Patents Issued in April 6, 2017
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Publication number: 20170096188Abstract: A bicycle pedal, including a pedal body rotationally connected to a spindle assembly suitable to be coupled to a pedal crank, the pedal body having a central portion including a cylindrical seat in which the spindle assembly is inserted and rotatably supported. The pedal includes a plurality of spacers, inserted along the spindle assembly and/or inside the cylindrical seat, suitable to be relocated in order to modify the Q-factor of the pedal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Barbara BIGOLIN, Carl WINEFORDNER, Frank HERMANSEN, Mark RANE
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Publication number: 20170096189Abstract: A power-assisted bicycle includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, a body frame, a bracket that mounts a power unit, and a power unit fixed to the bracket by a bolt. The power unit includes a pedal crank shaft and a motor that produces auxiliary power, and outputs each of human power applied to the pedal crank shaft and a driving force of the motor, or a resultant force of the human power and the driving force of the motor. The bracket includes a front mounting seat and rear mounting seat pointing downward. The power unit includes first and second front mounts and first and second rear mounts which overlap the front mounting seat and rear mounting seat from below. The bolt extends in a direction in which the front mounting seat and rear mounting seat and the mounts overlap each other, and fastens the mounts to the front mounting seat and the rear mounting seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Shuuji MORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20170096190Abstract: An electric bicycle frame includes a seat tube, a down tube, a top tube, a battery box, and a battery body. The seat tube includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The down tube includes a first end and a second end. The second end is connected to the lower portion. The top tube includes a third end, an expanding tube, and a fourth end. The fourth end is connected to the upper portion. The expanding tube is between the third end and fourth end. The expanding tube includes a tube diameter varying portion and a top opening. The tube diameter varying portion includes continuously varying cross-sections. The battery box is assembled inside the top opening of the expanding tube. The battery body is received in the battery box.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Yu-Chi Yu, SHU-SIOU YE
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Publication number: 20170096191Abstract: The present invention concerns a bulbous bow for a sea-going vessel, said bow comprising a load-carrying inner structure mounted at the stem of the vessel and an outer shell structure defining the hydrodynamic properties of the bulbous bow, wherein said outer shell structure is provided with a sub-structure for replaceably mounting on the inner structure. The invention further concerns a seagoing vessel comprising such bulbous bow as well as a method of producing a bulbous bow and a method of mounting or replacing a bulbous bow.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: OSK-Shiptech A/SInventor: Steen Hasholt
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Publication number: 20170096192Abstract: Provided is a locking apparatus for a damping device of a moonpool, which can automatically lock and unlock an opened state of the damping device of the moonpool. The locking apparatus includes: one or more first locking members installed in a sidewall of the moonpool; one or more second locking members installed in a side of the damping device; and a holding unit separably holding the first locking members and the second locking members when the damping devices are in the opened state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Seong Deok YUN, Gurbachan VIRK
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Publication number: 20170096193Abstract: A high pressure swivel system provides fluid communication on a turret-moored vessel between a swivel core member being in fixed rotational alignment with a seabed mooring system and a swivel revolving member being in fixed rotational alignment with the hull of the vessel. The revolving member has upper and lower radially extending surfaces. On each of the radially extending surfaces are a series of radially spaced apart pressure seals. Hydraulic barrier fluid pressure is regulated in each of the volumes formed between the pressure seals. The pressures in the volumes are regulated such that a process fluid pressure higher than could be tolerated by any one individual pressure seal is safely accommodated by sharing the high process fluid pressure between or among two or more of the radially spaced apart pressure seals.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: ONESUBSEA IP UK LIMITEDInventor: JØRGEN EIDE
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Publication number: 20170096194Abstract: This invention relates to a vessel having an extendable and retractable cursor frame assembly for deploying other vessels into a body of water. The retractable cursor frame assembly on the main vessel may be retracted and secured on a module of the main vessel as the main vessel is in transit. When another vessel is to be deployed into the body of water from the main vessel, the cursor frame assembly is then extended into the body of water to facilitate the launch of the other vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre Pte LtdInventors: Amit Jain, Anis Altaf Hussain, Aziz Amirall Merchant
