Patents Assigned to Middle River Aircraft Systems
  • Publication number: 20180016987
    Abstract: An acoustic liner for a turbine engine, the acoustic liner includes a support layer that includes a set of partitioned cavities with open faces, a facing sheet operably coupled to the support layer such that the facing sheet overlies and closes the open faces, a set of perforations located in the facing sheet and in fluid communication with a corresponding one of the cavities to form a set of acoustic resonators, and at least a subset of the perforations have an axially-oriented, relative to the axial flow path, inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: MIDDLE RIVER AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Graham Frank Howarth, Andrew Michael Roach, Steven Thomas Davies, Richard David Cedar, Michael Moses Martinez, Timothy Richard DePuy
  • Patent number: 9004407
    Abstract: An anti-icing system includes a component surface having a composite structure including a composite layer, and at least one heating element formed within the composite layer, wherein the heating element is configured to provide a transfer of heat to the component surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Middle River Aircraft Systems
    Inventors: David P. Calder, Graham Howarth
  • Patent number: 8904751
    Abstract: A thrust reverser assembly and operation suitable for high-bypass turbofan engines. The thrust reverser assembly includes a translating cowl mounted to a nacelle of an engine and adapted to translate in an aft direction of the engine. The translating cowl has a radially inner wall that defines a radially outer flow surface of a bypass duct of the engine. The thrust reverser assembly includes blocker doors axially guided adjacent first ends thereof by a fixed structure and pivotally and slidably connected along lengths thereof to the inner wall of the translating cowl so that translation of the translating cowl in the aft direction causes each blocker door to move from a stowed position to a deployed position as a result of the blocker door sliding at its first end relative to the fixed structure and sliding along its length relative to the inner wall of the translating cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Middle River Aircraft Systems
    Inventors: Graham Frank Howarth, Bryan Wayne Hughes