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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170730 | Control system for automatic flight in windshear conditions A flight control system is configured for controlling the flight of an aircraft through windshear conditions. The system has means for measuring values of selected flight performance states of the aircraft and a control system for operating flight control devices on... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8000847 | Control system for automatic flight in windshear conditions A flight control system is configured for controlling the flight of an aircraft through windshear conditions. The system has means for measuring values of selected flight performance states of the aircraft and a control system for operating flight control devices on... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7925393 | Method and apparatus for generating a four-dimensional (4D) flight plan A method and apparatus that generates a 4D flight plan that takes in account weather, metrological data, and safety of flight information for 360 degree horizontal layer at all relevant altitudes and times is disclosed. The method may include receiving a flight plan... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7617024 | Automatic heading control system for tiltrotor aircraft and helicopters One embodiment of the present invention is a method for automatically reducing the effect of a component of an external force that is laterally incident on a rotorcraft. A signal of the rotorcraft indicative of and proportional to the component is monitored. An abso... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7551991 | Vehicle over speed indicator A method is disclosed for providing an indication that a vehicle has exceeded a safe driving speed. The speed and position of an obstacle are combined with a driver reaction time to arrive at a safe maximum speed. The driver reaction time is predicted based not only... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7489991 | Height generating satellite navigation system A vehicle satellite navigation system is provided for generating a standard height for a geographic location where the vehicle is located. The system may include a satellite receiver (100) that is capable of generating position data as a function of signals r... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7440826 | Steering aid system for altitude and horizontal speed, perpendicular to the vertical, of an aircraft and aircraft equipped therewith A steering aid system for altitude and horizontal speed of an aircraft (4) includes: a measuring device (22) for delivering a measured signal based on the aircraft altitude and horizontal speed, a common predetermined reference value (26) for th... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430460 | Method for determining roll rate gyro bias in an attitude heading reference system A method and computer program product for determining the roll rate gyro bias of an attitude and heading reference system from true air speed, heading rate and body accelerations using centripetal force equations. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7429948 | Device and method for calibrating and improving the accuracy of barometric altimeters with GPS-derived altitudes In a combined GPS/altimeter device, the calibration and hence the accuracy of barometric altimeter measurements are enhanced with the aid of derived altitudes from a GPS. The device determines the need for calibration and perform the subsequent computations necessar... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7417641 | Aeronautical chart display apparatus and method A method and apparatus for converting electronic display aeronautical chart data to aeronautical chart data that is tailored for an avionics display is disclosed. The method and apparatus received by a data processing unit, electronic display aeronautical chart data... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7385527 | Smart airport automation system A smart airport automation system gathers and reinterprets a wide variety of aircraft and airport related data and information around unattended or non-towered airports. Data is gathered from many different types of sources, and in otherwise incompatible data format... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383104 | Low-noise flight support system It is an object of the present invention to provide a system that is used to provide support so that a pilot can perform flight operations that reduce noise pollution, by devising this system so that noise conditions on the ground are calculated and displayed on the... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383105 | System and method for monitoring passenger oxygen saturation levels and estimating oxygen usage requirements A device performs oxygen flight planning calculations for estimating oxygen usage. The device includes a storage device, an input device for inputting a known flight parameter value into the storage device, and an output device for outputting the known flight parame... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383106 | Active noise control system for aircraft, and method for enhancing pilot situational awareness An active noise control system for aircraft includes a headset for use by a pilot of the aircraft. A plurality of sensors are mounted on the aircraft at predetermined locations to sense aircraft noise. The aircraft noise at each of the sensors has a first sound wave... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7363377 | Method for protecting the program environment of a microsoft component object model (COM) client An apparatus for and method of creating a standardized interface between Microsoft Component Object Model environment and a non-compatible legacy environment. The technique is equally effective for both object oriented and non-object oriented scripting protocols. Th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363152 | Method and system for calculating a flight route The invention concerns a method and a system for calculating a flight route between a first position and a second position. According to the method, the first position is chosen as the current position, and the following steps are then repeated until the second posi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346437 | Secure interactive 3d navigation method and device A safe interactive navigation apparatus and method allows the crew of an aircraft to prepare and follow a safe flight plan without relying on instrument flying infrastructure. An aircraft navigation assistance method calculates a continuous, three-dimensional projec... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343229 | Method and apparatus for dynamic taxi path selection A method and apparatus for selecting a taxi path by one or more acceptable taxi paths according to a taxi destination. A primary taxi path is selected according to an operation parameter and is made available as an aeronautical pilot aide. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343228 | Transient cancellation technique for spacecraft solar wing stepping A method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of solar panels of a spacecraft is described. The method comprises the steps of providing a first step command to a first solar panel, and providing a second step command to a second solar panel at a time of a trans... