Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Aerial refueling hose
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Application No.: US14507166Application Date: 2014-10-06
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Publication No.: US09631744B2Publication Date: 2017-04-25
- Inventor: Attila Jozsef Lengyel , Marthinus Cornelius van Schoor , Jeffrey Richard Court
- Applicant: Mide Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Medford
- Assignee: Mide Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mide Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Medford
- Agency: Iandiorio Teska & Coleman, LLP
- Main IPC: F16L11/08
- IPC: F16L11/08 ; F16L55/033 ; D04C1/02

Abstract:
An in-flight refueling hose and method. The hose includes an inner braid including pseudoelastic shape memory alloy (e.g., nitinol) wires. These wires undergo a stress induced phase change absorbing energy to dampen oscillations of the hose in use.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150096642A1 AERIAL REFUELING HOSE Public/Granted day:2015-04-09
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