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Aeronautics November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/11

20110284688 - Rotor provided with a device for protecting it against lightning, and an aircraft provided with such a rotor: A rotor (10) provided with a hub (11) and a plurality of blades (12), said rotor (10) including a mast (15) secured to said hub (11) and protection means (30) for providing protection against lightning. The protection means (30) comprise rotary electric current conduction means (32) constrained to rotate with... Agent: Eurocopter

20110284689 - Aircraft cabin panel for sound reduction: The present invention relates to an aircraft cabin panel for sound reduction in an interior space. The invention in particular also relates to an aircraft comprising an interior lining with sound-absorbing and sound-reducing panels. In order to provide a panel that is optimized in terms of the design space required... Agent: Airbus Operations Gmbh

20110284683 - Amphibious large aircraft without airstairs: An amphibious large aircraft without airstairs is provided. The fuselage (7) of the amphibious large aircraft is flat, and the shape of its bottom is rectangular. The longitudinal cross-section of the fuselage has a shape of the cross-section of a win, so the lift can be generated by the fuselage... Agent:

20110284684 - High torque aerial lift (htal): An aircraft includes a housing and a powerplant coupled to the housing and configured to rotate a drive shaft around its longitudinal axis. The aircraft may include at least one lift fan assembly coupled to its housing and including a gearbox and at least one lift fan. The gearbox is... Agent:

20110284685 - Wheel structure for integrating an electric drive motor: A wheel design is provided for an aircraft landing gear wheel that is configured to maximize the space available within a landing gear wheel well to support a motor driver assembly that drives the aircraft wheel when the aircraft is on the ground. The wheel includes inboard and outboard support... Agent: Borealis Technical Limited

20110284686 - Suspension assembly for an aircraft turbojet engine: The invention relates to a suspension assembly for an aircraft turbojet engine (3), including a pylon (1) up and connected to the pylon (1), and connecting rods (13a, 13b) for taking up the thrust of the turbojet engine (3) remarkable in that the assembly includes means (19a, 19b; 25) separate... Agent: Aircelle

20110284687 - Structural assembly for an aircraft: A structural assembly for an aircraft comprising a cover with outer and inner faces, an inner support element and urging means on the inner support element, wherein opposing edges of the cover are fixedly mounted relative to the inner support element, and the urging means acts on the inner face... Agent: Airbus Operations Limited

20110284690 - Utility device system for releasing or capturing disbursements for the atmosphere by means of an aircraft: An aircraft carrying oxygen, gases, and/or fluid advancement tanks is flown to heights greater than ground level and released out to the atmosphere, or gathered in tanks contained in the fuselage. The system is regulated by the atmospheric height or by an attendant such as the pilot or automation on... Agent:

20110284691 - Method for connecting a first material to a second material in aircraft construction: The invention concerns a method of connecting a first material to a second material by means of a heat-activatable adhesive material (8) in aircraft construction, wherein the adhesive material (8) is arranged between the first material and the second material and an induction heat which is adequate to activate the... Agent: Airbus Operations Gmbh

20110284692 - Structural component of an aircraft or spacecraft and a fuselage component arrangement of an aircraft or spacecraft: In the case of a structural component of an aircraft or spacecraft comprising a fuselage portion connection region for connecting to an associated fuselage portion and having a thermal expansion coefficient which is approximately matched to the associated fuselage portion; an inner connection region for connecting to an associated installation... Agent:

20110284693 - Composite stringer end trim: A stringer having a stringer end trim that reduces pull-off forces in a stringer connection structure, including a stringer body; a stringer free edge provided on said stringer body; and a stringer end trim having at least one curvature provided in the stringer free edge forming the stringer connection structure.... Agent: The Boeing Company

20110284694 - Aircraft fuel tank: An aircraft fuel tank that is capable of suppressing the occurrence of sparks on a pipe caused by a lightning current through the pipe during a lightning strike, and also suppressing static electricity charging of a pipe caused by flow electrification generated by the fuel. An aircraft fuel tank (1)... Agent:

