Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Landing gear drive system flexible interface
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Application No.: US14914669Application Date: 2014-09-03
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Publication No.: US09884678B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Arnaud Didey
- Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Bristol
- Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
- Current Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Bristol
- Agency: Hauptman Ham, LLP
- Priority: GB1315802.7 20130905; GB1410034.1 20140605
- International Application: PCT/GB2014/052653 WO 20140903
- International Announcement: WO2015/033125 WO 20150312
- Main IPC: B64C25/20
- IPC: B64C25/20 ; F16H1/26 ; F16H1/24 ; B64C25/40 ; F16H1/00 ; F16H1/06

Abstract:
Known autonomous taxi systems for aircraft include a rigid connection between the aircraft wheel and a gear which is used to drive it. Such arrangements have been found to suffer from the problem that wheel deformation modes cause unacceptable wear and/or stresses within the drive system and/or wheel. The present invention thus proposes a drive system for an aircraft landing gear, the drive system comprising: a pinion gear; a drive shaft arranged to rotate the pinion gear about a drive axis; a driven gear arranged to mesh with the pinion gear to be rotatable by the pinion gear, the driven gear being connectable to a wheel of the landing gear to be capable of rotating the wheel about a wheel axis; and a flexible interface. The flexible interface comprises a plurality of driven gear coupling members, each driven gear coupling member having a first connection portion attached to the driven gear, a second connection portion adapted to be attached to the wheel at an offset distance from the wheel axis, and a joint between the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the joint permitting relative movement between the first connection portion and the second connection portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160200426A1 LANDING GEAR DRIVE SYSTEM FLEXIBLE INTERFACE Public/Granted day:2016-07-14
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