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Publication number: 20170096195Abstract: A system for transferring fluid between a ship and a facility has a mast with a proximal end pivotally mounted on a deck of the ship and a distal end, a fluid-transfer line extending along the mast, a flexible pipe with a first end connected to the fluid-transfer line and a second end connected to a manifold of the facility, the flexible pipe being equipped with a connecting device having an emergency cut-off comprising two elements which are capable of automatically separating in a separation direction, when a separating force which is above a threshold is exerted, and a guide element supported by the mast, and comprising a convex surface for guiding the flexible pipe which is capable of absorbing a pulling force of the flexible pipe such that this force is exerted on the connecting device having an emergency cut-off in the separation directionType: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: GAZTRANSPORT ET TECHNIGAZInventors: Guillaume GELIN, Patrick ENGLEBERT
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Publication number: 20170096196Abstract: A cargo transfer monitoring system at least comprises at least one vessel motion sensor, one pair of wireless modems, a central data processing unit with decision-making module, a rugged display panel as the operator station, and communication coupling. The cargo transfer operation will be carried out by a crane operator sitting in the crane cabin on the primary vessel. The transfer will take place either from target vessel to primary vessel or from primary vessel to target vessel. The sensor(s) collect the real-time motion of vessels, which is carried over to the central computer through data cable or wireless radio link. The decision-making module predicts the motion of the vessels for a subsequent time period. Based on the predicted value, the decision-making module projects the expected or predicted impact force on the payload if the operation is started at the particular time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre Pte LtdInventors: Kok Seng Foo, Bernard Voon Ee How, Xuan Wang
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Publication number: 20170096197Abstract: Floats having a buoyant portion and a chamber portion hold liquid within their chambers above the interface of the surrounding body of liquid and gas which creates a downward force which stabilizes the float. If the liquid is water, the float holds water in the inner chamber which is disposed above the waterline of the body of water in which the float is suspended. The elevated water exerts a downward force that acts against rocking, swaying, and other destabilizing forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: James W. MONTGOMERY, JR.
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Publication number: 20170096198Abstract: A water sports board with enhanced flexibility includes an elongated core body and an elongated wooden or carbon fiber planar stringer disposed on the centerline of the core body. A plurality of elongated slots are formed in the upper edge of the stringer and extend downwardly toward the bottom edge. The slots are filled with an elastic rubber-like material. The water sports board can be a surfboard, windsurfing board, kite board, wakeboard or body boards.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: BENJAMIN R. PETER
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Publication number: 20170096199Abstract: A retractable fin system having a retractable fin and fin box is disclosed. An example retractable fin system includes a housing insertable into an opening in a watercraft board. The example retractable fin system also includes a retractable fin. The example retractable fin system also includes a bias to maintain the retractable fin in a default outward position from the housing. The bias retracts the retractable fin into the housing on contact with an outside force.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Peter Hall
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Publication number: 20170096200Abstract: A surfboard bag includes a body having first and second sides, a closed end, and an open end. The body is formed from upper and lower exterior surfaces of a first material and upper and lower interior surfaces of a second, different material. The surfaces of the body are joined to one another along the first and second sides of the body and the closed end of the body so as to define an interior cavity. The open end of the body defines a mouth providing access to the interior cavity. One or more release tabs are disposed on the upper exterior surface of the body and/or the lower exterior surface of the body. The release tab(s) are spaced-apart from the first and second sides of the body and spaced-apart from the open and closed ends of the body. The release tab(s) are configured to facilitate breaking a seal created by board sticking between a surfboard disposed within the interior cavity and the upper exterior surface of the body and/or the lower exterior surface of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Dean R. Damore
