1758 patents
Utility
Forming Battery Electrodes and Associated Battery
18 Jan 24
In certain embodiments, a method includes forming a battery electrode on a substrate.
Phalgun Madhusudan
Filed: 8 Aug 23
Utility
Modular Airfoil-shaped Battery for Aircraft
18 Jan 24
A modular airfoil-shaped battery disposed in a wing of an aircraft is presented.
William A. Amante, Tjepke Heeringa
Filed: 15 Jul 22
Utility
Compact Battery Module Utilizing Dual-sided PCB Bus
18 Jan 24
A compact battery module incorporating a dual-sided printed circuit board (PCB) bus is presented.
William A. Amante
Filed: 15 Jul 22
Utility
Optimizing Usage of Supplemental Engine Power
18 Jan 24
In an embodiment, an aircraft includes a drive system, a main engine coupled to the drive system to provide first power, and a supplemental engine coupled to the drive system to provide second power additive to the first power.
Thomas Dewey PARSONS, Charles Eric COVINGTON, Kent E. DONALDSON, Andrew Thomas CARTER
Filed: 18 Jul 22
Utility
System, Apparatus, and Method of Manufacture for a Rib Structure
18 Jan 24
One embodiment includes a rib structure to be used, for example, in any number of aerospace applications, the rib structure, comprising a first piece having a first curvature in a first plane; and a second piece having a second curvature in a second plane that is different from the first plane.
Tjepke Heeringa
Filed: 18 Jul 22
Utility
Fluid Scavenge System
18 Jan 24
A fluid pump system for an aircraft has a rotatable component having first and second fluid ports, each port in fluid communication with a selected interior portion of the component, the portions being spaced from each other.
Douglas Robert Mueller, Ivan Russell Laric
Filed: 15 Jul 22
Utility
Error Monitors for Collective and Cyclic Sticks
18 Jan 24
In an embodiment, a rotorcraft includes a control element; a first detent sensor connected to the control element, the first detent sensor being operable to generate detent slip rate data indicating movement of the control element and detent state data indicating pilot control of the control element; a first trim motor connected to the control element and operable to generate trim rate data; and an FCC in signal communication with the first detent sensor and the first trim motor, the FCC including an error monitor operable to compare the detent slip rate data with the trim rate data and determine whether the first detent sensor is functional or defective, operable to provide a first flight management function when the first detent sensor is determined to be functional, and operable to provide a second flight management function when the first detent sensor is determined to be defective.
Jillian Samantha Alfred, Lan Nam Hoang, Clifton Lee Harrell
Filed: 18 Jul 22
Utility
Handle Assembly for Escape Hatch
18 Jan 24
A handle assembly for an escape hatch.
Michael Clinton Lay, Evan M. Johnson, Isaac Anthony Hoetmer, Joel Allen Pegg, Edward Donald Harrison
Filed: 18 Jul 23
Utility
Escape Hatch Stay System
18 Jan 24
An escape hatch stay system for an aircraft and methods of using the escape hatch stay system.
Michael Clinton Lay, Evan M. Johnson, Isaac Anthony Hoetmer, Joel Allen Pegg, Edward Donald Harrison
Filed: 18 Jul 23
Utility
Method for producing a liquid container, liquid container for a motor vehicle, and structure for reducing sloshing sounds
16 Jan 24
The invention relates to a method for producing a liquid container (28) for a motor vehicle, having the method steps: providing a wall (14), which is provided in order to delimit an interior chamber (26) of the liquid container (28) for receiving a liquid (34); providing a structure (2), which is provided in order to be arranged in order to reduce sloshing noises in the interior chamber (26) of the liquid container (28), wherein the structure (2) comprises a random arrangement of threads (4) cross-linked with each other and wherein a plurality of the threads (4) of the structure (2) are integrally joined, at least in sections, to at least one or more additional threads (4) of the structure (2), such that a substantially monolithic structure (2) is formed; connecting the structure (2) to the wall (14).
Volker Treudt, Christoph Schwenk
Filed: 31 Dec 21
Utility
Supplemental engine power control
16 Jan 24
A rotorcraft has a drive system including a main rotor coupled to a main rotor gearbox to rotate the main rotor at a rotor speed, a main engine coupled to the drive system to provide a first power, a supplemental engine coupled, when a first clutch is engaged, to the drive system to provide a second power additive to the first power, and a control system operable to control the main engine and the supplemental engine to provide a total power demand, where the main engine is controlled based on variations in rotor speed and a power compensation command to produce the first power, and the supplemental engine is controlled to produce the second power in response to a supplemental power demand.
