Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Landing gear steering using eccentric bearings
- Patent Title (中): 起落架转向使用偏心轴承
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Application No.: US13978790Application Date: 2011-12-21
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Publication No.: US09174727B2Publication Date: 2015-11-03
- Inventor: Stuart Lacy , Yann Simonneaux
- Applicant: Stuart Lacy , Yann Simonneaux
- Applicant Address: GB
- Assignee: Messier-Dowty Limited
- Current Assignee: Messier-Dowty Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB
- Agency: RatnerPrestia
- Priority: GB1100429.8 20110111
- International Application: PCT/GB2011/052538 WO 20111221
- International Announcement: WO2012/095621 WO 20120719
- Main IPC: B64C25/36
- IPC: B64C25/36 ; B64C25/50 ; B64C25/34

Abstract:
A landing gear assembly for an aircraft, the landing gear assembly including: an elongate bogie beam; a first axle bearing having an outer part rotatably coupled to an inner part, the outer part being coupled to the bogie beam, the inner part including a mounting aperture; and an elongate axle provided through the mounting aperture of the inner part and coupled thereto, wherein the axle is coupled to the inner part of the first axle bearing in a configuration such that the longitudinal axis of the axle is spaced from the axis of rotation of the inner part, such that rotation of the inner part causes a change in the orientation of the axle relative to the bogie beam.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140048645A1 LANDING GEAR ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2014-02-20
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