Patents Assigned to Lockheed Martin Corroration
  • Minimally intrusive wingtip vortex wake mitigation using microvane arrays
    Patent number: 9896192
    Abstract: An airfoil tip vortex mitigation arrangement comprising one or more flow directors configured and positioned to re-direct freestream air over a low pressure surface of an airfoil in such a way as to displace and weaken a main tip vortex generated at a tip of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corroration
    Inventors: Neal D. Domel, Eric F. Charlton, Daniel N. Miller
  • Minimally intrusive wingtip vortex wake mitigation using microvane arrays
    Publication number: 20130146715
    Abstract: An airfoil tip vortex mitigation arrangement comprising one or more flow directors configured and positioned to re-direct freestream air over a low pressure surface of an airfoil in such a way as to displace and weaken a main tip vortex generated at a tip of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corroration
    Inventors: Neal D. Domel, Eric F. Charlton, Daniel N. Miller