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Publication number: 20170096201Abstract: An inundation prevention system for ship is provided. The inundation prevention system for ship includes a fire-extinction gas ejection part configured to eject a fire extinction gas to an installation area prepared in a hull, an airbag part of 3D shape disposed in the installation area, and an airbag actuation part configured to supply the fire extinction gas to the airbag part, if inundation occurs in the installation are, and to inflate the airbag in the installation for compulsory buoyancy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Hee-Jin KANG, Jin CHOI, Dong-Kon LEE
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Publication number: 20170096202Abstract: A boat handling apparatus includes a carriage frame supported for rolling movement along a first horizontal track between a lifting position adjacent to a first end of the first track and a stored position adjacent to an opposing second end of the first track. A second upright track is fixed in proximity to the first end of the first track to depend downwardly from the first track. A cradle frame which is arranged to support a boat thereon is transferrable from a raised position supported on the carriage frame so as to be movable with the carriage frame between lifting and storage positions thereof, to a lowered position in which the cradle frame is movable up and down along the second track below the first horizontal track.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Dale David Place
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Publication number: 20170096203Abstract: A floatation device is configured to provide floatation without interfering with a user's upper body movement. The floatation device has a first set of four straps adapted to encircle the user's hips. A right thigh floatation pad and a right back hip floatation pad are joined to the first four straps. A first elastic band is joined to the first four straps and a waist floatation pad. A second set of four straps are adapted to encircle the user's hips. A left thigh floatation pad and a left back hip floatation pad are joined to the first four straps. A second elastic band is joined to the second four straps and a second waist floatation pad. Three elastic bands are joined to four floatation pads and the second elastic band. Three straps with buckles are attached to the elastic bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Mark A. Stickler
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Publication number: 20170096204Abstract: Mask of the so-called full face type comprising a transparent visor (2), a frame or strapping (3), a sealing skirt (4) preferably made of rubber designed to ensure the water-tight seal and suitable straps (5) for fitting the mask on the face. The face part of the mask is associated with breathing tube (6) which engages on the upper part of the mask and which allows the flow of air to enter into the compartment made between the frame and the visor. The path of the air being inhaled and exhaled both in the mask and in the breathing tube are different from each other, the tube is made with separate ducts for the air inhaled and exhaled and the inside of the mask is made with two compartments, an upper front compartment (6) and a lower oronasal compartment (7) separated by a separating wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Gabriele CUCCHIA
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Publication number: 20170096205Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for in-place refueling of reactant sources for submersible vehicles that utilize fuel cells. In one embodiment, the vehicle includes a pressure hull that maintains a pressure boundary between an interior surface and an exterior surface, and includes a fuel cell. The vehicle includes a reactant source tank for the fuel cell that includes a fill port for transferring a reactant source to the reactant source tank. The vehicle includes a pressure hull penetrator that traverses from the exterior surface to the interior surface utilizing a passage through the pressure hull. The pressure hull penetrator maintains the pressure boundary between the exterior surface and the interior surface. The vehicle includes a fill tube coupled to the fill port of the reactant source tank that traverses through the pressure hull penetrator to the exterior surface, and an electrically non-conductive sleeve surrounding the fill tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Joshua M. Mermelstein, Wayne A. Viloria
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Publication number: 20170096206Abstract: An air-based-deployment-compatible underwater vehicle that may be configured to perform vertical profiling is described. The vehicle may be configured, during information transmission, to perform motion stabilization at a water surface. A body of the vehicle may have a cylindrical shape. Buoyancy control components of the vehicle may be disposed within the body. The buoyancy control components may be configured to adjust a volume and/or buoyancy of the vehicle to facilitate vertical profiling. Fins may be hingedly disposed on the body at one or more locations on the vehicle. The fins may be movable between a first configuration and a second configuration. The fins, in the first configuration, may be positioned substantially flat against the body. The fins, in the second configuration, may extend radially outward to slow descent and to provide motion stabilization. The fins may be pitched to rotate the vehicle about a longitudinal axis during vertical profiling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: James Edward Dufour, Brian Kenneth Newville
