aircraft with a fluid-duct system for extraction of the laminar layer and/or blowing out of fluid at vulnerable places of the outer skin, wherein the fluid-duct system (26, 19, 18) by means of switchable valves (6, 4) is connectable to a pump facility (3), which is driven by the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090008506 - Aircraft wing: An aircraft wing comprises a leading-edge slat, the slat including a main body portion and a slat extension arranged at a spanwise end of the main body portion. The cross-sectional area of the slat extension is less than the cross-sectional area of the main body portion. The slat extension may... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090001214 - Multiple kill vehicle (mkv) interceptor and method for intercepting exo and endo-atmospheric targets: By sharing tasks between the CV and the KVs, the MKV interceptor provides a cost-effective missile defense system capable of intercepting and killing multiple targets. The placement of the acquisition and discrimination sensor and control sensor on the CV to provide target acquisition and discrimination and mid-course guidance for all... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20090001215 - Process to control the initiation of an attack module and initiation control device implementing said process:

20090001216 - Aircraft engine balanced thrust vectoring system: A balanced thrust vectoring system for an aircraft designed to provide even weight distribution, simple thrust vectoring, and hover stability. The system includes a main diverter that connects to a jet output port. Located inside the diverter is a 4 way splitter that divides the diverter into four equal volumes.... Agent: Dean A. Craine

20090001225 - High lift longitudinal axis control system: A bipartite, full span airplane flap system having an inboard flap portion and an outboard flap portion, wherein the outboard flap portion includes an integrated aileron mounted on its substantially equivalent spanwise length. The outboard flap portion is adapted to translate between a first and a second position to create... Agent: Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20090001217 - Pre-fabricated article for eme protection of an aircraft: A pre-fabricated article for a composite aircraft component includes a dielectric layer and a pre-fabricated metalized pattern on the dielectric layer. The metalized pattern is fabricated on the dielectric layer prior to integration with the composite aircraft component. The metalized pattern diverts EME current away from EME protection areas of... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20090001218 - Stifffened multispar torsion box: The invention relates to an integrated structure of a composite material multispar torsion box (1) for aircraft, comprising a lower skin (12), an upper skin (11), several spars (9) defining cells (14), the first cell (19) being the closest to the input of load in the box (1), said structure... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090001219 - Fiber polymer matrix composites having silicon-containing inorganic-organic matrices and methods of making the same: Components made from solid fiber inorganic-organic-polymer matrix composites and methods of making the components and composites are provided. In one embodiment, and by way of example only, the method includes the steps of impregnating a fiber preform with a liquid resin comprising at least one compound selected from the group... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090001220 - Direct torque actuator control for control moment gyroscope: A control moment gyroscope system for delivering a target torque to a spacecraft including a rotor assembly having a rotor and a motor to spin the rotor about a rotor axis. A gimbal assembly has a gimbal for supporting the rotor assembly and a gimbal torque motor to rotate the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090001221 - Spacecraft grapple assembly and docking system employing the same: A spacecraft docking system configured to permit the docking of a spacecraft to a target object is provided. The docking system includes a grapple and docking interface, which is mounted on the target object. The grapple includes a body coupled to the spacecraft and at least one latching wing coupled... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090001222 - Control of aerodynamic forces by variable wetted surface morphology: Systems and methods for providing dynamic control to a vehicle in a dynamic fluid. The systems and methods of the invention relate to one or more morphable surfaces that can be controlled by a controller and an actuator in an active manner to provide asperities that interact with a fluid... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20090001223 - Flexible control surface for an aircraft: A flexible control surface (1; 11, 14) comprises at least two actuators (3), which act on the control surface (1; 11, 14) at different points of action (2) which are offset laterally with respect to the circulating-flow direction (6) with respect to one another. The at least two actuators (3)... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090001224 - Aircraft wing with extendible nose flap: An aircraft wing including a wing box and a nose flap moveably connected to the wing box by first and second folding hinges. A first transverse link is pivotally connected to first portions of the first and second folding hinges. A second transverse link is pivotally connected to second portions... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C