649 patents
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Utility
Active peening of gear teeth in an assembled gearbox
20 Jul 20
A gearbox is provided having a housing, a gear having a plurality of teeth operationally configured within the housing, and a laser peening device located within the housing and configured to perform active laser peening on a predetermined surface of the gear while the gear is rotated within the housing.
Bruce D. Hansen
Filed: 28 Aug 16
Utility
Power drive transistor resonance sensor
20 Jul 20
A Transistor Resonant Characteristic Sensor (TReCS) includes a sensing element positioned along electronic equipment so that the sensing element is electromagnetically coupled to the electronic equipment.
Patrick W. Kalgren, Kenneth Gravenstede, Evan Grundman, John Gorton
Filed: 9 Jun 16
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Foldable solar tracking system, assembly and method for assembly, shipping and installation of the same
20 Jul 20
A solar tracking assembly includes a spine and a plurality of paired brackets connected to the spine.
David H. Gerwing, Sean C. McCarthy, Maureen Bradley, James A. Hammell, Mitchell J.A. Loates, Richard T. Bruno
Filed: 24 Jun 13
Utility
Enhanced deployment of applications in airborne and spaceborne nodes
13 Jul 20
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for the deployment of applications in an airborne and spaceborne system.
Senthilkumar Narayanasamy, John Edward Metzger, Shaun B. Coleman
Filed: 25 Nov 18
Utility
Propulsor hub weight element and balancing method
6 Jul 20
A propulsor hub is provided and includes a casing including an inner annular part and blade-connection parts extending outwardly from the inner annular part, a liner having inner and outer opposed radial ends, the liner being disposed about a corresponding one of the blade-connection parts with the inner radial end thereof at a distance from the inner annular part and a weighted element securely disposed about the corresponding one of the blade-connection parts to abut the outer radial end of the liner.
David A. Darrow, Jr., Ron William Waldo, Christopher L. Winslow
Filed: 16 May 16
Utility
Wirelessly actuated cover for a structure
6 Jul 20
A cover is configured to selectively engage with a portion of a structure in response to receiving a wireless electrical power signal at a receiver antenna of the cover from a wireless power source located in an outside environment, to separate a first environment on a first side of the cover from a second environment on a second side of the cover opposite the first side.
Thomas E. Byrd, Thomas Hiromoto
Filed: 16 Apr 17
Utility
Main rotor blade cuff bond fixture
6 Jul 20
A bond fixture including a plurality of supports mounted about a surface.
Scott Oren Smith, David Littlejohn, Sven Roy Lofstrom
Filed: 8 Aug 16
Utility
Vehicle heading error compensation
6 Jul 20
Systems and methods for controlling aircraft obtain at least one of ground-referenced longitudinal movement data of the aircraft and ground-referenced lateral movement data of the aircraft.
Kenneth S. Wittmer, Stephen Kubik
Filed: 26 Mar 18
Utility
Stress reducing holes
6 Jul 20
A blade includes a blade body having a surface and a hole extending through the surface of the blade body.
Krzysztof Kopanski, Justin Thomas
Filed: 12 Sep 16
Utility
Directional control for coaxial rotary wing craft
6 Jul 20
A rotary winged aircraft includes an airframe and a drive system located at the airframe.
Mark W. Scott
Filed: 22 Nov 15
Utility
Fiber optic protective box for core-stiffened composite structures
6 Jul 20
A core-stiffed composite structure includes a plurality of bonded layers forming the core-stiffened composite structure, a fiber optic conductor embedded between two of the plurality of bonded layers, the fiber optic conductor including a terminal end, and a protective box embedded in the core-stiffened composite structure and bonded to one or more of the plurality of bonded layers, wherein the terminal end of the fiber optic conductor projects into the protective box.
Matthew P. Harrigan, Nathaniel Dew, Eric C. Schenck
Filed: 25 Apr 19
Utility
Heat spreaders fabricated from metal nanoparticles
29 Jun 20
Heat spreaders can help promote heat distribution at the surface of a heat sink.
Alfred A. Zinn, Jyotsna Iyer, Ike C. Hsu
Filed: 8 Mar 16
Utility
Blade heater mat insulation
29 Jun 20
A heater mat assembly for a rotor blade spar is provided including a plurality of electrically conductive heater wires extending in a spaced parallel configuration along a path of the rotor blade spar.
Jonathan Bremmer, Robert A. Lacko, Joseph B. Ozelski, David P. Baranowski, Jeffrey G. Sauer, Frank Caputo
Filed: 26 Aug 15
Utility
Rigid rotor head with tension torsion (TT) strap retention
29 Jun 20
A box frame hub arm structure is provided and includes a body having an outboard surface, which is disposable to abut with an inboard surface of an outboard arm of an aircraft rotor head, and lead/lag sides.
Frederick J. Miner, David A. Darrow, Stephen V. Poulin, Richard Thomas Hood, Frank P. D'Anna
Filed: 11 Aug 16
Utility
Nanoparticle modification and perforation of graphene
29 Jun 20
Multi-layer sheets of graphene-based material having a plurality of pores extending therethrough are described herein.
Peter V. Bedworth, Jacob L. Swett
Filed: 13 Apr 16
Utility
Spacecraft structures incorporating graphene and operation thereof
29 Jun 20
Functional components of spacecraft structures can be subject to detrimental impacts by energetic particles produced from an electric propulsion system.
Vadim Khayms, Steven W. Sinton, Peter V. Bedworth
Filed: 28 Jun 16
Utility
Solar array positioning actuator for spacecraft
29 Jun 20
An actuator for positioning a solar array to track the sun includes a motor and a single-stage cycloidal gearbox operatively coupled to the motor.
John L. Gibb
Filed: 18 Apr 18
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Adaptive point cloud window selection
29 Jun 20
A method for imaging a moving object includes scanning a predetermined area with at least one distance sensor to form an image of a structure of a moving object using a safe sensing time window to periodically refresh the image.
Christopher Stathis, Jason C. Derenick
Filed: 11 May 16
Utility
Plenoptic cellular axis redirection
29 Jun 20
In one embodiment, an electronic display assembly includes a first and second microlens layer.
Mark A. Lamkin, Kyle Martin Ringgenberg, Jordan David Lamkin
Filed: 1 Apr 19
Utility
Adaptive landing gear assembly for rotary wing aircraft
22 Jun 20
An adaptive landing gear assembly for a rotary wing aircraft, the adaptive landing gear assembly including a controller; a first landing gear support having a first ground contact element; and a second landing gear support having a second ground contact element; the controller independently controlling the first landing gear support and the second landing gear support.
Peter James Waltner
Filed: 23 Jun 16