Patents by Inventor Nicholas Charles Tuozzo

Nicholas Charles Tuozzo 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).

  • Dual rotor, rotary wing aircraft
    Patent number: 10822076
    Abstract: A main rotor blade assembly for a rotary wing aircraft is provided including a main rotor blade root region, a main rotor blade inboard region arranged outboard of said main rotor blade root region, a main rotor blade main region arranged outboard of said main rotor blade inboard region, and a main rotor blade tip region arranged outboard of said main rotor blade main region. At least one of chord, twist, sweep, airfoil shape, and thickness/chord of the main rotor blade assembly has been optimized to achieve balanced high speed forward flight and hover relative to both efficiency and high thrust capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: David H. Hunter, Justin Thomas, Robert D. Beatty, Nicholas Charles Tuozzo, Thomas Alan Egolf, Peter F. Lorber, Robert C. Moffitt, Shawn Westfall