Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flight guidance system
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Application No.: US13989429Application Date: 2011-11-25
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Publication No.: US09612312B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Ute Marita Meissner , Klaus-Uwe Hahn
- Applicant: Ute Marita Meissner , Klaus-Uwe Hahn
- Applicant Address: DE Cologne DE Cologne
- Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.,Frau Ute Marita Meissner
- Current Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.,Frau Ute Marita Meissner
- Current Assignee Address: DE Cologne DE Cologne
- Agency: Whitham, Curtis & Cook, P.C.
- Priority: DE102010052474 20101126
- International Application: PCT/EP2011/071027 WO 20111125
- International Announcement: WO2012/069629 WO 20120531
- Main IPC: G01S5/02
- IPC: G01S5/02

Abstract:
The invention relates to a flight guidance system for the flight support of a aircraft (1), said system comprising a plurality of fixed ground stations (4a to 4e) respectively comprising a transmitting and/or receiving unit (5a to 5e), and at least one transmitting and/or receiving unit (6) that is arranged on the aircraft (1), the transmitting units being act up to send position signals (7) and the receiving units being set up to receive said position signals (7). The flight guidance system comprises at least one position determination unit (9, 10) that is connected to at least some of the transmitting and/or receiving units (5a to 5e, 6, 6a to 6c) and set up to determine locations of the transmitting and/or receiving unit (6) arranged on the aircraft, according to the position signals (7) that are sent by the fixed transmitting units and received by the at least one receiving unit arranged on the aircraft and/or sent by the at least one transmitting nail arranged on the aircraft and received by the fixed receiving units. The flight guidance system is designed for flight support of the aircraft according to the determined locations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130306800A1 FLIGHT GUIDANCE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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