20110284695 - Drive device for applying a magnetic pulse to a mechanical assembly and aircraft load ejection device implementing same: According to the invention, the piston (1) comprises a stack (9) of blocks (11, 12) which are made alternately from the material having paramagnetic susceptibility and an insulating material; and the electrical energy supply means are provided in order to allow the energy to be applied to the coil in... Agent: Alkan

20110284696 - Control column system: The present invention relates to an active control column system for controlling an aircraft, comprising a control member architecture and a control architecture, wherein the control member architecture has at least one mechanically movable control column, at least one actuator for controlling the control column and at least one detection... Agent: Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg Gmbh

20110278393 - Aerodynamically stabilized instrument platform: A suspension apparatus for suspending instrumentation from an airborne platform may include a generally longitudinal boom having a payload end and a tail end. Yaw and pitch stabilizers may be disposed at the tail end of the boom. A mast that may be selectively translatable on the boom may connect... Agent: National Aeronautics And Space Administration

20110278391 - Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle: A micro aerial vehicle apparatus capable of flying in different flight modes is disclosed. The apparatus includes a fuselage; at least one pair of blade-wings; and an actuator for actuating the blade-wings by flapping the blade-wings in dissonance or resonance frequencies.... Agent:

20110278392 - Hydraulic apparatus for aircraft actuators: A pump unit installed inside a wing includes a backup hydraulic pump that can supply pressure oil to an actuator when a loss or reduction occurs in the function of an aircraft central hydraulic power source and an electric motor that drives the pump. A wing structure portion forming the... Agent: Nabtesco Corporation

20110278394 - Electrically powered downlock actuation system: An electrically-powered downlock actuation system for a landing gear that does not convert rotary motor output into linear motion during the actuation process, but instead uses the rotary motor output to directly drive a locking mechanism coupled to upper and lower landing gear braces. The electrically-powered downlock actuation system may... Agent: Goodrich Corporation

20110278396 - Modular floor section for aircraft: a generally flat elongated panel (11), positioned in a horizontal plane and comprising a region of overlap (15) along one of its longitudinal edges and a bearing region (16) along the other longitudinal edge. The region of overlap (15) and the bearing region (16) are of similar width and of... Agent: Airbus Operations (inc As A Societe Par Act Simpl)

20110278395 - Structural component with improved conductivity and mechanical strength, and a method for its manufacture: A structural component includes a fiber composite material structure having an outer surface and an electrically conductive metal profile disposed on the outer surface of the fiber composite material structure. The metal profile provides provide improved electrical conductivity of the structural component and component protection.... Agent: Airbus Operations Gmbh

20110278397 - Aluminum-copper-lithium alloy for a lower wing skin element: The present disclosure relates to an alloy containing aluminum including, as a % by weight, 2.1 to 2.4% of Cu, 1.3 to 1.6% of Li, 0.1 to 0.5% of Ag, 0.2 to 0.6% of Mg, 0.05 to 0.15% of Zr, 0.1 to 0.5% of Mn, 0.01 to 0.12% of Ti,... Agent: Alcan Rhenalu

20110278398 - System for fastening a seat in an aircraft rail: A system for fastening an aircraft seat in a corresponding rail of the rest of the aircraft, of the type including a base to which the rest of the seat is connected and including support surfaces on the upper face of the rail and associated with a locking slide that... Agent:

20110278399 - Panel type artificial satellite and artificial satellite system therewith: An artificial satellite system 200 comprises at least two panel type artificial satellites 100 closely connected with a plurality kind of multi networks and the minimum necessary essential tools for one artificial satellite installed on a substrate of each panel type artificial satellites 100, wherein the multi networks are formed... Agent:

20110278400 - Conformal airlock assembly and method: A conformal airlock assembly for ingress and egress through a door from a high pressure environment to a low pressure environment. The airlock assembly includes a flexible, gas impermeable membrane that cooperates with a support wall in an airtight manner to form an interior pocket over the door on one... Agent:

