Airplane ground maneuvering camera system
    1.
    发明授权
    Airplane ground maneuvering camera system 有权
    飞机地面机动摄像系统

    公开(公告)号:US06405975B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-06-18

    申请号:US09135992

    申请日:1998-08-18

    IPC分类号: B64C2550

    CPC分类号: B64D47/08 B64F1/002

    摘要: A system for aiding ground maneuvering of an airplane. The system includes at least one camera mounted on the airplane for generating video images of at last one gear with tires, preferably a main or nose landing gear and the surrounding ground. The cockpit of the airplane includes a video display device that displays the generated video images and a user interface that allows selection of the format for displaying the generated video images. A camera mounted within a moveable component of the airplane is mounted on a movable device that compensates for component movement. The system also includes a display generator for generating in real-time superimposed oversteer targets on the displayed video images. The video images with oversteer targets assist the pilot in determining the airplane's actual position relative to runways, taxiways, obstacles and other ground features and to maneuver a plane with a wide wheel track long wheelbase, or both accordingly.

    摘要翻译: 协助飞机的地面操纵的系统。 该系统包括安装在飞机上的至少一个照相机,用于产生最后一个齿轮的视频图像,轮胎,优选地是主起落架或前起落架和周围地面。 飞机的驾驶舱包括显示生成的视频图像的视频显示装置和允许选择用于显示所生成的视频图像的格式的用户界面。 安装在飞机的可移动部件内的相机安装在可补偿组件运动的可移动装置上。 该系统还包括用于在所显示的视频图像上实时叠加过度转向目标的显示发生器。 具有过度转向目标的视频图像有助于飞行员确定飞机相对于跑道,滑行道,障碍物和其他地面特征的实际位置,并且相应地操纵具有宽轮轨长轴距的平面。

    Inflatable heliostatic solar power collector
    4.
    发明授权
    Inflatable heliostatic solar power collector 有权
    充气式日光太阳能集热器

    公开(公告)号:US07997264B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-08-16

    申请号:US11651396

    申请日:2007-01-10

    IPC分类号: F24J2/12

    摘要: Increased utilization of solar power is highly desirable as solar power is a readily available renewable resource with power potential far exceeding total global needs; and as solar power does not contribute to pollutants associated with fossil fuel power, such as unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and carbon dioxide. The present invention provides low-cost inflatable heliostatic solar power collectors, which can be stand-alone units suitable for flexible utilization in small, medium, or utility scale applications. The inflatable heliostatic power collectors use a reflective surface or membrane “sandwiched” between two inflated chambers, and attached solar power receivers which may be of photovoltaic and/or solar thermal types. Modest concentration ratios enable benefits in both reduced cost and increased conversion efficiency, relative to simple prior-art flat plate solar collectors.

    摘要翻译: 由于太阳能发电是电力潜力大大超过全球总需求的现成可再生能源,太阳能发电利用率提高是非常可取的。 并且由于太阳能不会对与化石燃料动力相关的污染物例如未燃碳氢化合物,NOx和二氧化碳造成影响。 本发明提供了低成本的可充气的日光太阳能收集器,其可以是适合在小型,中型或公用事业级应用中灵活应用的独立单元。 可充气的日光放电收集器使用“夹在”两个充气室之间的反射表面或膜,以及可以是光伏和/或太阳能热型的附接太阳能接收器。 相对于简单的现有技术的平板太阳能集热器,适度的浓度比可以降低成本和提高转换效率。

    Seating and treadmill exercise device

    公开(公告)号:US07052441B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-05-30

    申请号:US10763648

    申请日:2004-01-23

    IPC分类号: A63B22/02

    摘要: A seating and treadmill exercise device for passengers to exercise on an aircraft, capable of being displaced between stowed and deployed positions. While passengers board the aircraft, the seating and treadmill exercise device may be placed in the stowed position to allow passengers to freely move about the aircraft cabin. A folding seat is attached to the underside of the treadmill track, providing a seat for an airline attendant when the aircraft is taxiing and taking off, or landing. While the aircraft is in route, on long distance flights, the seating and treadmill exercise device may be placed in the deployed position so that passengers are able to exercise and stretch their legs, thus enhancing passenger well-being and health and helping to prevent maladies associated with long periods of sitting such as Deep Vein Thrombosis.

