Patents by Inventor Walter TURCO

Walter TURCO 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).

  • Method for analyzing faults present on a platform and associated system
    Patent number: 8838327
    Abstract: A method for analyzing faults present on a platform includes the following steps: (a) providing a table of correspondence between a plurality of observable symptoms on the platform (10) and the fault modes capable of creating each observable symptom; (b) measuring the observable symptoms present on the platform (10); (c) establishing at least one family of faults, including determining a list of fault modes capable of creating, alone or in combination, all of the selected present symptoms, placing each given fault mode of the group in a fault family, and grouping all of the fault modes capable of creating at least one selected present symptom shared with the given fault mode together in the same fault family as the given fault mode. The method is applicable to fault analyses on aircrafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dassault Aviation
    Inventors: Laurent Turban, Walter Turco
  • METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAULTS PRESENT ON A PLATFORM AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120259505
    Abstract: A method for analyzing faults present on a platform includes the following steps: (a) providing a table of correspondence between a plurality of observable symptoms on the platform (10) and the fault modes capable of creating each observable symptom; (b) measuring the observable symptoms present on the platform (10); (c) establishing at least one family of faults, including determining a list of fault modes capable of creating, alone or in combination, all of the selected present symptoms, placing each given fault mode of the group in a fault family, and grouping all of the fault modes capable of creating at least one selected present symptom shared with the given fault mode together in the same fault family as the given fault mode. The method is applicable to fault analyses on aircrafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Laurent TURBAN, Walter TURCO