Aeronautics inventions 07/09

20090189011 - Thrust vectoring exhaust nozzle system for helicopters: A thrust vectoring exhaust nozzle system for helicopters includes a vertical thrust vectoring nozzle positioned on the rear of the tail of the helicopter and a horizontal thrust vectoring nozzle positioned generally adjacent the vertical thrust vectoring nozzle, the vertical and horizontal thrust vectoring nozzles each connected to the exhaust... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090189012 - Piezoelectric and pyroelectric power-generating laminate for an airship envelope: A power-generating laminate for an airship comprises a base fabric layer, a barrier layer disposed upon the fabric layer, an inner metal film layer disposed upon the barrier layer, a piezoelectric/pyroelectric layer disposed upon the inner metal layer, an outer metal layer disposed upon the piezoelectric/pyroelectric layer, and a cover... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090189014 - Attachment of a multiflow turbojet engine to an aircraft: The invention relates to the suspension of a multi-flow turbojet engine provided with an intermediate casing and an exhaust casing from a pylon that can be attached to the structure of an aircraft, comprising forward means of attachment between the hub of the intermediate casing and said pylon and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090189013 - Non-handed engine cowl doors for fuselage mounted turbine engines: An engine cowl door assembly is provided for fuselage mounted turbine engines to minimize manufacturing costs and part counts. In one embodiment, the engine cowl door assembly includes at least one non-handed engine cowl door, a pylon apron coupled to the fuselage of an aircraft and providing an attachment point... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090189015 - Unmanned aircraft for telecommunicative or scientific purposes: The invention relates to an unmanned aircraft for telecommunicative or other scientific purposes, which is stationed in determined height, in particular in the stratosphere. The aircraft comprises a gas-filled balloon (11) carrying a platform (10) and means for maintaining the platform position relative to the ground. The balloon (11) carrying... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20090189016 - Systems and methods for recovering and controlling post-recovery motion of unmanned aircraft: Systems and methods for recovering unmanned aircraft and controlling post-recovery motion of the aircraft are disclosed herein. An aircraft recovery system for recovering an unmanned aircraft in flight in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure, for example, can include an inflatable aircraft recovery system having an inflatable portion with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090189017 - Releasable fastening of a component in an aircraft: A device for the releasable fastening of a component in an aircraft includes a component carrier with a base plane, wherein the component carrier comprises an installation state in which the base plane of the component carrier comprises an angle relative to the horizontal base plane of the aircraft, and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090189018 - Method for isolating a cabin wall of an aircraft or for cooling or heating of cabin air and a cabin wall suitable therefore: The present invention relates to a method for insulating an aircraft cabin 6 and for the cooling or heating of cabin air in an aircraft, respectively with the method comprising the steps of: introducing aircraft cabin air into an aircraft cabin wall 6; guiding this aircraft cabin air along a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090189019 - Rib for aircraft wing and methods for the manufacture thereof: There is provided a method of manufacturing a rib for an aircraft wing, the method comprising providing a billet of material for forming the rib, machining away material from all sides of the billet to form a rib for use in an aircraft, the rib including a web that extends... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090189020 - Aerodynamic profile for aircraft and wind power stations and method of measuring the thickness of ice on an aerodynamic profile: An aerodynamically shaped profile member for aircraft and wind power stations includes, for example, phased-array ultrasonic generator arrangement is arranged therein. During operation of the profile member, the ultrasonic generator emits ultrasonic waves in a targeted manner in multiple directions to determine a profile of the thickness of an ice... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090189021 - Auxiliary aircraft fuel tanks, systems and methods providing visual leak detection: Auxiliary fuel tanks are provided with an inner barrier wall defining an interior volume for containing aircraft fuel, an outer barrier wall adjacent the inner barrier wall so as to define a space therebetween, and a drain part having a port in fluid communication with the space to allow leaked... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090189022 - Drogue parachute drag force actuated programmable controller to generate an event trigger signal: A parachute control system is actuated primarily by drogue parachute drag force. Drag force is used as a proxy for vehicle airspeed. The control system uses altitude and force sensors combined with a chronograph to determine the state of a deployed drogue parachute. It then compares the sensed condition with... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090189023 - Aerodynamic high-performance profile for aircraft: Aerodynamic high-performance profile (10), in which, to force a turbulent flow of the boundary layer away from the bottom side (12), a transition strip (16), which extends over the entire length of the rear edge, is situated in direct proximity to the rear edge (15).... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090189024 - Device for remotely controlling aircraft control surfaces: A device for remotely controlling the control surfaces of an aircraft, the device comprising: an actuator member pivotable about an axis and entraining a rotary shaft; a stationary finger parallel to the shaft and supported at a radial distance from the shaft; a moving finger secured to the shaft and... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090184199 - Shielding arrangement for lines, in particular electrical lines, in aircraft: A shielding arrangement for the lightning protection of electrical lines and components in an aircraft includes a protected installation space for receiving the lines that is arranged in the region of a floor framework, at least one delimiting surface of the installation space being provided at least in certain regions... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090184200 - Vibration damping for wing-to-body aircraft fairing: A wing-to-body fairing for aircraft is formed from a sandwich structure having integrated vibration damping.... Agent: Tung & Associates Suite 120