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Publication number: 20170096207Abstract: This invention relates to deep-water underwater transportation in mining operations, and can be used for the placement of geological survey and mining equipment. The present underwater transport module comprises a body (1), ballast tanks (2) with adjustable buoyancy, and a system (3) for pumping a working medium in and out, said working medium being water from outside the transport module.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2014Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Vladyslav Stanislavovych Kvyatkovskyy
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Publication number: 20170096208Abstract: A system and method for multi-layer fluid containment recovery. The system includes an inner container, an outer container and a pump. The outer container encompasses the inner container and forms a region between the inner container and the outer container. The pump includes an inlet situated in the region between the inner container and outer container. The system may also include a logic controller communicatively coupled to the pump and configured to activate the pump in moving fluid out of the region between the inner container and outer container according to a defined logic.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Jeff Klagenberg
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Publication number: 20170096209Abstract: The invention relates to the field of aviation, and specifically to aircraft structures. The present hybrid aircraft comprises an aerostat with a rigid frame, ballonets with helium, a suspension system, and a bearing platform with a cargo/passenger cabin. The cabin includes controls, engines, electrical equipment and measurement devices. The aerostat is composed of two envelopes connected by a cylindrical hinge and provided with affixing elements, controlling the rotation of which allows for changing and securing the aerostat in the form of a wing or in the form of an A-shape with an opened fairing. The suspension system includes rigid and flexible connections and is capable of being transformed and secured. The stationing and securing of the device in a stable position can be carried out on a sloped solid ground surface, on a water surface, or on a vertical structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Nikolai Borisowich SHULGIN
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Publication number: 20170096210Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a transformable aerial vehicle are provided. In one aspect, a transformable aerial vehicle includes: a central body and at least two transformable frames assemblies respectively disposed on the central body, each of the at least two transformable frame assemblies having a proximal portion pivotally coupled to the central body and a distal portion; an actuation assembly mounted on the central body and configured to pivot the at least two frame assemblies to a plurality of different vertical angles relative to the central body; and a plurality of propulsion units mounted on the at least two transformable frame assemblies and operable to move the transformable aerial vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Tao Wang, Tao Zhao, Hao Du, Mingxi Wang
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Publication number: 20170096211Abstract: A kite includes a frame including a leading edge support and a plurality of struts extending rearward from the leading edge support, a flexible main canopy attached to the frame and at least one flexible kite sizing section adjustably attached to the flexible main canopy. The at least one flexible kite sizing section is adjustable to change an area of the kite, including an area of at least a first wing tip section of the kite.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Clayton Morris
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Publication number: 20170096212Abstract: A rotor hub fairing system for use in a counter-rotating, coaxial rotor system is provided including an upper hub fairing defined about an axis and a lower hub fairing defined about the axis. A shaft fairing is disposed between the upper hub fairing and the lower hub fairing. The geometry of the shaft fairing is configured to encourage a wake adjacent the upper hub fairing to form collectively with a wake adjacent the lower hub fairing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Razvan Virgil Florea, Patrick Bowles, Barbara Brenda Botros, ByungYoung Min, Claude G. Matalanis, Brian E. Wake
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Publication number: 20170096213Abstract: A pin wrap having a unitary construction that includes a first elongated arm extending from an inboard end to an outboard end; a second elongated arm extending from the inboard end to the outboard end; and a curved end having an internal surface and a directly opposing external surface. The curved end integrally connects the first elongated arm to the second elongated arm at the outboard end. Also, the curved end is arcuate having a plurality of radii of curvatures. A blade and a helicopter with a blade can include the pin wrap.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Eric Lucien Nussenblatt, David H. Hunter
