Force equalization with non-responsive sensor detection

    公开(公告)号:US11628928B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US17191075

    申请日:2021-03-03

    申请人: Bell Textron Inc.

    IPC分类号: B64C13/00 B64C13/50

    摘要: In an embodiment, a method of monitoring force equalization (FEQ) sensors on a vehicle utilizing redundant actuation systems for one or more control surfaces includes determining, via a force sensor, a first measured force applied by a first actuation system in relation to a control surface, where the control surface is redundantly serviced by a plurality of actuation systems that include the first actuation system. The method also includes updating a measured-force time series for the first actuation system with the first measured force. The method also includes determining variation in at least a portion of the measured-force time series responsive to the updating. The method also includes identifying a first static condition in the measured-force time series in response to a determination that the variation in the measured-force time series is no greater than a minimum amount of variation.

    Concentric probe
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11624604B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US16811088

    申请日:2020-03-06

    申请人: Bell Textron Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01B5/20 F01D21/00

    摘要: An example of a concentric probe includes an outer shroud having a bore that extends through the outer shroud, an inner shroud located within the outer shroud and having a bore that extends through the inner shroud, the inner shroud joined to the outer shroud via brazing, an annulus defined by a space between the inner shroud and a wall of the bore of the outer shroud, a plenum defined by a space between the inner shroud and the wall of the bore of the outer shroud, the plenum being in fluid communication with the annulus, and a transducer disposed within inner shroud.

    Creating user experience designs
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11599339B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-07

    申请号:US17211228

    申请日:2021-03-24

    IPC分类号: G06F8/38

    摘要: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for creating user experience designs. User requirements for creating user experience designs are gathered. After gathering the user requirements, such user requirements are analyzed in connection with historical user experience designs. A user experience flow is then derived based on these analyzed gathered user requirements. Furthermore, a theme for a user experience design is received. Additionally, a sketch (e.g., paper sketch of a user interface) is received from a user, which is transformed into a wireframe. User interface elements and components are then derived based on the derived user experience flow and the received theme. A user experience design is then generated in the wireframe based on these derived user interface elements and components. In this manner, user experience designs are created that can be used to create products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users.

    Integrated electro-analytical biosensor array

    公开(公告)号:US11579111B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US15961401

    申请日:2018-04-24

    IPC分类号: G01N27/327

    摘要: A biosensor pixel for measuring current that flows through the electrode surface in response to electrochemical interactions and a biosensor array architecture that includes such biosensor pixels. The biosensor pixel includes an electrode transducer configured to measure a current generated by electrochemical interactions occurring at a recognition layer placed directly on top of it in response to an electrical voltage placed across an electrode transducer-electrolyte interface. The biosensor pixel further includes a trans-impedance amplifier connected to the electrode transducer, where the trans-impedance amplifier is configured to convert the current into a voltage signal as the electrochemical interactions occur. Additionally, the biosensor pixel includes a 1-bit comparator coupled to the trans-impedance amplifier and a 1-bit digital-to-analog converter coupled to the 1-bit comparator, where the 1-bit digital-to-analog converter injects different levels of charge into an input of the trans-impedance amplifier at each cycle based on an output of the 1-bit comparator.

    Touchless interaction using audio components

    公开(公告)号:US11543921B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US17436203

    申请日:2020-03-05

    摘要: The present teachings relate to an electronic device comprising: a first module for generating an audio signal; a second module for generating an ultrasonic signal; a mixer for generating a combined signal; a transmitter for outputting an acoustic signal dependent upon the combined signal; and, a processing means for controlling the ultrasonic signal; wherein, in response to receiving a first instruction signal for initiating the ultrasonic signal, the processing means is configured to increase the amount of the ultrasonic signal in the combined signal from an essentially zero value to a predetermined value over a predetermined enable time-period. The present teachings also relate to an electronic device configured to decrease the amount of the ultrasonic signal in the combined signal from an essentially zero value to a predetermined value over a predetermined disable time-period, and to an electronic device configured to remove the audio signal from the combined signal whilst preventing pop-noise, and to an electronic device capable of replacing the ultrasonic signal whilst minimizing the processing time. The present teachings further relate to a method for reducing the occurrence of pop noise in an acoustic signal associated with: initiating the ultrasonic signal in the combined signal, terminating the ultrasonic signal in the combined signal, terminating the audio signal in the combined signal, and replacing the ultrasonic signal in the combined signal. The present teachings also relate to a computer software product for implementing any of the method steps disclosed herein, and to a computer storage medium storing the computer software herein disclosed.

    Automated inspection program generation

    公开(公告)号:US11543809B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US17333245

    申请日:2021-05-28

    申请人: Bell Textron Inc.

    IPC分类号: G05B19/418

    摘要: In an embodiment, a method of automatically generating an inspection program includes receiving input data related to an object to be inspected. The input data includes geometric dimensioning and tolerancing data for the object. The method also includes, for each of a plurality of surfaces of the object, generating at least one inspection direction and a plurality of inspection points based, at least in part, on the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing data. The method also includes generating transitional motions for an inspection machine to inspect the plurality of surfaces according to the inspection directions and the inspection points. The method also includes storing, at a destination, machine-readable code for inspecting the object according to the at least one inspection direction of each of the plurality of surfaces, the inspection points of each of the plurality of surfaces, and the transitional motions.

    Dynamically isolated pylon
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11530032B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-20

    申请号:US16588097

    申请日:2019-09-30

    申请人: Bell Textron Inc.

    IPC分类号: F16F13/08 B64C27/00 B64C29/00

    摘要: An exemplary tiltrotor aircraft includes a fuselage carrying a wing, a pylon assembly coupled to the wing such that the pylon assembly is rotatable to selectively operate the tiltrotor aircraft between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode, a vibration isolator assembly connected to the pylon assembly and the wing including a first vibration isolator configured to isolate vibration in a vertical plane a second vibration isolator configured to isolate vibration in a lateral plane.

    Reducing amount of helper data in silicon physical unclonable functions via lossy compression without production-time error characterization

    公开(公告)号:US11522725B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US16498587

    申请日:2018-03-28

    IPC分类号: H04L9/32 G06F21/73 H04L9/08

    摘要: A method, system and computer program product for reducing the amount of helper data that needs to be stored using two innovative techniques. The first technique uses bit-error-rate (BER)-aware lossy compression. By treating a fraction of reliable bits as unreliable, it effectively reduces the size of the reliability mask. With the view of practical costs of production-time error characterization, the second technique enables economically feasible across-temperature per-bit BER evaluation for use in a number of fuzzy extractor optimizations based on bit-selection to reduce overall BER (with or without subsequent compression) using room-temperature only production-time characterization. The technique is based on stochastic concentration theory and allows efficiently forming confidence intervals for average across-temperature BER of a selected set of bits. By using these techniques, it is economically feasible to achieve a dramatic reduction in the amount of helper data that needs to be stored in non-volatile memory and/or one-time-programmable memory.