20090184209 - Constant-velocity drive system for gimbaled rotor hubs: A constant-velocity drive system for a rotary-wing aircraft rotor comprising a differential torque-splitting mechanism and a gimbal mechanism is disclosed. A rotary-wing aircraft having a rotary-wing aircraft rotor comprising a differential torque-splitting mechanism and a gimbal mechanism is disclosed.... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20090184195 - Hydrazine monopropellant decomposition air turboprop engine: An engine for use in operating an aircraft is disclosed, the engine comprising a decomposition chamber configured to decompose into at least one combustible constituent element a first chemically unstable substance in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the decomposition of the first chemically unstable substance releases a first amount... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090184196 - Wide area aerial crane system: A tether-based system for utilizing the aerostatic lift of a light-than-air balloon for the transport of payload across a wide area without having to translate the balloon along with the payload.... Agent: Andrew John Price

20090184208 - Aerodynamic sealing member for aircraft: A sealing member for forming a seal in an aircraft, the sealing member comprising: a sealing material; and a stiffening element which provides structural support to the sealing material and comprises a material with a glass transition temperature below +50° C. The stiffening element is relatively flexible when the aircraft... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090184198 - Connecting a propulsion system to a structural element of an aircraft: An aircraft propulsion system (110) comprising a bypass turbojet engine surrounded by a nacelle defining a flow passage for the secondary stream flows, and connection means for connecting the engine to a wing (132) of an aircraft and comprising a pylon (134) substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis (135) of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090184197 - Pylon and engine mount configuration: A mounting arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes a pylon mount structure that has a fore mount portion and an aft mount portion. A first engine mount beam is integrally formed with the fore mount portion as a single-piece component, and a second engine mount beam is integrally formed... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090184201 - Joining fuselage skins using friction stir welding: Fuselage skins of aircraft are joined using friction stir welding. A strip of cladding is removed from the skins along an abutment between the skins before the skins are welded in order to prevent the cladding from interfering with the welding process. The cladding is replaced after the welding is... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090184202 - Structrual element made of an aluminum alloy including an optical sensor: Provided herein is a method for manufacturing a worked product comprising a fiber sensor therein. Also provided is a wrought product comprising a fiber sensor as well as structural elements and other products including fuselage skin and a wing panel.... Agent: Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