20110272522 - Airborne time domain electromagnetic transmitter coil system and appratus: A tow assembly for an airborne electromagnetic surveying system, including: a transmitter coil frame supporting a transmitter coil, the transmitter coil frame being formed from a plurality of serially connected frame sections forming a loop, the transmitter coil frame having rotating joints at a plurality of locations about a circumference... Agent: Geotech Airborne Limited

20110272518 - Stackable, easily packaged and aerodynamically stable flechette: A flechette has a forward section or body (12) containing its center of gravity. A quill (10) is connected to the forward section and is integrally connected to a pair of fins (15A, 15B) each having a longitudinal angle and a radial angle. When the two fins are viewed from... Agent: United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army

20110272519 - Aircraft with helicopter rotor, thrust generator and assymetric wing configuration: An aircraft features a source of forward thrust on a fuselage having a helicopter rotor assembly and an asymmetric primary wing configuration providing more wing-generated lift on one side of the fuselage than the other. The primary wing configuration counteracts the rotor's dissymmetry of lift during forward cruising, and reliance... Agent:

20110272520 - Electrical driven flying saucer based on magnetic suspension: A magnetic suspension electric rotor flying saucer comprises: a saucer shell (1), a saucer cabin (2), a rotor system (3), and a control system (4). The rotor wing system is a magnetic suspension electric rotor wing system (3) composed of a magnetic suspension rotor wing wheel (5), an electrodynamic ring... Agent: Beijing University Of Technology

20110272533 - Jet engine nacelle intended to equip an aircraft: The invention relates to a jet engine nacelle intended to equip an aircraft, comprising a forward air inlet section, a mid-section intended to surround a fan of the jet engine, and an aft section formed from at least first and second half-shells (9, 10) rotatably mounted about an axis (A)... Agent: Aircelle

20110272521 - Flight unit control system, flight control device including such a system, and use of such a system: The present invention relates to a flight unit control system (S), comprising at least one instrumented fastening bolt (6) connecting an aircraft carrier structure (34) and a load path (36a, 36b), the instrumented bolt having at least one measurement area (61; 62) for detecting that the load path in under... Agent: Skf Aerospace France

20110272523 - Shock absorption system: An air bag 4 is inflated in a shock absorption system 1 by a high pressure air cylinder 5 at the time of a collision between an aircraft and the ground that is caused by inability to fly or the like, so that a cover body 2 is unfolded to... Agent:

20110272524 - Integrated maintenance step on helicopter fuselage: Maintenance steps on helicopters (10) comprising a casing (1), integrated into a lateral shell of a fuselage of a helicopter (11) for access from outside and a step (2) being pivotably mounted in the casing (1). The invention relates as well to methods for mounting and dismounting of such maintenance... Agent: Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh

20110272525 - Method for covering light aircraft: The invention relates to a method for covering light aircraft and/or parts thereof with a polyester covering fabric, and to a dispersion hot-melt adhesive and to the use thereof for covering. The invention further relates to a light aircraft or to a part of the same which is covered with... Agent:

20110272526 - Systems and methods to provide compliance with structural load requirements for aircraft with additional fuel tankage: Methods and systems are provided to comply with structural load requirements applicable to aircraft additional fuel tank systems. A plurality of aircraft fuel tanks may be positioned adjacent to one another, preferably within the fuselage (e.g., a cargo compartment) of the aircraft so as to be disposed generally along a... Agent: Embraer - Empresa Brasileira De Aeronautica S.a.

20110272527 - Power generating kite system: The present invention is a power generating kite system that includes a kite or an airfoil that receives wind, a control unit that includes one or more computers or microcontrollers, GPS receivers and accelerometers that controls the kite system, a winch system and a rope attached to the kite that... Agent:

20110272528 - Method and system for delivering cargoes into space: A method for delivering space cargo including inserting one or more container spacecrafts (CSCs) into orbit. A CSC comprises a hull, a device for receiving cargoes (an artificial medium), a braking medium container, an arrangement for separating the cargoes and the braking medium, storage tanks, a propulsion system, a satellite... Agent:

20110272529 - Hamilton h.n2 laminar flow diskette wing: A wing assembly has a wing and one or more no-bias laminar flow oval diskettes that are fixed on a support structure along the C/L (center of lift) of an airfoil, of an aircraft wing. The benefit of an oval diskette with laminar flow is that it has no speed... Agent:

