Patents by Inventor Kyle R. Schmidt

Kyle R. Schmidt 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: 9798838
    Abstract: Method and system of determining ground-to-tire friction coefficient for an aircraft landing event. The method uses an aircraft computational model to repeatedly model the landing event, varying one or more initial conditions of the aircraft model until a best match between a modelled value and a provided value of aircraft vertical acceleration is determined. The method uses initial conditions associated with the best match of modelled and provided vertical acceleration values and a strain value from a sensor on the aircraft landing gear, with the ground-to-tire friction coefficient is a variable. The method models the landing gear to generate a modelled strain value and compares this with the measured strain value, and repeats the landing gear modelling step with a different value for the ground-to-tire friction coefficient until a best match between the modelled strain value and the measured strain value is determined and outputting the respective friction coefficient value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Safran Landing Systems UK LTD
    Inventors: Laura Collett, Kyle R. Schmidt, Pia Sartor
  • Patent number: D953845
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Kyle R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: D986043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Kyle R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: D1050874
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Kyle R Schmidt