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7611099 Seal assemblies for use with drooped spoilers and other control surfaces on aircraft  
Aerodynamic seals for use with control surfaces on aircraft are described herein. In one embodiment, a seal assembly for use with an aircraft includes a first seal member and a second seal member....
7600718 Pivoted flap mechanism for adjusting an aerodynamic pivoted flap associated with a wing  
A pivoted flap mechanism for adjusting an aerodynamic pivotable flap associated with a wing, including: an actuating device including a gear device; a drive device including a drive arm that...
7546984 Flap interconnection system for aircraft  
Described is an interconnection system, in particular for flaps which are located side-by-side, on an aircraft wing, for example landing flaps or high-lift flaps. The interconnection system is in...
7520471 Aircraft wing, method for operating an aircraft wing, and use of a pivotable trailing edge on a main wing of an aircraft, for adjusting the shape and width of an air gap  
An aircraft wing comprises a main wing with a pivotable trailing edge and a lift-assisting flap on the rear of the wing. The lift-assisting flap is coupled to the main wing and is designed in such...
7500641 Aerospace vehicle flow body systems and associated methods  
Flow body systems and associated methods, including aerospace vehicle control surface systems are disclosed herein. One aspect of the invention is directed toward an aerospace vehicle system that...
7494094 Aircraft wing systems for providing differential motion to deployable lift devices  
Systems and methods for providing differential motion to wing high lift devices are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a wing having a leading edge, a...
7487937 Airfoil for micro air vehicle  
An airfoil for a micro air vehicle that includes components enabling the airfoil to adjust the angle of attack (AOA) of the airfoil in response to wind gusts, thereby enabling the airfoil to...
7484694 Aircraft wing with extendible nose flap  
An aircraft wing including a wing box and a nose flap moveably connected to the wing box by first and second folding hinges. A first transverse link is pivotally connected to first portions of the...
7475854 Aircraft trailing edge devices, including devices with non-parallel motion paths, and associated methods  
Aircraft trailing edge devices, including devices with non-parallel motion paths, and associated methods are disclosed. A device in accordance with one embodiment includes a wing and an inboard...
7455264 Reconfiguration control system for an aircraft wing  
Independently deflectable control surfaces are located on the trailing edge of the wing of a blended wing-body aircraft. The reconfiguration control system of the present invention controls the...
7437955 Device for determining the rotation angle of a shaft in an aircraft  
Nowadays position pickup units are commonly used in order to measure the rotation position of a shaft for operating a landing flap or landing slat or a brake flap in an aircraft. In the case of...
7410133 Miniature trailing edge effector for aerodynamic control  
Improved miniature trailing edge effectors for aerodynamic control are provided. Three types of devices having aerodynamic housings integrated to the trailing edge of an aerodynamic shape are...
7338018 Systems and methods for controlling aircraft flaps and spoilers  
Systems and methods for controlling aircraft flaps and spoilers. Systems in accordance with some embodiments include a wing having a trailing edge, and a flap positioned proximate to the wing...
7293744 Lift-flap mechanism  
Lift flap mechanism for adjusting a lift flap assigned to an airplane wing by means of a driving system, the lift flap mechanism comprising a main connection mechanism and a secondary connection...
7264206 Leading edge flap apparatuses and associated methods  
The present invention is directed generally toward leading edge flap apparatuses and corresponding methods. One aspect of the invention is directed toward an aircraft system having an airfoil, an...
7258308 Method and apparatus for controlling airflow with a gapped trailing edge device having a flexible flow surface  
A method and apparatus for controlling airflow with a gapped trailing edge device having a flexible flow surface. The airfoil can include a first portion having a first leading edge, a first flow...
7195209 Aircraft high-lift system with overload protection  
The invention concerns an aircraft high-lift system with a drive system, components for transmitting the drive energy over the entire wing span to drive stations of individual segments of landing...
7111810 Forward pivoted full flying control tail boom  
An aircraft motion control mechanism for regulating aircraft motion from a location remote from an aircraft body portion. The aircraft auxiliary control mechanism has at least one control surface...
7101297 Compact actuator  
A compact actuator ( 20 ) is arranged to selectively move an airfoil surface ( 27 ) relative to a support ( 27 ) relative to a support ( 21 ). The actuator includes a gear reduction unit ( 24 )...
7051982 Fairing arrangements for aircraft  
A fairing arrangement for bridging an aircraft fixed structure ( 14 ) and a control surface ( 10 ) hingedly mounted on and angularly displaceable with respect to the aircraft structure is provided,...
7048235 Slotted aircraft wing  
A swept aircraft wing includes a leading airfoil element and a trailing airfoil element. At least one full-span slot is defined by the wing during at least one transonic condition of the wing. The...
7004432 Aircraft flap extension mechanism  
An aircraft mechanism including a flap positioning mechanism comprising a carriage and track system suitable for use with variable radius or multiple curvature tracks.
6984109 Rotor blade pitch control assembly  
A rotor blade assembly provides a pitch control assembly to pitch the rotor blade about a rotor blade pitch axis. The pitch control assembly includes a trailing edge flap and a trailing edge servo...
6942455 Strain isolated trim tab  
A rotor blade assembly system includes a trim tab assembly which utilizes relatively thick resilient members bonded between a trim tab and the two trim tab doublers. Spanwise segmenting of the tab...
6869050 Profiled wing unit of an aircraft  
The deformation characteristic of a profiled aerodynamic aircraft component is improved by forming ridges ( 6, 7 ) in the top and bottom skin ( 4, 5 ) of the component. Two ridges ( 6, 7 ) form a...
