Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Winglet system
- Patent Title (中): Winglet系统
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Application No.: US14942988Application Date: 2015-11-16
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Publication No.: US09346537B2Publication Date: 2016-05-24
- Inventor: Dino L. Roman , John C. Vassberg , Douglas M. Friedman , Adam P. Malachowski , Christopher A. Vegter
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Main IPC: B64C23/06
- IPC: B64C23/06

Abstract:
A winglet system for an aircraft wing may include an upper winglet and a lower winglet mounted to a wing tip. The upper winglet root chord and the lower winglet root chord may each have a length of no greater than 100 percent of the wing tip chord. The lower winglet may have a static position when the wing is subject to an on-ground static loading. The lower winglet may be configured such that upward deflection of the wing under an approximate 1-g flight loading causes the lower winglet to move upwardly and outwardly from the static position to an in-flight position resulting in an effective span increase of the wing under the approximate 1-g flight loading relative to the span of the wing under the on-ground static loading.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160068259A1 WINGLET SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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