Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Jupp

Jeffrey A. Jupp 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: 4714215
    Abstract: An aircraft wing has a winglet extending from the tip to reduce drag and thereby improve the efficiency of the aircraft. Hitherto such winglets, although they have succeeded in reducing drag, they have also increased the wing bending moment at high coefficients of lift sufficient to require a strengthened and therefore heavier wing. Moreover, they have suffered flow break-away at such high coefficients of lift and have therefore incurred aircraft control problems. A winglet according to the present invention, is of high sweep back and low Aspect Ratio. Its resulting increase in the bending moment on the wing is relatively low even at high lift coefficients and since it changes from conventional attached flow to vortex flow and therefore does not experience random flow break-away at high lift coefficients, it does not harm aircraft control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: British Aerospace PLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Jupp, Peter H. Rees