Charles Eric Covington, Chia-Wei Su, Darren Gregory Lang, Thomas Parsons, Cody Earl Fegely
Filed: 9 Jun 21
Utility
VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans
16 Jan 24
An exemplary tiltrotor aircraft having a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight mode and a forward flight mode includes tiltable rotors located at forward boom ends, tiltable ducted fans located at wings aft of the forward boom ends, and aft rotors located on aft boom portions.
Kirk L. Groninga, Daniel B. Robertson
Filed: 2 Jul 21
Utility
Fuel cell protection system
16 Jan 24
Embodiments are directed to a fuel cell protection system comprising an aircraft fuselage having an inner surface and an outer surface, an attachment point mounted on the outer surface, an aircraft fuel cell spaced apart from the inner surface, and a plate positioned between the inner surface and the aircraft fuel system, the plate spaced apart from the inner surface to create a void space.
Timothy Brian Carr, Douglas Howard Hamelwright, Joshua Andrew Emrich
Filed: 7 Jan 21
Utility
System and Method for Maintaining and Configuring Rotorcraft
11 Jan 24
In an embodiment, a method includes: collecting usage and maintenance data for a rotorcraft at a computer of the rotorcraft; sending the usage and maintenance data to a fleet management server; generating individualized equipment data for the rotorcraft according to the usage and maintenance data at the fleet management server, the individualized equipment data including a lightweight digital representation of the rotorcraft and technical publications for the rotorcraft, the lightweight digital representation including mesh-based 3D visualizations of each component of the rotorcraft, the technical publications having views referencing the mesh-based 3D visualizations; sending the individualized equipment data to the computer of the rotorcraft; and persisting the individualized equipment data at the computer of the rotorcraft.
Jeremy Robert Chavez, Peter Shultz, Thomas Kurt Schneider, Mark Howard Thomson, Daniel Wesley Rowe
Filed: 21 Sep 23
Utility
Fire extinguishing discharge nozzle for helicopter engine compartment
9 Jan 24
Embodiments are directed to a rotorcraft comprising an airframe having an engine compartment, an engine disposed within the engine compartment, at least one fire bottle configured to hold a fire extinguishing agent, at least one agent tube coupled to the fire bottle and configured to carry the fire extinguishing agent to the engine compartment, and a nozzle on the at least one agent tube, the nozzle positioned above the engine and oriented in a downward-facing direction.
Thomas Dewey Parsons, Keith David Weaver, Chris James Ludtke, Paul Madej, Andrew Jordan Birkenheuer
Filed: 26 Jan 21
Utility
Controlling electrical access to a lithium battery on a utility vehicle
9 Jan 24
Techniques control a utility vehicle.
Arthur James Harvey, Norman R. Padgett, John Ledden, Robert Charles Bradley, Patrick Dwaine Warden
Filed: 7 Apr 22
Utility
Power management systems for electrically distributed yaw control systems
9 Jan 24
An electrically distributed yaw control system for a helicopter having a tailboom and a power system includes one or more tail rotors including a motor rotatably coupled to the tailboom and a power distribution unit.
Marc Ouellet, Guillaume Biron, Alexis Dugré, Marc Bustamante, Chen Kuang
Filed: 1 Dec 20
Utility
System and method for supplying passively filtered ram air to a hydrogen fuel cell of a UAV
9 Jan 24
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has an air-cooled fuel cell, an air channel comprising a forward facing opening for receiving ram air and connected to the air-cooled fuel cell, and a passive ram air filtration system (PRAFS) configured to filter particulate matter from ram air received into the air channel via the opening.
Joseph Dean Rainville
Filed: 7 Aug 20
Utility
Flying wing aircraft having a two-dimensional thrust array
9 Jan 24
An unmanned aircraft system operable for wing-borne lift in a flying wing orientation.
Levi Charles Hefner, Dakota Charles Easley
Filed: 5 Apr 22
Utility
Techniques for storing, transporting and operating a UAV
9 Jan 24
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) module includes a UAV having foldable wings coupled to a body of the UAV, a UAV case having length and width dimensions that is constructed and arranged to operate in (i) a closed configuration that stores and protects the UAV while the UAV module is transported within the UAV case between locations with the foldable wings in a folded configuration, and (ii) an opened configuration that provides a base from which the UAV launches vertically from within the UAV case while the foldable wings of the UAV remain in the folded configuration.
Steven N. Cracknell, Andrew R. Glenk, Peter A. Kernebone, James E. Garth, Martin E. Buggeln, Emily K. Baker, Jack Kormas
Filed: 1 Nov 19