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Publication number: 20170096214Abstract: A vortex generator arrangement for an aircraft comprising a surface section forming a flow surface interacting with a flow surrounding the aircraft in operation, wherein the surface section comprises an opening, a vortex generator movable between a retracted position and an extended position, a retainer for holding the vortex generator in the retracted position, a biasing structure for biasing the vortex generator towards the extended position and a release for releasing the vortex generator from the retainer such that the vortex generator can be moved towards the extended position. Further, a sealing membrane is provided completely sealing the opening when the vortex generator is in the retracted position. The vortex generator is movable through the membrane from the retracted position to the extended position. Furthermore, a flow control system, an aircraft and a method of controlling flow are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Bruno Stefes, Wolfgang Eilken, Erich Paul
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Publication number: 20170096215Abstract: An aircraft assembly having a first body connected to a second body via a flexible coupling arranged to limit separation of the bearing faces while permitting relative rotational movement between the bodies in a movement plane so as to define a joint between the bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Nicholas Foster, Nikhil Sehgal, Daniel Mulley, Peter Scott
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Publication number: 20170096216Abstract: According to various embodiments, disclosed is an axle saddle system for an axle having an undercut between the outboard and inboard bearing lands of the axle. According to various embodiments, the axle saddle system comprises a saddle configured to fill the axle undercut in order to protect the axle from damage by the installation of a wheel onto the axle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: John Swank, Shane E. Hunnicutt, Joshua Stephen Kossler, Michael Neal Patterson
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Publication number: 20170096217Abstract: A roller gear for use in a roller gear and sprocket configuration of a drive system is disclosed, particularly for use in a landing gear drive system of an aircraft. Alternative embodiments and, in particular, means for permitting removal and replacement of rollers and roller mounting pins in the roller gear are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Arnaud DIDEY, Richard BILLYEALD, James SETTER, Ian DICKASON
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Publication number: 20170096218Abstract: A system for determining a deceleration rate of an aircraft, in various embodiments, includes at least one component capable of transmitting a first deceleration rate. The system also includes a brake control unit coupled to the at least one component and having a brake controller that is configured to receive the first deceleration rate from the at least one component and to determine a likely accurate deceleration rate based on the first deceleration rate, a second deceleration rate and a hierarchy of sources of deceleration rates.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Marc Georgin
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Publication number: 20170096219Abstract: Embodiments refer generally to systems and methods for providing autorotative enhancement for helicopters using an autorotative assist unit coupled to the transmission of the helicopter. Methods of utilizing an autorotative assist unit as well as retrofitting an autorotative assist unit to an existing helicopter are also disclosed. By employing an autorotative assist unit, improved autorotation can be achieved without the need to increase the weight of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Dudley E. Smith, Cory M. Hitte, Bryan Marshall, Carlos Alexander Fenny
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Publication number: 20170096220Abstract: A central-positioned pitch control device used in a coaxial helicopter includes an upper propeller hub; a lower propeller hub; a first blade mounted on the outside of the upper propeller hub; a second blade mounted on the outside of the lower propeller hub; and a central-positioned pitch control device placed between the upper propeller hub and the lower propeller hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: QINGAN GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Mengyi Dai
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Publication number: 20170096221Abstract: An unmanned air module includes one or more rotors, engines, a transmission and avionics. Any of several different ground modules may be attached to the air module. The air module may fly with and without the ground module attached. The ground module may be manned. The air module may have two rotors, which may be ducted fans. The air module may include a parachute, an airbag and landing gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Piasecki Aircraft CorporationInventors: John W. Piasecki, Frederick W. Piasecki, Brian Geiger, Douglas Johnson, David Pitcairn
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Publication number: 20170096222Abstract: An apparatus comprises a base vehicle, a takeoff and landing system, a rack system, a refueling system associated with the base vehicle, and a controller. The rack system comprises a group of racks with slots in which the slots receive unmanned aerial vehicles, provide refueling connections that facilitate refueling of the unmanned aerial vehicles located in the slots, and provide data connections that facilitate data transmission with the unmanned aerial vehicles located in the slots. The refueling system refuels an unmanned aerial vehicle located in a slot using a refueling connection in the refueling connections. The controller communicates with the unmanned aerial vehicle using a data connection and control the refueling of the unmanned aerial vehicles by the refueling system while the unmanned aerial vehicle is in the slot, enabling exchanging data with the unmanned aerial vehicle and the refueling of the unmanned aerial vehicle simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Charles B. Spinelli, John Lyle Vian