20090184203 - Cooling channel formed in a wall: A wall element having at least one cooling channel formed therein, the wall element presenting an inside surface and an outside surface, the channel comprising a hole and a diffusion portion, the hole opening out at one end in the inside surface, and at the other end in a diffusion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090184204 - Distribution of point loads in honeycomb panels: Composite panels used in aircraft are formed by a sandwich including a lightweight honeycomb core reinforced by a solid plank in medial regions of the panel. The plank is bonded to the honeycomb and forms an integral part of the core where a strut is attached to the panel. The... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090184205 - Method and apparatus for aerial fuel transfer: A method and apparatus for transferring fuel onto or off of an aircraft. A refueling transfer duct is deployed from an aft station of the aircraft being serviced while the aircraft is flying, wherein the transfer apparatus comprises a hose with a controllable drogue attached to its free end. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090184206 - Particle-filled wing-to-body fairing: A wing-to-body fairing for reducing noise due to wing-to-body fairing vibrations in an aircraft, spacecraft, or vehicle may include a honeycomb center having a cavity which is at least partially filled with particle material.... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090184207 - Synchronously self deploying boom: A deployable boom with adjacent panels hinged together typically in an end to end configuration. A first longeron is attached to at least two panels and a second longeron is also attached to at least two panels. Each longeron includes a self locking hinge between adjacent panels.... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20090179106 - Non-powered, aero-assisted pre-stage for ballistic rockets and aero-assisted flight vehicles: A non-powered pre-stage (10) with a commensurably large wing area is used to launch a variety of single-stage and multiple-stage space vehicles (20), such as conventional ballistic rockets and prospective spaceplanes, from conventional runways. This method of launch eliminates need in dedicated ground launch structures and/or dedicated long runways. The... Agent: Eugene Ustinov

20090179107 - Yoke with notched arm roots: A yoke for a rotary wing aircraft rotor system has a plurality of arms, each arm having a root. Each root has a notched portion configured to allow passage of a portion of a blade-pitch control system through the notched portion.... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20090179108 - Biomimetic micro-aerial-vehicle with figure-eight flapping trajectory: A micro aerial vehicle includes: a fuselage; a flapping transmission mechanism mounted on a front portion of the fuselage; a flexible wing frame secured to and driven by the flapping transmission mechanism for producing a figure-eight flapping trajectory for mimicking the flight of a tiny natural flier, such as hummingbird;... Agent: Lung-jieh Yang

20090179109 - System and method for adjusting control surfaces for wind tunnel models: A system and a method for adjusting and locking a control surface that is movably arranged on a wind-tunnel aircraft model and comprises a drive arrangement for driving the control surface, and a locking arrangement. The drive arrangement comprises a first drive motor, arranged in a fixed manner relative to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090179110 - Extended decompression flap arrangement: The invention concerns an apparatus for producing a rapid air pressure equalisation between regions of an aircraft fuselage which are separated from each other by an aircraft fuselage structure and which have an air pressure difference relative to each other, in an aircraft, in particular a passenger aircraft, comprising at... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090179111 - Interior panel attachment system: An attachment system for coupling together two airplane sections includes an attachment section securing one of the airplane sections and a mount section affixed to the other section. The attachment section includes a top, a bottom, a first end, and a second end. Coupled to the top are two clamp... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20090179112 - Material for fabrication of a kite or a wing and a kite or wing incorporating the material: A lightweight stretch resistant laminated material has a layer of thin flexible film laminated to a layer of stretch resistant reinforcing material. A kite or wing, which is known in the art to comprises a plurality of assembled panels, can have at least one such panel made from the lightweight... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090179113 - Method and apparatus for elevating and manipulating objects using electromagnetic fields only: An electromagnetic field-producing device is used for non-contact type high elevation, elevation maintenance, or manipulation of objects. This type of elevation, elevation maintenance, or manipulation of objects contributes to the present modes of flight and people and larger object transport including but not limited to rotary-wing or non-rotary-wing modes of... Agent: William Redvers Belisle

20090179114 - Emergency flight control system: A method and system for preventing the control of an aircraft from the cockpit. In an exemplary embodiment, the system could be triggered externally. For example, an air traffic control (ATC) station could determine that the aircraft has deviated from its planned flight path. If personnel at the ATC station... Agent: Dennis C. Bremer Honeywell International, Inc.

