Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rotor assembly with high lock-number blades
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Application No.: US15432910Application Date: 2017-02-14
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Publication No.: US10472057B2Publication Date: 2019-11-12
- Inventor: Gary Miller , Frank B. Stamps , Jouyoung Jason Choi , Thomas C. Parham, Jr. , Alan Ewing , Richard E. Rauber
- Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Lightfoot & Alford PLLC
- Main IPC: B64C27/635
- IPC: B64C27/635 ; B64C27/605 ; B64C27/72

Abstract:
An aircraft rotor assembly has a central hub and a plurality of rotor blades coupled to the hub for rotation with the hub about an axis, each blade having a Lock number of approximately 5 or greater. A lead-lag pivot for each blade is formed by a flexure coupling the associated blade to the hub. Each pivot is a radial distance from the axis and allows for in-plane lead-lag motion of the associated blade relative to the hub, each pivot allowing for in-plane motion from a neutral position of at least 1 degree in each of the lead and lag directions. Elastic deformation of the flexure produces a biasing force for biasing the associated blade toward the neutral position, and the biasing force is selected to achieve a first in-plane frequency of greater than 1/rev for each blade.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170320567A1 Rotor Assembly with High Lock-Number Blades Public/Granted day:2017-11-09
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