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Publication number: 20170096223Abstract: An aircraft pylon comprising a body for mounting to an aircraft, a suspension mechanism mounted on said body and being configured for attaching thereto a payload, and a moving door configured for selectively covering and uncovering at least a part of said suspension mechanismType: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Yoav Herzig
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Publication number: 20170096224Abstract: An airplane seat sleeping device for providing a forwardly inclining head support that is attached or attachable to an adjacently proceeding vehicle seat, which has a seatback. The device includes a seatback attachment mechanism configured to be attachable to the seatback of the adjacently proceeding vehicle seat; a pillow support member; an intermediate member connecting the seatback attachment mechanism to the pillow support member; and a pillow support/receiving holding mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: ITAMAR MAROM
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Publication number: 20170096225Abstract: Described are reclining passenger seats having deployable leg rests coupled to the seat bottom. An actuator, which may be a gas cylinder, spring, or electric motor, moves the deployable leg rest between stowed and deployed positions. A locking mechanism may be used to stabilize the deployable leg rest in the stowed position, the deployed position, or any intermediate position. The coupling of the deployable leg rest to the seat bottom allows for a greater range of movement with a lighter, more compact mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Zodiac Seats US LLCInventors: Josh T. Smith, Justin K. Murnan, Ty Parker, Raul G. Reyes
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Publication number: 20170096226Abstract: A passenger seat (100) that includes at least one back rest frame (191-194) with at least one through-hole, at least one lateral structural member (101,102) that is perpendicular to the at least one back rest frame (191-194) and is disposed in the at least one through-hole, and at least one floor attachment frame (195,196) with at least one through-hole that is coaxial with the at least one through-hole of the at least one back rest frame (191-194). Each lateral structural member include an internal composite tube (101,102) that extends a full lateral width of the passenger seat and a plurality of outer tubes (151-162) disposed on an outer surface of the internal composite tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Zodiac Seats US LLCInventors: Reza Mansouri, Guillaume R. Thomas, Jeremy Green
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Publication number: 20170096227Abstract: A device for controlling an opening forming an air inlet or air outlet in an outer skin of a vehicle. The device comprises a multiple-member inlet ramp, which is configured to vary at least one of a degree of opening of the opening and a cross section of an air duct connected to the opening; an actuator, which is coupled to the multiple-member inlet ramp and is configured to move the multiple-member inlet ramp into a shape related to at least one of a certain degree of opening and a certain cross section; and a movement control device, which is configured to control a movement of the multiple-member inlet ramp.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Frank KLIMPEL
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Publication number: 20170096228Abstract: Environmental control systems and methods to control environmental temperature of an enclosed space by integrating a passive heat exchange subsystem (e.g., a loop heat pipe (LHP) heat exchange subsystem) having a closed loop heat exchange fluid circuit in heat-exchange relationship with the enclosed space for providing environmental temperature control therewithin, a RAM-air subsystem having a RAM-air circuit for circulating RAM cooling air, and a vapor compression cycle machine (VCM) subsystem having a VCM fluid circuit having a compressor, an evaporator, a condenser and an expansion valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Júlio Romero Santos FERNANDES, Ricardo GANDOLFI, Nicolau Braga SANTOS, Luiz Tobaldini NETO
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Publication number: 20170096229Abstract: In order to reduce the width of the attachment between the rear portion of an aircraft engine and its attachment pylon, an engine assembly attachment include an assembly of rear engine attachments comprising a first connecting rod laid out in a longitudinal and median vertical plane, a second connecting rod substantially laid out tangentially to the inter-turbine case, and a rear engine attachment for transversely spreading the loads, axially shifted rearwards relatively to the first and second connecting rods, and comprising a shear pin oriented along a vertical direction of the engine assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Olivier PAUTIS, Wolfgang BROCHARD