    Aircraft tailstrike avoidance system
    6.
    发明授权
    Aircraft tailstrike avoidance system 有权
    飞机尾巴回避系统

    公开(公告)号:US06422517B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-23

    申请号:US09520329

    申请日:2000-03-07

    IPC分类号: G05D108

    摘要: An improvement to an aircraft flight control system is provided for reducing the likelihood of an aircraft tailstrike. The flight control system includes a pitch command provided to a pitch control device for altering the aircraft's pitch attitude. The improvement is a system of altering the pitch command to avoid an aircraft tailstrike. The improvement includes determining a current tailskid closure rate and a current tail height; comparing the current tailskid closure rate with a threshold closure rate to determine an excess closure rate amount; and adding an incremental nose-down pitch command with the pitch command to avoid a potential aircraft tailstrike. The threshold closure rate is dependent upon the current tailskid height. The incremental nose-down pitch command is calculated as a function of the excess closure rate amount. An alternative embodiment is provided in which the current height is compared with a threshold height (that is a function of the current tailskid closure rate) to determine an excess height amount. The excess height is then used to form an incremental nose-down pitch command. Another embodiment is described using both height and rate thresholds to calculate the incremental nose-down pitch command. Alternative arrangements may be used in which other non-derivative and derivative values are used, e.g., pitch angle margin and pitch rate.

    摘要翻译: 提供了对飞机飞行控制系统的改进,以减少飞机尾翼的可能性。 飞行控制系统包括提供给俯仰控制装置的俯仰指令,用于改变飞机的俯仰姿态。 改进是改变俯仰命令以避免飞机尾迹的系统。 改进包括确定当前尾部关闭速率和当前尾部高度; 将当前tailskid关闭率与阈值关闭率进行比较以确定过多关闭率; 并用俯仰指令添加增量的下降俯仰指令,以避免潜在的飞机尾迹。 阈值关闭率取决于当前的tailskid高度。 根据过度闭合率量的函数计算增量下降音调指令。 提供了一个替代实施例,其中将当前高度与阈值高度(即当前尾部关闭速率的函数)进行比较以确定过高高度量。 然后使用多余的高度来形成增量的向下俯仰间距指令。 使用高度和速率阈值来描述另一个实施例来计算增量的向下俯仰俯仰指令。 可以使用替代布置,其中使用其他非导数和导数值,例如俯仰角余量和俯仰速率。

    Automated galley cart stowage system
    7.
    发明授权
    Automated galley cart stowage system 失效
    自动厨房车载系统

    公开(公告)号:US06305643B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-23

    申请号:US09436785

    申请日:1999-11-08

    IPC分类号: B64C120

    CPC分类号: B64D11/0007

    摘要: An automated cart stowage system is provided for use in an aircraft having a passenger deck with a galley and a lower deck located below the passenger deck. The system includes a number of movable galley carts, a container sized and shaped to be located within the lower deck, a passageway located in the container and extending vertically upward into the galley, a cart lift for automatically transferring at least one galley cart at a time between the passenger deck and the container, and access device positionable within the passageway. The container is used for storing the galley carts during flight. The container includes first and second interior regions. The galley carts are storable end-to-end in the second region. An access space is left available between carts. During normal operations, the cart lift transfers carts between the passenger deck and the container. During anomalous conditions, the access device is made available to assist an attendant in entering and exiting the container via the passageway to thereby manually transfer material to and from the carts stored in the container. The first region provides an aisle for the attendant to access the carts. The access space between carts allows the attendant to shift carts in order to access the contents of each cart.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于具有乘客甲板的飞机的自动推车装载系统,其具有位于乘客甲板下方的厨房和下甲板。 该系统包括多个可移动的厨房推车,容器的尺寸和形状设置在下层甲板内,通道位于容器中并垂直向上延伸进入厨房,用于在至少一个厨房推车 乘客甲板和集装箱之间的时间以及可在通道内定位的通道装置。 集装箱用于在飞行过程中储存厨房推车。 容器包括第一和第二内部区域。 厨房车可在第二区域端对端存放。 购物车之间可以使用存取空间。 在正常操作期间,推车升降机在客舱和集装箱之间移动推车。 在异常情况下,进入装置可用于帮助服务员经由通道进出容器,从而手动地将材料转移到存储在容器中的推车上。 第一个地区为乘务员提供进出车的通道。 推车之间的存取空间允许服务员移动购物车以访问每个购物车的内容。

    Apparatus using a balloon supported reflective surface for reflecting
light from the sun
    8.
    发明授权
    Apparatus using a balloon supported reflective surface for reflecting light from the sun 失效
    使用气球支撑的反射表面反射来自太阳的光的装置

