Patents by Inventor Welsh C. Pond

Welsh C. Pond 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).

  • Limited authority and full authority mode fly-by-wire flight control surface actuation control system
    Patent number: 7840316
    Abstract: An aircraft flight control surface actuation control system includes an actuator control unit and a flight control module. The actuator control unit includes at least two independent actuator control channels to generate limited authority flight control surface actuator commands based on pilot inceptor position signals and flight control augmentation data. The flight control module supplies the flight control augmentation data to each of the independent actuator control channels, determines operability of each of the actuator control channels and, based on the determined operability of each independent actuator control channel, selectively prevents one of the independent actuator control channels from supplying the limited authority flight control surface actuator commands. The flight control module may also generate full authority flight control surface actuator commands for supply to flight control surface actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Larry J. Yount, Gerald B. Kelley, Kent A. Stange, Welsh C. Pond
  • LIMITED AUTHORITY AND FULL AUTHORITY MODE FLY-BY-WIRE FLIGHT CONTROL SURFACE ACTUATION CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090152404
    Abstract: An aircraft flight control surface actuation control system includes an actuator control unit and a flight control module. The actuator control unit includes at least two independent actuator control channels to generate limited authority flight control surface actuator commands based on pilot inceptor position signals and flight control augmentation data. The flight control module supplies the flight control augmentation data to each of the independent actuator control channels, determines operability of each of the actuator control channels and, based on the determined operability of each independent actuator control channel, selectively prevents one of the independent actuator control channels from supplying the limited authority flight control surface actuator commands. The flight control module may also generate full authority flight control surface actuator commands for supply to flight control surface actuators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Larry J. Yount, Gerald B. Kelley, Kent A. Stange, Welsh C. Pond