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Publication number: 20170096230Abstract: An acoustic structure for an aircraft nacelle which comprises an acoustically resistive substructure, at least one layer of cells and a reflective layer. The acoustic structure comprises at least one single-piece substructure which divides up the layer of cells and which incorporates elongated elements of a de-icing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Thierry Surply, Alain Porte
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Publication number: 20170096231Abstract: Propulsion unit for an aircraft, comprising a turbine, at least one propeller offset with respect to the turbine, and a power transmission disposed between the turbine and the propeller, the transmission comprising in series two constant velocity joints with a slide connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Augustin Marc Michel Curlier
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Publication number: 20170096232Abstract: A drive arrangement for an aircraft comprises a pair of propulsor units each having a fan and a fan shaft for driving the fan. A core engine has a turbine driving a core engine shaft. A mechanical connection connects the core engine shaft to drive the fan shafts for each of the propulsor units An aircraft is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Gabriel L. Suciu, Jesse M. Chandler, Wesley K. Lord, Alan H. Epstein, Steven M. O'Flarity
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Publication number: 20170096233Abstract: The invention relates to an architecture of a propulsion system of a multi-engine helicopter, comprising turboshaft engines (1, 2) that are connected to a power transmission gearbox (3), and comprising a low DC voltage onboard network (7) for supplying helicopter equipment during flight, characterised in that it comprises: a hybrid turboshaft engine (1) that is capable of operating in at least one standby mode during a stable flight of the helicopter; an electrotechnical pack (20) for quickly restarting said hybrid turboshaft engine in order to bring said engine out of said standby mode and to reach a mode in which it provides mechanical power, said restart pack (20) being connected to said onboard network (7); and at least two sources (4, 16, 18) of electrical power for said onboard network (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Fabien MERCIER-CALVAIRAC, Sophie HUMBERT, Stephane BEDDOK
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Publication number: 20170096234Abstract: A liquid storage tank, for example an aircraft fuel tank, comprising a tank wall enclosing a liquid storage space, and a tie assembly located at least partially within the liquid storage space. The tie assembly comprises an elongate member, for example a wire or cable, and a plurality of attachment devices fixed to an inner surface of the tank wall. The elongate member includes a plurality of spaced part points along its length, each of the spaced apart points being fixed to a respective attachment device such that the tie assembly resists outward deformation of the tank wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Nicholas John Martindale, Nicholas Park, Simon Anthony Jenkins, Andrew James Irwin, Christopher Steven Bingham, Chrisostomos Angelis Constantinou
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Publication number: 20170096235Abstract: An improved aircraft management system for consolidating and prioritizing alerts through the use of an alert consolidator is described herein. According to an embodiment, a method for providing a list of tasks for responding to alerts provided by an aircraft sensing system includes receiving a plurality of alerts provided by an aircraft sensing system prioritizing at least two alerts, generating a prioritized sequential list of tasks for responding to the prioritized alerts, and providing, in a single format, the prioritized sequential list of tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Lisa C. Thomas
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Publication number: 20170096236Abstract: A system and method for detecting pilot fatigue in an aircraft having at least an airframe and a pilot-operated aircraft control device includes detecting movements of the aircraft control device, and determining when the pilot is fatigued based on the detected movements of the aircraft control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Erik T. Nelson, Michael Dillard
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Publication number: 20170096237Abstract: Combined modality hover drift cueing methods, systems and computer readable media are disclosed. For example, some implementations can include a system comprising one or more sensors, and a combined modality hover drift cueing controller coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to determine hover drift and to control a plurality of indicators in response to determined hover drift. The system can also include a mode selector coupled to the combined modality hover drift cueing controller and configured to provide an indication of mode selection between one of a first mode, a second mode and a third mode, wherein the first mode is a combined modality mode. The system can further include a peripheral vision hover drift indicator coupled to the controller and mounted on an inside surface of an aircraft cockpit, and a tactile feedback indicator coupled to the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Steven D. COLBY