Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Landing gear deployment systems and methods
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Application No.: US14614330Application Date: 2015-02-04
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Publication No.: US09988143B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Michael Allwein , Joseph Moore , Aron Howard Daria
- Applicant: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Poway
- Assignee: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Poway
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: B64C25/30
- IPC: B64C25/30 ; B64C25/20 ; B64C25/24 ; B64C25/34

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide apparatuses configured to deploy a landing gear of an aircraft, comprising: a landing gear coupler configured to couple with the landing gear; a release link configured to cooperate the landing gear coupler with a drive shaft that is configured to drive the landing gear between a stowed position and a deployed position; an override driver cooperated with the landing gear coupler; wherein the release link is configured to releasably maintain a relative position of landing gear coupler relative to the drive shaft, and the release link is configured to disengage a coupling between the drive shaft and the landing gear coupler such that the landing gear coupler is configured to move independent of the drive shaft; and wherein the override driver is configured to drive the landing gear coupler to the deployed position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150291278A1 LANDING GEAR DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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