Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100123045 | DEVICE FOR SWITCHABLE PILOT CONTROL FORCES A device for controlling vehicles having a manual control unit configured to influence the direction of movement of a vehicle. The manual control unit provides, in a neutral position of the manual control unit, a trim point to determine a preferred direction of movement... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20090283642 | BREAKABLE COUPLING DEVICE, AND AN ASSOCIATED TRIM ACTUATOR A breakable coupling device for coupling together first and second main transmission shafts stationary in translation along a longitudinal axis of rotation of the device comprises a blocking device having a discontinuous first housing and a continuous second housing for... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090194641 | Exterior Mechanical Interlock for a Linear Actuator A locking mechanism, which permits fixation to a piston rod of a linear actuator relatively to a cylinder of the actuator, as well as a linear actuator equipped with such a locking mechanism as well as to an aircraft with at least one linear activator that is equipped w... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090065648 | COMPENSATION ACTUATOR FOR A ROTORCRAFT FLIGHT CONTROL The invention relates to an actuator (10) comprising: an (auto)synchronous rotary electric motor (11); a reversible speed-reducing gearbox (13) coupled to the motor to be driven in rotation thereby; an outlet shaft (16) coupled to the speed-r... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20060102797 | Method and device for guiding an aircraft for aiding parachute drops The device (1) for guiding an aircraft at least over an intermediate trajectory between a first flight trajectory for a low-altitude flight and a second flight trajectory which starts at an initial point, and from which trajectory a parachute drop is carried out,... | 05/18/2006 |
