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- Patent Title: System and method for maintaining and configuring rotorcraft
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Application No.: US16186158Application Date: 2018-11-09
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Publication No.: US10974851B2Publication Date: 2021-04-13
- Inventor: Jeremy Robert Chavez , Peter Shultz , Thomas Kurt Schneider , Mark Howard Thomson , Daniel Wesley Rowe
- Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Applicant Address: US RI Providence
- Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US RI Providence
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Main IPC: B64F5/60
- IPC: B64F5/60 ; B64C27/22 ; B64D45/00 ; G07C5/08

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200148393A1 System and Method for Maintaining and Configuring Rotorcraft Public/Granted day:2020-05-14
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