Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Zero-fastener flushmount balance weight system preserving rotor-blade tip with integral tuning weight retention feature
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Application No.: US15627819Application Date: 2017-06-20
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Publication No.: US11014656B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Jared Mark Paulson , Bryan Marshall , Christopher E. Foskey
- 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: Chalker Flores, LLP
- Agent Daniel J. Chalker; Edwin S. Flores
- Main IPC: B64C27/00
- IPC: B64C27/00 ; B64C27/473 ; B64C27/82 ; F03D13/35 ; B64C11/00 ; F03D1/06

Abstract:
The present invention includes a balancing system that includes a weight box, mounted substantially within the rotor-blade spar, flush with a rotor-blade spar outer surface, operably accessible from a rotor-blade tip, and retained within the rotor-blade spar by a weight-box retention pin, one or more weight-box contact surfaces bonded to a rotor-blade-spar inner surface, or a weight-box lip providing a bearing contact with an edge of a spar rotor-blade spar cutout; and a weight package attached to the weight box, the weight package including a weight-box cover, two or more weight guide-rods attached to the weight-box cover, wherein one of the two or more weight guide-rods is positioned forward of a pitch change axis or center of twist and wherein one of the two weight guide-rods is positioned aft of the pitch change axis or center of twist, and one or more balance weights mounted on the weight guide-rods.
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