公开(公告)号：US10279893B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-07

申请号：US15435033

申请日：2017-02-16

Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

Inventor： John Wesley Melton ,  Stephanie Baynham

IPC: G01C23/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D3/00 ,  G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/00 ,  B64C13/50 ,  G01S19/13 ,  B64D43/00 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G01S13/08 ,  G01D7/00 ,  G01L3/00

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a rotorcraft includes receiving a first sensor value comprising a first coarse resolution portion and a first fine resolution portion, receiving a second sensor value comprising a second coarse resolution portion and a second fine resolution portion, and determining that the second coarse resolution portion corresponds with the second fine resolution portion when a difference between the second sensor value and the first sensor value is within a first threshold.

公开(公告)号：US20180229831A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-16

申请号：US15435033

申请日：2017-02-16

Applicant: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.

Inventor： John Wesley Melton ,  Stephanie Baynham

IPC: B64C13/50 ,  B64C27/06 ,  B64D43/02 ,  G01S19/13

CPC classification number: B64C13/503 ,  B64D43/00 ,  G01S19/13

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a rotorcraft includes receiving a first sensor value comprising a first coarse resolution portion and a first fine resolution portion, receiving a second sensor value comprising a second coarse resolution portion and a second fine resolution portion, and determining that the second coarse resolution portion corresponds with the second fine resolution portion when a difference between the second sensor value and the first sensor value is within a first threshold.

公开(公告)号：US20190161203A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-30

申请号：US15978646

申请日：2018-05-14

Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

Inventor： Robert Earl Worsham, II ,  Morganne Cody Klein ,  Christopher M. Bothwell ,  Luke Dafydd Gillett ,  Jillian Samantha Alfred ,  Sung Kyun Kim ,  Stephanie Baynham ,  Troy Caudill

IPC: B64D45/00 ,  B64C13/50 ,  B64C13/04 ,  B64D43/00

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of indicating flight modes of a rotorcraft includes: detecting a change in flight mode of the rotorcraft from a previous flight mode to an active flight mode, the active flight mode and the previous flight mode each being from one of a first subset or a second subset of a plurality of flight modes; determining whether the active flight mode and the previous flight mode are from different subsets of the plurality of flight modes; and updating one or more flight mode indicators on an instrument panel of the rotorcraft in response to the active flight mode and the previous flight mode being from different subsets of the plurality of flight modes.