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337391 | Method and system for stylesheet execution interactive feedback A method (and structure) for displaying mapping relationships defined by a plurality of instruction elements, each instruction element providing a relation between zero or more source elements and zero or more result elements, where each source element includes one ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333030 | Method and system for preventing an aircraft from penetrating into a dangerous trailing vortex area of a vortex generator The invention relates to methods and devices for aircraft's safe operation and is embodied in the form of a method and system for informing a user, for example an aircraft crew and/or a flight controller, on the probable penetration of the aircraft into dangerous ar... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7313404 | Vehicular navigation based on site specific sensor quality data A method and system for determining a location of a vehicle, the method comprises determining reception location data within a first cell of a work area for a vehicle. A reception quality estimator estimates reception quality data for the corresponding reception loc... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292178 | Aircraft hazard detection and alerting in terminal areas A weather radar system or method can be utilized to determine potential weather hazard for an aircraft in a terminal area. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna. The processing electronics can determine presence of the pot... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7266446 | Helmet mounted tracking system and method A helmet mounted tracking system for target designation includes an airplane azimuth sensor, a helmet mounted azimuth sensor, an airplane pitch sensor, a helmet mounted pitch sensor, and a processor. The airplane azimuth sensor determines an azimuth heading for an a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7248950 | Fog tester apparatus A testing apparatus for determining the enhanced vision capabilities of a system that is designed to assist a pilot in detecting lights and ground features in night and low visibility conditions. One embodiment of the apparatus is suitable for laboratory or producti... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243023 | Engine balancing system and method A method for balancing vibrations in a rotating machine is provided. The rotating machine has a first and a second plane of imbalance. The method includes determining a first set of solution mass vectors that includes a first solution mass vector for the first plane... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228270 | Dictionary management apparatus for speech conversion A dictionary management apparatus is disclosed, which can optimize a dictionary required for speech synthesis of character data. The apparatus checks if character data which is to undergo speech conversion includes character data which is not registered in the dicti... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222017 | Method and system for entering and displaying ground taxi instructions A system and method are provided for the efficient entry and display of ground taxi routes on an electronic airport map display. The system may include a touchscreen entry device, a display device, a computer, a map database, a vehicle position sensor and a transmit... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7188008 | System for controlling the operation of at least one aircraft engine A system for supervising the speed of at least one engine of an aircraft includes three independent information sources determining first, second and third values for an aerodynamic parameter of the aircraft and precision information indicating the precision of thes... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184801 | Mobile application builder A method and system which allow a user to define and edit workflow applications for a mobile device, screens associated with the applications, and workflow process is described. The states or schemas for these applications may be stored as records in databases. ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185002 | Systems and methods for data retrieval, manipulation, and delivery Systems and methods are disclosed that include a user interface that enables a user to request a pre-defined report. The user may specify either or both of an electronic mail delivery address for the report and an interval at which the report is to be updated. Such ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7142152 | Device and method for calibrating and improving the accuracy of barometric altimeters with GPS-derived altitudes A portable, handheld electronic navigation device includes an altimeter and a GPS unit. An internal memory stores cartographic data, for displaying the cartographic data on a display of the navigation device. Accordingly, the device is capable of displaying cartogra... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7090172 | Process for countering the vibrations induced in an aircraft by the windmilling of a fan and system of electric flight controls implementing this process A system and process for countering the vibrations induced in an aircraft by the windmilling of an engine fan may produce a first electric flight control command for a servocontrol to use in actuating a control surface of the aircraft. The servocontrol is slaved to ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7027653 | Variation detecting apparatus, variation detecting method, and storage medium and system for storing program involved in the method In the case where variations in ground objects in one and the same area are detected between a line drawing map describing profile lines of the ground objects or a reference line drawing/image obtained by picking up the ground objects from above, and a target image ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020542 | Apparatus for measuring and fixing the three-dimensional location of medical instrument An apparatus for measuring and fixing the three-dimensional location of medical instrument that can be easily placed at a desired location by a user. In addition, a medical apparatus for measuring the three-dimensional locations of an apparatus fixed at an end porti... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7011498 | Optimization method for power generation systems Apparatus for controlling the power output efficiency of a power generation system based on an operator input. A processor is coupled to the input means and (i) receives the generated operator command, (ii) receives a plurality of detected ambient air conditions, (i... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010398 | Control system providing perspective flight guidance A flight guidance system providing perspective flight guidance symbology using positioning and terrain information provides increased pilot situational awareness of the pilot's aircraft. The guidance system uses a positioning system and a detailed mapping system to ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6998992 | System and an arrangement to determine the position in a hazardous situation The present invention relates to a system and to an arrangement for evaluating in a defined space or area a delimited area (7) in which there is a degree of urgency greater than the degree of urgency in respect of the remainder of said space (1), where... | 02/14/2006 |
