公开(公告)号：US11468606B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-11

申请号：US17004959

申请日：2020-08-27

Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.

Inventor： Jeremy Robert Chavez ,  Daniel Wesley Rowe ,  Michael Eugene Moody ,  Brian Edward Tucker

IPC: G06T11/00 ,  G01S1/04 ,  B64D43/02 ,  B64D45/00 ,  B64F5/60 ,  G06F30/20 ,  G06T19/00

Abstract: A method for aligning displayed data in an augmented reality (AR) display includes determining a selected location context associated with a piece of equipment, determining a process element associated with the piece of equipment and according to a selected engineering process, determining, according to a digital representation of the equipment, a first location of the process element, receiving meta-sensor location data for one or more meta-sensors in the piece of equipment and indicating a second location for each of the meta-sensors with respect to the selected location context, determining a third location of the AR display with respect to the selected location context, determining overlay data for the process element, determining a display location according to the first location, the third location and the location data of each meta-sensor, and displaying the overlay data at the display location.

公开(公告)号：US20220179413A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17682095

申请日：2022-02-28

Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.

Inventor： Paul David Ruckel ,  Jeremy Robert Chavez

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64D45/00

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: adjusting a first flight control device of a rotorcraft to control flight around a first axis of the rotorcraft, the first flight control device exercising flight control authority around the first axis of the rotorcraft; detecting a failure of the first flight control device; transitioning at least a portion of the flight control authority around the first axis of the rotorcraft from the first flight control device to a second flight control device of the rotorcraft, the transitioning being performed automatically in response to detecting the failure of the first flight control device; and adjusting the second flight control device to control flight around the first axis of the rotorcraft, the second flight control device being adjusted by a first control process when the rotorcraft is in a first flight mode, the second flight control device being adjusted by a second control process when the rotorcraft is in a second flight mode.

公开(公告)号：US11262750B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16585920

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.

Inventor： Paul David Ruckel ,  Jeremy Robert Chavez

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64D45/00

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: adjusting a first flight control device of a rotorcraft to control flight around a first axis of the rotorcraft, the first flight control device exercising flight control authority around the first axis of the rotorcraft; detecting a failure of the first flight control device; transitioning at least a portion of the flight control authority around the first axis of the rotorcraft from the first flight control device to a second flight control device of the rotorcraft, the transitioning being performed automatically in response to detecting the failure of the first flight control device; and adjusting the second flight control device to control flight around the first axis of the rotorcraft, the second flight control device being adjusted by a first control process when the rotorcraft is in a first flight mode, the second flight control device being adjusted by a second control process when the rotorcraft is in a second flight mode.

公开(公告)号：US10850833B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16297617

申请日：2019-03-09

Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.

Inventor： Adam Bryant Anderson ,  Steven Ray Ivans ,  Jeremy Robert Chavez

IPC: B64C23/06 ,  B64C3/38 ,  B64C29/00

Abstract: A pylon assembly for a tiltrotor aircraft includes a rotor assembly rotatably coupled to a fixed pylon and operable to rotate between a vertical takeoff and landing orientation and a forward flight orientation. The rotor assembly includes a proprotor operable to produce a slipstream. A wing extension is rotatably disposed to the outboard end of the fixed pylon such that the rotor assembly and the wing extension are separated by at least a portion of the fixed pylon. The wing extension has a forward edge and an outboard end. A winglet is coupled to the outboard end of the wing extension and has a forward edge. The wing extension and the winglet are configured to rotate in synchrony with the rotor assembly such that the forward edges of the wing extension and the winglet remain in the slipstream of the proprotor.