6863245 Aerodynamic profile with an adjustable flap  
An aerodynamic profile has an adjustable flap, which has a forward profile area as well as a rearward profile area situated in the downward current, bounded by a pressure-side covering skin as well...
6739550 Flight control surface control unit  
A flight control surface control unit controls a swinging angle of a flight control surface of an aircraft by providing a swinging force to the flight control surface and swinging the flight...
6698688 Apparatus and methods for actuating rotatable members  
Apparatus and methods for actuating rotatable members are disclosed. In one embodiment, an assembly for actuating a rotatable member includes an extendible actuator having a first end and a second...
6648599 Method and control arrangement for adjusting a flap that is pivotally supported in a rotor blade of a helicopter  
A force transmitting linkage connects a piezoelectric actuator to a flap that is pivotably connected to a helicopter rotor blade. In a flap actuation control arrangement and method, a force...
6641089 Flap arrangement for varying the aerodynamic lift generated by an aerodynamic element of an aircraft  
An auxiliary flap is movably arranged on a planar trailing edge of an aerodynamic element such as a wing, rudder, stabilizer, or flap. The auxiliary flap is rotatable and/or slidable relative to...
6598834 Method for reducing fuel consumption in aircraft  
A method and means are provided for increasing the aerodynamic efficiency of an airfoil employed by an aircraft. The method utilizes the primary flight control surfaces ( 11 ) ( 12 ) contiguous to...
6592072 Spanwise tailoring of divergent trailing edge wings  
A method for forming a transonic wing that segregates a baseline transonic wing into a plurality of airfoil segments that are collectively modified an optimized so as to tailor a spanwise variation...
6565045 Aircraft aerodynamic surface with trailing edge deflector  
An aerodynamic surface, such as a wing, empennage, angle of drift, nacelle pylon and the like for an aircraft includes at least one lightening hole pertaining to the trailing edge of the underwing,...
6513762 Flap actuator system  
A flap actuator system for an airfoil structure including: a flap member for controlling the airfoil structure; a bearing member interconnected with the flap member and the airfoil structure; and...
6513761 Method and apparatus for reducing trailing vortices in the wake of an aircraft  
Harmful trailing vortices downstream of an aircraft wing are at least partly dissipated by a respective counteracting vortex for each trailing vortex at each wing. An auxiliary counteracting vortex...
6483436 Method and apparatus for sensing skews and disconnects of adjacent movable components  
A sensor detects skewed adjacent movable component. The sensor may be used to detect harmful skews of aircraft control surfaces, such as slats or flaps on aircraft wings, which may be caused by an...
6467733 Aerodynamic control surface system  
A flight control system provides a maximized mechanical advantage when the load of the airstream on the airfoil is also at a maximum. A control surface is pivotally mounted for movement through a...
6465902 Controllable camber windmill blades  
The present invention relates to a windmill power generation system which includes at least two variable camber blades fastened to a rotatable hub, which blades are driven by a fluid such as wind....
6382566 Method and apparatus for detecting skew and asymmetry of an airplane flap  
A system to accurately detect skewing of high lift devices. In one embodiment, the invention provides a system to sense the position of the inboard and outboard ends of each flap. This system...
6382561 Trailing edge wedge for an aircraft wing  
A trailing edge wedge for an aircraft wing is attached to a bottom downwardly facing wing surface along the trailing edge of the wing so that an inner edge wedge surface is fully covered by the...
6375127 Active control surface modal system for aircraft buffet and gust load alleviation and flutter suppression  
The present invention relates to an Active Control Surface Modal (ACSM) device that generates unsteady aerodynamic damping to alleviate aeroelastic structural instability, vibration and dynamic...
6345792 Actuating device with at least three stable positions  
A mechanical actuating device for moving an aerodynamic or hydrodynamic surface includes plural flexure members confined in an elastically deformed condition. The flexure members are movable...
6328265 Slot forming segments and slot changing spoilers  
A slot forming segment is inserted between two portions of a wing, which are adjacent along a longitudinal axis of wing, into a cove of a carved trailing edge of a leading portion of the adjacent...
6299109 Spoiler for wings  
There is disclosed a spoiler for wings, in particular of planes, which spoiler is unfoldable during the landing and take-off of the plane or the like and retractable during cruising. In order to...
6270039 Hinge for movable control surfaces in an aircraft and a connecting piece to be used with such a hinge  
The invention relates to a hinge for movable control surfaces in an aircraft. The hinge comprises two hinge lugs placed at a distance from one another. The hinge lugs include connecting lugs with...
6257528 Vehicle control system and method employing control surface and geared tab  
Control systems and methods for a vehicle such as an aircraft or watercraft employ a trailing edge control surface that is pivotal about a pivot axis fixed relative to the vehicle and is deflected...
6247670 Active flaperon assembly  
An active flaperon assembly for a wing includes a sheet of flexible material deployed near an intersection between a primary lift surface of a wing and the surface of a flap. The sheet is...
6231013 Airfoil member with a piezoelectrically actuated servo-flap  
An airfoil member, especially a rotor blade for a helicopter, includes an airfoil body and a servo-actuated flap tiltably connected to the airfoil body so as to form at least a portion of the...
6224022 Airplane high lift surface drive system  
An airplane high lift surface drive system having a first actuator connected to a first high lift surface and a second actuator connected to a second high lift surface, wherein the first actuator...
6220550 Actuating device with multiple stable positions  
A mechanical actuating device for moving an aerodynamic or hydrodynamic surface includes at least one flexure member confined in an elastically deformed condition. The flexure member is movable...
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