Patents Assigned to The Boeing Company
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Patent number: 11975820Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for managing airflow comprising flow control actuators in an aircraft. The flow control actuators comprise channels having inlets and outlets, wherein the channels are located under a surface of the aircraft and the outlets are in communication with the surface of the aircraft. Pressurized air applied to the inlets causes steady air jets to be emitted at the outlets in which the steady air jets add a momentum to airflow over the surface on the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Arvin Shmilovich, Yoram Yadlin
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Patent number: 11979425Abstract: A computing system is provided that implements a system classifier including a first artificial intelligence model configured to classify each of a plurality of elements a computer system into one or more defined security categories, and a threat classifier including a second artificial intelligence model configured to classify each of a plurality of identified cybersecurity threats into the one or more defined security categories. The computing system further includes a threat analyzer configured to perform an analysis of a risk posed by each cybersecurity threat to each element of the target computer system based at least on the security categories of the classified cybersecurity threats and the security categories of classified elements of the target computer system, and output a security recommendation based on the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Bhanu Pratap Singh Thakur, Ameya Deepak Kamat, Surya Sundar Raj Durairaj, Tim W. Anstey, Sangeeta Suresh Patro
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Patent number: 11976178Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions including a carbon fiber material comprising one or more of an acyclic olefin group or a thiol disposed thereon; and a thermosetting polymer or a thermoplastic polymer. The present disclosure further provides metal substrates including a composition of the present disclosure disposed thereon. The present disclosure further provides vehicle components including a metal substrate of the present disclosure. The present disclosure further provides methods for manufacturing a vehicle component, including contacting a carbon fiber material with a carbon-containing zinc-titanium or a thiol to form a coated carbon fiber material; and mixing the coated carbon fiber material with a thermosetting polymer or a thermoplastic polymer to form a composition. Methods can further include depositing a composition of the present disclosure onto a metal substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Patrick J. Kinlen
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Patent number: 11975704Abstract: A brake system control unit includes one or more sensor interfaces configured to receive a brake torque signal from a brake torque sensor. The brake system control unit also includes a torque estimator configured to generate an estimated brake torque signal based, at least in part, on a brake model and a brake actuator command. The brake system control unit further includes control circuitry configured to generate the brake actuator command to actuate a brake actuator of a brake system. The brake actuator command is generated based on a brake pedal command and a load alleviation command. The load alleviation command is based on the brake torque or the estimated brake torque signal, depending on whether a sensor fault condition associated with the brake torque sensor is detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Nima Forghani, David T. Yamamoto, Levi Aren Mulkey
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Publication number: 20240140369Abstract: A vehicle includes an internal cabin, a lavatory within the internal cabin, and a cleaning system within the lavatory. The cleaning system includes a floor having an exposed upper surface. The floor includes a hydrophobic material configured to repel liquid. An air knife is configured to output an airstream over the exposed upper surface of the floor to remove one or both of liquid or debris off the floor. The air knife is at or proximate to a first portion of the floor. A vacuum has an air inlet. The vacuum draws in the airstream through the air inlet. The vacuum is at or proximate to a second portion of the floor that is opposite from the first portion. The first portion is at a first level that is above a second level of the second portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Darren Carl McIntosh
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Publication number: 20240140604Abstract: An aerial vehicle including a main body having a leading edge. An inlet is recessed aft from the leading edge. Forward protrusions extend from the main body on opposite sides of the inlet. An outlet nozzle is proximate to an aft end. The inlet is in fluid communication with the outlet nozzle. Wings extend from the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Keith A. Etling, Hilary G. Knight
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Publication number: 20240141634Abstract: A cleaning system and method for an enclosed space include a floor including a hydrophobic material configured to repel liquid. One or more wipers are configured to sweep one or both of the liquid or debris off the floor, such as into an inlet of a vacuum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Darren Carl McIntosh
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Publication number: 20240140610Abstract: A coupling system is configured to secure one or more struts to a wing of an aircraft. The coupling system includes one or more splice straps that secure the one or more struts to the wing. A method for securing one or more struts to a wing of an aircraft includes securing, by one or more splice straps, the one or more struts to the wing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Druh Palma, Donald T. Powell, William M. Sampedro-Thompson
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Patent number: 11970272Abstract: In an example, a cargo system for storage in a seating area of an aircraft is described. The cargo system includes a plurality of storage containers including a first container operably connected to a second container via at least one connector. The connector(s) is/are configured to allow relative movement of the first container to the second container between a first and second position. Based on the first container being in the first position, the plurality of storage containers are in a stacked arrangement in which the second container supports the first container. And based on the first container being in the second position, the plurality of storage containers are in a seated arrangement in which (i) the first container is positioned relative to the second container and configured to sit on a passenger seat in an aircraft and (ii) the second container abuts or sits adjacent to the passenger seat.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Thomas Skyler Sartorius
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Patent number: 11970297Abstract: A system, device and method to facilitate tying a knot are provided. In the context of a device, the device includes a fixture defining an internal passage therethrough. The fixture defines a circumferential groove opening through an interior surface of the fixture and into the internal passage. The groove includes first and second groove portions that cross one another. Opposite ends of the groove are coincident and open through an exterior surface of the fixture. With relation to a system, the system includes a fixture and a lead member supply mechanism configured to alternately feed a lead member through the groove and to withdraw the lead member from the groove once the tie member is connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Tyler E. Berkey, Daniel Thomas, Matthew L. Scott
