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8172182 |
Aircraft spillover fuel tank
Apparatus and methods described herein provide for a spillover tank to extend the fuel capacity of the main wing tank of an aircraft. The spillover tank is located in the wing of the aircraft...
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8172181 |
Fuel range for an aircraft
An apparatus and method for improving the fuel range of an aircraft are provided. The aircraft includes a fuselage with a front windshield, and an external skin providing a top cover for a cockpit...
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8167245 |
Fuel barrier
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus, method, and system for managing deflections comprising a fuel dam, a first portion of the fuel dam connected with a stringer, a second...
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8152104 |
Drogue illumination
In a reception coupling and drogue assembly (2), light sources (32) are arranged around the wall (26) of the probe passage adjacent the opening (24). The light sources (32) each serve to illuminate...
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8147579 |
Dispatch critical fuel tank inerting system for aircraft
An air inerting system for supplying nitrogen-enriched air to a fuel tank on a vehicle includes an air separation module. The air separation module has an inlet for receiving air to separate...
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8141822 |
Autophagous multifunction structure-power system
A vehicle including at least one bladder for containing a two-phase liquid-gas fuel at a predetermined pressure, with a bladder outlet arranged to releasing vapor fuel from the bladder. The fuel...
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8132759 |
System and method for facilitating aerial refueling
A refueling system and method for use with a refueling tanker aircraft. The system and method involves the use of a camera system to provide imaging information concerning a receiver aircraft to...
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8123169 |
Vertical non-bladdered fuel tank for a ducted fan vehicle
A vertical non-bladdered fuel tank for a ducted fan vehicle comprising: a pod that releasably connects to a core vehicle of a ducted fan vehicle, a vertical fuel tank contained by the pod, wherein...
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8114198 |
Cross ship architecture for dispatch critical fuel tank inerting system
A fuel tank inerting system uses two “half systems” for providing inerting gas for the fuel tanks. Each inerting system may be composed of a temperature control and air pressurization unit (TC...
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8113467 |
Overpressure protection for an aircraft fuel tank system
An aircraft venting tank (for example a surge tank) has a stack pipe unit. The stack pipe unit comprises first and second portions and houses a frangible overpressure protector element (for example...
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8109470 |
Overpressure protector
An aircraft fuel tank assembly comprises a first fuel tank, a second fuel tank and a tank-to-tank overpressure protector therebetween. The overpressure protector has a closed state and an open...
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8074932 |
NEA distribution system for OBIGGS applications
A method for creating ullage in a fuel tank includes the steps of porting NEA into a mixing chamber during descent, exposing the mixing chamber to ambient air and communicating a mixture of NEA and...
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8070103 |
Fuel line air trap for an unmanned aerial vehicle
A fuel line air trap for an unmanned aerial vehicle has a vessel in-line with a fuel line, fuel line connectors, and fuel inlet and outlet stems. The vessel contains an inlet at a distal end and an...
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8056860 |
Method and system for inflight refueling of unmanned aerial vehicles
A system and method for refueling unmanned aerial vehicles. The system is adapted to refuel a first unmanned aerial vehicle from a second unmanned aerial vehicle and includes an arrangement for...
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8042771 |
Method and apparatus for treating fuel to temporarily reduce its combustibility
A method and apparatus are disclosed for treating fuel to temporarily reduce its combustibility, and thereafter restore its combustibility. As used in an aircraft, the method comprises the...
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8042693 |
Water scavenging system
A fuel system comprising: a fuel line coupled to an engine; a fuel pump having an inlet coupled to a fuel tank and an outlet coupled to the fuel line; and a water scavenging system having an inlet...
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8042343 |
Cooling of avionics using a fuel tank and refrigerant source
An avionics cooling system including an avionics cooling circuit operating with a liquid coolant; a fuel circuit; and a vapor cooling cycle operating with a refrigerant. The avionics cooling...
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8043396 |
Integrated plastic liner for propellant tanks for micro G conditions
The present invention relates to propellant tanks for space platforms, launchers and every sort of space transport craft.
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8016238 |
System and method for enhancing the fuel storage volume and the fuel carriage capacity of external fuel stores carried by an aerial vehicle
A system and method for enhancing the fuel stores volume of an aerial vehicle is disclosed. An extended external fuel stores configuration utilizes an alternative fuel transfer path. An external...
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8011620 |
Fuel pickup with wicking material
A fuel pickup includes a fuel pickup tube having a plurality of holes for receiving fuel from inside a fuel container; and a wicking material enveloping at least one of the plurality of holes....
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7984877 |
Auxiliary aircraft fuel tanks, systems and methods providing visual leak detection
Auxiliary fuel tanks are provided with an inner barrier wall defining an interior volume for containing aircraft fuel, an outer barrier wall adjacent the inner barrier wall so as to define a space...
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7971828 |
Aircraft fuel tank and inerting system therefor
An inerting system for an aircraft fuel tank (10) uses an air separation device (12) to produce a supply of nitrogen-enriched air to replenish the fuel tank on consumption of fuel and to maintain...
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7959110 |
Methods and apparatus for resisting torsional loads in aerial refueling booms
A refueling boom for an aerial tanker includes an outer member operatively connected to the tanker, an inner member operatively and telescopically configured with the outer member, and one or more...
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7955568 |
Chemical reaction-based thermal management system and method
The disclosure provides for a chemical reaction-based thermal management system and method. The system comprises a heat source for heating a first flow element, a heat exchanger for transferring...
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7950606 |
Electric-based secondary power system architectures for aircraft
Methods and systems for providing secondary power to aircraft systems. In one embodiment, an aircraft system architecture for providing power to an environmental control system includes an electric...
