Patents by Inventor Daniel Lopez Fernandez

Daniel Lopez Fernandez 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: 10906633
    Abstract: A flight control computer of an aircraft is likely to operate in a so-called incidence protection mode in which it is configured to compute the deflection orders of an elevator as a function of incidence angle values supplied by a set of incidence probes, so as to keep the incidence angle of the aircraft within a range of acceptable incidence angle values. The flight control computer is configured to, when only one incidence probe is operational: compute a first estimated incidence angle value of the aircraft, by a first estimator and a second estimated incidence angle value of the aircraft, by a second estimator unlike the first estimator; and keep the incidence protection mode activated as long as the incidence angle value supplied by the single operational incidence probe is consistent with at least one out of the first estimated incidence angle value and the second estimated incidence angle value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jérôme Gauvain, Lionel Bompart, Daniel Lopez Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20180304994
    Abstract: A flight control computer of an aircraft is likely to operate in a so-called incidence protection mode in which it is configured to compute the deflection orders of an elevator as a function of incidence angle values supplied by a set of incidence probes, so as to keep the incidence angle of the aircraft within a range of acceptable incidence angle values. The flight control computer is configured to, when only one incidence probe is operational: compute a first estimated incidence angle value of the aircraft, by a first estimator and a second estimated incidence angle value of the aircraft, by a second estimator unlike the first estimator; and keep the incidence protection mode activated as long as the incidence angle value supplied by the single operational incidence probe is consistent with at least one out of the first estimated incidence angle value and the second estimated incidence angle value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jérôme Gauvain, Lionel Bompart, Daniel Lopez Fernandez
  • Patent number: 9776729
    Abstract: A device including a first data generating unit for determining at least one aerodynamic hinge moment of at least one control surface of the aircraft, a second data generating unit for determining a plurality of data and at least one external static pressure and a model of hinge moment coefficient, a computation unit for computing with the aid of these data at least one speed of the aircraft, namely a Mach number and/or a conventional speed, and a data transmission unit for providing this speed to a user system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Nicola Mimmo, Pierre Chevalier, Daniel Lopez Fernandez, Rémy Dayre
  • Publication number: 20160107762
    Abstract: A device including a first data generating unit for determining at least one aerodynamic hinge moment of at least one control surface of the aircraft, a second data generating unit for determining a plurality of data and at least one external static pressure and a model of hinge moment coefficient, a computation unit for computing with the aid of these data at least one speed of the aircraft, namely a Mach number and/or a conventional speed, and a data transmission unit for providing this speed to a user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Nicola Mimmo, Pierre Chevalier, Daniel Lopez Fernandez, Rémy Dayre