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Patent number: 11972691Abstract: A method, apparatus, apparatus, and computer program product for managing an autonomous aerial vehicle. A copy of a mission plan is stored in a mission work queue. The mission plan is located in the autonomous aerial vehicle and comprises mission components that define tasks performed by the autonomous aerial vehicle. A change to the mission components in the copy of the mission plan in the mission work queue is received to form a modified mission component in the copy of the mission plan. A determination is made as to whether the copy of the mission plan including the modified mission component can be executed by the autonomous aerial vehicle. The copy of the mission plan including the modified mission component is synchronized with the mission plan in the autonomous aerial vehicle such that the mission plan includes the modified mission component. The autonomous aerial vehicle executes the mission plan.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Stefan Manuel Neis, Sebastian Michael Sprengart, Robert Lowell Rosenau
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Patent number: 11970870Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for preventing a user from moving beyond a first distance from a support structure. The apparatus comprises an extension member, comprising a first end and a second end that is opposite the first end. The first end is configured to be fixed to the support structure. The second end is movable relative to the first end along a plane and the second end is configured to extend away from the first end to an extended position and retract from the extended position towards the first end to a retracted position. The apparatus also comprises a flexible tether, having a fixed length and comprising an anchor end, attached to the second end of the extension member, and a user end, configured to attach to a user. The extended position is no more than a second distance away from the first end. The sum of the fixed length and the second distance is less than the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Matthew Fife
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Patent number: 11970577Abstract: The present disclosure provides polyanilines, articles thereof, and methods of forming polyanilines. In at least one aspect, a polyaniline has a thermal stability of about 100° C. or greater, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of from about 50,000 g/mol to about 150,000 g/mol and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of from about 1 to about 5. In at least one aspect, a film includes a polyaniline, the film having a hydrocarbon content of about 1 wt % or less, based on the total weight of the film. In at least one aspect, a method includes introducing an emulsion of an aqueous solution of an aniline and an alkyl-substituted aryl sulfonic acid having 1 wt % or less of hydrocarbon content into a flow reactor, the flow reactor having a length of tubing having an inner diameter. The method includes polymerizing the monomer within the tube to form a polyaniline.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Patrick J. Kinlen, Matthew A. Flack, Eric A. Bruton
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Patent number: 11969957Abstract: A method for use in forming a composite structure that includes dispensing a first sheet of composite material, cutting the first sheet of composite material to form one of a plurality of plies of composite material, and providing the plurality of plies of composite material to a forming tool one at a time in a ply laydown sequence. A first sequential ply in the ply laydown sequence is provided, and then a second sequential ply in the ply laydown sequence is automatically provided after the first sequential ply has been provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Andrew Hopkins, Christopher Gary Harris, John R Henry, Scott Fisher, Anton Troshchenovskyy
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Patent number: 11970269Abstract: Assemblies for air vehicle control surfaces and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a control surface; a bullnose carried by the control surface, the bullnose moveable relative to the control surface; a first actuator operatively coupled to the control surface to cause the control surface to rotate; and a second actuator operatively coupled to the control surface, the second actuator to cause the bullnose to move from a first position to a second position to cause an opening to be formed relative to the control surface, the movement of the bullnose independent of rotation of the control surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Mark S. Good, Kevin Tsai
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Patent number: 11969960Abstract: Composite fabrication system and associated methods. In one embodiment, a composite fabrication system comprises a molding tool that includes a forming surface at least partially disposed within a constrained space, and a foamable material that expands inside of the constrained space to form an expanded material that presses a layup of one or more composite layers against the molding tool. The composite fabrication system further comprises a curing device configured to cure the layup to form a composite part, and a cutting wire embedded in the constrained space that is heated and configured to cut the expanded material into pieces that are removable from the constrained space.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Gary E. Georgeson, Xiaoxi Wang, Jonathan Santiago
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Patent number: 11970273Abstract: Examples provide a seat assembly, a system including the seat assembly and a method for reducing electromagnetic interference in an aircraft. A seat assembly for an aircraft includes a frame having a base and a support member operatively coupled to the base. A seat is coupled to the base and a first side of the support member. The seat includes a conductive substrate layer configured to absorb electrical charges.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Murat Saylik, Joseph A. Bolton
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Patent number: 11969796Abstract: A graded multilayered composite comprises a metal matrix material having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. A first layer of microspheres is dispersed on the first side of the metal matrix material. A second layer of microspheres is dispersed on the second side of the metal matrix material.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Ali Yousefiani
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Patent number: 11969953Abstract: A composite charge used to compression form a stringer comprises multiple plies of unidirectional, prepreg having various fiber orientations. Certain of the plies have a pattern of angled cuts allowing the plies to stretch both longitudinally and transversely during forming, thereby reducing ply wrinkling in contoured areas of the stringer.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Max U. Kismarton
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Publication number: 20240133225Abstract: A hinge assembly for connecting a door to a fuselage of an aircraft includes a hinge arm having a fuselage fitting pivotably coupled to a fuselage rotatable interface and a door fitting pivotably coupled to a door rotatable interface. The hinge assembly includes a programmable gear assembly coupled to the hinge arm allowing the hinge arm to pivot around the fuselage fitting when the door is moved from a door closed position to a door open position and causing the door to maintain in a generally parallel orientation relative to the fuselage between the door closed position to the door open position. The programmable gear assembly includes a fuselage gear coupled to the fuselage fitting, a door gear coupled to the door fitting, and a rack operably coupled between the fuselage gear and the door gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Michael T. Mortland