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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7928862 | Display of hover and touchdown symbology on head-up display A head-up display (HUD) is disclosed. The HUD is on board a rotary wing aircraft. The HUD comprises a projector. The HUD also comprises a combiner. The combiner enables viewing of the world outside of the combiner and allows viewing of information provided from the ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907066 | Method and a device for detecting and signaling that a rotorcraft is approaching the vortex domain A method and a device (D) for detecting and signaling the approach to a vortex domain by a rotorcraft, the device includes: first elements (1) for measuring the instantaneous vertical speed v of a rotorcraft; | 03/15/2011 |
| 7616130 | Method and a device for processing and displaying aircraft piloting information A method is provided for assisting the piloting of a rotorcraft in which vertical speed variation (DVZ) of the rotorcraft is determined as a function of a horizontal speed variation (DVH) of the aircraft and as a function of data representative of the power (W) abso... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7420476 | Programmable cockpit upgrade system Disclosed is a programmable computing and display device for upgrading a cockpit instrument panel of an aircraft. The programmable computing and display device includes a plurality of processing units; a network backbone that establishes a network among the processi... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414544 | Power situation indicator A power situation indicator configured to provide power information in a rotorcraft is presented. The power situation indicator includes a detection unit configured to detect a current value of each of a plurality of control parameters, each of the plurality of cont... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7385528 | Combination ceiling fan with light and sound generator A ceiling fan with a light and sound generator is disclosed where the blades of the ceiling fan resemble the rotor blades of a helicopter. Under the blades of the ceiling fan a fixed or replaceable body of a helicopter is located or locatable. The blades of the heli... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7343232 | Vehicle control system including related methods and components Embodiments are disclosed for a vehicle control system and related sub-components that together provide an operator with a plurality of specific modes of operation, wherein various modes of operation incorporate different levels of autonomous control. Through a cont... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333631 | Landmark, apparatus, and method for effectively determining position of autonomous vehicles A landmark used to effectively determine the location of an autonomous vehicle, and a self-localization apparatus and method using the landmark are provided. In the self-localization method, first, first and second outer line information and shape information are ex... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327284 | Smart altitude callout for helicopters A method, computer software product, and system to generate altitude callouts according to proximity to a runway at an airport or heliport includes determining whether the helicopter is flying in proximity to the runway and automatically selecting an altitude thresh... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324016 | Navigational indicating system for rotary wing aircraft Red, green and white colored lights are emitted from navigation orientation indicating light emitting devices mounted within a helicopter rotor blade near its tip. The light emissions from such devices are under control to respectively indicate passage of the rotor ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321813 | Anticollision equipment on board an aeroplane with normal flight reversion aid Conventional terrain anticollision equipment formulates, around the short term forecast trajectory of the aircraft which is equipped therewith, virtual volumes of protection of maneuver charted by feelers and signals a risk of terrain collision as soon as it detects... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7295135 | Flight information system A flight instrument displays azimuth information in combination with horizon information and other optional information such as altitude and/or airspeed. Azimuth information is displayed using an elliptical pattern placed below a horizon line displaying horizon info... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286912 | Method and apparatus for avoidance of power lines or trip wires by fixed and rotary winged aircraft An E-field sensing system is provided to detect the presence of obstacles, including wires, power lines or trip wires, as well as towers, guy wires, buildings and elevated terrain, in which a variation or tilt of the iso-potential electrostatic field adjacent the ob... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7256900 | Printers with positional sensors The technique of the present invention ensures efficient management of printers in a large-scaled network even under a condition that some printer shifts its position on the network. A positioning unit included in each printer connected to the network recognizes pos... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7237747 | Device for assisting an airplane in intercepting a segment of a flight path utilizing positional and ground speed indicators Device assisting with interception by an aircraft of a flight path segment located in a horizontal plane and a system of assistance with interception and follow-up of such a segment. The device includes means of determining a ground speed vector and means of display... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7218245 | Head-down aircraft attitude display and method for displaying schematic and terrain data symbology Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying terrain data symbology for an aircraft. The apparatus is a heads-down display for an aircraft having a monitor configured to generate a display and a processor coupled to the display. The display has a centerline. Th... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212942 | Power available and limitation indicator for use with an aircraft engine An instrument for use in a helicopter includes a performance calculator typically housed in a control unit (16) and a display unit (14). The system receives electronic indicia (44) of current altitude, air temperature, fuel on-board and engine m... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7176812 | Wireless blade monitoring system and process The present invention can be generally described as a blade monitoring and wireless communications system. This monitoring and communications system is formed by the integration of commonly available or easily developed hardware and/or software components, which may... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7165746 | Vibration motor primary flight control actuator The invention provides an actuator for a control surface (7), in particular for a primary flight control of an aircraft, the actuator including a main actuator (3) in a main control line (1) for actuating the control surface (7), the actu... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7148861 | Systems and methods for providing enhanced vision imaging with decreased latency The systems and methods of the present invention provide an image processor that displays enhanced vision images based on a plurality images sources. The image processor comprises both serial and parallel processors. The serial processor performs low data volume cal... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143003 | Pilot indicator for predicting changes in the monitoring parameters of a gas turbine engine A pilot indicator is provided for an aircraft provided with at least one gas turbine engine. The indicator includes a set of sensors delivering information relating to different monitoring parameters of the engine, namely: the speed of rotation Ng of the gas generat... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7126496 | Tactile cueing system and method for aiding a helicopter pilot in making landings A tactile warning system for warning a helicopter pilot of a pre-selected altitude during a landing maneuver includes a collective control arm for control of the aircraft and a tactile warning device operatively connected to the collective control arm. The system in... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120540 | Onboard terrain anticollision display device Terrain anticollision equipment generally uses a display device showing a two-dimensional synthetic map of the terrain overflown by the aircraft and in which the relief is shown by superposed slices assigned false colors representative of the magnitude of the risk o... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106179 | Deployment system for ruggedized illuminating, marking, or signaling device A deployment system for illumination devices, including: a holding mechanism for engaging at least one illumination device; and a deploying mechanism for causing the at least one illumination device to exit the system. In the preferred embodiment, the deploying mech... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106217 | Technical design concepts to improve helicopter obstacle avoidance and operations in “brownout” conditions A method for flying in a degraded visual environment comprising the steps of collecting environmental data, processing the data and fusing the data together into a combined input output. The output is fed into a head down display, head mounted or heads up display an... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098811 | Method and apparatus for tactile cueing of aircraft controls A method and apparatus for tactile cueing of aircraft controls (21) is disclosed. The apparatus of the present invention warns pilots of approaching limits on certain aircraft performance parameters. The most common warnings are for rotor speed exceeding a mo... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7091881 | Integrated hover display with augmented approach to hover symbology cueing for degraded visual environmental conditions A flight control system includes a primary flight display having a hover display which facilitates operations in DVE conditions. The hover display includes a radar altitude display, heading drift symbology and lateral drift symbology which assists pilots in the dete... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088222 | Ruggedized illuminating, marking, or signaling device and system An illumination device, including: a shell with a plurality of sides, where the device can be positioned upon a surface or attached or suspended at any of the plurality of sides; and at least one light-emitting device within the shell, where when the device is posit... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7075457 | Energy index for aircraft maneuvers Method and system for analyzing, separately or in combination, kinetic energy and potential energy and/or their time derivatives, measured or estimated or computed, for an aircraft in approach phase or in takeoff phase, to determine if the aircraft is or will be put... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7053796 | Multi-dimensional instruments for monitoring engine and system parameters A monitoring instrument that represents the state of n parameters is disclosed, where n is an integer greater than two. The monitoring instrument includes n axes having a common origination point. Each axis is configured to indicate one of the n parameters. The inst... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7031810 | Control system and process for several actuators This invention relates to a system for controlling several actuators (Al1, . . . , Anr), comprising at least two computers (L1, L2, . . . , Lk) and at least two means (C1, C2, . . . , Cn) of controlling at least one actuator, each ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6995689 | Method and apparatus for tracking aircraft and securing against unauthorized access A system for monitoring an aircraft receives navigation signals and deriving a position vector therefrom and also receives an input representative of altitude of the aircraft above ground level. The system samples the position vector at a selected sample rate and ou... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993420 | Method for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including displaying tasks already performed A method for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including the steps of monitoring the systems and for detecting a failure of at least one of the systems, displaying information output by the monitoring unit including at least one failure condition incl... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6978717 | Infrared camera deployed by grenade launcher A projectile in a cartridge designed to be launched from a grenade launcher. The projectile is adapted to be secured to the housing of the cartridge. The projectile includes a camera contained in the projectile body and connected thereto by a cord, and a transmitter... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6961445 | Image processing warning system A method and apparatus for capturing and processing images from a portion of a system in order to detect a warning condition for providing warnings to users or operators of the system. One or more image capture devices capable of capturing an image, for example, a c... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6940994 | Passive power line detection system for aircraft A passive, real-time obstacle detection system is provided that determines the presence of small, curvilinear objects such as power lines. The system generally comprises a payload system having an infrared image detection system, a crew interface having a display fo... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940186 | Wind turbine having sensor elements mounted on rotor blades The invention relates to a wind power plant with a tower, a rotor having at least one rotor blade being substantially radially distant with respect to a rotor axis and being rotatably supported with respect to a substantially horizontal rotation axis in a portion at... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6912453 | Device for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including a display displaying tasks already performed A device for monitoring a plurality of systems of an aircraft including a monitoring unit configured to monitor the systems and to detect a failure of at least one of the systems, a display configured to display information output by the monitoring unit including at... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6906641 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for helicopter enhanced ground proximity warning system An apparatus, method and computer program product for alerting rotary wing aircraft of potentially hazardous proximity to terrain also reduces nuisance warnings and provides a terrain display consistent with the unique performance capabilities of such aircraft. ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6850152 | Non-flammable land and sea marker A flameless and smokeless marker attracts attention to a site. A battery and electronics section has a battery module and electronics module. The battery module connects power to the electronics module for creating responsive power-activation signals. An inflatable ... | 02/01/2005 |
