Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vibration attenuator
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Application No.: US16197761Application Date: 2018-11-21
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Publication No.: US11214361B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Frank Bradley Stamps , David Heverly , Michael R. Smith , Michael Scott Seifert , Thomas C. Parham, Jr. , Gary Miller , Jouyoung Jason Choi , Richard E. Rauber
- Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Lightfoot & Alford PLLC
- Main IPC: B64C27/00
- IPC: B64C27/00

Abstract:
A vibration attenuator for an aircraft has first and second coaxial spinners configured for rotation about a mast axis and relative to a rotor. Upper and lower weights of each spinner are spaced radially from the axis and positioned 180 degrees from each other about the axis. The weights of each spinner are spaced from each other a distance parallel to the mast axis, each weight rotating about the mast axis in a different plane. The spinners rotate together relative to the rotor at a selected angular rate and are selectively rotatable relative to each other between a minimum-moment configuration, in which the upper weight of each spinner is angularly aligned with the lower weight of the other spinner, and a maximum-moment configuration, in which the upper weights are angularly aligned and the lower weights are angularly aligned, producing a whirling moment about the mast axis as the spinners rotate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200156773A1 VIBRATION ATTENUATOR Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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