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7146796 Nested latch thrust reverser  
A thrust reverser includes reverser doors pivotally mounted in a nacelle. Each door includes a latch pin mounted at a distal end thereof. A complementary latch hook is pivotally mounted in the...
7127880 Induction coupled variable nozzle  
A turbofan nacelle includes forward and aft cowls adjoining at a joint, and including an exhaust duct having a main outlet for discharging exhaust. A variable nozzle surrounds the exhaust duct and...
7010905 Ventilated confluent exhaust nozzle  
An exhaust nozzle includes an outer duct surrounding an inner duct. The inner duct includes a main outlet, and a row of apertures spaced upstream therefrom. The outer duct includes a row of intakes...
6976352 Toggle interlocked thrust reverser  
A fan thrust reverser includes a nacelle having radially outer and inner skins. An outer door is disposed in the outer skin, and mounted to the nacelle at a hinge joint. A toggle link is pivotally...
6966175 Rotary adjustable exhaust nozzle  
An exhaust nozzle includes an exhaust duct with an outlet and a row of radial apertures upstream therefrom. A radial frame surrounds the duct upstream from the apertures. A row of flaps are hinged...
6892958 Process for the continuous polymerization with micromixing of reactive fluids  
The process for the continuous preparation of homopolymers or copolymers by free-impinging-jet micromixing of fluids formed ( 1 ) of monomer(s) and ( 2 ) of an initiator system consists in...
6810656 Thrust reverser system power drive unit with dual sequential torque decoupler and method  
A thrust reverser system that includes one or more power drive units operable to supply a drive force. The power drive unit includes a motor and at least two output sections, each operably coupled...
6751944 Confluent variable exhaust nozzle  
A gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle includes coaxial inner and outer conduits. The inner conduit has a main outlet at an aft end thereof, and a row of radial apertures spaced upstream from the...
6681561 Outlet device for a jet engine  
An outlet device for a jet engine ( 2 ) includes an outlet channel ( 3 ), which has an upstream end ( 3 ′) for being connected to the jet engine and a downstream end ( 3 ″) and which defines a...
6533195 Variable angle airless nozzle and dispensing method  
In an airless dispensing system, liquids may be dispensed at variable angles from substantially 0° to as much as 50°-60°, by a simple adjustment made by a dispenser operator without ceasing...
6070407 Ducted fan gas turbine engine with variable area fan duct nozzle  
The fan duct of a ducted fan gas turbine engine is provided with a secondary duct at least partly within the downstream end of the primary duct. The secondary duct is provided with means such as...
6045091 Thrust reverser with improved impact strength  
An aircraft gas turbine-engine thrust-reverser specifically designed to withstand impacts possibly caused by objects propelled from the engines around which they are mounted, for instance disk or...
5799903 Pivoting door thrust reverser with cooperating panels  
A thrust reverser is disclosed for a turbojet engine having an outer cowling and an inner cowling forming a generally annular gas flow duct therebetween, the thrust reverser having at least one...
5779169 Aircraft engine inlet hot gas and foreign object ingestion reduction and pitch control system  
An aircraft for vertical or short take off and landing operations having two main lift nozzles, both positioned at or near the aircraft center of gravity utilizes one or more jet screen nozzles,...
5727381 Duct flow control system  
A duct fixed to a vehicle propelled through an ambient fluid medium is innally provided with spaced channel passages from which the fluid medium is ejected under pressure tangentially of local duct...
5690280 Multifunction exhaust system for gas turbine engines  
A short take off and vertical landing (STOVL) nozzle for a jet aircraft provides thrust reversing and thrust vectoring functions using two pairs of flaps. Each flap is independently actuated and...
5666803 Vectored thrust compressor for remote controlled aircraft  
A vectored thrust compressor for use in remote controlled aircraft comprising a housing having a forwardly facing air intake is disclosed. Two pair of vectorable thrust nozzles connect to the...
5481868 Variable area nozzle with fixed convergent-divergent walls and relatively movable parallel sideplates  
A variable area convergent-divergent nozzle for use as an attitude control thruster on a VTOL aircraft is formed by a curved wall forming a chamber a convergent section a throat section and a...
5437412 Variable geometry jet engine exhaust nozzle  
A variable cross-section nozzle for a jet engine is disclosed having main inner (hot) flaps defining an inner nozzle and main outer (cold) flaps defining an outer nozzle with adjacent main flaps...
5255850 Pivoting flaps and vane pack in a nozzle reverser assembly  
In a nozzle reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine, a swinging vane pack reverser is provided in place of the prior art array of cascade vanes in reverser ports of such engines. The present...
5120004 Split door thrust reverser for fan jet aircraft engines  
A thrust reverser for aircraft fan jet engines using a plurality of sets of deflector and blocker doors filling openings through the engine nacelle during normal engine operation. During thrust...
5115996 VTOL aircraft  
A VTOL aircraft including a fuselage with four nacelles, three vertical stabilizers and a horizontal stabilizer attached to the fuselage. The fuselage and the nacelles are lifting bodies that are...
5098022 Flow diverting nozzle for a gas turbine engine  
Disclosed is a gas turbine engine which incorporates a vertical thrust nozzle which diverts working fluid from the engine to selectively provide vertical thrust or a combination of vertical and...
5082209 Thrust reverser assembly  
Ports through the wall of the exhaust duct and the wall of the surrounding cooling air duct, connect the exhaust duct and reverse thrust ducts. Door sets seal these ports. The door sets are...
5042605 Apparatus for controlling air cushion vehicle  
The present invention relates to an apparatus for controlling an air cushion vehicle (trade name, Hovercraft) of a vehicle to be driven by air flowing pressure, in which rudders are provided along...
