Patents by Inventor Jacques J. Alavoine

Jacques J. Alavoine 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).

  • Aircraft arresting gear net raising device
    Patent number: 4456205
    Abstract: In this device for raising the net of an aircraft arresting gear, on either side of the runway is disposed a frame secured to the ground by means of ordinary anchorings and bearing a piston and cylinder ram which comprises a fixed piston rod and a cylinder body movable along a guiding path of the frame structure for actuating through push links a raising post pivoted by its base to the frame structure and obliquely disposed in relation to the runway axis. The pivot axis of the post is off set in relation to the post axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Aerazur EFA
    Inventors: Jacques J. Alavoine, Claude Contensou, Pierre M. Hardy, Francis H. Neveux
  • Retractile support unit for an arresting cable disposed across a take-off or landing strip for aircraft
    Patent number: 4441672
    Abstract: Actuators transversally movable through a reciprocable mechanical connection, under the control of a single unit disposed at one side of the strip are housed within a channel provided across the strip. Each actuator comprises a cam having an inclined plane and a cable support constantly engaging the inclined plane and adapted to pivot about an axis parallel to the cable axis, so that the raising of the cable support causes the cable to be raised while being off set in relation to its retraction channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Aerazur EFA
    Inventors: Gilbert R. Aglae, Jacques J. Alavoine, Claude Contensou, Jacques R. Rousseau, Celestin Cerati