Patents Assigned to Shield Aerodynamics LLC
  • Flow drag mitigation device
    Patent number: 10370113
    Abstract: A mitigating system for reducing flow drag in aircraft engines uses a mitigating device attached to either the nacelle of an engine to mitigate the flow drag of the airflow moving across the nacelle. The mitigating device has an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve, each of which can be adjusted separately to extend any desired length across the inner surface or outer surface of the nacelle. As the sleeves are extended, they cover a greater number of flow drag elements thereby improving the aerodynamic properties of the aircraft engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Shield Aerodynamics LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Snyder, Wayne Duncan
  • Environmental defense shield
    Patent number: 9234461
    Abstract: An environmental defense shield includes symmetric airfoil-shaped vanes contributing to and positioned around a plenum space and positioned in front of a turbine engine. An annular band stiffener is set into the vanes, which projects forward in a diminishing size, the vanes merging together to create or attaching to a solid nose. The environmental defense shield serves to protect the engine from debris while also smoothing airflow into the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Shield Aerodynamics LLC
    Inventor: Dennis Snyder