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7951228 |
Self-propelled vehicle comprising an onboard equipment supplied with filtered air
The invention concerns a self-propelled vehicle, in particular an aircraft, comprising an onboard equipment such as an inerting system, means for vapour pollutant filtering (1) arranged between an...
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7922122 |
Systems and methods for distributing loads from fluid conduits, including aircraft fuel conduits
Systems and methods for distributing loads from fluid conduits, including aircraft fuel conduits. An aircraft configured in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a fuselage...
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7909288 |
Crashworthiness structure and method
What is described is a locally yielding structure (1) with high energy absorption for aeronautical applications, the said structure being substantially closed and substantially rigid, characterized...
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7900333 |
Sealing bladderless system and method
Apparatus and methods are provided to minimize the escape of fuel out of a fuel tank when a tank wall is penetrated by a bullet. In one embodiment, a pressure differential may be maintained between...
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7900873 |
Vibration isolation system
Systems and techniques for isolation of external structures. A vehicle may include a vehicle body and an external structure mounted to the vehicle body. The vehicle may include a plurality of...
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7896402 |
Spacer for coaxially sheathed fuel pipes
The present invention relates to spacers and pipelines. The spacers are mounted between two pipes—an internal line and an external line—and hold them at a defined distance. A closure is nec...
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7896292 |
Reactive component reduction system and methods for the use thereof
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided simplified systems and methods for catalytically deactivating, removing, or reducing the levels of reactive component(s) from the vapor...
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7887010 |
Controllable refueling drogues and associated systems and methods
Controllable refueling drogues and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment includes a fuel delivery device having a deployable portion configured to...
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7878214 |
Ullage pressure regulator
A system for maintaining pressure in the liquid fuel tank of a high-speed flight vehicle, such as a hypersonic flight, scramjet powered air and space vehicle, manages tank ullage using a pressure...
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7871042 |
Hydrogen fueled blended wing body ring tank
A toroidal shaped or ring fuel tank located within the loft line of a blended wing body aircraft is disclosed. The ring tank may be used in an aircraft to store liquid hydrogen fuel with a reduced...
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7861884 |
Fuel tank assembly
A fuel tank assembly are provided which may limit the damage otherwise occasioned by the impact of a ballistic projectile. The fuel tank assembly may include a bladder defined between exterior and...
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7857260 |
Fuel jettison system
A fuel jettison system which provides pilot-initiated automatic operation to jettison fuel down to a 60 minute useable fuel remaining level while the manual operation, requiring the pilot to hold...
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7837151 |
Method and apparatus for the hookup of unmanned/manned (“HUM”) multi purpose air vehicles with each other
A system for the hookup of either a manned or unmanned air vehicle with a refueling air vehicle. A probe extending from an air vehicle being refueled is joined to a drogue at the end of a boom on a...
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7837764 |
Oxygen exchange manifold, systems and methods for inerting a volatile environment
An oxygen exchange manifold converts oxygenate air into an oxygen depleted air stream for use in inerting an otherwise flammable environment. A system including the oxygen exchange manifold may be...
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7828874 |
On-board inert gas generation system with air separation module temperature control
An on-board inert gas generation system is disclosed that includes an air separation module that is configured to produce nitrogen enriched air from a non-enriched air. The non-enriched air to the...
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7824783 |
Coating for components requiring hydrogen peroxide compatibility
The present invention provides a heretofore-unknown use for zirconium nitride as a hydrogen peroxide compatible protective coating that was discovered to be useful to protect components that...
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7815148 |
Fuel system for an aircraft including a fuel tank inerting system
A fuel system for an aircraft is disclosed. The fuel system comprises a fuel tank and a fuel reformer for receiving fuel from the fuel tank. The system includes a hydrogen fuel cell array for...
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7806365 |
Long endurance hydrogen powered vehicle
Hydrogen powered air vehicles that in some embodiments can fly with very long endurance (10 or more days) at altitudes over 60,000 ft carrying payloads of up to 2,000 pounds. Embodiments may...
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7802753 |
Fuel tank for an aircraft
Unsafe electric energies can exist in aircraft fuel tanks as a result of static build-up or induced currents from lightning strikes. The invention provides an aircraft having a ground circuit 19...
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7798132 |
Aircraft fuel tank assembly
An aircraft fuel tank assembly includes a tank for holding fuel, a canister and a fuel pump assembly. The fuel pump assembly includes: an electric motor, a pump and an electronics unit. The...
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7798449 |
Method and system for inflight refueling of unmanned aerial vehicles
A system and method for refueling unmanned aerial vehicles. The system is adapted to refuel a first unmanned aerial vehicle from a second unmanned aerial vehicle and includes an arrangement for...
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7759011 |
Safety system for reducing the explosion risk of a fuel tank
A safety system for reducing the explosion risk of a fuel tank comprises a protective gas generating device and a delivery device for delivering the protective gas generated by the protective gas...
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7744827 |
Catalytic treatment of fuel to impart coking resistance
A fuel delivery system for a gas turbine engine includes a catalytic device for treating fuel to increase the usable cooling capability of an endothermic fuel. The catalytic device operates to...
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7735670 |
Oxygen removal system
A system and process to deplete or remove oxygen in the ullage of a fuel tank to reduce the oxygen/fuel vapor ratio below a lower explosion limit by exposing the ullage compounds to an oxygen...
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7694916 |
Catalytic reactive component reduction system and methods for the use thereof
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided simplified systems and methods for catalytically deactivating, removing, or reducing the levels of reactive component(s) from the vapor...
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