OPTIMIZING USAGE OF SUPPLEMENTAL ENGINE POWER

    公开(公告)号:US20240017823A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US17867231

    申请日:2022-07-18

    IPC分类号: B64C27/12 B64D31/06

    CPC分类号: B64C27/12 B64D31/06

    摘要: In an embodiment, an aircraft includes a drive system, a main engine coupled to the drive system to provide first power, and a supplemental engine coupled to the drive system to provide second power additive to the first power. The aircraft also includes a control system to control the main engine and the supplemental engine to optimize usage of the supplemental engine. The control system is operable to maintain the supplemental engine in a reduced power state at least until a determination is made that supplemental power is needed to satisfy a total power demand of the drive system. The control system is also operable to determine that supplemental power is needed to satisfy the total power demand of the drive system. The control system is further operable to increase a power level of the supplemental engine in response to the determination that supplemental power is needed.

    Wear estimation for wear liner bearings

    公开(公告)号:US12130199B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17369470

    申请日:2021-07-07

    申请人: Bell Textron Inc.

    摘要: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for estimating wear in aircraft rotor systems. Data associated with loads and motions of a swashplate actuator is collected. The swashplate actuator drives a swashplate and at least one control link is coupled to the swashplate. The loads and motions of the at least one control link is estimated based upon the loads and motions of the swashplate actuator. Using a wear model, the current wear of control link components is estimated due to the loads and motions of the at least one control link. Wear estimates for the components are aggregated across multiple flights and used to determine when maintenance actions should occur.

    Supplemental Engine Power Control
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240336356A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-10

    申请号:US18539741

    申请日:2023-12-14

    IPC分类号: B64C27/12 B64D31/12

    CPC分类号: B64C27/12 B64D31/12

    摘要: A rotorcraft has a drive system including a main rotor coupled to a main rotor gearbox to rotate the main rotor at a rotor speed, a main engine coupled to the drive system to provide a first power, a supplemental engine coupled, when a first clutch is engaged, to the drive system to provide a second power additive to the first power, and a control system operable to control the main engine and the supplemental engine to provide a total power demand, where the main engine is controlled based on variations in rotor speed and a power compensation command to produce the first power, and the supplemental engine is controlled to produce the second power in response to a supplemental power demand.

    Aircraft vanity display screen
    6.
    外观设计

    公开(公告)号:USD1044652S1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US29871646

    申请日:2023-02-24

    摘要: FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an aircraft vanity display screen showing our new design in an aircraft lavatory;
    FIG. 2 is another perspective view showing the aircraft vanity display screen of FIG. 1;
    FIG. 3 is a side view showing the aircraft vanity display screen of FIG. 1;
    FIG. 4 is another side view showing the aircraft vanity display screen of FIG. 1; and,
    FIG. 5 is front view showing the aircraft vanity display screen of FIG. 1.
    In FIGS. 1-5, broken lines indicate environmental structure that forms no part of the claimed design.

    Variable incidence wing aircraft having a wing stowage mode

    公开(公告)号:US12084175B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US17720089

    申请日:2022-04-13

    摘要: An aircraft includes a fuselage and a wing assembly that is rotatable between a substantially perpendicular orientation relative to the fuselage in flight modes and a substantially parallel orientation relative to the fuselage in a wing stowage mode. The wing assembly includes a wing that is pivotable between forward flight and VTOL orientations by a pivot angle. A distributed thrust array is coupled to the wing that includes outboard and inboard propulsion assemblies, each propulsion assembly having an axis of rotation that has a fixed angle relative to a chord axis of the wing. In a VTOL flight mode, the axis of rotation of each propulsion assembly is substantially vertical and the wing is in the VTOL orientation. In a forward flight mode, the wing is in the forward flight orientation and the axis of rotation of each propulsion assembly is tilted forward from the vertical by the pivot angle.