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公开(公告)号:US11046417B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-29
申请号:US15933106
申请日:2018-03-22
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Sebastien Duval , Guillaume Noiseux-Boucher , Aaron Alexander Acee
Abstract: Systems and methods include providing an aircraft with a vertical stabilizer system having a vertical stabilizer operatively coupled to a tail boom, tail rotor gearbox, or other component of the aircraft at a forward attachment and an aft attachment. The vertical stabilizer is selectively rotatable to adjust an angle of attack of the vertical stabilizer with respect to a forward flight direction of the aircraft. The vertical stabilizer is rotatable between a forward flight position having a substantially small degree angle of attack and a hover or lateral movement position having a substantially ninety degree angle of attack.
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公开(公告)号:US20200290735A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-17
申请号:US16354591
申请日:2019-03-15
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Aaron Alexander Acee , Andrew Paul Haldeman , Eric Albert Sinusas , Yann Lavallee , Albert G. Brand
Abstract: An exemplary electric distributed propulsion system includes two or more rotors that are individually controlled by the rotational speed of associated motors, an input control connected to the associated motors to provide rotational speed control to the two or more rotors to produce a desired net thrust, and a logic connected to the input control and the associated motors, the logic for controlling speed and direction of the two or more rotors to achieve the desired net thrust and to avoid a motor speed condition.
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公开(公告)号:US20200130823A1
公开(公告)日:2020-04-30
申请号:US16173064
申请日:2018-10-29
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Abstract: An exemplary rotorcraft includes a power train with an engine coupled to a gearbox, a main rotor blade having a mast coupled to the power train, a control input linkage in communication between a pilot input device and the main rotor blade configured to communicate a control input force from the pilot input device to the main rotor blade, and a counterweight system in connection with the control input linkage and the power train to apply a centrifugal force to the control input linkage.
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公开(公告)号:US20200039641A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-06
申请号:US16053611
申请日:2018-08-02
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
IPC: B64C27/473 , B64C29/00 , B21D22/02 , B21D53/92
Abstract: An abrasion strip and method of manufacturing the same. The abrasion strip being composed of INCONEL® alloy 718SPF™ and being shaped by superplastic forming.
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公开(公告)号:US20190225349A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-25
申请号:US15876298
申请日:2018-01-22
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Eric A. Sinusas , Bradley Paul Regnier , Aaron Alexander Acee , Charles Hubert Speller , Marc Ouellet
Abstract: A power system for an aircraft includes a plurality of power consumers each operable to consume power in a range from zero to maximum power demand and collectively capable of consuming a combined maximum power demand, a power source operable to output power to the power consumers and a power allocation system operable to allocate power from the power source to the power consumers based on an operational parameter of the aircraft. The power allocated by the power allocation system is less than the combined maximum power demand of the power consumers, thereby allowing the power source to have a maximum power output less than the combined maximum power demand of the power consumers.
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公开(公告)号:US11220329B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-11
申请号:US16266086
申请日:2019-02-03
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Aaron Alexander Acee , Andrew Paul Haldeman
Abstract: Systems and methods include providing an aircraft with a ducted rotor assembly. The ducted rotor assembly includes a housing having a duct, a rotor drive mechanism coupled to a rotor system, and a plurality of stators that both structurally support the rotor drive mechanism within the duct of the housing and carry a fluid through internal fluid passages in the plurality of stators to provide cooling to the rotor drive mechanism. Some of the stators carry fluid to the rotor drive mechanism, where the fluid absorbs heat from the rotor drive mechanism, and some of the stators carry fluid away from the rotor drive mechanism. The rotor system generates an airflow over the stators carrying fluid away from the rotor drive mechanism to effect transfer between the fluid and the airflow.
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公开(公告)号:US20190308722A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-10
申请号:US15949660
申请日:2018-04-10
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Dalton T. Hampton , Andrew Paul Haldeman , Aaron Alexander Acee , Matthew John Hill
Abstract: Systems and methods include providing an aircraft with a tail rotor system having a tail rotor housing that forms a cambered airfoil between an upper cambered surface and an lower cambered surface of the tail rotor housing. The cambered airfoil design of the tail rotor housing is capable of providing sufficient lifting force of an aircraft to offload the tail rotor during forward flight, thereby eliminating the need for a traditional vertical stabilizer or fin. The tail rotor blades of the tail rotor system are disposed within an aperture in the tail rotor housing, which minimizes or preferably eliminates exposure of the tail rotor blades to edgewise airflow typically encountered during forward flight, thereby allowing rigid rotor hubs, both in-plane and out-of-plane, to be used in the tail rotor system while also reducing noise output of the tail rotor system.
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公开(公告)号:US10940944B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-09
申请号:US15967220
申请日:2018-04-30
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Andrew Paul Haldeman , Zachary Edwin Dailey , Charles Owen Black , Dalton T. Hampton , Aaron Alexander Acee
Abstract: A transmission tilt control device includes a transmission rotatably coupled to an airframe of a helicopter, a rotor mast coupled to the transmission, and an actuator coupled between the transmission and the airframe. The actuator being configured to rotate the transmission fore and aft about a tilt axis that is perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the rotor mast.
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公开(公告)号:US10933980B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US16054027
申请日:2018-08-03
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Eric Albert Sinusas , Edward Lambert , Yann Lavallee , Aaron Alexander Acee , Albert G. Brand
Abstract: An aircraft having an electric motor coupled to a rotor and an instrument electronically connected to the electric motor and configured to communicate a time available value before a motor condition reaches a motor condition limit.
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公开(公告)号:US20200324884A1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-15
申请号:US16382052
申请日:2019-04-11
Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Inventor: Matthew Michael Wilcox , Aaron Alexander Acee
Abstract: An exemplary rotorcraft includes a propulsion system including a prime mover and a drive shaft coupled to the prime mover, the drive shaft including a coupling separating the drive shaft into an input shaft and an output shaft, the coupling operable between an engaged position rotationally coupling the input shaft and the output shaft and a disengaged position rotationally disengaging the output shaft from the input shaft, a main rotor coupled to the prime mover, a secondary rotor attached to the output shaft, and a motor coupled to the output shaft.
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