    公开(公告)号:US5404868A

    公开(公告)日:1995-04-11

    申请号:US861031

    申请日:1992-03-31

    摘要: The invention provides a family of apparatus using a balloon supported reflective surface for reflecting light from the Sun. A basic embodiment of such an apparatus is a light weight, low cost heliostat using a balloon supported reflective surface. Another embodiment is a solar power concentration apparatus using multiple heliostats with balloon supported reflective surfaces. Yet another embodiment is a solar electric power apparatus, also using multiple heliostats with balloon supported reflective surfaces. Variant embodiments of these apparatus can be sited on land or water surfaces or in the air or in space.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供一种使用球囊支撑的反射表面来反射来自太阳的光的装置系列。 这种装置的基本实施例是使用球囊支撑的反射表面的重量轻,低成本的定日镜。 另一个实施例是使用具有球囊支撑的反射表面的多个定日镜的太阳能集中装置。 另一个实施例是太阳能发电设备,也使用具有球囊支撑的反射表面的多个定日镜。 这些装置的各种实施例可以位于陆地或水面上,或位于空中或空间中。

    Floating ice sheet based renewable thermal energy harvesting system
    9.
    发明授权
    Floating ice sheet based renewable thermal energy harvesting system 失效
    浮动冰盖可再生能源采集系统

    公开(公告)号:US08393553B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-12

    申请号:US12006035

    申请日:2007-12-31

    IPC分类号: F25C3/04

    CPC分类号: F03G7/04

    摘要: The invention provides a floating ice sheet based renewable thermal energy harvesting system, that can harvest energy from naturally occurring temperature differential between liquid water below a floating ice sheet that is substantially at the freezing temperature of water (0 degrees C. or slightly lower for salt water), and colder air above the floating ice sheet. For example, this is a naturally occurring phenomenon in Arctic and Antarctic region sea ice or ice shelf regions, where the air temperature above the floating ice may range from −5 degrees C. down to winter extreme cold temperatures of around −50 degrees C. In addition to the inventive application of thermodynamic cycle engines to harvest renewable energy from this naturally occurring temperature differential, variant embodiments also combine wind energy and/or solar energy subsystems to provide synergistic further benefits and greater quantities of renewable energy harvestable from devices of this class.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种基于浮冰的可再生热能收集系统,其可以从基本上处于水的冷冻温度(0摄氏度或稍低于盐的)的浮冰片之下的液态水之间的天然存在的温度差获得能量 水),以及浮冰上方较冷的空气。 例如,这是北极和南极地区海冰或冰架区域中天然存在的现象,其中浮冰上方的空气温度可能在-5摄氏度到冬至极端寒冷的温度在-50度左右。 除了本发明应用热力循环发动机以从这种天然存在的温差收集可再生能源之外,变体实施例还结合了风能和/或太阳能子系统以提供协同的进一步的益处,并且从该类装置可收获的更大数量的可再生能源 。

    Crossover motor vehicle with a cargo bed
    10.
    发明授权
    Crossover motor vehicle with a cargo bed 有权
    交叉机动车与货床

    公开(公告)号:US07431366B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-07

    申请号:US11440394

    申请日:2006-05-25

    IPC分类号: B62D39/00

    摘要: The invention provides an innovative and practical new class of crossover motor vehicles for carrying passengers and for carrying cargo in a cargo or pickup bed, while still being of sufficiently small dimensions as to be garage-able in many home garages. Representative embodiments can carry 6 or 7 or 9 persons in comfortable seats all with adjacent or facing seats for companions; plus substantial varied cargos, which can potentially include sporting or recreational equipment such as bicycles or a powered waterscooter or snowmobile or motorcycle; camping gear including a 9-person tent; furniture such as a Queen bed set; appliances such as a washer and dryer; utility equipment such as a snowblower or riding lawnmower; or substantial quantities of items such as lumber, bark or fertilizer.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种创新和实用的新型交叉机动车辆,用于携带乘客和在货物或皮卡床上运送货物,同时仍然具有足够小的尺寸以便在许多家庭车库中可车库。 代表性的实施例可以携带6或7或9人在舒适的座位中,全部与相邻或面对的同伴座位; 加上各种各样的货物,其中可能包括运动或休闲设备,如自行车或动力滑水车或雪地摩托车或摩托车; 露营装备包括一个9人帐篷; 家具如大床套; 电器如洗衣机和烘干机; 实用设备,如吹雪机或骑马割草机; 或大量的物品,如木材,树皮或肥料。