Patents by Inventor Benoit Dacre-Wright

Benoit Dacre-Wright has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10854094
    Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting a flight plan rejoining trajectory of an aircraft, the method being implemented in a flight management system of the aircraft. In a first step, the rejoining trajectory comprises a guidance setpoint holding point to be reached situated in the extension of a guidance setpoint, and set manually or automatically, the guidance setpoint no longer being necessarily maintained when this setpoint holding point is passed. This first step can be preceded by a step of rejoining a guidance setpoint or a step of searching for the intersection of the current guidance setpoint trajectory with a segment of the flight plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Benoit Dacre-Wright, Didier Poisson, Guy Deker, Vincent Savarit
  • Publication number: 20180276999
    Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting a flight plan rejoining trajectory of an aircraft, the method being implemented in a flight management system of the aircraft. In a first step, the rejoining trajectory comprises a guidance setpoint holding point to be reached situated in the extension of a guidance setpoint, and set manually or automatically, the guidance setpoint no longer being necessarily maintained when this setpoint holding point is passed. This first step can be preceded by a step of rejoining a guidance setpoint or a step of searching for the intersection of the current guidance setpoint trajectory with a segment of the flight plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Benoit DACRE-WRIGHT, Didier POISSON, Guy DEKER, Vincent SAVARIT
  • Patent number: 9945671
    Abstract: A method assisting in navigation of aircraft following a flight plan subject to time constraints comprises: determining a minimum speed profile, a maximum speed profile, and minimum and maximum times of passage; determining, for each constraint of index i, a restricted interval and a required interval; the determination made by a first iterative computation, i being decremented from n?1 to 1 and comprising: determining a required interval of index i enabling the aircraft to observe a restricted interval of index i+1 by flying at a speed profile between the minimum and maximum speed profiles, the restricted interval of index i+1 determined on the preceding iteration for an iteration of index between 1 and n?2, or from the time constraint of index n for the iteration of index n?1; and determining a restricted interval of index i from the intersection of the time constraint and the required interval of index i.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Benoit Dacre-Wright, Guy Deker, Xavier Blanchon
  • Patent number: 9875658
    Abstract: A method for computing a setpoint trajectory of an aircraft comprising at least two subsets comprises the formulation and the solving of an optimization problem for the trajectory, and the formulation of the problem comprises at least the formulation of a constraint related to a transition of legs on at least one first subset of the trajectory, and the formulation of a constraint related to a transition of vertical flight phases on at least one second subset of the trajectory. The invention also relates to a system and a computer program for the computation of a trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Mathieu Le Merrer, Benoit Dacre-Wright, François Coulmeau
  • Patent number: 9715832
    Abstract: A navigation aid method for an aircraft flying a reference trajectory between a point of departure and a point of arrival subject to a field of wind vectors comprises: decomposing the reference trajectory into a plurality of discrete waypoints Pi, loading meteorological data comprising the field of wind vectors, iterating the following steps N times, to generate an improved trajectory: for each waypoint Pi named current point, determining a reference plane, determining an orthonormal reference frame, determining a wind curl ((?W)Pi), determining a sign of the projection of the wind curl on axis zi ((?W)zi Pi), determining a direction of displacement from the current point Pi to a new current waypoint Pi?, determining a line of displacement, determining a displacement distance, determining the new current waypoint, determining a new trajectory, assigning the new waypoints Pi? determined in the preceding iteration to the waypoints Pi for the next iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Christophe Pierre, Rémy Auletto, Benoit Dacre-Wright
  • Publication number: 20160163201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for computing a setpoint trajectory of an aircraft comprising at least two subsets. It is characterized in that it comprises the formulation and the solving of an optimization problem for the trajectory, and that the formulation of the said problem comprises at least the formulation of a constraint related to a transition of legs on at least one first subset of the trajectory, and the formulation of a constraint related to a transition of vertical flight phases on at least one second subset of the trajectory. The invention also relates to a system and a computer program for the computation of a trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Mathieu LE MERRER, Benoit DACRE-WRIGHT, François COULMEAU
  • Publication number: 20150211859
    Abstract: A method assisting in navigation of aircraft following a flight plan subject to time constraints comprises: determining a minimum speed profile, a maximum speed profile, and minimum and maximum times of passage; determining, for each constraint of index i, a restricted interval and a required interval; the determination made by a first iterative computation, i being decremented from n?1 to 1 and comprising: determining a required interval of index i enabling the aircraft to observe a restricted interval of index i+1 by flying at a speed profile between the minimum and maximum speed profiles, the restricted interval of index i+1 determined on the preceding iteration for an iteration of index between 1 and n?2, or from the time constraint of index n for the iteration of index n?1; and determining a restricted interval of index i from the intersection of the time constraint and the required interval of index i.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Benoit DACRE-WRIGHT, Guy DEKER, Xavier BLANCHON
  • Patent number: 8862373
    Abstract: A method is provided for guaranteeing a temporal spacing between an aircraft and at least one reference moving object, said spacing needing to be guaranteed no later than at a point in the flight plan called the point of interception, with the aircraft following a current flight plan. The feasibility of guaranteeing the spacing at a date Tcour by regulating the speed of the aircraft while maintaining the current flight plan is verified in a first step. In a second step it is verified whether the date Tcour is contained within a feasibility range. In a third step the current flight plan is modified when the feasibility is not verified, a lateral trajectory between the current position Xcour of the aircraft and the point of interception being implemented in this case such that the spacing can be attained by regulating the speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Benoit Dacre-Wright, Guy Deker