20110272530 - Wing tip device: An aircraft includes a wing having a positive dihedral, the wing having 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: Airbus Operations Limited

20110272531 - Drag reduction through ion field flow control: A boundary layer control system and method for controlling and adjusting the boundary layer of a fluid flowing over a surface.... Agent:

20110272532 - Aircraft wing load alleviation system: An aircraft wing load alleviation system incorporating a wing, a spoiler panel (14), a device (16, 17) which restricts circulation of air around a trailing edge of the spoiler and a control system. The spoiler panel is pivotally attached to the wing so that the spoiler panel can be rotated... Agent:

20110266397 - Solar thermal rotorcraft: A vehicle includes a housing having a wall with a central port and radial port formed at a lower portion of the housing, a blower disposed within the housing to move air through the central port, a distributor coupled to the blower to distribute air inside the housing, a heat-absorbing... Agent: Raytheon Company

20110266398 - Wing/fuselage connection of an aircraft: A wing-fuselage connection of an aircraft, in which a wing (2) that is arranged in the upper region of the fuselage (1) is connected to the fuselage (1) by means of a number of couplings (3, 4, 5, 6), wherein the couplings (3, 4, 5, 6) are provided for taking... Agent: Airbus Operations Gmbh

20110266388 - Method of managing a ground connection of an aircraft: w

20110266389 - Pin system for the connection assembly of an engine pylon underneath a wing of an aircraft:

20110266399 - Method and device for reducing actual loads generated on airplane by an aerodynamic disturbance: According to the invention, the device (1) comprises means (3) for determining a load exceeding envelope and means (4, 5, 10) for determining deflection orders of airplane control surfaces (S1, S2, P1, P2) to reduce loads applied on the latter, when airplane (AC) flies inside said load exceeding envelope.... Agent: Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

20110266391 - Fluidic artificial muscle actuation system for trailing-edge flap: An actuation system for trailing-edge flap control suitable for use in reducing vibration in rotorcraft blades as well as primary flight control and noise mitigation employing an antagonistic pair of fluidic artificial muscles (FAMs) located and operated inside the rotor blade. The FAMs are connected to a force transfer mechanism... Agent:

20110266390 - Hydraulic apparatus for aircraft actuators: A pump unit installed inside a wing, and a panel body constituting part of a wing structure portion forming a surface structure of the wing are provided. The pump unit includes a backup hydraulic pump that can supply pressure oil to an actuator when a loss or reduction occurs in... Agent: Nabtesco Corporation

20110266392 - Passenger supply arrangement for an aeroplane: A passenger supply arrangement provides a communications system and comfort system for a passenger of an aeroplane. The passenger supply arrangement includes a presentation surface configured to be integrated into a backrest of a passenger seat of an aeroplane and a passenger supply module configured to be disposed above the... Agent: Airbus Operations Gmbh

20110266393 - Method and device for external de-icing of aircraft: In a method for exterior de-icing of an aircraft before takeoff, a region of the aircraft to be de-iced has hot air applied thereto and is heated, the air exiting a de-icing nozzle that can be disposed in the vicinity of the region to be de-iced, hot air exiting a... Agent:

20110266394 - Fuel gauge for an unmanned aerial vehicle: An amount of fuel in a fuel bladder of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is determined based on a deformation of the bladder. In some examples, a fuel system for a UAV includes a bladder, a proximity sensor, a fuel gauge, and a controller. The bladder is deformable based on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110266395 - Tether sheaths and aerodynamic tether assemblies: The invention described herein relates generally to wind power generation. In particular, the invention relates to novel structures for tethers and tether operation. Also, methods and apparatus for power generation are described. The craft described herein are intended for electrical power generation utilizing the wind energy collected from air currents.... Agent:

20110266396 - Contact detection: The invention relates to a method for detecting a contact state between at least one driver/operator of a vehicle and a control input device designed to control the vehicle were a frequency spectrum is calculated from sensors detected movement signals based on which the contact state between the control input... Agent: