Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Elastomeric pitch lock restraint
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Application No.: US16655855Application Date: 2019-10-17
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Publication No.: US10994837B1Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Kyle Thomas Cravener , Andrew Maresh , Mark Adam Wiinikka
- Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP
- Main IPC: B64C11/32
- IPC: B64C11/32 ; B64C27/57 ; B64C29/00 ; B64C27/80 ; B64C11/28 ; B64C27/605

Abstract:
An exemplary pitch lock for a tiltrotor aircraft to enable and disable a pitching degree of freedom of a rotor blade assembly includes a first tab coupled to a blade stop assembly, the first tab having a first ramp surface, a second tab coupled to a blade cuff, the second tab having a second ramp surface, a hasp having a central opening to receive the first and the second tab and rollers rotatably coupled to the hasp on opposite sides of the central opening, where the rollers engage the first and second ramp surfaces and retain the first and the second tabs in the central opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210114721A1 ELASTOMERIC PITCH LOCK RESTRAINT Public/Granted day:2021-04-22
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