Abstract:
Main sandwich-type shell structure for light aircraft comprising a moulded structure assembly of cellular-core panels and conventionnal structural members, the panels being joined to the structural members by resin bonding through the agency of lugs provided by skin overlengths of the panels.
Abstract:
A supersonic centrifugal compressor comprises a rotor located in a housing having a fluid intake eye. The fluid (air for instance) successively travels through an intake region wherein the rotor has a small number of blades which deflect the fluid tangentially by a small amount only, then through a compression region wherein the rotor has a higher number of blades producing tangential and meridian flow deflection. Last, the fluid flows substantially radially with respect to the rotor into a stationary diffuser.
Abstract:
A device for monitoring the charging current for a storage battery of accumulators which will release an alarm when the charging current continues to increase during a set period of time, characterized in that the device contains a means of measuring the current through the storage battery and a further means of transforming the current to a voltage which is placed in a memory system at regular intervals by a switch responding to the recurrent signals from a timing device and is subjected to a comparison with the value of the voltage across the terminals to provide information displayed on a meter when the second value of the voltage exceeds the reference voltage at the instant when a signal is derived from a signal from the time device which signal slightly leads the recurring signals provided by the timing device for the control of the switch, the absence of this information at the instant of the derived signal providing via a logic gate, a signal to reset the meter to zero while the output from the meter provides a control signal for an alarm device.
Abstract:
System for directing an aircraft along a glide path of variable angular direction. At a ground station, a generator of a radiofrequency carrier feeds an antenna radiating a lobe shaped directive pattern and the angular direction of the antenna lobe is scanned according to a cyclic reciprocating movement. The rate of variation of the lobe angular direction is linear in function of time and is equal for the two directions of the reciprocating scan movement. The carrier is modulated by a modulating signal whose frequency varies linearly and cyclically in function of time with a rate of variation equal to the rate of variation of the lobe angular direction and with a phase delay with respect to the lobe angular direction variation. Aboard the craft, the modulated carrier is demodulated and a circuit is provided for detecting the instants at which the frequency of the modulating signal is equal to a predetermined value. The sum of the amplitudes of the modulating signal at said instants represents the elevation of the glide path.
Abstract:
A method and device are disclosed for casting parts and ingots of a metallic alloy with an ordered structure obtained by the progressive solidification of a liquid alloy. The device comprises a thin walled mould means for introducing the alloy into the mould having at least one duct and means for maintaining the lower end of the duct at a constant distance from the free surface of the liquid phase, heating means constituted by elements radiating heating energy and facing said free surface, and heat insulating means around the lateral walls of the mould.
Abstract:
THIS INVENTION IS DIRECTED TO A PROCESS OF FORMING A IDFFUSION ALLOY OF A SELECTED ADDITION METAL, SUCH AS TANTALUM, ON ANY ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT MTALLIC REFRACTORY MATERIALS. THE PROCESS IS EFFECTED THROUGH THE USE OF A REACTIVE MASS CONTAINING AN INERT POWDERED DILUENT, AN ALLOY POWDER AND A HALOGN OR HALOGEN-CONTAINING CONSTITUENT. THE SAME REACTIVE MASS MAY BE USED TO TREAT ANY OR ALL OF THE GROUP OF DIFFERENT METALLIC REFRACTORY MATERIALS. THE ALLOY POWDER CONTAINS THE DESIRED ADDITION METAL A, MODERATOR METAL SUCH AS NICKEL OR COBALT AND A REGULATOR METAL SUCH AS CHROMIUM.
Abstract:
Precision flow limiter in which a single hydraulic conduit contains a non-return valve urged against its seat by a spring, while an adjusting screw having a tapering ramp is adapted to cooperate with an axial abutment of said valve whereby to space the latter from its seat as required and accurately adjust the throttled flow.
Abstract:
Auxiliary flight instrument, particularly a blind flying instrument comprising a rotating member bearing on one of its surfaces a pattern which through a stroboscopic effect is either visible or invisible depending on the rotation speed of said member, said pattern being devised so as to provide the pilot, when lacking exterior visual references, with a reflex-prompting display under blind flying conditions similar to when visual piloting conditions obtain.
Abstract:
A ground device for measuring the acceleration of a vehicle on a speed basis in which at least three primary switches operate by three sensors, time-delayed relays being adjusted to be effective in causing stepped triggering of a number of storage flip-flop contacts whereby to store a first classification of a first average speed and a second speed classification of a second average speed, a certain chosen difference between said second and first average speeds producing an output signal if its detection occurs before transiting of the vehicle beyond said speed basis resets the storage flip-flops in their neutral state.
Abstract:
The casing of a turboreactor is constituted of a refractory alloy based on nickel and includes an abradable porous metallic coating constituted by a nickel felt. The coating is bonded by brazing to the casing by applying the coating on the casing by a pressure ring with a larger coefficient of expansion and by effecting the brazing in a fluorinated-hydrogenated atmosphere at a temperature in the region of the fusion temperature of the solder. The assembly is then subjected to a chromization or chromaluminization treatment in a halogenated-hydrogenated atmosphere (free of fluorine) at a temperature of 800* to 1100*C.