4984741 Vectorable variable flow area propulsion nozzle  
A vectorable propulsion nozzle has first and second ducts 10, 16 attached to each other by gimbal attachment means 18 to allow universal swivelling of vectoring in any lateral direction. The second...
4948072 Segmented vectoring cruise nozzles  
A thrust vectoring structure is provided for VSTOL aircraft having a pressurized gas generator and at least one rearward facing outlet with an opening for discharging pressurized gas from the...
4828173 Area controlled, thrust vectoring vane cascade  
A plurality of cascade vanes (28, 29, 30) pivot in unison for selectably directing a flow of gas (20) therethrough. A flow regulating vane (36) disposed adjacent one end vane of the plurality of...
4819876 Divergent flap actuation system for a two-dimensional exhaust nozzle  
A divergent flap actuation system for a two-dimensional exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine powered aircraft includes stationary sidewalls (2) and (3) with oppositely disposed movable divergent...
4760960 Linkage for area controlled, thrust vectoring vane cascade  
A linkage for area controlled thrust vectoring comprising of vane cascade (26) having a plurality of vanes (28, 29, 30) pivotable in unison and a flow regulating vane (36) oriented to provide a...
H000500 Exhaust nozzle flap assembly  
A high strength, lightweight exhaust nozzle flap assembly (22) includes a first flap (26) with integral sidewall disks (34, 35) for imparting moments (72, 73) to a cantilevered flap (26) for...
4589594 Thrust nozzle system  
The invention relates to a thrust nozzle system, especially for steering a rojectile, having a nozzle arrangement (3) which is fed by a propellant source, for example a gas source. The nozzle...
4502637 Turbomachine ejector nozzle with thrust reverser  
An ejector nozzle for a turbomachine comprising fixed inner and outer ducts 16,19 to the downstream ends of which is provided mechanism for varying the geometry and area of the nozzle. A plurality...
4502636 Variable geometry ejector nozzle for turbomachines  
An ejector nozzle for a turbomachine comprising fixed inner and outer ducts 16,19 to the downstream ends of which is provided a mechanism for varying the geometry and area of the nozzle. A...
4492340 Valve arrangements for propulsive fluid  
A valve 10 for controlling the flow of propulsive fluid, for use for example in the reaction control system of a VTOL aircraft includes a generally muff-shaped manifold member 15, a hollow piston...
4463903 Turbomachine ejector nozzle  
A variable geometry ejector nozzle for a gas turbine aero engine, in which a primary nozzle and convergent throat is defined by a pair of mutually confronting flaps 30 which are of corrugated form...
4442987 Guidance device for the moving fairing of a thrust reverser system  
A guiding system of the movable fairing of a turbojet engine thrust reverser system comprising two guide pieces mounted on an upper frame fixed to a mast and pieces to be guided attached to the...
4441670 Guided projectile  
A guided projectile comprising an energy source supplying a gas flow which feeds two pairs of exhaust nozzles, each pair of nozzles being disposed in the corresponding steering plane. Each of these...
4322035 Inert gas generants for utilization with rocket motors  
Means for generating an inert enveloping gas for surrounding the exhaust me of a rocket motor are disclosed along with how the enveloping gas serves to prevent the adverse interaction between the...
4291782 Simplified method and apparatus for hot-shield jet noise suppression  
A method and apparatus for selectively generating a noise suppressing hot gas shield are described. A portion of the jet engine exhaust flow is selectively directed to a nozzle which at least...
4279382 Radial and axial flow variable exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine  
Minimum thrust at idle speed, and maximum thrust with minimum losses at speeds above idle, are provided in a gas turbine engine by the use of a plurality of adjacent, successively overlapping,...
4091665 Multi-purpose wind tunnel reaction control model block  
A reaction control system nozzle block is provided for testing the response characteristics of space vehicles to a variety of reaction control thruster configurations. A pressurized air system is...
4088270 Two dimensional wedge/translating shroud nozzle  
A jet propulsion exhaust nozzle particularly useful in multi-engine installations which provides high internal/external, thrust-minus-drag, performance for transonic cruise or transonic...
4050631 Jet engine nozzle for controlling the direction of thrust  
A nozzle assembly for use with a jet engine for controlling the direction of the discharged fluid and hence the direction of thrust is disclosed. The nozzle housing and an internally mounted...
4039146 Variable cycle plug nozzle and flap and method of operating same  
A propulsion nozzle having a substantially cylindrical translatable shroud partially defining an outer flow duct and an articulated plug mounted within the shroud to partially define an inner...
3999379 Reduction of depressurization thrust termination jolt  
Thrust termination of a solid propellant rocket motor is obtained by connecting the nozzle to the combustion chamber pressure vessel by means of explosive and extrusable bolts. When it is desired...
3987621 Method for reducing jet exhaust takeoff noise from a turbofan engine  
In a turbofan engine for jet aircraft the inner stream includes no noise suppression apparatus and the jet exhaust noise generated at takeoff is reduced by mechanically suppressing the jet exhaust...
3912934 Variable free stream buffer  
A buffer device for maintaining a high level of infrared output from an airborne target/source composed of a plurality of hollow tubes arranged together in a bundle and attached in circumferential...
3835643 NESTED TOROID NOZZLE APPARATUS  
A nested toroid nozzle apparatus for vertical or short takeoff aircraft in which the source of power may be a turbofan, turbotip fan, or turbojet engine thrust unit housed in an aerodynamically...
3685293 EXHAUST CONTROL FOR ENGINES  
Exhaust gases discharged from a jet engine are conducted through an exhaust control tube mounting funnel blades displaceable from an inactive position to a passage converging position to increase...
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