Patents by Inventor Franck Gansmandel

Franck Gansmandel 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: 12230152
    Abstract: The aircraft control systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to detect a residual error associated with a flight control computer of an aircraft and mitigate the effect(s) of such residual error in order to maintain safe operation of the aircraft. In some embodiments, the systems and methods are configured to detect an out-of-flight-envelope situation of the aircraft and determine whether or not the flight control computer is attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation. If the flight control computer is perceived as attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation, the flight control computer is permitted to continue controlling the aircraft. Otherwise, the excursion outside of the normal flight envelope is perceives as potentially having been caused by a residual error and the flight control computer is prevented from continuing to control the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Franck Gansmandel, Timothy Smith
  • Publication number: 20220139230
    Abstract: The aircraft control systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to detect a residual error associated with a flight control computer of an aircraft and mitigate the effect(s) of such residual error in order to maintain safe operation of the aircraft. In some embodiments, the systems and methods are configured to detect an out-of-flight-envelope situation of the aircraft and determine whether or not the flight control computer is attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation. If the flight control computer is perceived as attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation, the flight control computer is permitted to continue controlling the aircraft. Otherwise, the excursion outside of the normal flight envelope is perceives as potentially having been caused by a residual error and the flight control computer is prevented from continuing to control the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Franck GANSMANDEL, Timothy SMITH
  • Patent number: 11257383
    Abstract: The aircraft control systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to detect a residual error associated with a flight control computer of an aircraft and mitigate the effect(s) of such residual error in order to maintain safe operation of the aircraft. In some embodiments, the systems and methods are configured to detect an out-of-flight-envelope situation of the aircraft and determine whether or not the flight control computer is attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation. If the flight control computer is perceived as attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation, the flight control computer is permitted to continue controlling the aircraft. Otherwise, the excursion outside of the normal flight envelope is perceives as potentially having been caused by a residual error and the flight control computer is prevented from continuing to control the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Franck Gansmandel, Timothy Smith
  • Publication number: 20190378419
    Abstract: The aircraft control systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to detect a residual error associated with a flight control computer of an aircraft and mitigate the effect(s) of such residual error in order to maintain safe operation of the aircraft. In some embodiments, the systems and methods are configured to detect an out-of-flight-envelope situation of the aircraft and determine whether or not the flight control computer is attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation. If the flight control computer is perceived as attempting to recover the aircraft from the out-of-flight-envelope situation, the flight control computer is permitted to continue controlling the aircraft. Otherwise, the excursion outside of the normal flight envelope is perceives as potentially having been caused by a residual error and the flight control computer is prevented from continuing to control the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Franck GANSMANDEL, Timothy SMITH
  • Patent number: 6757252
    Abstract: The management process of the invention is in particular intended for the temporal management of an ARINC 629 bus for avionics rigs, and it is characterized in that the rigs to which new information is not available or to which only inconsistent information is available are made to send substituted information (WS(2), WS(3)) furnished with characteristic identifications (S1, S2) at the send instants (TA) which are assigned thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Patrice Eudeline, Franck Gansmandel, Patrice Toillon