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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322179 | Air intake and method for breathing air using an air intake An air intake includes a spike and a cylindrical cowl. The spike is composed of a plurality of plates which are arranged axial symmetrically around a central axis thereof, and the cowl includes an inner wall parallel to the central axis and is formed so as to enclos... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7222819 | Aircraft ram air inlet with multi-member closure flap A ram air inlet includes a channel with an intake in a wing leading edge, front and rear flaps arranged in the channel for selectively closing or opening the channel, and an actuator connected to the flaps. A front end of the front flap is pivotably connected by a f... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207520 | System, method, and apparatus for designing streamline traced, mixed compression inlets for aircraft engines An advanced aperture inlet (AAI) uses a three-dimensional, mixed compression inlet design derived from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) by streamline tracing a supersonic section from an axisymmetric mixed compression inlet solution. The axisymmetric design is use... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7066207 | Flow development chamber A system and method for conveying flowable material through a conduit that creates a strong laminar flow of the material surrounded by a boundary layer flow of the same or a different flowable material, such that long transport distances through dramatic elevation a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6920890 | Airflow controller The invention provides an airflow controller for a propulsion inlet system including a bleed section having two or more bleed plenum chambers, each of the chambers having a porous inlet surface and an exit surface and two or more plates slidably mounted to the bleed... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6880342 | Structure and method for controlling inlet shock position of a hypersonic vehicle System and method for controlling inlet shock position and airflow Mach number of a hypersonic vehicle is described wherein thermally controlled fuel is controllably injected into the airflow at the inlet of the propulsion system of the vehicle. ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6270309 | Low drag ducted Ram air turbine generator and cooling system A low drag ducted ram air turbine generator and cooling system is provided. The ducted ram air turbine generator and cooling system has reduced drag while extracting dynamic energy from the air stream during the complete range of intended flight operating... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6260567 | Mission adaptive inlet A mission adaptive inlet (42) for an aircraft (40) has a rigid lip panel (56) pivotally attached to an inlet (42) of the aircraft (40). An actuation mechanism is coupled to the rigid lip panel (56) and causes the rigid lip panel (56) to pivot from a first... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6209821 | Apparatus and method for measuring air temperature ahead of an aircraft for controlling a variable inlet/engine assembly The apparatus and method employ remote sensing to measure the air temperature a sufficient distance ahead of the aircraft to allow time for a variable inlet/engine assembly to be reconfigured in response to the measured temperature, to avoid inlet unstart... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5971000 | Internal compression supersonic engine inlet An internal compression engine inlet (39) including a flexible external cowl with leading edge cowl lips (72); a duct comprising a supersonic diffuser (44) defined by upper and lower forward ramps (50), (52), a subsonic diffuser (46) defined by upper and ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5967169 | Air intake for engines The air intake for air-breathing engines for supersonic flight velocities, especially ram jet engines and ram rocket engines of missiles, with an essentially rectangular intake contour, has a closing flap covering the said intake contour and an actuating ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5881758 | Internal compression supersonic engine inlet An internal compression engine inlet (39) including a flexible external cowl with leading edge cowl lips (72); a duct comprising a supersonic diffuser (44) defined by upper and lower forward ramps (50), (52), a subsonic diffuser (46) defined by upper and ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5844490 | Monitoring device for a chemical reagent supply system A monitoring device for a chemical reagent supply system includes a position voltage generator, mounted to a pump of the supply system, to monitor the expansion state of a bellows. The actual outflow of the chemical reagent is calculated by the position v... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5806301 | Ramjet/scramjet inlet isolator unstart prevention Pressure sensors are placed at axial locations in the isolator of a scramjet or ramjet. An engine fuel control produces calculated pressure values for the those locations from a stored function. As the engine operates, the pressure signals from the pressu... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5697394 | Low observable engine air inlet system A turbine engine inlet system includes a duct 14 to deliver air to the engine, inlet lips 16 and 52 to smooth the entry of air flowing into the duct, a screen 50 between the lips 52 and 16 for passage of inlet air, a forward inlet section 18 submerged wit... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5694763 | Low observable engine inlet system A turbine engine inlet system includes a curved duct 14 to deliver air to the engine, an inlet lip 16 to smooth the entry of air flowing into the duct, a forward inlet section 18 submerged within the aircraft skin contour to provide a degree of ram recove... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5586735 | Two-dimensional supersonic and hypersonic air intake, with three movable ramps, for the combustion air of an aircraft engine The air intake includes two main flaps (1, 2) facing each other and each pivoting about a pin (4, 5) adjacent to a wall (6, 7) extending the flap in question (1, 2) rearwards, and in which a first boundary layer bleed (8a, 8b) is arranged, the pins (4, 5)... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5557917 | Engine stall and distortion suppression system A method is provided for equalizing fluid pressure in a primary fluid flow region, comprised of providing a modulating fluid flow region adjacent to the primary flow region and separating the two regions with a perforated wall. By controlling the fluid pr... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5437151 | Detecting and controlling supersonic airflow normal shock pattern position in an aircraft jet engine assembly The position of the normal airflow shock pattern in the airflow inlet of a supersonic aircraft jet engine assembly is detected by a light beam position sensor assembly. A narrow band coherent source light beam is angularly transmitted across the engine as... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5424824 | Method and apparatus for normal shock sensing within the focal region of a laser beam A system using Lidar/Laser anemometry for measuring the position of the normal shock wave and air velocity in the inlet of a supersonic engine is described, A laser beam is focused over a region in the inlet where the shock is expected to be. Small partic... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5088660 | Bleed stability door A supersonic inlet flow duct (10) is provided with a pivoting bleed stability door (34) and biasing spring (42). The door (34) opens under the influence of increased static fluid pressure behind a shock front (24) which is displaced forwardly by a downstr... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4872807 | Static pressure system for gas turbine engines A pressure sensing system strategically located measures static pressure of the inlet air of a gas turbine engine that is utilized as a signal indicative of engine inlet total pressure. The system consists of a number of ports circumferentially spaced aro... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4865268 | Jet engine nacelle A construction is provided to aerodynamically affect a jet engine nacelle in its intake lip area primarily by forming and pivotally arranging flaps on a radially outer circumferential sector of the intake lip such that from a first extreme position, in wh... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4523603 | Air intake control for an adjustable air inlet, particularly two-dimensional oblique shock diffuser for gas turbine jet engines for the propulsion of high performance aircraft A variable air inlet includes an air intake duct with upper ramps, an air inlet bottom spaced below the ramp and a movable air scoop lip pivotally secured to the end of the air inlet bottom closer to the opening into the air intake duct. The air scoop lip... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4463772 | Flush inlet for supersonic aircraft A flush inlet and inlet air passage for supersonic aircraft including provisions for efficiently decelerating a supersonic airstream entering the inlet and converting such airstream to subsonic airflow within the inlet air passage prior to introduction in... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4418708 | Two-dimensional, unilateral oblique shock diffuser as the air inlet for a gas turbine jet engine for the propulsion of heavy-duty aircraft A two-dimensional, unidirectional oblique air impact diffuser is used as an air inlet for a gas turbine jet engine for aircraft. The air inlet includes an upper rigid air inlet ramp and an air inlet bottom spaced below the ramp. An air scoop lip is pivota... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4291533 | Supersonic ramjet missile 1. In a supersonic combustion ramjet missile, a body, an innerbody having a portion within the body and a portion projecting fordly therefrom, said innerbody being spaced from said body to define an inlet for compressing an air flow from a hypersonic flight M... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4255938 | Water boiler/venturi cooler A converging/diverging venturi assembly positioned in a subsonic fluid flow stream for producing a supersonic flow velocity in the downstream diverging section with a pressure pickoff system that is located adjacent a minimum static pressure location just... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4123196 | Supersonic compressor with off-design performance improvement A turbomachine such as a compressor having one or more rows of blades designed to operate at a supersonic inlet relative Mach number is provided with a manifold surrounding the blade tips for extracting air from the passages between adjacent blades by an ... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4050243 | Combination solid fuel ramjet injector/port cover A combination injector/port cover for a solid fuel ramjet (SFRJ) having a be-in-hole injector which uses two seals to lock the tube into the air inlet and injector port during the boost phase, and which moves the tube into the combustion chamber during tr... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4025008 | Intake control for air utilizing aircraft engines An air intake control for an air utilizing jet aircraft engine. The control is provided with fixed and movable air intake control ramps and the positioning of such movable ramps for air control purposes is determined by the static pressure above one there... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3974648 | Variable geometry ramjet engine A variable-geometry ramjet engine, capable of operation over the Mach 3 to 12 speed range, is provided by disposing a movable cowl around a centerbody. The engine is axisymmetric and features a translatable cowl which slides relative to the centerbody on ... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3941335 | Automatic boundary layer control in an ejector wing aircraft An ejector wing, for an aircraft, having inlet and diffuser doors which move from an open take-off configuration to a closed forward flight configuration and having hypermixing nozzles and root nozzles for supplying primary air into a plurality of channel... | 03/02/1976 |