20090173822 - Distributed infrared countermeasure installation for fixed wing aircraft: A distributed aircraft defense system involving infrared countermeasures is installed in a distributive fashion for commercial aircraft, typically fixed wing aircraft, in which maintenance downtime is minimized due to the ability to access, remove, test, fix and/or replace individual modules within the distributed system.... Agent: Bae Systems

20090173820 - Guidance system with varying error correction gain: A guided missile or projectile and associated guidance control are provided to control a path to a point of intersection with a potentially moving target. A new path is repetitively recomputed and acceleration orthogonal to the path is applied to minimize heading error and thereby to converge on the target.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Princeton

20090173838 - Narrow wing system for airplanes: An extra narrow wing system for airplanes combining the advantages of sufficient lift like a conventional airplane wing with reduced space requirements. A V-shaped nudge at the back side of the main wing helps to overcome the limitations of extreme delta-wings and allows very narrow wings with angles of as... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090173821 - Aircraft taxiing systems: Thrust systems for passenger aircraft provide at least one flight engine and a taxi engine wherein all flight engines together provide, in total, a takeoff thrust arranged in a takeoff thrust direction and the taxi engine provides a taxi thrust which does not exceed 15% of the takeoff thrust and... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20090173824 - Closure system for a support structure: System for opening and closing a structural part arranged on a support structure. The system includes at least one hinged joint device for flexibly connecting the structural part to the support structure. The at least one hinged joint device is arranged inside the support structure and has an axis of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090173823 - Method and component for determining load on a latch assembly: A cowl assembly for an engine nacelle including a first and second cowl door mounted for movement between an open position and a closed position. A latch assembly retains the first and second cowl doors in the closed position by having a latch retained in a latch housing on the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090173825 - Aircraft door with oversizing: An aircraft fuselage section is provided in which an outer skin construction provides at least one door opening having a width, such that it is divided by at least one rib of the fuselage skeleton of the aircraft fuselage section into multiple opening areas.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20090173827 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the integrity of components and structures: A method for monitoring the integrity of a permeable structure that is disposed in an environment containing a fluid at ambient pressure is provided. At least one cavity is formed in or on the permeable structure. A source of first fluid is provided at a first pressure greater than the... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090173826 - Trapezoidal panel pin joint allowing free deflection between fuselage and wing: The invention is directed a trapezoidal panel pin joint for allowing deflection of an aircraft between a fuselage section and a wing section, wherein the pin joint comprises a vertical pin portion, a lug portion, and a clevis portion; wherein at least one vertical flexible tee member is positioned below... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC -- Boeing

20090173828 - Fastener: A fastener, of which severe strength is demanded and which can also be applied to a location, in which a flush surface equipment is taken into consideration, and which can be manufactured readily and quickly and reduced in manufacturing cost, is provided. A fastener (1) joins a skin of an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090173829 - Safety pre-impact deceleration system for vehicles: A safety pre-impact deceleration system for a variety of conveyances includes a parachute structure formed from air bags inflated with gas. Alternatively, the parachute structure includes a canopy with orifices. Air spaces in the parachute structure or orifices in the canopy have adjustable and selective dimensions to control the operational... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090173830 - Rocket-powered kite plane for gentle climb and acceleration to extreme staging altitudes: A two-stage space vehicle is provided for achieving low earth orbit that includes a carrier and an orbiter. The carrier has a large airfoil area relative to its dry weight, and the thrust of the rocket engine is controlled such that the carrier achieves a launch altitude and speed for... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090173831 - Method for manufacturing a solar module in orbit: A geosynchronous Solar Power Satellite System is created by an artificial gravity, closed ecology, multiple use structure in low earth orbit that manufactures modular solar power panels and transmitter arrays. This facility takes empty fuel tanks and expended rocket boosters from launch vehicles that are sent into low earth orbit,... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20090173832 - Docking system: A convex forward surface of a forward-biased probe head of a first portion of a docking system engages a central concave conical surface of a second portion of the docking system. A first linear actuator moves a flexible docking cable assembly relative to a support structure through bores therein and... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20090173833 - Docking system: First and second releasably connectable portions of a docking system are moved together. A relatively central concave element of the second portion of the docking system contacts a corresponding relatively central mating convex element of the first portion of the docking system. A plurality of relatively distal coupling elements rigidly... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20090173834 - Element for generating a fluid dynamic force: This invention relates to an element (11) for generating a fluid dynamic force, the element (11) comprising first (13) and second (15) surfaces extending in opposite directions from a leading edge (17) of the element (11) and meeting at a trailing edge (18) thereof to define a three dimensional body... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20090173835 - Systems and methods for destabilizing an airfoil vortex: Apparatuses and methods for the controlled trailing wake flows are disclosed. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment is directed to an aircraft system that includes an airfoil having first and second oppositely facing flow surfaces and a tip. The system can further include a vortex dissipation device carried by... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP (boeing)

20090173836 - Laser-based flow modification to remotely conrol air vehicle flight path: Systems, equipment, and methods to deposit energy to modify and control air flow, lift, and drag, in relation to air vehicles, and methods for seeding flow instabilities at the leading edges of control surfaces, primarily through shockwave generation through deposition of laser energy at a distance.... Agent: Jones Day

20090173837 - Systems and methods for controlling flows with pulsed discharges: Systems and methods for controlling air vehicle boundary layer airflow are disclosed. Representative methods can include applying electrical energy bursts and/or other energy bursts in nanosecond pulses in the boundary layer along a surface of an air vehicle. In a particular embodiment, electrical energy is discharged into the boundary layer... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP (boeing)

20090166468 - Method and apparatus for skin mapping of lightning detection system: A lightning strike to an aircraft causes problems in existing aircraft equipment. To offset the problem, weather equipment can be used, but the weather equipment is prone to noise interference with existing aircraft equipment. By effectively positioning the weather equipment, the present invention solves the noise interference problem. In particular,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090166469 - Aircraft arrestor system and method of decelerating an aircraft: An arrestor system and method of decelerating an aircraft. The arrestor system has a base with at least one tile made of a plurality of particles being arranged such that the particles form a plurality of water drainage passageways and wherein the at least one tile has a compressive strength... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20090166470 - Seating unit: A seating unit (1) comprises a fixed housing (10) containing a primary seat with a reclinable back arranged to recline in such a manner that it remains within the housing. The seating unit is suitable for a aircraft cabin and may further comprise a leg-rest arranged to cooperate with the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090166471 - Fuselage structure and method for the production of a fuselage structure: The present invention provides a method for the production of a fuselage structure, and a fuselage structure, in particular of an aircraft or spacecraft, with an inner shell arrangement which has an upper inner shell and a lower inner shell, the upper inner shell being spaced apart at least in... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20090166472 - Floor plate for covering a floor framework in an aircraft: The invention relates to a floor plate for bearing upon a floor framework in an aircraft. The floor framework is formed with a multiplicity of transverse beams which are arranged like a truss, and a multiplicity of longitudinal profiles, especially seat rail profiles, which extend transversely to the transverse beam.... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090166473 - Optimized aircraft manhole: The present invention relates to an aircraft manhole comprising a skin panel (1) of the aircraft structure, an outer door (6) and an inner door (5) of the aircraft manhole being positioned on the mentioned skin panel (1), further comprising stringers (3) installed on the skin panel (1) positioned on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090166474 - Baggage accommodation device: A baggage accommodation device for an aircraft, which device comprises a plurality of first rollers and a container, wherein the container comprises a base plate. The plurality of first rollers are arranged on the base plate, and the baggage accommodation device is designed such that it is sufficiently stable for... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090166475 - Apparatus for the pivotal fastening of an active surface, in particular a spoiler on a wind tunnel model of an aircraft: An apparatus (1) for pivotal fastening of an active surface, in particular a spoiler (3) on a wind tunnel model of an aircraft, comprising a bearing block (2) and a strip (22) accommodated pivotally thereon on a shaft (21), wherein the strip (22) is connected to the active surface, characterized... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090166476 - Thruster system: Enhanced translational thrusting is provided by reaction engines configured to permit translational thrusting off or through the center of gravity of a spacecraft or other vehicle. Among other applications, this approach is useful for a Satellite Life Extension System (SLES) that provides maintenance services to orbiting satellites. By attaching to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090166477 - Telescoping wing and airfoil control mechanism: This invention relates generally to a collapsible, nesting wing structure with or without wing warp flight control. The invention also incorporates means to maintain wing extension during flight, methods of wing construction for nesting collapsible wings, and control surfaces for collapsible wings.... Agent: Samuel Hall Bousfield